How can we know that a particular keyword has been searched and for how many times in google or other search engines per month or ?Is there any free tool or any trick to search in google or other tool ?PuneetYes puneet u can see the total no. of search terms was searched by the users on the net by OVERTURE tool. But it shows the result of the last month.Is it showing GLOBAL search of all search engines ? or only of a particular search engine ?i wanna know of keywords particularly searched on google or yahoo or msn....so do you have the idea of it ?Puneet MPuneet, overture shows for Yahoo. You can safely assume that many number of searches for Google as well. Plus some 10% for all other search engines combined.Select the right keywords and phrases Go to http://www.wordtracker.com or the overture suggestion tool to find the most popular words and phrases that suit the theme of your web site.One thing I have done for keywords is to look at the coding of the sites where I want my site to link. For example I wanted this drummer site to go to Pearl drums, so I went to Pearl to also see what keywords they use. Then I use the same keywords. I also try to think of what words would first come to mind for a surfer who is searching.We can also google adwords keyword selector tool for choosing the best keywords for our website the tool we can use is https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal through which we will be able to find the best opt keywords for our website.Im trying to guage how tough my seo project is going to be, originally I optimized for the biggest keyword which had about 8 million results in google. After some more research, I've decided to foucus on the less competitive keywords which will drive more quality traffic. So I re-optimized for keywords that get around 1 million results. Basically my question is, it realistic for me(being a newbie) to think that I can rank in the top ten for a keyword with a million results within a reasonable amount of time? Does anyone know how many backlinks approximately that will take?Pretty much every statistic program will show you the top searches.I sugest bbcloneThere are programs that show how your visitors get to your website. Keywords and such. My company sells the program but i dont want this to become an ad. sorry. Dont worry about how many results come up. Because what ill bet you that most of them arent SEO'd. An easy way i use to find out is to type in the keyword and see how many times the keyword comes up bold. The more times it does the more that site has been SEO'd.Hgrealtor wrote:Thanks for the input, much appreciated.https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal , overture and dp