Do you now a good tool for kw research in Japanese?

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no we don't anything about Japanese kw research tool if you provide information about it we will be glad .

Hi there,

I agree Japanese, Chinese and Korean etc. Keyword Research is a difficult area.

Recently I was doing some more keyword research for my IDN sites - particularly for Asia.
Hassle I have found is the lack of databases or data that is available - unlike for some European languages and English where databases like keyword discovery or wordtracker etc. exist (for Asian languages there seems to still be a real gap).
Also it is time consuming to manually rake the search engines for data - so I looked for faster ways that would work for IDN sites / all languages.

So I searched around and tried various tools - problem with most are that they do not handle UTF-8 (i.e. Japanese and the other languages we all here love to work with). Unfortunately most Keyword / SEO tools were made for the English market and only accept ascii characters / scripts.
Finally I have found a tool which I personally think is very good (and it works very well with UTF-8 and can be used on 350+ localised search engines - so localised research for Japanese on say just Baidu or Yahoo Japan for a keyword or for checking a websites indexing is possible.

The company making these tools is called link-assistant and they presently have 4 tools - namely:-
a) Seo spyglass (UTF-8 & works with 350+ Search engines)
See - Seo Spyglass SEO SpyGlass Software - Instantly Find Out How Your Competitors Got To 'Top Ten' In Google, Yahoo! and MSN Search Engines
This is used to check a competitors site for Keywords, backlinks, anchor text etc. etc. (is similar to SEO Elite - but better in my feeling and actually works for languages like Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Spanish, German etc. etc.) I have found that when finding keywords, it works best for Asian Languages when you search based on the competitors domain url, rather than a given keyword only (taken from top ranked sites in your favourite localised search engine) and then combine the keyword results you get for all the domains you run this software for (i.e. get keywords used by each top competitor and not just the single top competitor - using sites which are relevant rather than a top keyword to search, means you can minus out the effects of just getting results for huge sites like u-tube or other big sites that rank 1st purely due to the number of keywords the site has verse them being serious competitors or sites offering lots of relevant keywords).

b) Ranktracker (UTF-8 & works with 350+ Search engines)
See - Rank Tracker - Track Your Search Engine Rankings Easily!
This tracks your websites rank for a list of keywords you supply to it - you can specify which Search Engine and which country it checks for rank e.g. naver only for korean keywords)

c) Link Assistant (UTF-8 but only searches global Search Engines i.e. USA at the moment - apparently will accept UTF-8 in the next couple of months)
See - LinkAssistant SEO Tool LinkAssistant SEO Tool - The Most Effective SEO Software
Note: due to support of only the USA Search Engines at the moment for this one software, it is more limited use for us IDNers at the moment)
With this software you can basically find new backlinks or track your own websites backlinks.

d) Website Auditor (UTF-8 & works with 350+ Search Engines)
See - Onpage optimization software: make Google-friendly Web pages with WebSite Auditor
This provides research on the top 10 sites for a list of keywords you supply to it (good for seeing how much others / competitors have optimised the given list of keywords you aim to target!) and what you should be doing as well.
Basically this software helps you compare a websites optimization verse their top 10 competitors for things such as keyword density for each HTML element of a webpage, keyword prominence in page elements, most popular keywords and key phrases used by your site and top 10 competing sites, HTML elements that use keywords or keyphrases, highlighting of analyzed elements in your page's source code, analysis of keyword density for keywords and for keyphrases.
This software and SEO Spyglass are best for checking Keyword usage among top 10 sites for any search engine.

The nice thing in addition to it actually working for IDN / languages is that they have built in human emulation so that it works with the search engines (namely Search engine is less likely to block its use) - you can also use your google API or yahoo API (or if really want to proxy).

Of course these can all be used to either track your own sites or other peoples (competitor research).

The software has a free trial version which works for 15 days (so you can try to see if this will help you)
Also incase you are wondering, "no" I am not affiliated to this software company in any way at all and I am just a customer of theirs .

I hope some of you find this useful...

Cheers - Asiaplay

PS: this software is available for Linxus, Mac OS and Windows OS
For Windows OS - tip for those wanting to use for East Asian Languages on Windows XP - you need to make sure your language is set to one of the East Asian languages i.e. your PCs "default" language is set to Chinese or Japanese (not just that you have the East Asian language pack installed).
This is done by opening Control Panel -> Regional & Language Options -> Reginal settings tab - change to use an Asian language e.g. Chinese (Singapore) (you will then need to reboot)... once you have done this Asian languages will show in these three softwares.
I suspect most of you have the East Asian language pack installed (and can read Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc. - if not you can follow the steps seen in this article to make your PC work with Asian languages - see How to display/input Chinese in English Windows - RC Groups for more help).