Remote 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 are driving 95k monthly organic visits, valued at over $504k in equivalent ad spend.
- Your site ranks for 59k keywords, supported by a strong Authority Score of 55 from 18k referring domains, indicating a trustworthy backlink profile.
- Your homepage and blog are top performers, with the homepage capturing 24% of traffic from branded searches and blog posts attracting visitors with broad informational queries like "1099 form" and "remote work benefits."
Growth Opportunity
- Your top competitor generates over 128k monthly visits from nearly twice as many keywords (116k), revealing a significant, addressable market share to capture.
- Your success with high-volume, top-of-funnel keywords (e.g., "futa," "asynchronous") provides a proven template for content expansion to close the keyword gap with competitors.
- Your
/jobsand/careerspages are strong user acquisition channels, presenting an opportunity to scale traffic by targeting more long-tail and location-specific job-related keywords.
Assessment
You have a strong organic foundation with high domain authority and proven success in attracting both branded and informational traffic. The data clearly indicates a path to overtake competitors by systematically expanding your content footprint around high-intent HR, payroll, and global employment topics. AirOps can help you execute this content strategy at scale to rapidly close the performance gap and capture more market share.
Competition at a Glance
An analysis of 2 direct competitors shows Remote currently ranks 2nd in organic search performance. The site attracts 94,584 monthly organic visits from 58,872 ranking keywords, placing it ahead of Oyster HR but behind the current market leader.
The top competitor, Deel, generates 128,055 monthly organic visits and ranks for 115,996 keywords. This creates a clear performance gap and a significant opportunity for Remote to capture additional market share in the organic search landscape.
The market leader's success is driven by a substantially broader keyword footprint, as they rank for nearly twice as many keywords as Remote. This highlights a clear opportunity to close the performance gap and increase market visibility by expanding content coverage to reach a wider 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.
Create static verdict guides that outline the pass/fail criteria for employee vs. contractor status for specific job roles in every country. These pages will include a misclassification penalty summary to attract high-intent users trying to avoid legal and financial risk.
Example Keywords
- “is UX designer contractor or employee Canada”
- “independent contractor test sales rep France”
- “misclassification fines software engineer Chile”
- “risks of hiring a developer as a contractor in Germany”
Rationale
Companies are terrified of worker misclassification, which carries severe penalties. Providing role-specific, country-specific guidance addresses this critical pain point and captures users at a crucial decision-making stage, positioning Remote as the ultimate compliance solution.
Topical Authority
Remote already ranks for HR and compliance topics like tax forms and EOR services. By leveraging its internal rules engine for worker classification, it can establish unparalleled authority on this complex subject, creating a deep content moat that competitors cannot easily replicate.
Internal Data Sources
Use Remote’s internal misclassification rules engine which contains risk scores for hundreds of roles, leverage anonymized customer onboarding data showing typical engagement models, and incorporate insights from support ticket outcomes where worker status was a key issue.
Estimated Number of Pages
16,000+ (Covering 200 common roles across 80 countries)
Develop a comprehensive atlas of talent-sourcing pages that detail the talent density for specific skills in non-obvious, secondary cities globally. Each page will show the estimated talent pool size, average salary, and time-zone overlap with major business hubs.
Example Keywords
- “flutter developers in Bandung salary”
- “data scientists talent pool Bucharest”
- “english-speaking accountants Ho Chi Minh City”
- “cost to hire python developers in Krakow”
Rationale
As companies expand their global hiring strategies, they are actively searching for untapped talent pools with favorable economics. This play directly serves the research phase of the hiring process, attracting recruiters and hiring managers looking for data to inform their sourcing strategy.
Topical Authority
Remote's core business is global hiring, and it already has strong rankings for 'remote jobs.' By publishing proprietary data on talent availability and cost, sourced from its partners and internal data, Remote can become the go-to authority for strategic global workforce planning.
Internal Data Sources
Leverage the LinkedIn skill graph API for aggregate talent counts, combine it with Remote’s own anonymized payroll data for salary benchmarks, and integrate a public cost-of-living data feed to provide a complete financial picture for each city.
Estimated Number of Pages
6,250+ (Covering 25 high-demand skills across 250+ tier-2/3 cities)
Build a matrix of static guides detailing the eligibility requirements, income thresholds, and tax implications for every digital nomad or remote work visa. Each page will be tailored to a specific passport-holder and destination-country combination.
