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If this deployment’s data provider is still being connected, daoco will tell you it cannot look these numbers up rather than estimating them.
Before this, daoco’s SEO work was based on reading pages. It could tell you a page was missing an H1; it could not tell you whether anyone searched for the term the page was targeting. These lookups add the measurements.

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What you can ask for

Keyword research: real monthly search volume, keyword difficulty, cost-per-click, and related terms for a set of keywords, in a market you choose.
SERP snapshot: the current top Google results for a query, with titles, URLs, and which SERP features Google returned.
Backlink summary: a domain’s referring domains, total backlinks, broken links, and top linking sites, plus what changed since the last reading.

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Tracking a domain’s backlinks over time

New and lost links only exist as a difference between two readings, so daoco keeps a history for the domains you track. The first backlink lookup on a domain starts tracking it automatically; every later lookup adds a reading and reports what moved.
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Pull a domain

Ask for a backlink summary. daoco records the reading and starts tracking that domain.
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See what you track

Ask which domains are being tracked. daoco lists them with the date of each domain’s last reading.
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Stop tracking one

Ask daoco to stop tracking a domain. The history is kept, so tracking it again later resumes the same series rather than starting over.
New and lost referring domains are named from the top 100 linking domains for each reading. When a change is reported as partial, treat the named domains as examples rather than the complete list. The totals are exact, the names are a sample. Keyword and SERP lookups are deliberately not stored. A ranking is true for minutes, and a saved one would get quoted back as if it were still current.

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Saving keywords

Ask daoco to save the keywords worth keeping (“save these to our list, tagged onboarding”) and they survive past the research session, with the volume and difficulty they had when measured. The saved list is what the writer and the SEO agent start from next time, and each stored number carries its save date so it is never quoted as current.

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Tracking keyword rankings over time

Ask daoco to track the keywords your site targets (“track these keywords for example.com”) and every check records where the site actually ranked, so the next check reports the movement: climbed five places, entered the top twenty, dropped off the page, or the ranking URL changed. A keyword not found in the checked depth is reported exactly that way, never as an estimated position. Checks run when you ask, or on a schedule through an automation. The tracked list and the latest positions also appear on the brand’s Website page under the SEO tab.

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Reading a domain’s ranked keywords

Ask what any domain ranks for, your own or a competitor’s, and daoco reads its strongest rankings with positions, volumes, and the domain’s overall organic footprint. Two of those reads side by side are the honest version of a keyword-gap analysis: measured, not inferred from the competitor’s homepage.

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Plans and limits

  • Keyword research and SERP snapshots are available on every plan.
  • Backlink data is part of the Growth plan, which tracks up to five domains.
  • Rank tracking covers up to 10 keywords on Starter and 50 on Growth. Each check spends one lookup per keyword.
  • Each conversation turn has a lookup budget, because every lookup is a paid call to the data provider. If daoco says a turn has used its budget, ask for the one query that matters most in a new message.

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What daoco will not do

  • It will not estimate a search volume, difficulty score, ranking position, or backlink count. If the provider is unavailable it says so and offers the work it can still do.
  • It will not present a single SERP snapshot as a ranking history.
  • It will not treat keyword difficulty as a probability of ranking. Difficulty compares keywords to each other; whether your site can win a term depends on what it already ranks for.

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