The Scenario
You are a content team lead. The editorial planning session is Thursday. You have 20 topic seeds in column A of an Excel workbook. Before the session you need a deduplicated, volume-ranked list of autocomplete keyword ideas for each seed so the team prioritizes based on data, not instinct.
That is 20 seeds × N autocomplete suggestions each, then deduplicated, then sorted by volume. Done manually, it is a morning gone.
The bad version of Wednesday:
- You open Ahrefs Keywords Explorer for seed 1, click Search Suggestions, copy the ideas
- You paste them into Excel with the seed labeled in a column
- You repeat for seeds 2 and 3
- Ten seeds in, you realize the same suggestions are appearing under multiple seeds
- You try to deduplicate in Excel with a COUNTIF formula and remove-duplicates, but the seed label column makes it complicated
- You walk into Thursday's session with a list that still has duplicates and no time to explain why.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that reads your seed list, fetches autocomplete suggestions from Ahrefs for all 20 seeds at once, then deduplicates and sorts the combined list.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
For each seed term in column A, fetch search suggestion keywords from Ahrefs and add each suggestion as a new row in the "Suggestions" tab with the seed term in column B and the suggestion in column A. After fetching all seeds, deduplicate the full list removing any suggestion that appears more than once, keeping the instance with the highest search volume. Sort the final list by search volume descending and write it to the "Ideas" tab.
SheetXAI fetches suggestions for all 20 seeds, deduplicates, sorts, and writes the clean output to the Ideas tab. The Thursday session has its data.
What You Get
Two tabs:
- Suggestions tab — every autocomplete idea fetched, labeled by seed, before deduplication
- Ideas tab — the deduplicated, volume-sorted final list
The sort is the session agenda. The highest-volume ideas appear first. The team assigns the top items to writers in the first 20 minutes and saves the tail for future quarters. No debate about priority — the volume column decides.
Want keyword difficulty alongside volume? Add "and keyword difficulty in column C" to the prompt.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Seed keyword lists assembled by content teams have common problems. SheetXAI handles them in the same prompt.
When seed terms are too broad and return off-topic suggestions
A seed like "marketing" returns hundreds of suggestions unrelated to the content focus.
For each seed in column A, fetch search suggestions from Ahrefs. Before deduplicating, filter to suggestions that contain at least one word from the seed term or are clearly topically related. Then deduplicate, sort by volume descending, and write the clean list to the Ideas tab.
When the team wants suggestions grouped by seed, not globally sorted
The content leads want the best ideas per topic, not one giant ranked list.
For each seed in column A, fetch search suggestions from Ahrefs. Group the results by seed in the Ideas tab — one section per seed with a header row for the seed term. Within each section, sort by search volume descending. Remove exact duplicates within each seed's section but do not deduplicate across seeds.
When some seeds return very few suggestions
A few niche seeds have fewer than 5 suggestions. The team needs to know which ones to broaden.
After fetching suggestions for all 20 seeds, flag any seed that returned fewer than 5 suggestions by writing "Low Suggestions" next to that seed in the original column A list. Keep the rest of the workflow the same.
When the session also needs a volume-tiered summary per seed
The editorial director wants a quick view of total estimated search demand available per topic.
Fetch search suggestions for all 20 seeds, deduplicate, sort by volume, and write to the Ideas tab. Then in a new tab called "Seed Summary," list each seed, the count of unique suggestions fetched, and the total combined search volume across all suggestions. Sort by total volume descending.
The pattern: the suggestion fetch and deduplication run in one call. Grouping, filtering, and seed summaries extend the same prompt.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a topic seed list in column A, then ask it to generate and rank autocomplete keyword ideas from Ahrefs. The Ahrefs integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to expand seed keywords into related terms in Excel or the Ahrefs in Excel overview.