# Keyword research

> Find keyword ideas from a seed, read their volume, difficulty, cost per click and intent, see who ranks for one, and save the ones worth keeping.

Source: https://netweft.com/docs/keyword-research
Updated: 2026-10-15

**Enter a seed keyword and get up to 200 ideas in one lookup, each with search volume, keyword difficulty, cost per click and intent, measured in the project's market. Open any idea to see the live results page.**

**Keyword research** turns one seed word into a list of keywords people search
for, measured in the project's [market](/docs/projects-and-markets).

## Find ideas from a seed

1. Open **Keyword research** in a project.
2. Type a seed, such as `project management software`.
3. Choose how many ideas to fetch: 50, 100 or 200.
4. Choose **Find keywords**.

One lookup costs the same whatever number you choose, so 200 ideas cost no
more than 50:

| Market | Credits per lookup |
| --- | --- |
| A country with full keyword data | 360 |
| One of the 49 countries without difficulty and intent | 900 |

The same seed asked again with the same settings within 24 hours answers from
a stored copy and costs nothing.

## Read the results

Each idea has five columns, and every column sorts:

| Column | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Keyword | The search term. |
| Volume | Average monthly searches in the market. |
| Difficulty | 0 to 100: how hard the top results are to outrank. |
| CPC | What advertisers pay per click in the market. |
| Intent | What the searcher wants: informational, navigational, commercial or transactional. |

Above the table, a summary line adds up the combined monthly volume of all
ideas, their average difficulty and average CPC, and what this lookup cost.

In the 49 countries without full data, Difficulty and Intent stay empty.

## See who ranks for a keyword

**Who ranks** on any row opens the live results page for that keyword in the
project's market: every organic result, top to bottom, with its URL and
position. It opens on desktop with the top 10 results. Pick **mobile** or a
depth of 20, 50 or 100 to look again.

Each look is a fresh lookup, charged at 20 credits per page of 10
results: one page for the top 10, ten pages for the top 100.

## Save keywords

Select rows and save them to the project. A saved keyword keeps its metrics
and monthly volume history, and it is what rank trackers and the assistant
work from. See [Saved keywords and tags](/docs/saved-keywords-and-tags).

Each plan caps saved keywords per project: 1,000
on Pro, 2,500 on
Studio and 5,000 on
Agency.

## When a lookup cannot run

- **The balance is too low.** netweft checks the balance before asking the
  data vendor and refuses the lookup if it cannot cover it, so nothing is
  charged. Top up from **Billing**.
- **The project is archived.** Archived projects do not look anything up
  live. Restore the project first.
- **No ideas came back.** The seed is too narrow for the market. A broader
  word usually has more around it.