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How to find keywords competitor is using

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SexyLeggings last edited by

I am doing work for a landscaping company and having trouble with finding the best keywords. Most of keywords are so expensive on adwords to use, so obviously we want to optimize as best possible. How do I find what keywords competitors are using for campaigns and/or optimized for? thx.
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SEO-Blogger @SexyLeggings last edited by

Your welcome

regards
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SexyLeggings @MoosaHemani last edited by

thanks man
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SexyLeggings @katemorris last edited by

thank you
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SexyLeggings @SEO-Blogger last edited by

thanks
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MoosaHemani Banned last edited by

The best places you can find what your competitors are up to in the adword world are SEMRush.com, Keyword Spy and few more. Another idea is to write your keywords in Google and see what of your competitors are in the ad results and at which position, analyze the importance of keyword (how many competitors are there at which positions) and create your list accordingly.

Hope this helps!
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katemorris last edited by

There are a few tools: SEMRush, SearchMetrics, and SpyFu.
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SEO-Blogger last edited by

How are you? the only thing I know to know the keywords competition is the tool Semrush
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