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Agent Skills: Competitor Analysis

Use when the user asks to "analyze competitors" or "竞品分析"; benchmarks competitor keywords, content, backlinks, AI citations, and traffic share into strengths, weaknesses, and an action plan. Not for a pairwise topic-coverage gap map — use content-gap-analysis. 竞品分析/竞争对手

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competitor-analysis
Description
'Use when the user asks to "analyze competitors" or "竞品分析"; benchmarks competitor keywords, content, backlinks, AI citations, and traffic share into strengths, weaknesses, and an action plan. Not for a pairwise topic-coverage gap map — use content-gap-analysis. 竞品分析/竞争对手'

Competitor Analysis

Analyzes competitor SEO and GEO strategies to reveal repeatable wins, weak spots, and market gaps.

Quick Start

Analyze SEO strategy for [competitor URL]

Compare my site [URL] against [competitor 1], [competitor 2], [competitor 3]

Skill Contract

Expected output: a prioritized competitor brief plus the standard handoff summary for memory/research/.

  • Reads: competitor URLs/domains, your own site metrics, business model, target audience, industry context, and any user-provided or tool data.
  • Writes: a user-facing analysis and reusable summary.
  • Promotes: durable competitor facts, keyword priorities, entity candidates, and pending strategy decisions to memory/hot-cache.md, memory/open-loops.md, and memory/research/.
  • Done when: 3-5 competitors are benchmarked across keywords, backlinks, and traffic share in one comparison table; each strength-to-learn and weakness-to-exploit cites evidence; and the deliverable closes with an Immediate / Short-term / Long-term plan.
  • Primary next skill: content-gap-analysis when the competitive landscape is clear.

Handoff Summary

Emit the standard shape from skill-contract.md §Handoff Summary Format.

Data Sources

Optional integrations: ~~SEO tool, ~~analytics, ~~AI monitor. Without tools, ask for competitor URLs, your site metrics, and industry context. See CONNECTORS.md.

Decision Gates

Stop and ask — when the competitor set cannot be established:

  1. No competitors named and none inferable from CLAUDE.md, prior research, or the user's niche → ask the user to name 2-5 competitors, OR offer to infer them from a target keyword via serp-analysis first.

Continue silently — do not stop for: which 3-5 of a longer list to deep-dive (pick the closest direct competitors and note the rest); missing your-own-site metrics (benchmark competitors against each other and mark your row N/A); missing optional tool data (label Estimated and proceed).

Instructions

When a user requests competitor analysis:

  1. Identify Competitors — separate direct competitors, indirect alternatives, and content competitors if the user has not named them already.
  2. Gather Competitor Data — capture URL, domain age, estimated traffic, domain authority, business model, target audience, and key offerings.
  3. Analyze Keyword Rankings — document total rankings, top 10/top 3 counts, high-value keywords, intent mix, and keyword gaps.
  4. Audit Content Strategy — review content volume, top performers, publishing patterns, themes, and success factors.
  5. Analyze Backlink Profile — review backlink totals, quality mix, top linking domains, link acquisition patterns, and linkable assets.
  6. Technical SEO Assessment — evaluate Core Web Vitals, mobile-friendliness, architecture, internal linking, URL structure, and standout strengths/weaknesses.
  7. GEO / AI Citation Analysis — test which queries cite competitors, what formats get cited, and where competitors still leave openings.
  8. Synthesize Competitive Intelligence — deliver an Executive Summary, comparison table, CITE comparison, strengths to learn from, weaknesses to exploit, keyword opportunities, content recommendations, and an Immediate / Short-term / Long-term plan.

Label every metric Measured (tool/export), User-provided, or Estimated (model inference); never present an estimate as measured; if a required metric is unavailable, mark it N/A — do not invent it.

Quality bar: every strength or weakness ties to a number and a named competitor — "HubSpot ranks top-3 for 4,200 commercial keywords", not "strong content presence".

Reference: See Analysis Templates for the compact templates used at each step.

Example

See references/example-report.md for a full sample analyzing HubSpot's marketing keyword dominance.

Advanced Analysis Types

Content Gap Analysis

For a pairwise topic-coverage gap map ("content [competitor] has that I don't, sorted by traffic potential"), hand off to content-gap-analysis — that is its dedicated job.

Link Intersection

Find sites linking to [competitor 1] AND [competitor 2] but not me

SERP Feature Analysis

What SERP features do competitors win? (Featured snippets, PAA, etc.)

Historical Tracking

How has [competitor]'s SEO strategy evolved over the past year?

Tips for Success

Analyze 3-5 competitors, include indirect players, and study both strengths and failures.

Save Results

Write path: memory/research/competitor-analysis/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>.md; promote durable competitor facts and entity candidates to memory/hot-cache.md. See Skill Contract §Save Results Template.

Reference Materials

Next Best Skill

Primary: content-gap-analysis. Also: serp-analysis and backlink-analyzer.