How to Find Thousands of Keyword Ideas for SEO

Learn how to generate a list of keyword ideas for SEO using Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer (over 7 BILLION keywords and growing).

This is the second video in our keyword research tutorial series. Throughout this video, Sam Oh covers 6 unique reports within Keywords Explorer tool.

You’ll learn how to use a seed keyword to generate hundreds of thousands of keywords and narrow down your keyword list using smart filter combinations.

The reports covered in this video are:
- Phrase match
- Having same terms
- Also rank for
- Search suggestions
- Newly discovered
- Questions

The first filter shows you how to find low competition keywords with high search volumes.

By setting a maximum keyword difficulty score and a minimum search volume, you can find keywords that have little competition, making them potentially great targets that will likely be easier to rank for on Google.

The second filter shows you how to find keywords that have SERP features. Some SERP features include ads, questions, knowledge boxes, featured snippets, and videos.

For example, you can use this filter to find and optimize your content for “featured snippets.”

Owning featured snippets can increase your organic traffic by 8.6% even if you don’t rank on the first page of Google.

If you would like to learn more about featured snippets, you can read these two articles that go into great detail on this topic:

The third filter shows you how to find highly commercial keywords with low competition. You can achieve this by setting a maximum keyword difficulty score and a minimum Adwords CPC value.

This filter is great for Adsense members, who can potentially collect a hefty commission after ranking for these easier keyword targets.

Also, if you’re in a niche that typically has heavy competition in Adwords, you can use this filter to gain a lot of free traffic that has high business value.

The last filter shows you how to find bottom of the funnel keywords. This will help you find content ideas that have a higher probability of converting new visitors into customers.

You can use these filters in any of the reports shown in the video.

There are a ton of examples demonstrated to help illustrate each point and more importantly, help you put these into action.

Timestamps:

0:48 Start with a ‘Seed’ keyword
3:09 Filter #1 Find low-difficulty keywords with high volume
5:27 Filter #2 Find keywords with SERP features
6:24 Filter #3 Find commercial keywords with low difficulty
7:14 Filter #4 Use modifiers
9:13 Use different reports in Keywords Explorer tool
13:33 Generate keywords from up to ten seed keywords at once

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[KeywordResearchSimplified]

*Can’t wait to start implementing these methods!*

[digitalmarketinglane]

Watching this video for 3rd time. I will keep doing this till i learn the steps. thanks for this content.

[selfhelpandotherfunstuff]

Sam thank you for this magic! Forever grateful

[craigwalker]

Terrific knowledge and content that speeds up the learning curve for the beginner. Thank you

[DavidSkin]

This is the most useful SEO channel! So many advice!

[eborno]

I am waiting for this last one week, thank you very much, sir.

[bryansandiego]

Had to watch this, and the first one again. So much information, so much amazing help we can use for our clients. FYI at 6:33 you say min cpc, but I think you mean max cpc? Also, and I am new to Ahrefs, when you hit return aren't the results switched in the menu?

[nashwamostafa]

Thank you Sam, I think I need to replay this video again it contains massive amount of information :)

[JodyGreig]

Magic video! Thanks for sharing :) Would also love to see a video on content creation to see how you take your keywords and spring them into life. For example, how many keywords should your landing page target. Does this include long tail keywords? Do they all get squeezed into H1 and H2 headings? What keywords would be better suited for blogs? That sort of thing would be amazing :)

[chiragartani]

Great video again 🙏!! Waiting for next 💌

Thankyou!

[robertocastrodelpozo]

Thanks for your videos. They are well detailed and teach a lot. Only one thing, not related to the content but to the technical part. You ad a reverb or something too much on your voice that makes a noise. Please try to fix it if you can. It burns the ears after a while listening.

[BillWidmerBlog]

Love it! Great ideas as always, Sam. :)

[cristodulolucian]

good adviced seo ever...and have case study..this it s investor books need read <3

[Chandankumar]

I am already using things mentioned in this video for my blog but still after watching this video i cleared out some points which i was not aware of or was not using .

[jbupGKUjOiwSDNnLJOer]

Hi Sam. I think i have watched this video for many times already, but still equally enjoyable! I see this video of yours is mainly teaching keywords research for making most of informational intent to grow blog traffic. What about for new pure ecommerce store? For example. I found a keyword that when i saw the SERP i could only see all results are of transactional intent, and of course those pages listed on that result page are already having relatively strong domain authority. What about for brand new online store? What to do after keyword research phase? Maybe building backlinks to product page? But such product page offers very little value or no value for new visitors to click the link and visit the web... this may be very difficult to handle than blog posts... What kind of contents we can write to help boost the visibility of new web in that case (rank it up to google's 1st page) when SERP shows no informational intent?

[girirajasar]

great and helpful thanks for sharing .

[DanaBeachResort]

Can we enter keywords in Arabic language and check using the geo filter for certain Arabic speaking countries only..

[lenishkhatiwada]

I cant buy ahrefs tool from nepal what should i do sir😞🙏

[goheugene]

Hi there i am having problems with some keywords that I tried. It seems that there aren't as many good keywords available due to the age of the keyword.

For example: Google Pixel 2 XL Tempered Glass

Can't find any alternatives to rank for.

What should I do?

[johnbuell]

Please tell me where Part 3 is. Thanks.