For now, this feature is still in beta. As with any of our beta releases there may be some bugs and kinks to still work out. The AI model used is the same that runs ChatGPT so it is in high demand currently. This means there are occasional times when responses will be slow or timeout. Hopefully over the coming weeks and months this will be fully rectified.

AI Content Generation Tab

You will now see the AI tab within Content Assistant. When clicking on the tab you will see a list of different content type modules along with your remaining AI Credits in the top right corner.

AI Credits – Each AI Credit is equivalent to 1 returned word from the AI Content Generator. So if the response contains 80 words, it will use 80 AI Credits.

You can scroll through the right-hand column to view each of the different modules with a description of what type of content each module will produce.

AI Content Modules

Currently, there are 8 different types of content modules to choose from, each producing a different type and style of content. We may add or remove modules in the future but these 8 are just the start. They are:

• Create An Article Outline
• Create Article Headings
• Create Page Titles
• Create An Intro Paragraph
• Create A Conclusion Paragraph
• Create Main Content
• Create Meta Descriptions
• Create List

Description

When clicking on a module it will expand and give you 3 options. The 1st is a description box where you can enter your description of the content you’d like. It allows up to 120 characters maximum for a description. So for example, if you choose the “Create Article Headings” module, it asks “Create article headings about?” and you’d type something like:

The best dog training treats

This would then generate a few different article heading ideas about the best dog training treats.

The AI will not allow certain illicit topics or descriptions to be used. It also will not allow aggressive or angry commands so please use your best judgment when entering descriptions. If the AI decides that any of the command or description goes against its rules it will not return a response and instead will return an error.

Tone of Voice

Next, you will see an option to enter the tone of voice of the response. The default is neutral. If you don’t want a specific tone of voice you can just leave this area blank. An example would be something like funny or engaging. Usually, 1 word descriptions work best for the tone of voice but you can experiment for your needs.

Length

The last option is the length of the response with 3 options short, medium, and long. These are not exact but allow you to control the maximum amount of words the response would generate. This way you can better control how many AI Credits you use. Keep in mind, occasionally the AI generator might not finish a full sentence if the length setting is too short.

Generating AI Content

Anytime you generate text using the AI Content Generator it will load the AI response at the bottom of the current text in the text editor. You may need to scroll down in the text editor to see the response. Responses can sometimes take up to 30 seconds to generate so please be patient. Responses may also need to be reformatted manually to fit your needs.

Most of the time the same description and settings will return different responses. So you may try the exact same settings to receive more ideas or different responses. Occasionally though, the same settings may return the same response. Unfortunately, this is completely up to the AI and we have no control over the responses.

Using AI Content

Our current stance on using AI content is that it is best used to generate ideas and help with writer’s block. AI content tends to be generic and not always 100% factual. The best results will probably be achieved by taking the responses or ideas generated and then editing and adding your own words and style.

As with anything when it comes to SEO, trying to take shortcuts usually doesn’t lead to the best long term results. With that said, AI content generation can be extremely useful for speeding up your workflow. Use your best judgment and experiment. It can be a lot of fun!

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This tool is currently in beta. Certain features may be buggy and may end up changing or being removed throughout the beta process.

Getting Started

When you open the tool you will see at the top left an option to enter your domain URL. The Site Audit crawls from the domain level so no need to enter specific URLs. Then you can select the number of pages you’d like to crawl. The default setting is 500. The tool will only crawl this amount of pages of your domain. If you leave it set to 500, and let’s say your site only has 200 pages, it will only crawl the 200 pages and you will only be deducted the 200 crawl credits from your account’s monthly crawl credit allotments.

Each plan Starter, Pro, etc.. have monthly crawl credits on top of your normal search credits that come with your plan. You can view how many you have left from the Settings/Upgrade menu or also by clicking the folder to the left of the search bar. This will bring up a popup showing your Site Audit history and crawl credits remaining for the month.

Once you’ve added your domain and selected the number of pages to crawl, press the Start button and the Site Audit begins.

