Where the demand is, who owns it today, and the terms Toodegrees can realistically rank for. Built from live Google search data and SERP analysis.
This report was keyword and competitor research built on third-party estimates. Since then the site's own analytics and a full technical audit have been connected. Several conclusions need adjusting, and one recommendation was actively wrong.
The IFVG cluster was undercounted. This report sized Fair Value Gap / IFVG at 550 searches a month. A direct DataForSEO pull in August returns 1,900/mo for "inverse fair value gap" alone, plus 880 each for "inversion fvg" and "inverse fvg", all at keyword difficulty 0. The July research captured the narrow variants and missed the head term. This is the single largest winnable opportunity on the site, not a mid-table cluster.
The research was right about the shape of the niche. Low competition throughout, demand concentrated in education, LuxAlgo holding the branded slots, and every product mapping to a concept people search for. All of that held up. The corrections are about scale, geography, and one mechanism.
The ICT indicator space is small but winnable. Demand concentrates in education, not product names, and the branded slots are held by one competitor. That is the opening.
The headline. Almost every keyword in this niche is LOW competition, yet Toodegrees ranks nowhere in the top 20 for any pivotal term. The largest branded pool belongs to LuxAlgo (5,690 searches/mo), which holds position #1 for both "fair value gap" and "smart money concepts" through its TradingView scripts. This is a gap you can close with focused content, not a budget war.
125 keywords grouped into intent clusters, ranked by monthly search volume. Bars are relative to the largest cluster.
| Cluster | Keywords | Volume / mo | Intent | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Competitor / Alternativeluxalgo, luxalgo indicators, smart money concepts luxalgo | 4 | Commercial | Convert | |
| Educational / Concept (GEO)what is a fair value gap, what is an order block, what is ote in trading | 6 | Informational | High | |
| Smart Money Concepts (category)smart money concepts, smart money concepts indicator, smc indicator tradingview | 8 | Commercial/Info | High | |
| ICT (broad category)ict trading strategy, ict tools tradingview | 2 | Commercial/Info | High | |
| Commercial Indicator Huntbest tradingview indicators, best tradingview indicators for day trading, best ict indicator tradingview | 12 | Commercial | High | |
| Fair Value Gap / IFVGinversion fair value gap, fair value gap indicator, fvg indicator | 7 | Commercial/Info | High | |
| ICT Indicator (category)ict indicator, ict indicators tradingview, ict trading indicator | 34 | Commercial | Medium | |
| Unicorn Modelict unicorn model, unicorn model ict, unicorn model trading | 5 | Commercial/Info | Medium | |
| Order Blocks / Orderfloworder block indicator, orderflow indicator tradingview, order block indicator tradingview | 6 | Commercial/Info | Medium | |
| Brandtoodegrees, toodegrees indicators, toodegrees tradingview | 3 | Navigational | Own it | |
| Sessions / Killzonessession indicator tradingview, ict session indicator, killzone indicator | 8 | Commercial/Info | Long-tail | |
| Liquidity Toolsliquidity indicator tradingview, liquidity levels indicator, ict liquidity indicator | 4 | Commercial/Info | Long-tail | |
| Power of Threepo3 indicator, power of three ict, power of three indicator | 5 | Commercial/Info | Long-tail | |
| Statistical / Seasonal / Rangeaverage daily range indicator, adr indicator tradingview, seasonality indicator tradingview | 9 | Commercial/Info | Long-tail | |
| Setups (Silver Bullet / CISD)change in state of delivery indicator, silver bullet indicator, ict silver bullet indicator | 5 | Commercial/Info | Long-tail | |
| OTE (Optimal Trade Entry)ote indicator, ote indicator tradingview, optimal trade entry indicator | 3 | Commercial/Info | Long-tail | |
| Fractal Modelfractal model ict, ict fractal model | 2 | Commercial/Info | Long-tail |
Read this map correctly. The "ICT Indicator" cluster has the most keywords (34) but low volume each. That is the long tail: dozens of terms like "ict fvg indicator" or "ict killzone indicator tradingview" at ~10 searches/mo, each trivially rankable and each mapping directly to a Toodegrees product. Volume clusters near education and the SMC category; product terms win on breadth, not per-term volume.
KD = keyword difficulty (0 to 100, lower is easier). Where DataForSEO returned no KD, competition level is the guide. CPC signals commercial intent.
