Google Insights Bookmarklet

Written by: The Tutor on Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Posted to: Bookmarklets,Chrome,Firefox,Insights,Webmaster
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Google Insights Bookmarklet

Do you constantly have keywords on the brain?

I know I do, and one thing that happens to me all the time is when I’m searching for something else I’ll start wondering what the keyword volume is for the phrase I’m looking up at the moment. Having this info could help you find a new hot niche, spark some new content ideas, or quickly show you that they keyword in question isn’t worth the effort.

Google Insights is the best free tool for this data but I often don’t bother checking a keyword because I’m too busy searching to stop, open a new tab, copy over the keyword, and run my search on the Insights page.

So, I made my first bookmarklet that does that with just one click!

Just drag and drop this link to the bookmarks toolbar of your browser -
Google Insights Bookmarklet

Once installed you should see a bookmark cleverly titled ‘Google Insights Bookmarklet’ on your bookmarks menu. To use the bookmarklet simply do a search at Google, Yahoo, or Live Search, then click  Google Insights Bookmarklet. The bookmarklet will automatically open Google Insights showing the stats for the keyword you were just looking up at the search engine.

You now have one click access to a wealth of keyword information for every search you do!

If you like this one, don’t miss the new Google Trends Websites Bookmarklet!

Tested on browsers: Firefox 3.0.3, IE 7, Google Chrome 0.2.149
Tested on engines: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Live.com (but it should work on many other searches)

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14 Responses to “Google Insights Bookmarklet”

  1. # Eloion 09 Oct 2008 at 12:01 pm

    I do have keywords on my mind all the time, and the process of finding the fast-moving movers and shakers could be vastly improved with this, thanks Goog!

  2. # Seologiaon 09 Oct 2008 at 12:12 pm

    Very clever! :D

  3. # Daveon 09 Oct 2008 at 12:20 pm

    thanks sooo much, this is AWESOMELY USEFUL!!!

  4. # leimrodon 09 Oct 2008 at 1:00 pm

    awesome! seriously. It’s things like this that make me love stumbleupon. I would of never found or even thought of this otherwise.

  5. # Wil Reynoldson 09 Oct 2008 at 1:56 pm

    uh oh, this might be the tool that makes me upgrade to FF 3 – nullifying a few other tools :( oh the despair!

    Is it working in FF2 for anyone?

  6. # Amiton 09 Oct 2008 at 4:29 pm

    That is very useful and clever, I really love and spend quite some time on Google insights and this will be very clever.

  7. # Bill Stevenson 09 Oct 2008 at 10:11 pm

    Thanks for this. Very nice tool.

  8. # Dan PPC PROon 10 Oct 2008 at 3:13 am

    Thanks, I already love it.

  9. # Piggynapon 10 Oct 2008 at 8:58 am

    Ooh very nice :) I can see this being really useful. Is it possible to have a tool that defaults to a particular region or year?

  10. # James Burrowon 10 Oct 2008 at 1:05 pm

    Thanks! This is a great tool, used it several times already.

  11. # The Tutoron 10 Oct 2008 at 5:37 pm

    pleased you find it useful! :)

  12. # FromTheHipon 11 Oct 2008 at 9:39 am

    This is brilliant – most useful and well reported. Thank you. Off to play with keywords and to see if I can break it for the rest of the day now…

  13. # Jon Clarkon 13 Oct 2008 at 10:16 pm

    Unbelievably useful! I’ve added to every browser I use .. thanks for sharing!

  14. # Jeffon 12 Nov 2008 at 7:42 am

    Thats a great tool.

    What would I change to make it open google insights in a new tab?

    It helps to see the search results and the insights results at the same time.

    Thanks