The Audit will now be working. You don’t need to leave the audit open, you can go work on other things and come back later when the Audit is finished. Audits can take anywhere from 2 minutes to 45 minutes depending on the crawl size.

Site Audit Summary

Once the Audit is finished you will now see the main Site Audit Summary on the left-hand side. At the top, you will see your overall website Optimization Score as well as an overview of the number of issues we’ve found broken down by priority.

• High-priority issues are potentially the most troublesome. These are the ones that may have the most negative SEO impact and should be your top priority for getting fixed.
• Medium-priority are not quite as troublesome. Usually, these won’t negatively impact your SEO but fixing them may give you a bit of a boast in the search engines.
• Low-priority are things you should fix for best practices. They may or may not give you any boast but it’s probably best to get them sorted out when you have the time.

Now as you scroll down on the left-hand side you will see each factor we look for and whether your website has any issues in that category. For most categories, you may see multiple issues. Each category has its priority color code to the left of its name:

• Red: High Priority
• Orange: Medium Priority
• Blue: Low Priority
• Grey: Any Grey categories are just there for info. They are not issues and do not need any fixing.

Any category with a green checkbox means we found no issues and your website is in good shape for that category. Otherwise, you’ll see the number of issues we found for that category color-coded by the colors described above showing the priority.

On the right-hand side, you will see a snapshot of the URL’s on your website ordered by the ones with the most internal links coming into them. Usually, the URLs with the most internal links would be your most important pages.

At the top on the right-hand side, you will also see the amount of HTML pages we found, the number of redirects, and the date audit was run.

Getting The Details

You can click on any category that is showing issues and it will then load on the right-hand side all the URLs we found with that issue. Once again the URLs are prioritized by internal links, giving you what should be the more important pages at the top of the list. You will also see a quick description of the issue at the top of the right-hand side, further explaining what you are seeing.

Certain issues may also show you more info under the URL. For example, the “Tiles are too long” will show you the titles we found under the URL so you can see the issue clearly. Another example is the “Pages with deprecated Html Tags” which will show you the deprecated tags we found on that page, each one separated by a pipe “|”.

Keep in mind the Site Audit is just here to give you info. Not all of the info you may choose to act on. There may be reasons not to fix a certain issue and that is fine. The idea here though is to give you an overall view of the SEO health and optimization of your website.

Video Tutorial

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Finding “On The Cusp” Keywords

One of the easiest ways to get more traffic is not always to create more content but instead, to get the content you already have onto the first page of Google. With the new Organic Keywords filter, you can now see which of your keywords are right on the cusp of ranking on page one and concentrate on pushing that content to the first page.

To do this you can set the filters to something like Rank: 11 to 20. This will show you which keywords you are ranking for in the 11th – 20th position. This is content Google is already liking but isn’t getting page one rankings. You can then either try and tweak the content to give it that extra oomph or work on getting more links to put it over the edge.

Steal Rankings From Big Websites

Many times when Google doesn’t have enough quality content to rank on the first page they will default to ranking big websites and niche relevant forums. This could be a signal that these keywords might be easy to rank. Many times these will be lower volume, long-tail keywords but they can add up to a lot of traffic generation.

With the Organic Keywords filter, you can now add keywords when searching websites. This allows you to drill down bigger websites into your niche. Let’s say your niche is “traveling” with a focus on “backpacking”. Sites like reddit.com and quora.com show up for a lot of searches when there isn’t more relevant content. Now we can set our filters. For this example, let’s use the keyword “backpacking” and the filters set to Rank: 1 to 10. This will show us what keywords reddit.com is ranking for in positions 1 to 10 that pertain to backpacking. There are potentially a lot of keywords and content ideas we can gain here.

Exporting More Keywords

In the past, you could only sort the keywords and download as many keywords as our exports allowed. If you had a website that ranked for thousands of keywords you may have been limited by which keywords you were able to download. Now with the Organic Keywords filter, you can break the keywords into chunks and download whatever you’d like.

