Long Tail Keyword Generator — Google Autocomplete & Questions

Generate hundreds of real long-tail keywords and questions from one seed keyword (or a page URL) — the exact queries your audience types into Google, YouTube, and Bing autocomplete, in any country. Optionally add Google's actual "People also ask" questions on top. Then get it back grouped and ready to paste into your content: an FAQ, page headings, comparison pages, and a valid schema.org FAQPage JSON-LD block.

Also a FAQ generator. Every run writes a ready-to-publish FAQ.md and a FAQPage JSON-LD file to the key-value store — paste a topic or URL, get an SEO/GEO-optimized FAQ + schema you can drop straight onto a page. It's the AnswerThePublic-style question list and the publishable schema in one run.

This is the discovery + content engine for SEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization / AI search). A search-volume tool tells you how many people search a term you already know. This tells you what they actually type and ask — the exact strings to write against so your page ranks and gets cited by Google, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. Want both? Turn on volume enrichment and get discovered keywords with their monthly demand in one run.

What it does

For every seed, it fans out into hundreds of autocomplete queries (seed + a–z, question prefixes like how to / what is / is there a, and intent suffixes like api / tool / free / alternative), keeps the on-topic suggestions, and sorts each into a content bucket — one row per keyword:

Bucket	Use it for
question	FAQ blocks — the questions Google's "People also ask" and AI engines cite
comparison	"X vs Y" and alternatives pages
commercial	high-intent page headings (H2/H3) and product pages
longtail	body copy and use-case bullets

Features

• 🔎 Multi-engine — fan out across Google, YouTube, and Bing autocomplete at once. YouTube surfaces how-to/tutorial intent; Bing adds commercial phrasing Google misses. Results are unioned and de-duplicated, with each keyword tagged by the engines that found it.
• 🌍 Any market — pick one or several countries (US, UK, Spain, Mexico, Germany, Brazil…); each uses its own language automatically, or choose a second language (e.g. English searches in Spain). Every keyword is tagged with the country it came from — perfect for localized content.
• ❓ Real "People also ask" + related searches — optionally add Google's actual PAA questions and "Related searches" — the highest-quality questions for FAQ and AI-answer optimization.
• 📊 Prominence ranking — every keyword carries its best autocomplete position, a free popularity signal even without volume data.
• 🧭 Choose how deep to dig — Quick (mostly questions, ~150 keywords per seed), Standard (~500) or Deep (re-expands the best results, ~1,000).
• 🔗 Seed from a URL — give a page URL and it reads the title/H1/meta to seed itself: "optimize this page" with no manual keyword picking.
• 🧹 Near-duplicate clustering — collapses reworded variants so your FAQ isn't five versions of one question. This is the difference from raw autocomplete dumps: keywords come back clustered, deduplicated, bucketed by intent, and opportunity-scored — a work list, not a word list.
• 📄 Paste-ready output — writes FAQ.md, a schema.org FAQPage JSON-LD file, and SUMMARY.md to the key-value store, ready to drop straight into a page.
• 📈 Volume enrichment (optional) — chain to the Keyword Search Volume actor to attach real monthly search volume, CPC, and competition to every keyword.

Use cases

• SEO content & FAQ planning — discover the exact headings and questions a page needs to rank.
• GEO / AI-search optimization — capture the sub-questions ChatGPT and Perplexity fan a query into, and pre-answer them so your content gets cited.
• Localized / international SEO — build per-country keyword sets in one run.
• YouTube & video SEO — mine how-to/tutorial phrasing from YouTube autocomplete.
• PPC & ad groups — find long-tail, lower-competition variants around a core term.

Example

Seed email marketing across Google + YouTube + Bing, US + ES → 400+ keywords: questions (what is email marketing automation, how to start email marketing for free), comparisons (mailchimp vs klaviyo, mailchimp alternatives), and long-tail variants you'd never brainstorm. Turn on PAA and you also get Google's real "People also ask" questions; turn on volume and every one gets a monthly-search number.

