Forter 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
- You rank for ~900 organic keywords and drive ~3k monthly organic visits (≈ $11k in equivalent ad spend), putting you 4th of 4 vs Sift/Signifyd/Riskified.
- Organic traffic is overwhelmingly brand-led: “forter” drives 58% of keyword traffic, with additional branded queries like “forter careers” and “forter company.”
- Authority Score is 38 (moderate), supported by ~22k backlinks from ~3k referring domains—enough link equity to scale if you publish/optimize the right pages.
Growth Opportunity
- Your organic traffic is concentrated on a few pages (homepage ~82%; careers/jobs ~7%), signaling room to grow acquisition via solution and editorial pages beyond brand demand.
- Competitors capture broader non-branded demand: Sift (~8k visits; ~2.5k keywords) is ~2.3× your traffic and ~2.9× your keyword footprint—evidence of an addressable market you’re not fully ranking for.
- Expand and systematize coverage of high-intent topics you already touch but barely capture (e.g., fraud management, chargeback prevention, account takeover fraud prevention, return abuse), and strengthen internal linking from high-authority pages to product/platform pages.
Assessment
You have solid authority and brand recognition, but organic discovery is constrained by heavy reliance on branded searches and a small set of pages. The gap vs competitors suggests meaningful upside if you invest in more non-branded, bottom-funnel content and product-led SEO. AirOps can help you execute this content expansion systematically and consistently to unlock that growth.
Competition at a Glance
Across 3 direct competitors (Sift, Signifyd, and Riskified), Forter’s organic search visibility is currently the smallest in the set, indicating a meaningful gap in how often buyers discover Forter via non-paid search.
Within this group of four sites, forter.com ranks 4th (last) for both monthly organic traffic (3,310 visits) and ranking keyword coverage (871 keywords).
The top performer by organic traffic is Sift, with 7,764 monthly organic visits and 2,548 ranking keywords—about 2.3× Forter’s traffic and 2.9× its keyword footprint—suggesting competitors are capturing a broader range of industry and solution-related searches, while Forter’s current organic presence reflects a comparatively narrower visibility across the market’s search demand.
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.
A massive library of static troubleshooting pages for payments teams to diagnose and fix specific issuer decline codes across different acquirers. This play intercepts high-intent technical searches from merchants losing revenue in real-time.
Example Keywords
- decline code 05 do not honor
- issuer response code 51 insufficient funds
- Stripe decline code 05 remediation
- Adyen response code 10 meaning
Rationale
Merchants lose significant revenue to authorization declines and search for specific codes to find immediate fixes. AirOps can use Live Google SERP Data to identify the most common decline code queries and generate remediation guides that position Forter's Payment Optimization as the long-term solution.
Topical Authority
Forter already has a dedicated Payment Optimization product area and technical documentation infrastructure, making it a credible source for payment health diagnostics.
Internal Data Sources
Leverage technical documentation from docs.forter.com, anonymized solutions engineering runbooks, and common support ticket themes to provide differentiated remediation steps.
Estimated Number of Pages
8,000+ (Covering 80+ codes across 100+ PSP/Acquirer combinations)
A forward-looking directory of AI shopping agents and browser agents, providing risk profiles and policy templates for merchants to manage autonomous commerce. This play establishes Forter as the first-mover in securing the next era of digital trade.
Example Keywords
- AI shopping agent fraud prevention
- browser agent checkout security
- autonomous commerce risk controls
- verify AI agent identity
Rationale
As AI agents begin to shop autonomously, merchants need to know which agents to trust and how to set policies for them. AirOps can leverage Custom Knowledge Bases to store agent risk profiles and generate thousands of policy guides at scale.
Topical Authority
Forter's existing focus on 'Identity Intelligence for the AI Era' and its ai.forter.com telemetry provide a unique foundation for owning the agentic commerce security category.
Internal Data Sources
Use network telemetry from ai.forter.com, the Trusted Agentic Commerce Protocol documentation, and internal threat research memos on automated abuse patterns.
Estimated Number of Pages
5,000+ (Covering 100+ agents across various industries and risk scenarios)
A comprehensive library of operational playbooks mapping every major card network reason code to specific industry evidence checklists. This play targets risk managers looking for urgent help with chargeback representment.
