Monthly

Get keyword ideas for your seed terms

Each month you receive keyword ideas with search volumes for the seeds you choose.

Runs: Monthly
Apps: Google Ads
AI: Not needed
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: on the 1st of each month, email me keyword ideas and monthly search volumes for 'standing desk', 'ergonomic chair' and 'desk lamp', sorted by volume.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A founder launching a new product line wants to know what people search for before writing a single ad. She types a few seed phrases into the Keyword Planner, scrolls through hundreds of suggestions, copies some into a spreadsheet and loses the thread when the next task arrives. Months later she still bids on guesses, and a high-volume phrase her competitors use never makes it into her ad groups.

Once a month, ClickRuntime sends your seed keywords to the Google Ads keyword ideas service, sorts the suggestions by average monthly searches and emails the list. You get a fresh, ranked set of ideas on a regular rhythm without reopening the planner each time.

Content marketers use the same list to plan blog topics, since search volume is a decent proxy for interest.

What you get out of it

New angles surface regularly
Search behavior shifts, and a monthly pull shows phrases that were not in last month's list. You spot a rising term early and write an ad group for it before competitors crowd in.
Ideas ranked by real search volume
Sorting by monthly searches puts the highest-demand phrases at the top. You stop guessing which ideas matter and spend your limited testing budget on terms people actually type. Over a few months of emails you also learn which themes your market keeps returning to.
Ad groups built from evidence
Each batch gives you grouped phrases to split into tight ad groups. Tighter groups let you write ad copy that mirrors the search, which helps relevance and keeps cost per click down.
Content topics for free
The same list tells a blog or video team which questions have audiences. That ties editorial planning to demand instead of to whatever the team found interesting that week. Planning a quarter of articles around proven demand reduces posts nobody ever finds.
Seasonality becomes visible
Running monthly builds a comparison over time, so a phrase that spikes every November is obvious. You can plan budgets and landing pages ahead of the peak instead of reacting to it.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Once a month, ClickRuntime asks Google Ads for keyword ideas based on the seed terms you chose.
It sorts the ideas by monthly search volume, highest first.
You get an email listing each keyword with its search volume and how competitive it is.

Before it runs live

Connect Google Ads

What you get

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Get keyword ideas for your seed termstoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Keyword ideas for invoicing software, agency billing 14,800 invoicing software (high) 2,400 invoice software for agencies (medium)

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Google Ads steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

keyword_ideas_report.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, notify

CUSTOMER_ID = "1234567890"
SEEDS = ["invoicing software", "agency billing"]

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    res = http.post(f"https://googleads.googleapis.com/v21/customers/{CUSTOMER_ID}:generateKeywordIdeas",
        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('google', 'ads')}",
                 "developer-token": credentials.secret("GOOGLE_ADS_DEVELOPER_TOKEN")},
        json={"keywordSeed": {"keywords": SEEDS}, "language": "languageConstants/1000",
              "geoTargetConstants": ["geoTargetConstants/2840"], "keywordPlanNetwork": "GOOGLE_SEARCH"}).json()
    ideas = sorted(res.get("results", []), key=lambda i: -int(i["keywordIdeaMetrics"].get("avgMonthlySearches", 0)))[:50]
    lines = [f"{int(i['keywordIdeaMetrics'].get('avgMonthlySearches', 0)):>8,}  {i['text']}  "
             f"({i['keywordIdeaMetrics'].get('competition', 'UNKNOWN').lower()})" for i in ideas]
    notify.email_me(f"Keyword ideas for {', '.join(SEEDS)}", "\n".join(lines))
    return {"ideas": len(ideas)}

FAQ

Common questions

How do I tell it which seed keywords to use?

The seeds are a short list of phrases and, optionally, a website address, set once and reused each month. You can ask for the seeds to be updated whenever your offer changes. A handful of focused seeds usually returns better ideas than a long vague list.

Are the search volumes exact?

They are averages reported by Google's keyword planning data, and for accounts with little or no ad spend they may appear as ranges instead of exact numbers. They are good for ranking ideas against each other, not for precise traffic forecasts.

Can the ideas be limited to my country or language?

Yes. The request carries a location and language, so a US store can ask for US English results only. Set both up front, because search volumes and phrasing differ a lot between regions, even among English speakers.

What permissions does it need?

read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (monthly). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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