A fast YouTube keyword tool: enter your niche or a video topic and get the search phrases people type on YouTube, each tagged with Google search volume, for your titles, descriptions, tags, hashtags, chapter names, and playlists.
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How it works
YouTube is the second-largest search engine, and its results run on the words in your title, description, tags, chapters, and captions. Describe your niche or the video, and add the audience or angle if you like. The generator returns plain search phrases the way people type them on YouTube. You get head terms, specific long-tail phrases, and how-to and question phrasings. You also get the qualifier phrases ("for beginners", "at home", "in 10 minutes") that make a video findable. Each keyword carries a note saying where it fits best: title, description, tags, hashtag, chapter name, or playlist title.
Each keyword is then tagged with Google's monthly search volume for the United States, from Google Keyword Planner via the Keywords Everywhere API. It is the same demand signal most professional SEO tools use. YouTube does not publish its own search counts, so no tool can show a true YouTube search volume. Google's volume is the best public proxy for how often a phrase is searched, and the list sorts with the highest volume first. Search behaviour on the two engines overlaps heavily for how-to and informational topics, which is most of YouTube.
Two tools, two speeds. This page gives you a strong list in seconds. The YouTube Keyword Tool harvests YouTube's own autocomplete suggestions letter by letter, the deep option when you want everything YouTube suggests for a seed. Write the results into place with the Title Generator and Tag Generator.
Free, no signup. Each generation draws a small amount from your shared daily AI allowance, shown by the quota chip. Paid plans get a larger daily allowance for heavier sessions.
What you will see
- Keyword rows
- One search phrase per row with its monthly volume. The star saves it to your Keywords Everywhere favourites when you are signed in with credits.
- Volume
- Google's average monthly searches in the US for the phrase, from Google Keyword Planner via the Keywords Everywhere API. Sorted highest first.
- Use-it-in note
- Where the phrase fits best: title, description, tags, hashtag, chapter name, or playlist title.
- Head terms and long-tail
- Short high-volume phrases against specific 3-to-5-word phrases that are easier to rank for.
- Generate more
- Adds another batch, different from the keywords already shown.
Frequently asked questions
What are YouTube keywords?
The search phrases people type into YouTube to find videos: "home workout for beginners", "how to make sourdough bread", "budget travel japan". YouTube matches them against your title, description, tags, chapters, and spoken captions to decide which searches you appear in. So the core of YouTube SEO is choosing phrases people search for and writing them where YouTube reads them.
Where should I put keywords on a YouTube video?
In order of impact. The title: the main phrase, worded naturally. The first two lines of the description: repeat the phrase and say what the video covers. Chapter names: each one a searchable phrase. The tags field: the phrase plus close variants. And one to three hashtags. Every generated keyword carries a note recommending one of those spots, so the list maps straight onto the upload form.
Where does the search volume come from?
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 in the United States over the trailing 12 months. YouTube does not publish search counts, so Google's volume is the best public proxy for demand. For the how-to and informational queries that dominate YouTube, the two track closely.
How is this different from the YouTube Keyword Tool?
Speed against depth. This generator produces a curated list in seconds from your niche description. The YouTube Keyword Tool harvests YouTube's own autocomplete suggestions for a seed keyword letter by letter. That takes a minute and returns hundreds of raw phrases straight from YouTube's suggest engine. Start here for direction. Go there when you want the full list.
Do YouTube tags still matter?
Only a little. YouTube's own documentation says tags play a minimal role in discovery and mainly help with commonly misspelled names. Titles, thumbnails, and descriptions carry the weight. Fill the field in two minutes with the phrase and close variants, using the keywords marked "tags" here or the Tag Generator. Spend the saved time on the title.
How many keywords should one video target?
One primary phrase and a small cluster of variants. Pick the main phrase for the title. Use two or three related phrases in the description and chapters, and let the tags field hold the variants. Spreading one video across many unrelated phrases weakens all of them. A second phrase with real volume usually deserves its own video.
Can I save the keywords for later?
Yes. Signed-in Keywords Everywhere users with credits see a star in front of every keyword. Starring saves it to your KE favourites, the same list the browser extension uses. The bulk save button stores the whole filtered set at once. The Copy and CSV buttons export the list with volumes.
Is the YouTube keyword generator free?
Yes, free with no signup. Each batch draws from shared daily AI and keyword-data allowances shown by the quota chip. Signing in on a paid Keywords Everywhere plan raises them. Every plan has a cap, and higher tiers get a higher one.