Search suggestions

Search suggestions
are popular search key phrases variations that a search engine offers as you type in the search bar. These suggestions help expand a project's semantic core by incorporating higher‑tier keywords that users actively search for.
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Collect search suggestions

Available sources for collecting suggestions:

  • Yandex;
  • Google;
  • Mail.ru;
  • Bing;
  • Yahoo;
  • YouTube.

How to collect search suggestions

  1. Go toKeywords.
  2. Press on the toolbar.
  3. Select Collect keyword suggestions.
  4. Tick sources and locations.
  5. Select Method and Nesting level. If no method is selected, suggestions will be collected using the "Search keyword []" method.
  6. Add keywords.
  7. Press Research.

Search suggestions: How to collect search suggestions

Enable new groups after collecting search suggestions to display them inRank Tracker 🤖

By default, newly created groups are disabled after collecting search suggestions, and disabled groups do not appear in Rank Tracker. To make them visible, enable the groups:

  • Click the gray circle to the left of the group name;
  • Or, select multiple groups using checkboxes and enable them via the group activation tool in the toolbar.

A green circle indicates that the group is enabled and will be included in rank tracking.

What HY, HG, and HM mean in group names

The tool creates a list of groups with collected search suggestions. Every group contains keywords collected from a particular source in the particular location. A short abbreviation near a group's name points at the keyword source.

  • HY — Yandex;
  • HG — Google;
  • HM — Mail.ru;
  • HYh — Yahoo;
  • HB — Bing;
  • HYb — Youtube.

Search Suggestion Nesting level

The nesting level setting determines which keywords will be used to collect suggestions.

  • Level 1: Suggestions are collected only for the keywords you entered;
  • Level 2: Suggestions for both your original keywords and the new keywords found at Level 1;
  • Level 3: Suggestions for keywords found at Level 2.

The higher the collection level, the longer and more detailed the suggested keywords will be.

For example, suggestions for the keywords "how to wash" could look like this:

  • Level 1 → how to wash a cat;
  • Level 2 → how to wash a cat at home;
  • Level 3 → how to wash a cat at home without going crazy.
Collection completed, but no keywords in groups. Selection didn’t work?

This can happen for two reasons: the collected keywords already exist in your project (duplicates within the same project are not allowed and won’t be added) or the selected source doesn't have any matching phrases based on the specified collection parameters.