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It never hurts to use multiple tools for keyword research and in fact often helps, but keep in mind that no search engine has any insight into what another search engine's visitors are looking for.
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Google may look at word stems but it doesn't automatically equate singulars with plurals. Their text analysis is a little more sophisticated than that. They'll be looking at factors such as the...

In some verticals, you'll get more conversions from plurals than singular forms. In other verticals it's the other way round. In yet a third group of verticals you'll get about the same amount of...

That's good enough in my book. Years ago I tried chasing keywords that other people were chasing and found that it didn't work nearly as well as optimizing for topics that interested me. As a...

I wasn't referring to analytics when I mentioned tracking costs. Analytics is for analyzing Web traffic. You have to use good old-fashioned bookkeeping/accounting techniques to track your costs of...

What makes a keyword profitable: the fact a lot of people are chasing it or the fact you were able to monetize it with relatively little effort?

The more effort you put into generating revenue...

I take that keyword and I plug it in to an SEO tool! :o:eek:

Seriously, when you have a keyword you think you want to rank for, the first thing I feel you should do is see how you rank for it. ...

Well, if you know of an SEO tool that filters out automated query traffic, I would be more than happy to check it out. I've been looking for THAT tool for years. Otherwise, to each their own.

The problem with keyword research tools is that they don't filter out the activity injected into query counts by ranking reports. The more popular and competitive a keyword becomes in an optimized...

You're welcome to stay at my SEO table any day of the week.

Randy is right, friend. Get off the SEO tools.

I have rarely used any of the paid tools. The best tool you can work with, however, is your own server log data (or analytics reports if you don't have access to server logs).

The Google AdWords...