Content Gap Analysis: How to Find Keywords Your Competitors Miss
A content gap analysis compares your website's content with your competitors' to find topics and keywords your audience searches for that you don't cover well, or that no one covers well. To run one, list your true search competitors, collect the keywords they rank for, remove what you already rank for, and prioritize the remainder by relevance, intent, and difficulty. The result is a short list of pages worth creating or improving. It matters because most sites publish about what they think customers want. A gap analysis replaces guesswork with evidence of what people actually search for. What Is a Content Gap Analysis? A content gap analysis is a structured comparison of your content coverage against competitors and against real search demand. It finds three kinds of opportunity: Missing topics: Competitors rank for subjects you have no page on. Weak coverage: You have a page, but it ranks poorly or answers only part of the question. Unserved demand: People search f...