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					<description><![CDATA[SEO begins with keyword research. That&#8217;s why when I started this website, one of the first things I did was put together my free keyword tool review in which I compared the most popular free and freemium tools to doing keyword research. Ultimately I determined that no one free tool was good enough to fill [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>SEO begins with keyword research. That&#8217;s why when I started this website, one of the first things I did was put together my <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/the-ultimate-free-keyword-tool-review/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>free keyword tool review</strong></a> in which I compared the most popular free and freemium tools to doing keyword research.</p>



<p>Ultimately I determined that no one free tool was good enough to fill the role of my regular keyword research tool. A few tools showed promise, but not surprisingly they kept their value behind a paywall.</p>



<p>A year ago, I tried <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/keysearch" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">KeySearch</a> and it&#8217;s been my go-to tool for straight ahead keyword research for all that time. As I covered in my <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/keysearch-review/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>KeySearch review</strong></a>, there&#8217;s a lot more to the tool than just keyword research. </p>



<p>I&#8217;ve been using it to get information on the competition specifically for keywords on YouTube, backlink profiles of and information on the other sites ranking for keywords I&#8217;m targeting, tracking my rankings for keywords I&#8217;m targeting, and to create reports on all of this information.</p>



<p>This month I&#8217;m set to renew my membership, so I went back to my keyword tool review and decided to give each tool a try. This brings us to this Ubersuggest individual review.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Ubersuggest Individual Review</h2>



<p><a href="https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ubersuggest</a> is the SEO tool from Neil Patel. There aren&#8217;t a lot of notable or famous SEOers, but Neil would be around the top of that short list.</p>



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<p>The tool features three tiers: individual, business, and agency. I&#8217;m focusing on the cheapest and entry tier, hence the Ubersuggest Individual review specifically. Neil&#8217;s tool gives you a lot of features to compete with the likes of Ahrefs and SEMRushes of the world, but at a fraction of the cost. </p>



<p>It&#8217;s also the only tool which offers a lifetime membership price.</p>



<p>Note when I say fraction of the cost, I&#8217;m talking $290 for a lifetime membership to the Individual tier (at the time of this Ubersuggest Individual review) for Ubersuggest versus $1000 A YEAR for Ahrefs entry tier (for example).</p>



<p>Knowing that Ubersuggest is meant to compete with these other tools with that price difference, I had to give it a try.</p>



<p>You can get a 7 day free trial, but the catch is you have to tie a payment method to the account when you sign up. You don&#8217;t have to pay until the end of the trial period, but this system is in place to keep you from signing up for trial after trial.</p>



<p>If you go with the lifetime membership, you pay up front but you get 30 days to get your money back. You can always try it for 7 days before switching to the lifetime membership, as well.</p>



<p>Now on with the Ubersuggest Individual review. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Ubersuggest Plan Comparison</h3>



<p>One thing I like about is that the Individual plan gives you all of the same features as the higher tiered &#8220;business&#8221; and &#8220;agency&#8221; plans. The only difference is that you get lower caps on each feature which I&#8217;ll address as I go through each feature.</p>



<p>The tool is built around creating projects. When you create a new project, the tool prompts you to input a website URL and name. Everything you do in a project relates back to that website. With the Individual plan, you can only track up to 3 websites. This is compared to the 7 and 15 you get with &#8220;Business&#8221; and &#8220;Agency&#8221;, respectively.</p>



<p>I admittedly have more sites I&#8217;d like to track than 3, but I can narrow it down to 3 which take priority. Otherwise I can shuffle accordingly.</p>



<p>One last important thing to mention is that actions are referred to as &#8220;reports used&#8221;. If you do any kind of search with Ubersuggest, it counts against the number of reports you can run per day.</p>



<p>Doing a search on a keyword, getting related keywords, analyzing a website, bringing up a site&#8217;s backlinks, etc. all each count as a report.</p>



<p>Each plan as a cap at what you can do daily:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Individual &#8211; 100 Reports</strong></li>



<li><strong>Business &#8211; 300 Reports</strong></li>



<li><strong>Agency &#8211; 900 Reports</strong></li>
</ul>



<p>If you&#8217;re just one person using the tool, i.e. not sharing it with other SEOers, the information you&#8217;ll get from running up to 100 reports should be more than enough daily to keep you busy. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Ubersuggest Dashboard</h3>



<p>The Ubersuggest dashboard is where you get a snapshot for your project. The tool gives you recommendations on how to improve your rankings, keywords you should create content for, how your rankings are doing, etc.</p>



<p>The dashboard will be blank until you create a project as I just mentioned, entering your site&#8217;s URL and name, plus listing the places you want to rank.</p>



<p>This last point is important because it lets you check your rankings not just on a country level, but in more specific markets. This is huge for local SEO, particularly if you&#8217;re not in the city you want to check your rankings for.</p>



<p>You can add up to 20 locations with the individual plan, and each location even specifies which language you want to target:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-full"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-choose-locations.png" alt="ubersuggest choose locations" class="wp-image-934"/></figure>



<p>After you&#8217;ve chosen the regions you want to rank in and track your rankings for, you&#8217;ll be prompted to put in up to 100 keywords for that website you want to rank for:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-add-keywords.png" alt="ubersuggest add keywords" class="wp-image-935"/></figure>



<p>Ubersuggest will take the liberty of doing a quick check to see which keywords you&#8217;re currently ranking roughly within the top 100 for in Google. It will prioritize the keywords which have higher search volume. </p>



<p>Alternatively, you can add your own keywords and the tool will detect your current ranking.</p>



<p>Lastly, the tool will prompt you to add up to 5 (with the Individual plan) competitor web sites (per project) to analyze:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-add-competitors.png" alt="ubersuggest add competitors" class="wp-image-936"/></figure>



<p>The tool will see what these sites are doing to rank as well as they are and make recommendations accordingly.</p>



<p>After you finish this last step, the tool will begin to automatically analyze and audit your site to identify opportunities to improve your rankings.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Ubersuggest Rank Tracking</h3>



<p>The Ubersuggest Rank Tracking tab is where you can keep on top of the rankings for the keywords you&#8217;ve added:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-rank-tracker-1024x638.png" alt="ubersuggest rank tracker" class="wp-image-938"/></figure>



<p>You get your current ranking for individual keywords you&#8217;re tracking, any change since the tool last checked (which can be set to daily), the search volume for the keyword monthly, the estimated competitiveness of the keyword, and the URL on your site ranking for the keyword.</p>



<p>You can export this data as you like to create a report for yours or, if you&#8217;re doing SEO work for someone else, your client&#8217;s purposes.</p>



<p>Clicking on any keyword you&#8217;re ranking for will take you to the overview page for that keyword which shows you the stats on that keyword, including SEO difficulty, search volume changes, and the age demo stats of those who search for it.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-keyword-overview-1024x561.png" alt="ubersuggest keyword overview" class="wp-image-939"/></figure>



<p>Beneath this section you find related &#8220;keyword ideas&#8221; which incidentally some of which make for some good keywords to weave into your existing page of content you&#8217;re trying to rank for the main keyword, particularly in the headings of the page (see my overview on <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/h1-h2-h3-seo/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>H1 H2 H3 SEO</strong></a> for more information).</p>



<p>Note that you can track up to 100 keywords per project (so 300 keywords overall with the Ubersuggest Individual plan). This is at least twice as many (at most six times as many) keywords you can track than with the basic plan on KeySearch.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Mobile Rank Tracking</h4>



<p>I buried the lead when it comes to Ubersuggest&#8217;s Rank Tracker, though, because in addition to being a solid option for tracking your rankings, it also gives you the rare ability to track your mobile ranks.</p>



<p>With many web pages loading differently/less or more efficiently on mobile devices, Google keeps a unique set of search results which are specific for mobile users.</p>



<p>Most tools, even the premium ones, limit their rank tracking abilities to the desktop SERPs. This makes it a huge boon that Ubersuggest includes this (if you turn it on, which you have no reason not to as it&#8217;s included for no extra cost).</p>



<p>Ubersuggest allows you to see how you&#8217;re ranking for mobile users which is arguably more important to track than the desktop results. </p>



<p>Some niches and websites cater almost exclusively to moibile users for one, and two, more than half of all web traffic comes from mobile devices (see <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/why-are-my-mobile-and-desktop-results-different/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>why are my desktop and mobile results different</strong></a> for more information).</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Ubersuggest Site Audit</h3>



