Marqeta 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 over 10k monthly organic visits from nearly 3k keywords, valued at an estimated $69k in equivalent ad spend.
- Performance is heavily reliant on brand recognition, with searches for "marqeta" and its misspellings accounting for over 68% of all organic traffic.
- The homepage captures the vast majority of traffic (72%), followed by the careers page (6.6%), indicating a lack of traffic distribution to key product and solution pages.
Growth Opportunity
- Your moderate Authority Score of 39 and 4k referring domains provide a solid foundation to expand non-branded keyword rankings.
- High-volume, bottom-funnel keywords like "virtual card" (9.9k monthly searches), "baas" (3.6k searches), and "virtual cards" (3.6k searches) are significant opportunities, as you currently capture less than 0.1% of traffic from them.
- A leading competitor like Stripe generates over 1.7m monthly visits, demonstrating the massive scale of the addressable market available by targeting non-branded, problem-aware search terms.
Assessment
Your organic performance shows strong brand equity but a significant dependency that leaves most of the addressable market untapped. The data highlights a clear path to capture high-intent users searching for your core solutions like card issuing and embedded finance. AirOps can help systematically create the content required to win these valuable non-branded keywords and meaningfully grow your market share.
Competition at a Glance
An analysis of 2 direct competitors shows marqeta.com currently ranks 2nd in organic search performance. The site generates 10,341 monthly organic visits from just under 3,000 ranking keywords, placing it ahead of Galileo Financial Technologies but significantly behind the market leader.
The top competitor, Stripe, attracts over 1.7 million monthly organic visits and ranks for more than 516,000 keywords. This represents a substantial gap in market visibility and demonstrates the scale of the audience being captured by the leading brand in the space.
This data highlights a significant opportunity for growth. While Marqeta is performing on a similar scale to one competitor, the vast difference in organic reach compared to the market leader indicates a substantial, untapped potential to increase share of voice and attract a much larger relevant audience.
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.
Improvements Summary
Expand and enrich the card issuing platform pillar page with targeted keywords, deeper content, and structured FAQs. Add supporting blog content, optimize on-page elements, and strengthen internal linking from high-authority pages.
Improvements Details
Rewrite title tags and meta descriptions to target high-value keywords like 'card issuing platform' and 'virtual card issuing.' Increase content depth to 1,800-2,300 words, add use cases, customer videos, API code snippets, and a marked-up FAQ section. Create new supporting guides and blog posts, and implement contextual internal links from authoritative and related pages to the pillar.
Improvements Rationale
These improvements address thin content and low keyword coverage, aiming to capture high-intent search traffic and improve rankings for valuable terms. By aligning content with searcher intent and SERP trends, and funnelling internal link equity, the strategy targets higher visibility, increased organic traffic, and better lead quality.
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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