How to use Google's keyword planner without creating campaign

Google's  Keyword Planner  has been the most widely used tool for keyword research due to the fact that data is pulled straight from google's database giving you more accurate results and it is absolutely free!No upsells. Now here's the catch,by default, before you can use the tool, you will have to sign-up with Adwords, fillout campaign details and provide billing information.This is ideal if you are looking to run ads campaign but what if you just want to do keyword research for your content strategy and blog posts in order to rank high on search engines for targeted keywords, it could really be annoying to go through all that just to use the tool.
It was my frustration that drove me to find a way around it and I have taken my time to explain it in this post.


Enter Adwords Manager.It seems like one  just can't bypass adwords.You can't but you will not need to run any campaign or provide credit card information to use the keyword planner tool and I will show you shortly. Adwords Manager was created to make it easy to manage accounts from one place like facebook manager.It was formely called My Client Centre (MCC).

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Sign up to create a manager's account in Adwords Manager

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Provide your account details

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Click on 'accounts'

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Click on 'management'

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Click on the 'add' icon to add another account. 

The keyword tool will not be available with the 1st account you created.It will be available after adding a new account. You will see a drop-down menu after clicking on the icon, click on 'create new account'

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Enter account name and create account

That's all you will have to do to add another account.

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Click on the new account to take you to your account overview.

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Click on the tools or settings icon.It will display a drop down menu.Under 'planning' you will see the 'keyword planner' button. Click on it. 

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There you have go!Keyword planner available for use

With the tool, you can search for new keywords, get search volume data etc as you can see in the image above.

These steps won't take you more than 15 minutes to complete.I broke them down to the minutest detail so that you don't get stuck at any point.Please comment if this helps.