This keyword checker shows how many people search for each keyword a month, how hard it is to rank for, and what advertisers pay per click. Paste up to 100 keywords, one per line, pick your market from 94 countries, and you get Volume, KD (keyword difficulty, 0 to 100), CPC and Competition for every keyword in one table. It is free and needs no signup.
How to use the keyword checker
- 1Paste your keywords into the box, one per line. Commas do not split keywords, so put each on its own line.
- 2Pick the country you sell in under Market. It starts on United States.
- 3Press Check keywords.
- 4Read the table. It is sorted by Volume, highest first; click Keyword, Volume, KD or CPC to sort by that column instead.
- 5Keep the keywords with real volume and a KD you can compete for, and drop the rest.
When to use it
- You have a list of topics for your blog or service pages and want to know which ones people search for.
- You are choosing between two ways of saying the same thing, such as "dog groomer" or "dog grooming".
- You want to know if a keyword is worth a page before you write it.
- You sell in the UK, Australia or Singapore and want numbers for that market, not the US.
Worked example
Two SEO keywords in the US
We checked two searches from our own market.
- Keywords to check, one per line
- seo audit tool (line 1), keyword research (line 2)
- Market
- United States
- Keyword
- keyword research | seo audit tool
- Volume
- 90,500 | 2,400
- KD
- 88 | 77
- CPC
- $14.72 | $23.77
- Competition
- Low | Low
"keyword research" has almost 38 times the searches, but a KD of 88 means the top results belong to very strong sites. "seo audit tool" is smaller, and its $23.77 CPC says advertisers find that search worth more per click. Competition reads Low for both because it measures competition among advertisers, not how hard it is to rank. For a newer site, the smaller keyword is the more realistic page to build.
What each column means
| Column | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Volume | Average monthly Google searches in the market you picked |
| KD | Keyword difficulty from 0 to 100: how hard it is to reach the top 10. Green up to 30, amber up to 60, red above. |
| CPC | What advertisers pay per click on Google Ads for this keyword, shown in US dollars |
| Competition | Low, Medium or High: how many advertisers bid on the keyword |
The figures come from DataForSEO's Google keyword data. A keyword with no data in the market you picked is left out of the table.
Made by SearchBlueprint
This checker is free with no signup. SearchBlueprint, who make it, sell SEO planning: a plan that maps each search your customers type to the page that should answer it.
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