<p>Here is a snapshot of the picture you get when you click on the Ubersuggest Site Audit tab:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-site-audit-1024x698.png" alt="ubersuggest site audit" class="wp-image-937"/></figure>



<p>The tool allows you to analyze and get an SEO snapshot summary on either a complete domain or specific page on your site.</p>



<p>Note that if you have a large site of hundreds or thousands of pages, it will take up to 10 minutes to give you a full audit for a domain. Also note that with the individual plan, it caps at auditing 1000 pages.</p>



<p>In addition to showing you your website response time (one of the <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/core-web-vitals-may-2021-update-how-to-win-it/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>core web vitals</strong></a> requirements) and giving you some overview stats and scores for the site/page, you&#8217;ll notice it specifically lists the SEO issues it finds as well as gives recommendations on how to fix them:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-seo-issues-1024x486.jpg" alt="ubersuggest seo issues" class="wp-image-946"/></figure>



<p>It&#8217;s a bit curious that in the above image example it didn&#8217;t find a sitemap on the site in question when there is one. Still, it&#8217;s worth double checking on each issue to see if something can be resolved and/or improved.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Ubersuggest Chrome Extension</h3>



<p>The Ubersuggest Chrome Extension tab takes you to download a site analyzer which can be used on any website, YouTube, and Amazon (when using Chrome).</p>



<p>Simply go to a website you want to check (in this example I went to Neil&#8217;s website and opened it up):</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-chrome-extension.jpg" alt="ubersuggest chrome extension" class="wp-image-947"/></figure>



<p>You&#8217;ll notice the tabs on the extension relate back to the features in the web based Ubersuggest tool. If you click on any one of them, they&#8217;ll actually open up a new tab in Chrome which opens that feature in Ubersuggest as it relates to that specific site or page you were checking.</p>



<p>You can do a search in Google or YouTube for any keyword and it will give you related keywords and stats on those keywords, as well.</p>



<p>So while this replicates the features in Ubersuggest itself to some degree, it&#8217;s just so that you can get insights through the course of browsing the internet.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Keyword Overview and Keyword Ideas</h3>



<p>I showed the keyword overview and keyword ideas tool(s) in the rank tracking section, as clicking on any keyword you&#8217;re tracking your rank for will give you a more in depth statistical analysis on it.</p>



<p>The overview shows you the volume of searches that keyword gets on a monthly average, how that trend has gone up or down, the age range of people searching for it, and the competition level associated with ranking well for it.</p>



<p>The overview even gives you some suggested related keywords beneath the stats of your main keyword.</p>



<p>The ideas tool is the same concept, but it gives a bit more info on the related keywords.</p>



<p>A feature I appreciate in the ideas section is that, in addition to suggestions and related keywords to the seed keyword, it offers dozens or hundreds of relevant questions to your keyword.</p>



<p>It gives the search volume and competition numbers on these keywords like any other, and these questions make for great and natural headings in a post (see <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/how-to-use-keywords-in-content-writing/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>how to use keywords in content writing</strong></a>) and a way to drive some extra traffic for relatively lower demand keyword phrase.</p>



<p>You&#8217;ll note that the &#8220;Keyword Ideas&#8221; feature allows you to search for keyword ideas either by a seed keyword or a website.</p>



<p>Note that using the latter option will not show the keywords the website you input is ranking for but rather keywords which are associated with that niche in general.</p>



<p>If you want to know the keywords a website is ranking for specifically, we have the next feature &#8220;Keywords by Traffic&#8221;.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Keywords By Traffic</h3>



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<p>Ever wonder which keywords are driving the traffic to your competitors or any website or URL in general? If yes, then you&#8217;ll love the Keywords by Traffic feature of Ubersuggest.</p>



<p>Simply input a specific URL or domain overall and it will show the keywords bringing in most of the traffic to the domain or URL you provide.</p>



<p>It also shows the rank that URL has for that keyword currently (with an approximation of how much traffic that rank slot brings in relative to the overall searches of that keyword), and the SEO difficulty of earning that ranking. In this example, I simply put in the domain of a competitor of one of my websites and within seconds I can see Ubersuggest is telling me I could be getting an extra 1000 visitors to my site relatively easy with that &#8220;29&#8221; difficulty keyword.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Similar Websites</h3>



<p>The &#8220;Similar Websites&#8221; feature shows other sites vying for similar keywords as the site you just checked. If you put your site in, you can see the disparity in keywords you&#8217;re ranking for versus the other sites.</p>



<p>This can be used as an easy way to put together a big list of competitors so that you can get an even bigger backlink profile to run through and attempt to replicate for your site to help your rankings.</p>



<p>With the backlink pool of every one of your notable competitors at your disposal, this should give you the chance to realistically put together the most complete backlink profile and outrank them all if done properly.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Content Ideas</h3>



<p>Sometimes you can find great keywords to target, but you might not know how to create content around them.</p>



<p>The &#8220;Content Ideas&#8221; feature is helpful for solving that problem, as it finds existing articles based on the keyword you input. It even estimates the traffic that article/page is getting and gives you the backlinks pointing to it (which would make for some very targeted backlinks for the article which you write in some cases).</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Keyword Lists</h3>



<p>This is a new feature (at the time of this Ubersuggest Individual review). </p>



<p>Outside of exporting report information you get as spreadsheets, there&#8217;s no other way to save the data the tool creates for later.</p>



<p>The one exception within the tool itself is using the &#8220;Keyword Lists&#8221; feature. It&#8217;s basically what it says, a list of keywords you can add to on the fly which has all of the basic keyword data saved without consuming a new credit.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Traffic Overview/Top Pages By Traffic</h3>



<p>This is similar to the &#8220;Keywords by Traffic&#8221; tab but presents more information on a domain overall or specific URL&#8217;s traffic and with more detail:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-traffic-overview-1024x579.jpg" alt="ubersuggest traffic overview" class="wp-image-949"/></figure>



<p>Here you can see how much (organic) traffic the site or page gets monthly, how much the traffic has grown or dropped in the last year, the breakdown of average rankings for the keywords, and again the pages driving most of the traffic.</p>



<p>The latter is true especially with the &#8220;Top Pages by Traffic&#8221; feature as you can see the pages bringing in the most traffic to a site overall as well as the number of backlinks pointing to them each.</p>



<p>Clicking on any specific page shows a breakdown of the specific keywords the page is ranking for and an estimate of how much traffic each one is bringing in based on that ranking (plus a difficulty estimate for ranking for the keyword):</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-top-pages-by-traffic-1024x579.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-950"/></figure>



<p>You&#8217;ll notice you can also click on &#8220;view all&#8221; under &#8220;Backlinks&#8221; to see the specific pages linking to that page. This shows the Domain Authority and Page Authority (from Moz) of those linking from pages, the anchor text (if applicable) linking to the page, and the date the link was first identified/created roughly.</p>



<p>This transitions nicely into the final main feature of Ubersuggest: backlinks.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Backlinks Overview</h3>



<p>One of the most important ranking factors (see <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/how-does-google-rank-pages/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>how does Google rank pages</strong></a>) is backlinks. Ubersuggest gives you a complete rundown of your competitors&#8217; backlinks which makes for a big part of why they&#8217;re ranking the way that they are.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-backlinks-overview-1024x579.jpg" alt="ubersuggest backlinks overview" class="wp-image-951"/></figure>



<p>Scrolling down, you&#8217;ll see changes to their backlink profile over the last year. Going even farther down, you&#8217;ll find more of a breakdown of the anchor text making up most of the links and individual profiles on each backlink, including the Moz domain and authority scores, a spam score, specific anchor text, and date the link was discovered:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-backlink-information-1024x579.jpg" alt="ubersuggest backlink information" class="wp-image-952"/></figure>



<p>As you can see, you can sort by do/nofollow and use a number of filters which includes just showing one link per referring domain.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Backlink Opportunity</h3>



<p>This is a nice additional feature which has you put in both your domain and a competitor&#8217;s. The tool will then find websites which have only linked to your competitor (sorted by domain authority) and not your site. Clicking on &#8220;top backlink&#8221; shows the link/page providing the biggest benefit and most traffic to your competitor from the site.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">AI Writer</h3>



<p>The &#8220;AI Writer&#8221; is the only feature included in the &#8220;Labs&#8221; section at the time of this Ubersuggest Individual review.</p>



<p>As the title suggests, it&#8217;s an artificial intelligence which writes an article for you based on your seed keyword and a few options it will prompt you with.</p>



