More keyword ideas for free?

In my last post I touched on some of the new additions that Yahoo! made to its search platform, but what I didn't mention was the very controversal removal of the Keyword tool, which helped advertisers come up with relevant keywords. The tool returned a list of similar keywords as well as a number of the approximate daily searches for the keyword. When advertisers saw this tool was removed, they were less than satisfied. Fortunately, KeywordDiscovery has developed a free search term suggestion tool.

The tool works in a similar manner as the former Yahoo! tool: you type in a keyword and similar keywords are returned. This tool returns the top 100 keywords from data compiled and collected from 180 search engines worldwide. Until this point, Yahoo! offered the only free keyword selection tool.

On the Webmaster World forums, YahooSarah said, "we do have plans to offer a new public keyword research tool, which would be hosted through Yahoo! and available to our API partners. We plan on making this new tool available later this year."