Do you know what is the most important part of the SEO?

It’s keyword research.

Why?

Because what’s the point of writing the most helpful and thorough blog post if no one will ever read it?

Only by choosing the right words and right subjects smaller publishers stand a chance against giants of the industry.

The difficult task for smaller bloggers all around the World has always been finding the best Keywords and it’s not that easy.

There are tools that can help us do that.

However, the FREE ones are pretty basic. Sometimes too basic for our needs.

And the PAID ones are usually too expensive.

What if I told you that I’ve found something in between?

A tool that’s actually the cheapest out there?

It’s called Keysearch and it has lots of fantastic features which I’m about to show you.

Follow me and you’ll find out how to find the best low competition keywords, check backlinks, analyze your competition and optimize your content.

This post is quite long because I wanted to show you each and every one of the Keysearch features so you could decide whether it can help you with your online business.

Let’s go!

Keysearch Plans, Pricing, and Coupon Code

Let’s start with plans and pricing of the tool.

As I said before this is probably the cheapest paid keyword research tool out there.

What’s even more awesome is that you can test it before you buy it because there’s a FREE one-month trial available.

All you have to do is register your account here. No credit card required.

The FREE trial is one of the three available plans. The other two are paid ones and they’re called ‘Starter’ and ‘Pro’. They differ slightly.

Just take a look below.

As you can see there’s a certain number of searches and analysis that can be performed daily in a particular plan.

How exactly does it work?

Keysearch users have ‘credits’ that are being used whenever they perform a search or check some metrics.

The main difference between the plans is the number of those ‘credits’.

On a FREE trial, you can only perform 5 of these operations a day.

The Starter plan allows you to do 200 of them and the Pro plan lets you do 500 searches or analysis per day.

There’s also another limitation to the FREE plan. You won’t be able to track keywords and do competition analysis. Both of these features are available in the premium plans. The only difference is the number of keywords you can track simultaneously which is 80 for Starter and 200 for Pro.

As you can see these plans are pretty cost-effective. Especially when you sign up annually. The price of Keysearch is ridiculously cheap when you look at the tools that are 100$ a month.

It’s a real bargain!

What’s even more awesome is that you can cut the price by 20% if you register through my link here and use a coupon: KSDISC.

Like I’ve said before Keysearch has lots of features. When you log into your account you’ll see the modules that are there – take a look at the screenshot below.

What I’d like to do now is I want to show you what each of these modules consists of. What do they do and how they can help you beat your competition.

The first one on the list is the Keyword Research module. It’s a great one – probably the most important – to start with, let’s go!

Keysearch Keyword Research Module

So, the first module of Keysearch is keyword research and I can show you straight away that it consists of 5 different features. Just take a look below.

All of these pieces are obviously very connected to the name of the module. They allow you to dive deeper into the research, save some keyword you found before and help you get some new ideas.

Let me show you feature by feature how they actually work.

Let’s start with the first and probably the most advanced of them all.

Keyword Research

Ok, firstly I’d like to show you the look of the whole feature and then I’ll go into the details of each option to explain to you more about them.

The whole thing looks like this.

As I’ve said before it’s the biggest and the most important Keysearch module and it has lots of different functions.

Let’s review them one by one.

So, the first thing I’ll show you is the part with the search bar, search trend, and the keyword difficulty scale.

So, the search bar is quite simple. You just type your desired keyword in there so the tool could analyze it. It’s pretty much the same as with the other tools.

What’s also there is that you’re able to choose the location of the searcher and what tools are being used when searching. Whether it’s from Google Suggest, Related Keywords, Amazon or YouTube.

You can choose that right here:

Another thing is the keyword difficulty scale that shows the data about the keyword you typed into the search bar.

We can see how many results are there, the search volume, CPC and PPC.

The tool also rates the keyword and signals how difficult it would be to rank with a color. Light blue meaning competition is very easy. Light green meaning it’s fairly easy. Green stands for easy-moderate. When it’s yellow it means that the competition is moderate. Light red means it’s fairly difficult and you’ll see red when it’s very difficult.

To find more about Keysearch and their difficulty metrics read this post here.

