
Folks Organic Growth Opportunities
1. Readiness Assessment
1. Readiness Assessment
2. Competitive Analysis
2. Competitive Analysis
3. Opportunity Kickstarters
3. Opportunity Kickstarters
4. Appendix
4. Appendix
Readiness Assessment
Current Performance
- Driving 2.4k monthly organic visits from over 6.8k keywords, with traffic valued at nearly $2k in equivalent monthly ad spend.
- Your blog is the primary acquisition channel, with top-of-funnel articles on "constructive feedback" and "teamwork quotes" accounting for over 43% of all organic visits.
- Branded search for "folks" is a key asset, driving 17% of your traffic and indicating solid brand recognition in the market.
Growth Opportunity
- The market leader generates nearly 4x your traffic (9k visits) from fewer keywords, proving a large, addressable market is available to capture.
- Your traffic is highly concentrated in a few successful articles, presenting a clear opportunity to build out content clusters around proven HR themes like performance management, termination, and employee engagement.
- A moderate Authority Score of 36 provides a solid foundation to build links and authority, enabling you to compete for more valuable, bottom-of-funnel keywords related to HR software.
Assessment
You have a proven top-of-funnel content engine but are not yet capturing your full share of the market. The data reveals a clear opportunity to systematically expand your content footprint around high-value HR topics to close the significant traffic gap with competitors. AirOps can help you scale this content creation and capture this untapped potential.
Competition at a Glance
An analysis of 2 direct competitors, Collage HR and Rise People, shows that folksrh.com currently ranks 2nd in organic search traffic. While we lead the competitive set by ranking for the most keywords (6,765), our site attracts 2,430 monthly organic visits.
The market leader, Rise People, generates 8,951 monthly organic visits from only 5,102 keywords. This represents a substantial gap in market visibility, as they attract over 3.5 times our monthly traffic while ranking for significantly fewer keywords.
This disparity highlights a significant opportunity. Despite a strong keyword foundation, our content is not as efficient at capturing high-value traffic as the top competitor. There is a clear performance gap to close by improving our ability to convert our keyword rankings into meaningful website visits.
Opportunity Kickstarters
Here are your content opportunities, tailored to your domain's strengths. These are starting points for strategic plays that can grow into major traffic drivers in your market. Connect with our team to see the full traffic potential and activate these plays.
Create a massive library of individual HR policy clauses tailored to specific provinces, industries, and company sizes. This play atomizes the concept of a handbook into thousands of specific, searchable, and compliant content snippets.
Example Keywords
- "Social media policy clause template Alberta 50 employees"
- "Ontario cybersecurity clause for SMB handbook"
- "BC remote-work equipment policy example"
- "Quebec DEI policy clause for manufacturing"
Rationale
HR managers and SMB owners don't always search for a full handbook; they often search for specific clauses to add or update. By creating pages for every permutation, folksrh.com can capture a vast long-tail of high-intent search traffic that competitors miss with their monolithic templates.
Topical Authority
The domain already ranks for template-related keywords (termination letters, feedback examples). This play expands that proven authority into a more granular and scalable format, establishing FolksRH as the go-to resource for compliant HR documentation in Canada.
Internal Data Sources
Leverage the internal legal team's clause vault and compliance checklists. Use AirOps to combine this with provincial legal statutes and company size thresholds to generate thousands of unique, compliant clause pages, and use the Getty Images integration for relevant visuals.
Develop hyper-local hiring market snapshot pages for hundreds of Canadian population centres. Each page will provide unique data on local talent supply, median wages, and hiring velocity, becoming an invaluable resource for any SMB planning to hire.
Example Keywords
- "Toronto hiring trends 2025"
- "best job boards for SMBs in Calgary"
- "median accountant salary Halifax"
- "average time to hire in Vancouver tech"
Rationale
Hiring is fundamentally a local activity, yet HR content is overwhelmingly generic. This play provides unique, data-driven local insights that are not available elsewhere, attracting high-value traffic from businesses actively engaged in the hiring process and making decisions based on local market conditions.
Topical Authority
FolksRH can establish unparalleled authority as a data-driven thought leader in the Canadian HR space. This play serves as a powerful link-building engine, attracting links from local chambers of commerce, economic development agencies, and local news outlets.
Internal Data Sources
Utilize aggregated and anonymized ATS data (time-to-fill, applicant volume, compensation ranges) filtered by postal code. Combine this via AirOps with data from Statistics Canada and the LinkedIn data connector to create a proprietary, defensible dataset.
Build a comprehensive library of onboarding plans and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) blueprints for every National Occupational Classification (NOC) code. This provides a tangible, actionable starting point for HR managers hiring for specific roles in Canada.
