Free Seo Tools Keyword Research

A good blog needs to be optimized for search engines, but it’s tough to know where to start. Luckily, there are lots of tools out there that can help you with keyword research and finding the best fits for your blog posts. In this post, we’re going to take a look at some of the best free SEO tools on the market so you can do your own keyword research in no time at all!

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Free Seo Tools Keyword Research

Looking to find winning keywords to target but don’t have the budget for paid tools?
Google Keyword Planner used to be great for this. You could enter any ‘seed’ keyword and see tons of keyword suggestions, plus search volumes.

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But Google has since restricted these numbers to ranges.

keyword planner ranges

One solution is to use a tool like Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer that shows actual search volumes and tons of other SEO metrics.

But what if you’re starting out and can’t justify paying for any SEO tools?

Here are some free keyword tools to help kickstart your SEO with zero investment:

Google Trends;
Keyword Generator;
Keyword Sheeter;
Answer the Public;
Keyword Surfer;
Keyworddit;
Google Search Console;
Questiondb;
Bulk Keyword Generator;
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  1. Google Trends
    Google Trends visualizes the relative search popularity of a keyword over time.

For example, if we look at the term “costumes” for the past five years, we see that popularity spikes every October.

costumes google trends

This is because of Halloween.

But how is this useful for keyword research?

For starters, it can help you plan your content calendar. Let’s assume you sell costumes online. Publishing or republishing a list of the “10 Scariest Halloween Costumes for 20XX” each September/October makes perfect sense.

Here’s a less obvious example:

iphone specs google trends

Interest in “iPhone specs” peaks every September when Apple launches a new iPhone.

If you run a tech blog, it would make sense to update and republish any related posts every September.

Going beyond content calendars, Trends can also help avoid targeting the wrong keywords.

Take a look at these two:

apple watch keywords

If you could only create content for one of these keywords, which would you choose? It’d be the one with the highest search volume, right?

Not so fast, because search volumes are averages taken across many months or years.

If we check data for the past 12 months only in Google Trends, we see that searches for “apple watch series 5” recently overtook those for “apple watch series 3.”

apple watch google trends

So if you were running an ecommerce store and had to prioritize one of these keywords, it would almost certainly be “apple watch series 5.”

After all, searches for the Series 3 are only going to decrease as time goes on.

FURTHER READING
How to Use Google Trends for Keyword Research: 7 Effective Ways
Why you can’t blindly trust keyword search volume for traffic estimations
Keyword Search Volume: Things you didn’t know you don’t know

  1. Keyword Generator
    Keyword Generator finds up to 150 keyword ideas for any seed keyword.

For example, if we search for “bitcoin,” we get one hundred keyword ideas containing that word along with their estimated monthly search volumes.

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We also see a list of 50 question-type queries.

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For the first ten keywords on each list, we also show the Keyword Difficulty (KD) score. This is a number between 0-100 that estimates ranking difficulty. Generally speaking, the higher it is, the more backlinks you’ll need to rank.

SIDENOTE. Keyword Difficulty (KD) doesn’t take anything else into account besides backlinks. It’s important to take content quality, search intent, and website authority into account when assessing ranking difficulty. Learn more in this post.
Note that search volumes and KD scores are relative to the chosen country, which is the United States by default.

If you’re looking to rank elsewhere, just choose from one of the 170+ countries from the dropdown.

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You can also use the Keyword Generator to find keyword ideas for Bing, YouTube, and Amazon. Just switch the search engine at the top of the page.

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SIDENOTE.Keyword Generator is not the only free SEO tool by Ahrefs. You can find more tools here.

  1. Keyword Sheeter
    Keyword Sheeter pulls thousands of autocomplete suggestions from Google.

To get started, enter one or more seed keywords and click “Sheet keywords.”

keyword sheeter

If you want to generate a lot of keyword ideas fast, this is the tool for you. It pulls around 1,000 ideas per minute, and you can export the results for free in one click.

The only downside to Keyword Sheeter is that it’s quite basic.

It doesn’t show search volumes or trends data, and it doesn’t group keywords as Keyword Planner does.

But it does have one other notable feature: positive and negative filters.

The easiest way to explain how this works is to show an example. So let’s add “how” to the positive filter.

keyword sheeter how

Now it only shows queries that contain the word “how”—i.e., informational keywords that might make for good blog posts.

The negative filter does the opposite and excludes queries containing certain words.

This is useful for eliminating anything irrelevant. For example, if you run a tech blog and scrape results for “apple,” then you probably only want to see keywords relating to Apple the company, not the fruit.