Let’s say you sort by rank and are only able to download rankings that go up to 10. If you need to download more keywords you can now filter by the rank where the last download ended and download more. So in this example, we’ll filter everything from 10 to 15 to get our next download batch.

These are just a few ways you can use the new Organic Keywords filter. With a little creativity, I am sure you can figure out many different ways to incorporate the use of the filter into your keyword research process to help find low competition keywords and make the entire process easier.

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Ungrouping Close Variants

True Volume Algorithm and Close Variants

To give a quick sum up, our main data source for search volumes is Google. Over the years Google’s search volume has become less and less accurate for certain keywords due to what they call grouping close variants. What this means is that they group the search volumes of multiple keywords together that they consider relatively the same. In theory, this isn’t terrible, if it was implemented correctly we may not get exact search volumes for each keyword, but we’d have the search volume for the overall topic.

The problem is, that it’s not done well, it’s done through AI, takes huge liberties with what keywords it considers “close” and is very often wrong. It also will group keywords together giving one inflated volume for all of them, then the next month realize it was wrong and the volumes are completely different. Needless to say, this has caused us many headaches.

A few years back we launched what we called our “True Volume” algorithm. This was the start of our quest to ungroup these close variants and get more accurate search volumes. The algorithm has been working in the background with what we call a “soft touch”. If there was an easy to spot close variant we’d ungroup it and show the “True Volume”.

True Volume 2.0

Recently we’ve realized that this approach is no longer enough. We’ve had to become more proactive and audit our entire database looking for these variants. This is what brings us to today, and what we are calling our True Volume 2.0 release. This algorithm update has started rolling out but will take time to fully roll out. It is also only working on our All Locations (global), United States, and UK databases for the time being and mainly focuses on English keywords. As we get more confident with the algorithm for other languages we will roll it out to more databases and languages as well.

Let’s dive in and go over an example. Here the global search volume is shown by Google for the keyword “boil egg benefits”. You’ll see it shows a search volume of 14,800.

Google is definitely grouping many keyword search volumes into this figure. If you were to rank for this keyword alone and not for the many other variants that it considers “close” you wouldn’t nearly see this high of a search volume. When our True Volume algorithm ungrouped this keyword the search volume was 260. That is a far cry from 14,800!

How it Works

Without giving away the secret sauce, basically, we are utilizing multiple data sources to figure out these instances when Google is highly inflating the search volume. Then we are combining all the data from the different sources we have (including Google) to figure out just about where the True Volume stands for the keyword. Currently, the problem is mostly with higher volume keywords. Lower volume keywords (under 1000 searches per month) aren’t as affected by these close variant groupings.

As always we are doing our best to get you the most accurate data. The release of the True Volume 2.0 algorithm is a great step forward in doing that. During the rollout of the algorithm you may notice some data inconsistencies while all of our servers sync to the new changes. This will be an on-going process. We will be consistently tweaking and fine-tuning things as we go along to keep the algorithm as accurate as possible and to hopefully stop you from ever getting fooled by these close variant keywords.

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SERP Analysis Table

PA – Moz Page Authority

This column shows you the Page Authority for the given URL. Page Authority is a metric from MOZ which is a representation of the overall ranking strength potential of that individual page.

DA – Moz Domain Authority

This is similar to Page Authority except for the overall domain. Domain Authority shows you how strong the domain’s ranking potential is. A strong domain can lift the individual pages to rank better for keywords even when the individual pages themselves might not be quite as strong. An example of this is how Amazon and Wikipedia rank many pages on the first page of Google that have few if any incoming backlinks. This is due to the strength of those domains lifting those pages up to rank well.

Doms – Domains

This column shows the number of unique linking domains to the given URL. The more unique linking domains usually indicate a stronger backlink profile and hence a stronger page.

DomsD – Domains to Domain

This gives you the number of unique linking domains to the entire domain the URL sits on. So if the URL is an Amazon URL, the DomsD is showing you the number of linking domains to the entire amazon.com domain.

Auth – Dofollow Links

Auth stands for authority passing links. To simplify, this means the amount of external dofollow backlinks pointing to the given URL.

