| Keyword | Volume | CPC | Competition | 12-month trend |
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How it works
Keyword Finder harvests real autocomplete suggestions from Google's public suggest API. It combines your seed term with 40 buyer-intent and question phrases such as "best", "top", "review", "vs", "near me", "cheap", "what is" and "how to". The result is a shorter but more commercial keyword list than a general suggest harvest gives you. We then enrich every keyword with monthly volume, CPC, competition and a 12-month trend from the Keywords Everywhere API.
How the harvest works. The harvest runs in your browser, so the requests come from your IP address, not ours. It works through your seed term combined with each phrase in the bank. Google returns up to 10 suggestions per request, and we keep every unique one. The bank is smaller and more focused than the Google Keyword Tool's list of about 70 phrases. This tool is built to find keywords that drive purchases, not to explore a topic.
Volume enrichment. As keywords arrive, we send them to the Keywords Everywhere API in batches of 100 for volume, CPC, competition and the 12-month trend. The CPC column is the one to watch here. A high CPC marks a keyword where every organic click is worth real money.
Country targeting. The Country dropdown sets both the suggest API's region hint (gl=us, gl=in and so on) and the country for the volume lookup. Volume and CPC are specific to that market. Your last-picked country is remembered for next time.
Faster pacing. Because the phrase bank is smaller, a harvest finishes in about 5 to 10 minutes. A Google Keyword Tool harvest takes about 15 minutes for the same seeds.
Plan caps. On the Free plan you can run 500 keyword lookups per day across all our keyword tools combined.
What the columns mean
- Keyword
- The exact suggestion Google's autosuggest returned for one of the buyer-intent phrases around your seed term. Click the link icon to open the keyword in SERP Checker for a live look at the results page.
- Volume
- Google's average monthly searches over the past 12 months, from Google Keyword Planner via the Keywords Everywhere API. For a commercial keyword, about 100 searches a month is a useful floor. Much below that, even a number one ranking brings little traffic.
- CPC
- The average cost per click advertisers pay in Google Ads, in the country's currency. This is the headline metric for this tool. A CPC of 5 dollars or more signals high commercial value. Rank organically for that keyword and each click is worth the same in paid spend.
- Competition
- Google Ads' competition score: Low, Medium or High. The sweet spot is a high CPC with Low or Medium competition, which means high value and an achievable ranking. Sort the table by Competition, lowest first, to see the easiest wins.
- 12-Month Trend
- A small chart of monthly search volume over the past year. A flat or rising line confirms steady demand. A falling line warns that the niche may be shrinking. Hover over any point for that month's exact value.
Frequently asked questions
What is Keyword Finder?
A free keyword research tool, with no signup, built to find keywords with buying intent. It runs in your browser and asks Google's public autosuggest for your seed term combined with 40 buyer-intent and question phrases. Examples are "best", "top", "review", "vs", "near me", "cheap", "what is" and "how to". Every keyword it finds is then enriched with monthly search volume, CPC, competition and a 12-month trend.
How is this different from the Google Keyword Tool?
Same engine, different phrase list. Both tools harvest Google autosuggest and enrich the results with Keywords Everywhere data. The Google Keyword Tool uses a broad list of about 70 phrases covering questions, tutorials, comparisons and general topics. Keyword Finder uses 40 phrases aimed at buying decisions. Examples are "best X", "top X", "X vs Y", "X review", "cheap X", "X near me", "buy X", "X for sale", "is X worth it" and "how much does X cost". You get a shorter list with more commercial value.
What counts as a "low-competition" keyword?
One with a Low badge in the Competition column. That column shows Google Ads' Low, Medium or High score for how many advertisers bid on the keyword. After a harvest, sort the column so Low rows (green badges) come first. Then look for real volume, say 100 or more searches a month, and a flat or rising trend. Those are keywords you can rank for without a big backlink budget. Skip rows that are low competition but zero volume. They are usually too niche to bring traffic.
How does the harvest work?
The harvest runs in your browser, so the requests come from your IP address, not ours. For each of the 40 phrases, we put it before or after your seed term and ask Google's suggest API for suggestions. That gives queries like "best [seed]", "[seed] vs" and "[seed] near me". Each request returns up to 10 suggestions. The result is hundreds of variations across every stage of buying. Research uses "review" and "vs". Comparison uses "best" and "top". Local intent uses "near me", price uses "cheap", and ready-to-buy uses "buy" and "for sale".
How do I find profitable keywords?
Look at three columns together. You want real volume, and 100 or more searches a month is a useful floor. You want a high CPC, because advertisers pay more per click when searchers are ready to buy. And you want Low or Medium competition, so you can rank without a lot of existing authority. A keyword with a CPC of 5 dollars or more and Low competition is gold. Then check the trend to make sure interest is steady or growing, not falling.
Why are CPCs higher in some niches than others?
Because each customer is worth more in some niches. In legal, insurance, real estate, business software and medical devices, one customer can be worth thousands, so advertisers pay 10 to 100 dollars or more per click. Consumer goods with thin margins, such as snacks or t-shirts, see CPCs under a dollar. For organic SEO, high-CPC keywords are extra valuable. Rank for a 20-dollar-CPC term and every free click is worth about 20 dollars of paid traffic.
How accurate are the search volumes?
Volume comes from Google's Keyword Planner via the Keywords Everywhere API, the same source most professional SEO tools use. Numbers are Google's average monthly searches over the past 12 months. For keywords with 1,000 or more searches a month the data is very reliable. For long-tail keywords under 100 a month, expect some rounding: Google may show 10 for anything between 1 and 50. Check a long-tail keyword's trend as a second opinion. Real demand shows a steady pattern.
Why does the harvest take ~10 minutes?
To stay under Google's per-IP rate limit, we send about one request every 1.5 seconds. Keyword Finder uses 40 phrases instead of the Google Keyword Tool's 70. So a harvest finishes in about 5 to 10 minutes rather than 15 for the same number of seeds. Leave the tab open. Results stream into the table as they arrive, and you can stop early and keep what has been found so far.