TransUnion 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 drive 1.7m estimated monthly organic visits across 152k ranking keywords (traffic value: $3.6m), but visibility is heavily concentrated in brand + support intent.
- Organic demand is dominated by branded queries like “transunion” (≈32% of organic traffic), plus high-intent service terms like “transunion credit freeze” (≈12%) and “transunion login” (≈8%).
- Your link authority is strong (Authority Score 67 with 1.4m backlinks from 47k referring domains), and your top pages are the homepage (~866k visits / ~51%) and /credit-freeze (~457k / ~27%)—together capturing ~78% of all organic traffic.
Growth Opportunity
- You’re 3rd vs the other bureaus: Experian leads with 5.7m visits and 1.1m keywords (≈3.4× your traffic and ~7× your keyword coverage), suggesting a large, addressable non-branded market you’re not fully capturing.
- Expand beyond support flows into scalable topic clusters where you already have footholds but limited share (e.g., credit score content via /free-credit-score (~56k), disputes, fraud/identity education, and “credit bureau / credit report” explainer pages).
- Your calculators/tools show upside: you touch huge-demand terms like “mortgage calculator” (2.7m volume) and “amortization calculator” (246k volume), but current traffic is modest—implying ranking/CTR improvements and supporting content could unlock significant incremental visits.
Assessment
- You have strong authority and brand-driven SEO, but you’re over-reliant on a small set of navigational/service queries and pages.
- The competitive gap in keyword coverage signals meaningful upside if you systematically publish and optimize non-branded, intent-matched content.
- AirOps can help you scale this programmatically—expanding topic coverage while improving rankings on high-volume credit and financial education queries.
Competition at a Glance
Across 2 direct competitors (Equifax and Experian), transunion.com is benchmarked against the other major credit bureaus for organic visibility. In this set of 3 sites total, transunion.com ranks 3rd in monthly organic traffic and 3rd in ranking keywords, with 1,689,971 estimated monthly organic visits and 151,593 ranking keywords.
The top-performing competitor is Experian, with 5,709,744 estimated monthly organic visits and 1,110,537 ranking keywords—roughly 3.4× TransUnion’s organic traffic and ~7.3× its keyword footprint, signaling a much broader reach across search demand.
Overall, TransUnion’s current market position reflects a meaningful visibility gap, especially in keyword coverage, versus both peers (Equifax: 2,026,052 visits; 294,559 keywords). This suggests competitors are capturing a wider range of consumer intent across credit and identity-related topics, contributing to their stronger share of organic discovery and brand exposure.
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, programmatic library of 'How to spot, avoid, and report' pages for brand impersonation and channel-specific scams. This strategy captures high-intent consumer traffic at the moment of potential identity theft or fraud.
Example Keywords
- {brand} text message scam
- is this {brand} email legitimate
- how to report {brand} phishing
- {brand} account takeover prevention
- one-time passcode scam for {brand}
Rationale
Consumers frequently search for specific brand names alongside scam modifiers when they receive suspicious communications. By providing immediate, authoritative guidance, TransUnion can capture users at the earliest stage of the fraud lifecycle and funnel them toward identity protection services.
Topical Authority
TransUnion already ranks for high-trust consumer protection terms like 'credit freeze' and 'fraud alerts.' Expanding into specific scam types leverages this existing trust and domain strength (Authority Score 67) to dominate long-tail safety queries.
Internal Data Sources
Utilize the Fraud Trends library, Consumer Pulse Study data, and TruValidate identity insights to provide proprietary statistics and 'what to do next' workflows that competitors cannot replicate.
Estimated Number of Pages
60,000+ (Covering thousands of brands across multiple channels like SMS, Email, and Social Media)
A comprehensive set of incident-specific pages optimized for 'what do I do now?' intent following corporate data breaches. These pages provide standardized response steps, company-specific FAQs, and direct paths to TransUnion monitoring tools.
Example Keywords
- {company} breach what to do
- {company} data leak 2025
- how to check if my info was leaked in {company} breach
- {company} breach monitoring services
- steps to take after {company} hack
Rationale
Data breaches trigger massive spikes in search volume from concerned consumers seeking immediate action plans. TransUnion is uniquely positioned to provide the 'official' checklist for recovery, driving high-intent traffic to its fraud-victim resources.
Topical Authority
The domain already hosts a dedicated /data-breach-resources section. Scaling this to include specific company/year incidents aligns with Google's preference for authoritative, YMYL (Your Money Your Life) content from established credit bureaus.
Internal Data Sources
Leverage existing data-breach-protection checklists, newsroom research on breach severity, and consumer-support help center documentation to differentiate the content.
