As a former Senior Account Manager for Semrush, I worked with dozens of people to integrate API. Individuals and companies that offer free tools bring new creative ways to access Semrush data and are a critical part of growing the user community.
What’s been missing — and what I’m now providing for free — is a tool that does bulk query via form: drop in your bulk search terms and API, and GO!
The main benefit I find with form-based API for Semrush is the API calls to the server are separated one at a time. The Semrush API service is not built for hitting the server with 20 API requests at one time, and that can sometimes cause issues with the Google doc implementations.
It took me over a year to fully appreciate the importance of bulk queries for research with tools accessing publicly available data like Semrush. In the end this is actually “multivariate analysis.”
If you’re not a data person, that term may sound as scary as a Wandering Brazilian Spider (in my mind, any creature that just wanders around is scary as hell, as I assume it can kill/poison anything it bumps into and is as fearless as a lion!). Some of the most complex statistics work is multivariate, but for working with Semrush data, all we’re doing is looking for correlations and ideas based on comparing many variables to each other: not rocket science.
We are so used to imputing one term or variable in search engines and finding what’s related to it and it alone, we forget that it is far more effective to find many similar keywords, domains and URLs, and look at them side by side for actionable SEO, PPC and content strategy. If you decided to buy a stick-shift car, would you just look at reviews for one auto maker and model? If you know 10 car models you like, why not look at data on all 10 side by side and see what appears as the biggest advantages and disadvantages?
Drive Faster: Compare Keywords and URLs from Bulk Search
You can look for pages (URLs) that rank high for a term you want to win one at a time. Why not look at 30 of the best ranking pages with the tool I’ve launched? I found the top 10 ranking pages in a bulk search from results with a bulk search for the following keywords (don’t go all the way to 20).
- Samsung GalaxyS5
- Samsung S5
- Galaxy S5
If I ran a website that could actually rank on one of these three terms, like cnet.com, I would get the most precise data for judging ranking chances via the authority of the pages and domains ranking. I’d look at links to the pages I can compete with and get linking ideas from them.
If I want less competitive terms, I use the S5 phone as the main entity so I can look for everything related that may be more long tail or less competitive.