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GEO Difficulty skill

Score how hard a keyword is to rank for in the AI-search era — page-level URL Rating of real competitors (not just domain DR), Ahrefs keyword difficulty, and whether a given site already ranks or is cited in Google's AI Overview. Use when the user asks 'how hard is to rank', 'geo difficulty for ', or 'keyword difficulty for '.

$npx skills add OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills --skill geo-difficulty
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OpenClaudia

GEO Difficulty

SEO & GEO Marketing

Install GEO Difficulty

Pick your agent. Every command is ready to paste.

$npx skills add OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills --skill geo-difficulty

The open skills CLI detects your agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and 70+ more) and installs to the right folder. Add -g to install globally.

01

Install it

Run the command above, or upload the folder in Claude.

02

Ask naturally

Describe the task. Your agent loads geo-difficulty when the request matches its description.

03

Name it if needed

If it does not trigger, say “use the geo-difficulty skill”. In Codex, type $geo-difficulty.

The skill itself

SKILL.md

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GEO Difficulty

Score keyword ranking difficulty for the AI-search era. Unlike plain Ahrefs KD or domain DR, this:

  • uses page-level URL Rating (UR) of the results that actually target the query — so a generic article on a huge domain (e.g. mckinsey.com) stops inflating the score;
  • is client-relative — the same SERP is a wall for a no-name site but ~won for a site already ranking or cited in Google's AI Overview;
  • folds in the AI Overview citation as a first-class signal.

Disclosure: contributed by Enception AI. Backed by the free public API behind https://www.enception.ai/tools/geo-difficulty (POST https://www.enception.ai/api/tools/geo-difficulty, no API key). Server-side data comes from Ahrefs and SerpAPI.

Usage

bash scripts/score.sh "ai form real estate" "ai slide legal" --client example.com
  • Pass one or more keywords (quote each). Up to 10 per call.
  • --client <domain> is optional; add it to get the client-relative verdict (WON / FOOTHOLD / NOT RANKING).
  • GEO_DIFFICULTY_URL env var overrides the endpoint (rarely needed).

Or call the API directly:

curl -s -X POST https://www.enception.ai/api/tools/geo-difficulty \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"keywords":["ai presentation maker"],"client":"example.com"}' --max-time 150

Output columns

  • absolute — difficulty 0–100 for a brand-new site (0.35·KD + 0.40·median competitor page-UR + 0.25·targeting%).
  • client_verdict / client_diff — only with --client. WON (top-3 or AI-Overview cited), FOOTHOLD (ranks 4–10), NOT RANKING (with the gap to close, credited for the client's DR).
  • KD — Ahrefs keyword difficulty; - for zero-volume long-tail.
  • UR — median page-level URL Rating of the real competitors.
  • tgt% — share of the top-10 that actually target the query.
  • AIO — cited (client in the AI Overview), Nsrc (AIO shown, N sources), none, or n/a (AIO not available for this query).
  • competitors — the targeting results with their UR.

Notes

  • The AI Overview leg depends on Google actually showing an AIO for the query (intermittent); it degrades gracefully to none/n/a.
  • Numbers shift day to day as SERPs and UR change — treat as a current snapshot, not a fixed grade.
  • Each keyword takes a few seconds server-side; keep --max-time generous for batches.

Tips for GEO Difficulty

  • • Start a fresh session after installing so your agent picks up the new skill.
  • • This skill ships scripts. Read them before the first run, and run it in a project without secrets first.
  • • It is part of a pack with 30 skills. Install only the ones you need with --skill to keep triggers precise.
  • • If two skills overlap, mention the one you want by name.

Questions about GEO Difficulty

What does the GEO Difficulty skill do?

Score how hard a keyword is to rank for in the AI-search era — page-level URL Rating of real competitors (not just domain DR), Ahrefs keyword difficulty, and whether a given site already ranks or is cited in Google's AI Overview. Use when the user asks 'how hard is to rank', 'geo difficulty for ', or 'keyword difficulty for '.

How do I install GEO Difficulty?

Run "npx skills add OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills --skill geo-difficulty" in your project. The skills CLI installs it for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and 70+ other agents. In Claude on the web, upload the skill folder as a ZIP under Customize > Skills.

Does GEO Difficulty work in Cursor and Codex?

Yes. GEO Difficulty uses the open SKILL.md format, so it works in Claude Code, Claude, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and other agents that support agent skills.

Is GEO Difficulty free?

GEO Difficulty is open source on GitHub under the MIT license. It is free to install; check the license before commercial use.

Who made GEO Difficulty?

GEO Difficulty is published by OpenClaudia in the OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills repository, together with 29 other skills.

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