# Keyword volume checker

How many people search each term a month, for up to twenty terms at once, in the market you pick: the figure that turns a list of ideas into an order of work. Sorted by demand, totalled, and copied to a sheet in one click.

Updated 2026-09-14 · Source: https://porteur.ai/tools/keyword-volume-checker

## What it measures

The tool takes up to twenty exact terms, one a line, and asks for the average monthly searches of each over the last twelve months in the market you choose. The figures come from Google's keyword data as the provider reads it, rounded the way Google rounds them. Terms with fewer than ten searches a month come back with no figure. The table is sorted by demand, the total is shown, and the whole thing copies as CSV.

It measures the exact term. "invoice app" and "invoicing app" are two rows with two figures; so are the singular and the plural. That is a feature: the wording people actually type is the wording the page's title should carry.

## Why volume is the first sort, not the last word

A list of twenty page ideas with no figures is a list of guesses. With the monthly searches beside each, it becomes an order: the two that carry most of the demand, the ten that carry almost none, and the surprise in the middle that nobody on the team would have named. The figure is an estimate, and a page written for one term takes its neighbours too, so the sum of a cluster matters more than any row.

Volume alone misleads in two ways. A large figure can belong to a search held by ten platforms that a small site will not take; a small figure can belong to a buyer's exact question that converts one visit in five. Read it with the results page and with intent, and it is the most useful single number in search.

## How to read the result

- **The top row's share** says whether the list has one head term and a tail, or is evenly spread. A head term of 60 % or more is the page; the rest are its headings.
- **No figure** means under ten searches a month. Keep the term if it is what your buyer types; drop it as a page of its own.
- **Round figures** (1,300, 2,900, 5,400) are Google's buckets, not counts. Two terms in the same bucket are the same size.
- **The total** across a cluster is the demand a single well-made page can address; compare clusters, not rows.

Example: yourproduct.com pastes twelve terms around invoicing. "invoicing software" carries 8,100 a month, "invoice app for freelancers" 390, "how to invoice a client" 1,600, and seven others show nothing. Two pages come out of it: a product page for the head term and a guide for the question, with the 390 as a section of the product page.

## What to do with it

1. **Paste the terms as people type them** Short, lowercase, no punctuation. The way a search box sees them.
2. **Pick the market that pays** The same term has different demand in the United States and the United Kingdom, and a different language in France and Germany.
3. **Group the rows into pages** Terms that would be answered by one page belong together; the SERP checker shows whether Google agrees by returning the same results for two terms.
4. **Copy the CSV into the plan** One row per term, one column of demand, and the pages decided from it.

## Limits

Twenty terms a call, twenty calls an hour from one address, three hundred a day in all, because each lookup is paid for on your behalf. The figure is a twelve-month average and hides seasons; a term that peaks in December shows a twelfth of its peak. Six markets are offered. Brand terms of small products often show no figure even when the product is searched: Google's data starts at ten a month.

Each run is a keyword lookup that costs a few cents at a provider, so the tool runs for a signed-in account only: a free account, no card, five paid checks a day and forty a month across the paid tools, counted per account. The same input asked twice in a day is answered from memory and is not counted. The free check on the home page is not counted either. A day's budget for the tool as a whole is capped as well, so a busy day ends with a plain message rather than a bill.

## Questions

### Where do the figures come from?

From Google's keyword data as the provider reads it: the average monthly searches over the last twelve months, in the country and language chosen. They are the same buckets Google shows advertisers.

### Why does a term show no volume?

Google reports nothing under about ten searches a month. The term may still be worth a heading on a page; it is rarely worth a page of its own.

### Is search volume accurate?

It is an estimate in buckets, not a count. Two terms in the same bucket are the same size; a figure of 1,300 means somewhere near it. Search Console's impressions are the only count, and only for pages that already rank.

### Should I write for the term with the most searches?

Only if the results page for it is within reach. Check who holds it with the SERP checker; a smaller term held by ordinary sites is often the better first page.

### Can I check more than twenty terms?

Twenty a call, and you can run the tool again. For hundreds of terms at once, the keyword research in a bought report prices the whole landscape around a site.

## Read next

- [Search volume](https://porteur.ai/glossary/search-volume): Search volume is a provider’s monthly estimate of how often a query is searched, and you use it to compare keywords, not to forecast traffic.
- [Keyword difficulty: what the number means and when to ignore it](https://porteur.ai/guides/keyword-difficulty): Treat keyword difficulty as a links proxy, not a gatekeeper. Learn when the score helps, when it misleads, and how to read the results page yourself.
- [Search intent: what the results page tells you to build](https://porteur.ai/guides/search-intent): Learn the four intents, read intent from the results page, and fix pages that will never rank by changing their kind, not just the words.
- [Keyword research from Search Console alone](https://porteur.ai/guides/search-console-for-keyword-research): Use Search Console alone to find queries you already earn, gaps with impressions and no page, long questions, and pages that compete. Build a plan.
- [Keyword clustering](https://porteur.ai/glossary/keyword-clustering): Keyword clustering groups queries that one page should answer. Use results-page overlap to form clusters, then build one strong page for each.
- [Keyword ideas finder](https://porteur.ai/tools/keyword-ideas-finder): Type one term and get up to fifty longer searches that contain it, with monthly demand, difficulty and intent, and a reading of the pattern.
- [SERP checker](https://porteur.ai/tools/serp-checker): Type a search and see the results page as Google draws it now in six markets: the top ten sites, the People also ask questions, and who the AI Overview cites.
- [Striking distance keywords: the searches one page from the light](https://porteur.ai/guides/striking-distance-keywords): Find queries you already rank for at positions 11 to 20, fix the one page that’s close, and add links. Faster wins than writing a new page.

Twenty terms here; the free check prices the searches around a whole site and says which ones are within reach. Free check: https://porteur.ai/