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In the fall I purchased a keyword tool, MicroNicheFinder. This is a powerful keyword software that provides a great deal of information. There were several updates to the MNF 4.x line, but last week the 5.0 version was released.

The new version contains significant enhancements. The program was basically rewritten from scratch. This is similar to moving from Windows 98 or Me to Windows XP. My first computer came with Windows Me installed as the OS. XP came out in the fall of that year. I did the upgrade as soon as it was available. Overall it was a great improvement even though there were some driver issues to deal with.

MNF 5.0 is that kind of a step up in the quality of the user experience. The company has obviously learned a great deal since the product was brought to market. The operation of the program is much smoother and faster. The load time is significantly improved. The featue set has been extended. There is  now a tabbed interface and multiple searches can be carried out much faster and easier.

The company has announced that there will be a small price increase soon. As of this writing the price increase has not been put into effect to the best of my knowledge. The company has a policy of free upgrades for life, unlike most software developers, and they give very good value for the price. The software can save hours of time in keyword research so it will still be a very good value with a small price increase.

I have enjoyed using the new version over the past few days and can strongly recommend this product. Check it out and see what it can do for you Today!!

I have been trying to get a handle on keyword research. Keyword research is very important in doing business on the web. Not having a coherent keyword based approach will greatly hinder the traffic potential of a site.

I have put up many sites to date. A few of them get a little bit of search engine organic traffic. I was just putting up content without any real thought to keywords. Keywords are the terms that people use in web searches. If you want organic traffic you must be conscious of keywords and keyword usage. I have been leaving this up to accident! Anytime that you put anything up on the web to which you hope to attract the general public you must at least think about the keywords that you need to use to attract visitors.

There are many good keyword tools available. Google provides a lot of information if you know how to find and use it. The keyword tool, Micro Niche Finder, organizes the Google information in interesting ways. It makes use of several Google tools to gather information and presents the information in a format that is very helpful. I downloaded the program last evening and have begun to look into the possibilities. I did research the tool a bit and found only good reports. When I have used it a bit more I will make a full report. If you want to check out Micro Niche Finder Click Here!

I will tell one funny story on myself. I downloaded the tool and did a hot trends search. I saw a niche that looked too good to be true. I did some further research on the niche and there are actually some words that are very good, but the original demonstrates a gotcha. The term that caught my eye had an apostrophe. Because of that the competition look unusually weak for such a good term. One of the factors that goes into the competition index that is given is how often the term is used in a url. The apostrophe is a character that is not allowed in a file name or url, so the usage in url’s is zero for any keyword that contains an apostrophe. This is just something to remember when interpreting the results.