<p>At the time of this review, it&#8217;s pretty underwhelming. The articles it&#8217;s generated for me were legible, though they didn&#8217;t make perfect sense. If you need the bare minimum for something, this can work in a pinch.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Ubersuggest Individual Review</h2>



<p>If all of that was TL/DR, I don&#8217;t blame you.</p>



<p>In an attempt to summarize this Ubersuggest Individual review, let&#8217;s weigh the good versus the bad and come to a conclusion.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Good</h3>



<p>First let&#8217;s look at everything I love about Ubersuggest.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">The Features + Bang For Your Buck</h4>



<p>I&#8217;ll begin by saying the best thing about Ubersuggest is what you get for what you pay.</p>



<p>Having a reliable SEO tool for (good) keyword research, rank tracking (<strong>desktop AND mobile</strong>), site auditing, and backlink profiling &#8211; all at a fraction of the cost for a lifetime membership which comparable tools charge you for a year &#8211; is fantastic.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">The Stats</h4>



<p>Unlike a lot of keyword and SEO specific tools where you don&#8217;t know how accurate the information you&#8217;re being provided with is, Ubersuggest is transparent and accurate.</p>



<p>Ubersuggest&#8217;s stats come from a combination of Google Ads&#8217; Keyword Tool (see <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/how-to-get-google-keyword-planner-for-free/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>how to get Google Ads keyword planner for free</strong></a>) for its volume data and Moz which provides it with domain and page authority metrics to ultimately give you an idea of how strong the competition is in terms of ranking for the keywords you want to rank for.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Recommendations</h4>



<p>Something else I love about Ubersuggest is the personal feel that you get when you use it. It makes specific recommendations on actions you should take and explains why you should do them.</p>



<p>This makes it great for longtime SEOers as well as people like business owners who are new to the world of SEO who maybe understand the basics but not exactly how to get started.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re also relatively new to SEO, there are tutorial resources which come with Ubersuggest which teach you how to use the tool and do better SEO. This includes training videos, biweekly training streams, templates and worksheets, and email support.</p>



<p>You&#8217;ll also get emails from time to time with tips or giving you updates on improvements in rankings you&#8217;ve received:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ubersuggest-ranking-update-email.jpg" alt="ubersuggest ranking update email" class="wp-image-957"/></figure>



<p>You get the sense that this tool is working for you, even when you&#8217;re not using it.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Bad</h3>



<p>Ubersuggest is definitely not perfect, so let&#8217;s take a look at some issues I had with it after using it as my dedicated SEO tool for a week.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">User Interface</h4>



<p>Overall the user interface is good, not great. The functions of the tool are organized well enough and honestly there&#8217;s not so many features to the point where you get bogged down (for better or worse):</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ubersuggest-menu.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-942"/></figure>



<p>Still, there&#8217;s some basic things which could be improved.</p>



<p>First, with virtually every action you take in the software counting against your finite daily report number, you&#8217;d think this number would be more readily available. Instead you need to repeatedly go into your account section/refresh it to see how many reports you have left to run that day.</p>



<p>Overall there&#8217;s also not a lot of organization in terms of differentiating between projects. It seems that the main purpose of the projects specifically is to track ranking and the up to 5 competitor websites (per project).</p>



<p>When you click away from the dashboard or rank tracker, the project you&#8217;re in disappears. I suppose this is because all other actions/reports you can run have no bearing on the project, at least practically speaking in the context of the tool.</p>



<p>I think the tool would seem much more organized and feel more professional if everything was broken down by project and it reminded you of what project you&#8217;re currently working in on every page.</p>



<p><strong>Another issue I had with the user interface was that it took me awhile to figure out where to go to import keywords from outside of Ubersuggest to check. </strong></p>



<p>Obviously Ubersuggest has its own keyword idea generator, but when I was getting relatively few keyword ideas on a few, more obscure seed keywords using it, I used another free tool to get a bigger list. </p>



<p><strong>Admittedly I found little to no search volume associated with the keywords another tool gave me which Ubersuggest didn&#8217;t, so that&#8217;s worth mentioning.</strong></p>



<p>Still, before I knew that these keywords weren&#8217;t worth targeting, I wanted to import those keywords into Uber to get the stats on them. </p>



<p>Unfortunately internet searches weren&#8217;t that helpful as most of them kept directing me to instructions on how to add keywords to check in the rank checker. I did find a short article in the knowledge section of Ubersuggest which talked about importing CSV files into the dashboard, but it referred to a video which didn&#8217;t seem to exist for the solution (I tried in multiple browsers).</p>



<p>Regardless, the only way to get stats on a custom keyword or keywords that I found is to add them to a list in the &#8220;Keyword Lists&#8221; feature. </p>



<p>The main purpose of this feature is to highlight any keywords you come across while using Ubersuggest that you&#8217;ll want to revisit later without burning another credit, or to keep it grouped with other keywords for a specific purpose you might have for them.</p>



<p>That&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t think to check this feature right away as a means of importing a block of keywords from an external tool to get stats on.</p>



<p>And while this works as a means of getting stats on a custom set of keywords all at once within Ubersuggest, it&#8217;s not especially efficient.</p>



<p>Just as an aside before I move on, with the &#8220;Keyword Lists&#8221; feature labeled as being &#8220;new&#8221; (at the time of this review), I&#8217;m curious as to how or even if you could manually add custom keywords in bulk to get stats in the past.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Saved Searches (or Lack Thereof)</h4>



<p>The lack of saved searches is a feature I&#8217;m missing, as well.</p>



<p>Outside of adding keywords to a keyword list, the Ubersuggest doesn&#8217;t save stats on previous keywords or any report you run (outside of rank tracking, which is the point of rank tracking). </p>



<p>In the keyword list feature&#8217;s case, you have to take the manual action of adding it, as well.</p>



<p>That&#8217;s something I took for granted with KeySearch, as occasionally I&#8217;d pull back up my recent searches to find stats on a seed keyword and its related keywords which I needed to check again.</p>



<p>Therefore you&#8217;ll find yourself having to do a lot of CSV exporting if you&#8217;re running a lot of reports and going up against your daily allotment each day.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Credits/Reports Accountability</h4>



<p>I referenced this in the last two points, but the system of the finite number of reports remaining per day which is basically the daily credits you get with your plan to do searches leaves some things to be desired.</p>



<p>Again, you need to go into your account to see how many daily credits you have remaining. It would be better if this was displayed at the top of the page with the most recent number reflected after you use a credit, though I understand the developers not wanting to remind you of this fact constantly.</p>



<p><strong>More importantly, there&#8217;s very little accountability in how reports are consumed. </strong></p>



<p>Honestly it&#8217;s a bit shady how just clicking around in Ubersuggest can cost you credits.</p>



<p>Example: I did a search in the &#8220;Keyword Ideas&#8221; feature, using a website as the inspiration to find related keywords. That understandably cost me a credit.</p>



<p>I then simply clicked on the &#8220;Keywords by Traffic&#8221; feature in the menu, and the tool automatically ran a report on that same website. I checked my credits before and after this and sure enough it consumed one of my 100 daily reports.</p>



<p>I then clicked on &#8220;Similar Websites&#8221; which is the next feature down in the menu and it automatically ran a report on the same website which again consumed another credit.</p>



<p>More than that, you&#8217;ll find that clicking away from the keyword overview tool (for example) to go to another report then returning oftentimes means (depending on how long you&#8217;ve been away and what other reports you&#8217;ve run using the tool&#8217;s other features) that you&#8217;ll need to run another report on the same keyword when you return to the keyword overview if you still need stats on it. </p>



<p>That would be fine if it didn&#8217;t cost you a new credit, yet it does.</p>



<p>This goes back to the idea that it would be very helpful if it could maintain a database of previous saved search data rather than having to export every single report, otherwise run the risk of getting charged to run the same report again.</p>



<p>All that said, <strong>as I acknowledged in comparing the Ubersuggest plans, 100 reports is going to be more than enough for my purposes. As the name suggests, Ubersuggest Individual works well for a single user.</strong></p>



<p>That&#8217;s plenty to do some keyword research on multiple keywords for several pages of content I&#8217;m creating, checking out a few competitors&#8217; websites or URLs, and auditing a handful of my own pages I want to update.</p>



<p>Still, it&#8217;s clearly a flaw which should be fixed when the tool is running reports you don&#8217;t necessarily want under the guise of saving you time, and forcing you to rerun reports you&#8217;ve already run but at a cost to recall certain information for convenience.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Audit Tool Has Some Holes</h4>