So you could exclude keywords like “pie,” “crumble,” “fruit,” and “cider.”

keyword sheeter negative

DO YOU WANT EVEN MORE KEYWORD IDEAS?
Try the Phrase match report in Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer.

Keywords Explorer > enter seed keyword > Phrase match

keyword ideas phrase match keywords explorer

Keywords Explorer doesn’t just pull more keyword ideas. It also shows SEO metrics like monthly search volume and Keyword Difficulty (KD).

  1. Answer the Public
    Answer the Public finds questions, prepositions, comparisons, alphabeticals, and related searches.

Confused? Let’s tackle each of these one-by-one.

We’ll start by entering a “seed” keyword—let’s stick with “protein powder.”

answer the public

The first thing you’ll see are questions.

These are search queries containing who, what, why, where, how, which, when, are, and is.

Examples:

what protein powder tastes best?
how protein powder is made
are protein powders fattening?
when does protein powder expire?
You’ll see a visualization by default, but you can switch to a regular list.

atp questions

Next up, we have propositions—i.e., for, can, is, near, without, with, and to.

These are search queries that fit the [seed] [preposition] [__] format.

Examples:

protein powder without carbs
protein powder for weight gain
protein powder is it safe
We then have comparisons—i.e., versus, vs, and, like, or.

Once again, the format is [seed] [comparison] [__].

Examples:

protein powder versus meat
protein powder or chicken breast
protein powder like quest
And finally, we have alphabeticals and related.

Alphabeticals are Google autocomplete suggestions.

answer the public alphabeticals

And related, well, who knows?

In my experience, the number of suggestions in the related category is almost always ~20. I have no clue how it derives those keywords. But it does kick back a few gems from time to time.

But where does ATP get its data from?

As far as we’re aware, that would be Google Keyword Planner and Google autosuggest.

SIDENOTE. All data is exportable to CSV. No need to register or log in.
LOOKING FOR MORE QUESTION-TYPE SUGGESTIONS?
Answer the Public gives 160 question-type queries for the phrase “cat.”

If we plug the same seed into Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer, we get 626,768 keywords—that’s 3,900x times more.

keywords explorer questions report

Of course, we’re flexing our big data muscles here. For most people, Answer the Public has more than enough keyword suggestions. But when your site grows bigger, there’s always Keywords Explorer.

  1. Keyword Surfer
    Keyword Surfer is a free Chrome extension that shows estimated global and monthly search volumes for any query typed into Google.

keyword surfer

SIDENOTE. Keyword Surfer works much the same way as another popular extension called Keywords Everywhere. This tool used to be free but recently switched to a paid model. Keyword Surfer’s developers have promised to keep this tool “100% free, forever.”
Right now, Keyword Surfer shows local search volume estimates for 19 countries. These include the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, France, and Germany.

There’s also an option to turn global search volumes on or off.

keyword surfer settings

That said, these aren’t true global search volumes. It’s the total sum of searches from the 19 countries currently in their database.

Beyond this, the extension also adds search volume estimates to the autocomplete results:

autocomplete google keyword surfer

And shows 10 “similar” keywords in the search results:

surfer estimated search volumes

The only downside is that there’s no way to get search volumes in bulk.

That said, bulk research isn’t the aim of this extension. It’s more for assessing queries as you browse the web.

  1. Keyworddit
    Keyworddit is a unique tool that pulls keyword ideas from Reddit. Enter a subreddit, and it’ll mine the titles and comments of threads to find up to 500 keywords.

keyworddit

This tool is a fantastic starting point if you know little or nothing about a niche.

For example, if you want to start a blog about paleo dieting but know nothing about the topic, pull ideas from /r/paleo.
keyworddit ideas

This tells you that paleo dieters care about things like:

Low carb meals;
Slow cooker recipes;
Grass-fed produce;
Etc.
It also tells you what kind of language they use to describe such things.

Beyond ideas, the tool pulls estimated US monthly search volumes for each keyword. That helps give you some idea about the popularity of each subtopic.

To learn more about a keyword, hit the “Context” link to pull up the threads in Google that the keywords were derived from.

keyworddit context results

WANT TO FIND CONTENT IDEAS FAST?
Paste interesting keywords from Keyworddit into Keyword Sheeter or Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer.

