Guide overview
Users want to compare websites side by side and find ranking gaps against competitors.
Purpose
Compare Domains helps benchmark a website against competitors. It shows where domains overlap, where competitors are stronger, and where missing or weak keyword opportunities exist.
Ranking Impact
The report supports competitive prioritization. It helps identify topics competitors win, categories your site undercovers, and keywords worth targeting or refreshing.
How To Use It
- Enter competitor domains for the same market.
- Select country, device, date range, and currency context.
- Compare traffic, keywords, average position, top 3, top 10, and overlap metrics.
- Move strong opportunities into Keyword Gap, content briefs, or tracking.
Key Metrics
- Organic keywords
- Traffic
- Average position
- Top 3
- Top 10
- Top 100
- Common keywords
- Missing keywords
- Weak keywords
- Strong keywords
Comparison
Compared with Keyword Gap, Compare Domains is the executive view. Keyword Gap is the tactical keyword list that comes after identifying competitor differences.
Use Cases
- Competitor benchmarking
- SEO sales discovery
- Market share review
- Opportunity sizing
FAQ
Start with two to four direct search competitors. Too many unrelated domains can make the comparison noisy.
A missing keyword is a query where competitors rank but your selected domain does not have meaningful visibility.
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