Webmaster world has an interesting discussion on how to do a keyword research without Online tools. This is a very interesting topic today there are not many online keyword research tools available . Only tool is word tracker which is a paid keyword research tool. Some people don't like using paid research tools we used to have overture keyword suggestion tool but after yahoo acquired Overture the keyword research tool slowly disappeared and now its not working at all.

So without the facility to do free online keyword research how can we come up with a targeted keyword list.

Here is an interesting thread http://www.webmasterworld.com/keyword/3643349.htm which discusses the same.

Chameleon makes an interesting post in this thread

". If I might add a little flavor to the soup.. ;)
Word-stemming has become severely important to ranking well for selected keywords/phrases.
Some time back, Marcia (former moderator of Google search News) posted a few links to the Google patents.
They are well worth reading.
At first blush, one would think that a good start to discovering what Google might be looking for re: related words/phrases would be to examine No's 1,2,3,4, & 5 in the desired SERP's, click on "Similar Pages" below each, and see what's there.
Alas - not very reliable. Why, I can't say; But after months of trial & error... I made some pretty useful discoveries.
Re: A website that is 95% about "blue widgets", and 5% about "purple thingys" - the purple thingy pages would often out-rank websites that were 100% about blue widgets, for the "purple thingy" term...
Why? Because the few pages in the 95%/5% website had good internal links to adjacent pages full of related words/phrases.
Wikipedia (if applicable) was a good place to discover related terms
Google seems to be extremely smart about related terms.
E.G. A website about "telephones" is well served to include words/phrases such as 'DTMF' / 'dial tone' / 'handset' / 'cords' and other such words/phases that aren't in the typical layman's "telephone vocabulary".
Keyword-based File-naming gets tremendous mileage form Google for rankings. Again, it wasn't unusual to see a website with a PR of 3, out-rank a website with a PR of 4 or 5, simply because the site with lesser PR, had file names like "blue-widgets-for-dohickeys.htm" and the higher PR sites did not. {** Google likes dashes bewteen the keywords much better than underscores, as well}
A web page about "purple thingys" MUST have these words, and preferably (1) related term in both the <-title-> and <-description-> tags. Old school for sure, but careful reseach shows this is still worth its weight in platinum.
Again - seemingly old-school, but Gbot absolutely loved pages with keyword-rich menus.
Websites that had redundant key phrases, that appeared in the same place in multiple pages, that differentiated the redundant pharses with an individual font-color or font-family from the main copy, fared far better than those that did not.
To supplement this, may I also mention:
Enclosing the redundant phrases in <-h2-> and <-h1-> heading tags did nothing whatsoever.. in fact, often it seemed to have negative value.
Having the redundant text at the top of the page, and related words/phrases at the bottom, both carrying the same differentiation from the main copy, was also effective
A web page that couldn't logically or aesthetically have good internal links to pages with related words/phrases could do almost as well with a clickable pop-up window included somewhere in the page containing word-stemming;
Moreover, Google would often list this pop-up page, (provided it was a full-flavored HTML page with good copy but with it's size trimmed by the pop-up command's dimensions) as the 2nd most important page in the site "about" the key phrase -
However, the pop-up page needed different <-title-> and <-description-> text; Again, using word-stemming.
A good question is: What's all this worth?
After many months, and following the above somewhat didactical policies, I drove three different websites from <50 to Top 5 spots in the desired SERP's.. and some of these SERP's had dozens of relevant competitors, with better PR! "

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