Keyword Elite 2.0
Posted by admin on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 · 7 Comments 
Keyword
Elite 2.0 is the
new version of Brad
Callen’s
keyword research
tool. In a nutshell
it’s a tool
that gives you a
good look over the
keyword data when
you’re looking
to SEO your site or
run a PPC Campaign.
Through the years,
however, Keyword
Elite got quite
obsolete and
constantly evolving
Google’s
keyword tools have
caught up making it
pretty much
redundant. So
it’s no wonder
that Keyword Elite
2.0 is released.
It was improved and
has many new
features. It now
covers not only the
basic keywords
research, it
introduces Adwords
spy, content network
and placement
research tools, etc.
Looks like Brad
Callen and co. have
not been wasting
time.
It’s all cool
but do you need a
tool like that?
You’ll see a
lot of hype around
this release and
people telling you
can’t live
without this tool.
But the matter of
fact is, you only
need it as long as
you really need it.
Answer yourself, if
how you do keyword
research can be
improved and how. Do
you do keyword
research at all? You
get the drift.
Keyword
Elite 2 is one
of the best keyword
research tools out
there, so if you
need to make your
life easier, you
might want to try it
out. The good thing
about it is that
it’s a one
time payment for a
desktop software.
Below is a
screenshot of
Keyword Elite 2.0
which pretty much
describes the
contents of it:
Some of the titles
may not tell much
(ok, most of them
don’t tell
much), so
here’s a quick
breakdown with
screen shots of each
module in action
(click them to see
larger):
Keyword Surge – generates a list of related keywords from a root keyword. It gets data from Keyword Elite own database, Google’s Keyword Tools, Ask.com, Wordtracker, and meta tags (of top sites I assume). This wide range of sources, any of which you can select, makes the results quite “creative” – you can see that from this screen shot. So it’s a good idea to play around with different sources as it might get over-cluttered with phrases that aren’t that related to your niche. Each keyword is presented with its source, length parameters and search volume.
Market Research Sleuth – market/keyword data analysis. This is where you further analyze the keywords from Keyword Surge or any other source. You can analyze the data from Google, Yahoo and Bing, you get estimated searches, CPC, KEI and other data. Upon selecting a keyword a quick list of top search results is shown, but other than the url and position, no additional data is presented here.
Adwords Time Machine – shows the past performance of competition in PPC for your specified keyword. It’s sort of a light version of the PPC spy tools. The data is shown on monthly bases, you can see the breakdown by domain name, additional keyword that each domain is bidding on and their ads.
Search Engine Dominator – shows a breakdown of top 10 search engine results with competitive SEO information. This is where the 3-step keyword analysis with Keyword Elite 2.0 continues. You get a wealth of information here – the PR of result pages, number of backlinks, keyword distribution and density parameters on the pages, etc.
Adwords Competition Sniper – similar to Adwords Time Machine, only allows you to monitor your specified keywords. You can create several projects here and set up scheduled runs. The monitoring is competition oriented, meaning you have to enter not only the keywords to monitor, but also the specific domain names.
Advanced Google Site Targeter – find Google Content Network placements for your keywords. This module scans the top sites (you can choose how many) for a given keyword, looks for Adsense blocks on them and returns the exact url where it’s found. With this information you can proceed to run placement targeted campaigns on these urls.
JV Diamond Miner – helps you find JV opportunities in your niche, that is the sites that have newsletter optin forms, so you can pursue them to promote your products, help you build your list, or negotiate other joint ventures. Similar to the Site Targeted, you get the sites and exact urls where the optin forms are found.
CPA Magnet – helps to find products for you to promote. It searches most networks, not only CPA, despite the name – it includes Clickbank, CJ, etc.
August 29th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
“But the matter of fact is, you only need it as long as you really need it.”
I would LOVE to see some very detailed review / comparison of this tool along side of Market Samurai and Keyword Rockstar.
Because of the “continuity factor” of KR – it is by far the most expensive. However it was brought to my attention in the first place by Keith Baxter who says “it’s all I use anymore”, and having spoken on the phone with Jon – the primary creator of KR – I at least THINK I’m impressed. Problem is – I’m still so darn new at all this stuff, I not only barely understand how to use ANY of them to my greatest advantage – - I certainly can’t afford $100 / mo. for something I may or may not really even need.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:37 am
Appreciate admin honest review on a new tool once again. I have question on this, from the look of it it seems that KE2.0 will only be relevant for a certain period of time only.
Perhaps after 6months or so it will become obsolete because its not constantly updated, am I right? Admin please correct me if I’m wrong.
This is a big factor in determining how good this tool really is. I’ve got very credible IM guru who I subscribed to his newsletter recommending KE2.0 as well. But I’m not entirely convinced over how ‘durable’ this tool is.
It would be great if admin can share your opinion on this.
September 1st, 2009 at 7:38 am
Hi Alex,
Well, there were updates in the first version, to fix bugs etc. But the fact that it needed a separate launch for the second version says a thing or two. As an example, Market Samurai has almost daily updates and it builds up new powerful features seamlessly without extra cost – it has now probably at least 3 times as many features as it had when I bought it.
Having said that, I don’t think it will get obsolete in 6 months, it has much more features than the first version and they will always be useful. But I can’t say how they will do with the updates. My gut feeling says that they won’t resist a chance to make some extra again from KE 3.0 and so on.
September 1st, 2009 at 7:44 am
BTW, Jeff, regarding Keyword Rockstar, I’m not familiar with it much other than reading its feature list, but there’s no way I’d pay a monthly fee when there’s KE and Market Samurai for a one time fee and I don’t think they are any inferior.
October 4th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
I bought KE1.0 two years ago and back then it was great. Sure there were quite a few bug update releases but no new feature updates,.. and of course those clever geeks at the big G have been hard at work catching up (and some!).
KE2.0 looks good but I refused to buy into it (at $97 with the discount coupon for current users) because it seems clear to me that the whole release of the KE2.0 thing was strategically planned behind the absolute knowledge that KE1.0 would eventually become redundant.
Rest assured there will be a KE3.0 and it too will attract a premium.
I found Bryxen support to be pathetic overall (see me blog posts) and their attitude even worse.
Internet marketers have more options than ever now and I for one think that greed should be rewarded with rejection. I like the alternative of Keyword Blueprint and the Google tools… that’s more than good enough to do great campaigns and SEO with.
Just my 2.0 cents!
Russ
April 12th, 2010 at 6:47 am
Looks like a great product and just what i need to get earning on the internet. The idea that a product can be marketed so efficiently = profits for me.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Working with Keyword Elite can be very rewarding once you learn how to use the tool to its full extent. It’s not as intuitive as some other software out there, but it is a very accurate tool in keyword research, particularly when used in combination with other softwares.