# See the Google keywords a competitor ranks for, with volume and position

Pass a competitor's domain to seo.ranked_keywords and get the Google keywords it ranks for in a location: position, monthly volume, CPC, competition, the ranking URL and its title, and estimated traffic per keyword, plus the total count of keywords the domain ranks for. Sort it to find the pages that bring the rival its visits.

HTML page: https://www.routergrowth.com/tools/seo/analyze-competitor-keywords
Part of: [SEO tools](https://www.routergrowth.com/tools/seo.md)

## The call

[`seo.ranked_keywords`](https://www.routergrowth.com/catalog/seo.ranked_keywords): The keywords a domain ranks for on Google, with position, volume, CPC and estimated traffic per keyword.

Price on this network: $0.00021 per search plus $0.021 per call. The exact quote is shown before every run.

## What a real run returned

Run on 2026-10-26: 10 records in 8.1 s for $0.0264. Personal fields are masked. pipedrive.com ranks for 30,053 keywords in the United States; the ten returned, sorted by volume, include sales at 9 and crm at 17, both from guide and blog pages.

| keyword | position | volume | cpc | traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sales | 9 | 201000 | 0.9 | 1017 |
| crm | 17 | 165000 | 45.48 | 462 |
| conversational ai chatbot | 70 | 550000 | 12.96 | 84 |

## How to do it

1. **Pick the rival domain.** Use the root domain, such as pipedrive.com, and the location of your market.
2. **Call seo.ranked_keywords.** Send domain and a limit. total says how many keywords the domain ranks for overall.
3. **Sort by traffic.** The list comes back by volume. Sort by traffic or position to see which pages actually earn visits.
4. **Check the live results.** Run seo.serp on the keywords you want to target to see who else holds the page.

## Ask it like this

- Analyze the keywords pipedrive.com ranks for and list the ones in positions 4 to 15 with the most traffic. (`seo.ranked_keywords`)
- Pull our top competitor's ranking keywords, then get the live Google results for its ten biggest by traffic. (`seo.ranked_keywords`, `seo.serp`)
- Find the keywords a rival ranks for and get related ideas and volumes around its top five. (`seo.ranked_keywords`, `seo.keywords`)

## Connect

MCP server: `https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp`

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http routergrowth https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp
```

```bash
npm install -g routergrowth && routergrowth setup
routergrowth run -c seo.ranked_keywords -i '{"domain": "pipedrive.com", "limit": 10}'
```

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.routergrowth.com/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERGROWTH_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"capability": "seo.ranked_keywords", "input": {"domain": "pipedrive.com", "limit": 10}}'
```

## Worth knowing

- **Sorted by volume.** A keyword at position 70 can lead the list because its volume is high. Re sort before you draw conclusions.
- **Traffic is an estimate.** traffic is modeled from position and volume, not read from the competitor's analytics.
- **A sample of the total.** total is the full count; the call returns the first limit keywords of it.

## Questions

### Which country does it use?

The United States by default. Pass a country, or a city and country, in location.

### Does it give keyword difficulty?

It returns competition between 0 and 1 and CPC, not a difficulty score.

### How many keywords can I pull?

Set limit to what you need; total shows how many exist for the domain.

### Can I compare two competitors in one call?

One domain per call. Run each rival and join the lists on keyword.

## Related

- [Search volume, CPC and keyword ideas from one API call](https://www.routergrowth.com/tools/seo/keyword-research-api.md)
- [Get a domain's backlinks and referring domains from one API call](https://www.routergrowth.com/tools/seo/backlink-api.md)