You think you need hundreds of tools and softwares to do the best keyword research? Let’s take the opinion of the Experts and Professionals. Few days ago, I asked 20 Professionals via my Twitter on what are their top 3 keyword tools and here goes their replies about their Best Keyword Research Tool.

If you don’t know yet much about keyword research, then do checkout my article on How To Do Keyword Research.

Best Keyword Research Tools – (Voted by 20+ Marketing Professionals)

• Google Keyword Planner – 17 Votes
• LongtailPro (My Review) – 11 Votes
• SEMRush (My SEMrush Review) – 8 Votes
• Buzzsumo – UberSuggest – Moz.com – 2 Votes
• Ninja OutReach – 2 Votes

Best Keyword Research Tools by Experts

# Matthew Barby  [Website | Twitter]

For those who don’t know about him, He is the Global Head of Growth & SEO For HubSpot, award winning blogger, industry speaker and lecturer at Digital Marketing Institute. You can read more about him on his website.

His favorite tools are :

• Ahrefs (their Position Explorer tool)
• SEMRush – Check my tutorial
• AccuRanker

Thank You Matthew for writing back to me.

#David Schneider [NinjaOutReahc.om | Twitter] 

David Schneider is the cofounder of NinjaOutreach an all in one Prospecting and Outreach tool which was created to streamline the process of connecting with influencers.

His Best Tools are :

• Long Tail Pro
• Google’s Adword Keyword Planner
• Ninja Outreach – my own tool and this was primarily built for outreach but I also find it useful for keyword research mainly because of some data points that I consider to be important such as the articles that are ranking for the keyword in Google, their domain authority, their page authority, the number of backlinks they have, and other social and contact data.

Thanks David for your time and Good luck ahead with your tool!

# Robbie Richards [Robbierichards.com | Twitter]

Robbie Richards is a full-stack digital strategist for a fast-growing tech company and a blogger at robbierichards.com. You can read more about him on his website.

His Favorite tools are as follows :

• SEMRush
• Long Tail Pro
• Google Keyword Planner

Thank you Robbie!‏

# Paul Romando [Website | Twitter]

He is a digital stragiest, Key Note Speaker and Managing Director at RamondoMedia. He frequently blogs at : Social Media Examiner, Social Media Today & Social Media Explorer.  You can read more about him on his about us page.

Recommended Reading :

66+ Digital Marketing Resources & Tools

• Google Keywords Planner
• Google Trends
• Moz.com

Thanks for Paul for writing back to me.

# Kristi Hines [Website | Twitter]

She is a Freelance writer, content marketer, and business blogger. Over the years, she was written more then 1000 articles which have generated more then 700k + Social Media Shares so she know’s what she is writing about. In case if you want to know more about her, check her about page.

So here are her 3 favorite keyword research tools :

• GAKP (Google Adwords Keyword Planner) | Learn How to Become Google Ads Professional.
• UberSuggest
• SEMRush

Thank You So much Kristi for replying me back, i really appreciate.

# Ian Fernando‏ [Ianfernando.com | Twitter ]

For those of you who don’t know about Ian, he was a college drop out, worked with 3 jobs to sustain and now a well known personality in the performance marketing space. You can read more about him on his website.

‏His favorite 3 keyword tools are

• Google Keyword Planner
• Keyword.io
• SEMRush

Thank You Ian!

# Sam Hurley [Website | Twitter]

• RankTank
• LongTail Pro
• Scrapebox

# Brad Starks [About Him | Twitter]

Brad is an Internationally Published Photographer, Actor,Filmmaker,Comic, Bacon King, Marketing/Social Media Wiz, Bon Vivant, iPhonographer, Raconteur & Sunset Fan.

Having an opinion from an expert in another field is also a great idea so thats why i asked him on this and here’s what i got :

• WordStream’s Keyword Tool
• Soovle
• Google Keyword Planner
• YouTube Keyword Tool. 😉

# Sharon Gourlay [Website | Twitter]

She is a blogger and a digital nomad. In case if you don’t know She earns more then $10,000+ Every month from blogging, you can check her income reports to see more insights on this. You can read more about her on her website.

So here are her top 3 Keyword tools.

Thanks Sharon for your reply!

# Rob [Website | Twitter]

For those who don’t know, Rob is A blogger studying the art of location independent entrepreneurship. You can read more about him on his website.

Here are his top Keyword Research Tools :

• Google Keyword Planner
• BuzzSumo
• HubSpot’s SEO
• Along with a little bit of Twitter and intuition. 🙂

Thanks Rob for your time!

 Thanks Andrew!

# Darko Angelovski  [LinkedIn | Twitter]

Darko is one of the top rated UPWork, Freelance Digital Marketing Consultant. I asked him on his top 3 Keyword Research tools and here is what he replied :

• Google Keyword Planner
• Moz Keyword Difficulty
• SERP Analysis Tool 🙂

Thanks Darko! 🙂

# Marcus Miller [Website | Twitter]

Marcus is a SEO Consultant specialising in technical SEO, When I asked him the question, he answered as follows :

• KeywordToolio
• UberSuggest
• I take data from the first two & review in Google Keyword Planner.

Thanks Marcus for Your Time. 🙂

# Tim larkin [Website]

 Tim is a great friend of mine. I know him since 2013. He deals in Web designing and printing industry. So i thought to take a opinion on what are the top keyword research tools used by a web designer and here is what he answered :

• Use my head!! Think about what I would enter into a search myself. This is probably one of the most important steps.
• Use Google Keyword Planner to get a few more ideas based on the above.
• Use LongTailPro to uncover more data on the keyword list to pick out some winners based on KW competition and search volume.
• I have started using Ninja Outreach and it’s really working well so it’s another tool, i would recommend.

Thanks Tim!

# Hassaan Khan [Website | Twitter]

• SEMrush
• Long Tail Pro
• Google Search Console