The Scenario
You are an SEO manager. You have 150 target keywords in column A of your Google Sheet and a client call at 2 PM where you need to show which competitors are dominating the top 10 for each one.
It is 11 AM. You have three hours.
The bad version of this morning:
- You open DataForSEO's playground and submit keywords one by one
- You copy JSON results from the browser and paste them into column B
- You split the JSON manually because the field you need is buried three levels deep
- You repeat this for twenty keywords before realizing you have 130 left
- You give up on positions 6-10 and only pull the top result per keyword to save time
- You walk into the 2 PM call with a half-complete dataset.
The fast version is one prompt and SheetXAI runs the batch for you.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your spreadsheet that reads your keyword list, submits DataForSEO tasks in batch, and writes every result back to the sheet without you touching the API.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
For each keyword in column A of my Target Keywords sheet, create a DataForSEO Google organic SERP task and once complete pull the top-10 results with URL, title, and ranking position into a new sheet called SERP Results.
SheetXAI submits all 150 tasks, polls for completion, fetches the results, creates the SERP Results sheet, and writes the full dataset. You come back to a complete table, not a half-finished one.
What You Get
A SERP Results sheet with a row per keyword-result pair:
- Keyword — the source keyword from column A
- Position — 1 through 10
- URL — the ranking page
- Title — the page title as it appears in Google
- Domain — extracted from the URL for easy filtering
Every keyword, every position, fully populated. No manual polling, no JSON parsing, no copy-paste between browser tabs.
You can filter the SERP Results sheet to your own domain to see exactly where you rank for each keyword, or pivot by domain to see which competitor appears most across the full keyword set.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Real keyword lists are rarely a clean single column. SheetXAI handles the messiness and the data pull in one prompt.
When keyword names have trailing spaces or inconsistent capitalization
Your keywords exported from a keyword tool with mixed cases and occasional trailing whitespace, which causes duplicate results.
Clean column A of my Target Keywords sheet by trimming whitespace and lowercasing every keyword. Then create DataForSEO SERP tasks for each cleaned keyword and pull the top-10 results into SERP Results with URL, title, and position.
When you only want to pull keywords you have not checked yet
Some keywords in column A already have results from last week. You want to skip those and only refresh the ones with an empty Status column.
For each keyword in column A where column B is blank, create a DataForSEO SERP task and pull the top-10 results. Write results into the SERP Results sheet and mark column B as "done" for each completed keyword.
When you want to flag your own domain in the results
You want to immediately see which keywords your site appears in and at what position.
Create DataForSEO SERP tasks for all 150 keywords in column A. Pull top-10 results into SERP Results. In a separate column called OurRank, write the position where example.com appears in the results, or "not ranked" if it is not in the top 10.
When you need the full data pull plus a competitive summary in one go
The client wants a table of results and a written summary of where the top three competitors dominate.
Pull top-10 organic results from DataForSEO for every keyword in column A. Write all results into SERP Results. Then look at the full dataset and write a short paragraph in cell A1 of a new Summary sheet identifying the top three competitor domains by total top-10 appearances and the keyword clusters where each one leads.
The pattern: instead of pulling the data and then analyzing it in two separate steps, you ask for both in one prompt. SheetXAI does the batch API work and the analysis inline.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any sheet with a keyword list in column A, then ask it to pull SERP rankings from DataForSEO. The DataForSEO integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to enrich keywords with search volume and CPC or the DataForSEO in Google Sheets overview.