New Relic 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 28k organic keywords and drive about 77k monthly organic visits (traffic value ≈ $536k in equivalent ad spend).
- Your organic traffic is highly brand-led: “new relic / newrelic” terms drive ~37% of traffic, and the homepage alone captures ~37k visits (≈49% of all organic traffic).
- Authority is solid at 57 with a large link footprint (1.2m backlinks from 30k referring domains), supporting competitive growth if you expand non-brand coverage.
Growth Opportunity
- You’re last among key competitors: Splunk generates ~300k visits from 175k keywords (a gap of ~223k visits and 147k keywords), signaling significant addressable demand you’re not capturing.
- Non-brand education content already works (e.g., “telemetry” to the “what is telemetry” page and “what is DNS” content), but it’s a small share—systematically expand into high-intent observability/APM topics (monitoring, tracing, logs, SLO/SLI, OpenTelemetry, integrations) and build stronger product-led landing pages beyond the homepage.
- Clean up and protect index quality: the weird long-query page ranking for “instahackgram.com” suggests spam/index bloat that can dilute topical authority and waste crawl budget.
Assessment
You have strong brand demand and enough authority to scale, but your organic footprint is narrow versus competitors. The biggest upside is building more systematic, non-brand content and landing-page coverage to close the visibility gap. AirOps can support airops-powered growth by helping you produce and refresh content at scale while maintaining quality.
Competition at a Glance
Analysis of 3 direct competitors (Datadog, Dynatrace, and Splunk) shows New Relic competing in a landscape where organic visibility closely tracks how broadly each site ranks across search queries.
newrelic.com ranks 4th (last) out of 4 in both monthly organic search traffic and ranking keywords, with 76,684 monthly organic visits from 28,424 keywords. The top performer is Splunk, generating 299,527 monthly organic visits and ranking for 174,720 keywords, creating a gap of +222,843 visits and +146,296 keywords versus New Relic.
Overall, New Relic’s position indicates a clear visibility gap versus the category leader and even the mid-pack, with competitors pairing higher traffic with much broader keyword footprints. This suggests the market is rewarding brands that capture a wider range of search demand across monitoring, observability, and adjacent problem/solution areas—where New Relic currently has the smallest share of organic reach in this comparison set.
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 landing pages targeting specific cloud services across AWS, GCP, and Azure, providing granular monitoring guides for each. These pages focus on golden signals, setup paths, and alert thresholds to capture high-intent infrastructure engineers.
Example Keywords
- "aws sqs monitoring"
- "azure cosmos db monitoring alerts"
- "gcp cloud run monitoring dashboards"
- "aws step functions troubleshooting"
Rationale
New Relic has strong platform relevance but lacks the granular "service × intent" breadth found in competitor footprints. By creating thousands of service-specific pages, the domain can capture underserved long-tail queries from engineers in the implementation phase.
Topical Authority
New Relic is already recognized for technical infrastructure education and has a high Authority Score (57), making it a trusted source for cloud-native monitoring guidance.
Internal Data Sources
Use integration catalog metadata, pre-built dashboard templates from Instant Observability, and existing documentation for installation snippets to differentiate the AI output.
Estimated Number of Pages
6,000 - 15,000 pages (covering 300+ services across 3 major clouds with multiple intent variants)
A comprehensive technical dictionary mapping thousands of specific error signatures and status codes to detection and remediation steps. This play targets engineers mid-incident who are searching for the exact error strings appearing in their logs.
Example Keywords
- "http 504 gateway timeout fix"
- "kubernetes crashloopbackoff causes"
- "postgresql too many connections"
- "tls handshake timeout troubleshooting"
Rationale
This play leverages the massive long-tail search volume associated with production errors. It positions New Relic as the immediate solution for identifying and fixing errors that their platform is designed to detect.
Topical Authority
The domain already ranks for several high-traffic technical explainers; this encyclopedia is a scaled extension of that existing topical trust.
Internal Data Sources
Leverage the Errors Inbox taxonomy, anonymized support trends for common root causes, and NRQL query snippets for detection blocks.
