How To Do Keyword Research With Ahrefs FREE Version?

Whenever someone mentions Ahrefs as a keyword research tool, most people simply leave the conversation as the tool is deemed to be too expensive.

But do you know that you can use the tool’s free version too for keyword research and get traffic from Google by writing content around the selected keywords?

Let’s dive right into how you can do keyword research with Ahrefs’ free version.

Free Keyword Generator By Ahrefs

You need to Google this exact phrase and then click on the first page that appears. In case you wish to have a direct link to it, it is https://ahrefs.com/keyword-generator.

The Step By Step Process of Finding Keywords With Ahrefs FREE

Select the Preferred Search Engine

This tool in particular offers you 4 options when we talk about search engines or popular information-based sites. They are Google, Bing, YouTube and Amazon.

Enter Seed Keyword

By seed keyword, I mean the main topic. Suppose your blog is about the labrador breed of dogs, then your seed keyword can be the word ‘labrador’ itself.

Select the Target Geo/ Country

This is pretty much self-explanatory. Choose the country in which you wish to rank in on Google. Like in this case, I have selected the US.

Click on Find Keywords

This will dole out a list of related keywords that are quite similar to your seed keyword. You might be asked to fill in a captcha request.

Select the Questions Tab in the Results

This will give you all kinds of questions related to your seed keyword in a click.

Now you might be wondering what is KD, Volume and Updated here. Let me elaborate on this. KD means Keyword difficult.

This means how easy or difficult it is to rank for a certain keyword. While volume as you might have guessed means the number of searches for a given query.

And lastly, updated means the latest date by which the keyword data was updated in Ahrefs’ database.