Rubrik 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 24k organic keywords and drive about 41k monthly organic visits (≈ $242k in equivalent ad spend), putting you #2 for traffic among key competitors (behind Veeam at ~83k).
- Authority Score is 49 with a strong link base (260k backlinks from 9k referring domains), indicating solid domain trust but not an unassailable moat.
- Traffic is concentrated in brand + corporate intents: top pages include the homepage (~10k visits; 25%), RTO/RPO explainer (~4k; 9%), and Careers (~3k; 8%); top keywords include “rubrik careers,” “rubrik,” “what is ransomware,” and multiple RTO vs RPO variants.
Growth Opportunity
- The main gap vs the category leader is coverage: Veeam ranks for ~67k keywords vs your 24k (you have ~35% of their footprint), suggesting significant upside from systematically expanding topic breadth.
- Reduce reliance on brand/careers by scaling non-brand, high-intent clusters where you already show traction (e.g., ransomware, backup & recovery, DRaaS, air gap, DLP, database security) and building more comparison/integration/industry pages that map to buying journeys.
- Improve “money-page” capture: many product/solution pages sit outside the top traffic drivers (e.g., Cloud Vault / DSPM / Identity Recovery)—content hubs + internal linking from high-traffic Insights pages can push more qualified traffic into conversion paths.
Assessment
You have a credible organic foundation and strong brand demand, but a sizable share of traffic is not directly product-led. The biggest lever is expanding keyword breadth with a repeatable content engine to close the gap to the leader. AirOps-powered growth is a practical path to publish and optimize this content systematically at scale.
Competition at a Glance
Analysis of 3 direct competitors (Cohesity, Veeam, and Commvault) shows Rubrik is a strong challenger in organic search visibility. rubrik.com ranks #2 in monthly organic traffic with 40,629 visits, and #3 in ranking keywords with 23,838 keywords.
The market leader is veeam.com, generating 82,814 monthly organic visits and ranking for 67,382 keywords. This puts Rubrik at about 49% of the leader’s traffic while covering roughly 35% of the leader’s keyword footprint, indicating the main separation is driven by overall search coverage scale rather than performance on the terms Rubrik already ranks for.
Within the competitive set, Rubrik is ahead of cohesity.com (26,441 visits) and commvault.com (25,618 visits) despite trailing Commvault in keyword count (23,838 vs. 26,064). Overall, Rubrik’s position suggests high yield from its existing rankings, with the primary market gap being breadth of visibility compared with the category leader’s much larger keyword footprint.
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 comprehensive library of landing pages and evaluation guides for every SaaS application supported by Rubrik, focusing on granular recovery and data protection outcomes.
Example Keywords
- "{app} backup software"
- "restore deleted {app} records"
- "{app} data protection platform"
- "{app} retention and legal hold"
Rationale
Rubrik already ranks for high-intent resilience topics but lacks the granular app-specific coverage that competitors like Veeam use to dominate the market. This play closes the keyword coverage gap by targeting specific app-plus-outcome queries.
Topical Authority
Existing solutions for M365 and Salesforce provide a foundation; expanding to the full long-tail of supported SaaS apps leverages Rubrik's core product strengths and existing solution-page authority.
Internal Data Sources
Use the Rubrik connector support matrix, product documentation, support KB for common restore scenarios, and API documentation to provide differentiated technical depth.
Estimated Number of Pages
1,600+ (Covering hundreds of apps with multiple intent-based pages per app)
A massive programmatic library focused on operational recovery from administrative errors, misconfigurations, and accidental deletions across enterprise systems.
Example Keywords
- "revert {system} permission changes"
- "rollback {system} retention policy change"
- "recover {system} after integration overwrite"
- "restore deleted {object} in {system} after sync issue"
Rationale
This play targets the specific "admin mistake" intent that drives urgent, high-value searches, moving beyond generic backup terms into operational recovery where Rubrik excels.
Topical Authority
Rubrik's focus on cyber resilience and rapid recovery makes it the ideal authority for "undoing" accidental or malicious changes across complex enterprise environments.
Internal Data Sources
Leverage anonymized support case taxonomy, restore granularity matrices, and customer success runbooks to provide accurate, step-by-step rollback guidance.
