Generate New Keywords

Written By seorocket

Last updated About 1 month ago

The Generate Keywords button on the Keywords dashboard is your control center for expanding and strengthening your keyword strategy. Instead of relying on a single approach to finding keywords, SEO Rocket offers five methods, each designed for a specific use case.

You’ll find the Generate Keywords button at the top of the Keywords page. Clicking it opens a dropdown menu with multiple keyword generation options. Each option adds keywords directly into your workspace, fully enriched with live SEO data.

This approach lets you build a well-rounded keyword list using manual ideas, AI discovery, competitor insights, and real performance data from your own content.

Why Add Keywords?

When you first complete onboarding, SEO Rocket builds a high-quality keyword list customized for your niche, business, and competitors. But sometimes you’ll want to include your own ideas — and that’s exactly what this feature is for.

You might add keywords because:

  • You already know specific search terms your audience uses.

  • You want to test new topics, products, or campaign ideas.

  • You’ve found opportunities our AI may have missed.

Add Keywords

What This Does

This option lets you manually add keywords or generate related keywords from your own ideas. It is the most flexible and hands-on way to bring keywords into SEO Rocket.

How It Works

When you select Add Keywords, a modal opens with two available modes:

Add Your Keywords

  • Enter exact keywords you already know you want to target

  • Keywords can be separated by commas or entered one per line

  • You can also upload a CSV or TXT file

  • Keywords appear as visual tags before submission

Get New Keywords

  • Enter one or more seed keywords

  • SEO Rocket finds related keyword ideas automatically

  • Great for expanding a small list into a larger opportunity set

Before adding anything to your workspace, SEO Rocket validates the keywords and prepares them for enrichment.

When to Use It

Use this option when you already have keyword ideas from:

  • Client input

  • Google Search Console

  • Paid ads

  • Brainstorming sessions

  • Existing marketing campaigns

Topic Cluster

What This Does

Topic Cluster generates approximately 20 semantically related keywords from a single topic or seed keyword. This is designed to help you build topical authority instead of writing isolated blog posts.

How It Works

  1. Enter a single topic or seed keyword, such as “digital marketing”

  2. SEO Rocket analyzes the topic using AI

  3. A cluster of closely related keyword ideas is generated

  4. Results appear in a preview screen with full SEO metrics

  5. You choose which keywords to add to your workspace

Each keyword is enriched with:

  • Search volume

  • Difficulty

  • Opportunity level

  • CPC

When to Use It

This feature is ideal when:

  • You want to build multiple articles around one core topic

  • You are planning a content hub or pillar strategy

  • You want structured coverage instead of random keywords

Expand Keywords

What This Does

Expand Keywords takes keywords you already have and turns them into long tail variations and related phrases. It helps you uncover hidden opportunities based on what you are already targeting.

How It Works

  1. Select one or more existing keywords from your list

  2. Configure expansion options such as:

    • Including question-based keywords

    • Including location-based variations

    • Minimum search volume

    • Maximum difficulty

    • Minimum and maximum word count

    • Maximum results per seed keyword

    • Total result limit

  3. SEO Rocket expands those keywords

  4. Results are filtered, scored, and shown in a preview

  5. You select which expanded keywords to add

When to Use It

Use Expand Keywords when:

  • You want more mileage from keywords you already trust

  • You are targeting long tail SEO traffic

  • You want easier ranking opportunities

  • You want question-style keywords for informational content

Generate from Competitors

What This Does

Generate from Competitors finds keywords your competitors are already ranking for. This gives you direct insight into what is working in your niche right now.

How It Works

  1. Choose competitors from your saved list or add temporary competitor domains

  2. SEO Rocket validates and normalizes competitor URLs

  3. The system analyzes competitor rankings

  4. Keywords they rank for are retrieved and scored

  5. Results appear in a preview modal

  6. You select which keywords to add to your workspace

Each keyword includes:

  • Search volume

  • Difficulty

  • Opportunity

  • CPC

Temporary competitors are used only for the analysis and are not saved unless you choose to add them later.

When to Use It

This feature is best when:

  • You want to reverse engineer competitor success

  • You are entering a new niche

  • You want to find gaps your competitors missed

  • You want proof-driven keyword ideas

Smart Keyword Discovery

What This Does

Smart Keyword Discovery automatically finds new keyword opportunities based on content you have already published. This is the most hands-off and intelligent keyword generation option in SEO Rocket.

How It Works

  1. SEO Rocket scans your last 10 published articles

  2. Primary keywords are extracted from each article

  3. Each keyword is expanded into related long tail variations

  4. Location-based variations are added if your workspace uses a location

  5. All keywords are enriched with SEO metrics

  6. Duplicates and existing workspace keywords are removed

  7. Quality filters are applied

  8. SEO scores are calculated

  9. The top keywords are automatically added to your workspace

You do not need to select keywords manually. SEO Rocket adds only the best opportunities based on scoring and relevance.

When to Use It

Use Smart Keyword Discovery when:

  • You already have published articles

  • You want your keyword strategy to grow automatically

  • You want to double down on topics that are already working

  • You prefer a fully automated workflow

Usage Limits and Quality Control

All keyword generation methods respect your keyword research usage limits. SEO Rocket checks limits before running any process.

Every method includes:

  • Duplicate detection

  • Existing keyword filtering

  • Live SEO data enrichment

  • Opportunity scoring

This ensures your keyword list stays clean, relevant, and focused on real ranking potential.

How These Work Together

The Generate Keywords menu is designed to be used over time, not just once.

A common workflow looks like this:

  • Start with onboarding generated keywords

  • Add your own ideas using Add Keywords

  • Build structure with Topic Clusters

  • Expand winning keywords using Expand Keywords

  • Spy on competitors for gaps

  • Let Smart Keyword Discovery grow your list automatically as you publish

Together, these tools turn keyword research from a one-time task into an ongoing system that improves as your site grows.