Keyword Excavator is a new Latent Semantic Analysis tool from Jos Jongejan. I’d like to share with you some the many exciting features of this powerful software

The first step in using Keyword Excavator after installation is to log in. Since this software is on your hosting server having a login requirement is a good idea for security purposes.

After that you’re presented with a place to input your keyword phrase and excavate on either Google, Yahoo, MSN live, or using a URL or even copying and pasting the contents of an article. You type in your keyword phrase and then you have an opportunity to select the language and the country typically what I do is select English and the United States as this is my main market. I then click on the button that says, “Dig Me Up Some Keywords!”. After that Keyword Excavator goes to work.

The amount of information you will get back is extremely amazing so give the software time to work its magic. The first thing you will see will be the latent semantic analysis summary which shows your key phrase, the language that you chose, the country that you chose, the search engine that you chose, etc.

The table below that then shows you a variety of different information from multiple search engines and also shows you a large number of narrower searches where you start to get into your 3, 4 and 5 word phrases, the Google advertisers for the key phrase with the actual ads they are right in a small window for you to see.

As we move down we have another incredible table to look at. This particular table shows you the top 20 sites for the key phrase that you chose. The table also show you at a glance such useful information as page rank, whether or not the key words are in the URL, whether the keywords are in the domain name or the keywords are in the title, the word count of the homepage, the key phrase count of the homepage, and the key phrase weight on the home page.

In addition to all this information the very next thing you’ll see is something extremely useful and that is a series of graphs. The first graph shows the Google page rank on the y-axis and the search engine position on the x-axis. The next graph shows Yahoo back links on the y-axis and the search engine rank or position on the x-axis.

This is very interesting information. I was surprised to see many sites without high page rank in the top 10 sites for my chosen key phrase. The next graph shows the page word count in relation to the search engine position this seems very interesting because you may find a data correlation here and any correlation is information you may be able to use to increase your ranking .

The next graph we see the page keyword count on the y-axis in the search engine position on the x-axis. As we move down the page we see page keyword weight on the y-axis and the search engine position on the x-axis. When they said that a picture is worth a thousand words look at these graphs and you can see at a glance what may or may not make a difference in your rankings. Just being able to see what the top sites all have in common is extremely valuable. There are also additional graphs that provide an even greater level of detail.

Then comes a series of pie charts where you can view such information as the key word weight percentage. I’m looking here using my chosen key phrase and 95%, which is the vast the majority of the top 20 ranking pages for the particular key phrase, have keyword densities between 0% and 5%.

Some additional cool pie charts shows you a breakdown of domain name character length. You get to look at interesting things like you how many domains ranking for a particular key phrase have 16 or more characters. The next pie chart displays a domain name extension breakdown for this particular key phrase. Out of the top 20 ranking websites 18 of the names were “.com”, one was a “.org”, and one was a “.net” for a total of 20.

The next series of graphs charts are showing header tag occurrences and number of words found in the header tags. Then we get back to having a look at a search engine results page a summary recap. This is very interesting as it shows you the high and low page rank and with this key phrase there is even a page rank zero site in the top 10 which is not something you don’t expect to see very often.

In the Keyword Excavator Summary Recap section we can see even more useful information. We see that the average page rank is 4.3 and that 60% of the top 10 sites have keywords in the full URL and 45% of the top 20 have the selected keywords in the domain name. 60% of the top 10 sites had keywords in the domain and 90% of the top 10 sites had keywords in the title.

You can also view the average of the word counts of the high-ranking pages, key phrase counts, the average key phrase weight, as well and average number of Yahoo back links.

Next we can see a breakdown of the most common single words and it takes those most common single words and lists them according to the number of times each word occurred in all the top 20 sites. The list starts off with the word that is found most frequently and then lists the words in order of decreasing frequency. Here you have the option of choose the Top 50, Top 100, or Top 150 most common single words.

We move on to the very next section of information most common word pairs. This is really great and just like the “Most Common Single Words” section. Here you have the option of choose the Top 40, Top 60, or Top 90 most common word pairs.

Then we move on to the most common word triplets which is again particularly interesting and the nice part about each of these sections in Keyword Excavator is that you can also save this information which is just another example of the many well-thought-out features of Keyword Excavator.

From there and find the most common word quadruplets. This section immediately shows you the top 10 quadruplets with options to see the top 20 and the top 30 as well.

In the next section we see the most common words used in the title tags of the top 20 sites. As in the previous sections they are listed in order of the most number of occurrences to the least number of occurrences. Our next section is a listing of the most common words in H1 to H6 tags and this is broken down to concede it is a column for the H1 tags and columns for the H2 & H3 and a separate column for the H4, H5, & H6.

In the next section there is useful information of the most common anchor tags which is absolutely great. These words, as in the other sections, as listed in the order of the most frequent data the least frequent. Next is most common anchor titles and after that there is even a section that list the most common IMG Alt tag words.

In the next section is something that I find very useful and that is the most common and all meta keywords listed in one section here alphabetically and also there is another section were listed from the most frequent to the least frequent occurrences as well.

One of my favorite features of software is a section where you can and analyze the article simply input your article and your target keyword phrase Keyword Excavator produces the results almost instantaneously. The first information comes up with the word count of the entire article and key phrase count and the key phrase weight as well.

Each section allows you a variety of ways to save the information that you just excavated.

You can also type in a website URL that you wish to explore. You will get the same type of information here as you do when you copy and paste an article into the article box.

Another thing I love about keyword excavator is that each of your keyword excavator queries is saved. Each of your queries is visible at a glance in the table that allows you to see the date and time the query was made, the search engine that was used, the key phrase, or the URL. You can simply click on a link to get the results of any other queries or you can click to get a more updated query if you wish. This is really helpful in keeping organized and not duplicating your efforts by running the same queries over again unnecessarily.

Keyword Excavator is the most comprehensive tool of its kind that I have run across. I also use Keyword LSI Spy which I found the be good software but not nearly as information and feature packed as Keyword Excavator. Keyword Excavator places information at your fingertips to allow you to see the advantages that your competitors may have over you and to also evaluate your own website content in order to improve it so that you can rank better in the search engines. For more info on Keyword Excavator click on the following link Keyword Excavator.