Keyword Insights Support Documentation
  • What is Keyword Insights?
  • learning center
    • Keyword Insights Tool Workflow
    • The Features
      • Keyword Clustering
        • The Advanced Settings
          • Keyword Grouping Accuracy
          • Topical Cluster Creation Method
          • Clustering Types
      • Topical Clusters
      • Competitor Visibility
      • Search Intent/Context
      • Keyword Discovery
      • Content Briefs
      • Writer Assistant
    • Freemium Tools
      • SERP Similarity
      • SERP Analyzer
      • Title AI - (Blog Idea Generator)
  • User guide
    • How To Get The $1 Trial
    • How To Build Keyword Lists
      • Using Keyword Discovery
      • Google Search Console (Integration)
      • Using Google Keyword Planner
      • Using Ahrefs/Semrush
      • Google Search Console (Manual)
  • Understanding the output
    • How to Interpret Clusters with In-app Visualisations
    • How to Interpret Clusters in Google Sheets
    • How to Interpret Topical clusters
    • How to Interpret Context/Intent
  • Tool use cases
    • Finding Keyword Cannibalisation (Case study 1)
    • Finding Keyword Cannibalisation (Case study 2)
    • Finding Content Gaps
    • Uncover Keyword Opportunities
    • Find Intent Misalignment
    • Building service level pages
  • Account Management
    • Pricing
      • Subscription
        • Universal Credits Explained
      • Legacy Subscriptions
    • Subscription Management
      • Buying a subscription
      • Cancelling a subscription
      • Refunds
      • Downgrading a subscription
      • Upgrading a subscription
    • Payments & Credit cards
      • Downloading invoices
      • Add or change VAT number
      • Changing billing name or address
      • How to add a backup payment method
      • Changing credit card details
    • Team Management
      • Adding a Team Member
      • Sharing Team Reports
      • Sharing Projects
      • User seats
  • Data retention
    • Data storage and limits
  • ⚙️Integrations
    • Integrations
  • API
    • How to use the Public API?
    • API Use Cases
      • Public API: Clustering
  • FAQs
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Help & Support
    • Getting Support
    • Changelog
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  • How to generate keywords from third-party tools (Video)
  • How to build keyword lists using Semrush
  • How to build keyword lists using Ahrefs
  1. User guide
  2. How To Build Keyword Lists

Using Ahrefs/Semrush

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Last updated 1 year ago

How to generate keywords from third-party tools (Video)

How to build keyword lists using Semrush

Semrush is a popular SEO tool with an extensive keyword database.

You must have a paid account to use this feature. Prices start at $119.95 /month.

Login to your Semrush account and go to the search bar at the top left-hand corner.

Type in your keyword, domain or the URL prefix/path.

You will get a result page like this.

  1. Country - Select the country here.

  2. Device - You can select between desktop or mobile.

  3. Date - You can choose a time frame.

  4. Clicking this will take you to all the keyword results.

  5. Clicking this will take you to all the questions around this keyword.

  6. Clicking this will take you to related keywords.

For this demonstration, I will click option 4.

Results display as follows.

  1. Filter keywords by search volume - We recommend filtering by descending.

  2. Select whether you want to apply a phrase or exact match.

  3. Semrush breaks down the keywords by words, and you can easily group keywords by theme here.

  4. You can apply other filters such as include and exclude keywords.

  5. You can export the filtered data as a CSV.

Note: Repeat the same process by inputting a domain or URL prefix and pulling in the keywords.

How to build keyword lists using Ahrefs

Ahrefs is another popular SEO tool with an extensive keyword database.

You must have a paid account to use this feature. Prices start at $99 /month.

Input your seed keyword, select the country and hit the search button.

Your results will be displayed as follows.

It's similar to Semrush. Click any of the organic keyword links to preview the data.

  1. Switch between all keywords and questions.

  2. Timeline.

  3. Keywords grouped by word.

  4. Additional filters such as include/exclude keywords.

  5. Export button - Click this to download your CSV file.

Note: Repeat the same process by inputting a domain or URL prefix and pulling in the keywords.

Now go ahead and upload the file to Keyword insights.

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Now go ahead and upload the file to Keyword insights.

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https://app.ahrefs.com/keywords-explorer