A free YouTube keyword tool that reads YouTube's own search suggestions and the top results for any keyword.
5.0(1 rating)Type a keyword to see what people search on YouTube around it: YouTube's own suggestions, from a to z, questions and comparisons. Then check how crowded each search is.
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Suggestions and results are YouTube's own, read signed out from the country you pick and kept for a few hours. YouTube doesn't publish search volume, so none is shown.
This free YouTube keyword tool shows what people search on YouTube, for any keyword, in any of 42 countries.
It asks YouTube's own search box for its suggestions 32 ways: the keyword alone, with every letter from a to z, with question words, and with "vs". Then it reads the top results for the keyword, so you see how crowded it is before you film.
Here's where the keywords come from, what the numbers mean, and how to use a keyword once you've found it.
What is a YouTube keyword tool?
A YouTube keyword tool is a tool that finds the searches people make on YouTube, so a video's title, description and script can use their words.
How to use the YouTube keyword tool
Copy the list when you're done. It's plain text, one search per line.
Where the keywords come from
Every keyword here is a suggestion from YouTube's own search box, the list it shows as someone types.
Typing more after the keyword brings more of them. So the tool asks for "time management a", "time management b" and so on to z, plus "how to", "what is", "why", "best" and "vs". That brings up the long tail: longer searches with fewer videos competing for them.
The tool reads them signed out, in the country you pick, the way a new viewer there sees them.
Why there's no search volume
YouTube doesn't publish how many people make a search. Any number shown as YouTube search volume is an estimate from outside data.
This tool shows only what YouTube itself shows: the suggestions in YouTube's order, and the videos that rank. Where a number would be a guess, it's left out.
What the competition numbers mean
The 4 numbers come from the top results for your keyword:
| Number | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Median views | The middle of the top long videos' views: the demand, and the bar a new video has to reach |
| New videos | How many top long videos are under a year old. Many means fresh videos get a chance here |
| Channels | How many channels share the top results. Few means a handful of channels own the search |
| Shorts | How many results are Shorts. Many means viewers want this one short |
A keyword worth a video tends to have real views, some new videos, and channels your size among the top results.
How YouTube ranks search results
YouTube's page on how search works names 3 things it weighs: relevance, engagement and quality. To estimate relevance, it looks at "how well the title, tags, description, and video content match your search query."
So a keyword belongs in 4 places:
- The title, near the start.
- The first 2 lines of the description.
- What you say in the first 30 seconds, so the captions carry it.
- The chapter names, where the video answers its questions.
For the chapters, use the YouTube timestamp generator. For tags from the top videos, use the YouTube tag generator.
Who is the YouTube keyword tool for?
It's for YouTubers who want the searches behind a topic:
- YouTube rank checker – creators checking where a video ranks
- YouTube title checker – anyone writing the title
- YouTube niche finder – people sizing up a niche
- YouTube outlier finder – creators looking for proven topics
More tools like these are on my free tools page.
YouTube Keyword Tool FAQs
Questions about YouTube keywords? Here's what to know.
A YouTube keyword tool is a tool that finds the searches people make on YouTube.
This one reads YouTube's own search suggestions for any keyword, and what the top results say about competition.
Type a topic into the YouTube keyword tool and pick a country.
It lists YouTube's own suggestions for it, from a to z, questions and comparisons, and shows the competition in the top results.
No, because YouTube doesn't publish search volume.
The tool shows the suggestions in YouTube's order and what the top results say, so no number is guessed.
The keywords come from YouTube's own search box, the suggestions it shows as someone types.
The tool reads them signed out, in the country you pick.
Look at the channels and the new videos in the top results.
If a few big channels hold every result and none of the videos is new, a smaller channel will struggle to rank there.
Yes, pick any of 42 countries.
The suggestions and the results then come from that country.
Yes, the YouTube keyword tool is free, with no sign-up.
The YouTube keyword tool is for creators planning their next video, and for anyone writing titles and descriptions for a channel.
To see where a video ranks for a keyword, use the YouTube rank checker.
To find videos that beat their channel's usual views, use the YouTube outlier finder.
I did. I'm Navid Moazzez, and I made the YouTube keyword tool as one of my free tools on navid.me.
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Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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