Are you struggling to get free Google Traffic? If so, then you’re going to love this KWFinder review where I show you all the features and how to use it to get the best results.
I love this tool and that’s why I’ve written this review. It’s over 3,000 words long, so feel free to jump to the section you want to learn more about.
Do You Need A Keyword Tool?
No, you don’t need to invest in a keyword tool to help you write blog posts that will be able to rank on Google.
When I started this blog, I refused to pay for any type of SEO tool. I focused on using a free keyword tool to help me find profitable keywords.
The truth is that I didn’t spend enough time checking the competition of the keywords and that resulted me in writing tons of blog posts that are highly competitive.
My Journey
After blogging for over a year and still NOT seeing any traffic from Google, I thought it was time to start trying out different keyword tools to help me grow this blog.
I had been using Long Tail Pro, but I wasn’t completely happy with it. After hearing so many great things about SEMRush, I tested it out for two months.
It was a great tool with tons of features. However, I wasn’t keen on paying $99 per month that’s when I read about the Mangools KWFinder.
I created an account and started using their 5 free searches daily, and the rest is history. It was so easy to use and I finally decided to pay for an annual subscription because of the discount they offered and I can say that I am happy.
My Traffic Increase
I’m happy to say that finally my organic traffic is climbing. It’s nice to see my hard work finally starting to pay off.
Although, it’s a slow progress, I am finally seeing things on the upward trend.
That’s why I wanted to share my experience with this keyword tool and take you for a spin around the dashboard. I’ll also share how to find low competition keywords with high traffic.
KWFinder Review Features and How to Use It
The first thing you need to do is create an account, then you can start using the keyword suggestion tool 5 times daily.
Plus, it will allow you to see if you actually like it. I used it for free for about a month before I decided to pay for the keyword tool.
Inside The Dashboard
Once you’re logged in, you’ll be taken directly to the KWFinder keyword generator. This is where you’ll want to begin.
Keyword Suggestions
Once you enter your seed word, you can enter your country and the language you want to search. I personally always leave both set to anywhere.
AutoComplete Search
To tell you the truth, I’ve never used this feature. However, I just typed in “home golf simulators” to see what type of results come back, here is what I see.
After it was done search the Google API, it brought back over 100 autocomplete searches.
I’ve learned that the Autocomplete feature is based on factors such as region, language, popularity, search history and etc. (Source)
Questions Search
The questions search brings back questions that people would want to know the answer to. Here are some of the results I see after sticking with “home golf simulators.”
You could literally write a blog post answering these questions and get more traffic.
KWFinder Filter
Depending on which plan pricing plan you chose, you’ll get a specific number of keyword suggestions per search.
I am on the Mangools Premium plan, which means that I get up to 700 suggestions whenever I perform a search.
The built in filter will allow you to set parameters based on your specifications.
Search Volume: Enter the max and min amounts you want to filter
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Metrics
Let’s take a look at the metrics you’ll see once you start using the KWFinder to uncover profitable keywords.
Keywords
This section is where you see all the suggested, imported or list saved keywords. They are listed according to their relevancy against the seed keyword.
Trend
Search volume of the keywords based on the last 12 months.
Search
Average monthly search volume in the last 12 months. You’ll want to pay attention to keywords that receive a lot of searches.
CPC
Average cost per click in Google Adwords. If you’re using Google Adsense as a way to monetize your blog, you’ll want to target keywords that have a high CPC.
KD
Keyword SEO Difficulty developed by Mangools and calculated from the Link Profile Strength (LPS) of the URLs on the 1st page of the SERP. In my opinion, this is the most important thing to look at.
Analyze SERP
Once you do a search on your keyword, you’ll have the opportunity to analyze the results on the first page of Google.
You’ll also see the Keyword difficulty of the keyword you’re searching. Let’s quickly take a look at some of these metrics.
Google SERP
The first page results from Google search results page (SERP) for the selected keyword. You can click through each keyword to find difficult SERP results.
Domain Authority
Domain Authority (DA) is the Moz ranking score that predicts how well a domain will rank in the search engines. It is calculated by evaluating the linking root domains, number of total links, MozTrust, MozRank, and etc.
Page Authority
Page Authority (PA) is the ranking score by Moz that predictss how well a specific page will rank. The PA calculation includes links to page, MozRank, MozTrust, and etc.
Citation Flow
Citation Flow (CF) was developed my Majestic SEO and is focused on the link quality. It predicts how influential a website is based on how many sites sites that link to the URL.
Trust Flow
Trust Flow (TF) developed by Majestic and is focused on the quality of links that are linking to a URL. The higher quality of links that link to a seed site, you’ll see higher trust scores. Sites that have shady links will see lower TF scores.
Links
You’ll see the number of external backlinks to the URL’s. You can easily hover over the number to get the number of domains, IPs and subnets.
Find out the number of Facebook shares for the given URL. This information is gathered by the Facebook API.
Link Profile Strength
You’ll see a color code based on the link profile strength of the URL, which as develooed by Mangools. Green means it’s easy and Red means you’ll never be able to beat it.
Estimated Visits Per Month
Estimated visits per month (EV) on the SERP position. This is the amount of searches you can expect to get if you’re able to get that first page ranking on that keyword. This is calculated from the average monthly search volume.
How I Find Low Competition Keywords
I always pay attention to the amount of searches a keyword gets. Then I make sure that it is an easy keyword that I can rank for. This means that you want to target keywords that have a KD score of 30 or under.
