Get Content Ideas from Competitor Websites (SEMRush)

On By AndyIn Business, seo

Requires:

  • SEMRush
  • A computer
  • The internet

If competitor has articles and blog posts inside a subfolder e.g. “buyers-guides” or “/blog” – make a note of the sub-folder name

  • Add Competitor’s homepage URL in “Search Bar” on SEMRush Homepage
  • Click “Organic Research”
  • Click on the “Positions” tab
  • Click on “Advanced Filter” and add the subfolder name e.g. “blog” as a URL filter
  • Export Results into Excel
  • Create a Pivot Table
  • Use the settings below – you’ll need to change position to “average” instead of “sum of”:
  • Tick the check-box for “URL” at the top
  • Drag search volume, traffic and position into “Values” box at the bottom right
  • Click the little arrow on the right of “Sum of Position” – go to “Value Field Settings” and choose “average”
  • Analyse which articles get the most traffic (approximately) and have most potential

Obvs. the URLs of my competitor have been blacked-out in the image above

If the competitor has all their articles at the root domain level e.g.

12 Best Weightlifting Belts of 2024 (Tested and Reviewed)

Just use SEMRush – Organic Research – Positions tab and download and pivot the pages data – no need for advanced filter

  • Once you’ve found the blog posts with the most traffic, you can analyse the “Exact URL” in SEMRush
  • This analysis, should show you the keywords on the page that generate most of the search traffic
  • I personally like to go after KWs with a Keyword Difficulty score of less than 20 for my personal blog and under 30 for my employer’s blog

You can also use Reddit & Quora for Content Ideas

Unsolicited #SEO tip: You can get great ideas for specific content ahead of features like PAAs being generated by using Google site operators with specific sites. For instance, I can use the command:

site:reddit[dot]com/r/amateur_boxing “how do i”

or

site:reddit.com/r/bootroom “how do i”

To search just the amateur boxing subreddit for questions starting with “how do I?” You can apply this on any niche or on other sites like Quora to get up to the minute questions people are asking.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markseo_seo-activity-6902220002146275329-MNVS/

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