Guides
Competitor Tracking
Focused monitoring of up to 5 chosen competitor domains. Precise by design, not internet-scale.
Competitor tracking watches domains you explicitly choose, with the same evidence discipline as your own audits: targeted crawls and SERP sampling, not internet-scale scraping.
How it works
- You select competitor domains (caps per plan below).
- HubSEO runs targeted crawls and SERP snapshots against them.
- Changes surface as comparison evidence in your project workspace.
Precise by design
HubSEO does not maintain a web-wide backlink index. Broad internet-wide gap scraping is intentionally paused under the zero-mock principle: it historically relied on third-party datasets HubSEO cannot verify. What runs instead is precise monitoring of domains you chose, every number traceable to a fetch HubSEO made itself.
Caps per plan
| Plan | Tracked competitor domains |
|---|---|
| Free | 0 |
| Starter | 1 |
| Pro | 3 |
| Business | 5 |
| Admin | 10 |
Choosing good competitors
- Domains you actually compete with in SERPs, not aspirational giants.
- Stable URLs: the same pages you'd expect a customer to compare against.
- Re-check the set quarterly. Competitor sets drift.
Related
- The SEO Audit · the measurement engine.
- Boundaries · why the deliberate limits exist.