If you’re into monitoring trends and awareness, then you may already know about these tools. If not, then they’re an easy way to get a quick snapshot of industry and product trends.

Google Adwords Keyword Tool – Shows CPC, advertising competition, and search data for the past month and on average.

Google Trends – Provides search information, geographic information and related news stories for keywords.

Submit Express Keyword Suggestion Tool
– This tool uses Wordtracker and KeywordDiscovery to suggest keywords and provides data about the number of search queries per related keyword.