Best Youtube Keyword Research Tools to Get More Viewers in 2023 - UPDATED

If you're using Youtube as a way to promote your business, blog, or product, i.e as a marketing channel, then optimizing your videos for Youtube's Search Engine is of utmost importance.

You probably already know that Youtube is the second-largest search engine in this world, so if you're avoiding the Youtube Marketing approach then it's quite a pity.

Read: How to Hack Youtube's SEO and Rank no.1 in 2021 - Everything you Need to Know

Nowadays everyone is focusing on Youtubing as a form of Marketing, and hence, there is more competition. In order to promote their content in a more strategic and smart way, they search for the best ways to keep their videos optimized for Youtube's Search Engine.

The most important factor in Youtube SEO is to properly do Keyword Research. Every individual, small business, or content maker needs the right data to find the right keywords to use.

The Properties of the Best Keywords and How Tools Help to Find Them

To put it simply, the best keywords have two main factors. 

Less Competition and High Search Volumes.

Keyword research tools look at Youtube's search data and when you insert a keyword that you want more data on, it usually drags out all the statistics, like general age groups, gender, search volumes, traffic, regions, competition, etc.

This research tells you what your viewers are looking for and how your competitors incorporate that data into their own content's metadata.

Best Tools For Keyword Research

Youtube Autocomplete Suggestions

As a beginner, the first thing you should do is getting familiar with the concept of keyword research. Go to Youtube.com and type a keyword into the search console. 

The Youtube Autocomplete function will automatically give suggestions to fill in the rest of the possible phrase, these suggestions are given on the basis of popular searches that have already been made and are saved in their database.

This approach can help you get ideas for content and will give you an insight into what your audience wants. After that, you can also look at the search results on the SERP and look at your competitors' content, their metadata, and their approach.

Best for - Individuals with a low budget, freelancers, beginners.

Price - Free

Ahrefs

Ahrefs has a huge collection of SEO tools, data, and useful functions that can help any business skyrocket when used properly. 

It isn't the cheapest, but it is indeed one of the best out there with the most insightful data about the best keywords for you, and on how to properly optimize your content and make it rank high on SERP.

It offers insights for around 171 countries and has some huge clients like Netflix, Uber, etc.

The user panel, dashboard, and the whole tool are sleek and easy to use. When you search for data on a keyword, it not only gives insight on the keyword but also gives relevant similar keywords and long-tail keywords, acting like a keyword generator as well.

Best for - Small to Large Businesses, Blooming Entrepreneurs with Moderate Budgets

Price - Four price tiers ranging from $99 per month for a single user to $999 per month for 5 or more users at an agency. There is also a 7-day trial for $7 to see whether you like it before you subscribe.

 

KeywordTool.io

When you search for a video on YouTube, the platform gives you a longer list of recommended results based on what other people have searched for in the past. Keyword Tool takes all of that data so that marketers like you improve your YouTube SEO.

Keyword Tool is a YouTube autocomplete keyword program that generates popular search phrases from base terms but in a much more comprehensive way than usual. It also has many other useful tools inbuilt, but those require the paid version of the service.

Best for - 

Free version - For Beginners

Paid Version - For Small to Large Businesses with an adequate budget.

Price - Keyword Tool’s most basic features are for free. Keyword Tool’s monthly plans range from $69 to $159 a month depending on the volume of keywords you plan to analyze.

Keyword Keg

Keyword Keg is a YouTube keyword tool that generates search phrases based on keywords – and provides a robust amount of data about those terms. With this service, you can see a term’s search volume, Google AdWords cost per click, and overall “keyword power”.

What's so cool about this service is that along with other data commonly provided by other services, this tool also shows you the competition regarding keywords and which keywords would be the easiest for you to take over.

Best for - Small to Large Businesses, Individuals, Entrepreneurs, etc with small to large budgets.

Price - Sample of results are for free. Packages range from $40 to $280 per month, but you can save up to 40% with an annual package.

