Keyword Explorer

Explorer is keyword research inside your project. Type any keyword, pick a country and a language, and Rankfender shows its search volume, difficulty and cost per click, the ten pages Google ranks today, and four lists of related keywords. Add the best ones to your project in one click.

Run a search

1. 1

   Open Keywords › Explorer

   The search bar sits at the top right: "Explore a keyword…", Country, Language and the Explore button.
2. 2

   Check the market

   Country and language start on your project's own market. Change them to research another country.
3. 3

   Press Explore

   The button shows what the search will use: "1 lookup" while you have monthly lookups left, otherwise its price in credits.

The Language menu has two groups. "Full data" lists the languages spoken in the chosen country. "Volume & CPC only" lists the others: there, and in a few countries, results carry the badge "Volume, CPC and trend only in this market".

What a search shows

The lists show Keyword, Volume, CPC, Competition, KD, Intent and Trend; click a column title to sort. "Filter these results…" narrows the list and "Export CSV" downloads it. Click a row to open its detail:

• Search volume, last 12 months: one bar per month.
• In the search results: what Google shows besides plain links, such as AI Overview, Featured snippet, People also ask, Local pack, Video, Shopping, Images or Top stories.
• Topic and Avg. referring domains (top 10): the broader subject, and how many sites link to the pages that rank.
• Explore this keyword: runs a new search on that keyword.

Monthly lookups

Each new search uses one lookup. Your plan includes a number of lookups each month; the meter above the results reads, for example, "12 of 100 lookups this month", with the date they renew.

The lookups belong to the account that pays for the plan. Everyone on its team shares them, across all its projects.

When the lookups are used up

You can keep searching: each new search then takes a set number of credits, shown on the Explore button and in the meter. If your balance is lower than that, the search does not run and Rankfender says so: top up credits or wait until your lookups renew. See Monthly credits.

Saved results and history

• Saved results are free. Searching the same keyword in the same country and language again within 30 days opens the saved result: "Saved result · 0 credits". No lookup, no credits.
• Refresh on a saved result fetches fresh data. It counts as a new search.
• History lists the keywords researched in this project, latest first, one line per keyword and market. "To reopen" says "Free" while the result is saved, or what a new search would use. "Open" or "Search again" brings it back in its own market.

When no search is on screen, the tab opens on this history.

Add keywords to your project

• The + on a row, or Add to project on the searched keyword, adds one keyword.
• Tick several rows, then Add selected (N).
• A keyword already in the project shows a check mark ("In project").

Added keywords arrive in Opportunities with the numbers Explorer measured, and count toward your plan's keyword limit (see Plan limits). Only Admins can add keywords. Without a paid plan you can search, but the add buttons read "Upgrade your plan to add keywords to the project". To follow a keyword's Google position, track it in Rankings.