Ahrefs

Keywords Explorer

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What is Ahrefs?

Ahrefs.com is a well-known toolset for backlinks and SEO analysis. Site Audit tool will analyze your website for common SEO issues & monitor your SEO health over time; – Alerts will keep you notified of new & lost backlinks, web mentions and keywords rankings.

The most complete keyword research tool on the market

Thousands of Keyword Suggestions

Never run out of keyword ideas. Keywords Explorer runs on a huge database of more than 7 billion keywords, updated with fresh data every month.

171 countries supported

Not from the U.S? No problem. Keywords Explorer gives you data for 171 countries.

10 Different Search Engines

Google isn’t the only search engine around. By processing large amounts of clickstream data, they can estimate keyword volumes for places like YouTube, Amazon, Bing, Baidu, etc.

Accurate Search Volumes

They use clickstream data to refine their search volumes on a monthly basis, ensuring they’re always up to date.

Keyword Difficulty Score

Find the “low-hanging fruit” among your keyword ideas. Ahrefs KD score calculates how hard it will be to rank for your keyword based on the current top-ranking pages.

“Clicks” Metric

A high search volume doesn’t mean people click on the search results. Ahrefs is the only tool that shows the estimated number of clicks for your keywords.

See the “Parent Topic” for your target keyword

A single page can rank for hundreds of closely-related keywords. Parent Topic determines if you can rank for your target keyword while targeting a more general topic on your page instead.

Advanced SEO Metrics

Get SEO metrics no other tool will show you: Return Rate, Clicks per search, % of clicks, % of paid clicks, and more!

SERP Overview & Positions History

Get a quick look at the SEO metrics and ranking history of the top-ranking pages. Assess the SERPs and understand why these pages rank as they do.

Keywords Lists

Save and segment keywords into lists for future reference.

Get thousands of keyword ideas with accurate search volume numbers

Enter up to 10,000 keywords in one go and you’ll see the search volumes for these keywords.

Clickstream data allows Ahrefs to refine their search volume numbers every month, ensuring that the metric is always accurate and up-to-date.

Get keyword ideas for ten different search engines, including YouTube, Amazon, Bing, Yandex, Baidu…

Google is not the only search engine around; it’s merely the largest. With clickstream data, they can estimate the popularity of search queries in nine other search engines:

Whether you’re marketing on YouTube, Amazon, Bing or other search engines, you now have a source of reliable keyword data you can trust.

Easily find and prioritize the best keywords using a variety of filters

Filter by search volume, Keyword Difficulty, the presence of SERP features in the search results, and more.

Check “Keyword Difficulty” score

Keywords Explorer helps you determine how hard it would be to rank in the top 10 search results for a given keyword. It does this by calculating a Keyword Difficulty score from 1 to 100, with 100 being the hardest.

See the “Parent Topic” for your target keyword

A single page can rank for hundreds of related keywords. Parent Topic determines if you can rank for your target keyword while targeting a more general topic on your page instead.

Review the current SERP and ranking history of top-ranking results

The “SERP overview” report in Keywords Explorer lets you see the top-ranking results, along with all their SEO metrics, at a glance. This is the only report of its kind that brings important SEO metrics like backlinks, organic traffic and organic keywords together.

You can quickly assess the SERP and understand why these pages rank where they do.