Methodology

How every score is calculated

Every number in Actavero is measured the same way for you and your competitors. These pages explain each calculation: the formula, what goes into it, where the data comes from, how often it updates and its limitations.

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Visibility

Share of voice (Visibility)

Your share of the visibility of all tracked brands together, per channel (SEO, GEO, backlinks, socials); the Visibility score is the average of the four.

How it is calculated

SEO share of voice

Your share of the estimated search clicks of all tracked brands: monthly search volume × expected click-through rate of each brand's Google position, per keyword.

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Estimated search traffic

Estimated monthly visits from Google per keyword: search volume × the click-through rate of the brand's position; summed per brand.

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Keyword difficulty (KD)

How hard it is to reach Google's top 10 for a keyword, from 0 to 100: easy below 30, medium 30–59, hard 60 and above.

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Rest of the market

The part of the clicks or AI mentions that goes to sites and brands you don't track: comparison sites, media, forums and other providers.

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Demand map

Per domain and product, for private customers or professionals: the whole market's monthly Google searches, estimated questions to AI tools and their trend, your reach of that market, the concrete needs behind it, and who wins them today.

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AI search volume (estimated)

An estimate of how often a search shows up in the questions people ask AI tools each month, with its trend over the last 12 months. A vendor estimate, shown next to the Google search volume.

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Visibility per product, with next steps

For every product or service in your market profile: your share in Google and in AI answers against your competitors, and the three next steps worth taking, without any keyword research.

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SEO per product cluster

Every search keyword is sorted into one of your product lines, General or Not your market; share of voice is then calculated per product, and Not your market doesn't count.

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Keyword gap

Keywords where a competitor ranks in Google's top 10 and you don't, sorted by the extra visits per month you would get at the best competitor's position.

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Keyword research per product

The searches to rank on to own one product's visibility in one country: keyword ideas with volume, difficulty and intent, filtered to the product, with where you and your competitors rank.

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Google results page: AI Overviews and special blocks

For your 100 most-searched relevant non-branded keywords: which special blocks Google shows (AI Overview, People also ask, map, …), which brands its AI Overview cites, who else takes the top 10, and where to focus.

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Rank tracking of the core keywords

Google positions of you and your competitors on your 100 most important keywords, checked every morning on the Scale plan and every Monday on the other plans, with alerts when you gain or lose the top 3 or top 10.

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Traffic value

What a brand's estimated organic search visits would cost as Google Ads: estimated visits per keyword × the keyword's cost per click, summed, per month in USD.

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Social media: own channels

Each brand's own social accounts compared over the last 30 days: share of engagement, followers and posts, follower growth, posts per week, engagement rate, top posts, formats and posting days.

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Social media: topics and events

A brand linked to an event or topic within a period, optionally compared with other brands: their own posts about it and the posts by others that mention them, on eight platforms, with interactions, views, potential reach and share of the conversation.

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Earned media value

What the visibility of social posts about a topic would have cost as paid social: views × CPM, or interactions × CPE for posts without views, at rates that each carry their source.

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Social engagement rate

How strongly an audience responds per post: the post's engagement divided by the account's followers × 100 (TikTok: divided by views), averaged over the posts.

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Competition pressure and head to head

Of the keywords where any tracked brand ranks in the top 3, top 10 or top 20, how many of your competitors rank there too, and per competitor who ranks ahead on the keywords you share.

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Ranking changes since the last measurement

Keywords each brand gained or lost in Google's top 3 and top 10 since the previous measurement, and your biggest position changes with their effect on estimated visits.

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GEO share of voice (AI answers)

Your share of brand mentions in AI answers to a fixed set of buyer questions, asked monthly to Claude with web search; a citation of your own site counts extra.

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Backlink share of voice and link gap

Your share of the referring domains (unique sites linking to you) of all tracked brands; the link gap lists sites that link to competitors but not to you.

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Share of conversation (online mentions)

Your share of the online mentions of all tracked brands in the last 30 days, on websites, blogs, forums and news sites in your market, with sentiment.

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Benchmarking

Signals and products