<p>The site audit feature is great at making recommendations for a domain or URL of choice.</p>



<p>My issue with it is if you&#8217;re trying to use it as a site or URL analyzer to see what a high ranking page of a competitor is doing well with its ON page SEO, meaning not backlinks, the tool doesn&#8217;t have much to tell you.</p>



<p>Better said, it will show you the SEO checks the page has passed (uses alt tags, has a good load speed, etc.) but it doesn&#8217;t get specific about anything.</p>



<p>Admittedly I&#8217;m comparing this to my experience with KeySearch&#8217;s Page Analyzer feature which told you specific alt tags used, heading text, etc. These are things you can find if you look at the page or at most look at the source code for the page, but it would be nice to have at a quick glance from the tool to better understand specifically how a competitor&#8217;s high ranking URL is effectively using its keywords and doing SEO in general on page.</p>



<p>Granted the most important information is the keywords which the page is ranking for, which Uber still provides you.</p>



<p></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Overall Recommendation on Ubersuggest&#8217;s Individual Plan</h3>



<p>After dealing with a lot of SEO tools over the years, I&#8217;m hard-pressed to find one which gives you the same functionality for the same value.</p>



<p>Yes I have a handful of concerns, but they&#8217;re mostly outweighed by what I&#8217;d still characterize as a good value.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re exclusively using this as a keyword tool, I&#8217;d be more hesitant to say whether or not this is worth your money.</p>



<p>On the other hand, if you are interested in performing more in depth analysis of your competition to generate more backlinks and traffic centered around smarter keyword usage, Ubersuggest is certainly worth the investment if you can afford it.</p>



<p>Again, $290 (<strong>at the time of this review</strong> for the lowest, &#8220;individual&#8221; tier) isn&#8217;t nothing, and it will sting more up front than lesser, cheaper tools which objectively give you less functionality. That said, you&#8217;ll certainly be grateful that you have this tool next year and beyond when it would be time to pay the annual fee on a different tool.</p>



<p>And again, on the other hand, this is still a fraction of the cost of more expensive tools which give you comparable functionality.</p>



<p>Also important to keep in mind is that Neil Patel is as well established a name in this field as anyone, so you know this tool isn&#8217;t going anywhere and will only get better (and likely more expensive) with time.</p>



<p></p>



<p>If you&#8217;re on the fence about or already use Ubersuggest yourself, let me know what you think about it below.</p>
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<p>Keyword research is the first step in getting people to your website. It&#8217;s the cornerstone of SEO which is why the very first post I did on this website was a <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/the-ultimate-free-keyword-tool-review/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>free keyword tool review</strong></a>. I rounded up the best and most popular options in free keyword tools and shared my findings. I still do, actually, as I keep that post updated with new tools and changes to existing ones.</p>



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<p>I was doing this to help you lovely people, but selfishly I was also doing it for myself since my once go-to tool, Market Samurai, is no longer available.</p>



<p>The unfortunate reality behind that round up is that I didn&#8217;t find a single genuinely free tool worth using myself on a regular basis. </p>



<p>All of the decent tools limited usage to trials and capped daily or total searches in the single digits. Most of them didn&#8217;t give you the full results, as well.</p>



<p>As such, I widened my personal search for any and all options. I&#8217;ve since landed on <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/keysearch" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow">KeySearch</a> as my go-to keyword research tool, though it has a lot of additional features which I appreciated in Market Samurai, as well.</p>



<p>Now that I&#8217;ve been using it exclusively for the last 6 months, I thought it only fitting to share my complete KeySearch review.</p>



<p>Note that I receive a small commission if you purchase <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/keysearch" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow">KeySearch</a> through the links in this article (I offer a KeySearch coupon code later, fyi!). These commissions help me run this website and continue to produce solid and regular SEO content for you. </p>



<p>As always, I only review tools and services which I use myself, and KeySearch truly is the only keyword tool which I use on a daily basis. I just wanted to make that clear, thank you!</p>



<p>Now on to the KeySearch review!</p>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading">KeySearch Review</h1>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">KeySearch Features</h2>



<p>To kick off this KeySearch review, let&#8217;s give a run down of its main features, as it&#8217;s not exclusively a keyword tool and has a lot more to offer.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Keyword Research</h3>



<p>We begin with the obvious, KeySearch&#8217;s keyword research feature. I&#8217;ll spend the most time on this feature as its why I got KeySearch in the first place, plus it&#8217;s an excellent keyword tool.</p>



<p>This is what the main interface of KeySearch&#8217;s keyword research looks like:</p>



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<p>Let&#8217;s break these down by section.</p>



<p>First, we have the area for inputting our base/seed keyword:</p>



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<p>The folder icon saves past searches, so you can recall any previous search and all of its stats along with it quickly. This goes back roughly a month.</p>



<p>Next you have the search field itself. You can type your main keyword to get suggestions which will appear to the right (as shown in the previous image).</p>



<p>The location box allows you to search all locations or limit your searches by a few dozen individual countries.</p>



<p>The next dropdown menu (also pictured in the last menu) dictates which resource the tool uses to search for keyword suggestions. I generally find that searching by both &#8220;Related Keywords&#8221; and &#8220;Google Suggest&#8221; (one after the other) gives you the a nice collection of keywords to consider. </p>



<p>You can export the results which will appear on the right as a list in a variety of formats, then put them together and import (using the last option in the dropdown menu) to give yourself a nice list of up to 700 keywords to check.</p>



<p>The search trends graph shows you a nice visual representation of trends for your base keyword over the last 12 months.</p>



<p>In this case, &#8220;space heater&#8221; shows an understandable uptick in searches October to February, then a drop in the summer.</p>



<p>Every keyword always gets a competition score. This is KeySearch&#8217;s averaged estimation of how difficult it is to rank for that keyword.</p>



<p>While the scale is supposed to top off at 100, I&#8217;ve never been able to find a keyword over 81.</p>



<p>I tried searching for Apple and Google, two of what I figure to be the MOST competitive keywords to rank for, and it returned an 81 and an 80, respectively. </p>



<p>Most any other competitive keyword you can think of averages around 65 for what it&#8217;s worth (mortgage, stock, water, etc.)</p>



<p>The numbers are color coded. Reds and pinks (60s+ and 50s) are generally off limits unless you&#8217;ve got a government site or you&#8217;re the NYT. </p>



<p>From there, we get into more achievable keywords in the yellow (40s) which are still reaches, but potentially possible.</p>



<p>After that it&#8217;s much easier keywords in lovely various shades of green (30s and 20s) which can be ranked for with less work.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">KeySearch Deep Analysis</h4>



<p>Clicking on the &#8220;Deep Analysis&#8221; button gives you more detailed information on the keyword and specifically the pages ranking for it:</p>



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<p>You&#8217;ll notice that you can download </p>



<p>Let&#8217;s go by each column, as each of these gives you another stat on the strength of competition for that keyword.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>PA &#8211; Page Authority from Moz. This is Moz&#8217; estimation of the authority of the page itself.</li>



<li>DA &#8211; Domain authority from Moz. This is Moz&#8217; estimation of the authority of the domain itself.</li>



<li>Doms &#8211; The number of unique domains linking to that specific page.</li>



<li>DomsD &#8211; The number of unique domains linking to the domain in general.</li>



<li>Auth &#8211; The number of dofollow links the page is getting.</li>



<li>Links &#8211; The number of links in general the page is getting.</li>



<li>URL &#8211; Whether or not the keyword is in the URL.</li>
</ul>



<p>I began with those seven because those are the stats included with every keyword.</p>



<p>Now a quick overview of the additional stats which the Deep Analysis gives.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Title &#8211; Whether or not the keyword is in the title.</li>



<li>Desc &#8211; Whether or not the keyword is in the description.</li>
</ul>



<p>As an aside, the URL, Title, and Desc all give you an idea of whether or not the pages ranking for the keyword are actively targeting it or not. </p>



<p>For keywords where the competition isn&#8217;t as fierce as those listed in this example, you can overtake your competition simply through effective keyword usage like I detailed in my <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/seo-checklist-for-blog-posts/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>SEO checklist for blog posts</strong></a>.</p>



<p>Let&#8217;s cover the last few columns now.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Alexa &#8211; The Alexa ranking for the domain itself.</li>



<li>Age &#8211; The age of the initial publication of the page in months.</li>



<li>Facebook &#8211; I&#8217;m relatively sure that this is the number of likes a post has gotten on Facebook (if integrated).</li>



