Creating your first landscape in SiteCurve is a straightforward process that sets the foundation for tracking and analyzing your SEO data. Follow these steps to get started:
Step 1: Sign Up for a Paid ‘Business’ Plan
To be able to create landscapes, you need to sign up for a business plan. Business plans start with 1,000 keywords to create landscapes with. We recommend creating landscapes with at least 250 keywords.
Step 2: Start the Landscape Creation Process
Hitting ‘Create Landscape’ will prompt SiteCurve to start a guided flow to build your landscape.
You'll be prompted to:
Name Your Landscape: Choose a clear and descriptive name to make your landscape easy to identify.
Build by Keywords or Websites: Decide how you want to build your landscape:
By Keywords (more popular): Select this option if you already know the keywords you want to track. Keywords can be uploaded individually or in bulk via CSV. Each landscape can support up to 100K keywords. If you need more, contact our support team.
By Websites/URLs: Choose this option if you know which websites or URLs you want to track but aren’t sure about the specific keywords to track. SiteCurve will automatically pull the top-ranking keywords with the most search volume and rank data related to those sites. You can upload websites in bulk by CSV.
Once you’ve selected your keywords or websites, you can upload the data in bulk or add it individually.
Step 3: Customize Your Keywords
Regardless if you select ‘By keywords’ or ‘By Websites/URLs’ you will need to define the search parameters. This ensures the data is tailored to your goals.
Device Type: Choose between mobile and desktop tracking.
Language: Set the language for your search results.
Location: Pinpoint a specific region or city for localized tracking (e.g., “Austin, TX”).
Each unique combination of these settings is considered a separate keyword for tracking. For instance, if you’re tracking the keyword “best dog food,” but you want data for both mobile and desktop searches in two different cities, this creates multiple unique keywords:
“best dog food” for Mobile, English, Austin, TX
“best dog food” for Desktop, English, Austin, TX
“best dog food” for Mobile, English, New York, NY
“best dog food” for Desktop, English, New York, NY
In this example, even though the base keyword is the same, these are four separate keywords in your landscape because the device type and location vary.
Why This Matters
Customizing your keywords this way ensures that the data you collect is specific to your goals. Whether you’re analyzing local SEO performance, device-specific behavior, or multilingual results, each unique keyword combination provides insights tailored to your strategy.
Step 3A: For Website/URL Selecting The Keyword Limits
When you add websites/URLs, you will need to specifict the ‘Keyword Limit Per URL’.
This is going to trigger how many keywords SiteCurve is going to try to extract from each domain.
If the site is small and it does not rank for that number of keywords it will grab as many as it can. Your account will only be charged for the number of keywords were were able to successfully get from each domain. SiteCurve will also de-dupe and ensure each keyword is unique.
Here’s an Example
Say you enter 5 websites with a “Keyword Limit Per URL” of 100 for 5 websites related to the credit card niche.
Website | Keywords Ranking | SiteCurve Extracted |
bestcreditcards.com | 1,152 | 100 |
newcreditcardwebsite.com | 32 | 32 |
aregionalbank.com | 10,342 | 100 |
gregreviewscards.com | 102 | 100 |
abignewpaper.com | 2267 | 100 |
| Total in Landscape | 432 |
In the above table, your landscape should have 432 keywords powering it giving you a representative sample of the winners and losers across the keywords these 5 websites rank on.
Step 4: Define Access Settings
Decide how your landscape will be shared:
Public: Open to anyone with the link. Anyone with the link to this landscape can view and extract the data as well as participate in discussions.
Private: Accessible only to invited members or approved applicants. Only members of this landscape can view and extract data or participate in discussions.
Paid: Monetize your landscape by setting a price for access. Payments are processed securely through Stripe. Only paid members of this landscape can view and extract data or participate in discussions. You can directly invite members as well if you want to by-pass payment.
Step 5: Review and Launch
Before launching, review your settings, keywords, and access preferences to ensure everything is correct. Once you’re ready, click “Launch Landscape.”
SiteCurve will immediately begin gathering data for your keywords. The time it takes depends on the number of keywords in your landscape. You should explore other people’s landscapes while you wait. You’ll receive a confirmation email when the data is ready.
Step 6: Customize Your Landscape Identity
After your landscape is launched you can customize your landscape identity in the landscape admin screen. SiteCurve allows landscape admins to set the following for each landscape:
Name: This is the name of your landscape. When you create your landscape, you are given a default name, but you can change it to whatever you like.
URL: This is the unique URL of your landscape. When you create your landscape, you are given a default URL based on the landscape name, but you can change it to whatever you like.
Banner: This is the image you’ll see on the landscape home and thumbnail used in the discovery section of SiteCurve
Icon: This is the small icon you see in the top left hand corner of SiteCurve for your landscape
Long Description: This is the long description on the landscape home to describe the purpose of the landscape and what it tracks
Short Description: This is the 1 sentance description you see on the top left of sidebar. This is used in the discovery section of SiteCurve for your landscape card
Links: You can set 3 links in the sidebar of your landscape to link to whatever you want.
Step 7: Manage Discoverability, Setup Alerts, and Community Features
Once you’ve established your landscape’s identity you can customize the visibility and community aspects. This includes:
Discovery: You can allow other users on SiteCurve to discover your landscape in the landscape directory or hide it so only invited members can view.
Apply to Join: If you have a public or private landscape, you can force members to ‘apply’ before letting them join
Questions: In addition to applying, you can require 3 questions be answered similar to how Facebook groups work. Not required but can be helpful.
Post Moderation: For members, enforce all new posts to be ‘approved’ before posting. Best for public landscapes where anyone can join.
Alerts: You can toggle on or off the default landscape alerts for members of the landscape.