Why is SERP analysis so important for keyword research?

Find out what’s behind the rankings of your competitors in the SERP thanks to 45+ SEO metrics, snapshot previews and rich snippets detection.

1. Understand the importance of the SERP analysis

SERP analysis is a vital part of keyword research. Why? Here are 2 short examples:

To sum it up, the importance of the SERP analysis lies in the following 2 points because it helps you to decide:

1. Whether you can outrank competitors.
2. Whether you picked the right keyword in terms of the search intent.

2. Check local SERPs in more than 50k locations worldwide

Having the ability to analyze local SERPs that are relevant for your target audience is basically the first and most important point of doing SERP analysis. Yes, there are many ways to simulate local results such as using developing tools in Chrome, but at the and of the day, it will cost you a lot of time.

More than 50,000 locations in SERPChecker will help you to analyze the search results for local markets whenever your target audience is and that’s how you pimp your local SEO. They include the following:

• Cities (London, Perth, Boston, Paris, ...)
• Regions, DMA regions (Bratislava Region, Los Angeles DMA, ...)
• Counties, Departments (North Yorkshire County, Paris Ile-de-France Department, ...)
• States (New South Wales, Kansas, British Columbia, ...)
• Countries (USA, Germany, Australia, ...)

Just start typing the location, select the one you are looking for from the dropdown suggestions menu and you will see the results in a second or two.

3. See behind the competitors’ rankings thanks to 45+ SEO and popularity metrics

Your ability to outrank the competitors determines whether you picked the right keywords for your website or not.

To do this, you need proven metrics that will help you to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the ranking URLs.

We have included more than 45 metrics that evaluate the website authority, popularity and backlink profile. It’s up to you which ones you want to see. You can pick the ones you are interested in by clicking on the “Manage metrics” button in the top right corner.

The default view includes the following metrics:

• LPS - Link Profile Strength
• DA - Domain Authority
• PA - Page Authority
• CF - Citation Flow
• TF - Trust Flow
• FB - Facebook shares
• AR - Alexa Rank
• Links - External backlinks
• RD - Referring domains
• RI - Referring IPs

These metrics inform you about the authority and popularity of the websites in the 1st SERP. The LPS is an aggregate metric developed by Mangools to estimate how hard it is to compete with the URL ranking on the particular position.

4. Analyze the impact of SERP features on the common organic results

Google SERP features are enhanced search results with a bigger visual appeal that the common results, therefore, they may lead to different click-through rates (CTRs). They are now displayed for many search queries. Here are some of the examples:

• Featured snippet
• Answer box
• Carousel (images, videos, products)
• Image pack
• Map pack
• Sponsored features (Google Ads, flights, shop on Google)
• Knowledge graph
• Top stories
• Events
• Sitelinks
• and many more

Once you see such results in the SERP table in SERPChecker, you realize that other results may reach lower CTR. On the other hand, if you manage to have your website, let’s say, in a featured snippet, your CTR can skyrocket. Of course, this depends on many factors.

The main reason why we detect the SERP features is to give you precise results on which you can base your SEO efforts.

As you can see in the screenshot above, the search results for keyword "homemade coffee" include the following rich snippets: featured snippet, people also ask, top stories, related searches.

Now the question is: How can they influence the CTR? There are two ways you can find out:

Open the snapshot preview to see the actual appearance of the SERP Check the “SERP Features Impact” metric that estimates the possible impact on a scale from 1 to 5.