<li>Pinterest &#8211; Likewise but with Pinterest.</li>
</ul>



<p>I should note that there&#8217;s also a related section which tells you additional information which I don&#8217;t find very useful. This includes roughly how many keywords in general each ranking URL is ranking for, how much traffic they estimate the page is getting from Google, and the same two stats for the domain in general.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Keyword Stats</h4>



<p>Next we have the traffic estimates for the keywords themselves:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/keysearch-keywords-section.png" alt="keysearch keywords section" class="wp-image-600"/></figure>



<p>The information here is straightforward as you have:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>The keyword itself</li>



<li>Search volume on average each month</li>



<li>CPC (an estimate on the amount advertisers are paying per click for the keyword)</li>



<li>PPC (a scale of 0-1 to estimate advertising competition for the keyword for paid advertising)</li>



<li>Score (estimated strength of competition/difficulty ranking for that keyword)</li>
</ul>



<p>Each column can be sorted by smallest or largest. If a competition score isn&#8217;t shown for a keyword, you can click &#8220;check&#8221; to see it, using one of your credits in the process.</p>



<p>Remember that the score is just a rough calculation based on factors like Moz authority scores, keyword usage, backlinks, etc. It&#8217;s always a good idea to go by those stats rather than blindly following the score itself.</p>



<p>You can also filter the keywords:</p>



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<p>You can include or exclude keywords from the results or limit the results by the other specifications.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Exporting Data in KeySearch</h4>



<p>One more thing to mention is that you can export data as you like. </p>



<p>Not only can you save keywords to a clipboard or export them to a few different formats, you can put together a quick branded report with a couple clicks for any keyword.</p>



<p>I created this from the deep analysis feature:</p>



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<p>Not only does this make sharing reports on your results easy, it looks professional and can impress a client or your employer with minimal effort.</p>



<p></p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Other KeySearch Keyword Related Features</h4>



<p>There are a few more options under the &#8220;keyword research&#8221; drop down list:</p>



<h5 class="wp-block-heading">Quick Difficulty</h5>



<p>The KeySearch quick difficulty is literally the same as the keyword tool in terms of presentation, it just focuses on the one keyword you enter. </p>



<p>In other words, no other keyword suggestions appear. </p>



<h5 class="wp-block-heading">My Lists</h5>



<p>The My Lists feature is where your saved keywords live. You can quickly save keywords as you&#8217;re sifting through suggestion results and assign them to a specific list. This is where you can find them.</p>



<h5 class="wp-block-heading">Brainstorm</h5>



<p>The Brainstorm feature in KeySearch is pretty handy and has a couple of nice uses/features:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>It shows updated Twitter Trends, Amazon Movers, and Google Trends results. You can peak at this throughout the day to see what&#8217;s trending and write or tweet about it accordingly to get some quick traffic to your site.</li>



<li>You can also type in a keyword and get suggestions from Google, Yahoo, Bing, YouTube, Amazon, and Ebay. Clicking on any one of them lets you get detailed information on the keyword back in the root keyword tool.</li>
</ul>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Explorer</h3>



<p>KeySearch doesn&#8217;t stop at keywords. It&#8217;s really an SEO swiss army knife as it has all of the components which you need in one tool. This moves us into the KeySearch Explorer tool.</p>



<p>The Explorer lets you dissect any website to learn everything you need to know about your competition:</p>



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<p>Most of this is self-explanatory, but let&#8217;s do a quick bullet rundown of each section:</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Domain Strength</h4>



<p>An estimate of the site&#8217;s authority.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Score to Target</h4>



<p>The score the site (in this case NYTimes.com) can target within KeySearch. This feature is useful for inputting your own site(s) obviously so that you can get an idea of the maximum scores KeySearch recommends you target for keywords.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Organic Keywords</h4>



<p>A list of keywords the site is ranking for and the estimated sum of monthly traffic it gets for those. When spying on a competitor&#8217;s site, you can see which keywords they&#8217;re ranking for. Clicking on &#8220;View Keywords&#8221; brings up a list of the keywords they&#8217;re ranking for along with their positions, volume, traffic, CPC, and the specific URL ranking.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/keysearch-organic-keywords-list.png" alt="keysearch organic keywords list" class="wp-image-607"/></figure>



<p>It&#8217;s very useful for getting keyword ideas for your own site. Oftentimes these sites are comparable in terms of authority to yours. This makes outranking them for those same keywords relatively attainable assuming you offer better content for the same keywords. See my tutorial on <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/how-to-create-quality-content/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>how to create quality content</strong></a> for more information.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Top Competitors</h4>



<p>These are the other sites which commonly appear in the SERPs for the same keywords as the seed site. This is a useful way to find your own direct competitors on average rather than doing tons of your own Google searches for keywords you&#8217;re ranking for.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Ranking Distribution</h4>



<p>This is a breakdown of the keywords the site is ranking for sorted by position in Google.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Backlinks</h4>



<p>This shows the backlinks either the domain in total or just a page is getting. You can click &#8220;View Backlinks&#8221; to see the backlinks themselves. This shows you the URL, anchor text, domain strength, and follow status. There&#8217;s a cap of 1000 results, so it makes more sense to search by page. This provides you with more targeted backlinks, as well.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Referring Domains</h4>



<p>Similar to the backlinks, only it&#8217;s more of an overview of the domains in general linking to the site. You can click &#8220;View Domains&#8221; for a list of the various domains linking to the site.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Backlinks Overview</h4>



<p>This shows the trend of their backlink profile for the last 12 months as well as their dofollow link percentage.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Top DS Referring Domains</h4>



<p>These are the domains linking to the site with the most authority. It acts as a quick snapshot of the strength of that site and better explains the authority score of the site.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Top Anchors</h4>



<p>Lastly, this shows the most popular anchor text for links pointing to the page or domain.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Competitive Analysis</h3>



<p>While the KeySearch explorer is more of an overview, the competitive analysis gives more drilled down information on your competition. Let&#8217;s do another glance at each tool within the competitive analysis tab.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Backlink Checker</h4>



<p>If you click &#8220;View Backlinks&#8221; in the Explorer tab, it takes you to the backlink checker. This is the same information where you can see the URL, anchor text, domain strength, and follow status of links to a page or domain.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Organic Keywords</h4>



<p>This is similar to the &#8220;Organic Keywords&#8221; section of the Explorer tab, but it&#8217;s on its own page rather than a pop up. </p>



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<p>It makes exporting keyword data easier, as well. But you still get the keywords, their ranks, search volume, traffic, CPC, and URL and can sort accordingly.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Competitor Gap</h4>



<p>If you want to feel badly about yourself, this is a great way to do it!</p>



<p>In all seriousness, though, this tool is useful for finding keywords that up to three of your competitors are ranking for. </p>



<p>You can use this tool to get keyword ideas for your site but also just get a better understanding as to why they might be ranking for keywords that you&#8217;re not.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">URL Metrics</h4>



<p>This is similar to Deep Analysis tool from the main keyword tool itself in that gives the same information. The difference is that you can analyze whatever custom URLs you want here independent of keyword.</p>



<p>So if you just want to take a look at your competitors in general, you can input them here either by top level domain or specific pages.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Page Analyzer</h4>



<p>Want to know why a page is ranking as well as it is? You can see everything they&#8217;re doing on the page itself in regards to SEO with the page analyzer. Here&#8217;s an overview of the navigation, as it&#8217;s a lot of data.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/keysearch-page-analyzer.png" alt="keysearch page analyzer" class="wp-image-610"/></figure>



<p>As you can see, you get a complete breakdown of everything happening behind the scenes on the page. This includes:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Page authority, domain authority, alexa rank, total backlinks, etc.</li>



<li>A breakdown of the headings used on the page (both the number and text used for it.</li>



<li>Number of images on the page and whether ot not they all utilize alt attributes.</li>



<li>Number of internal links and the anchor text used).</li>



<li>Breakdown of keyword usage.</li>



<li>Page speed insights score and the calculations behind them without having to go to Google.</li>



<li>Any accessibility/usability issues the page is showing.</li>
</ul>



<p>You can get a good idea of the SEO practices on page which your direct competitors use with this tool. </p>



<p>Not only that, but the page analyzer also acts as a good way to audit one of your own pages to see if you&#8217;ve missed anything like an alt title for an image.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s useful for SEOers diagnosing their clients sites, as well, in the same way.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">YouTube Research</h3>



<p>If you do any kind of video marketing, the YouTube research tool is a nice resource for finding keywords through the filter of YouTube.</p>



