[Ueland]

Sidenote but what do you think about Ahrefs? I'm doing some tests to see how easy it is to get ranked for keywords (with actual helpful content, not crap like this thread is about), but i find the Adsense keyword tool not that helpful as they delete many keywords when you search for them, which kinda voids that tool.

But I currently feel that paying $100/mo for Ahrefs for something I do as a side project is a tad wasteful.

[weird-eye-issue]

You need a tool like Ahrefs or SEMRush for competitor analysis and keyword research. One trick with Ahrefs if you want to be frugal is to pay for the $7 trial and use it as much as possible during the trial to do your keyword research and cancel. Technically if you are efficient enough that trial could get you months worth of content at least.

[55555]

ahrefs is the best in the business.

[richardpetersen]

Ahrefs is the best data source but this is the most frugal approach

[weird-eye-issue]

Depends what data you mean. For backlinks this might be true but they have noticeablely less keywords than SEMRush