Pro Tip: Make sure that you’re targeting keywords that have an Easy Green color.
I also analyze the SERPs to check out the competition of the sites trying to rank for that keyword. In my JumpStart Blog Traffic, I go into depth of how I analyze the first page of Google results.
It can be challenging to find keywords in the 13 and 18 range. Although, I have found some, it does take time.
Import Feature
If you have a list of keywords, you can import them into KWFinder. You have the option to:
Lists Feature
I’m a huge fan of the lists feature because I can set up lists based on the categories of my blog and whenever I take time to brainstorm for new keywords, I can add them to my lists.
Whenever I sit down to write a new blog post, I just choose a keyword from my list and sit down and write.
Before I write any content, I always make sure that I pay attention to the keyword difficulty score.
Search History
You can see your recent search history on the platform
Help Tab
Every tool comes with a learning curve and this tool is no different. You can find the “Help” tab at the top of your dashboard and get access to the KWFinder Guide to help you understand how to use all the features.
SerpWatcher
I absolutely love the SerpWatcher feature because the Premium plan allows me to track 700 keywords to see how they are doing in the SERPS.
Truth be told, I really don’t know what all these features do. I basically just use this to help me improve my SEO traffic.
Dominance Index
Dominance index represents your unique share of the whole possible organic traffic based on your position and search volume of the keyword. (source)
The Dominance Index is calculated by 5 main inputs:
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Biggest Changes
This is where you will see the Top rankers and the Top out rankers. You’ll also see the rank change of the keyword.
Estimated Visits Per Month
The overall (aggregated) organic traffic per month for the tracked domain that is coming from your tracked keywords.
Keyword Position Flow
A quick snapshot of how many keywords have:
Keyword Position Distribution
You can easily see how many rankings you have in the top 10 – top 100. I really don’t use this feature much, but here’s what mine looks like.
As you can see, I have a lot of improvement that I can make on my blog. The sad thing is that I wasted so much time writing blog posts that will never rank on the first page of Google.
Add Your Keywords
This is where you add your keywords that you want to track. After you add your keyword to the desktop version, you’ll have the opportunity to clone it to keep track of mobile traffic.
You can also filter your settings in the SERPWatcher like you can in the KWFinder section. However, there are different metrics to measure.
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Personally, I’ve never used the filter features in the SERPWatcher section. You’ll have to play around with it if you want to see what it does.
Link Miner
This is the backlink analysis tool to help you find competitors backlinks. Personally, I’ve never used this since I really don’t focus on building backlinks.
Here’s a video of how to use this feature, just in case you’re interested.
Site Profiler
The KWFinder Site Profiler kind of reminds me of SEMRush. However, it’s not as advanced as SEMRush.
You can easily enter a domain of your choosing and discover some important metrics and insights from the site.
For this demonstration, I’ll enter my domain to help you get an understanding of how to use this tool. You can use this tool to check your domain as well as any other domain on the Internet.
As soon as you enter a site into the Site Profiler, you’ll see a snapshot of the overall domain.
This will give you an overview of the following:
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As you can see from the snapshot, my trust flow sucks. I definitely could work on improving the trust flow of my site.
Here’s a great article 7 realistic methods to increase your website authority. Personally, I don’t sweat it, and as you can see it’s growing slowly.
Traffic
If you scroll down, you can see the traffic overview of the site you’re looking at.
Total Visits Per Month
You’ll see the total number of visits on desktop and mobile in the last six months. You’ll also see the following metrics.
You can then use these metrics to see if you can lower your bounce rate and improve user experience.
Traffic by Country
You’ll quickly see where most of of your traffic is coming from. Right now, most of my traffic is coming from organic traffic. That wasn’t always the case, Pinterest used to be my number one traffic source.
It tracks the following sources of traffic:
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The best thing would be to have traffic coming from multiple sources, that way you’re not dependent on just one traffic source.
Top Organic Keywords
This will show you which keywords you’re ranking for and the search volume.
Top Paid Keywords
If you pay for traffic, you would see some data on this graph. I personally don’t pay for any advertising, so this is completely blank on mine.
Backlink Profile
The backlink profile helps you identify your backlink profile, it’s health or the potential spam of the site.
Total, New and Deleted Backlinks
You’ll see a quick snapshot of all the backlinks that have been:
This information is based on the last 4 months. You’ll also see the ration of Dofollow links as well as the active links.
Other Backlink Information
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Honestly, I don’t really use this feature for the backlinks. As I mentioned, I don’t spend a lot of time on building backlinks to my site.
Top Content
See which content is popular on your site according to Facebook and the top referring domains.
Audience
This section kinds of reminds me of Google Analytics because you can easily see the information of your typical website user.
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As you can see from my stats, most of the people that visit my blog are female, that are not college educated and do most of their browsing at home.
This means that I can cater my content to my audience since I have an idea of how is visiting my blog.
Competitors
This section, you’ll see a brief competitor analysis of sites that are similar to yours. You can easily compare the following metrics with your competitors.
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Get Started With the KWFinder Trial
As you can see, this keyword tool gives you a ton of information that will help you improve your organic traffic. You can easily sign up for the free trial and get 5 free searches daily without paying a penny.
If you decide that it’s helping you grow your traffic and once you start making money, you can decide if you’re ready to invest, you can choose from the following pricing plans:
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Each plan has different features so make sure that you choose the right one that will fit your needs.
I’m currently on the Mangools Premium Pricing Plan and I can definitely say that it’s worth every penny.
Pro Tip: When you