<p>Creating videos to go along with your content is a good idea to help your pages rank. Incidentally, I put together a complete <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/seo-for-youtube-a-complete-guide/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>SEO for YouTube</strong></a> guide, so refer to that for tips on how to optimize your videos.</p>



<p>The YouTube Research tool is pretty straightforward, though. It&#8217;s essentially the same as the keyword research tool, but again specific for YouTube. The interface is exactly the same.</p>



<p>Doing a search for any keyword gives you the monthly search volume and CPC and PPC, same as the keyword tool. The competition score will be different for YouTube than with the normal keyword tool results. </p>



<p>This makes sense, because it&#8217;s a different algorithm ranking videos than it is traditional search listings. Sometimes the competition will be higher or lower on YouTube vs. just Google, depending on the keyword.</p>



<p>The main difference between the YouTube Research tool and the normal keyword tool is that the information listed for the top 10 ranking entries is a bit different:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/keysearch-youtube-research.png" alt="keysearch youtube research" class="wp-image-612"/></figure>



<p>Here it&#8217;s more simplified; all you get is the video age (in days), the number of views, and whether or not the keyword is in the title or description of the video.</p>



<p>The YouTube Difficulty tab on the main dashboard allows you to input specific keywords, just like with the keyword tool.</p>



<p>The YouTube List tab on the main dashboard lets you look at specific lists you&#8217;ve saved, again just like with the keyword tool.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Rank Tracker</h3>



<p>This is a nice bonus feature as far as I&#8217;m concerned.</p>



<p>The KeySearch Rank Tracking feature allows you to track the rankings of 50 or 150 URLs (depending on your plan) in Google.</p>



<p>You simply add a domain you want to track, then type in a keyword or keywords to see your ranking instantly.</p>



<p>You can specify a specific location for local keywords, and you can even pick a foreign version of Google if you want to track on it specifically.</p>



<p>Once you click submit, it shows your ranking. It regularly updates, so you can see your movement up or down in Google as time goes for that keyword.</p>



<p>Here I just put a test keyword in to show you what it looks like:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/keysearch-rank-tracker-1024x400.png" alt="keysearch rank tracker" class="wp-image-613"/></figure>



<p>You can specify a particular word and see an individual graph to chart your progress with it, as well.</p>



<p>Click &#8220;We&#8217;ve Found Keywords&#8221; to see keywords you&#8217;re already ranking for to add to the tracker so that you can track your progress.</p>



<p>This is a great way to get an idea of keywords you might JUST be missing page one in Google for that maybe need a tweak or two to give them that extra push.</p>



<p>All in all it&#8217;s an excellent interface for tracking your rankings.</p>



<p>And just like with most every other tool in KeySearch, you can create a professional branded report on demand to share with your superiors, co-workers, clients, potential clients, etc.</p>



<p>The report shows the keywords you&#8217;re ranking for, your rank, any change in rank, and the search volume they get. </p>



<p>It&#8217;s an easy and professional way to showcase that the SEO work you&#8217;re doing is working.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Content Assistant</h3>



<p>Finally, we have the Content Assistant tool.</p>



<p>The Content Assistant tool analyzes the results on the first page of Google for the keyword you want to target.</p>



<p>It then creates a template to create an article around based on the factors these pages have in common.</p>



<p>Here&#8217;s a quick rundown on the tabs in the KeySearch Content Assistant.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Main</h4>



<p>As you write your article in the field on the left, the tool advises you on word count and the recommended keywords which the top ranking pages are using:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/keysearch-content-assistant-1024x456.png" alt="keysearch content assistant" class="wp-image-616"/></figure>



<p>As the image above shows, it gives basic competition information on the keyword, the recommend word count and some recommended, must have keywords to weave into your article.</p>



<p>The &#8220;Word Count&#8221; is custom to every keyword you enter as your seed keyword and based on an average of the top ten pages. The bar progresses as you write your article on the left to the goal.</p>



<p>The &#8220;Recommended Keywords&#8221; bar fills up as you include the recommended words that it found on other ranking pages.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Keywords</h4>



<p>The &#8220;Keywords&#8221; tab gives more keyword suggestions, but they tend to be more specific and longer tail.</p>



<p>This section is broken into two parts:</p>



<h6 class="wp-block-heading">Related Keywords</h6>



<p>These are related keywords straight from Google. There are some helpful suggestions to weave into your content. </p>



<p>One good example related to my &#8220;apple pie recipe&#8221; seed keyword found here: &#8220;best apples for apple pie&#8221;.</p>



<p>With suggestions like that, the content assistant is doing what it should in helping you create a better article around your keyword.</p>



<h6 class="wp-block-heading">Top URL Keywords</h6>



<p>The &#8220;Top URL Keywords&#8221; are the keywords bringing in the most traffic to the best ranking pages.</p>



<p>So every site/page on the first page of Google for our keyword is ALSO ranking well for these keywords. These keywords are bringing in the most traffic to these pages (right alongside our seed keyword).</p>



<p>Basically you should weave both the related and top URL keywords this tool gives you into your article.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Research</h4>



<p>The &#8220;Research&#8221; tab simply pulls snippets from each ranking page for your keyword and displays them for you.</p>



<p>If you don&#8217;t know much about your topic or just want to make sure you didn&#8217;t overlook anything related to the keyword while you&#8217;re writing, this can be helpful.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Questions</h4>



<p>One of the more useful tabs in the Content Assistant, the &#8220;Questions&#8221; tab displays popular questions related to your keyword.</p>



<p>A couple of relevant example questions which appeared alongside this keyword:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>How much does a home baked apple pie cost?</li>



<li>What type of brown sugar should I use in an apple pie recipe?</li>
</ul>



<p>The tool mentions that you can use the questions as sub-headings in your article and that they might appear as snippets in Google (see <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/what-are-rich-snippets-everything-to-know/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>what are rich snippets</strong></a>).</p>



<p>These questions make for some relevant and low competition long tail keywords which will be easy to rank for simply by including them in your article.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">SERPs</h4>



<p>This just shows you the pages ranking on the first page of Google for your keyword.</p>



<p>It gives each page&#8217;s word count and title in a more compact presentation than Google itself. </p>



<p>If nothing else, it&#8217;s a nice snapshot of the titles all the top ranking pages are using.</p>



<p></p>



<p>While the recommendations on the main tab should be taken with a grain of salt, the content assistant can be great for giving you some keyword and content ideas themselves to include in your article.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">KeySearch Starter Vs. Pro</h2>



<p>That does it for the features, now let&#8217;s compare KeySearch starter vs. pro.</p>



<p><strong>I personally use the Starter plan, but let&#8217;s talk about the KeySearch starter vs. pro plans.</strong></p>



<p>The only difference between the two different tiers, starter vs. pro, is essentially how many credits you get and how many pages you can rank track.</p>



<p>Credits are redeemed for searches or competitor analysis.</p>



<p><strong>In Starter, you get 200 credits and 50 pages to rank track. In Pro, you get 500 credits and 150 pages to rank track.</strong></p>



<p>That&#8217;s the only difference. </p>



<p>If you are doing a lot of searches or are a freelance SEOer where you have to do a lot of research for a lot of different clients, I might recommend the Pro plan. Otherwise, you&#8217;ll be just fine on the Starter plan.</p>



<p>Again, I&#8217;m on the Starter plan myself, and can count on one hand the number of times I burned through all of my credits in a day. </p>



<p>And tracking more pages is nice, but I generally just have a handful of important pages I&#8217;m actively interested in tracking. </p>



<p>These are my money pages, like those where I&#8217;m offering services or feature a signup for leads.</p>



<p>Any other pages I track are more fluid and lower in priority.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">KeySearch Pricing</h2>



<p>Now let&#8217;s talk about the KeySearch pricing (including my KeySearch coupon code).</p>



<p>Currently, KeySearch offers two different pricing tiers: the starter and pro.</p>



<p>Either tier can be bought in a per month or per year term, with the year option offering savings.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">KeySearch Starter Price</h4>



<p>KeySearch&#8217;s Starter Pricing is $17 a month or $169 a year. Going for the year rate saves you 17% over 12 months.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">KeySearch Pro Price</h4>



<p> KeySearch&#8217;s Pro Pricing is $34 a month or $279 a year. Going for the year rate saves you 32% over 12 months.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">KeySearch Coupon Code</h2>



<p>As promised, I have a KeySearch coupon code for you.</p>



<p><strong>Purchase KeySearch through <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/keysearch" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow">this link</a> with promo code &#8220;KSDISC&#8221; (without the quotes) to receive 20% off your order.</strong></p>



