Interested in comparing two keywords to determine which one is more searched?
Try Google Trends.
Google Trends gives you a great visual for searched terms. Do you see a spike it traffic one day? Google will show what news or event occured that day, thus showing the root cause of the spike in traffic. You can even see the top cities where the searches are coming from.

Example…
From this data, you can see that the term “Obama” is searched more than “McCain”.


The chart below shows the top cities where the terms are searched:

For more information on SEM, please click the “Search Engine Marketing” link in the “Categories” section to your right.

del.icio.us Reddit Slashdot Digg Facebook Technorati Google Furl Yahoo