Input

Field	What it does
Keywords to expand	One or more topics; each comes back as hundreds of real searches and questions.
…or start from a web page	A page address whose main topic becomes the starting keyword.
Where people search	Google, YouTube and/or Bing.
Country / Language	Which market(s) to collect; language follows the country unless you change it.
How many keywords	Quick (~150), Standard (~500, default) or Deep (~1,000) per starting keyword, country and search engine.
Maximum keywords per starting keyword	Spending cap; keeps the most popular results first.
Group near-duplicate keywords / Create a ready-to-paste FAQ	On by default, no extra cost.
Add Google's "People also ask" questions / Add monthly search volume	Optional extras.

Example input (JSON):

{
  "seeds": ["email marketing"],
  "sources": ["google", "youtube"],
  "countries": ["us", "gb"],
  "coverage": "standard"
}

Pricing

You pay per keyword delivered: $0.005 per keyword, or $0.012 per keyword when monthly search volume is added. One starting keyword on Google in one country is roughly $0.75 (Quick), $2.50 (Standard) or $5 (Deep). Set a maximum total charge on the run, or use Maximum keywords per starting keyword, and delivery stops at your cap.

Output

The run's Output tab links straight to four results: Overview (the keyword table), FAQ (Markdown), FAQPage JSON-LD and Summary (Markdown).

• Dataset — one row per keyword: seed, keyword, bucket, intent, sources, regions, best_rank, depth, cluster_id, is_cluster_representative, ai_overview (+ search_volume, cpc, competition, competition_index, opportunity_score when enriched). Every field is typed and described in the dataset schema; the Overview view shows them all as a table.
• Key-value store — organised into named collections:

Collection	Key	Format	What it is
FAQ (Markdown)	FAQ	text/markdown	Paste-ready FAQ from real question queries (cluster representatives). Answers from People Also Ask when SERP enrichment ran, otherwise TODO placeholders.
FAQPage JSON-LD	FAQPAGE_JSONLD	application/json	schema.org FAQPage block for <script type="application/ld+json">. Replace TODO answers before publishing.
Summary (Markdown)	SUMMARY	text/markdown	Per-seed overview: keyword count per bucket and the top 12 keywords of each bucket (with volume when enriched).
Run summary	RUN_SUMMARY	JSON	keywordsFound, keywordsDelivered and stopReason (charge_limit_reached when the spending cap trimmed delivery).

Via the API, fetch any artifact at https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<defaultKeyValueStoreId>/records/FAQ (or FAQPAGE_JSONLD, SUMMARY).

FAQ

Do I need an API key or account? No. Enter a seed keyword or a page URL and run it. PAA and volume enrichment are optional add-ons.

Is this a long tail keyword generator or a keyword research tool? Both, in the discovery sense: it generates the long-tail keywords, questions and People Also Ask ideas; pair it with the Keyword Search Volume actor (or the built-in Add monthly search volume option) when you need volumes, CPC and competition for what it found.

How is this different from a keyword volume tool? Volume tools rank terms you already have. This discovers the terms — the questions and long-tail you didn't know to look for. Combine them with the volume-enrichment option.

Does it work for non-English markets? Yes — pick the countries in Country (e.g. Spain, Mexico, Germany, Brazil). Each uses its main language unless you set Language, and every keyword is tagged with its country.

What are the FAQ artifacts for? Drop FAQ.md and the FAQPAGE_JSONLD schema block straight onto a page to win FAQ rich-results and AI citations. PAA supplies real questions; write the answers (or fill from your own content).

Related Actors

• Keyword Search Volume — add monthly search volume, CPC and competition to every keyword found here, or switch on Add monthly search volume here.
• AI Visibility Tracker — people ask AI assistants these same questions; check whether the answers mention your brand.
• YouTube Transcript Extractor — transcribe the videos that already answer your long-tail questions to see what they cover.
• Google Rank Tracker — track where your domain ranks for the long-tail keywords you pick from this list.

Support

Questions or a custom keyword/GEO workflow? business@aitorsm.com