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Specific Text Applications
You can use Textalyser for grammar improvement, essay, ad-copy, or content comparison, keyword density and diversity grouping and research (with other tools). Can perform readability analysis (and therefore enhancement), authoring validation, and perhaps other text related functions - importantly for keyword research. I found the single word and 3 phrase frequency interesting and useful, as a Blogger. Many niche bloggers and web publishers, will find this tool useful for analyzing either their own articles or that of their competitors. You might be able to find 3 or 4 phrase patterns, known as long tail keywords, or perhaps discover related (but uncommon) words to use in your articles.
Deeper Text Research Insight - Comparisons
In-depth analysis with Textalyser might involve inserting lengthy articles, including adding several sentences from various sources online. This is what I did for comparing the reviews of two popular hair straighteners. The idea was to try get an overall summary, feedback, or emotional "feeling" about the two items. Though some reviews are obvious as to which is better or worse (i.e. the good against bad or cheap vs expensive, etc). However, I wanted to evaluate if I could extract more, perhaps subconscious or underlining thoughts or feelings that may not be so apparent. I believe I did extract more info, but with the help of another tool, called Wordle, which is a "text cloud" generator. The bolder or larger the text (i.e. font), the more prominence assigned to it, suggesting more relevance or significance.
Table of Word Frequency Count for Hair Irons
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Example of Textalyser Application: Comparative Evaluation
Rather than me rambling on about textual results, it may be better to read the hair straightener text review analysis (note it's a long article, with images). It did show, I believe important, even refined differences of dozens of reviewer's thoughts.
Other useful Word Analyzers and Related Search Tools
As noted above, if you really want to get analytical, particularity for keyword research, and as those that do (and probably know), their are other complimentary online research tools to help improve word phrase diversity, synonyms, semantics, definitions and so on. Maybe apply these utilities as well...
Text Analyzers
Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/)
Creates a range of images with different cloud sizes of text, based on prominence.
Lexical FreeNet (http://www.lexfn.com/)
Discover relationships and connections between pairs of words.
Related Terms and Meanings
*Thesaurus Com (http://thesaurus.com/)
Well known site for finding synonyms.
Dictionary Com (http://dictionary.reference.com/)
Also popular- find meanings, and has translator.
One Look Dictionary (http://www.onelook.com/)
Find an array of definitions by using wild cards, meaning you can find words and phrases either "starting, in-between, and ending" with letters and characters that you specify. Creates textual variations of your custom selections.
Urban Dictionary
Stores, and I think collects new "urban" or "street" definitions, for reference. I use this site to try find new terms that may crop up, so as to incorporate them in my blog articles. You can get a "new word a day" emailed to you from their site.
Google Tools
*Adword Keyword Tool
The ever useful keyword research tool for finding popular search queries, related terms, search volumes, monthly trends. Includes broad, exact, and phrase search terms for different regions. Also can add or subtract terms, choose closely related suggestions, etc.
*Google Sets and Squares
Find permutations and subsets of main word. Visit article by Search Engine Land
* Google Suggest and Instant
I think you know the one - Do search and Google suggests or instantly displays common, authoritative or related terms.
** Ubbersuggest (http://suggest.thinkpragmatic.net/). Extend Google's suggestion even further, and includes alphabetical selection. Great suggestion tool - need to set to english version before using it.
Search Engine Visualization and Cloud Suggestions
*Deeper Web (http://www.deeperweb.com/)
Powered by Google, displays cloud prominence results, in addition to search results - which include answers, news, Wikipedia, blogs, resources, and more.
Yippy (http://search.yippy.com/)
Categorized search results, including for clouds, sources (e.g. Bing, Yahoo, Directories), and domains.
*Primal Search (http://think.primal.com/)
Display interesting related or semantic words and phrases, based on search query. But can also "expand" your thoughts by using the "storm" selection. For example, enter text analysis, select "storm" then see adjacent, distant, general, and specific terms, e.g. Latin, document, information retrieval, and more. Bound to find a related term easily, that you may be unaware of.
*Keyword Eye ( http://www.keywordeye.co.uk/)
Displays clouds of results, including in 3D, monthly search volumes, level of web site competition by colour codes, and can download panel results as CSV file for excel.
*Soovle (http://soovle.com/)
This merges search engines, including Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, Yahoo, etc, and provides a mix of suggestions on a "rotating" results wheel. Interesting and useful, and can select alphabetically the current top keywords/search terms.
Keyword Combination and Permutation Tools
Rearrange your phrases, from Textalyser results into all possible combination's to help merge/add them into your content for more meaningful sentences.
*Keyword Lizard (http://www.keywordlizard.com/)
Yield all possible combination's from your phrases, by adding them in columns
*Search Phrase Builder (http://kw.tre.sk/)
Based on Google's Adword tool, add keywords for up to two columns to combine for a phrase.
*Combine Keywords Builder
Merge two or three sets of words to combine them, but can include numbers and characters (e.g. space, hyphen, etc)
Firefox Addons
I use a few search based addons with results that are generated from Textalyser, to either get more information using specific search parameters, or from various search engines. Also to retrieve related terms, synonyms, and latest "trendy" keywords.
RC Search
Provides advanced and varied search features in Firefox right click context menu. Highlight a word, then right click to select RC Search, then select Google normal search, exact phrase, images, news, dictionary, maps, etc. But also can select YouTube, eBay, IMDB, and urban dictionary - useful to find new "urban" keywords from Textalyser results.
Google Semantics
Great tool for getting synonyms form within your text, so as to expand your keywords for article writing, blogging, content generation, etc.
Search Selected
Little similar to RC Search, but use keyboard short cuts for your selected text, to open up search engines in new tabs. Select s for web search, w for Wikipedia, i for Image search, etc and can use numbers for favorite search engines.
Read It Later
Perhaps you get plenty of phrases, or related text using the addons from different pages. Then perhaps save them later for actual writing with this addon.
Zotero
Also save later but can create folders, collect info from various sources, manage, and add citations for your research sources.
There are many other text analyzers, textual cloud displays, visual keyword mappers, and search engine segmentation/categorization/graphical tools. All helpful and important for phrase optimization techniques, including creation, text cross referencing, relative association pairing, semantic analysis, in order to yield more interesting but extremely useful keywords or phrases to work with in content generation.
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