Freshworks Inc 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 56k organic keywords and drive ~83k monthly organic visits (traffic value ~$1.4m), but paid search is larger at ~216k visits—suggesting organic isn’t carrying the acquisition load yet.
- Authority is solid at 54, supported by 2.2m backlinks from ~42k referring domains—good baseline to scale competitive visibility.
- Organic traffic is concentrated on a few hubs: /freshdesk/ (~17k, 21% of traffic), the homepage (~6k), and select TOFU articles like “how to call the UK from the US” (~3k); top keywords skew heavily branded (e.g., “freshdesk”, “freshdesk pricing”) with some breakout non-brand like “sales techniques.”
Growth Opportunity
- You’re 4th of 4 vs key competitors; salesforce.com alone drives ~3.8m organic visits vs your 83k—a massive, clearly addressable demand gap.
- Reduce brand dependence by building more scalable non-brand topic + product-led clusters (CRM/ITSM/helpdesk/ticketing, integrations, comparisons, pricing alternatives) modeled on what’s already working (sales techniques, what is CRM, ticketing system pages).
- Your backlink footprint is strong enough to support faster content expansion—systematically publish and refresh pages to capture more high-volume, mid-intent queries that competitors currently own.
Assessment
You have strong authority and clear product pages, but organic visibility is under-scaled relative to the market. Closing the competitor gap requires a repeatable engine for non-brand content and bottom-funnel pages, not one-off wins. AirOps can help you execute this expansion systematically and unlock meaningful organic traffic growth.
Competition at a Glance
Across an analysis of 3 key competitors (Zendesk, Salesforce, and HubSpot), freshworks.com shows a much smaller organic search footprint, with 82,892 monthly organic visits and 56,441 ranking keywords.
Within this peer set, freshworks.com ranks 4th (last) in organic traffic and 4th (last) in ranking keywords. The top-performing competitor is salesforce.com, generating 3,825,013 monthly organic visits and ranking for 887,702 keywords, highlighting a very large visibility gap versus Freshworks.
Overall, the market is currently shaped by competitors capturing the overwhelming majority of organic demand, leaving Freshworks with a comparatively limited share of discoverability across relevant search topics. This indicates a clear gap to close in both breadth (keyword coverage) and scale (traffic), with the traffic gap especially pronounced relative to competitors’ much larger organic reach.
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 step-by-step implementation guides for connecting Freshworks products with thousands of third-party tools, focusing on specific 'recipes' and triggers. This goes beyond simple marketplace listings to capture high-intent 'how-to' and 'workflow' search queries.
Example Keywords
- "integrate [tool] with customer support software"
- "[tool] service desk integration"
- "sync [tool] tickets with [tool] issues"
- "[tool] to [tool] escalation workflow template"
Rationale
Users frequently search for specific tool connections and automated workflows to solve operational silos. By providing detailed, recipe-style guides, Freshworks can capture evaluators looking for interoperability and ease of use.
Topical Authority
Freshworks already has a strong product authority signal with /freshdesk/ driving ~21% of organic traffic and a domain Authority Score of 54. Expanding on the existing 1,242 marketplace apps with deep-dive content leverages this established credibility.
Internal Data Sources
Use Freshworks Marketplace metadata (features, categories, reviews), Developer SDK documentation, API references, and Support KB articles for troubleshooting common setup pitfalls.
Estimated Number of Pages
6,000+ (Covering 300-500 tools across multiple Freshworks products and workflow variants)
Develop a programmatic library of individual employee-service request blueprints, providing ready-to-use form fields, approval chains, and SLA targets for every conceivable department request. This targets operational leaders looking to stand up or optimize their internal service desks.
Example Keywords
- "employee service request form for [request type]"
- "approval workflow for [request type]"
- "intake form fields for [request type]"
- "[department] request process template"
Rationale
Operational leaders need granular request structures to build efficient service catalogs. Providing these blueprints positions Freshservice as the 'battle-tested' solution for internal service management.
Topical Authority
The domain already has a deep Freshservice footprint (245+ URLs) and ranks for core ITSM terms. Moving into granular request-level content is a natural density play to close the keyword gap with competitors.
Internal Data Sources
Anonymized customer service catalog data, Freshservice support articles for configuration, and Freshworks Academy course structures for best-practice frameworks.
