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SmartKeyword data sources

If you’re wondering where the traffic, conversion, etc. data on SmartKeyword comes from, we’re going to tell you everything here!

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Written by Celina
Updated over a year ago

The SmartKeyword tool interfaces with some external tools to retrieve data, and sometimes uses its own calculations to display others. Here is the recap by screen:

On all screens (or almost all):

The volumes: come from the Google Keyword Planner (Google AdWords). This data represents a 12-month average of the search volumes matching the keywords.

A page’s details:

Accessible from the "traffic" or "conversion" screens, when you click on a page. Here, the data comes from:

  • Traffic data and keywords: Google Analytics (GA) and Google Search Console (GSC)

  • Tags (H1, Title): our crawler

  • Netlinking data: our partner MOZ

Position monitoring and competitive intelligence:

  • Estimated traffic: see this document which details its calculation

  • The rest (the positions): our crawler

Conversion:

  • SEO & SEA graphs and pages / SEA keywords: GA and GSC

  • Keyword conversion (SEO): GA and GSC + attribution algorithm for the "keyword" tab.

Traffic:

All data is compiled from GA and GSC. We collect keyword data from Google Analytics and page data from Google Search Console.

Netlinking / Domain Research:

  • Domain Authority: data retrieved from MOZ

  • Trust Flow, Citation Flow, Referring domains, Categories, backlink links (new, lost, top backlinks): data retrieved from Majestic

  • Traffic (number of visits), Top keywords, Top pages, Top competitors, Top backlinks: data retrieved from Semrush and Ranxplorer

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