Research · document 34

Keyword Ideas

In the workspace: /keyword-ideas/

Availability

Open on every plan. Each request is paid with Research credits, separately from the plan, and credit packs are sold on paid plans.

This document is open to every reader on every plan. Availability tells you what a plan includes; it does not decide what you may read.

What it is for

Lists the keywords people search around one seed keyword, with monthly searches, cost per click, competition, difficulty and intent. It is for planning content: which searches exist around a topic, how hard each one is, and what the searcher wants.

How to use it

Enter the "Seed keyword" (up to 200 characters).
Choose the country, the language and how many ideas to return: 50, 100, 150 or 200.
Check the line "Billed per 50 ideas" and your balance, then press "Find keyword ideas".
Reopen any request from the history with "View request".

Reading the result

Ideas are grouped by difficulty, easy, medium and hard, and sorted by monthly searches within each group. The columns are keyword, monthly searches, cost per click, competition, difficulty and intent; a value the source did not give is shown as missing rather than as zero.

What it cannot tell you

Search volumes are estimates averaged over months, not counts of last week's searches, and difficulty is a model, not a promise. A request returns at most 200 ideas, and credits are charged per 50 ideas, rounded up.

What it keeps

Each finished request stays in the history for the period the page states, so you can reopen it without paying again.