Links – Backlinks

This is the total number of incoming external backlinks both dofollow and nofollow.

URL

This column shows you whether the exact keyword match was found in the actual URL seen in Google.

Rankings/Traffic Table

URL Keywords

The number of keywords we’ve found ranking for the particular URL.

URL Traffic

The estimated traffic coming from Google for that particular URL.

Domain Keywords

The amount of keywords we’ve found ranking for the entire domain the URL sits on.

Domain Traffic

The estimated traffic coming from Google for the entire domain the URL sits on.

Social

Facebook

The total amount of Facebook shares for the particular URL.

Pinterest

The total amount of Pinterest Pins for the particular URL.

We’ve removed the mRank and mDom columns as these metrics are no longer supported by MOZ and were basically just duplicates of PA and DA. We’ve also removed the Title and Desc columns now that Google is dynamically changing the Titles and Descriptions shown in the search results. These no longer give any indication as to the keyword difficulty. Currently, for the time being, we still show these columns in the Deep Analysis section if you still would like to see them.

Summed Stats / Links Score

Summed Stats

The summed stats table shows you the lowest and average stats for each metric in the SERPs Analysis table.

Links Score

Links Score uses only 1 metric (linking domains) to determine a score on a scale of 0-100. The higher the score the more difficult it may be to rank. This is meant to mimic another popular SEO tool’s keyword difficulty score. Our normal keyword difficulty score uses over a dozen metrics and is much more accurate. Keep in mind Links Score is using just 1 metric and takes nothing else into account when determining the score. Links Score may be useful as a secondary reference for how difficult a keyword might be to rank.

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Normally we had what we called a “real-time cache” of keyword scores (7-30 days depending). When doing a search we would only show these recently cached scores. The reasoning here, and something we prided ourselves on compared to other tools was that you always got real-time, up-to-date keyword scores. Most other keyword tools show keyword scores that have been cached for very long periods of time.

With this new feature update, you now have the best of both worlds! You see the real-time keyword scores as usual, and in addition, you also see more keyword scores immediately with our cached keyword scores database. Currently the feature is only available for Global (All Locations) and United States searches but we hope to bring it to every location option within the next few weeks/months.

Using Cached Scores

Freshly cached scores from our normal “real-time cache” will show with full color as usual. Cached scores not in the real-time cache due to age, will have a slightly dulled color. You can see an example of this below.

If you decide you want to update the data on a cached keyword score you can just click on it and it will update as usual. Giving you the same ability to update scores as before with the additional ease of showing more scores right from the get-go.

Benefits of Cached Scores

Since cached scores allow you to see more keyword scores during your searches you will be able to work faster and narrow down your keyword choices quicker.

Although keyword difficulty scores change over time, they usually don’t change that drastically. Cached scores will allow you to get a better idea of which keywords are already too hard to target, or on the other hand, show you keywords that might be easy and ripe for the picking. This allows you to not waste time and credits checking keywords that you wouldn’t bother with anyway.

Seeing more scores will also give you a better idea of the overall topic. If you load a keyword search and see a lot of red, you probably know the topic, in general, is fairly hard, and finding low competition keywords in that topic might be more difficult. The same works in reverse. Doing a keyword search and seeing very few red keywords will be a good indicator that this topic might have some keywords that will be easy to go after and rank for.

Bulk Check Credit Saver

In the preferences menu on the Settings/Upgrade page, you’ll see an option titled “Bulk Check Credit Saver”. This is enabled by default on all accounts.

What this does is skip over all cached scores when doing bulk keyword difficulty checks. This saves credits and makes it so you can check more keywords for difficulty or do more searches. If you don’t want this feature enabled and want to have all keywords including the cached scores updated, you can just uncheck this box.

Even with this unchecked it will still skip recently checked keyword scores in our real-time cache as it normally did before.

Cached Scores: Future Features

With the addition of the cached scores database, we now have access to more keyword scores to potentially incorporate into future features. For example, we have plans to use the cached score database within our Explorer and Organic Keywords section to show keyword difficulty scores there too. This is something we’ve begun working on and hope to have released in the next few months. The future is bright!

