StretchSEM

StretchSEM Support Hub

StretchSEM is the search-marketing command center inside StretchSuite — a SEMrush/Ahrefs-class toolkit that lives in your workspace instead of a separate subscription. From one surface you can audit a site's technical health, research keywords, check who ranks on the SERP, track your positions over time, discover your real organic competitors, find the keyword gaps they exploit, build content briefs, optimize individual pages, scan backlinks, and monitor a domain for change — all without leaving StretchSuite and all scoped to your organization, so you only ever see and spend on your own data.

Who it's for

StretchSEM is built for marketers, agency teams, founders, and content owners who need dependable search intelligence without stitching together five point tools. If you run a website, manage clients, or publish content that has to rank, StretchSEM gives you the diagnostic and research layer — and because it's part of the suite, it hands off directly to StretchBAS so you can generate the on-brand fix, not just read a recommendation.

What it does (grounded in the real toolset)

Every tool runs against real search data through StretchSuite's own engines, with optional upgrades when your account connects an external provider:

• Domain SEM Report — a combined technical site audit, keyword profile, proprietary keyword-intelligence scoring, entity profile, page inventory, keyword-cannibalization detection, and backlink summary for a domain.
• Keyword Research & SERP Checker — search-demand and difficulty for any keyword, plus a live look at exactly who ranks in the top results and where your domain sits.
• Rank Tracking & SERP Movers — check and persist your keyword positions, then watch the day-over-day deltas, biggest movers, and head-to-head standings against a competitor.
• Competitor Discovery, Keyword Gap & Compare — find the domains that actually co-rank with you, surface the topics a rival ranks for that you don't, and compare two domains side by side.
• Content Briefs & On-Page Optimizer — turn a keyword into a SurferSEO-grade brief (target length, subtopics, example headings, competitors) and score any page against a target keyword with prioritized fixes.
• Technical Site Audit — orphan pages, broken links, non-200 pages, missing titles/meta/H1, thin content, duplicate titles, and a weighted Site Health score.
• Backlink Analysis — a proprietary link graph of referring domains, anchors, and referring pages that grows the more you use it.
• Domain Monitor — periodic snapshots of a domain's SEO posture with plain-English alerts when health, backlinks, keywords, or issues change.
• Campaigns & Projects — save a domain, keyword list, and competitor as a reusable preset so you can re-run any tool with one click.

The data behind it

StretchSEM ships with three proprietary engines that are always available at no external cost: a multi-engine SERP + demand estimator, a crawl-based keyword-intelligence layer, and a link-graph backlink index. Your Data sources panel shows all six providers and their status. When an administrator connects an external provider — DataForSEO, Google Ads Keyword Planner, or Google Search Console — the relevant tools automatically upgrade from honest estimates to exact monthly search volume, CPC, competition, difficulty, and real Google rankings. Nothing breaks while a provider is disconnected; tools simply run on the built-in engines.

How metering works

StretchSEM is credit-metered. Each live tool run (a report, a rank check, a content brief, an audit, and so on) costs 1 credit. Reading stored data — listing reports, opening a report, reading rank or monitor history, checking provider readiness — is always free. If a run can't complete, StretchSEM returns a clean error and refunds the credit automatically. Credits are shared with StretchBAS, so one top-up powers both your search intelligence and your brand-content generation.

How it fits the suite

StretchSEM sits in Commerce & Growth in your workspace, alongside StretchShop, StretchSocial, StretchAnalytics, and StretchBAS. It reuses StretchSearch's crawl index for site-level intelligence and feeds StretchBAS for content generation — the "find the gap, then write the on-brand fix" workflow that no standalone SEO tool can offer. Use this help hub to learn each tool step by step, connect real data, and turn StretchSEM's findings into ranking gains.