FREE Keyword Difficulty Checker

Analyze keywords with precision. Our tool provides metrics beyond difficulty scores—helping you make data-driven SEO decisions.

Understand Your Ranking Potential

The keyword difficulty checker shows you how hard it will be to rank for a specific search term. Along with metrics like search volume—at the country level and globally.

Combine that with search trends over the past 12 months, cost-per-click data, and competitive density. This will give you a full picture of the keyword’s competitiveness.

You can even compare this to historical data to understand how the keyword difficulty has changed over time.

And you can choose a location to get even more specific data. Providing useful keyword difficulty information for your local SEO campaigns.

Get Personalized Keyword Difficulty Scores

Don’t just rely on generic difficulty scores. Instead, get personalized data with the power of AI, to understand your true ranking potential.

Personal Keyword Difficulty takes into account:

• Your domain’s relevance to the target keyword
• Search term competitiveness
• Key metrics for your domain and competitors

The result?

A tailored score that shows your potential position and current rank.

Use this data to find simple keywords for new content. Also, identify keywords to improve your existing content.

Unlock New Keyword Ideas

The keyword difficulty checker provides many relevant keyword ideas. It also shows the search volumes and personalized difficulty scores.

You’ll even get ideas for relevant pillar and cluster pages:

So you can build a content plan based on your ranking potential. And focus your efforts on creating content that’ll drive quality traffic faster.

Get More Than Just a Keyword Difficulty Score

To get a full idea of how difficult a keyword will be to rank for, you need to analyze the search engine results page (SERP) for that term.

The tool shows you the top 10 sites ranking in Google for your target keyword. It provides metrics like page Authority Score, referring domains, and backlinks.

This way, you can understand what you’re up against.

For example, if many of the ranking pages have lots of backlinks and referring domains, there’s a good chance you’ll also need them to rank for that term.

Make comparing these metrics even easier with the Domain view:

It shows you key metrics about your domain and ranking potential.

This lets you easily compare your site to those in the search results to understand your chances of ranking.