<p>This makes this all-in-one SEO tool $135 a year on the starter plan, averaging out to roughly just $11 a month (when purchased a year membership) as I did.</p>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading">KeySearch Review </h1>



<p>In summary, <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/keysearch" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow">KeySearch</a> is my recommended keyword tool which I use myself for these reasons:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Has a complete keyword tool with a simple interface to give you all the relevant stats that you need to deep dive any keyword and get hundreds of suggestions and ideas.</li>



<li>Allows you to analyze your competition, see their backlinks, their on page SEO strategy, and essentially fully understand why they&#8217;re ranking where they are.</li>



<li>Content Assistant tool makes creating search engine optimized content simpler.</li>



<li>Rank Tracker lets you track the rankings for up to 150 of your own URLs.</li>



<li>Allows you to quickly make professional reports on any keyword, your competition, rankings, etc.</li>



<li><strong>It&#8217;s the most cost effective tool and gives you the most bang for your buck from any tool on the market, particularly with the discount code (below).</strong></li>
</ul>



<p><strong>One last time, purchase KeySearch through <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/keysearch" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow">this link</a> with promo code &#8220;KSDISC&#8221; (without the quotes) to receive 20% off your order.</strong></p>
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<p>Since my once favorite free keyword tool, Market Samurai, closed up shop, I&#8217;ve been looking for alternatives. This led to me beginning to put together a free keyword tool review for myself, other webmasters, and SEOers.</p>



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<p>I still don&#8217;t think you should have to pay for a basic keyword tool. And while there are thankfully a lot of free tools available today, none of them is perfect.</p>



<p>In fact there are so many today that I decided to test them all and share my findings in this constantly growing, free keyword tool review ultimate round up.</p>



<p>Each keyword tool I review will get a brief overview of its pros and cons and a final grade. </p>



<p><strong>Note that each tool will be reviewed and graded based on its FREE features and capabilities. </strong></p>



<p><strong>We can be talking about the best premium keyword tool on the market. If its related free version is garbage, it will earn a big fat F here</strong>.</p>



<p><strong>With that in mind, I&#8217;ll also NOT be reviewing premium tools with free trials. Alternatively, if it&#8217;s a tool which gives a finite number of searches per day which refresh, I&#8217;ll review it.</strong></p>



<p>If you have a free keyword tool you&#8217;d like me to consider, hit me up at the <a href="https://www.angryseoer.com/contact/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AngrySEOer Contact page</a> and I&#8217;ll add it here. Just make sure it has a free option based on the above criteria.</p>



<p>Now on to the free keyword tool review.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Free Keyword Tool Review</h2>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Link Assistant&#8217;s Rank Tracker Review</h3>



<p>Not to be confused with the other RankTracker, <a href="https://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Link Assistant&#8217;s tool</a> is one of the better options available. That said, it&#8217;s not without its drawbacks.</p>



<p>Note that this is an actual program which you download to your computer.</p>



<p>Here&#8217;s what the interface looks like:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/link-assistant-keyword-ranker-review.png" alt="link assistant keyword ranker review" class="wp-image-48"/></figure>



<p>As you can see, there are plenty of features beyond simple keyword results. This tool actually lets you see your rankings for any keywords you want to check.</p>



<p>It links directly to your Google Ads Keyword Planner account to pull keywords. Additionally it can be linked to your Google Search Console. This is to get additional, more targeted keyword suggestions and information for your site.</p>



<p>Even more impressively, it gives you a surprisingly amount of information on your competitors. This is regarding the keywords you&#8217;re targeting so you can plan accordingly.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s not without its shortcomings, though. You can&#8217;t search anything without linking it to an Ads account first.</p>



<p>And the estimated number of searches is basically just the median number based on Google Ads. </p>



<p>So &#8220;dog birthday cake recipes&#8221; shows 50,000 in Rank Tracker. In Google Ads it shows between 10K and 100K. It&#8217;s clear that they&#8217;re just taking (roughly) the median.</p>



<p>Admittedly pretty much all keyword tools are estimating traffic when they give you their figures. But a bit more precision would be helpful when deciding which keywords to target.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s also annoying that the &#8220;tracker&#8221; aspect of Rank Tracker is behind a paywall. By that I mean you can&#8217;t save any campaigns you&#8217;re checking. It clears them all upon closing with the free version.</p>



<p>Yes, you can see your rankings, but unless you&#8217;re writing them down, you can&#8217;t track them. The fact that it doesn&#8217;t allow to save a campaign for that purpose is frustrating.</p>



<p>I also noticed that I couldn&#8217;t get data for keyword I manually added. When troubleshooting, Rank Tracker recommended I turn down my Google Ads account security settings. Even after that, the tool wouldn&#8217;t give me results on keywords I manually added.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/rank-tracker-error.png" alt="" class="wp-image-54"/></figure>



<p>And the large pool of features are not presented well in the menu system. To put it another way, Rank Tracker is not especially user friendly.</p>



<p>I appreciate that it has a lot of features. Still, it&#8217;s honestly hard to tell what I can do with the free version.</p>



<p>And lastly, it looked like it only allowed for a single proxy. Using proxies is important if you&#8217;re going to be doing a lot of searches. That&#8217;s just something to keep in mind.</p>



<p>Pros:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>A surprising amount of features for a free tool (with a premium option)</li>



<li>Seemingly no cap limits to keywords you can search</li>



<li>Links to Google Ads/Search Console accounts</li>
</ul>



<p>Cons: </p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>You can&#8217;t save your results, making the rank tracker more of a rank checker</li>



<li>Prone to &#8220;no results&#8221; glitch when manually adding keywords</li>



<li>Messy interface makes it difficult to know what you&#8217;re looking for</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Link Assistant&#8217;s Rank Tracker Grade: B-</strong></p>



<p>Link Assistant&#8217;s Rank Tracker gets high marks for the abundance of features it gives you for free. Conversely, it loses points for a messy interface, glitches, and overly vague results.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Ubersuggest Keyword Tool Review</h3>



<p><a href="https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ubersuggest</a> is well known digital marketer Neil Patel&#8217;s keyword tool.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ubersuggest-keyword-tool-review.png" alt="ubersuggest keyword tool review" class="wp-image-83"/></figure>



<p>As you can see, it gives use plenty of suggestions off of our base keyword. More than that, we get monthly search volume and competition estimates.</p>



<p>If we click on any one of the &#8220;search results&#8221;, we get detailed information on the pages ranking for it:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ubersuggest-keyword-tool-competition.png" alt="ubersuggest keyword tool competition" class="wp-image-84"/></figure>



<p>This includes traffic to the page, the number of links, and even social shares.</p>



<p>This information gives you a good idea of your odds of ranking for a number of keywords on demand.</p>



<p>One of the best things about this tool is its simplicity. It&#8217;s about as intuitive as can be. Many of the results are clickable to get more detailed information.</p>



<p>The only drawback to this tool are its limitations unless you get the paid version.</p>



<p>It limits you to 30 keyword suggestions based off of your keyword. More importantly, it limits you to just 3 uses per day.</p>



<p>Pros:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Gives you detailed information about your keywords including volume and estimated difficulty to rank for it</li>



<li>Gives detailed information about competition ranking for those keywords</li>



<li>Has additional features like competitor backlink analyzer and personal rank tracker</li>



<li>Easy to use and intuitively designed</li>
</ul>



<p>Cons:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Limits you to 3 searches per day (boo)</li>



<li>Limits you to 30 keyword suggestions</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Ubersuggests Grade: B-</strong></p>



<p>Ubersuggest gets sparkling marks for its ease of use and amount of features. Unfortunately it&#8217;s the limits on the free version which keep it from being a one stop go to.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Keyword Tool Dominator Review</h3>



<p><a href="https://www.keywordtooldominator.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Keyword Tool Dominator</a> is a keyword suggestion tool which is useful for generating traffic on specific sites:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/keyword-tool-dominator-review.png" alt="" class="wp-image-66"/></figure>



<p>You can do specific autocomplete searches with all of the sites shown in the image.</p>



<p>I pulled up the YouTube tool specifically and entered a search term to see what it gave me:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/youtube-keyword-tool-review.png" alt="youtube keyword tool review" class="wp-image-67"/></figure>



<p>As you can see, it gives you a huge list of suggested keywords based off your initial phrase.</p>



<p>You can sort this list in a few ways. The two most important columns are the top 10 and rank.</p>



