[Method] Keyword Research for FREE in 2022 ✔️✔️✔️

After a quick search on Google, I found out only 1 website in the first page that was targeting this keyword( it wasn't actually targeting the specific search because he targeted coffee makers that keeps coffee hot while we are looking for the best coffee makers for hot coffee). C
Hello, thanks so much for your great method.
I'm a beginner. Here is my question: How do you really know that the result on the first page is targeting the keyword? Or is not acutally targeting it?
Where can I see that?
 
Best Keyword Research Tools:
1. Google Keyword Planner
2. Google Search Console
3. Ahrefs Keywords Explorer
4. Moz Keyword Explorer
5. KeywordTool.io
 
Hello, thanks so much for your great method.
I'm a beginner. Here is my question: How do you really know that the result on the first page is targeting the keyword? Or is not acutally targeting it?
Where can I see that?
Looking at the title, an article named "Best Coffee Maker" will include the best coffee makers in general while an article named "Best Coffee Maker for black coffee" will include the best coffee makers that are the best to make black coffee.

There are times when the site ranking 1st is a big authority site you will never beat, but it's still worth a try if you can write a great article about best coffee makers for black coffee.

There are also times when google thinks that the 1st position is already satisfying the search intent even thought he is not targeting the keyword. You have to use your common sense when doing keyword research and know if you can beat the 1st results or not.
 
Today, I'm going to show you how I do Keyword Research for free.

Tools we are going to use:

Ahrefs Free Keyword Generator : ahrefs.com/keyword-generator
Keyword Engineer ( Free tool to find keywords shared on BHW ) : https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/beta-testers-keyword-research-tool.1409384/
MozBar from Moz (This is a google chrome extension we are going to use to check DA of the websites): search for it on google

All these tools are free


We are going to use the Keyword Engineer tool to find keywords that are getting searched on Google, Ahrefs keyword generator to check if the keywords have any search volume (remember that this tool is free and you wont get the exact search volume of the keywords and the Keyword Difficulty will be way off but it will give us a good idea if the keyword actually has some search volume and its worth going after it.)
We gonna use MozBar to check the DA of competitors ranking on first page and decide if we can rank for the keyword.

Ok, first you will have to go to the Keyword Engineer tool to get keyword ideas. I like to check for keywords with best word in the beginning to get some good commercial keywords.
Remember, I want to get keywords that are easy to rank here so I am looking for long tail keywords.

To check for these (in this case I am using coffee maker as example), I use the base keyword "Best coffee maker for"
choose United States, choose English language, tick the sources you want to scrape keywords from and start the search. Leave the search to work for 4-5 minutes before stopping it.

After you stop the search, check at the "Suggested by multiple sources" section for the keywords.
Now you will see a lot of keywords, you will check them and take those you think you can write articles about.

Here are the results I got from my search of "Best coffee maker for"
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At the suggested by multiple sources, I decided to check the keyword : best coffee maker for hot coffee
Now take this keyword and go to google to check if how many people ranking in page 1 of google are actually targeting this keyword

After a quick search on Google, I found out only 1 website in the first page that was targeting this keyword( it wasn't actually targeting the specific search because he targeted coffee makers that keeps coffee hot while we are looking for the best coffee makers for hot coffee). Check this:

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When you find these keywords that no one is targeting, you found great keywords you can rank for. Next step is to check the DA of website ranking for the keyword. As you can see from the screenshot, MozBar is not showing DA of the website that has the snippet. If this happens, just open the website in a new tab and the DA will be shown in the toolbar

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Ok, this website has DA 27 and PA 34, so its not going to be easy to beat him, but still if this website is not targeting your actual keyword you can still go for it, even if you are in the second place you still going to get traffic from it.

After you found a keyword with Keyword Engineer, check the google for the competition with MozBar, now its finally time to check if this Keyword has any Search Volume.

