Prove Identity 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’re driving ~6k monthly organic visits from ~4k ranking keywords (traffic value ~$39k/mo in equivalent ad spend).
- Organic demand is heavily brand-led: top keywords include “prove identity” and “prove”, and your homepage captures ~65% of all organic traffic—showing strong brand capture but limited distribution to deeper commercial pages.
- Authority is moderate: Authority Score 37 supported by ~4k referring domains (and ~25k backlinks), giving you a solid base to compete in identity verification/fraud topics.
Growth Opportunity
- The leader (Socure) earns ~13k visits on a nearly identical keyword footprint—~2.1× your traffic—so the gap is mostly ranking strength/CTR, not coverage.
- Your best non-brand opportunities are already peeking through via blog winners like “sms otp” and “what is cip”; systematize content around identity verification, KYC, authentication/MFA, and fraud prevention to expand unbranded acquisition.
- Reduce concentration risk by pushing more traffic to solution and use-case pages (e.g., identity/auth/pre-fill) with stronger internal linking from high-traffic posts, and add bottom-funnel pages (comparisons/alternatives, “pricing,” “platform,” integrations).
Assessment
You have a credible SEO foundation, but your traffic is overly concentrated on brand + the homepage, leaving meaningful unbranded growth on the table. Closing the “traffic yield per keyword” gap to Socure could unlock a step-change in qualified organic leads. AirOps can help you scale a systematic content and optimization program to capture that upside.
Competition at a Glance
Across 2 direct competitors analyzed (Socure and Jumio), prove.com sits in the middle of the competitive set for organic visibility, with 6,055 monthly organic visits driven by 4,172 ranking keywords.
In this group, prove.com ranks #2 in organic search traffic and #2 in ranking keywords. The market leader is socure.com, generating 12,771 monthly organic visits from 4,297 ranking keywords, which is about 2.1× prove.com’s traffic on a nearly identical keyword footprint.
Overall, the landscape shows prove.com has solid breadth but is being outpaced on traffic yield per keyword / ranking strength, rather than lacking keyword coverage. Prove is only slightly ahead of Jumio on traffic despite a larger keyword set, reinforcing that the current competitive gap is primarily about visibility and performance within similar topic coverage, with meaningful upside available if prove.com closes the efficiency gap to the leader.
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 programmatic hub of compliance reference pages mapping global jurisdictions to regulated activity expectations and verification failure points. This play captures high-intent regulatory search traffic by providing localized onboarding checklists.
Example Keywords
- kyc requirements in [country]
- kyb requirements in [country]
- aml onboarding requirements for [industry] in [country]
- money transmitter kyc requirements [state]
Rationale
Compliance is the primary driver for identity verification adoption. By providing localized requirements, prove.com can capture buyers at the earliest stage of their vendor research journey.
Topical Authority
Prove already ranks for 'what is cip', demonstrating existing topical relevance to regulatory onboarding and financial compliance topics.
Internal Data Sources
Utilize developer documentation on carrier consent requirements, legal privacy pages, and internal insights reports to provide differentiated compliance context.
Estimated Number of Pages
2,000+ (Covering 200+ countries and 50 US states across multiple regulated industries)
High-intent landing pages tailored to micro-verticals and specific team personas like Fraud Ops, Compliance, and Engineering. These pages frame Prove's technology around specific workflows like account recovery or marketplace payouts.
Example Keywords
- account opening fraud prevention for [industry]
- synthetic identity fraud detection for [industry]
- device intelligence for [industry] onboarding
- phone number risk scoring for [industry]
Rationale
Generic fraud content is highly competitive; vertical-specific content allows prove.com to target underserved long-tail queries with higher conversion intent.
Topical Authority
Existing industry pages for banking, crypto, and insurance provide a strong foundation for expanding into micro-vertical authority.
Internal Data Sources
Leverage 15+ customer stories, case study assets, and webinar transcripts to inject vertical-specific proof points and outcomes.
Estimated Number of Pages
3,000+ (Covering hundreds of micro-verticals across 10+ core use cases)
A massive library of ready-to-use consent language and disclosure copy blocks for phone-based verification across different jurisdictions and channels. This targets legal and product teams looking for implementation-ready compliance copy.
Example Keywords
- verification consent language [country]
- phone verification disclosure [state]
- opt-in language for fraud prevention messages
- consent logging requirements for verification
Rationale
Legal and product teams often search for specific disclosure wording during the implementation phase, creating a unique entry point for Prove's solutions.
Topical Authority
Prove's phone-centric focus and existing documentation on MNO consent requirements make them a natural authority for phone-based disclosure standards.
Internal Data Sources
Use existing MNO consent requirements, legal privacy pages, and product UX language from solution pages as the technical spine for the library.
Estimated Number of Pages
100,000+ (Covering 250 jurisdictions across 5 channels and 12 use-cases)
Programmatic pages that define best-practice form fields and validation rules for various application types. This play positions Prove's Pre-Fill solution as the answer to reducing onboarding abandonment.
Example Keywords
- [product] application required fields
- [industry] onboarding form fields checklist
- customer onboarding data validation rules [industry]
- duplicate customer records prevention onboarding
Rationale
Product managers search for field-level best practices to optimize conversion; these pages provide a direct bridge to Prove's Pre-Fill and Identity solutions.
Topical Authority
The Pre-Fill solution is a market leader in streamlining data collection, giving Prove the credibility to define 'best-in-class' onboarding forms.
Internal Data Sources
Incorporate Pre-Fill solution data, case studies on onboarding speed improvements, and developer API documentation for field mapping.
Estimated Number of Pages
30,000+ (Covering 400+ application types across 30 industries and 5 regions)
A searchable runbook library for engineers and fraud ops teams to troubleshoot production identity and fraud checks. This play captures 'build and operate' intent from technical stakeholders.
Example Keywords
- troubleshooting verification failure spike
- identity check timeout handling best practices
- webhook retry strategy verification events
- production monitoring for identity verification api
Rationale
Operational content is rarely produced at scale by competitors, allowing Prove to capture technical users during the critical post-integration phase.
Topical Authority
Prove's substantial developer subdomain and existing API reference documentation provide the necessary technical foundation for operational authority.
Internal Data Sources
Utilize status/error code references, sandbox testing documentation, and internal support playbooks to generate accurate troubleshooting guides.
Estimated Number of Pages
10,000+ (Covering 150+ incident types across 8 platforms and 6 root-cause classes)
Improvements Summary
Expand thin product and education pages to target non-branded searches, with two pillar articles leading acquisition and routing readers into product pages. Add structured sections (comparisons, FAQs, use cases, and “how it works”) plus tighter internal linking so each post reinforces the broader topic cluster.
Improvements Details
Rework the “sms otp” article into the primary OTP pillar by adding an OTP method comparison table, a “why SMS OTP is insecure” section (SIM swap, recycled numbers, phishing), and FAQ schema targeting “sms otp alternative” and “otp alternative.” Update the auth product page to target “passwordless authentication” with above-the-fold use cases, a step-by-step flow, integration notes, and an “SMS OTP alternative” section that links back to the pillar. Expand identity verification content around “phone number identity verification” with sections on phone-centric identity, phone intelligence, recycled numbers, and trust scoring, and add “Related resources” modules plus consistent anchor text across the cluster.
Improvements Rationale
Current rankings skew branded and several key pages have very small keyword footprints, limiting reach for high-intent non-branded queries. Building two strong acquisition pillars (OTP and identity verification) and linking spokes into relevant product pages increases topical relevance, captures long-tail variants, and improves the chance of moving page-2 terms onto page 1 while driving more qualified visits into conversion paths.
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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