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Top Keywords

Learn everything you need to know about the Top Keywords feature and how to get the best insights for your brand.

Written by Evangelia

The Top Keywords feature gives you a detailed breakdown of the most important terms driving your collected mentions, helping you understand performance and conversation trends in a structured, data-driven way.

Unlike visual summaries such as the Keyword Cloud, this view focuses on keyword performance metrics ranked by popularity for deeper analysis.

With Top Keywords, you can find the most frequently used keywords and hashtags (up to 1K) in your brand or competitor mentions.

Where to find it

You can access Top Keywords from the main menu.

top keywords in the main menu

From here, you can also:

  • View your trackers (hidden by default for clarity, but can be revealed when needed)

  • Apply filters

  • Use Boolean search

  • Adjust the calendar date range

where to find mention trackers in top keywords feature

Why it’s useful

The Top Keywords feature helps you:

  • Identify high-performing topics and narratives

  • Track keyword-level performance over time

  • Understand geographic impact per keyword

  • Compare engagement and sentiment at a granular level

  • Optimize your tracking strategy based on real usage patterns

What insights you can get with Top Keywords

The Top Keywords table is sampled from up to 40K mentions by default, ensuring fast loading while maintaining accuracy.

For deeper analysis, you also have the option to load up to 100K mentions, although this may take slightly longer to process.

option to load up to 100k mentions

Each keyword includes the following metrics:

  • Rank: position of the keyword based on performance

  • Keyword name

  • Trend indicator: showing whether it is rising or declining

  • Number of Mentions

  • Reach

  • Engagement

  • Sentiment breakdown: positive & negative

  • Top country: where the keyword is most active

metrics of top keywords

Keyword configuration options

To refine your results, you can adjust how keywords are processed:

  • Word grouping options:

    • 1-word keywords

    • 2-word keywords

    • 3-word keywords

    • Mixed mode (default)

  • Stop-words filtering:

    • Enabled by default to remove irrelevant common words

    • Fully embedded into the system, but can be disabled if needed

  • Hashtag-only mode:

    • Allows you to view only hashtag-based keywords for more social-focused analysis

top keyword configuration options

Advanced settings

In advanced configuration, you also have the option to hide mention tracker keywords (enabled by default).

This helps keep the view focused on organic keyword performance. However, you can disable it if you want a more complete dataset, including tracker-specific terms.

advanced settings

For plans that include custom dashboards, Top Keywords is also available as a component that can be added directly to your dashboard.

top keyword component in custom dashboards
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