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Competitive analysis

Comparing a site's search position against competitors across visibility, content coverage, authority and technical capability to locate realistic opportunities.

In full

Search competitors are often not business competitors — publishers, marketplaces and comparison sites frequently occupy the SERPs a brand wants. Useful analysis identifies where competitors are winning, why structurally, and which of those advantages are replicable. Gap analysis at keyword level is the common starting point, but template and architecture comparison usually explains more of the difference.

Example

Analysis shows a competitor's advantage rests on 3,000 indexable facet pages the brand's platform cannot currently produce.

Related terms

Share of voice

The proportion of available search visibility a site captures across a defined keyword set, weighting positions by expected click-through…

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Identifying and prioritising the queries a business should target, using volume, difficulty, intent, business value and current visibility.

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