Keyword Research is one of the most important aspect when it comes to Search Engine Optimization. To Better rank a website or an article we all use to do Search Engine Optimization in two parts on page optimization and off-page optimization.
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| Top Keyword Research Tools for free |
Want to know in-depth about on-page and off-page optimization techniques you can read the article Search Engine Optimization: How & What on our page.
While doing keyword research there are two points that we need to keep in mind these are
- Average Monthly Searches
- Competition
Average Monthly Searches
While doing keyword research for your article or website keep an eye on your main keyword average monthly searches. This means how much search volume a particular keyword has over the period of one month, the more the better.
However, make sure that the keyword that you are selecting as the main keyword directly relates to the content you are writing.
Competition
Keywords have become very competitive over the period of time. The Competition is divided into
- Low
- Medium
- High
Low Competition Keyword (LCK)
Low competition keywords are those keywords that have overall low competition per month and if you target those keywords to rank for in search engine result pages you have a good chance to rank your article/website for it.
However, you have to keep a check if it’s a Low Volume, Low Competition keyword. If it is Low Volume Low Competition then it might not be that helpful to rank for.
But if the Keyword is High Volume, Low Competition then it’s a good Keyword to use and try to rank for.
Medium Competition Keyword (MCK)
Medium Competition keywords are those keywords which are a little bit hard to rank if your website is very new and does not have many backlinks to support the ranking.
However, if your website is old and has a good number of Backlinks, then you can target medium competition keywords to rank for as usually, these are the keywords that are being searched by the user.
And most of your competitors are using these keywords and are ranked for them.
But one of the major challenges we all face is how to do keyword research for SEO and that too keyword research for free.
In this article, we have tried to compile the Top free keyword research tools that are available online for us to use in our keyword research for the search engine optimization process.
Best free Tools for Keyword Research
Let us list down the top free keyword research tools that are currently available online:
- Google Keyword Planner
- Keyword.io
- Keyword Sheeter
- AlsoAsked
Let’s dive into a little bit more in-depth about how free keyword research tools work.
Google Keyword Planner
One of the best keyword planner is the google keyword planner because you see uber suggest also takes data from Google Keyword Planner to show a list of keywords according to your search.
Is Google Keyword Planner Free? Yes, Google Keyword Planner is Free, you just need to log in with your Gmail account.
How to use Google Keyword Planner for Keyword Research?
Once you log in you will be presented with this screen
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| Google Keyword Planner |
There are two options, Discover new keywords and get search volume and forecasts
The best is to discover new keywords let's see how it looks like
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| Keyword Research in Google Keyword Planner |
Here you can either start with a keyword or start with a website. You can either enter your business category or directly the keyword you want to target.
Once you fill in the keyword or category just press get result and you will have something like this
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| Google Keyword Planner Results |
Here you will get all the details about – Keywords, Avg. monthly searches, three-month changes, YoY Change and Competition.
Most important as discussed above is the Average Monthly Searches and Competition to check for.
Keyword.io
Keyword.io is used by most of the people to get keywords for various platforms such as Google, YouTube, Amazon, Bing, Yandex, Wikipedia and eBay.
So if you are looking for keyword research for any of these platforms then you can use this free keyword research tool.
How to Use Keyword.io?
It is quite simple, just visit the website it will look something like this
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| keyword.io |
Select the platform for which you want to get the keywords. And then select the country you want to get the keywords from, and then click search.
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| Keyword.io Keyword Results |
It will show you related keywords to the main keyword you searched for, select the keywords that are most related to you and you can use it.
One drawback that you can see is that it does not show the average monthly search and competition for the keyword so you can select the keyword and check its search volume and competition on Google Keyword Planner.
Keyword Sheeter
Keyword Sheeter is what how it sounds like, It gives out keywords regardless of the quality of the keyword. Its main focus is to give out the maximum keywords related to your search. So you have to be careful while using any of the keywords suggested by Keyword Sheeter.
How to Use Keyword Sheeter?
To use keyword Sheeter simply visit the website https://keywordsheeter.com and enter your keyword, and click on start sheeting. The website is kind of old school look-wise.
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| KeywordShitter |
Once you click on it, it will start generating keywords, you have to click on stop to stop the search. Again, this does not show the search volume and competition, that you have to search manually over Google Keyword Planner.
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| Keyword Shitter Keyword Tool |
Let’s move on to the last but not least free keyword research tool.
AlsoAsked
Also Asked is a platform where you can find questions that the user is searching or asking for over the search engines in a different language.
AlsoAsked gives you 3 free searches in one day, but it gives a lot of questions related to the keyword you search for.
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| AlsoAsked |
Just enter the keyword you want to search, select the language, location and search depth and click on search.
It will show you a chart of questions that are divided into different categories according to the searches related to the keyword.
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| AlsoAsked Keyword Tool Results |
Overall, All of these Free Keyword Research tools are worth trying, while keeping in mind what you want out of it, whether it is just reference-related keywords or specific keyword search volume or competition.
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