Estimated Number of Pages
8,000+ (Covering 12+ departments and hundreds of specific request types)
Generate a vast collection of ready-to-use customer support macros and email templates segmented by industry, issue type, and communication channel. This utility-driven content attracts support managers looking to improve agent productivity and consistency.
Example Keywords
- "customer support email template for [issue]"
- "support macro examples for [industry]"
- "refund response template"
- "customer apology message for [scenario] copy/paste"
Rationale
Support teams constantly seek templates to standardize their responses. High-volume, copy-pasteable content drives massive top-of-funnel traffic and introduces users to Freshdesk's productivity features.
Topical Authority
Freshworks' 'Explore CX' section already attracts significant traffic, proving authority in customer experience editorial content. This play converts that authority into actionable operational assets.
Internal Data Sources
Anonymized internal corpus of resolved ticket replies, Freshdesk feature documentation for variables/macros, and industry-specific compliance snippets.
Estimated Number of Pages
10,000+ (Covering 50+ industries and thousands of common support scenarios)
Build a programmatic library that answers specific procurement and security questions found in RFPs, providing standardized language and proof links. This targets high-intent buyers in the final stages of vendor evaluation.
Example Keywords
- "customer service software RFP questions"
- "ITSM vendor security questionnaire answers"
- "SOC 2 vendor questionnaire example answers"
- "vendor due diligence questions for SaaS"
Rationale
Procurement teams search for specific compliance and feature answers during the buying process. Owning these answers in search results reduces sales friction and builds trust early in the evaluation cycle.
Topical Authority
Freshworks' Trust Center and SafeBase presence provide a credible foundation. This play addresses a coverage gap where competitors currently dominate procurement-intent clusters.
Internal Data Sources
Trust Center artifacts, SafeBase security policies, internal sales enablement matrices, and public benchmark/TEI reports.
Estimated Number of Pages
2,000+ (Covering various procurement domains, security frameworks, and product capabilities)
Create technical migration guides focused on moving specific data objects (custom fields, automation rules, knowledge bases) from legacy tools to Freshworks. This targets 'switchers' who are actively planning a platform migration.
Example Keywords
- "migrate automation rules from [tool]"
- "export/import custom fields from [tool]"
- "move knowledge base from [tool] to new platform"
- "migration checklist for switching service platforms"
Rationale
The biggest hurdle to switching platforms is data migration. By providing object-level playbooks, Freshworks reduces the perceived risk and technical complexity for potential customers.
Topical Authority
Strong product authority in core hubs like /freshdesk/ (17k+ visits) makes migration content a highly relevant adjacent expansion. It leverages existing technical documentation credibility.
Internal Data Sources
Internal onboarding playbooks, support articles on import/export limits, API schemas, and customer stories mentioning successful migrations.
Estimated Number of Pages
3,000+ (Covering 150+ source tools and dozens of object types per tool)
Improvements Summary
Rework seven ITSM/Service Desk pages that are likely ranking in positions 11–20 by tightening intent match, rewriting titles/meta for CTR, and adding snippet-ready intros, TOCs, and PAA-style FAQs. Add templates (SLA matrix, KPI spreadsheet, RCA pack) plus a hub-and-spoke internal linking plan from Freshservice commercial pages to push these URLs into the top 10.
Improvements Details
Map each page to a primary query and rebuild content around SERP patterns: add a TL;DR definition block, comparison tables, decision trees, checklists, and 6–10 FAQs with schema (where eligible). Prioritize targets like "difference between service request and incident," "service level agreement response time," "problem management tools," and "itsm metrics," then add downloadable assets tied to those pages. Create 6–10 supporting long-tail articles (e.g., MTTA vs MTTR, KEDB, incident vs problem vs request) and link them through an "ITSM Guides" hub plus contextual links from /freshservice/, /freshservice/ticketing/, and /freshservice/cmdb/; improve CWV and breadcrumbs to support crawl and click-through.
Improvements Rationale
The payload shows meaningful search volume with near-zero traffic share, which points to page-2 rankings and weak CTR rather than lack of demand. Adding decision-support content, snippet-friendly formatting, and PAA coverage increases SERP feature capture and relevance for low-competition terms where page-1 is realistic. A hub-and-spoke internal linking setup funnels internal PageRank from higher-authority product pages into the underperforming guides, improving rankings across the cluster over 8–16 weeks.
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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