Free Keyword Research Tool: Volume, Difficulty and CPC
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Free keyword research tool

Twenty keywords around your seed, with volume, difficulty and cost.

One seed term and a country. Related searches with monthly volume, how hard they are to rank for, and what a click costs in ads.

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Run the check

Keyword Research Tool

Free, no account. Tell us where the result should go, type the code from the email, and the check runs.

What it checks

Volume

Average monthly searches in the chosen country, from a keyword database.

And

Difficulty

A 0 to 100 estimate of how strong the pages ranking today are.

Also

Intent and cost

Whether the search is informational, commercial, navigational or transactional, and the cost per click advertisers pay.

How to read the result

What to do with it

  • Volume tells you the size of the prize; difficulty tells you the price.
  • Low difficulty with commercial intent is where a new page can earn quickly.
  • Group the terms by intent; one page can answer several of the same kind.
The next step

When one page is not enough

These tools check one thing at a time. The free SEO audit crawls a whole site and emails a report with the findings in priority order, and the paid plans turn that report into a proposal with the money at stake.

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Questions

About the keyword research tool

How many keywords do I get?

Twenty per seed, the largest by volume that include the seed. Three seeds a day per visitor.

Where do the volumes come from?

A keyword database that models search demand per country, refreshed monthly. The figures are averages and are best used to compare terms.

What does difficulty mean?

An estimate of the authority of pages already ranking. Under 30 a good page can rank with few links; above 70 expect a long campaign.