What else you can do here? You can download the keyword data as a .pdf or .csv for further analysis or dive even deeper and check some very detailed stuff inside the Deep Analysis option.

The last part is the search trend which is basically a graph that shows us the search activity from the last 12 months. It can be used to analyze the seasonality and interest in a particular keyword over time.

The next part of the keyword research module is the related/suggested list of keywords on the right.

What do we have here? This is the list of all the words associated with our main keyword. As you can see there some brackets without a score. Do you remember when I said that Keysearch works with credits? Each plan has a particular number of credits everyone account can use.

If you have a plan with 200 credits (just like I do) you can perform 200 of these checks daily. Trust me, it’s usually enough. I’ve never had any problems with it being unsufficient. I’ve never had to wait another day for these credits to reload.

We’ve got also all the data like the search volume, CPC and PPC. It’s much clearer to compare it in this view, isn’t it?

We can obviously sort it by the highest or the lowest or use other filters.

If you don’t like checking each keyword separately there’s a bulk check in the top. Just mark a few keywords and use it.

You can also save keywords for later to open them in your list or compare them with each other. Exporting the data isn’t a problem either. You can do all of that in this menu.

The third part of the keyword research feature is the analysis of the search engine results pages, ranking, traffic, and social shares of the websites that are ranking for the keyword that is being analyzed.

There’s also a list of search engine keyword suggestions below.

The main thing in this part are the pages metrics of the websites that would be our competitors if we decided to write about a particular subject.

In the SERP analysis part there are 9 columns with different factors:

• PA – Page Authority by Moz
• DA – Domain Authority by Moz
• mRank – Moz page rank
• mDom – Moz domain rank
• Auth – the number of authority links pointing to this page
• Links – the total number of links pointing to this page
• Title – it tells us whether the keyword is in the title
• Desc – it tells us whether the keyword is in the description
• URL – it tells us whether the keyword is in the URL

All of these are very valuable when choosing the keywords we’d like to write about. As you can see there are colors here as well. The greener the better, obviously.

There are also two more bookmarks in this section.

The first one is Ranking/Traffic.

So, we’ve got more metrics here. There are four columns:

• URL Keywords – the number of keywords this URL ranks for
• URL Traffic – the number of organic traffic this URL gets
• Domain Keywords – the number of keywords this domain ranks for
• Domain Traffic – the number of organic traffic this domain gets

There’s a pretty cool option there. To see all the keywords they rank for you only have to click on the number from the URL Keywords column.

The last bookmark is called Social and it shows the number of shares on Facebook and Pinterest.

So, that’s it when it comes to the keyword research part in this module. The next feature is called ‘Quick Difficulty’.

Let’s take a look at it.

Quick Difficulty

The interface in this feature is pretty much the same as before but this is much more limited.

What it does is actually one thing.

You can type up to 50 keywords separated by a comma and Keysearch will show the difficulty score for them right away.

It’s not the most important feature obviously but it is surely helpful in certain situations.

Let’s take a look at the next one. It should be quick, too.

My Lists

This is a very simple feature. It’s a list of all the keywords that you saved when doing the research.

So, whenever you want to save a keyword for later just mark it and use this button below.

Simple, right?

The next one is a much more interesting feature.

Let’s take a look!

Brainstorm

Well, the name suggests that this one should help you with figuring new ideas.

It’s exactly that!

The first thing we’ll see there is a list of trending topics or products from Twitter, Amazon, and Google. It’s great as you can see what the World is on about right now and use it for yourself.

Another great feature here is the tool that extracts all the suggestions from different search engines. All you have to do is put the keyword into the search bar and you’ll get results from Google, Yahoo, Bing, YouTube, Amazon, and eBay.

It’s awesome and it saves lots of time. I use it very often.

Just take a look at some random results.

Pretty good, don’t you think?

The last feature in this module is the Difficulty Browser Addon but I won’t talk too much about it as it is a pretty basic tool to help people analyze keywords right from the browser.

I don’t really use it that much but it may be helpful for others.

All you have to do is you got to add the extension to the browser.

So, we’ve reviewed all the features from the Keyword Research module and I believe we can honestly say there’s a lot of helpful stuff that can make your research much easier.

Let’s check another module now.

Keysearch Explorer

So, the next module is called Explorer and it’s still in its beta phase.

