The Scenario
You are a content team lead. The editorial planning session is Thursday. You have 20 topic seeds in column A — the themes your team is going to cover this quarter. Before the session you need a deduplicated, volume-ranked list of autocomplete keyword ideas for each seed so the team is prioritizing 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.
The bad version of Wednesday:
- You open Ahrefs Keywords Explorer for seed 1, click Search Suggestions, copy the ideas
- You paste them into the sheet with the seed labeled in a column
- You repeat for seed 2, seed 3
- You realize after 8 seeds that some ideas are showing up under multiple seeds
- You try to deduplicate manually, realize you do not remember which duplicate to keep, keep both
- You walk into Thursday's session with an inconsistent list that looks like it was assembled in a rush — because it was.
The fast version is one prompt the night before.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your spreadsheet that reads your seed list and fetches autocomplete suggestions from Ahrefs for all 20 seeds at once, then deduplicates and sorts the combined list without you touching Keywords Explorer.
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" sheet 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" sheet.
SheetXAI fetches suggestions for all 20 seeds, deduplicates the combined list, sorts by volume, and writes the clean output to the Ideas sheet. The Thursday session has a data foundation.
What You Get
Two sheets:
- Suggestions sheet — every autocomplete idea fetched, labeled by seed, before deduplication
- Ideas sheet — the deduplicated, volume-sorted final list
The sort is the session agenda. The highest-volume ideas appear first. The editorial team assigns the top items to writers in the first 20 minutes and saves the lower-volume tail for future quarters. No debate about which keywords to prioritize — the volume column decides.
Want keyword difficulty alongside volume? Add "and keyword difficulty in column C" to the prompt. Want to filter to suggestions with volume above 200? Add that condition.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Seed keyword lists assembled by a content team have common problems. SheetXAI handles them in the same prompt.
When seed terms are too broad and return mostly off-topic suggestions
A seed like "marketing" returns hundreds of suggestions that have nothing to do with the content team's focus area.
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 itself or are clearly related to the content topic. Then deduplicate, sort by volume descending, and write the clean list to the Ideas sheet.
When the team wants suggestions grouped by seed, not just sorted by volume globally
The content leads want to see 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 sheet — one section per seed with a header row for the seed term. Within each section, sort by search volume descending. Do not deduplicate across seeds, but remove exact duplicates within each seed's section.
When some seeds return very few suggestions
A few niche seed terms have fewer than 5 suggestions. The team wants those flagged so they can broaden the seed.
After fetching suggestions for all 20 seeds in column A, flag any seed that returned fewer than 5 suggestions in a new column next to the seed list on the original sheet, labeled "Low Suggestions." 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: how much total estimated search demand is available per topic seed.
Fetch search suggestions for all 20 seeds in column A, deduplicate, sort by volume, and write to the Ideas sheet. Then in a new sheet called "Seed Summary," list each seed, the count of unique suggestions fetched, and the total combined search volume of all suggestions for that seed. 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 without a new Keywords Explorer session.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any sheet 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 with volume data or the Ahrefs in Google Sheets overview.