
Two such tools are Ahrefs and Ubersuggest.

These days, there are professional tools you can use to streamline and speed up a good portion of your research process.

You're not stuck looking at your referral data, checking out Google's auto-complete, and hoping there's some valuable information in the keyword planner. Of course, research doesn't need to be done by hand like it used to. I would venture to say that the best content marketers out there spend more time researching their topics – including what topics they should cover – than they do writing the article itself. The majority of us content marketers put quite a bit of time into research we can't just throw ideas at the wall and hope something sticks. One key aspect of web marketing is research.
