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  "name": "Export every keyword your competitors rank for to Google Sheets",
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        "content": "## Export every keyword your competitors rank for to Google Sheets\n\n### Who's it for\nSEO consultants, content marketers and founders who want a competitor's ranking keywords as a spreadsheet (content gaps, page ideas, writer briefs) without an SEO suite seat.\n\n### How it works\n1. The **Settings** node holds the competitor domains, the country and how many keywords per site you want (up to 1,000).\n2. The **Domain SEO Overview** Actor on Apify (`plainrows/domain-seo-overview`) returns each site's top Google keywords by estimated traffic.\n3. A Code node turns them into one row per keyword: domain, keyword, position, ranking URL, estimated traffic, search volume, CPC, difficulty and intent.\n4. The rows are appended to the `Keywords` tab with today's date.\n\n### Requirements\n- An Apify account (free plan available: 2 domains and 10 keywords per site) and its API token.\n- A Google Sheets account and a spreadsheet with a `Keywords` tab.\n- The Apify node is the verified community node `@apify/n8n-nodes-apify` (available on n8n Cloud; on self-hosted n8n install it from Settings > Community nodes).\n\n### How to customize\n- Raise `topKeywords` for deeper lists; billing is per domain with data plus per keyword returned, and the node caps each run with *Maximum Cost per Run*.\n- Set `minSearchVolume` to keep tiny keywords out of the sheet (they are still returned and billed by the Actor: lower `topKeywords` to pay for fewer).\n- Replace the Manual Trigger with a Schedule Trigger for a monthly snapshot.",
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        "content": "### Setup\n1. Spreadsheet with a tab named `Keywords` (it can be empty: headers are written on the first run).\n2. Connect Google Sheets in *Append keywords* and paste the spreadsheet URL.\n3. Add your Apify credential (free account at apify.com) to *Get ranking keywords*.\n4. In **Settings**, list the `domains` (comma-separated), the `country` (US, GB, DE, FR...), `topKeywords` per site (up to 1000) and `minSearchVolume` (0 keeps all).",
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        "customBody": "={{ JSON.stringify({ domains: $json.domains.split(',').map((d) => d.trim()).filter(Boolean), country: $json.country, topKeywords: $json.topKeywords }) }}",
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        "jsCode": "// One row per ranking keyword (the Actor nests them in topKeywords). Sites without data are skipped.\nconst minVolume = Number($('Settings').first().json.minSearchVolume) || 0;\nconst date = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10);\nconst out = [];\nfor (const { json: d } of $input.all()) {\n  if (d.found === false) continue;\n  for (const k of d.topKeywords || []) {\n    if ((k.searchVolume ?? 0) < minVolume) continue;\n    out.push({ json: {\n      date, domain: d.domain, keyword: k.keyword, position: k.position, url: k.url,\n      estimatedTraffic: k.estimatedTraffic == null ? null : Math.round(k.estimatedTraffic),\n      searchVolume: k.searchVolume ?? null, cpcUsd: k.cpcUsd ?? null,\n      keywordDifficulty: k.keywordDifficulty ?? null, searchIntent: k.searchIntent ?? null, country: d.country,\n    } });\n  }\n}\nreturn out;"
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