Generate New Keywords with Search Volumes ⚒️⚒️🟢🟢
This workflow automatically generates new SEO keywords by calling the Google Ads API and retrieves data such as monthly search volume, bid price range, and competition level. It efficiently processes keyword data and ultimately updates the results to Google Sheets for easier analysis and management. This process is suitable for digital marketing teams, advertisers, and content creators, helping them quickly identify potential keywords, enhance promotional effectiveness, and address the issue of low efficiency in manual keyword discovery.

Workflow Name
Generate New Keywords with Search Volumes ⚒️⚒️🟢🟢
Key Features and Highlights
This workflow automatically generates new SEO keywords by leveraging the Google Ads API and retrieves detailed data such as monthly search volumes, bid ranges, and competition levels. It integrates keyword data splitting and field editing, then automatically updates the results into Google Sheets for easy subsequent analysis and management. As an optimized version of a previous related keyword generation workflow, it supports flexible configuration of geographic location and language parameters, making it suitable for efficient batch keyword processing.
Core Problems Addressed
In SEO and Google Ads promotion, quickly and accurately discovering promising new keywords along with their search volumes and competitive metrics is crucial for improving campaign effectiveness. This workflow solves the issues of low efficiency in manual keyword research and fragmented data management by automating the entire process from keyword generation and data retrieval to storage.
Application Scenarios
- Digital marketing teams conducting SEO keyword research and planning
- Advertisers optimizing Google Ads keyword lists
- Content creators seeking popular and high-potential keyword topics
- Corporate market analysts monitoring competitive keywords
- Automated marketing tools supplementing and updating keyword data
Main Process Steps
- Trigger receives an array of input keywords.
- Prepare keyword data for Google Ads API call.
- Use an HTTP request node to call the Google Ads “generateKeywordIdeas” endpoint, passing customer ID, geographic location, language, and seed keywords as parameters.
- Split the keyword result set returned by the API.
- Edit and extract fields including keyword text, average monthly search volume, competition index, and bid price.
- Automatically append the processed keyword data to a specified Google Sheets spreadsheet.
Systems or Services Involved
- Google Ads API (keyword generation and search volume retrieval)
- Google Sheets (data storage and management)
- n8n automation platform (workflow orchestration and execution)
Target Users and Value
- SEO specialists and content marketers: Quickly obtain accurate keywords and data to support content creation and optimization.
- PPC advertisers: Automate keyword generation to enhance ad campaign performance.
- Market analysts and operations staff: Keep keyword data updated in real-time for dynamic strategy adjustments.
- Automation tool developers: Integrate as a keyword mining module within larger marketing automation ecosystems.
- Small and medium-sized enterprises and digital marketing agencies: Save labor costs, improve marketing efficiency, and enable data-driven promotional decisions.
This workflow offers a streamlined and efficient keyword generation solution by automatically acquiring search volume and competition data, helping users rapidly identify high-quality keywords to optimize SEO and advertising outcomes. Detailed setup and usage instructions can be found in the workflow’s built-in annotations and related blog guides.