Free Keyword Difficulty Checker

Free Keyword Difficulty Checker

Enter a term into our keyword difficulty checker free and make it easier than ever to prioritize your content strategy and set realistic expectations about how easy it will be to rank!

The Keysearch free keyword difficulty tool allows you to check the keyword difficulty and SEO competition of any keyword. You can check the keyword difficulty one at a time or use our bulk keyword difficulty checker option to check multiple keywords at once.

What is Keyword Difficulty?

Keyword difficulty is the measurement on a scale of 0-100, of how hard it would be to rank a web page on the 1st page of Google for a specific keyword search. It’s often referred to as KD, SEO difficulty, or SEO competition score.

Certain search terms have much stronger SEO competition. This can be because the web pages that are ranking are highly optimized for the search term, with strong backlinks, and do a good job of satisfying user intent.

Other times the web pages themselves might be lacking one of these elements, but the main domain the web page is on is highly authoritative, with plenty of credibility on the topic.

Although the web page itself might not be as strong as others, the domain it is on could be propping it up in Google's eyes. This is also known as Domain Authority, a metric made famous by MOZ!

Having an easy-to-understand metric enables you to gauge the effort and resources it may take to bring in Google traffic for certain search queries.

You don't need to be an SEO expert to quickly understand this score. But, you do need a reliable free keyword difficulty tool - and that’s exactly what you gain access to here at Keysearch!

Effortlessly Prioritize Opportunities and Set Expectations With Our Free Keyword Difficulty Checker Tool!

Keysearch is your trusted source for free SEO tools to set you up for success in executing your SEO strategy, whether you’re looking to rank your online storefront or you need help with Amazon keyword research, Pinterest keyword research, YouTube keyword research, or any other platform-specific algorithm.

We have over a dozen different on-page and off-page SEO factors that go into the algorithm. First, we gather the first page SERP results from Google. Then we analyze the number of backlinks, referring domains, ranking strength of the main domain, how optimized the ranking pages are, and many more elements. All of this feeds our algorithm and enables us to judge how stiff the competition might be to outrank.

There is no one metric that can be used to accurately determine keyword difficulty. Figuring out an algorithm that weighs these factors appropriately is what differentiates the scores across various keyword difficulty tools. That's why you may notice keyword difficulty can vary wildly depending on which SEO tools you are using.

We pride ourselves on having one of the most accurate keyword difficulty scores. We don't set and forget the algorithm. It is consistently tweaked whenever we notice it can be improved. That means it’s constantly getting more and more accurate and reliable.

Other Keyword Research Tools You Can Use Our Difficulty Checker With

Checking the difficulty of certain keywords is actually a later step in the keyword research funnel. Fortunately, you gain access to all the different tools you need from start to finish, including a niche finder, an LSI keywords generator, keyword clustering tool, and keyword density checker.

We even have platform-specific SEO tools, like our Etsy keyword tool or eBay keyword tool. Other popular features available at Keysearch include our duplicate content checker and robots.txt generator. We’re constantly working on the next tool to be added to the lineup, too.

Tips on Using Our Free Keyword Difficulty Tool and Understanding the Scale

When choosing the top keywords for SEO, the main goal is to identify those with a high enough search volume to drive search engine traffic, coupled with a low keyword difficulty score.

There’s a fine line between finding opportunities that will drive growth and finding yourself spinning your tires, never able to gain traffic from the keywords given their difficulty.

Usually, we recommend keywords with a search volume of at least 100 searches per month. The keyword difficulty to target will depend on the strength of your domain but anything under 30 is a good start. Any search term with a keyword difficulty under 30 is considered "easy to rank". The lower the keyword difficulty score the better.

What defines a good keyword difficulty score for your website to target though, varies depending on the ranking strength of your particular domain. Your website though may be able to target more competitive keywords if you’ve built solid authority and topical relevancy.

Try Our Keyword Difficulty Checker Free and See What Separates it From the Rest!

We could go on and on about what makes Keysearch the best free keyword difficulty tool. But why not try it out yourself and see why it’s the #1 keyword difficulty checker free today?

First, sign up for a free Keysearch account. Once inside, enter the seed keyword you'd like to check the keyword difficulty for into the keyword research tool. The keyword difficulty will then be shown for the main keyword.

You will also be shown a list of related keywords which you can also check the keyword difficulty. If the score is not already shown for these related keywords just click the “Check” button and it will go out and check the keyword difficulty for that particular search term.

If you want to check the keyword difficulty for multiple keywords at once, just select the keywords you'd like to check and click the “Bulk Check” button. This will then do a bulk keyword difficulty check for all the keywords rather than one at a time.