Estimated Number of Pages
60,000+ (Scaling across thousands of systems and hundreds of common admin actions)
An execution-focused atlas that helps security teams locate and remediate specific sensitive data elements across diverse cloud and on-prem repositories.
Example Keywords
- "find {data element} in {repository}"
- "detect {data element} in {repository}"
- "audit {repository} for {data element}"
- "reduce exposure of {data element} in {repository}"
Rationale
By leveraging Rubrik's DSPM capabilities, this play captures long-tail queries from security teams looking to locate specific PII/PHI, expanding the keyword footprint into high-intent security operations.
Topical Authority
Rubrik's existing ranking for "sensitive data discovery" and "data classification" provides a strong base to expand into specific repository-element pairs that competitors often ignore.
Internal Data Sources
Utilize the Rubrik DSPM detector catalog, supported data store matrix, and Zero Labs research on real-world data risk patterns.
Estimated Number of Pages
32,000+ (Mapping hundreds of data elements against dozens of enterprise repositories)
A library of operational playbooks providing step-by-step recovery instructions for specific business objects across the entire enterprise application stack.
Example Keywords
- "restore deleted {object} in {system}"
- "recover overwritten {object} in {system}"
- "how to recover {system} data after sync error"
- "rollback configuration changes in {system}"
Rationale
This play targets the "I need to restore X right now" intent, providing granular guides that drive high-intent traffic from users experiencing active data loss or corruption.
Topical Authority
Rubrik's technical documentation and training properties already establish authority in recovery procedures; this play systematizes that knowledge for organic search at scale.
Internal Data Sources
Integrate product capability matrices, training materials, and support KB data to ensure every playbook is technically accurate and Rubrik-aligned.
Estimated Number of Pages
18,000+ (Covering a vast array of objects across hundreds of business systems)
A data-driven index that helps organizations model the long-term costs and retrieval economics of data retention across different cloud providers and regions.
Example Keywords
- "{cloud} {region} archive storage cost 7 years"
- "{cloud} long-term retention cost per TB"
- "{cloud} {storage tier} data retrieval fees"
- "{cloud} retention cost optimization"
Rationale
This play targets procurement and budget owners during the planning phase, a high-intent audience that is often underserved by purely technical backup content.
Topical Authority
Rubrik's expertise in cloud data management and its existing sizing tools (sizing.rubrik.com) provide the data-driven credibility needed for authoritative cost modeling.
Internal Data Sources
Use internal sizing guidance, reference architectures, and field data on common enterprise retention patterns to provide unique economic insights.
Estimated Number of Pages
8,000+ (Scaling across clouds, regions, storage tiers, and retention durations)
Improvements Summary
Rework the RTO/RPO page into a clear pillar with definition-first formatting, a comparison table, examples, and FAQs aimed at featured snippets and PAA queries. Expand supporting Insights pages with missing keyword variants, checklists/decision trees, and stronger internal linking via a new disaster-recovery hub.
Improvements Details
On /insights/rto-rpo-whats-the-difference, add a 40–60 word definition block, an RTO vs RPO table, workload/data examples, “how to choose” and “what impacts” sections, plus FAQPage schema targeting terms like "rto/rpo", "define rto and rpo", and "what is rto rpo". Update supporting pages to cover broader comparisons such as "failover vs failback", "backup vs replication" (including snapshots), "offsite backup strategy" (3-2-1, air gap/immutable), and "multi-cloud disaster recovery" (cross-cloud failover, runbook outline). Create a hub page (e.g., /insights/disaster-recovery-basics) and add bidirectional links between the hub, the RTO/RPO pillar, and related pages; add contextual links from relevant offering pages into these Insights articles.
Improvements Rationale
Search demand is concentrated around RTO/RPO, but current traffic share suggests page-2 rankings and low CTR; snippet-oriented structure (definitions, tables, FAQs) is a direct fix. Several supporting pages target only a small set of keywords, so adding expected subtopics (examples, checklists, templates) increases long-tail coverage and ranking footprint. A hub-and-spoke internal linking structure tightens topical relevance and routes readers from educational content to related offerings without changing informational intent.
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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