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Does anyone know of a keyword difficulty API?

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Daan01 last edited by

Hi Mozzers,

I've made a script that uses the Google Adwords API to insert big lists of keywords ideas and their monthly search volume into our database. It would be awesome to be able to also automatically get a difficulty score for those keywords from a tool like the SEOmoz Keyword Difficulty Tool. Sadly this tool doesn't seem to be in the SEOmoz API.

Google does provide a competition score in the AdWords API, but that's only based on the competitiveness of the AdWords auction for that keyword.

So my question is: does anyone know another keyword difficulty tool, that does have an API?

Thanks!

Daan
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belasco Subscriber last edited by

I don't know of one, but sounds like a great addition the to MOZ API
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