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Geo Difficulty by openclaudia — Agent Skill

Name: Geo Difficulty
Rating: 4.666666666666667 (3 reviews)
Author: openclaudia

Geo Difficulty

Score how hard a keyword is to rank for in the AI-search era — page-level URL Rating of real competitors (not just domain DR), Ahrefs keyword difficulty, and whether a given site already ranks or is cited in Google's AI Overview. Use when the user asks 'how hard is <keyword> to rank', 'geo difficulty for <keyword>', or 'keyword difficulty for <domain>'.

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GEO Difficulty

Score keyword ranking difficulty for the AI-search era. Unlike plain Ahrefs KD or domain DR, this:

uses page-level URL Rating (UR) of the results that actually target the query — so a generic article on a huge domain (e.g. mckinsey.com) stops inflating the score;
is client-relative — the same SERP is a wall for a no-name site but ~won for a site already ranking or cited in Google's AI Overview;
folds in the AI Overview citation as a first-class signal.

Disclosure: contributed by Enception AI. Backed by the free public API behind https://www.enception.ai/tools/geo-difficulty (POST https://www.enception.ai/api/tools/geo-difficulty, no API key). Server-side data comes from Ahrefs and SerpAPI.

Usage

bash scripts/score.sh "ai form real estate" "ai slide legal" --client example.com

Pass one or more keywords (quote each). Up to 10 per call.
--client <domain> is optional; add it to get the client-relative verdict (WON / FOOTHOLD / NOT RANKING).
GEO_DIFFICULTY_URL env var overrides the endpoint (rarely needed).

Or call the API directly:

curl -s -X POST https://www.enception.ai/api/tools/geo-difficulty \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"keywords":["ai presentation maker"],"client":"example.com"}' --max-time 150

Output columns

absolute — difficulty 0–100 for a brand-new site (0.35·KD + 0.40·median competitor page-UR + 0.25·targeting%).
client_verdict / client_diff — only with --client. WON (top-3 or AI-Overview cited), FOOTHOLD (ranks 4–10), NOT RANKING (with the gap to close, credited for the client's DR).
KD — Ahrefs keyword difficulty; - for zero-volume long-tail.
UR — median page-level URL Rating of the real competitors.
tgt% — share of the top-10 that actually target the query.
AIO — cited (client in the AI Overview), Nsrc (AIO shown, N sources), none, or n/a (AIO not available for this query).
competitors — the targeting results with their UR.

Notes

The AI Overview leg depends on Google actually showing an AIO for the query (intermittent); it degrades gracefully to none/n/a.
Numbers shift day to day as SERPs and UR change — treat as a current snapshot, not a fixed grade.
Each keyword takes a few seconds server-side; keep --max-time generous for batches.

---name: geo-difficultydescription: Score how hard a keyword is to rank for in the AI-search era — page-level URL Rating of real competitors (not just domain DR), Ahrefs keyword difficulty, and whether a given site already ranks or is cited in Google's AI Overview. Use when the user asks 'how hard is <keyword> to rank', 'geo difficulty for <keyword>', or 'keyword difficulty for <domain>'.--- # GEO Difficulty Score keyword ranking difficulty for the AI-search era. Unlike plain Ahrefs KD or domain DR, this: - uses **page-level URL Rating (UR)** of the results that actually target the query — so a generic article on a huge domain (e.g. mckinsey.com) stops inflating the score; - is **client-relative** — the same SERP is a wall for a no-name site but ~won for a site already ranking or cited in Google's AI Overview; - folds in the **AI Overview** citation as a first-class signal. **Disclosure:** contributed by Enception AI. Backed by the free public API behind https://www.enception.ai/tools/geo-difficulty (`POST https://www.enception.ai/api/tools/geo-difficulty`, no API key). Server-side data comes from Ahrefs and SerpAPI. ## Usage ```bash bash scripts/score.sh "ai form real estate" "ai slide legal" --client example.com ``` - Pass one or more keywords (quote each). Up to 10 per call. - `--client <domain>` is optional; add it to get the client-relative verdict (`WON` / `FOOTHOLD` / `NOT RANKING`). - `GEO_DIFFICULTY_URL` env var overrides the endpoint (rarely needed). Or call the API directly: ```bash curl -s -X POST https://www.enception.ai/api/tools/geo-difficulty \ -H 'content-type: application/json' \ -d '{"keywords":["ai presentation maker"],"client":"example.com"}' --max-time 150 ``` ## Output columns - **absolute** — difficulty 0–100 for a brand-new site (`0.35·KD + 0.40·median competitor page-UR + 0.25·targeting%`). - **client_verdict / client_diff** — only with `--client`. WON (top-3 or AI-Overview cited), FOOTHOLD (ranks 4–10), NOT RANKING (with the gap to close, credited for the client's DR). - **KD** — Ahrefs keyword difficulty; `-` for zero-volume long-tail. - **UR** — median page-level URL Rating of the real competitors. - **tgt%** — share of the top-10 that actually target the query. - **AIO** — `cited` (client in the AI Overview), `Nsrc` (AIO shown, N sources), `none`, or `n/a` (AIO not available for this query). - **competitors** — the targeting results with their UR. ## Notes - The AI Overview leg depends on Google actually showing an AIO for the query (intermittent); it degrades gracefully to `none`/`n/a`. - Numbers shift day to day as SERPs and UR change — treat as a current snapshot, not a fixed grade. - Each keyword takes a few seconds server-side; keep `--max-time` generous for batches.

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