“running shoe”, “Running Shoes!” and “shoes running” target the same page. Collapse every variant into one before you pay to check volumes.
The example below is already loaded, so you can see exactly what you get. Replace it with your own list and the result updates as you type.
🧹 Doing the whole job? Clean a keyword list → every fix for it, ticked and in the right orderGot a bigger job? The full Notepad runs the same engine on lists of any size — chain this with dedupe, sort and filter, undo any step, and save the whole routine as a recipe for next time.
running shoe
Running Shoes!
shoes running
trail shoes
trail shoerunning shoe
trail shoesRemoves lines that differ from an earlier one only by capitals, punctuation, plural vs singular, or word order — “running shoe”, “Running Shoes!” and “shoes running” become one. Keeps the first.
Remove Duplicates only catches exact copies. This goes further: lines are treated as the same if they differ only by capitals, punctuation, singular versus plural, or the order of their words. So “running shoe”, “Running Shoes!” and “shoes running” collapse into one, and the first one in the list is kept.
That is usually what you want before clustering or content planning, where those variants target the same page.
Yes. Remove Near-Duplicates runs entirely in your browser, on this page and in the full Notepad, with no sign-up, no limits, and nothing sent to a server.
The first one in the list. Sort by search volume first if you want the most-searched variant kept.
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The Near-Duplicate Keyword Remover is one of the free tools inside Seowolf’s Notepad. Paste a list once, then dedupe, filter, sort, compare and format it in seconds — every step undoable, nothing uploaded, no account.
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