Keyword tool for news?

[nicole.healthline]

Working on developing a news product and wondering if there are tools available to gauge search interest in a particular topic.

For those that work in news, what are your favorite SEO tools?

[David_ODonnell]

Have you tried Google trends?

http://www.google.com/trends/

You can set to limit for News Searches.

Good luck!

[Alex-Harford]

You could use Google's last 24 hours option or Blekko's 'search by date' (mainly US-based stuff, I think) and see what gets the most engagement. Google News, Twitter (see which hashtags are popular) and Reddit could be used too, and the 'most read' boxes on various sites like the BBC. It's not quite search interest like Google Trends, but I bet there's a correlation.

Trends and other websites (I can't think of others off the top of my head) often have a most searched for section too:
http://www.google.co.uk/trends/hottrends