Google Keyword Planner 2018 - What metrics to use?

[RoyCooper]

Since Google decided to shut down actual search volumes on Keyword Planner, what actual metric can we use to get an idea?

On the Knew 2018 Keyword Planner main screen, inside "Get metrics and forecasts for your keywords", I can see we have clicks, impressions, cost, CTR, and avg. CPC.

Are any of these a decent indication of search volumes? I feel, in my ignorance, impressions might be decent enough.

Other than that I just use Keywords Everywhere and hope it's good enough. KWFinder and Keysearch seem to have similar, if not exactly the same, results for my searches.

What do you think?

 

[kontentdruid]

impressions is a decent indicator
semrush also gives kw volumes and some other great data - check out their keyword magic tool

 

[jackteam]

Since Google decided to shut down actual search volumes on Keyword Planner, what actual metric can we use to get an idea?

On the Knew 2018 Keyword Planner main screen, inside "Get metrics and forecasts for your keywords", I can see we have clicks, impressions, cost, CTR, and avg. CPC.

Are any of these a decent indication of search volumes? I feel, in my ignorance, impressions might be decent enough.

Other than that I just use Keywords Everywhere and hope it's good enough. KWFinder and Keysearch seem to have similar, if not exactly the same, results for my searches.

What do you think?

Keyword Everywehere is free and enough to know exact search volume. But you cant find for all countries. In this case you can move to keyword revealer.
Hope it will be helpful for you.

 

[jackteam]

Thank you for this, it's good to have.

How many searches keywords you are targeting?

 

[jackteam]

Thank you for this, it's good to have.

How many searches keywords you are targeting?

 

[sudarshannus]

It's better to use tools like SEMRush and Ahrefs (both) are giving keyword volumes, A combination of Keyword Planner along with these two is better than to just rely on keyword planner. Also keywordshitter.com is one of the best websites to generate a list of keywords (long tail) for your money keyword. It's free.

 

[RoyCooper]

Thank you all for the feedback!

I do use Keywords Everywhere already, but was wondering how reliable it is.

Other than that I have used free stuff only like KWFinder, Keyword Revealer, MOZ and now looking again at Keysearch.

Since I only have one static website (not even a blog) I'm not sure it's worth to be paying for a service I'll mostly not use after a while.

I'm essentially looking at some 15-20 keywords so a free service can probably handle it for me, right?