Search Atlas Site Explorer

Site Explorer delivers keywords, traffic, backlinks, AI Overviews keywords, Domain Power, Topical Dominance, Brand Signals, LLM Visibility, Holistic SEO Pillars, and more for any website or page.

Skip the estimates. Site Explorer shows how websites rank, grow, and dominate SERPs and LLM visibility with verified data that reflects how search really works.

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What Is Site Explorer?

Site Explorer reveals how any website, subfolder, subdomain, or page performs. You can check AI Overviews keywords, organic or paid traffic and keywords, authority metrics, backlinks, referral domains, competitors, and more.

Get access to exclusive proprietary metrics available only on Search Atlas:

  • Domain Power™ measures true authority through rankings and traffic.
  • Topical Dominance™ maps expertise across topics or industry.
  • Brand Signal quantifies visibility and sentiment in the SERPs.
  • LLM Visibility tracks the brand’s share of voice and sentiment in AI-generated answers.
  • Holistic SEO Pillars evaluate performance across content, authority, technicals, and UX.

Site Explorer is fully connected to the Search Atlas ecosystem and transforms insights into action so you can analyze, optimize, and outperform competition without ever leaving the platform.

What You Unlock with Site Explorer

Uncover Real Domain Authority

Use Domain Power™ to measure a site’s true authority based on organic traffic and keyword rankings. Filter domains by real search visibility while still being able to check Domain Rating, Domain Authority, Trust Flow, and Citation Flow.

Analyze Topical Coverage by Theme

See how completely any site covers a subject with Topical Dominance. Spot gaps, track growth across clusters, and uncover competitors’ strengths and weaknesses to build lasting expertise.

Measure AI Exposure, Visibility and Engagement

Track brand mentions, sentiment, citation share, and visibility across search engines and AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity for holistic insights.

Evaluate Holistic SEO Pillars

Score any website across content, authority, technicals, and UX signals to uncover strengths and gaps — guiding every SEO decision into a comprehensive strategy.

Analyze Organic and Paid Visibility

Check any website’s historic organic and paid traffic and keywords, from 1 month to 5 years, or across all time, to benchmark reach and refine strategy.

Audit Backlink Profiles Instantly

Break down backlinks and referring domains, including historical totals, backlink types and attributes, spam probability, anchor diversity, and more.

Why Other Site Metrics Tools Can’t Keep Up

Every insight is grounded in live search behavior, not estimates. Site Explorer reveals how domains rank, grow, and build authority with precision you can trust.

Feature
Search Atlas (Site Explorer)
Ahrefs
Majestic
Moz
Semrush
Real Domain
Authority Scoring
Green check
Domain Power™ – ranking data + traffic
cross
DR (link proxy only)
cross
Trust Flow / Citation Flow (links only)
DA (link-based only)
cross
Authority Score (backlinks + some traffic, still proxy)
Topical Authority Coverage
Green check
Topical Dominance™ (theme + depth)
cross
Keyword-level only
Topical Trust Flow (Limited)
cross
Limited
Topic Research (Limited)
Branded Search &
Sentiment
Green check
Visibility + sentiment in SERPs
cross
None
cross
None
cross
Fresh Web Explorer (mentions only, no sentiment)
cross
Limited (brand monitoring + sentiment, not tied to SEO)
LLM Search Visibility
Green check
Included. Tracks visibility in AI answers (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.)
cross
Brand Radar – (expensive enterprise add-on)
cross
cross
AI SEO Toolkit (high-cost enterprise tier)
Holistic SEO Pillar Scoring
Green check
Content, Authority, Technical, UX
cross
No combined score
cross
Link-only
cross
Separate metrics only
cross
Separate metrics only
Keyword Visibility by URL
Green check
Auto-grouped by URL
cross
Manual check
cross
Not available
Green check
Yes, via Rank Tracker
cross
Limited (some reports, not default)
Backlink Auditing & Risk Signals
Green check
Trust Flow, Spam Score, follow/nofollow, anchors
Strong backlink audit (no toxicity score)
Trust Flow vs. Citation Flow, topical relevance
cross
Limited (basic Spam Score)
Backlink Audit with Toxicity Score

How to Start Exploring Real Visibility

Enter a URL and let Site Explorer surface the metrics that matter. Instantly turn any domain into a strategic SEO profile.

Number 01

Open Site Explorer

In your Search Atlas dashboard, go to the “Site Metrics” tab and select “Site Explorer”.

Number 02

Enter target domain

Paste the URL you want to analyze. Choose the input type—domain, subdomain, target page, or subfolder.

Number 03

Select your market

Pick the country you want to analyze. Site Explorer adapts results to reflect local search behavior.

Number 04

Generate your report

Click “Search” to see a complete performance dashboard with visibility, authority, link profiles, branded search, topical coverage, and more.

Who Gets the Most Out of Site Explorer

Designed for those who act first, Site Explorer transforms visibility into lasting search authority.

Growth-Focused SEOs

Benchmark against competitors, analyze keyword performance by region or product line, and prove growth over time.

Agencies Running Competitive Campaigns

Audit, analyze, and uncover opportunities to stay ahead of the competition.