| Keyword | Vol/mo | KD | Competition | CPC | Cluster |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| luxalgo | 5,400 | – | Medium | $1.08 | Competitor / Alternative |
| smart money concepts | 1,300 | – | Low | $2.78 | Smart Money Concepts (category) |
| what is a fair value gap | 1,300 | – | Low | – | Educational / Concept (GEO) |
| ict trading strategy | 880 | – | Low | $2.74 | ICT (broad category) |
| what is an order block | 720 | – | Low | $0.12 | Educational / Concept (GEO) |
| best tradingview indicators | 590 | – | Low | $5.67 | Commercial Indicator Hunt |
| what is ote in trading | 260 | – | Low | – | Educational / Concept (GEO) |
| luxalgo indicators | 210 | – | Medium | $3.05 | Competitor / Alternative |
| inversion fair value gap | 170 | – | Low | – | Fair Value Gap / IFVG |
| fair value gap indicator | 140 | – | Low | $2.47 | Fair Value Gap / IFVG |
| fvg indicator | 140 | – | Low | – | Fair Value Gap / IFVG |
| ict unicorn model | 140 | – | Low | – | Unicorn Model |
| order block indicator | 110 | – | Low | $1.95 | Order Blocks / Orderflow |
| how to trade fair value gaps | 110 | – | Low | – | Educational / Concept (GEO) |
| toodegrees | 110 | – | Low | $3.19 | Brand |
| unicorn model ict | 90 | – | Low | – | Unicorn Model |
| orderflow indicator tradingview | 90 | – | Low | $2.85 | Order Blocks / Orderflow |
| session indicator tradingview | 70 | – | Low | – | Sessions / Killzones |
| smart money concepts luxalgo | 70 | – | Low | $1.45 | Competitor / Alternative |
| fair value gap indicator tradingview | 50 | – | Low | – | Fair Value Gap / IFVG |
| liquidity indicator tradingview | 50 | – | Low | – | Liquidity Tools |
| order block indicator tradingview | 50 | – | Low | $2.36 | Order Blocks / Orderflow |
| best tradingview indicators for day trading | 50 | – | Low | $5.41 | Commercial Indicator Hunt |
| ict indicator | 40 | 0 | Low | $1.81 | ICT Indicator (category) |
| smart money concepts indicator | 40 | – | Low | $2.54 | Smart Money Concepts (category) |
| ifvg indicator | 30 | – | Low | – | Fair Value Gap / IFVG |
| unicorn model trading | 30 | – | Low | – | Unicorn Model |
| toodegrees indicators | 30 | – | Low | – | Brand |
| best ict indicator tradingview | 30 | 0 | Low | $1.98 | Commercial Indicator Hunt |
| ict indicators tradingview | 20 | – | Low | – | ICT Indicator (category) |
| smc indicator tradingview | 20 | – | Low | – | Smart Money Concepts (category) |
| po3 indicator | 20 | – | Low | – | Power of Three |
| power of three ict | 20 | – | Low | – | Power of Three |
| average daily range indicator | 20 | – | Low | – | Statistical / Seasonal / Range |
| premium tradingview indicators | 20 | – | Medium | $4.49 | Commercial Indicator Hunt |
| ict trading indicator | 10 | 0 | Low | – | ICT Indicator (category) |
| best ict indicator | 10 | – | Low | – | Commercial Indicator Hunt |
| ote indicator | 10 | – | Low | – | OTE (Optimal Trade Entry) |
| ote indicator tradingview | 10 | – | Low | – | OTE (Optimal Trade Entry) |
| power of three indicator | 10 | – | Low | – | Power of Three |
Live SERP analysis of five pivotal keywords. The pattern is consistent: platforms and community pages fill the results, LuxAlgo owns the branded product slots, and content sites win the informational queries.
| Keyword | Who owns it | Position | Toodegrees move |
|---|---|---|---|
| fair value gap indicator | LuxAlgo | #1 (TradingView script) | Displace with a purpose-built IFVG page |
| smart money concepts indicator | LuxAlgo | #1 + own domain #2 | Own the “SMC alternative” comparison |
| best ict indicator tradingview | TradingView / YouTube / Reddit | Platform + UGC | Rank a genuine “best ICT indicators” guide |
| ict trading strategy | howtotrade, litefinance, trendspider | Content sites | Educational hub content (GEO) |
| best tradingview indicators | TradingView, CMC, TradersUnion | Platform + affiliates | Long-term authority play |
2,400 monthly searches are definitional: "what is a fair value gap", "what is an order block", "what is ote in trading". These are exactly the questions AI assistants answer by citing clear, structured explainer content.
Why this matters for Toodegrees. Every product maps to an ICT concept people are actively trying to understand. Publishing precise, well-structured concept explainers ranks for the informational searches today and builds the topical authority the site currently lacks. That is durable visibility a TradingView script alone cannot capture.
Correction, 10 August 2026. This section originally claimed that publishing explainers would make Toodegrees "a source that AI models cite." That is not true as things stand, and content alone will not fix it. The site's robots.txt blocks nine AI crawlers, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot and Google-Extended. Those blocks stop training, not search-time fetching, so the citation footprint is measurably zero while competitors who permit the crawl are cited.
| Domain | Google AI mentions | ChatGPT mentions | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| toodegrees.trade | 0 | 0 | Absent from both |
| fluxcharts.com | 486 | 6 | Cited |
| luxalgo.com | 1,464 | 27 | Cited, 3x FluxCharts |
| tradingview.com | 53,484 | 1,611 | Platform scale |
| en.wikipedia.org | 18,918,400 | 2,621,440 | Control |
Source: DataForSEO LLM mentions index, US English, 10 Aug 2026. Wikipedia included deliberately — a zero across every domain would have meant no dataset coverage rather than a real absence.
