8 Free Keyword Research Tools 2024

Are you looking for keywords to target? But you don’t have the budget for the paid tools. Google Keyword Planner is one of them among the free keyword research tools. You could enter any keyword and see a lot of keyword suggestions as well as the search volumes.

But Google has since restricted these numbers to ranges.

Here are some free keyword research tools to help start your SEO without investment.

Let’s go deep into each of these keyword tools.

1. Google Trends

Google Trends reflects keyword search popularity over time. If we look at the topics “SEO” for the past few years, we notice that the popularity of the keyword.

It can help the beginner plan the content calendar. Let for example you sell products online. Interest in mobile peaks every month when the there is new phone in the market. And if you run any technology blog, you have to update the posts every month.

Google trends also help target the right keywords beyond the content calendar.

2. Keyword Sheeter

One of the features of Keyword Sheeter, it pulls thousands of keyword suggestions from Google. Type one or more seed keywords and then click on “Sheet Keywords”.

If you want to generate keyword ideas very fast, this is the best keyword tool for you. It can generate 1,000 keyword ideas per minute, and you can also export the keywords for free in just one click.

Downside: Keyword Sheeter is quite basic. It doesn’t show search volumes or trends data.

However, it has one feature i.e. filter positive and negetive keyword.

Let for example: Add “how” to the positive filter.

Now, it only shows the keyword ideas that contain the word “how”.

The negative filter excludes the queries containing certain words. It is useful for eliminating irrelevant terms. For example, If you run a technology blog and want to find keywords related to “apple”, then you look for the keywords relating to Apple company, not the fruit.

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

3. Answer the Public

Answer the Public is used to find questions, comparisons, prepositions, and related searches.

We will do it by entering a seed keyword- let’s stick with “powder”.

Firstly, you will see the questions 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.

4. Keyword Surfer

Keyword Surfer is a Chrome extension that is used for finding monthly search volumes for any topic or query globally.

Keyword Surfer reflects the search volume for 19 countries including Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

You can also turn off the search volumes globally.

Downside: No way to get bulk search volumes of the keywords.

5. Keyworddit

Keyworddit is a free tool that pulls keywords from Reddit. It is fabulous if you have not much idea about the niche.

Example, if you start a blog about blogging but no any idea about that topic then pull ideas from /r/blogging.

This tells you things like:

• blogging guide;
• blogging course;
• blogging guide for beginners;
• Etc.

Besides the keyword suggestions, this tool pull the US monthly search volumes of US for keywords which help you filter the keywords as per the volume of each topic.

6. Google Search Console

It is a free tool that tell you about the website’s performance in organic search. And it also shows you many keyword on which you are already ranked for.

Click on “Search results” on the left side of the Google Search Console account.

Also, check the “Average CTR” and “Average position” columns of the keywords.

You can get the website insights.

If your keywords are ranking high with low CTR. You can fix this by changing the Metas.

This tool uncovers keywords on which you are ranking for but not the targeted one. If any of these keywords have impressions and low CTR, you should target that with the new or existing page.

7. Questiondb

Questiondb is the best keyword research tool if you are looking for question type topics for your blog. It extracts these keyword data from the database.

Questiondb is the tool which is mainly used for question type topics for your blog.

The lists of questions which are filtered by popularity as well as by topic.

Just beside each question there is a clickable link that is all about threads itself.

8. Bulk Keyword Generator

It is one of the best keyword research tools if you are looking for local SEO. Bulk Keyword Generator generates keywords based on industry type.

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

Final thoughts

Hope, these tools can help you find the keywords and phrases that will help you develop effective content.

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