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Keyword research

Find keywords you can turn into pages.

Start with one topic and compare keyword ideas by intent, monthly search volume, CPC, advertiser competition and recent demand. Keep the terms that deserve a page, then send them to your rank tracker.

Includes 3 free checks — no account needed.

Real worked example

RecipeTin Eats

recipetineats.com · United States · English

DataForSEO · 30 Jul 2026
Ideas shown
6

208.7K available

Combined volume
1.44M

Across this sample

Average CPC
$0.54

Paid-demand signal

Market
US

English

Ideas for “easy dinner recipes”

  • dinner ideas

    Medium

    Informational · 823K volume · $0.53 CPC

  • easy dinner ideas

    Medium

    Informational · 368K volume · $0.53 CPC

  • quick dinner ideas

    Medium

    Informational · 74K volume · $0.53 CPC

This is a dated third-party snapshot, not RecipeTin Eats’ private analytics. Search estimates and backlink indexes change over time.

What’s in the report

More than a list of related searches.

Demand you can compare

Monthly search volume and recent demand show the relative size and seasonality of closely related terms. You can prioritise a real market instead of guessing from wording.

Intent before page format

Informational, commercial, transactional and navigational labels make the expected result clearer. A guide, comparison and product page should not compete for the same job.

Commercial context included

CPC and advertiser competition reveal where businesses already pay for attention. Read them beside relevance and intent rather than treating volume as the only priority.

Put it to work

Move from ideas to a content queue you can measure.

Build clusters, not a dump

Keep the terms that describe the same searcher need together. Split keywords that require a different page type, audience, season, or stage of the buying journey.

Assign every cluster a page

Give each cluster one target page or page brief. That prevents several thin pages competing for the same query and makes the content queue easier to prioritise.

Track what you publish

Send the primary term and close variants to your keyword rank tracker. Once the page is live, compare movement with actual Search Console impressions and clicks.

A repeatable workflow

Turn one seed into pages and tracked keywords.

  1. 1

    Start with a real topic

    Use a product problem, feature, use case or customer question. A specific seed produces a cleaner set than a broad category word.

  2. 2

    Cut the noise

    Remove unrelated ideas, group terms with the same intent, and choose one primary phrase for each page you could genuinely make useful.

  3. 3

    Publish and monitor

    Publish, monitor the primary term and close variants, then use Search Console queries to refine the page with measured demand.

Metricsjar vs Ahrefs or Semrush

Research the topic without renting another SEO platform.

Start with one seed, get up to 100 ideas, and keep the shortlist beside rank tracking and Search Console. You pay DataForSEO directly for the lookup instead of adding another recurring SEO platform.

Metricsjar

  • The first complete project is free
  • Volume, intent, CPC, advertiser competition and recent demand
  • Live research runs on your own DataForSEO key and balance
  • The shortlist stays beside rank tracking and Search Console

Ahrefs or Semrush

  • Proprietary keyword databases and difficulty models
  • Ongoing subscriptions, seats and usage allowances
  • Deeper content-planning and agency workflows
  • Best when keyword research is a full-time job

Metricsjar does not relabel paid-search competition as organic difficulty. Use the report to find and prioritise demand, then inspect the pages and SERPs you plan to compete with.

Before you run it

What the keyword numbers do—and do not—mean.

How many keyword ideas do I get?

The working report can return up to 100 ideas for one seed. That is enough to expose meaningful variants without turning the result into an unfiltered export.

Is advertiser competition the same as SEO difficulty?

No. CPC and advertiser competition describe paid-search demand. They can support a commercial decision, but they do not measure how difficult it will be to rank organically.

Is the keyword research tool free?

The first complete project is free. Live research uses your own DataForSEO key and balance, so the API spend and credentials stay under your control.

Build a keyword shortlist for your own site.

The first complete project is free. Bring your own DataForSEO key, research the topics that matter to your product, and keep the final shortlist in your acquisition dashboard.

Research any topic