AI search volume favours broad head terms, not the long tail. This inverts the usual advice, and it changes which explainer to write first.
| Keyword | AI search volume | Google volume |
|---|---|---|
| fair value gap | 181 | — |
| best tradingview indicators | 134 | 590 |
| smart money concepts | 70 | 1,300 |
| smc trading | 57 | 590 |
| order block indicator | 26 | 110 |
| inverse fair value gap | 14 | 1,900 |
| ict indicators | 7 | 20 |
| fvg vs ifvg | 0 | 320 |
The parent term fair value gap carries 13x the AI demand of its own IFVG variant. Build the FVG pillar first and make the IFVG guide its child.
Analytics shows 57% of organic sessions arrive from outside the United States, and rank tools are almost blind to it. A direct pull across 13 markets returns five ranking keywords outside the US, against 1,077 measured non-US organic sessions per 90 days.
| Market | Organic sessions | Keywords visible | Reached pricing | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 800 | 21 | 30.0% | Baseline |
| India | 161 | 0 | 24.8% | Invisible to rank tools |
| Canada | 108 | 1 | 40.7% | Best market on the site |
| United Kingdom | 102 | 1 | 25.5% | Underperforms its size |
| Australia | 58 | 1 | 15.5% | Browses, does not shop |
| South Africa | 44 | 0 | 13.6% | Lowest intent |
| Thailand | 42 | 0 | 33.3% | Unexpectedly strong |
| Germany | 31 | 2 | 29.0% | Best international rank, #17 |
| France | 27 | 0 | 40.7% | High intent, small volume |
Canada is the most valuable market on the site and nobody is targeting it. Canadian visitors read four pages, stay eleven minutes and reach pricing 41% of the time, ahead of the US on every measure, with roughly one visible ranking keyword. India is the second-largest source of sessions but skews to free PDFs and MT4/MT5 downloads, so treat it as list-building rather than revenue and it becomes valuable rather than disappointing.
Selected Toodegrees products mapped to the keyword clusters that describe them, with the combined monthly demand for that concept.
| Product | Keyword cluster | Example queries | Concept vol/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic OTE | OTE (Optimal Trade Entry) | ote indicator tradingview, what is ote in trading | 260 |
| Inversion Fair Value Gap | Fair Value Gap / IFVG | fair value gap indicator, inversion fair value gap, ifvg indicator | 550 |
| Unicorn Model | Unicorn Model | ict unicorn model, unicorn model trading | 280 |
| HTF Power of Three | Power of Three | ict power of three, power of three indicator | 70 |
| Fractal Model | Fractal Model | ict fractal model, fractal model ict | 20 |
| Liquidity Depth | Liquidity Tools | liquidity indicator tradingview, ict liquidity indicator | 80 |
| Session Statistical Mapping | Sessions / Killzones | session indicator tradingview, ict killzone indicator | 140 |
| Seasonal Tendency | Statistical / Seasonal / Range | seasonality indicator tradingview, adr indicator | 50 |
Precise, structured guides for fair value gaps, order blocks, OTE, Power of Three, and the Unicorn Model. This captures the largest demand pool (education), earns AI citations, and links naturally to the matching product.
Captures ~2,400/mo · GEO + SEOTarget the commercial-intent terms LuxAlgo currently owns. An honest comparison and a genuine "best indicators" guide are the fastest routes into the branded and category SERPs.
Commercial intent · convert vs LuxAlgoTradingView's own community pages rank on page one for these terms. Free or freemium versions of Toodegrees indicators, published on TradingView, put the brand directly into results you cannot otherwise reach.
Native ranking · brand discoveryDozens of exact-match product terms sit at low volume and near-zero difficulty. A dedicated, well-optimized page per indicator wins them cumulatively and reinforces topical authority.
34+ terms · low difficultyThe audit found two near-identical "best TradingView indicators" posts competing with each other, plus four more duplicate pairs. Merging them and redirecting the weaker URL is the cheapest ranking gain available, and it should happen before recommendation 2 is written.
Cheapest win · do firstRecommendation 1 assumes explainers earn AI citations. They cannot while nine AI crawlers are blocked in robots.txt. Either lift the block and let recommendation 1 do both jobs, or keep it and treat the concept hub as a pure SEO play. Both are defensible. Drifting is not.
Now covered. The technical site audit and backlink profile this report deferred were completed on 10 August 2026, alongside measured analytics and a 13-market international pull. They live in the companion baseline report, which is updated weekly: Toodegrees SEO Baseline →
Headline results: 0 critical and 2 warning-level issues across the crawled pages, 136 backlinks from 48 referring domains with tradingview.com supplying 48% of them, and a profile that has shrunk from 177 backlinks over twelve months.