Keyword Research Without Paid Tools
Find and prioritize keyword opportunities using free sources and reasoning.
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Find and prioritize keywords using only free methods. My site, topic, and audience: [SITE_TOPIC_AUDIENCE]. Products or services I offer: [OFFERS]. Competitors: [COMPETITORS]. Time I have: [TIME]. Work through this decision tree and give me concrete steps and tables: 1. Seed ideas: list questions customers ask (support emails, sales calls, reviews, forums). Do I have such data? If yes, start there. If no, interview three customers using the questions I provide. 2. Expand: use search engine autocomplete, related searches, and people-also-ask boxes; give a method to record them systematically in a spreadsheet. 3. Check demand: use free tools such as search console data (impressions), trends comparisons, and ad platform planners (note their limits). Do not invent search volumes; label estimates as relative. 4. Check intent: search the term and classify the first-page results (guides, product pages, tools, videos). IF the results do not match what I can offer THEN skip. 5. Check competition: can a site like mine compete? Look at the type of sites that rank and the depth of content. 6. Prioritize: a score from business value, relevance, and difficulty. Deliver a keyword table template (keyword, source, intent, relative demand, competition notes, business value, priority score, target page), the top 20 candidate keyword ideas for my topic, and a 6-week plan. Be explicit about uncertainty.
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