VidIQ - Highly Recommended

VidIQ is a Youtube Certified Partner which makes it's data accurate an it's tools even more amazing. It is a Chrome Browser Extension which makes this tool very lightweight and easy to use and access.

Some of its features include a Scorecard, Keyword Tools, Competitors, and related insights, Trends Alerts, a Compare Views feature, Most Viewed, Productivity Tools, Thumbnail Generator, Channel Audit, Real-Time Stats Bar, Achievements, etc.

Best For - Very Small to Medium Businesses, Individuals, etc. and People on tight budgets

Price - $7.50 per month

Keyword Tool Dominator

This is one of the simpler tools, and it is more practically a keyword generator. It's really easy to use but doesn't have all the insights that larger businesses or more experienced people might need.

You can generate keywords, compile them, and export them after looking at some of the important factors related to them.

Best For - Beginners, Small Scale Businesses.

Price - Free for 3 Searches Per Day, or a one-time price of $69.99, but there are usually discounts.

TubeBuddy - Highly Recommended

This is one of the Best Youtube SEO Research Tools you'll come across. This is a lightweight Chrome Extension that can provide you tons of data regarding the competition search volume etc of a keyword, about how you are doing as compared to your competitors, as well as some other really useful metrics. It is also really easy to use and can be used at any time.

Best For - Individuals to Businesses.

Price - Free

 

Keywords Everywhere - Highly Recommended 

This service is a browser add-on that can be easily installed on either Chrome or Firefox. The best part is that they show you monthly search volume, cost per click, and competition data of keywords on multiple websites.

They offer way more metrics including "People also search for" which is really useful. This is a combination of a keyword planner and keyword researcher. But this will not offer all the info you will need, it is just a great add on to your other services.

Best For - Individuals to Businesses

Price - There are no monthly or yearly plans, instead, you can buy credits at different prices.

 

Kparser

Kparser is a keyword generator. Simply type in a word or phrase, and it will generate a list of other high-performing tags that are related to your topic, search volume for those tags, and their cost per click. 

This tool is specifically great for entrepreneurs selling internationally or international businesses; you can review keyword data and general terms based on geography to modify your SEO strategy by country and by language.

This tool also offers a "K-rank" for all the keywords it pulls. Overall, this is a great tool, especially for beginners due to how easily usable it is.

Best For - Everyone

Price - Free for its basic features. Monthly membership starts at only $4.99 per month.

HyperSuggest

HyperSuggest is a keyword tool that works across nine different search channels, including YouTube, Amazon, and eBay. This tool is super easy to use making it a great option for any beginner.

Simply type in a search phrase and in seconds HyperSuggest pulls the top tags for YouTube videos related to that term, and you'll be able to get a list of search terms to include in your video title, description, tag list and transcript with modified search terms, or prefixes/suffixes added to the term.

HyperSuggest also makes it easy to see what videos currently own the top spot for those terms; it links every phrase to its corresponding YouTube SERP. 

Best For - Beginners and Smaller Entrepreneurs.

Price - Basic list of results for free. Pro plan at $13.35 per month plus $4.40 for an add-on to access the YouTube search tool.

UberSuggest - Recommended

UberSuggest is Neil Patel's Keyword Research and SEO tool that not only functions as a Keyword Tool for Google but also as a Keyword Tool for Youtube. 

It offers multiple types of keyword suggestions, acting as a comprehensive keyword generator, and it also offers amazing insights out of which, some are free and some require you to pay for membership.

It offers content ideas and gives you a peek into your competition, it can guide you how to fix your SEO step by step and you can definitely find multiple ways to improve your overall content with this tool and the services it offers, so it is definitely one of my top recommendations.

UberSuggest also has some very major clients like eBay, Spotify, etc.

Best for - Everyone

Price - Free for basic features, Paid Plans starting from $12 USD with a 7 Day Free Trial.

That is all for today's post, I will make a part two of this post really soon, and if you found this list helpful, please share it and comment down your feedback.