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Track Your Competitors with Ahrefs & Better Alternatives

Staying ahead of the competition is crucial. A competitor analysis allows you to get more data to help you make better marketing decisions. By understanding what your rivals are doing, you can find the right inspiration, identify opportunities and find new customers you wouldn't have gotten to otherwise

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The goal of competitor analysis isn't to copy what others are doing, but to understand their strategies to find your own missed opportunities. Manually keeping tabs on every competitor is impossible. Automated tools are essential for gathering the intelligence needed to make informed marketing decisions and stay competitive.

Don't stop at SEO, track their whole marketing strategy

While SEO is a critical piece of the puzzle, a comprehensive analysis requires looking at a competitor's entire marketing funnel. For this, Panoramata.co is your most precious ally, providing a 360-degree view.

With Panoramata, you can

  • Track Multi-Channel Campaigns: Monitor competitor activities across email, SMS, landing pages, and even website changes over time.
  • Analyze Ad Creatives: Get insights into ads running on major platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and more.
  • Gain Campaign Inspiration: Access a dashboard summarizing recent launches and promotions, allowing you to understand market trends and inspire your next campaign.
  • Deconstruct Funnels: Dive into specific company profiles to see their content calendars, email flows, ads, and landing pages, giving you a complete picture of their strategy.

How to do SEO tracking with Ahrefs (and more with Panoramata)

For analyzing search performance and SEO strategies, Ahrefs remains a powerhouse. Here’s a step-by-step guide to using it for effective competitor analysis.

Identify Your Top Organic Competitors

The first step is to know who you're actually competing with in search results.

  • Simply enter your website's URL into Ahrefs and navigate to the "Top Organic Competitor" section.
  • Ahrefs will show you which websites are ranking for a similar set of keywords. The "keyword lab" feature reveals the percentage of shared keywords, with a higher overlap indicating a more direct competitor.

Analyze Competitor Traffic and Top Pages

Once you've identified your key competitors, you can analyze their performance to see what's working for them.

  • Use the site overview to understand where their traffic is coming from.
  • Look at their top-ranking pages to see which content drives the most organic traffic.
  • Analyze their backlinks by checking "referring domains." This is a goldmine for identifying potential link-building opportunities and discovering who is talking about your competition.

Uncover Paid Search Strategies

Beyond organic search, Ahrefs can give you a peek into your competitors' paid advertising efforts on Google. You can see the paid keywords they are bidding on, which can inform your own PPC strategy and highlight lucrative terms you may have missed.

Truth is - Panoramata will be way better at this.

Conduct a Content Gap Analysis

This is one of the most actionable steps in competitor analysis. A content gap analysis helps you find valuable keywords that your competitors are ranking for, but you are not.

  • In the competitive analysis section, compare your URL against several of your competitors' URLs.
  • Ahrefs will generate a list of keywords that one or more of your competitors rank for, but you don't.
  • To find quick wins, focus on keywords that have a high search volume and a low keyword difficulty score.

So, Ahrefs will help you perform SEO Content Gap Analysis. While Panoramata will ensure you can achieve a complete content gap analysis on their whole marketing strategy, including emails, ads and landing pages. Because SEO is not enough in terms of identifying opportunities you can seize.

Set Up Automated Alerts

Competitor analysis is not a one-time task; it's an ongoing process. To stay updated without constant manual checks, set up automated alerts in Ahrefs and Panoramata - both platforms helps you achieve this. This continuous monitoring ensures you never miss a significant move from your competition.

A competitor analysis provides the insights you need to build a more effective marketing strategy. For deep dives into SEO, backlinks, and paid search, Ahrefs is an indispensable tool. For a broader understanding of a competitor's entire marketing funnel—including their email, ads, and creative strategies—Panoramata.co offers a more complete picture. By using these tools, you can move beyond imitation and toward innovation, uncovering unique opportunities to win in your market.

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Mehdi BOUFOUS
August 16, 2025