For example, if we paste “red yeast rice” into Keyword Sheeter, we see ideas like:

red yeast rice benefits
does red yeast rice lower your cholesterol
does red yeast rice thin your blood
can red yeast rice make you tired
how much red yeast rice should you take a day
These may be good ideas for individual blog posts, or even for a “complete” guide.

  1. Google Search Console
    Google Search Console helps you track your website’s performance in organic search. This means it shows a lot of data about the keywords that you already rank for.

For example, take a look at the “Search results” report from our account. It shows the keywords that have sent the most traffic to the Ahrefs Blog over the past three months.

ahrefs search console

Let’s also toggle the “Average position” and “Average CTR” columns. These show each keyword’s average ranking position and click-through rate.

search console ctr position

You can get a lot of useful insights from this report.

For instance, let’s say that you’re getting a lot of traffic from a keyword despite ranking in position 3-10. You may want to focus on ranking higher for that instead of targeting new keywords.

keyword research search console

If your CTR is low despite ranking high, your page may be less than enticing in the search results. You can often fix this by improving your title tag or meta description.

But what about finding new keywords?

Sort the report by CTR from low to high. This often uncovers keywords that you’re ranking for but never targeted. If any of these have lots of impressions and a low click-through rate, it could be worth targeting that keyword with a new page.

For example, we rank in position 8 for “most searched person on Google.”

most searched person on google

The page that ranks for this keyword is our list of the top 100 Google searches.

most searched person on google serp

This is only a semi-relevant result for this keyword. We may rank higher with a blog post about the most Googled people, not things.

Recommended reading: How to Use Google Search Console to Improve SEO (Beginner’s Guide)

  1. Questiondb
    Questiondb finds the questions people are asking about a specific topic. It pulls these from a database of 48M questions sourced from Reddit.

questiondb

SIDENOTE. There are plans to expand data sources in the future.
Questions are sorted by popularity, but you can also sort by topic. This is a super useful feature because it also groups questions together.

For instance, let’s search for “protein powder” and sort by topic. All questions about vegan protein powder are now grouped together.

vegan protein powder group

Same goes for those about keto protein powders:

This is useful when writing blog posts, as it helps you understand which questions to answer.

Speaking of answers, if you check the box to “Show source link,” a clickable link appears next to each question. This takes you to the thread itself.

source link questiondb

If you browse the comments, you can often find answers fast, which speeds up content research.

All questions are exportable to CSV at the touch of a button.

  1. Bulk Keyword Generator
    Bulk Keyword Generator is a keyword research tool for local SEO. It generates keywords based on industry type.

To start, follow step 1 and choose a business type from the dropdown.

business type bulk keyword generator

You will then see a list of keywords relevant to the services or products you offer.

For example, let’s set “plumber” as the business type. We see queries like hot water installation, gas installation, drain cleaning, and drain relining.

plumber services

Now, most businesses that offer these services will mention so on their website. But many fail to create or optimize individual pages for these service-type queries.

To illustrate, take a look at this plumbing company’s homepage:

plumber drain relining

It states that they offer drain relining services, yet they don’t have a page about this service. As a result, they’re outranked by those that do.

drain relining serp

In step 2, the tool appends the chosen services with locations (e.g., London).

location keywords

However, this isn’t particularly useful because it doesn’t reflect the way people actually search.

For instance, most Londoners wouldn’t search for “drain relining services in London.” They’d search for “drain relining” or “drain relining services.” Google serves local results either way, and the latter is quicker.

drain relining nottingham

This is also why there’s often little or no volume for such terms in tools like Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer.

drain relining nottingham keywords explorer

So here’s a smarter idea:

Copy a handful of service-type keywords from the tool that apply to your business;
Paste the raw list into Google Keyword Planner;
Set the location to a relevant city or area.
For example, let’s type “drain relining” into Keyword Planner and set the location to Nottingham. There are 10-100 monthly searches.

keyword planner location

  1. Google
    Google is perhaps the most powerful keyword research tool on the planet.

There’s the autocomplete feature for generating an almost infinite number of keyword ideas. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to using Google for keyword research.

For starters, take notice of the “People also ask” box that shows up for some searches.

people also ask google

These are questions that Google knows searchers are asking and want to know the answers to.

And here’s a quick trick:

Click on any of these questions, and Google will load more.

people also ask more

Keep doing this, and you can generate an almost infinite list of questions people are asking.

But Google’s use as a keyword research tool doesn’t end there.

Let’s say that there’s a keyword you want to rank for. There are a lot of factors at play when it comes to SEO, but one thing is certain:

If you want to rank, then your content needs to align with search intent.

