See the top 100 keywords your competitor ranks for.
Enter any competitor domain to pull their top-ranking keywords with live volume, intent, position, and the URLs that earn the rank. Use it to map their visible footprint and spot terms you should be targeting next.
What you get
100 ranked keywords sorted by volume, with intent and position context.
Use it for
Closing the keyword gap — feed these terms into briefs, refresh queues, or your project plan.
Pull a competitor's keyword footprint
One domain at a time. We pull the top 100 keywords by search volume and surface intent + position so you can spot the strongest content angles.
Type a competitor domain to start
We'll pull their top 100 ranking keywords with live volume, intent, position, and the URL earning each rank.
About this tool
Competitor Keywords
Type any competitor domain. Get the top 100 keywords they rank for, grouped by position bucket and search intent.
Knowing which keywords a competitor ranks for is one of the highest-leverage moves in SEO — it tells you where their organic traffic comes from, which topics they have invested content into, and where the gaps are for you to attack. Competitor Keywords gives you that list, ranked by current position and broken down by search volume, CPC, intent, and SERP position bucket. No project setup and no API key — just the domain.
How it works
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Type the competitor domain
Just the domain — competitor.com, www.competitor.com, or the full URL all work. The tool normalises and strips protocols, paths, and query strings automatically.
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Live top-100 pull
A live request to the SEO data provider returns the top 100 keywords that domain currently ranks for in the default search location, ordered by position. Each row has keyword, position, monthly search volume, CPC, and inferred intent.
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Position bucket summary
Five buckets — top 3, first page (4-10), second page (11-20), pages 3-5 (21-50), pages 6-10 (51-100) — show how concentrated their ranking footprint is. A site with 70 of 100 keywords on the first page is structurally stronger than one with 70 on page 2.
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Intent + volume distribution
A bar visualisation breaks the 100 keywords down by dominant search intent so you can see whether the competitor wins on informational, commercial, or transactional queries.
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Sortable table + CSV export
Sort the list by any column — position, volume, CPC, intent — and export the full table as CSV for use in your own keyword strategy or for clustering with the Keyword Clustering tool.
Who uses this
- Plotting an attack list of competitor terms before writing a content brief.
- Quickly auditing a new competitor that just appeared in your category.
- Finding keywords with high commercial intent and low position concentration — the soft spots.
- Sanity-checking whether a competitor is genuinely a content threat or just authority-rich.
- Building a "keywords we should rank for" list for a new product launch.
- Validating that a competitor named in a sales call actually owns the SERP they claim to.
Frequently asked questions
What does a competitor keyword pull cost?+
There is no subscription. One competitor keyword pull costs 55 credits, and you are only charged when a run produces a result — a failed run returns the hold automatically. The 500 credits you get on signup cover 9 runs. Credits do not expire.
Where does the keyword data come from?+
DataForSEO's ranked-keywords endpoint, with SE Ranking as a fallback. These are two of the largest commercial SERP indexes — the same data sources used by enterprise tools, with rolling daily-to-weekly refreshes.
Can I get more than 100 keywords?+
A run returns the top 100 by current position. For larger pulls (top 500, top 1000, full ranking inventory), a project handles batched ranked-keyword exports with persistent storage and gap analysis.
How accurate is the search volume?+
Volume is the rolling 12-month average from the underlying provider, sourced from clickstream and Google Keyword Planner blends. It is the same volume metric used in Semrush and Ahrefs and is reliable for prioritisation, though absolute volumes can drift ±20% across providers — use it for relative ranking, not as an exact traffic forecast.
What does the "position bucket" tell me?+
It groups the 100 keywords by where on the SERP the competitor currently ranks: 1-3 (Top 3, where most clicks happen), 4-10 (First page, still significant), 11-20 (Second page, almost zero clicks), and pages 3-10 (long-tail). A competitor with most of their footprint in pages 11-50 has built breadth but not depth — those are the keywords most stealable.
How is this different from Ahrefs Site Explorer or Semrush Domain Overview?+
Same underlying data category, simpler workflow. Ahrefs and Semrush give you the full ranking inventory but require an account and gate the export. Competitor Keywords is a fast, free, zero-setup version focused on the top 100 — useful when you want a competitor sanity-check in 10 seconds without logging into a paid tool, or when you want to feed the export straight into Keyword Clustering for clustering.
Will the competitor know I checked them?+
No. No request is sent to the competitor domain — the data is queried against the provider's pre-existing SERP index. It is purely a database lookup against published ranking data.
Can I cluster the competitor's keywords by topic?+
Yes — export the table as CSV, then upload it to the Keyword Clustering tool. You'll get the competitor's keywords grouped into semantic clusters with intent and page-type recommendations, which is the cleanest way to see which topical territories they have actually invested in.
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