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Show a new client who they really compete with
Replace the usual list of giants with the rivals that share the client's searches, labeled Closest, Close or Related.
SEO Competitor Analysis Tool
An SEO competitor analysis tool that finds the rivals who compete for your searches, not the giants who happen to rank.
Free to start. No account or card needed.
Research
The real app, live
See the SEO Competitor Analysis Tool work on a real site.
The real app, not a mock-up. In Vee3.ai this is Competitors (Dashboard and domain reports).
Run it on your site
What it does
What the SEO competitor analysis tool measures
Rivals by footprint, not size
Candidates are ranked by keyword-footprint similarity, and marketplaces, social platforms, directories and review sites are removed.
Overview
SEO Competitor Analysis Tool, in depth.
Ask most SEO competitor analysis tools for your competitors and you get a marketplace, a forum and a national publisher. They rank for everything, so they overlap with everyone, and none of them is the business taking your customers. Vee3.ai ranks candidates by how similar their keyword footprint is to yours, so a niche rival beats a giant, and it removes marketplaces, social platforms, directories and review sites outright.
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Competitor research that starts from shared searches
Discovery pulls candidate domains for your market, strips out the platforms, and keeps only sites that share real searches with you: at least three shared keywords, or 0.5% of your keyword footprint when that is larger. A candidate more than 20 times your size is dropped as a different kind of site. In one real workspace (The Marketing Agency, September 2026), the closest rival shared 256 searches, and four rivals were monitored instead of every giant that ranks.
How the SEO competitive analysis scores peer fit
A competitor qualifies on shared keywords, overlap, relative size and position quality. The score weighs the square root of keyword overlap most heavily at 0.45, then keyword scale similarity at 0.25, traffic scale at 0.15, support at 0.10 and position quality at 0.05, and a rival needs 32 or more to qualify. Each one is labeled Closest, Close or Related by comparing its overlap with the highest in your shortlist, so you know who to watch and who to note.
Competitor keyword analysis mapped to your roadmap
Knowing a rival's top keywords is only useful if you can see which ones you already cover. On the Dashboard, Generate report builds the competitor top keywords list for your monitored rivals and marks each keyword On roadmap or Review topic. Review topic opens Expand Roadmap with that keyword ready to add, so a gap becomes a planned page on your SEO roadmap in two clicks. Check any single keyword first with the keyword analyzer to see who holds page one.
Competitor tracking on your Dashboard
Up to five competitors stay on your SEO dashboard in one table beside your own brand, with authority, monthly organic traffic, pages, search overlap and a traffic share bar across the whole set. Open any rival's domain report for history from one month to five years, with dual charts for authority and organic reach, each metric benchmarked against the median of its qualified peers. A rival's climb is visible the month it starts.
Works for brand-new sites
No rankings yet? The cold-start path takes up to eight of your own best-ranking keywords, reads the top ten results for each, and favors domains that keep reappearing across them. Discovery starts in the background the moment you enter your address during setup, so the shortlist is ready when you reach the question of which competitors to monitor.
Research any domain, compare up to fifty
Type any public domain or page URL into the header search to open its domain report: authority, history, top keywords, ranked pages and its own organic competitors. Batch mode compares up to 50 domains in one table you can export. Because Vee3.ai is an all-in-one SEO tool with competitor analysis built in, the same workspace also crawls your site with the SEO crawler, writes the pages, and shows which domains AI answers cite with the AI visibility tool.
Find the rivals who actually share your searches
Start in a guest workspace with no account or card; competitor discovery begins the moment you enter your address.
How it works
How the SEO Competitor Analysis Tool works, in 4 steps.
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Map the market
One request retrieves candidate competitors; platforms, directories and review sites are removed.
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Compare footprints
Candidates need at least three shared keywords and are ranked by footprint similarity, not size.
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Measure
Authority, traffic, pages, search overlap and traffic share for each rival, benchmarked against the competitor median.
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Monitor
Up to five competitors stay on your Dashboard, with an on-demand report of their top keywords marked On roadmap or Review topic.
Who it is for
Who uses these competitor analysis tools
In-house teams
Watch the five rivals that matter
Keep your closest competitors on the Dashboard with authority, traffic share and history.
Founders and solo SEOs
Map your market before you rank
The cold-start path finds rivals from the results pages of your best keywords, even for a young site.
Why it is different
How it differs from typical competitor analysis tools
- 01Who counts as a competitor Typical tools: Whoever shares the most keywords, so giants lead
- 02Qualification Typical tools: Any overlap at all
- 03New sites Typical tools: An empty report until you rank
- 04Keyword gaps Typical tools: A long export of their keywords
- 05History Typical tools: Recent months
- 06Setup Typical tools: A separate project to configure
What you get
Outputs you can act on.
Proximity labels: Closest, Close, Related
Peer-fit score with confidence
Domain Rank and referring domain history up to 5 years
Organic traffic and keyword history
Traffic share across your competitive set
Competitor top keywords mapped to your roadmap
Exports of keywords, competitors, ranked pages and batch comparisons
Under the hood: the limits and thresholds it runs on
- Peer fit weights
- √overlap 0.45 · keyword scale 0.25 · traffic scale 0.15 · support 0.10 · position 0.05
- Qualification
- Shared keywords ≥ max(3, 0.5% of yours), size ratio ≤ 20, score ≥ 32
- Monitoring
- Up to 5 competitors on the Dashboard; top-keywords report cached 7 days
- Market
- Your roadmap's most-used market; otherwise .ca, .uk and .au map to their country and the rest to the United States
- History
- 1 month to 5 years; dual charts for authority and organic reach
- Batch
- Compare up to 50 domains at once and export the comparison
SEO Competitor Analysis Tool questions
What does an SEO competitor analysis tool do?
It identifies the sites competing with you in search and shows how they win: their authority, traffic, keywords and ranked pages. Vee3.ai also decides who counts as a competitor by shared searches, and maps their keywords against your own roadmap so gaps turn into planned pages.
What is the best SEO tool for competitor site analysis?
Look for one that finds your real rivals before it measures them, handles a site with little ranking history, and ties their keywords back to your plan. Vee3.ai was built around those three: footprint-based discovery, a cold-start path for new sites, and On roadmap or Review topic marks on every competitor keyword.
What do Closest, Close and Related actually mean?
Each label compares a competitor’s search overlap with the highest overlap in your shortlist. A site with 80% or more of that top overlap is Closest, 50% or more is Close, and anything lower is Related. It measures shared searches, not geographic distance.
Can I add a competitor that wasn’t suggested?
Yes. In the setup step “Which competitors should I monitor?”, use Add your own competitor with a domain or full URL. If suggestions don’t load, choose Try suggestions again, or pick Add them later to finish setup without competitors.
Why is the competitor keyword report empty?
Competitor top keywords is generated only when you click Generate report on the Dashboard. Opening the Dashboard never runs it. The result is cached for 7 days, then you can use Refresh report. Review topic opens Expand Roadmap with that keyword ready to add.
Can I research a competitor I don’t monitor?
Yes. Type any public domain or full page URL into the header search to open its domain report, with authority, history, top keywords, ranked pages and organic competitors. Local hosts, IP addresses and custom ports aren’t accepted.
Can I export competitor data?
Yes. The domain report has Export keywords and Export competitors, and ranked pages export whatever is loaded, so use Load next 1,000 to pull more first. In batch mode, Export comparison saves the whole table.
Works with
Tools it hands work to.
Where it sits in the loop
Size the market and the competition before you commit a single page.
Point Vee3.ai at your site.
Start a workspace without an account and watch the roadmap build itself. Save it to an account whenever you are ready.