9 Free Keyword Research Tools to Help Plan Your New Site
Are you in the process of rolling out a new website?
As you know, there’s a lot that goes into the process. From the design to the development, from content creation to your marketing strategy, there’s not enough time in the day to tackle every task.
While there’s sure to be a lot on your mind, make sure that you spend enough time on keyword research to guide your content strategy. By doing so, up front, you’ll have a clear idea as to where you want to take your site in the future and how to shape your content.
There are a few keyword research shortcuts that you can take, and tools often serve as the most effective options.
In the past, I’ve discussed a variety of keyword suggest tools that new businesses can use to target the best keywords for their niche, from long tail search terms to negative keywords. This time around, I’m going to focus on 10 free keyword research tools. With these, you’ll be able to:
- Choose the best keywords, based on your industry, monthly searches and more.
- Create a content calendar that’s based on related long tail keywords.
- Learn more about your competition.
- Know which keywords on your targeted list have the highest search volume.
- Boost your search engine rank.
Although you can pay for access to a variety of high level keyword suggestion tools, this isn’t something you have to do. Instead, you can rely on a combination of free tools to compile a quality list that’ll bring you results.
Are you ready to take advantage of these free keyword tools to gain prominence with search engines and produce quality, useful content for your readers?
Then let’s get started.
Are you in the process of rolling out a new website?
As you know, there’s a lot that goes into the process. From the design to the development, from content creation to your marketing strategy, there’s not enough time in the day to tackle every task.
While there’s sure to be a lot on your mind, make sure that you spend enough time on keyword research to guide your content strategy. By doing so, up front, you’ll have a clear idea as to where you want to take your site in the future and how to shape your content.
There are a few keyword research shortcuts that you can take, and tools often serve as the most effective options.
In the past, I’ve discussed a variety of keyword suggest tools that new businesses can use to target the best keywords for their niche, from long tail search terms to negative keywords. This time around, I’m going to focus on 10 free keyword research tools. With these, you’ll be able to:
- Choose the best keywords, based on your industry, monthly searches and more.
- Create a content calendar that’s based on related long tail keywords.
- Learn more about your competition.
- Know which keywords on your targeted list have the highest search volume.
- Boost your search engine rank.
Although you can pay for access to a variety of high level keyword suggestion tools, this isn’t something you have to do. Instead, you can rely on a combination of free tools to compile a quality list that’ll bring you results.
Are you ready to take advantage of these free keyword tools to gain prominence with search engines and produce quality, useful content for your readers?
Then let’s get started.
Anil you are missing the kwfinder, they are amazing in keyword research.
hope you’ll be using this tool soon.
Thanks for sharing other alternatives too.
But nowadays Adwords show search ranges only, not showing exact values. Eg.. 1k-10k, 10-100k. This is a any new updates??
Thank you so much Neil sir…..
Also checked out Soovle after reading this post. Pretty awesome tool will probably use it often.
Hopefully one day our tool Irayo can make this sort of list ?
Got to know about some really great keyword tools. I was sttucked with the Google Keyword Planner only and this post made my day. No one can explain like you 🙂
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Great post! Well researched list of tools for keyword research. Thanks for sharing.
thanks a lot Neil patel.
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I just found that you bought Uber suggest. So are you going to share in some blog posts that what are your plans with it and why you picked that tool instead of many others to invest in. 😊 waiting for that post !
I will try for my site: http://ilajupay.com
and one more thing sir please suggest me some tools for backlinks
agreed.i appreciate ur work and this is very helpful.amazing key word searchtool. keep it up and good luck.
god bless keep smiling as always.
I have used some of the tools above mention but i will explore some more. I am looking for some keyword suggestion tools which will help with Indian CPC rate.
My site is https://www.ytechweb.com
nice artical and i’m love the tools above mentioned and i’m using them on my website called HD Media HUB ( http://hdmediahub.com ) and thay are not working to me.
plz suggest me cheap and best tool under 10000 per year
These are amazing tools, some of them are paid. i love Ubersuggest keyword planner tool. It shows amazing results
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Why I am not getting ranking after 6 months
This article : https://optimistaker.com/2018-edition-keyword-research-tool/
The reader might be know bit more about the keyword research tools.
Really awesome blog for Keyword tools to understand easily. How each tools work. that for sharing valuable post Neil
I also have the same article on my blog but in Hindi version.
You says that long tail keywords are good to choose in place of short tail to rank faster.but they contain stop word in them and when i put that particular long tail keyword in yoast seo focus keyword column. it shows that your url or title have stop word in it please remove it.
suggest me the right direction im totally confused
Great fan of you.
Could you add Luxembourg as country to Ubersuggest? That would be awesome.
Sacha
I had to complete my Assignment.
And by this article, I did it.
Also, what is linking and how does that work?
You have ad links in all the 10 tools but the last I mean KW finder tool’s link does not exist. It showing a 404 error. I hope that you will fix it soon. thank you………..
Thanks again
Thanks for sharing knowledge. @neilpatel
But I only use Google Keyword Planner and Google Search Console and I think there is no need of other tools for anything.
Thank you
I am new to this blogging world,recently I launched a blog using siteground.com and purchasing astr pro version theme , I written a article on django framework to create a website. but i am not able to get the traffic to my website .please tell me some suggestion .
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Thanks.
Cheers.
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