Below is a list of my favourite tools to carry out keyword research:
Ubersuggest – Neil Patel
Enter the domain name to see the keywords that it is currently ranking for. Useful to check competitor sites.
https://app.neilpatel.com/en/ubersuggest
KeyWord Keg
Keyword research tool were you enter a seed search query and the tool returns a large list of keywords to target. For each keyword, it shows you the monthly search volume (both globally or for a specific market), average CPC cost, keyword value (CPC * search volume), On and off page difficulty, SEO difficulty, CTR scope (to see if the organic keywords are clicked on or not), keyword power (combination of all the previous factors) and finally the search trend expressed as a monthly bar chart. You can also import an existing list of keywords.
Cost: Subscription model starting from $40 a month.
Storybase
Storybase is a keyword analysis tool. Starting from a single keyword the tool will show you the following information:
Demographic data (age & gender of the searchers).
Most popular questions related to your query
Phrases related to the keyword
Related keywords and phrases
Number of searches per month
The tool currently covers the US,UK & Danish markets and is free for a limited amount of searches.
Yandex wordstat
Enter a word or phrase into this free tool and it will show search query statistics for searches on Yandex the Russian search engine. The figures next to each query in the results are a provisional forecast for the number of impressions a month for a given keyword or phrase.
RankTank Infinite Suggest
http://www.infinitesuggest.com
Visuwords
looks at keywords and their associated nouns/adverbs/all
KW Finder
QuestionDB
Tool that generates lots of question-based keywords, after entering a seed keyword, this free tool shows a list of untapped keyword ideas.
Screenshot of Question DB – Enter in a keyword to find the questions that your readers are asking.
Merlinox suggest
http://www.merlinox.com/suggest/
This free tool extracts searches from Google Suggest SERP data. You can set view mode (linear, table, tree), scan mode (loop, alfanum, alfanuminvert, correlate) or by Google domain (.com, .it, .de) and language (en, it, de).
Infinite Suggest
http://www.infinitesuggest.com/
Starting with one keyword this tool will scrape Google of the suggestions connected to that word. What is very useful about this tool is that you can keep adding words to the list. Also, each suggestion contains a link to the SEMRush tool for further analysis.
[amazon_link asins=’B078JJ4V5T,B079Z3G3GH,B00GDXRR9A,B078QQ53Z2,1719494231,1537230662,1980494142,B00IUN9H1W,B01J998P4U’ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’chrisfaron-21′ marketplace=’UK’ link_id=’fb234418-7561-11e8-882d-c909562ed5f0′]
Think with Google
https://shopping.thinkwithgoogle.com/
It allows you to search for products and splits popularity of product by demographic, location, device etc. also showing volume to some degree. Only US at the moment but worth checking out as has some interesting data points.
Google Adwords AdPreview tool
https://adwords.google.com/apt/AdPreview
For viewing SERPS for different locations/languages/devices/domains – it’s been really useful when looking at where clients rank on a localised scale.
Textoptimizer
Optimize the content on your web site for your chosen keywords. This tool will offer suggestions on how to improve your web page with tips on writing style, words that need adding, etc.
SEMRush
Keywordtool.io
UberSuggest
Kwfinder
Ranksonic
https://ranksonic.com/generate-keywords-key.html
https://ranksonic.com/generate-keywords.html
Free tool (up to 700 keywords at a time), to get keyword ideas. Just enter your main search queries or a URL, select the Google market.
Voice search tools
With the rise in voice activated searching via personal assistants like Amazon’s Echo (aka Alexa), Google Home (a direct competitor of the Echo), Siri and Cortana, it is essential to use online tools to work out how users search in a different way using this method.
Answerthepublic
Input a keyword and visualize keyword research content ideas that users could be using when carrying out searches via personal assistants. The free tool will show you various questions and prepositions connected to the your keyword. All data can be exported in .csv format for further analysis.
Questionsamurai
http://app.questionsamurai.com/
Seozoom
https://suite.seozoom.it/keywordzoom?q=seo
Free tool in Italian (but still usable for English speakers) that for a given keyword shows many metrics connected to searches for Google Italy (google.it). Metrics include; Keyword difficulty, search volume, Pages indexed in Google, average CPC, seasonal differences, latest SERPs results, overview of ranking trend of the top result, backlink competition and the adverts appearing for this query (in Google).
Bloomberry app
https://app.bloomberry.com/questions
Similar to Answerthepublic it’s only great for getting question based keywords. The tool is free to use if you register.
You simply enter your keywords in and Bloomberry scours the web collecting questions from all the usual sources, it even scraped forums for questions too. It then groups all the questions together in various topics for easier analysis. You can also filter by sources and TLDs too, in case you didn’t want information from a particular source, or were doing some research for different markets.
Serpio
Allows you to measure both Title and Meta description tags in pixel length so it’s easy to measure if what’s created is good (in terms of length). The tool now supports 3 lines for the Meta Description. In the “multiple†tab you can create the title and meta descriptions in bulk.
In the â€evaluate†tab you can check the how good are already created title & meta description tags.
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