Estimated Number of Pages
40,000+ (Covering historical and new incidents by company, year, and exposed data type)
A B2B-focused library of jurisdictional compliance guides for landlords and employers regarding background checks. This strategy targets professional buyers seeking to navigate the complex landscape of local and state screening laws.
Example Keywords
- tenant screening laws {state}
- rental application background check rules {city}
- employment background check law {state}
- ban-the-box {city} requirements
- adverse action notice requirements {state}
Rationale
Compliance is a primary pain point for property managers and HR professionals. By providing programmatic legal explainers and checklists, TransUnion can capture B2B intent and drive leads to its SmartMove and background screening products.
Topical Authority
TransUnion has a strong existing footprint in /industry/background-screening and resident screening services. Providing deep, localized compliance content reinforces its position as a regulatory-first partner.
Internal Data Sources
Use SmartMove product knowledge, client-support compliance notifications, and permissible purpose documentation to provide accurate, actionable B2B guidance.
Estimated Number of Pages
15,000+ (Covering 50 states and thousands of cities/counties with specific use-case variations)
Programmatic B2B playbooks that map specific fraud attacks to the customer journey within specific industries. These pages target risk and fraud leaders looking for technical solutions to sophisticated threats like synthetic identity and account takeover.
Example Keywords
- account takeover prevention for {industry}
- synthetic identity detection at onboarding
- bot detection for login {industry}
- call center impersonation fraud prevention
- promo abuse prevention for marketplaces
Rationale
B2B buyers search for solutions tailored to their specific industry and the specific point of friction in their customer journey. This play captures high-intent professional traffic that is currently underserved by TransUnion's consumer-heavy organic profile.
Topical Authority
The domain's extensive /solution/truvalidate/ footprint provides the perfect foundation for these playbooks. Scaling this content helps bridge the keyword gap where competitors like Experian currently lead.
Internal Data Sources
Incorporate TruValidate solution subpages, quarterly Fraud Trends reports, and industry-specific case studies to provide evidence-backed prevention strategies.
Estimated Number of Pages
12,000+ (Mapping 8+ industries across 10+ attack types and 8+ customer journey steps)
A developer-centric library of implementation guides and 'recipes' for integrating TransUnion APIs into various platforms and languages. This targets the technical decision-makers and implementers who drive product adoption.
Example Keywords
- device risk API example {language}
- call authentication integration with {platform}
- identity verification workflow for onboarding
- Snowflake audience activation data partner
- risk-based authentication workflow implementation
Rationale
Technical implementers often search for specific code examples or platform-specific integration steps during the evaluation phase. Providing these 'recipes' at scale reduces sales friction and captures 'how-to' intent that competitors often dominate.
Topical Authority
TransUnion's broad solution surface area in identity and authentication makes it a natural source for technical implementation guidance. This play expands the domain's reach into developer-heavy SERPs.
Internal Data Sources
Utilize technical solution documentation, whitepapers, and internal reference architectures to generate accurate, language-specific integration steps.
Estimated Number of Pages
10,000+ (Covering various products, platforms, programming languages, and event triggers)
Improvements Summary
Rework the /credit-freeze page into a task-first hub with clear paths to freeze, temporary unfreeze, and remove a freeze, plus online/phone/mail steps, requirements, and timing. Expand /credit-freeze/credit-freeze-faq into snippet-ready Q&A with schema, and reposition the blog how-to page to stay informational while routing action intent to the hub.
Improvements Details
On /credit-freeze, add an above-the-fold “choose your action” jump-link module, a dedicated “temporary unfreeze” section, and scannable tri-path instructions (online/phone/mail) including what you’ll need and how long it takes. On the FAQ page, rewrite answers to 40–60 word direct responses, add questions targeting terms like “freeze credit on transunion,” “temporarily unfreeze transunion,” and “transunion credit unfreeze phone number,” and add FAQPage + HowTo schema where applicable. Update the blog page with a prominent CTA to /credit-freeze, expand comparison content (freeze vs fraud alert vs credit lock), and add internal links from breach/fraud/support pages via a “Security & Control Center” module to concentrate authority on the hub.
Improvements Rationale
High-volume, low-competition queries in this cluster show near-zero traffic share, which points to page-2 rankings and mismatched SERP intent; clearer task completion structure and intent-matched headings close that gap. Short, direct FAQ formatting plus schema increases eligibility for featured snippets, PAA, and FAQ rich results, while blog-to-hub differentiation reduces keyword overlap and sends ready-to-act users to the converting page.
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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