In-House Marketing Teams

See exactly how your domain stacks up across regions, platforms, and competitors.

Content Strategists

Measure performance across entire topic clusters with Topical Dominance. Spot gaps and strengthen authority.

Link Builders and Outreach Specialists

Qualify link opportunities with authority metrics, each site’s topical dominance, historical organic traffic, ranking keywords, and backlinks.

Founders and Site Owners

Drop in a domain to reveal what drives visibility—and where growth is being left behind.

See the Full Search Landscape

Get a complete view of how sites, keywords, and pages perform across organic and paid search. From big-picture topical coverage to the individual URLs driving visibility, these tools reveal where opportunities exist—and where competitors are gaining ground.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Site Explorer?

Site Explorer is the visibility intelligence system inside Search Atlas. It delivers a complete profile of how any domain performs in rankings, traffic, backlinks, brand demand, topical authority, and LLM visibility—all organized into actionable insights.

With Site Explorer, you can analyze:

  • Keyword Rankings – track positions across organic search.
  • Historic Keyword Positions – see changes from 1 month to 5 years, or across all time.
  • Organic Traffic – measure growth and visibility over time.
  • Paid Traffic & Keywords – analyze competitors’ paid search strategies.
  • Traffic Trends – uncover seasonal or long-term patterns.
  • Backlink Profiles – audit inbound links, anchors, and quality.
  • Referring Domains – identify the domains driving authority.
  • Anchor Text Distribution – evaluate natural vs. over-optimized anchors.
  • Follow/Nofollow Ratios – assess link equity flow.
  • Authority Signals – compare against industry benchmarks.
  • Authority Metrics – check Domain Authority, Domain Rating, Trust Flow, Citation Flow, and proprietary Domain Power™.
  • AI Overviews – see how often and how strongly your site appears in Google’s AI-generated results.

Exclusive Search Atlas Metrics:

  • Domain Power™ – measures true authority from rankings and traffic.
  • Topical Dominance™ – maps expertise across themes and subjects.
  • Brand Signal™ – quantifies branded search visibility and sentiment.
  • LLM Visibility™ – tracks appearances in AI-generated answers (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity).
  • Holistic SEO Pillars™ – scores content, authority, technicals, and UX together.

Site Explorer is built for SEO professionals, agencies, marketers, founders, and content teams who need more than surface metrics.

What makes Site Explorer different from other SEO tools?

Legacy tools rely on link-based proxies. Site Explorer introduces proprietary metrics to measure real-world performance the way Google rewards it.

Site Explorer supports visibility data for 200+ countries, letting you track performance in local and international SEO markets.

Yes. Enter any domain, subdomain, folder, or page to see its rankings, traffic, backlinks, and authority signals. You can also benchmark competitors on visibility maps and keyword overlap reports.

Yes. You can track ranking shifts, backlink growth, traffic changes over time, historical keyword rankings, and more.

Yes. All data can be exported in CSV or XLS format for deeper analysis or client reporting.

Yes. Use the Site List to add up to 20 domains at once, monitor them in bulk and adjust views between dashboards or detailed tables.

Yes. Use the Site List to add up to 20 domains at once, monitor them in bulk and adjust views between dashboards or detailed tables.

What is Domain Power™?

Domain Power™ is a proprietary metric that measures a site’s true strength based on organic traffic and keyword performance. Domain Power™ is integrated directly into Site Explorer.

Legacy metrics like DA and DR rely heavily on link counts, which can be manipulated and often fail to reflect a site’s actual visibility in Google. Domain Power™ was built to provide a benchmark that aligns with real rankings.

Because it’s rooted in organic traffic and keyword data, not proxies. The result is a metric that can’t be inflated by artificial link schemes and better correlates with top Google rankings.

What is Topical Dominance™?

Topical Dominance™ measures how completely your site covers a subject compared to competitors. It evaluates keyword clusters, content depth, and distribution across a theme to reveal genuine topic-level authority.

It’s a numeric score from 0 to 100 based on relevance, coverage, and consistency across keyword clusters. Competitor coverage is mapped alongside your own so you can visualize exactly where authority is gained—or lost.

Higher scores mean broader and deeper coverage. Scores closer to 100 signal subject leadership, lower scores highlight opportunity areas.

What is LLM Visibility™?

LLM Visibility measures how often your brand appears inside AI-generated answers across leading language models.

AI-generated answers are already influencing search behavior. If your brand isn’t appearing—or if competitors dominate—you’re losing share of voice in a new discovery channel.

The system scans AI outputs for your brand, scores how frequently you appear, evaluates sentiment, and compares positioning against competitors, giving you a clear picture of how trusted and referenced your brand is in emerging AI search.

Currently, LLM Visibility covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude IA, Grok, and Copilot.

How is Site Explorer priced?

It’s included as part of your Search Atlas subscription. Plans scale based on the number of reports, tracked projects, and data exports you need.

No. Running a Site Explorer report is non-intrusive. The analysis is based on Search Atlas’s own data sources and verified signals—it does not modify your website.

Yes. Site Explorer uses verified Google Search Console inputs wherever possible and combines them with Search Atlas’ own dataset.