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Is your category uninvested, or contested?

Read the supply side of your category results page before you fund anything. A page one held by low-authority pages is an opening; one held by established publishers is a normal authority fight with a longer horizon.

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The SaaS Category Supply Check

Do this with the live results page open and a link tool to hand. The first three items decide whether the category is worth funding at all.

Item 1

Have you pulled your category term's live top ten and recorded the lowest domain rating, and at what position?

A low-authority page holding a top-five slot is the clearest signal of an unfunded category.

Item 2

Do you know how many results carry fewer than 5 page-level referring domains?

Page-level links, not domain-level. This is the supply signal that matters.

Item 3

Does an exact-match domain rank in the top ten?

Exact-match domains ranking is a symptom of thin competition, not of clever SEO.

Item 4

Have you counted the AI Overview sitelinks and read every source?

How many are established publishers in your category, and how many are agency blogs?

Item 5

Have you joined your Search Console top-10 pages to the URLs AI engines cite?

What share of your ranking pages are never retrieved?

Item 6

Have you filtered for pages that are cited, rank on page one, and return zero clicks?

The pages doing work you are not being credited for.

Item 7

Have you measured share of voice per engine, and can you state the spread between your best and worst engine on the same day?

Exclude any engine returning exactly 1.0 and 0.0 across brands, and say that you did.

Your category's supply side (optional)

Items 1 to 3 decide whether this is an opening or an authority fight. Items 5 to 7 decide whether you can tell what happens next.

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What you are being scored against

Our own numbers, from a live category page one and our own estate

We scored Uninvested on the category and Measuring one scoreboard on ourselves the first time we ran this. That combination is the reason the piece exists.

MeasuredWhat it is
DR 17 at position 4, 5 of 8 under 5 referring domainsHow little authority it took to hold a SaaS category page oneTwo exact-match domains ranked, and the AI Overview carried 9 sitelinks, most of them agency blogs. A category nobody had funded. · Ahrefs, live SERP, 9 September 2026
14 of 17Top-10 pages with zero AI citationsOur own estate: 17 pages ranked in Google's top 10 (average position 10 or better), and 3 of them were cited by an AI engine. · Indexable, 7 September 2026, n = 223 pages
57.4 pointsHighest-to-lowest engine share of voice, same day58.57% on Copilot against 1.17% on Gemini for one brand on one day. Claude was excluded as a 1.0/0.0 small-response artefact, and the exclusion stated. · Indexable, 7 September 2026, 106 custom prompts, US, 6 engines
positions 2.9 and 5.3, zero clicksOur pricing page on two buyer questions, over 90 daysIts conversion rate is zero by arithmetic, not by design. No amount of layout work moves a page nobody reaches. · Indexable, Search Console 90 days, 11 June – 8 September 2026

One category, one results page, one day, one panel. Results pages are volatile and can be geo-anchored — re-pull before funding anything against this read.

Fund the page and the links behind it, or do not fund the category

An uninvested category is an opening with a deadline: it stays open exactly as long as nobody else reads the same page one.

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