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Have time between sunscreen top-ups to read up on what’s new in Similarweb Web Intelligence? You’re in the right place. These new features will enhance your keyword research, improve your paid campaigns, and help you gain a lead over the competition.
Let’s dive in.
Keyword Search Intent helps you understand the purpose behind a user’s search query. In other words, it helps you understand why a user is searching for a term on Google.
There are five intent filters: Informational, Transactional, Navigational, Local, and Job search.

Keyword Search Intent enables SEO, PPC and Marketing managers to:
Combined with the new Keyword Difficulty metric you will save heaps of time on your keyword research – by getting to the keyword insight you need, faster!
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Cut through the manual work when analyzing and comparing keywords. With Keyword Comparison you can select up to five keywords (or keyword groups) and get an instant side-by-side comparison with the most essential metrics.

It can help you:
We’ve given the Ranking Distribution tool a makeover. It now provides unmatched flexibility to uncover new keyword opportunities and develop SEO tactics.
You can now see absolute numbers for each month as well as the % change vs the previous month, to understand just how much the keyword positions have shifted over the short term.

When comparing Ranking Distribution across multiple websites, you can even pivot the view:
Put your SEO progress in front of the CEO and show them exactly how your overall ranking progress is developing against the competition.
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Get the lowdown on how successful your competitors’ search ads really are, by revealing the traffic volume for each so you can understand the true performance of individual search ads.

You can now:
To make your competitive monitoring more impactful, we’ve made some big enhancements to Competitive Trackers. They’re now located at the top of the sidebar menu, and include a host of new metrics.

Get instant insights about competitor traffic, engagement, audiences, trending keywords, keyword bids, new display creatives and more. Ready-to-use insights and automated alerts keep you informed of shifts across critical channel metrics, so you can always be on the lookout for new opportunities to win market share.
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Reveal the channels making the traffic headlines with a new upfront view on any website’s channel traffic share, right from the updated Acquisition Channel Search Bar.

No more taking the long way round. The Acquisition Channels homepage now includes a new drop-down menu that displays site visits per acquisition channel – so you can see which channel is driving the most traffic and navigate to in-depth analysis, in an instant.
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Log in to Similarweb Digital Intelligence and put these new features to the test.
Don’t have access yet? Reach out to your account manager or contact us for more details.
Thanks for reading and see you at the next update.

by Owen Badham
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Similarweb
A product marketer with 10+ years in SaaS, specializing in product launches, GTM strategy, and collateral production.
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