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Why The Change?

When we first launched the Explorer tool a few years back we wanted to make the transition from other SEO tools as easy as possible for our users. This is why we used United States search volume for this database. It was what most users were already accustomed to and was just easier for comparison.

As time went on we were limited by this. Our keywords database is a global database and the United States search volume was just not accurate enough to predict traffic estimations for many websites. This change should give us better traffic estimations and more flexibility as to which keywords we can add to our ever-growing database.

Traffic Estimates

Although traffic estimates should now be more accurate we want to re-iterate, these are just estimates. You may find your site or other sites are higher or lower than the actual Google traffic coming in. Our estimates are based on ranking position using the search volumes we have available (mostly from Google) and the keywords in our database. These traffic estimates should be used more as a comparison from site to site and not as any definite idea of what the traffic might be.

Since Google doesn’t publicly release click-through rates for their search results, and their search volumes are not 100% accurate (although we try our best to make them more accurate as you can read about here: https://www.keysearch.co/blog/ungrouping-close-variants/), it makes traffic estimates very difficult. Not to mention that our database does not contain every single keyword imaginable.

A Better Future

Due to this change, we will be able to expand the size of our database more easily, and incorporate more keywords from non-English speaking languages as time goes on. This should only make things bigger and better when it comes to your keyword research and site analysis!

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Getting Started With Lists

When you are on the Research page you’ll see a button above the keyword table titled “Save Keywords”. This is where you can create new lists or save to already created lists on the fly while in the midst of doing your keyword research. In order to save keywords to a list you just need to select which keywords you’d like to save by clicking the checkboxes next to the keyword. If you’d like to save all of the keywords in the table you can use the select all box at the top of the keyword table.

Once you’ve selected the keywords you’d like to save, click the “Save Keywords” button which will bring up a popup window. In this window, you can either “Add to a new list” which will save the selected keywords to a brand new list, or select one of the previously created lists to save the selected keywords. If you choose “Add to a new list” you will be prompted to name the list. Once named, hit the “Add to list” button, and voila! Your keywords are now saved to a list.

Navigating the My Lists Page

The “My Lists” page is where you can access your already created lists and do some further organizing if you’d like. You have the option to view all of the lists, see the keyword scores/keyword data, delete keywords from the lists, and move the keywords around to different lists.

The left-hand table shows you the list of keywords in the currently selected list. You can flip through your lists by clicking on the lists in the right-hand table. This will then show the corresponding keywords for that list in the left-hand table. The right-hand table also allows you to see how many keywords are in each list along with export options, the ability to rename the list, send the keywords to the rank tracker, delete potential duplicate keywords within the list or delete the list entirely. Above the right-hand table is also the ability to search your lists, more export options, and the option to merge your lists together.

Moving Keywords

If you’d like to Move Keywords to a different list, just select the checkbox next to the keywords you want to move, click the “Move Keywords” button and a popup will appear. Then select the list you’d like to move the keywords to. You will then be asked whether you want to move the keywords and delete them from the current list, or move and keep them in both lists. Once you choose which option you’d like, the keywords will be moved.

This allows you to organize your lists in whatever way you’d like. Since you can always move keywords around different lists you don’t need to worry about organizing them while you are deep in the keyword research process. You can organize later so you don’t break your flow.

Merging Lists

Merging lists allow you to combine entire lists together. Just select the checkboxes next to the lists you’d like to merge and you will be prompted to name the new merged list. Keep in mind when merging lists, the old lists will be deleted leaving just the new merged list. 

Delete Duplicates

The “Delete Duplicates” option checks your lists for any duplicate keywords. It will then clean the duplicates leaving just one copy of the keyword. This comes in handy since many times users create lists around a certain topic. During the keyword research process, you may search similar phrases, saving big lists of keywords to one main list, not realizing that the same keyword has been put in the list multiple times.

