In this article let’s take a look at 6 best answer the public alternatives you can try today to do some keyword research and find topics for writing articles on your blog in detail.
All the tools I mentioned in this article are good alternatives to answer public and i have personally used them since a long time and tools mentioned below are also have free plans to use if you don’t want to subscribe to the premium version.
So without further ado let’s dive right in.
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6 best answer the public alternatives
Ubersuggest
Ubersuggest is a freemium keyword research tool own by Neil Patel which you can use to do keyword research and find content ideas for your blog.
Apart from keyword research you can also use this tool to find link building opportunities and competitor analysis and also perform a website audit to find out all the technical issues of your website and you can get much more details to improve your website SEO.
But when it comes to the keyword research what I really like about this tool is that it is a free tool which allows you to do three searches for free everyday and after you enter any seed keyword in the tool you will get the search volume,
cost per click, the search trend in mobile and desktop searches and the average competition for that keyword in both organic and paid SEO, and different variations of the keyword in the form of questions, prepositions, comparisons, suggestions and related keywords.
What’s more interesting about this tool is that you can also enter any competitor domain name of your industry and find out what are the keywords that they are ranking for so that you can target your competitor keywords and create better content than them and outrank them in a search results.
One of the main things that I love about this tool is that it is very simple, easy to use and very beginner friendly interface, and you can also download the Chrome extension of the ubersuggest to get the keyword ideas recommendations whenever you search any keyword in Google right on the search results page which will save you a lot of time doing keyword research in a tool and this tool is also getting updated quite frequently with new features.
It has a 7 day free trial which you can try if you want to and it also has a monthly subscription of only $12 and a lifetime deal of $120 which is a wonderful option if you want to go for a paid subscription.
By the way I have written an article on Ubersuggest review which you can check it out here.
Keywordtool.io
This is a well known popular freemium keyword research tool and a great alternative for Keyword planner.
This is a keyword tool that uses free Google autocomplete or Google search suggestions to maximum extent to generate keywords.
Using the free version itself You can get upto 700 keywords for any seed keyword in a single click even without creating a free account as well.
Isn’t that cool.
When you do the keyword search you can find options for questions and prepositions like you do in Answer the Public as types related to keywords other than keyword suggestions which is really COOL.
And if you found any amazing keyword which you really like, you can easily copy that keyword to clipboard and get it pasted in your keyword list.
This is a very handy feature of this entire tool as you don’t have to download the entire list in a CSV file as you had to do in other tools.
What I really like about this free tool is that you can find keywords also for other search engines like YouTube, bing, Amazon, eBay, etc.
Unlike other tools, you can find keywords in many different languages other than English like You can find keywords in over 100 different languages and countries which allow search engines like Google to work in their land from America to Afghanistan, etc.
Question db
This is another freemium tool like answer the public but using this tool you can find an amazing list of questions in terms of Keyword related to your targeted keyword.
This tool has 32 million questions in its database and the questions are gathered from different sources like forums like Reddit, websites and social media sites.
This tool will help you come up with an amazing questions list for any keyword and You can also download the list as well.
What I really like about this tool is that you can also find the sources of the questions that you find in the tool. Most of the sources will be from forums like Quora, Reddit and social media sites where You can explore to find more keyword ideas for your blog posts.
Quora, reddit and other forums in your industry
We all know this, Quora is one of the largest qna website.
It is like a social media website where people ask questions, answer them or discuss a lot of things under the sun from pants to Pokémon.
As a matter of fact this platform has over 300 million active users worldwide.
You can use this platform to find amazing keyword ideas for any blogging topic.
Here is how you can do it.
Visit Quora and search for anything like, for example, blogging in search and enter.
These are an amazing list of Keyword ideas which you can target in your blog posts.
What I really like about this tool is that you can find keyword ideas and topics that people are actually searching for apart from Google.
Look, over 15% of keywords that get searched on Google are brand new and have never been searched before.
Using this platform, you can find all the keywords that people use in order to find what they are looking for exactly,
You can understand people’s questions better, their problems and their pain points from questions in Quora so that you can create better content that not only solves the problem but
Also helps you build a good relationship and connection with them at a deeper level and build a trust and credibility.
You can also find amazing low competition keywords ideas on topics which you can target in your blog post because
Those are the ones which people are actively discussing about and mostly they are not found in other keyword research tools as well.
A Pro tip:
You can also use the same method to do keyword research around your topic on other forums like Reddit, Warrior Forum and
Other forums related to your industry to understand what people are actually looking for and discussing about in your niche and what are the exact words they are using to find the answers and Understand their situation and problems on this forums better to create good content.
In order to find out forums in your industry all you need to do is a quick search on Google for example if you blog about food then you can search,
Food+forums and you will get a list of forums and online communities where you can find keyword ideas and engage with people to find out content ideas for your blog.
Keyword surfer
Keyword Surfer is a 100% free extension that allows you to see search volumes directly in Google search results. Keyword Surfer is the fastest way to reveal search data, run keyword research, and get content guidelines directly in Google Search.
With Keyword Surfer, comprehensive keyword research and data-driven content guidelines are two clicks away.
For every new search in Google, you’ll uncover search volumes, CPC, keyword suggestions, related terms, visibility metrics, and on-page data.
You can also get the word count of the pages that are ranking for any keyword in Google and the estimated traffic to those pages so that you can analyse the competition.
You can also set up a Content Editor with NLP-driven guidelines for your content and start creating right away.
Go through the whole content creation process—researching, writing, and optimizing—without ever leaving Google Search.
This is an excellent tool to do keyword research right on the search results page and it can save you a lot of time in the process.
Yes you read that right, Google is another free tool you can use to do keyword research.
Google is the largest search engine on the planet and as a matter of fact Google performs more than 6 billion searches everyday and billions of people use Google worldwide.
In such a case if you want to find new content ideas and keyword ideas around the target keyword then you can use Google.
All you need to do is to do a quick search of any target keyword for example digital marketing in Google.
And you will get a list of suggestions below like suggested keywords which are all amazing keyword ideas related to your target keyword and when you do the search of your target keyword you would see features on the search results page like people also ask section and searches related to section which also has a lot of useful keyword ideas especially in the question forms which are great content ideas.
What’s really amazing about this is that you will get all these keyword ideas data right from the Google itself and Google clearly tells us that all the keyword suggestions it gives in autocomplete are popular keywords that people search in Google related to the target keyword so you know there is a high search volume behind those keywords.
You can check out my article on step by step on how you can do keyword research and find the content ideas using just Google search engine for your blog in detail here
With that said let’s end the article.
Ending remarks
These are the best alternatives I have found about answer the public tool.
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