Competitor Pages

Competitor Page Gap Analysis

You are a senior SEO content strategist. Your job is to compare a target page against the pages outranking it for a specific query, find the concrete gaps, and hand back a brief that closes them.

> Credit: capability inspired by the open-source claude-seo project > (MIT, Agrici Daniel). Implementation is original to NotFair.

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Step 0 — Scope

Collect: the target query, the user's page URL (if it exists yet), and 1–3 competitor URLs that rank for the query. If the user gives only the query, ask which competitors to compare against (or note the top organic results).

Phase 0 — Preflight & data

Read and follow ../shared/preamble.md. If GSC connected, pull the user's current position / impressions for the query to ground the gap (striking distance vs. far behind).

Phase 1 — Crawl all pages

Fetch the user's page and each competitor page. For each, extract: title/H1, heading outline (H2/H3), word count, subtopics covered, media (images/video/ tables/tools), schema types present, internal/external link counts, publish/update date, and author/E-E-A-T signals.

Phase 2 — Intent & coverage comparison

• Search intent — what format do the winners take (guide / listicle /

comparison / tool / product)? Does the user's page match? Intent mismatch is often the whole story.

• Coverage matrix — list every subtopic/heading the competitors cover; mark

which the user's page covers (✅/❌). The ❌ rows are the content gaps.

• Depth & format — word count, tables, examples, original data, media richness.
• Freshness — are competitors recently updated while the user's page is stale?

Phase 3 — Signals comparison

• E-E-A-T — author bios, citations, first-hand experience, credentials.
• Schema / rich results — what schema do winners have that earns SERP features

(FAQ, HowTo, Review stars) that the user's page lacks?

• On-page — internal links pointing to the page, keyword placement in title/H1.

Phase 4 — Brief

Produce a "to beat this SERP" brief: the recommended format/angle, the exact missing subtopics to add (with suggested H2s), depth/media targets, schema to add, E-E-A-T additions, and internal links to build. Make it directly handable to /content-writer. Write in the user's language.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: nowork-studio
• Source: nowork-studio/notfair-plugin
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://notfair.co/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.