Send To Tracker

This option can be very handy. Let’s say you’ve found a few hidden gem keywords and want to start tracking your rankings for these keywords. The “Send To Tracker” feature allows you to automatically add these keywords to the Rank Tracker right from the My Lists page. Just select which keywords you want to start tracking, which location you’d like them to be tracked in and the URL you want to be tracked. The keywords selected will then automatically be added to your Rank Tracker.

Keeping Organized With Lists

When first starting out with Keysearch it may not seem that you’ll need to utilize the lists feature but you may quickly realize that exporting many different files, remembering which keywords you liked and didn’t like, etc… can become a big hassle. The lists feature makes this all super easy and puts all the tools needed in one centralized place. The export options available through creating lists also allow you to export the data in a more organized fashion than you might get by exporting directly from the Research page.

Make sure to check out other Keysearch tutorials on the Keysearch Tutorial page!

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Why the Change?

The Keyword Planner option in Keysearch has slowly been expanding on Keyword Planner suggestions for years and has really morphed into more of a “Related Keywords” search option. We haven’t relied solely on Keyword Planner when using this setting in a long time. To continue calling it “Keyword Planner” is just no longer accurate. Here are few more specific reasons why.

Not Returning Exact Keyword Data

As discussed in the article Ungrouping Close Variants Keyword Planner and Google, in general, are no longer showing accurate search volumes for the majority of keywords, nor are they returning data for many keywords. We here at Keysearch have been correcting this for some time now and ungrouping these close variants.

Not Showing Results

Keyword Planner has stopped showing suggestion results for many different queries they determine sensitive. We here at Keysearch have already been compensating for the lack of Keyword Planner results for years by supplementing these searches with our own database suggestions.

Showing Limited Results

Sometimes Keyword Planner was showing very limited results and we were able to deliver many more results by combining suggestions from our database.

Better Suggestions

By incorporating a hybrid approach of Keyword Planner suggestions and our own database, we are able to deliver better keyword suggestions for many searches.

Time to Update The Name

All in all the “Keyword Planner” option was already a hybrid for a long time now and the name just doesn’t reflect what is actually going on behind the scenes anymore.

Credit Changes

Basically what this means for credits is that we no longer will have 2 different credit systems “Super Searches” and “Regular Searches”. All credits will be the same and you won’t need to worry about running out of Super Searches. For current users, absolutely nothing is changing. You don’t lose any credits. Your Super Search credits will just be added to your regular credit count. Nothing will be different on your end. The only thing that will be different is you no longer need to care about 2 different credit systems :).

So Do We Still Get Keyword Planner Suggestions?

Yes, you do. Like I said nothing is really changing except we are now calling the suggestion option “Related Keywords”. We will be using Keyword Planner suggestions in the “Related Keywords” searches just like we have been.

Keysearch Database vs. Database

Before this change, the “Keyword Planner” option had smaller credit allotments (Super Searches). To compensate for this we were using keyword planner suggestions in addition to our Keysearch Database suggestions when the “Keysearch Database” option was selected. This way, users wouldn’t lose the benefits of Keyword Planner suggestions when their Super Searches were exhausted.

This lead to the old “Keyword Planner” option and “Keysearch Database” option having very similar outputs. This was advantageous when credit limits were smaller for the “Keyword Planner” option but now is no longer needed since you are no longer restrained to smaller credit limits with the new “Related Keywords” option.

Due to this, we changed the name of the “Keysearch Database” option to just “Database”. It now acts more similarly to a Phrase Match or Broad Match database search and will be more of a complement to the “Related Keywords” option. Giving results from our database that are more “match” keywords rather than related.

Summing Up

To sum up, for current users nothing is changing other than the titles in the drop-down menu. For new users, the credit system will be much easier to understand. We just wanted to make everyone aware in case they were curious about the change.

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As many of you know ahrefs is considered the gold standard of SEO tools. Their backlink database is second to none and it has driven their entire toolset to become the SEO software industry leader.

