Search It! - The Power-Searching Business Tool

This takes you to an introductory landing page where you are given a brief intro to the tool as well as a free access link at the bottom of the page.

Let's take a look at why the Search It! tool is such a valuable resource for every small business owner. Below is the basic search interface.

There are four steps or less to any search query. Step 1 involves choosing a basic search function from a drop-down menu. There are several categories of search queries you can choose. They include:

1. Keyword Research: The keyword research portion of Search It! has over a dozen tools to help you research and identify profitable keywords for content generation on your site. Within the Search It! interface, you be able to get keyword data from Google Adwords, Wordtracker, SeoDigger and Yahoo! Vertical Brainstorm. There are a host of additional tools such as a thesaurus synonym generator, keyword supply data, sites with the most clicks for a particular keyword, and keyword lookup in links, URL's and titles. While it won't replace keyword subscription services like Wordtracker, it's a comprehensive resource for all your free keyword research needs.

2. Domain & Site Legality Info: This portion of Search It! contains several tools for looking up domain name availability as well as domain generation and brainstorming tools. There are additional tools that will allow you to perform trademark checks and brand name searches.

3. Content Searches: This area returns searches from a host of reference libraries including Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers, Google Book Search, Answers.com, FindArticles, PR Web Search, CNN, and many more. There is also a Blog/RSS search that returns info from Google Blog Search, Google RSS Content Search and other popular blog aggregators. Finally, there are several tools to help you find and locate profitable affiliate programs and sourcing products for sale on your site.

4. Site Research: This section returns link popularity data from Quantcast, Alexa, Compete, Google Site Trends, and Ranking.com. There is a Vital Stats area that returns site profile info including Whois, IP lookup, spam status and email domain information. You can also quickly check the number of pages you have indexed on all the major search engines as well as the number of incoming links to your site.

5. Specialized Search: This section of Search It! contains local business search info from local directories within Google and Yahoo! as well as allowing you to research inbound like opportunities using hub and directory information from Google, Yahoo!, forums and blogs.

Choosing what you want to research starts by selecting a search topic from a drop-down menu in step 1. The screenshot below shows a portion of this drop-down menu.

Once you have chosen your research topic in Step 1, the Step 2 drop-down menu allows you to further define and refine your search. After you have made your Step 2 selection, you may need further direction before typing in the required data into the search term boxes in steps 3 and 4. Fortunately, Search It! comes to the rescue in the form of a help link which you can click after you have made your selections in Step 1 and Step 2. Clicking on this link brings up a text box that explain any formatting and content issues you must follow in order to complete your search.

The screenshot below shows where this built-in help link is located.

As far as I can tell, there isn't much in Search It! that is unique. Search It! freely grabs its data from all kinds of various web resources. The real value in this tool is that it integrates all these dozens of resources under a single easy-to-use interface.

When you first use Search It!, you might be a little overwhelmed. There is so much information you can access that it can be difficult to decide where to start. Don't worry - just dig in and start playing around. It won't take long for you to get this powerful search tool under your control. And when you do, you'll have a fabulous small business resource that you'll use over and over again.

Give Search It! a try by using the link at the beginning of this article. You'll be glad you did!