In other words, don’t try to rank a gym homepage for a query like, “how to lose weight?”

People who perform that search aren’t in buying mode. They’re in learning mode.

Google is your best friend when it comes to understanding search intent. Just look at the search results and the presence of SERP features.

For example, imagine that we’re an email marketing tool and want to rank for “email marketing.”

Looking at the search results for that query, we notice two things:

First, there’s a featured snippet.

email marketing featured snippet

This is almost always a sign of informational intent. Searchers are in learning mode and want to see blog posts and guides, not product pages.

Second, there are quite a few beginner’s guides.

email marketing beginner guide 1
email marketing beginner guide 3email marketing beginner guide 2

That tells us that most searchers are email marketing noobs who want to learn the absolute basics of email marketing.

So, that’s what we should create if we want to rank for this keyword.

Now, if we search for something totally different like “dress,” we see the opposite:

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All the results are ecommerce product or category pages, and Google even shows shopping ads.

dress ads

This tells us the searcher is in buying mode.

Bottom line? Don’t overlook Google as a keyword research tool. Keyword research is about more than just finding keywords. It’s about understanding who is searching for them and what they want to see.

Free vs. paid keyword tools: how do they compare?
It’s simple: free keyword tools are limited compared to paid tools.

That’s not to say that free tools don’t have their uses. But the number of keyword ideas and data they give access to will always pale in comparison to paid tools.

Because of this, paid tools allow you to go way deeper and do more advanced marketing research.

To illustrate, here’s what happens if we type “protein powder” into Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer:

protein powder keywords explorer

123,000+ “phrase match” suggestions from our database of 9.9 billion keywords.

No free keyword tool runs on a database that large.

We also show tons of data points, including:

Estimated monthly search volume;
Keyword Difficulty (KD);
Clicks;
CPC
And everything is searchable, filterable, and returned in seconds.

SIDENOTE. We add new keywords to our database and refresh search volumes every month.
Doing this with free keyword tools would be next to impossible.

Plus, to make any real decisions on the competitiveness of a keyword, you should analyze the top 10 ranking pages.

To an extent, you can do that using Google. But in Keywords Explorer, we show backlink data and traffic stats for each of the top 10 results.

Just scroll down to the SERP Overview.

protein powder serp overview

FYI: As far as we’re aware, no other keyword tool, free, or paid, can do this.

Final thoughts
Don’t get me wrong; you can find some good keywords with free keyword tools.

But doing so can be very time-consuming. And time is money.

The reality is that time spent mining Google autocomplete for queries is time wasted. The same is true of merging data from multiple free keyword tools in spreadsheets. You should aim to use that time for more important stuff, like creating content or link building.

Furthermore, paid keyword tools—like Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer—run on huge amounts of data. That makes them much more efficient at finding low-competition keywords.

Bottom line: free keyword tools are good when you’re starting out, but as you grow your site, you’ll need paid tools to keep up with the competition.

best free keyword research tool

Without keyword research tools, finding the right terms to incorporate into your blog or online store content to help it rank on search engine results pages (SERPs) would be like throwing darts in a dark room. Every once in a while, you would hit the target, but many darts would land on the floor.

Keyword research tools facilitate your SEO planning in multiple ways. They can help you generate keyword ideas, reveal how many people actively use a search term, identify trends, and show you how much competition you face to rank for a specific phrase.

Free keyword research tools
There are a surprising number of fantastic free tools you can use to gather vital information for marketing and SEO. Here are 12 free keyword research tools that are easy to use and full of valuable data.

Some are powerful keyword generators for Google and other search engines. Others provide targeted data for e-commerce websites like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon. The most comprehensive of these tools include essential SEO data like the monthly search volume and intensity of competition for your target terms.

Below are descriptions of what you can accomplish with each free keyword research tool, as well as their benefits and drawbacks. The tools covered are:

Keyword Surfer
AnswerThePublic
Keyword Sheeter
Keyworddit
QuestionDB
Ahrefs Keyword Generator
SEMrush Keyword Magic Tool
Ubersuggest
Moz Keyword Explorer
Soovle
Keyword Tool Dominator
Google Trends
Keyword generators for blog topic ideas
Keyword generators help you home in on what your potential customers want to know. They scrape search engines and question-and-answer databases to reveal new blog topics and keyword ideas.

Keyword Surfer
Keyword Surfer is a newer tool that plugs right into the Chrome web browser. When it’s on, results automatically display on the right side of your results page each time you enter a search term.

