About Ranks Hawk

Ranks Hawk checks your competitors' keyword rankings every week and flags the ones moving. See which keywords they're climbing on before they lock in the position, and which they're dropping on so you can move into the open spot. Connect Search Console and the same feed covers your own rank changes too.

Every new page a competitor publishes lands in your dashboard the same day it's detected, via daily sitemap scans. Three posts on one topic in a week signals they're betting on a keyword cluster — now you know too.

Ranks Hawk surfaces every keyword tagged Gap (you don't rank at all) or Beatable (a competitor only ranks #4–15), sorted by search volume. Rows tagged both are the best targets. Hand the list straight to your writers with no extra research required.

Buckets keywords by how many of your tracked competitors rank for them — a long "ALL" bar means the whole market competes on it, a long "1 OF" bar means it's a single rival's outlier bet. Click a bar to see the actual keywords, volume, and difficulty.

Groups a competitor's ranked keywords by the page that actually ranks for them, so a page feeding a dozen keyword variants reads as one content opportunity, not a dozen separate rows. Click through to see every keyword feeding it.

Finds competitor pages that still rank but now return a 404, along with the sites still linking to that dead URL — contact those sites and offer your own page as the replacement. Also shows every site that links to a rival but not to you, and which competitor is gaining referring domains fastest this week.

Tracks the exact questions people ask AI tools like ChatGPT where a competitor gets cited instead of you, sorted by how often each question comes up. Publish a page that answers it and you have a real shot at the AI answer.

Connects to Google Search Console for free and shows every keyword you sit in positions 4–19 for, ranked by impressions. Track any keyword over time and watch your own position move week by week.

Connect Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, or ChatGPT with a one-time sign-in — no API key needed — or query the same data yourself over a REST API: content gaps, backlink opportunities, AI mention topics.

Starter is $34/month for 3 competitor domains, Growth is $59/month for 5, and Pro is $69/month for 10. There's no per-seat fee — you pay for how many competitors you track, not how many teammates log in.

Every plan is month-to-month. Cancel from your account settings anytime and keep access until the end of the period you already paid for — no annual lock-in, no sales call to leave.

Ranks Hawk doesn't try to be an all-in-one SEO suite. One customer, Ashwini at SalesRobot, put it after trying it with her team: "genuinely useful, and refreshingly clean vs. the Ahrefs/Semrush bloat."

Alongside classic rank tracking, Ranks Hawk checks whether AI tools like ChatGPT cite a competitor's answer instead of yours — included in every plan rather than sold as a separate add-on.

Add a competitor domain and checks start automatically — daily sitemap scans, weekly rank pulls, weekly backlink and AI-citation checks. No crawl configuration, no tagging, no setup call.