What is the best keyword tool for 2013?

[WSIDW]

Since the change in Google's keyword tool I have found it frustrating to use in finding new keywords. Which keyword tool would you recommend? Many thanks.

[KevinBudzynski]

Here is an excellent blog post from Ruth on the different tools: http://moz.com/blog/keyword-volume-tools

I currently use Spy Fu and would recommend it.

[WSIDW]

Great, thanks! I'll look into those now.

[JMacSupply]

Agreed - that is an excellent post, with many useful tools and info.

I would add - for the google suggest part of the post - an excellent tool is Uber Suggest. http://ubersuggest.org/

[StreamlineMetrics]

I am a huge fan of Long Tail Pro. You can enter in a few seed keywords and it automatically grabs thousands of related keywords from the Google Keyword Planner (so you don't have to mess with it). Then you can sort and filter by search volume, organic title competition, CPC, etc. But perhaps the most valuable part of it is that is uses Moz's API to determine Keyword Difficulty so you can quickly determine which keywords get a decent number of searches and are not that competitive, aka the Holy Grail of SEO.

(I am not affiliated with LTP, just a big advocate of it since it's definitely the best keyword tool I've used in years and it doesn't seem to get a lot of attention in the "mainstream SEO" community. Maybe because the site looks kinda spammy and sales-y but I promise it is legit!)