The data delivered by Keyword Surfer includes:

Keyword ideas with their volume
Cost per click (CPC) for each search term
Pages that rank for the term you entered
Traffic to pages ranked 1 through 10 for that term
It’s a highly efficient keyword research tool and delivers results as you use your web browser. As a new tool, there may be some kinks to work out. Data delivered by the plugin can sometimes differ from data supplied by other Google search tools. However, it’s a fast and easy way to get content ideas.

AnswerThePublic
AnswerThePublic is a great place to see raw search insights. After you enter your search term(s), it displays the questions people are asking related to that topic. The results are shown in a graphic display with all the who, what, where, when, why and other questions users ask.

It’s a powerful way to generate keyword ideas and see what your potential customers actually want to know. You can download the data as a graph or a list.

There is one con for this tool: With a limit of 3 free searches a day, you have to be thoughtful about each phrase you search.

Keyword Sheeter
Keyword Sheeter pulls autocomplete results from Google. It delivers real-time data on what people are typing into the search engine.

If you want to generate a long list of keyword ideas fast, Keyword Sheeter is an excellent choice. It pulls about 1,000 ideas per minute, and exporting your list is free.

It’s a simple and powerful resource to identify ideas for blog topics. However, the free features of Keyword Sheeter do not include search volume or data on how competitive it is to rank for a phrase.

Keyworddit
Keyworddit mines Reddit for keywords. To use it, enter a specific subreddit with at least 10,000 subscribers and specify a timeframe. The tool searches through the titles and comments to extract up to 500 keywords with search volumes.

Due to the variety of answers within each subreddit, the relevance of the results may vary. There is an option to specify high relevance, which slows down the tool somewhat.

Keyworddit is not designed to replace other keyword research tools, but it can be an interesting complement to your existing strategy. Reddit is a popular site where people with specific interests take deep dives into a topic. It may reveal keyword phrases and blog topics you wouldn’t find using other search tools.

QuestionDB
QuestionDB is an excellent blog topic idea generator. It pulls from several question-and-answer websites, including Reddit and Quora, to give you questions people are actively asking related to your keywords .

The free version of the tool allows unlimited searches without registering for an account. You can download your results with a single click.

You have the option to display the source link for each question. This allows you to review additional details about how people are framing their questions. You can also review the answers. QuestionDB also displays related topics mentioned in the questions.

The free account limits you to 50 results per query.

Freemium keyword research tools for SEO analysis
A few of the premium paid websites offer free tools for limited use. You get the same outstanding services provided by the premium services for a limited number of searches or fewer features. Even so, they are comprehensive free keyword research tools.

Ahrefs Keyword Generator
Ahrefs Keyword Generator is one of the free tools offered by Ahrefs, which is a popular paid service. Enter any target keyword or phrase, and it will pull the top 100 keyword ideas from its database of over 8 billion keywords from more than 170 countries.

For each keyword phrase, the Keyword Generator displays:

Search volume
Keyword difficulty from 1 to 100
How recently this result was updated
A list of questions related to your search term
You can use this keyword research tool to identify long-tail keywords, target less competitive phrases, and isolate your search using geographic location or search engine.

It allows you to export your data by downloading your list of results. In addition to the Keyword Generator that pulls from Google, Ahrefs also has free Bing, YouTube, and Amazon tools.

While some freemium services include the SERP results inside the keyword search tool, Ahrefs provides their free SERP service on a separate page.

Ahrefs Keyword Generator is an efficient and valuable free tool that allows you to do unlimited searches without creating an account. However, unlike other tools, it does not allow you to download your results. And, because you don’t create an account with the free service, you have to prove you’re not a robot with every new search.

SEMrush Keyword Magic Tool
Semrush Keyword Magic Tool is one of several free tools offered by SEO giant Semrush. To access their free tools, create an account and select Skip Trial. You can always sign up for the paid service down the road if you’d like.

The Keyword Magic Tool gives you access to more than 20 billion keywords from over 120 geographical databases.

Free reports include:

Monthly search volume
Competitive density (competition among paid advertisers)
Keyword difficulty (how difficult it would be to rank in Google’s top 20)
The Keyword Magic Tool also has some helpful sorting and organizing features. It allows you to sort keywords into topic-specific subgroups, apply smart filters to narrow or expand your search, and quickly export your findings. You can see related keywords by topic and semantically related keywords or by keywords with similar phrasing.

The free account limits you to 10 searches a day across all the complementary tools provided by Semrush.