Example Keywords
- “US citizen Portugal digital nomad visa income requirement”
- “Indian passport remote work visa Estonia”
- “South African passport Bali digital nomad tax”
- “how to hire a Canadian with a Spanish remote work visa”
Rationale
The search query structure for this play explicitly reveals user nationality and their desired destination, signaling extremely high intent for relocation or global hiring services. This content positions Remote as the expert navigator for the complex, rapidly growing trend of international remote work.
Topical Authority
Remote already has content about work permits and relocation, but it's not structured in this powerful two-variable matrix. By creating this comprehensive resource, Remote can capture a massive volume of long-tail traffic and solidify its authority as the leader in facilitating global mobility.
Internal Data Sources
Utilize Remote’s internal relocation product knowledge base, draw on historical visa approval timelines from anonymized customer cases, and transcribe insights from webinars with partner immigration lawyers to create differentiated, expert-led content.
Estimated Number of Pages
2,600+ (Covering 40 high-volume passports across 65+ destinations)
Create end-to-end blueprints explaining how a company from a specific HQ country can compliantly hire talent in a target country. These guides will cover legal entity alternatives, EOR timelines, payroll cost tables, and IP protection considerations.
Example Keywords
- “US company hiring employees in Kenya”
- “UK startup employ staff in Vietnam legally”
- “Canadian firm payroll in Nigeria”
- “Singapore company contractor compliance Brazil”
Rationale
This play targets the highest-intent commercial queries by matching a buyer's location with their expansion target. Competitors offer generic country guides; providing a playbook from the perspective of the hiring company's country is a unique and powerful differentiator that speaks directly to the user's context.
Topical Authority
Remote possesses strong authority in global employment, demonstrated by its existing 'country-explorer' pages. This strategy expands that authority by adding a crucial layer of specificity, answering the exact questions that CFOs, founders, and HR leaders ask when planning international expansion.
Internal Data Sources
Leverage internal data on country-to-country onboarding timelines, use outputs from Remote’s cost calculator for currency conversions, and incorporate playbook snippets from the support desk on cross-border IP and compliance issues.
Estimated Number of Pages
2,160+ (Covering 12 top HQ markets hiring in 180+ target markets)
Launch a comprehensive set of static pages detailing the specific payroll tax rates, labor laws, and compliance requirements for each of the 3,143 counties in the United States. This creates an unparalleled resource for any company hiring remotely within the US.
Example Keywords
- “payroll tax rates in Travis County”
- “how to hire employees in Cook County”
- “Los Angeles County contractor rules”
- “overtime laws in Maricopa County”
Rationale
While competitors focus on state-level content, a county-level strategy captures high-intent, long-tail traffic from HR and finance professionals solving specific payroll and compliance problems. This hyper-local approach builds a deep competitive moat and signals unmatched authority in the complex US employment landscape.
Topical Authority
Remote already has some 'US-state-explorer' pages, but they are limited. Expanding to the county level is a natural and powerful extension of this existing authority, demonstrating a level of detail that builds immense trust and attracts highly qualified leads responsible for domestic payroll.
Internal Data Sources
Use Remote’s own internal U.S. payroll tax tables and compliance library, transcribe recorded webinars with Remote’s U.S. payroll experts, and repurpose knowledge-base articles on state and federal employment law to provide rich, accurate context.
Estimated Number of Pages
3,100+ (Covering all U.S. counties and county-equivalents)
Improvements Summary
Expand and optimize core product pages targeting high-intent keywords, strengthen internal linking, and add supporting content to address content gaps. Implement on-page SEO, comparison blocks, FAQs, and schema to improve rankings and conversions.
Improvements Details
Rewrite title tags and H1s to front-load primary keywords like 'global payroll software' and 'employer of record.' Expand product pages to 1,500-2,000 words with detailed benefits, compliance info, and comparison sections. Add FAQ sections with schema, insert conversion CTAs, and build new supporting guides and tools that link back to product pages. Strengthen internal links from blog, glossary, and country pages, and implement product and FAQ schema for better SERP visibility.
Improvements Rationale
These improvements address thin content, fragmented authority, and missed keyword opportunities that are keeping key pages off page one. By aligning content depth, keyword targeting, and internal linking, the cluster will capture more high-intent traffic and improve rankings for valuable commercial terms. This approach is expected to drive significant organic traffic growth and increase qualified lead conversions.
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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