How to Use LowFruits to Find Easy Keywords

Updated October 7, 2026

Before You Start

LowFruits works best with a clear topic and a site you are trying to grow. You will need an account with credits: pay-as-you-go or a subscription. If you are still deciding, read the LowFruits review and the pricing and credits guide first.

1. Step 1Generate long-tail ideas with the Keyword Finder or import your own list
2. Step 2Extract the top 10 Google results for each keyword (1 credit each)
3. Step 3Review weak spots and the 1–3 SERP Difficulty score
4. Step 4Cluster the keywords and filter down to realistic targets

Step 1: Set Your Weak-Spot Rules

Open the settings before your first analysis. Two choices shape every report:

• Weak-site threshold. The default treats sites with a Moz Domain Authority under 20 as weak. If your own site is stronger, you can raise the threshold to match it.
• Forums as weak spots. Since Google's September 2023 Helpful Content Update, LowFruits no longer counts forums and other user-generated content as weak by default. Leave this off unless your niche consistently ranks thin forum threads. Our SERP weak spots guide explains why.

You can also add your own domain, so LowFruits shows where you already rank, and highlight a competitor's domain to spot overlap.

Step 2: Generate Keyword Ideas

Enter a seed keyword in the Keyword Finder. LowFruits pulls long-tail suggestions mainly from Google Autocomplete, using many modifiers, and adds People Also Ask and Related Searches.

• Use a wildcard (*) to find phrases with a word in the middle, such as best * for beginners.
• Filter by intent to keep informational, commercial or question keywords.
• Already have a list from another tool? Use Import instead.

Fetch search volume and cost per click from the Google Ads API when you need them. Treat volumes as directional; long-tail terms showing zero can still bring traffic once a page ranks.

Step 3: Filter Before You Spend Credits

Every keyword you analyze costs one credit, so trim the list first. This is the step that most affects cost.

1. Remove keywords outside your site's topic.
2. Hide near-duplicates and plural or word-order variants that will share one page.
3. Drop navigational and brand terms you cannot serve.
4. Keep the intent types your content plan needs.

Step 4: Extract SERPs and Read Weak Spots

Select the filtered keywords and extract their results pages. For each keyword, LowFruits fetches the top 10 Google results and shows:

LowFruits' own guidance is to target keywords with at least two weak spots and a SERP Difficulty of 1. Then open a few of those results pages yourself to confirm the ranking pages genuinely miss the intent.

Step 5: Check KGR Where It Helps

For very low-volume keywords, the Allintitle and KGR tool adds the Keyword Golden Ratio: allintitle results divided by monthly search volume. It costs 1 credit per keyword, and large batches can take a while to fetch. See the KGR guide for how to interpret it.

Step 6: Cluster Keywords Into Pages

Run clustering to group keywords that belong on one page. SERP clustering groups keywords whose results share ranking URLs. Semantic clustering groups keywords by shared words. SERP clustering needs extracted results data, which you already have from Step 4. Our guide to SERP vs semantic clustering explains when to use each.

Step 7: Use Subscription Tools for Deeper Research

Subscribers get extra research tools:

• Domain Explorer: a database of weak websites with niche, traffic and authority data. Find low-authority sites in your niche, then study what they rank for.
• Competitor extraction: pull a competitor's ranking keywords, keyword ideas or sitemap to see their content plan.
• Rank tracker: track 100 (Standard) or 500 (Premium) keywords on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule.
• Pre-calculated SERP scores: see scores for keywords LowFruits has already analyzed.

Step 8: Turn the List Into a Content Plan

Export your clustered keywords, assign one cluster per page, and order them by how weak the results are and how close they sit to your monetization. The topical maps guide shows how to arrange those pages into hubs, and the keyword research process for new sites covers the full sequence.