Ubersuggest
Ubersuggest provides a wealth of information with its free version. When you enter a search term, it displays the search volume, SEO difficulty, paid difficulty, and CPC.

Immediately beneath that display, it identifies the number of backlinks you would need to rank on the first page of Google for that keyword phrase.

As you scroll down, you can view lists of keyword ideas and page content ideas.

The list of page content ideas displays related blog titles. At a glance, you can see how many people click on and share each article. You can export most of your data reports to CSV to save and sort. Ubersuggest provides a free Chrome extension to see data right on the SERP easily.

The free version limits your use to a single website and 3 keyword searches per day.

Moz Keyword Explorer
Moz Keyword Explorer is an attractive and well-laid-out keyword research tool. You can see monthly volume, organic difficulty, organic click-through rate (CTR), and a priority score for each search term.

The organic CTR displays how many people who use the term follow through and click on one of the results. The priority score aggregates the difficulty, opportunity, and volume to show you in a simple score how likely you are to rank for that keyword phrase.

Keyword Explorer delivers a long list of keyword suggestions for each term, with monthly search volume and relevancy.

The SERP analysis, also included with the free search results, gives you 10 specific pages that rank for your target keyword. You can see their title, URL, page authority, domain authority, number of backlinks to the page, and the number of backlinks to the root domain. It’s easy to download results into a spreadsheet.

Moz provides an excellent service. The downside is the free account limits you to 10 queries a month.

Keyword research tools for e-commerce, online sellers, and multichannel marketers
Most keyword tools focus on Google and other search engines. However, platforms like YouTube, Amazon, eBay, and Etsy have their own algorithms.

For e-commerce stores or sellers whose goals reach beyond ranking on Google and other search engines, tools like Keyword Tool Dominator and Soovle help you target the platforms you are using.

Soovle
Soovle is great for e-commerce websites or marketers using multiple channels. It helps you find popular keywords across several megasites, including Amazon, Wikipedia, YouTube, and eBay.

Soovle works as a keyword research tool and a keyword generator. As you type in your target terms, it autogenerates phrases to help you expand your ideas.

Soovle includes unlimited searches for free. On the downside, it is limited to an idea generator and does not include metrics like keyword difficulty or search volume.

Keyword Tool Dominator
Keyword Tool Dominator helps you identify search trends as they happen. It brings you the autocomplete databases from Google, YouTube, Amazon, Walmart, Bing, Etsy, and eBay to uncover up-to-date keywords and search terms.

It’s an outstanding resource for sellers and multichannel marketers who want to rank on more than Google or the other search engines.

The downside of this fast and easy-to-use tool is the free version limits you to 2 searches a day. For more queries, you’ll need to pay for a plan.

Keyword usage over time
Sometimes you want to know if a topic is an established trend or just a fad. In that case, Google Trends is a powerful and unique tool.

Google Trends
Google Trends is a free tool that delivers graphs and data on specific search terms used on Google and YouTube.

When you enter a search phrase on the homepage, it will deliver a list from Google by default. On the results page, you can change your options to see results from YouTube instead. It also offers trends from Google Shopping, Images, and News.

Google Trends is a valuable tool for:

Identifying what’s currently trending
Isolating popular topics or subtopics within an industry or related to a theme
Discovering local search trends
Finding related keywords that are growing in popularity
Graphing the public interest in a topic over a range of time
Seeing where a topic is most popular
Google Trends helps you identify keywords that are rising in popularity and avoid terms that are losing momentum. It does not provide data on monthly search volume or how much competition there is for each keyword phrase.

Paid tools
Free keyword research tools aren’t your only option. If your business is booming or you want to go down a new avenue, you can always invest in paid tools. Tools that require payment or a subscription to access do everything that the free tools above can do, but may also:

Provide more keyword data
Enable you to do more keyword research
Feature location-based SEO tools
Have rank trackers so you can see how well your website is ranking on SERP pages for certain keywords
Have more user-friendly interfaces
Have an all-in-one suite where you can conduct all your keyword research
If you are looking to branch into pay-per-click marketing, these tools may also offer additional insights into search engine marketing. (One free tool for paid marketing is Google Keyword Planner, which supplies data around Google’s biddable keywords.)

Planning with data
Whether you are promoting a blog or building an e-commerce website, each page you create takes time, energy, and expertise. When you use the best keyword research tools for your business, you ensure your efforts produce results.

Don’t throw darts in the dark and hope they find their target. All the data you need to make solid content planning decisions is available in these 12 free keyword research tools.

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