Estimated Number of Pages
25,000 - 80,000 pages (covering a vast array of HTTP, database, and infrastructure error signatures)
A unique library of pages focused on monitoring external dependencies like Stripe, Twilio, and Salesforce. These pages help teams manage the reliability of APIs and webhooks they do not control but rely on for business operations.
Example Keywords
- "stripe webhook monitoring"
- "salesforce api rate limit 429"
- "github webhook delivery failed"
- "okta oauth token refresh errors"
Rationale
Modern stacks are heavily dependent on third-party APIs, yet monitoring guidance for these external services is fragmented. This play captures a unique niche of incident-intent SEO.
Topical Authority
New Relic's existing 782 "instant-observability" pages provide a credible foundation for expanding into third-party service reliability.
Internal Data Sources
Use integration catalog metadata, support patterns for common webhook failures, and approved documentation for signature verification examples.
Estimated Number of Pages
10,000 - 40,000 pages (covering hundreds of vendors and their specific event/failure modes)
A deep-dive technical atlas keyed to specific Kubernetes event reasons and symptoms. It provides engineers with immediate diagnostic steps and the telemetry signals needed to resolve cluster-level issues.
Example Keywords
- "FailedScheduling 0 nodes available"
- "readiness probe failed timeout"
- "pod evicted disk pressure"
- "ImagePullBackOff unauthorized"
Rationale
Kubernetes troubleshooting is a high-volume, high-complexity area where New Relic can bridge the gap between a raw error message and a platform-driven solution.
Topical Authority
With existing assets like Pixie and dedicated K8s integration pages, New Relic has the cloud-native credibility to dominate these technical SERPs.
Internal Data Sources
Utilize Kubernetes integration docs, Pixie metadata, and pre-built dashboard/alert conditions for cluster health.
Estimated Number of Pages
20,000 - 70,000 pages (mapping event reasons across various cluster components and environments)
A library of pages targeting production-critical failures in databases and messaging queues. It focuses on the intersection of error codes and workload patterns to provide highly specific remediation guidance.
Example Keywords
- "deadlock detected postgres"
- "kafka rebalance too often"
- "mysql lock wait timeout exceeded"
- "redis crossslot keys hash error"
Rationale
Database and messaging incidents are high-stakes events. Providing the exact telemetry signals and fix steps for these errors attracts senior engineers and architects.
Topical Authority
New Relic's strength in application performance monitoring (APM) naturally extends to the data layer, where they already provide deep instrumentation.
Internal Data Sources
Use database integration capability matrices, approved alert runbooks, and anonymized support escalations regarding database saturation.
Estimated Number of Pages
30,000 - 100,000 pages (covering dozens of engines and thousands of specific error strings)
Improvements Summary
Refocus four New Relic Platform feature pages (APM, Browser Monitoring, Synthetics, Dashboards) around primary “brand + feature” keywords and intent-matching page sections. Expand on-page depth (use cases, FAQs with schema, “how it works,” integrations, proof points) and add supporting hub articles to capture generic terms and funnel authority to product pages.
Improvements Details
Map and prioritize keywords per page: “newrelic apm” + “apm new relic” for /platform/application-monitoring, “new relic browser monitoring” + “browser monitoring” for /platform/browser-monitoring, “synthetic monitoring new relic” for /platform/synthetics, and “new relic dashboard” for /platform/dashboards (plus NRQL dashboard intent via Docs links). Rewrite above-the-fold copy to match evaluative intent, add targeted H2s (e.g., “What is browser monitoring?”, “Browser monitoring vs RUM”), build FAQ sections with FAQPage schema, and add “How it works,” integrations, and customer proof modules. Strengthen internal links from /platform, relevant Docs (NRQL, agents), related blog posts, and cross-link feature pages where intents overlap; publish four supporting guides (browser monitoring, synthetic monitoring, APM explained, observability dashboards with NRQL) and refresh two existing posts to point into the feature pages.
Improvements Rationale
Several high-intent terms show weak traffic share despite relevance, indicating intent mismatch, thin topical coverage, or weak internal authority pointing to the commercial pages. Expanding intent-aligned sections plus stronger contextual internal linking typically moves pages from positions 11–20 into the top 10 on authoritative domains, with faster gains expected for “new relic dashboard” and synthetics terms due to clearer SERP intent and lower competition than broad generics like “browser monitoring.”
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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