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Keyword analysis tool

Everything about a keyword, from one search

Type a keyword, pick a country and press Enter. How hard it is to rank, how many people search, what the top result earns, where else people search for it, the keywords around it and who ranks today: all of it loads together.

  • Difficulty and the links you need
  • Volume in six countries
  • Live top 10 with DR, links and traffic

$0.27 – $0.37 per keyword, shown before it runs. What it costs

The Keyword overview for standing desk: difficulty 38, 135K searches a month, traffic potential, volume in six countries and keyword ideas

Keyword, country, city or state, and language sit side by side. The price of the whole search shows before it runs, and the market you pick is remembered for every other tool.

The search row: keyword, country, city or state, language and the Analyse button, with the price of the search

Keyword difficulty, volume and traffic potential

Difficulty from 0 to 100 with roughly how many linking sites the top 10 have. Monthly volume with its trend, the cost per click and how much advertisers compete. Traffic potential: what the top result earns from all its keywords. And volume in five other large markets, so you see where the demand is.

Four cards: keyword difficulty 38, search volume 135K, traffic potential 37.8K and search volume across six countries

Keyword ideas and questions

Terms that match the topic, the questions people ask, what the ranking pages also rank for, and Google’s own autocomplete. Click any of them to open its overview, or View all for the full list.

Four columns of keyword ideas: terms that match, questions, keywords the top pages also rank for, and Google suggestions

Top 10 SERP analysis

The results page as Google lays it out, features in their places, with how many visits this keyword sends each result. Turn on authority metrics for each page’s Domain Rating, URL Rating, backlinks, linking domains, traffic and its value.

The top Google results with product, image and question blocks in place, and the words, DR, UR, backlinks, linking domains, traffic and value of each page

How it works

How to use the keyword overview

  1. 1

    Search

    A keyword, a domain or a page, with the country, city or state, and language next to it.

  2. 2

    See the price

    The cost of the whole search shows before anything runs. A repeat is free.

  3. 3

    Get the whole picture

    Everything loads together. The address holds the search, so you can share it.

Use it to

Keyword analysis tool use cases

  • Decide what to write next

    Weigh volume against difficulty and the links the top 10 have, before you commit a page to a keyword.

  • Check a keyword in another country

    See where the demand is and switch market in one click: volume, ideas and results follow.

  • Plan for a city

    Pick a city or state for local volume and the results people there see.

  • Size up the competition

    See exactly who ranks, how strong each page is and which SERP features take the clicks.

What it costs

Keyword analysis tool pricing

$0.27 – $0.37 per keyword. You pay the data provider for the lookups a search runs, from your own key, and see the price before it runs. A repeat within a day is free. Keyword data is cached for a week, the live results for an hour.

What one keyword overview search runs and costs
Part of the searchPrice
Keyword metrics$0.03 – $0.04
Matching terms and related keywords (50 each)$0.06 – $0.10
Google suggestions$0.01
Live top 10$0.02
Volume in five other countries$0.15 – $0.20
Authority metrics of the top 10 (optional)$0.20
Local volume for a city or state (optional)$0.15

How pricing works

Search data

Start with $5 of free search data

Keyword, ranking and backlink data in OpenSEO comes from YepAPI. Sign up there and new accounts get $5 in free credit, for a limited time. That is enough to try every tool before you spend anything.

  1. 1

    Sign up at YepAPI

    New accounts get $5 in free credit, for a limited time.

  2. 2

    Copy your API key

    It is on your YepAPI dashboard once you sign in.

  3. 3

    Paste it into OpenSEO

    During account setup, or later in Settings. Every tool works from there.

The free credit is YepAPI’s limited-time offer and may end. After it, you pay YepAPI per lookup, at the price OpenSEO shows before each one runs. See pricing

SEO glossary

What is keyword difficulty?

Keyword difficulty (KD) is a score, usually from 0 to 100, that estimates how hard it would be to rank in Google’s top 10 for a keyword. Higher means harder. SEO tools calculate it from the pages that currently rank, most often from how many and how strong their backlinks are. It is a third-party estimate, not a Google metric.

Keyword difficulty, explained

Related SEO terms

Keyword analysis tool FAQ

Where does traffic potential come from?

It is the organic traffic the top-ranking page gets from all the keywords it ranks for, when that is known. Otherwise it is estimated from this keyword alone: its volume times a typical click-through rate for the first result.

Why does a keyword show a clickstream estimate?

Google Ads reports no volume for some topics, such as VPNs or gambling. For those, the overview uses a volume estimate from clickstream data instead, and says so.

Do I need a project?

No. The SEO tools work on their own, in any market you pick. Keywords you find can be saved to a project in one click when you want to track them.

Can I share a result?

Yes. The search, the market and the open tab are all in the page address, so a link or a bookmark opens the same view. Anyone opening it runs the search with their own key; a repeat of something already looked up is served from the cache for free.

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