AI SERP Visibility Monitor - DataForSEO Rank and AI Overview API

Analyze live Google top-10 SERP visibility for your brand, client, or competitors. The Actor uses DataForSEO Google Organic Live Advanced results to return one structured report per keyword with organic rankings, competitor pressure, AI Overview mentions/citations, SERP features, and recommended actions.

Use this Actor as an AI SERP visibility monitor, Google AI Overview rank API, and GEO visibility API for brand, competitor, and client reporting.

What It Does

• Checks each keyword in Google Organic Live results for a selected location, language, and device.
• Detects whether target domains rank in the top 10.
• Compares target rankings against tracked competitor domains.
• Requests Google AI Overview data when available and reports mentions/citations.
• Produces a compact opportunity score and action list for SEO, GEO, and content teams.

Typical Use Cases

• Weekly AI search visibility monitoring for client brands.
• Competitor rank and AI Overview citation checks before content planning.
• Automated SEO QA for keyword portfolios.
• Lead-gen enrichment for agencies selling AI search optimization.

Related workflow

Use Keyword ROI Scorer to choose terms, SERP Content Brief Generator to plan content, and AI SERP Visibility Monitor to track organic rankings and AI Overview citations. Add competitor extensions with PPC Ad Creative Monitor, Shopping Price Gap Finder, and App Store ASO Opportunity Finder.

Suite positioning: see ../docs/suites/SEO_AND_AI_VISIBILITY_SUITE.md.

Demo input

{
    "keywords": ["best web scraping api", "apify alternatives"],
    "targetDomains": ["apify.com"],
    "competitorDomains": ["browse.ai", "phantombuster.com", "dataforseo.com"],
    "locationCode": 2840,
    "languageCode": "en",
    "device": "desktop",
    "includeAiOverview": true,
    "concurrency": 2
}

Each keyword is intentionally bounded to one top-10 SERP request so the unit of work is clear and predictable.

What you get back

The default dataset contains one row per keyword:

• visibilityScore: strength of target organic plus AI Overview visibility.
• opportunityScore: urgency/opportunity based on missing rankings, competitor advantage, and AI Overview gaps.
• targetPresence: target domains found, best rank, URLs, and AI Overview citation status.
• competitorPresence: competitor domains found and best rank.
• aiOverview: AI Overview presence, citations, and a short text snippet.
• topOrganicResults: normalized top-10 organic results.
• recommendedActions: practical next steps for ranking or AI citation improvement.

Pricing Model

The recommended pay-per-event price is $0.025 per keyword-serp-analyzed event. The Actor charges the event before report work starts so Apify user budget limits are respected.

The top-10 cap is deliberate: it gives users a clear unit of value for batch SEO monitoring.

Notes

DataForSEO credentials are configured as encrypted Apify Actor environment variables. They are not part of the input and are never written to the dataset.