<p>The top 10 refers to the top 10 most searched phrases related to your phrase and so on. These are the main things people are searching for related specifically to your search term.</p>



<p>The rank score finds the keywords which are most searched for related to similar keywords. It basically does a bit more digging beyond your initial keyword for you.</p>



<p>The keywords at the top of both columns should be considered/used in your video if possible. Specifically you should use them in both the description and tag sections.</p>



<p>The same basic principles apply to the other service tools. If you have listings on Amazon, use that tool to find keywords to use in your listing.</p>



<p>Again, these are the keywords people are searching for on those sites specifically.</p>



<p>Pros:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Great long tail suggestions for multiple sites/services</li>



<li>Reveals intent/motivations of your audience</li>



<li>Can be a valuable source of bonus traffic for quickly attainable, low volume keywords</li>
</ul>



<p>Cons:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Doesn&#8217;t give analysis of keywords</li>



<li>Limits you to two searches per day, per tool</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Keyword Tool Dominator Grade: C</strong></p>



<p>While it can be used for Google itself, KTD is a solid tool for working on specific sites. Consult it when looking for insights into your customers&#8217; intents on that specific site with your search term. Plus you can use its long tail suggestions to snag some bonus (trickles of) traffic.</p>



<p>Even with its use cap and lack of analytics, it&#8217;s useful for more one-off situations.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Google Ads Keyword Planner Review</h3>



<p>Ah likely the longest living keyword planner available. The <a href="https://ads.google.com/aw/keywordplanner/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Google Ads Keyword Planner</a> doesn&#8217;t do much, but it does it well:</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.angryseoer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/google-keyword-planner-review.png" alt="google keyword planner review" class="wp-image-52"/></figure>



<p>You can enter a list of existing keywords for search data, or use it to get keyword ideas. Whether you look for keywords or supply your own, the tool gives you search data.</p>



<p>This basically equates to a rough monthly estimate of traffic and its value. Its value in Google Ads is essentially an estimate of its competition level.</p>



<p>Note that this is just competition in terms of Google Ads buyers. The organic competition levels for a keyword will be different.</p>



<p>As such, this tool is mostly for vague ideas about the keywords you&#8217;re targeting. It&#8217;s also for getting keyword ideas.</p>



<p>Pros:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>It&#8217;s as simple as it gets</li>



<li>Gives you reliable data from Google itself</li>
</ul>



<p>Cons:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Doesn&#8217;t give you precise figures</li>



<li>Doesn&#8217;t give you organic competition estimates</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Google Ads Keyword Planner Grade: C</strong></p>



<p>The Google Ads Keyword Planner is as vanilla as it gets. Still, it&#8217;s reliable and not a tool to be overlooked when it does what you need.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">AnswerThePublic Review</h3>



<p><a href="https://answerthepublic.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AnswerThePublic</a> is great for long tail keyword ideas, particularly in this mobile age. This is kind of like Keyword Tool Dominator, but for Google itself.</p>



<p>You enter a 2-3 keyword phrase and it gives searches people have made related to that phrase. It&#8217;s sort of like a compiled version of Google&#8217;s autocomplete feature:</p>



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<p>This is also useful when writing your article itself. </p>



<p>Going off of the &#8220;suggestions&#8221; the tool gives, you can get ideas about people&#8217;s motivations when they search. You can then write accordingly with that in mind.</p>



<p>It sorts the &#8220;suggestions&#8221; based on &#8220;question&#8221;, &#8220;preposition&#8221;, and even alphabetically.</p>



<p>Note that unlike other tools on this list, AnswerThePublic doesn&#8217;t give statistics on its suggestions. So this is more of a tool you&#8217;ll want to include in your overall keyword strategy. </p>



<p>You can download the results for a search as an Excel document. You can then just take that information and feed it into your statistical keyword tool.</p>



<p>Many of the suggestions you&#8217;ll get are easy to rank for due to the little competition. </p>



<p>A nice trick to garner some bonus traffic is to organically work many of them into your article. The &#8220;questions&#8221; suggestions it gives can be turned into their own section of your article, for example.</p>



<p>Then watch as you rank for dozens of additional phrases without having to base entire articles around them.</p>



<p>Pros:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Great long tail keyword suggestion tool</li>



<li>Reveals intent/motivations of your audience</li>



<li>Can be a valuable source of bonus traffic for quickly attainable, low volume keywords</li>
</ul>



<p>Cons:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Doesn&#8217;t give any analysis of keywords</li>



<li>Limits you to just a couple of searches per day</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>AnswerThePublic Grade: C-</strong></p>



<p>AnswerThePublic doesn&#8217;t fall into quite the same category as the others in this free keyword tool review. Still, it&#8217;s definitely a tool to integrate into your overall keyword and SEO strategy.</p>



<p>Because of its specific use, I can overlook the lack of stats on keywords. What&#8217;s more annoying is the relatively low cap of searches it allows each day.</p>



<p>Still, if you&#8217;re only writing a post or so a day, this can still be useful.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Wordstream&#8217;s Free Keyword Tool Review</h3>



<p><a href="https://app.wordstream.com/fkt/app" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wordstream&#8217;s free keyword tool</a> is good&#8230; if you have tons of time and don&#8217;t mind jumping through a few hoops to get your keywords.</p>



<p>Here&#8217;s what it looks like:</p>



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<p>The interface is simple enough. The major catch is that once you enter your keyword and click &#8220;find my keywords&#8221;, it takes you to a page where the results are blurred out and prompts you to enter your email address.</p>



<p>The tool then sends you a download link via your email. This download link is for a compressed folder. Once extracted, it holds your results for that keyword in an Excel file:</p>



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<p>I found a little hack to shorten this process slightly. Once you click on the download link in the email you receive, the blurred out results on the page will reveal if you go back to it.</p>



<p>This saves you from having to download anything or mess with Excel unless you want to. The catch is that it only shows 25 results; you need to download the file for the whole list.</p>



<p>Pros:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Gives up to 450 relevant results</li>



<li>Shows both Google and Bing monthly traffic estimates</li>



<li>Gives keyword value and an estimate of competition</li>
</ul>



<p>Cons:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>5+ step process to get substantial results (enter keyword, enter email, check email, download results, extract results, open results)</li>



<li>Doesn&#8217;t give detailed results</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>WordStream Free Keyword Tool Grade: D</strong></p>



<p>The tool gives you a nice size list of keywords. That said, it&#8217;s not feasible to spend the amount of time it takes to access it.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Wordtracker Review</h3>



<p><a href="https://www.wordtracker.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wordtracker</a> is a straightforward, no frills, but solid keyword tool. As such it&#8217;s barely worth mentioning in this free keyword tool review, however. This is because they only give you a dozen or so searches you can do before you have to pay.</p>



<p>Here&#8217;s what the Wordtracker interface looks like:</p>



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<p>There&#8217;s also a cap of 50 keywords, despite finding results on many more.</p>



<p>Honestly I&#8217;m not sure how often the program resets your search cap number. I tried using the tool a week apart and saw my number unchanged. Admittedly that was from a bookmarked version of the same search. Even using a private browser it tracked my uses without resetting.</p>



<p>It may be IP based, but at that point it&#8217;s not worth it. Especially with the 50 keyword cap.</p>



<p>Then today I noticed the number had reset when I went to test it. In this case it might be daily.</p>



<p>Pros:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Good data and a straightforward interface for getting volume and competition</li>
</ul>



<p>Cons:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>This barely qualifies as a free tool. It&#8217;s basically test it for a handful of searches then buy or beat it</li>



<li>50 keyword cap limits your data</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Wordtracker Grade: D</strong></p>



<p>Wordtracker is okay if you want quick results on a keyword or a few suggestions. If you&#8217;re rolling up your sleeves for multiple in depth searches, look elsewhere.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Soovle Review</h3>



<p>Soovle is an autocomplete tool which shows you instant suggestions from a variety of services:</p>



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<p>It generates these suggestions as you type, so there&#8217;s no &#8220;submit&#8221; necessary. This makes it easy to see lots of the top searches on the fly related to your keyword.</p>



<p>Pros:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Responsive and easy to use</li>



<li>Interesting to see the top searches across multiple sites instantly</li>
</ul>



<p>Cons:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>No detailed information on keywords</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Soovle Grade: D</strong></p>



<p>Soovle is a one trick pony, but it does that trick well. I can see this being useful if you&#8217;re creating content for these multiple sites all at once. Other than that, there&#8217;s no depth to it.</p>



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