I'm looking for a website/program that displays the number of times a particular word has been searched for on AltaVista, Yahoo, Google, etc...

I'm trying to decide which keywords I should be including in my meta tags.

Thanks. :)

Originally posted by Synthetic
I'm looking for a website/program that displays the number of times a particular word has been searched for on AltaVista, Yahoo, Google, etc...

I'm trying to decide which keywords I should be including in my meta tags.First off, you should be looking for the words for which to optimize your pages, not the words to include in your meta tags. Meta tags play only a minor role in search engine algorithms today, and in fact some search engines ignore them entirely.

That said, there's no available source of the number of searches of all of those search engines. There are, though, a few tools available: one at Overture, one at Google (you have to go to Adwords and set up a campaign, but you don't have to actually sign up), and one at Wordtracker.com, where a free trial is available but for regular access you have to pay a somewhat hefty fee.

Again, unless you're going to do serious optimization targeting your keywords it's not worth the effort. Simply putting them in your meta keywords tags isn't going to help.