8 FREE AI SEO Competitor Keyword Research Tools to Rank #1 (by Julian Goldie)
Google (1:05)
- find your competitor e.g. in numerology
- type the category name in search bar
- find competitor keyword you can rank for
- “site:whatever.com numerology”
- find their sitemap (2:25)
- use SEOMATOR
- scrape keywords on all pages of your competitor’s website
- use Harpa AI extension (2:55)
- “based on {{page}} extract the relevant keywords
Ubersuggest (3:35)
- 3 free searches per day for free with an account
- not as accurate as ahrefs but it’s free, but the gap is not massive in terms of keyword difficulty, etc
- “Top SEO Pages”
- see which pages of your competitor’s website are getting the most traffic
- “SEO Keywords”
- see volume, position and estimate visits each page of the keywords gets
- you can also see how many organic keywords, monthly traffic, domain authority, number of backlinks
- can download to civ / excel
Google Keywords Planner (7:00)
- enter your competitor’s website for keyword ideas
- use Harpa AI to filter out the good ones
- “based on {{page}} filter the best keywords for my bird website to target
Bard.google.com (8:15)
- “Give me keywords related to birds and their competition/search volumes.
Then create a priority score and prioritise the best keywords to target for SEO” - can export to Google Sheets (they are linked together)
WordStream.com/keywords (9:40)
- caution: competition scored are based on ads
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Mangools Keyword Explorer (10-day free trial)
- 5 keywords per day for 10 days free trial
- covers more factors than ahrefs, keyword explorer, Google ads planner
- ahrefs tells you how many backlinks you need to rank (1:45)
- Mangools’ calculation is based on more matrix, not just backlinks, so it’s more realistic
- domain authority
- page authority
- citation flow
- trust flow
- go for keywords under 20 (2:40)
- help you create questions with your keywords for blog titles (5:00)
- Pricing: $20 – $90 /mo
- free learning materials

Amazon + Google (5:15)
- Amazon
- product name
- Google
- product name + the word “review)
- check difficulty on ahrefs or other tools for “product name + review”
- write articles
- almost guarantee to rank!
- free MarketMuse and Surfer SEO alternative
- input your content or URL and compare it with up to 10 competing URLs
- receive a score and a target score as well as a GPT prompt to help you reach the target