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Keywords Explorer

Find the best keywords for your SEO strategy with powerful filters

What's inside

Enter a keyword or domain, apply filters and export your findings

Enter a keyword or domain, apply filters and export your findings: a screenshot of the tool

  • Search by keyword, domain or URL

    Enter a keyword, domain or URL to start your search.

  • Keyword metrics

    Search volume, AI Overview data, keyword difficulty, search intent and more for each keyword.

  • Powerful filters

    Filter by keyword difficulty, search volume, and more.

  • What Can You Do With the Keywords Explorer?

    Whether you're planning a blog post, landing page, or full content strategy, this tool helps you: identify long-tail keywords with buyer intent, discover low-competition keywords with high ROI potential, explore keyword clusters for topical authority and export keyword ideas for content planning or PPC.

  • How it Works

    You can: enter any keyword, domain, or URL, apply powerful filters (difficulty, volume, CPC, intent), analyze real-time search trends and export findings to guide your SEO content or ads.

  • Need help turning this research into traffic?

    Check out the Done-For-You Package, Premium Content Bundle and/or the Premium Backlink Bundle on the homepage.

Keyword research you pay for by the keyword, not by the month

Keyword tools are sold as subscriptions because agencies use them every day. Most businesses do not. They research a topic when they plan a page, check a competitor when a rival starts ranking, and otherwise leave the tool alone. A $129-a-month subscription for that is money spent on silence.

Keywords Explorer runs on credits you buy once. Give it a seed keyword and it returns the suggestions and related searches Google users actually type, each with its monthly search volume and the past year's trend, a 0-to-100 difficulty score, the cost per click advertisers pay and the search intent behind it. Give it a domain or a URL instead and it returns the keywords that site or page already ranks for, with the position and the page that holds it. Tick one box and it also checks, keyword by keyword, whether Google shows an AI Overview and which sources that overview cites.

How to use it

  1. Step 1

    Enter a keyword, a domain or a URL

    A keyword returns ideas around it; a domain or URL returns what it ranks for. Pick the country (91 to choose from; Google data for each) and how many rows you want, from 1 to 1,000, 50 by default. The lookup costs one credit per keyword row returned, so a 50-row search is 50 credits.

  2. Step 2

    Set the filters before you spend

    Minimum and maximum difficulty, minimum and maximum volume, words the keyword must contain, words it must not, and, for a URL, a rank range. "Search priority" sorts by the highest volume or the lowest difficulty first, which decides what fills your rows. Fewer, better rows cost fewer credits.

  3. Step 3

    Save, export, come back

    Star the keywords worth keeping and they collect under Saved keywords; download the table as CSV; every report stays in your account under Reports history, so a second look costs nothing.

Three jobs it is built for

  • Planning a page: start from the topic, sort by lowest difficulty, filter to volume above a floor, and the rows that remain are the terms a newer site can win and the questions to answer on the page
  • Reverse-engineering a competitor: enter their domain, filter to positions 1 to 10, and you have the keywords that bring them traffic, with the exact pages that earn it
  • Deciding whether Google will even show a blue link: the AI Overview check tells you which of your keywords now get an AI answer at the top of the page and which sites it cites, so you can aim at the keywords where a ranking still means a visit, or at being one of the cited sources

What each column means

The results table uses the fields below. Volume and CPC come from Google's own keyword data; difficulty and intent come from the SEO data provider SEO Stuff licenses, the same source most keyword tools use.

Volume and Trend
The average number of searches a month in the country you chose, and the past twelve months as a small chart so you can tell a seasonal term from a steady one.
KD (keyword difficulty, 0 to 100)
How strong the pages already ranking in the top ten are, judged by their backlinks. Under 30 is reachable for most sites; over 70 needs real authority. Treat it as a guide, not a verdict.
CPC
What advertisers pay per click on the term, in US dollars. A high CPC on a modest-volume keyword usually means buyers, not browsers.
Intent
Informational, navigational, commercial or transactional: what the searcher is trying to do. A page that matches the intent outranks one that merely matches the words.
AI Overview
Whether Google currently shows an AI-written answer above the results for this keyword, with the sources it cites. Shown when you tick "Show AI Overview Data".
Rank, ETV and Page (domain and URL searches)
For a domain or URL: the position the site holds for the keyword, the estimated monthly visits that position brings (ETV), and the page that holds it.

Questions people ask

Is Keywords Explorer free?

No; it runs on credits you buy once (400 for $49, 3,000 for $99), and a lookup costs one credit per keyword row it returns. You set the number of rows, so you decide the price of each search. There is no subscription. The free keyword ideas generator shows a short list for nothing, and the free rank checker shows where you stand for five keywords.

Where does the data come from?

Search volume and CPC come from Google's keyword data; keyword suggestions, related searches, difficulty, intent and the ranked-keyword lists come from the same commercial SEO data provider that supplies most keyword tools. The AI Overview check runs a live Google search for each keyword.

How is this different from Ahrefs or Semrush?

They are subscriptions from $129 and $139 a month with far more inside: rank tracking, site audits, content tools. This is the keyword research part, paid for only when you use it. If you research keywords every day, the subscription is the better deal; if you do it a few times a quarter, credits cost a fraction. The comparisons on this site go through the numbers.

Can I see what a competitor ranks for?

Yes. Enter their domain, or a single page's URL, and the table lists the keywords it ranks for with the position, the page and an estimate of the traffic each brings. Filter to the top ten to see what actually earns their visits.

What does the AI Overview check do?

For each keyword in the results it runs a live Google search and records whether an AI Overview appeared and which sites it cited. It is included in the lookup; it costs no extra credits. Use it to find the keywords where a top ranking still gets clicks, and the sources Google trusts for your topic.

Which countries and languages are covered?

91 countries, each with its own Google data; pick one from the location menu before you search.

Can I export the results?

Yes, to CSV. Starred keywords are kept under Saved keywords and every report under Reports history, where you can reopen it without spending credits again.

Want the keywords turned into pages?

The tool finds the terms. If you would rather have the SEO Stuff team pick them, write the pages and earn the links, start here.

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