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Striking distance keywords finder

Paste your Search Console queries and see the searches you already nearly win. They’re usually the quickest gains on any site.

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  • Nothing stored

Free tool · Striking-distance finder

Find the searches you’re nearly winning

Export 3 to 16 months from Search Console → Performance → Export → Download CSV, unzip it and choose Queries.csv, or paste the table. Your data stays in your browser.

What striking distance means

01

Nearly there

Searches where a page already ranks close to the top results. Google clearly thinks the page is relevant; it needs a push, not a rebuild.

02

Where to get the data

Search Console, Performance, Queries, then Export. Paste the rows in. The data stays in your browser.

03

What to do with the list

Improve the page that ranks: answer the search more fully, tighten the title, and link to it from related pages.

Sources: Google: Performance report · How to do keyword research

02 Questions

What people ask

Why start here rather than with new keywords?

Moving a page up a few places is usually less work than ranking a new one from nothing, and the clicks rise steeply near the top.

How much data do I need?

Three months is a sensible window. Very low impression counts aren’t reliable, so the bigger queries matter most.

Is my data uploaded?

No. Everything is worked out in your browser.

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Send me your site and you’ll get a short, honest read on what’s wrong. If you want the detail after that, the full audit is a paid piece of work, or part of a monthly plan.

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  • 01The main things holding your site back, in plain English
  • 02Which of them are worth fixing first
  • 03Whether a full audit or a monthly plan makes sense, or neither