HitMind – Striking Distance Keywords

Description

Striking distance keywords are the ones you already rank for just off page one, at positions 11 to 20. Google already shows your page for them, but almost nobody clicks past page one. They are the closest wins you have: the page exists, it ranks, and it needs to move up a few places, not start from nothing.

Striking Distance Keywords lists them for your site, in WordPress:

• Every non-branded keyword at positions 11–20, up to the top 100 by monthly searches, all listed right in WordPress.
• Position, monthly searches, and the page that ranks, so you know which page to improve or link to.
• 12 Google markets: United States, Spain, France, Germany, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland and Vietnam. The plugin picks the one that matches your site’s language; you can change it.
• One click, no account, no API key.

What it does not do:

• It never runs on its own. Nothing is sent until an administrator clicks the button, and it adds nothing to your pages.
• It does not need Search Console or any login.
• It stores one thing: the last result, as a single option that is removed when you delete the plugin.

Positions come from public Google ranking data (DataForSEO), not from your Search Console, so they can differ a little from what Search Console shows. Each site and market is looked up at most once a week; asking again within the week shows the same result.

If you want these keywords written about, the page has a link to sign up for HitMind with the list: HitMind starts your site with the top five as topics, drafts the articles, and sends them to WordPress as drafts once you connect the site. Using the plugin does not require it.

External services

This plugin uses HitMind’s Page-2 keyword finder (https://hitmind.ai/hitmindapi/v1/public/page2-keywords), the same service behind the free tool at https://hitmind.ai/tools/page-2-keywords/.

• When: only when an administrator clicks “Find my page-2 keywords” under Tools → Striking Distance Keywords. Never in the background.
• What is sent: your site’s domain (for example example.com), the Google market you pick, and the tag “wp-plugin”. As with any web request, hitmind.ai also receives your server’s IP address. No content, user data or visitor data is sent.
• What happens to it: HitMind looks up public Google ranking data for the domain from DataForSEO, keeps the result for 7 days so the same lookup is not repeated, and gives the result a link (anyone with the link can open it).
• HitMind terms of service and privacy policy.
• HitMind gets the ranking data from DataForSEO; your site never contacts DataForSEO. DataForSEO terms of service and privacy policy.

The page also has links to hitmind.ai that open only when you click them: “Have HitMind write them” (sign up with this list) and “Run the free audit” (with your domain filled in). They carry utm_source=wordpress-plugin so HitMind can count visits from the plugin.