Here at Keysearch our goal wasn’t to compete with ahrefs but to offer an ahrefs alternative. Giving users a great set of SEO tools that meet the needs of 99% of customers looking to improve their search engine optimization at a fraction of the cost. Let’s take a look at how we stack up:

Keyword Research Tool

The heart and soul of Keysearch is our keyword research tool. To be honest this is an area where we feel we beat ahrefs hands down. Unlike ahrefs we pull our keyword data from various sources and are not confined by a single database. This gives you more keywords and very little chance of your keyword not returning keyword ideas or data (which can happen often with ahrefs).

Our keyword difficulty algorithm and analysis tool is also much more precise than ahrefs which only factors in 1 metric when it comes to keyword difficulty (linking domains). We have over a dozen different data points we factor into our difficulty algorithm. This includes backlinks, on-page factors, google results count, and much more. We also keep our algorithm up to date with Google’s latest changes.

You can choose to get search suggestions from Google Keyword Planner, our own database of over 1 billion keywords or other suggestion options such as Google Suggest, Amazon Suggest, YouTube Suggest, etc.. This gives you much more suggestion options than ahrefs, allowing you to find even more keywords with included search volume and CPC data.

Our bulk keyword difficulty checker is also something that no other tool can match. Real-time keyword difficulty checks in bulk rather than relying on cached data for bulk difficulty metrics.

Keysearch Explorer

Our Explorer tool allows you to dive into backlink data, organic search, and traffic data for any website or webpage. We also incorporate this data into our keyword research section. So, similar to ahrefs, you can see traffic estimates and ranking keyword counts right from our keyword research and keyword difficulty tools.

Backlink Checker

Now we don’t boast to have a backlink database nearly as big or as fresh as ahrefs (who does?). But our database does contain over 100 billion backlinks and crawls the web non-stop, 24/7. This gives you the ability to view your backlinks and also find great link building opportunities by researching competitor’s websites.

Organic Keywords

Our Google organic search database currently has google search data on over 80 million keywords and growing, with stats updated every 30 days for most keywords.

We show you things like your top ranking keywords, competitors, top referring domains, anchor text, and ranking distribution. In addition, we let you know what difficulty score we feel your site should be targeting when looking for keywords.

Our organic search features allow you to see which keywords you are ranking for as well as what keywords your competitors are ranking for. This way you can easily steal their keywords right from under them!

Competitor Gap Tool

You can also use our Competitor Gap feature which is similar to ahrefs Content Gap tool. This is where you can type in one, or multiple competitor’s websites and see which keywords they are ranking for and you are not. Allowing you to find great keyword ideas you wouldn’t have thought of otherwise.

Rank Tracking

Our rank tracker is not nearly as complicated or as sophisticated as ahrefs. Once again we set out to create a toolset that caters to what most everyday bloggers and small businesses need. A simple tool that tracks your rankings and does it well.

Track your progress in a simple-to-use interface that doesn’t take weeks to learn. After adding a domain to track we also show you keywords we’ve found that you are already ranking for, letting you decide whether you’d like to add those to the rank tracker as well.

Keysearch The Affordable Ahrefs Alternative

We won’t claim to be better than ahrefs. Personally, we are big fans of their tools. Their big data capabilities are unmatched. For large SEO agencies, there really is nothing that compares to the data they can provide and SEO audit functions.

With that said though, that is not our goal. We want to provide useful tools for everyone. This is why unlike ahrefs we also have an entire section dedicated to Youtube Research and Youtube SEO. Helping you get your videos ranked on Youtube by offering the same type of keyword difficulty scores we offer in our regular keyword research but for Youtube! How cools is that.

Also, our Content Assistant tool (click the link to read more about it) will be an incredible addition to your SEO toolbox. Here we analyze the first page Google results and show you exactly what you need to compete with the top 10 pages (topic ideas, keywords to include, word count, etc..). This tool can help bring rankings back to life for new or old pieces of content on your site.

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If you’d like to see if Keysearch is for you, then take us for a spin. Just signup for our an account here. You can also use our 20% off discount code KSDISC which makes our Starter plan only $13.60 per month compared to ahrefs $99 per month. You can’t really beat that!

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