What it does is it helps us to ‘Explore’ a particular page or Domain. What I mean by that is that it allows you to take a look at either one of your own pages or competitors to get a better picture of them.

Since it’s a pretty big feature we’ll divide it into few parts to make it clearer.

The first one contains the place where we put our domain or page address.

It also shows overall domain strength by Keysearch metrics and an estimation of how competitive keywords should this very domain (or page) target.

The last thing here is the list of organic keywords this domain (or page) ranks for. There’s also a metric that shows us the estimated organic traffic and rank strength (left bottom corner).

You can analyze here what pages get the most traffic and from which keywords. This is obviously a very helpful data that can help us in many ways. Both general competition analysis and researching our own topics and keywords.

Fine, we’re done with the first part.

The second part contains the top competitor’s list and ranking distribution.

The list is obviously great for analyzing the site’s competitors and getting new ideas from them. You can click on any of the data here to open these domains in the Keysearch Explorer for further analysis.

The ranking distribution is an important feature to get the full picture about how well is a particular site doing.

The next two parts of the Explorer are generally related to backlinks pointing to a domain that is being examined.

Let’s take a closer look at it as well.

What we’ve got here is pretty standard data for an SEO tool like this. There is a number of dofollow and nofollow backlinks, referring domains and an overview of how those links pointing to this site changed over time.

In the second part of the backlinks analysis, we can see the top referring domains and the top anchors of those links.

So, this is an entire analysis of this module. There’s certainly lots of good stuff here but let me tell you something.

There’s still a lot more

So, stay put and take a look at the next part.

Keysearch Competitive Analysis

The data we’ve seen in the previous module was pretty general but now we’re going to dive much deeper.

All of this to be more certain of beating our opponents.

So, we ended with backlinks and now we’ll start with them, just with more details as the first part of this module is called Backlink Checker.

Let’s try it out.

Backlink Checker

The first part of this feature is actually something that we’ve seen in the previous module.

The domain strength, anchors, the number of backlinks and referring domains. It’s all here again.

How it differs is that there’s a list of the exact backlinks pointing to the domain we’ve typed into the search bar.

Just take a look.

This is pretty specific. By knowing who’s linking to this domain we can actually reach out to them and ask them to link to us if we have a similar and more powerful content about a particular topic.

We get to know which of these links are nofollow and which are dofollow. We can export the data to .csv, .pdf, excel or print it straight away.

This kind of backlinks checker helps you to find who in your industry is likely to link to someone else and that knowledge is pretty important because the backlinks are probably one of the top four ranking factors.

So, we’re off to a good start here, aren’t we?

Let’s check another feature.

Organic Keywords

In this feature, we’re able to check all of the keywords a domain or a page ranks for.

We can see the exact position, volume, approximate traffic, and the CPC for a particular keyword.

Again, this is a decent feature that helps to dive into someone’s domain, analyze it and try to beat him using all the data we can gather from Keysearch.

If you’re struggling to find new keywords for your topics then this is a great place to look for some.

The next part of this module will help us to compare up to three sites with each other.

Competitor Gap

So, we’re trying to establish ourselves as an authority in a particular niche.

What do we do to achieve that?

We check our competitors. We check what keywords they already rank for. We look for these that our domain doesn’t rank yet.

The competitor gap feature is great for this.

How to use it?

Firstly, add a page or a domain that you want to see what keywords it ranks for and then on the right add a page or a domain you want to see what keywords of the first domain doesn’t rank for.

When we press search all of the keywords we wanted to see appear.

Now we can create content around them and try to rank for them to make our name in this industry.

Ok, onto the next thing.

URL Metrics

A next feature is a tool that allows us to compare pages with each other using popular metrics from the biggest SEO tools out there.

It looks like this.

And when you enter the URL just like I did you’ll get results below.

You can compare up to 20 URLs at once.

It’s not that advanced but can be helpful, don’t you think?

The next feature, however, is much more advanced.

Page Analyzer

So, this is a super helpful tool.

Why?

Because it can audit and analyze any page.

What does the tool actually check? Lots of stuff, just look.

And what feedback does it offer?

Let’s take a look at some parts of the analysis.