Scott,

Yes, I know and use the Overture keyword tracking tool. By the way, an easier way to directly reach the back-end engine is at http://inventory.overture.com/d/sear...ory/suggestion

It loads only the bare minimum, no Flash ads and the rest.

I imagine after you search a few keywords in Overture you'd go and study the competition a bit for your chosen ones. After that you go buy out a domain name, preferably one that contains one or more keywords stuffed in, and that's where another round of searches is in order until you find one that's both available and suitable.

So far I see 3 processes that can cost a lot of time and that can be automated from a programmer point of view. For me these 3 steps are the beginning of a new site, and I find it tedious to do it manually again and again, wasting hours better spent focusing on marketing the site.

I'd include 3 tools that help me:
1. Find good keywords that are searched;
2. With little to none competition;
3. And with a good domain name
amongst the Top 10. Using the right tools, each of the above processes shouldn't take more than a couple minutes to finish.

P.S. I'd cross-post the same question to Search Engine Discussion Forum if I knew cross-posting is allowed. I suppose this thread needs maximum exposure to turn into something useful, perhaps even making it into WPW newsletter ;-) Moderators? Help? :-)

Sincerely,
Catalin IONESCU
Technical Vision Software Ltd.
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