Example Keywords
- Visa reason code 10.4 evidence checklist
- Mastercard reason code 4837 win rate
- compelling evidence for digital goods chargeback
- how to respond to a 10.4 dispute
Rationale
Chargebacks are a constant operational pain point where merchants search for specific network codes to understand their liability. AirOps can use modular workflow steps to generate evidence checklists and rebuttal templates for every possible reason code and industry combination.
Topical Authority
Forter's platform already includes Dispute Management and Chargeback Recovery modules, providing the necessary topical relevance to rank for operational risk queries.
Internal Data Sources
Incorporate internal dispute workflows, evidence assembly checklists, and anonymized win-rate benchmarks from the /platform/chargeback-recovery section.
Estimated Number of Pages
1,200+ (Covering 150+ reason codes across 8+ industry verticals)
Programmatic vertical landing pages that map specific industry categories to unique business models and their associated risk moments. This play bridges the gap between generic fraud content and the specific needs of enterprise sub-segments.
Example Keywords
- fraud prevention for luxury marketplaces
- subscription fraud detection for beauty brands
- travel ecommerce risk management
- BNPL fraud prevention for electronics retailers
Rationale
Generic fraud prevention content often fails to address the unique nuances of specific verticals like luxury or travel. AirOps can scale this by combining industry data with Forter's 39 existing customer stories to create highly relevant, conversion-oriented landing pages.
Topical Authority
Forter's existing /customers section and broad platform coverage of fraud, abuse, and account protection provide the authority needed to dominate vertical-specific search.
Internal Data Sources
Utilize the 39 customer stories from /customers, vertical-specific risk benchmarks, and sales discovery notes to provide deep industry context.
Estimated Number of Pages
1,800+ (Covering 60+ industries across 10+ business models and 3+ risk moments)
A massive matrix of pages mapping offer types to specific abuse tactics and recommended policy controls. This play captures a high-growth, under-served niche in the fraud prevention market that directly impacts merchant margins.
Example Keywords
- first order discount abuse prevention
- referral program fraud detection
- loyalty points theft ecommerce
- coupon stacking abuse policy template
Rationale
Promo and loyalty abuse are often ignored by traditional fraud tools but cost merchants millions in lost margin. AirOps can generate thousands of pages mapping every offer type to its specific abuse tactics, providing merchants with actionable policy logic.
Topical Authority
Forter's 'Abuse Prevention' platform module and existing blog content on coupon and promo abuse (467 blog posts total) establish a strong foundation for this play.
Internal Data Sources
Leverage internal abuse taxonomies, redacted policy snippets, and householding logic from the /platform/abuse-prevention section.
Estimated Number of Pages
10,000+ (Covering 100+ offer types across 60+ abuse tactics and 10+ industries)
Improvements Summary
Re-map each /platform page to one primary category keyword, then rewrite title tags, H1s, and above-the-fold copy to match search intent. Add repeatable sections (use cases, how-it-works, FAQs, proof blocks) and build internal links from relevant blog posts into the matching product pages.
Improvements Details
Assign clear keyword targets per page (e.g., "fraud management", "account protection", "abuse prevention" with promo/refund/return abuse, "chargeback services" for dispute management, "chargeback recovery", and "psd2" with SCA + 3DS2). Update on-page modules: category definition + outcome bullets up top, intent-matched use cases, a structured "How it works" (inputs/decisioning/outputs/feedback), and 6–10 FAQs with FAQ schema; add 2–4 case snippets per page and breadcrumb schema across the cluster. Publish supporting hub articles (promo/refund/return abuse, fraud management guides, chargeback provider evaluation, Visa monitoring programs) and add a "Related products" module plus consistent internal-link anchors (e.g., "promo abuse prevention", "reduce false declines", "chargeback services"); verify indexation, canonicals, sitemap inclusion, and Core Web Vitals.
Improvements Rationale
Several pages show weak or off-topic keyword associations and the site’s strongest rankings skew branded, so category relevance and internal authority are not flowing into high-intent /platform pages. More complete, keyword-aligned on-page coverage paired with intentional internal links gives clearer topical signals and stronger authority, which can move page-2 terms (like fraud management variants and chargeback services) toward page 1 and increase qualified organic entries and demo requests.
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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