Example Keywords
- "NOC 7511 onboarding checklist"
- "SOP for food service supervisors Canada"
- "how to train NOC 9411 machine operator"
- "30-day plan for NOC 2171"
Rationale
The NOC system is the backbone of the Canadian labor market, yet it is a completely underserved topic by HR software vendors. Creating detailed, practical content for each code will capture a massive, 'blue ocean' of search traffic from users with an immediate need to structure a new role, a process that directly precedes the need for an HRIS.
Topical Authority
This demonstrates a deep understanding of the Canadian HR landscape beyond generic advice. It positions FolksRH as an expert in the operational, on-the-ground realities of Canadian businesses, building significant trust and authority.
Internal Data Sources
Use the official Government NOC database as a structured input for AirOps to loop through. Enrich this with internal product knowledge on role-specific training modules and anonymized customer onboarding templates to create highly practical and differentiated content.
Generate an extensive library of job description templates, complete with competency-based interview questions and sample KPIs. These pages will be tailored specifically to common roles within Canadian SMBs and key industries.
Example Keywords
- "Warehouse supervisor job description Canada"
- "dental office receptionist job description template"
- "construction foreman interview questions"
- "non-profit HR manager KPIs"
Rationale
The search volume for job description templates and interview questions is enormous and represents a user at the very beginning of the hiring process. Capturing this audience provides an early and highly relevant opportunity to introduce FolksRH's ATS and HRIS solutions.
Topical Authority
The domain already has authority in performance management content ('performance review phrases'). This play is a natural upstream expansion into the talent acquisition lifecycle, leveraging existing topical relevance to quickly rank for these new, high-volume keywords.
Internal Data Sources
Leverage anonymized data from tens of thousands of historical job postings in the FolksATS. Use the AirOps LinkedIn connector to pull relevant skills data and combine it with internal recruiter playbooks to generate rich, data-backed templates.
Create a matrix of highly-detailed comparison pages that pit a single FolksRH feature against the equivalent feature from a key competitor. This moves beyond generic 'alternative' pages to provide granular, evidence-based comparisons for buyers deep in their evaluation process.
Example Keywords
- "Collage HR onboarding vs Folks"
- "Rise People PTO tracking comparison"
- "BambooHR vs Folks analytics feature"
- "Humi vs Folks payroll pricing"
Rationale
Users searching for direct feature comparisons are at the bottom of the funnel and have the highest purchase intent. Winning these specific, long-tail searches is critical for capturing users at the final decision-making stage, directly impacting sales conversions.
Topical Authority
This play establishes FolksRH as a transparent, confident, and knowledgeable player in the market. It demonstrates a deep understanding of the competitive landscape and a willingness to be compared directly on features and value, which builds significant trust with prospective buyers.
Internal Data Sources
Utilize internal product-marketing battle cards and pricing sheets as the core data. Enrich this content using AirOps to pull in third-party validation from G2/Capterra review exports and use a library of product screenshots to visually support every claim.
Improvements Summary
Expand and update six HR template and example pages to address content gaps, keyword targeting, and on-page SEO. Add structured data, internal links, and rich media to improve rankings and user engagement.
Improvements Details
Key tasks include increasing content depth (e.g., more quotes, examples, templates), targeting underused secondary keywords like 'team spirit quotes' and 'performance review strengths and weaknesses', and adding features such as downloadable assets, expert commentary, and schema markup. Create a pillar hub page, cross-link related articles, and update technical SEO elements like title tags, meta descriptions, and image optimization. Each page will also link to relevant product modules with descriptive CTAs.
Improvements Rationale
These improvements address low rankings due to thin content, missing keywords, and weak internal linking. By matching search intent with comprehensive, structured resources and improving technical SEO, the cluster can move from page 2 to page 1 and increase organic traffic. Enhanced engagement features and clear CTAs are expected to drive more demo requests and support product page rankings.
Appendix
| Keyword | Volume | Traffic % |
|---|---|---|
| best seo tools | 5.0k | 3 |
| seo strategy | 4.0k | 5 |
| keyword research | 3.5k | 2 |
| backlink analysis | 3.0k | 4 |
| on-page optimization | 2.5k | 1 |
| local seo | 2.0k | 6 |
| Page | Traffic | Traffic % |
|---|---|---|
| /seo-tools | 5.0k | 100 |
| /keyword-research | 4.0k | 100 |
| /backlink-checker | 3.5k | 80 |
| /site-audit | 3.0k | 60 |
| /rank-tracker | 2.5k | 50 |
| /content-optimization | 2.0k | 40 |
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