Google Keyword Tool

It's a free, no-signup keyword-research tool that harvests real-time autocomplete suggestions from Google's public suggest API for any seed term you enter, then enriches every harvested keyword with monthly search volume, cost-per-click (CPC), competition score, and a 12-month trend sparkline. The harvester runs entirely in your browser (calls come from your IP, not ours), and the volume data comes from the Keywords Everywhere API.

Google's suggest API powers the autocomplete dropdown in google.com's search box. Every prefix you type returns a list of suggestions that real users have searched for. We programmatically iterate through your seed term combined with the alphabet (a-z, 0-9) and ~70 modifier words (questions, comparisons, prepositions, buyer-intent qualifiers, etc.), collecting every unique suggestion Google returns. The result is hundreds of long-tail keywords that real searchers use, far more than typing into the box manually would surface.

Yes, with two differences worth knowing. Google Keyword Planner requires a Google Ads account (and increasingly hides exact-volume data unless you're actively running ad campaigns). This tool is free, requires no signup, and shows exact monthly volumes via the Keywords Everywhere API. The trade-off: Keyword Planner has access to Google's own click and ad-impression data we can't reproduce, so it surfaces some commercial keywords that don't appear in autosuggest. For most content-marketing and SEO use cases, this tool produces more long-tail variations; for paid-ad keyword targeting, Keyword Planner has data this tool doesn't.

After running a harvest, click the Competition column header to sort ascending. Low-competition rows (green badges) are easier to rank for and often have less ad spend chasing them, which makes them attractive for SEO. Pair "Low competition" with a meaningful Volume number (say 100+/month) and a relevant Trend (flat or growing, not declining) and you've got a solid starter list. Avoid chasing high-volume + high-competition terms unless you have strong existing authority.

To be a good citizen of Google's suggest API, we space requests out conservatively (one every ~1.5 seconds). A typical 5-seed harvest makes ~530 individual calls (5 seeds × 106 modifiers), which takes ~15 minutes total at our default cadence. The slow pace is deliberate, hammering the suggest API would get your IP blocked quickly. While the harvest runs you can leave the tab open and check back; results stream in as they're found.

Yes. Use the Country dropdown above the seed input to pick a target market. The suggest API takes a regional hint (gl=us, gl=in, etc.) so suggestions reflect that country's real-search patterns, and the volume + CPC enrichment is pulled with that country's data. Currently we support Global plus 7 KE-supported countries (US, UK, CA, AU, IN, NZ, ZA). Your last-picked country persists across sessions.

Volume comes from Google's Keyword Planner via the Keywords Everywhere API, the same source most professional SEO tools use. Numbers are monthly averages over the past 12 months, so a keyword with strong seasonality (e.g. "halloween costumes") shows its average rather than the seasonal peak. CPC and competition are derived from Google Ads bidding data. For high-volume keywords (1k+/month) the data is very reliable; for low-volume long-tail (under 100/month), expect some noise.

Yes. After a harvest completes, the results table includes a CSV / Excel export button in the header. The export includes every harvested keyword along with its volume, CPC, competition score, and trend data (12 monthly values), suitable for importing into a spreadsheet or further analysis. The export honors your current sort and filter state.