Go to Ahrefs Free Keyword Generator and put the keyword there, choose United States and click Find Keywords, in some cases it will ask you to complete a CAPTCHA, do it and see the results.

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As you can see, it shows that this Keyword actually has a Search Volume of 100 (Don't trust these numbers, from my experience if this tool showed a keyword had 100 search volume, it usually had 2x or 3x of that), the only reason we are using this tool is to actually see if the keyword has some search volume and its worth going for it. Don't pay attention to KD, it usually is way off, and even if it shows KD 45 here, we checked the SERPs and we saw that no one was targeting this keyword. If I had a website in this niche, I would go for this keyword.

Look at another keyword I found with Keyword Engineer, none of the websites in page 1 was targeting this specific keyword
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It has search volume, probably at 100 Search Volume/month, KD 56 because there are authority sites in page 1 but none of them target this keyword for black coffee,

There are a lot of authority sites in this niche, that's why most of the keyword show a high KD in Ahrefs, probably if you go for different niche (easier one), you will find a lot of 0 KD with a lot of Search Volume keywords, that no one is targeting. You will rank for those keywords in 1 week at most.

This is how I do Keyword Research for free in 2022, one other thing I use to do is, after I have some decent traffic, I go to google search console to check if I am ranking for other long tail keywords that bring a lot of impressions, and manually check them on google to see if someone is targeting them.

Using the above method, I usually find keywords no one is using and have around 200-300 Search Volume, try to use this method in your niche with the keyword "Best 'your niche' for " (replace your niche with your niche), and find great commercial keywords where you can put affiliate links and earn money.

All the tools in this method are free, all you have to do is spent some time searching, if you have any questions feel free to ask.
I am using this keyword research method in a new website, I am ranking for some affiliate keywords, and yesterday I made my fist Amazon sale, 0.59$ commission LOL, but still at least its a start.

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I think it will be very useful especially for those who will do new research on this subject.

Thank you for your hard work and information. I'm very confused about this too, about what information to believe.

After researching and experiencing, I hope I get good results.
 
Thanks, Shqipe!! That was straight to the point. I am a newbie and had a question: Do you use different domains for different niches, or are you posting these articles to the same domain?
 
Thanks, Shqipe!! That was straight to the point. I am a newbie and had a question: Do you use different domains for different niches, or are you posting these articles to the same domain?

It depends on how big the niche is. If you different small niches that are related to one niche, I would put all of them in the same domain.
 
Pretty great share! Gonna try this after I'm done with my last exam :) Bought a new domain recently
 
Best real free keyword search method. Thanks for sharing.
 
Pretty great share! Gonna try this after I'm done with my last exam :) Bought a new domain recently
Make sure to make a journey and tell us how it went.
 
hi i went to the ahrefs tool and input my keyword but it kept on showing this error "Sorry, we couldn’t find any ideas for that keyword." does this mean the kewword is likely to generate no traffic at all
 
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i have a website for ads have escrow system for my country but i dont know how to grow it up for search googles or create backlinks :

can anyone check my website and guide me ? ?

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This is a helpful guide for anyone that is new to keyword research. I didn’t know about the existence of the “Keyword Engineer” tool. I’d love to try it out. Kudos to OP
 
At this point, there are so many guides on the forum that new users should not be asking questions that have been attended to multiple times.

Lots of valuable posts detailing keyword research all over the forum.
This thread is going to fall behind other "How to make money in 2022" and it will disappear, excep for my bookmarks lol
 
Don't trust these numbers, from my experience if this tool showed a keyword had 100 search volume, it usually had 2x or 3x of that
or maybe a lot less or maybe zero hahaha. I have a question, do you only look for the title if it is targeting the keyword or the whole article is the more important to look at?
 
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hi i went to the ahrefs tool and input my keyword but it kept on showing this error "Sorry, we couldn’t find any ideas for that keyword." does this mean the kewword is likely to generate no traffic at all
The keyword probably doesn’t have anysearch volume, even though the tool is not 100% accurate
 
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