Screen a list of keywords with the Keyword Golden Ratio, with the allintitle query built for each one and the method's scope stated rather than enforced by a block.
Change the inputs that matter to your decision. Optional assumptions stay collapsed until you need them.
One per line: the keyword, the allintitle count, and the monthly searches, separated by commas.
best running shoes for flat feet: KGR 0.20, golden.
KGR is the number of pages with your exact keyword in the title, divided by the monthly search volume. Below 0.25 is the golden ratio, and the method is defined for keywords under 250 monthly searches. The allintitle count comes from running the query above in Google — there is no way to obtain it automatically.
| best running shoes for flat feet | 0.20 — GoldenBelow 0.25 and inside the method's volume range — a golden ratio keyword. |
|---|---|
| Query for "best running shoes for flat feet" | allintitle:"best running shoes for flat feet"Run this in Google and read the results count |
KGR is a screening heuristic for finding low-competition long-tail keywords, not a ranking prediction. A golden ratio says few pages have optimised for that exact phrase; it says nothing about the strength of the sites that have, the search intent behind the phrase, or whether the traffic is worth having.
Practical notes about the inputs, assumptions, and result.
The number of pages with your exact keyword phrase in their title, divided by the monthly search volume. Doug Cunnington's method holds that a ratio below 0.25, for a keyword under 250 monthly searches, indicates a phrase few people have deliberately targeted — and therefore one a new site can rank for quickly.
You run it in Google yourself: allintitle:"your exact keyword" and read the results count. There is no API for it, which is why it is an input here rather than something the tool fetches. The result builds the query for each keyword so you can copy it straight across.
Because refusing to answer tells you nothing. KGR's threshold is only validated below 250 monthly searches, so above that the verdict is withheld and the reason stated — but the ratio itself is still informative as context. Blocking the entry outright, which is what the old version did, just sends you to a spreadsheet.
No. It means few pages have optimised their title for that exact phrase. It says nothing about the domain authority of the pages that do rank, whether the search intent matches what you would write, or whether the traffic is worth having. It is a screening heuristic for building a shortlist, not a prediction.
Because that is how the method is used. Nobody checks one keyword — you pull thirty or fifty from a research tool and screen them for the handful worth writing. One line per keyword gives you all the ratios and all the queries at once, sorted so the best is named.
Then there is no ratio, and the result says so rather than dividing by zero and printing infinity. A keyword nobody searches for has nothing to rank for, however few pages compete on it. Very low but non-zero volumes can still be worth writing in aggregate, which is the whole premise of long-tail strategy.
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