Last updated: August 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-08
#85,906
AI visibility: Grade D
59
SEO health: Latest audit
0
Visits
110
per month, estimated
Keywords
87
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
110 organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
78 lines AI engines can read
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phdkim.net Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- PhD Kim (Education & Training) is ranked #85,906 worldwide in our August 2026 domain ranking, inside the top 100,000, up 1,292 places from #87,198 in July 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 110 visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 87 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 59 out of 100 (grade D), with a published llms.txt of 78 lines.
- Its last technical audit scored 0/100, with "Implement Title and Meta Description" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | #85,906 | ▲ 1,292 |
| July 2026 | #87,198 | ▲ 5,294 |
| June 2026 | #92,492 | — |
| May 2026 | #92,492 | ▼ 3,289 |
| April 2026 | #89,203 | ▲ 1,014 |
| March 2026 | #90,217 | ▲ 689 |
| February 2026 | #90,906 | — |
What this company does
PhD Kim is a specialized academic consulting practice that supports graduate students and early-career researchers through every stage of the doctoral process. The firm provides hands-on guidance on PhD applications, dissertation development, and research design, drawing on years of experience working with students across disciplines. Clients receive personalized strategies for identifying suitable programs, securing…
Our read on the site
The SEO health of https://phdkim.net is critically poor, with missing essential on-page elements such as title, meta description, and headings. Additionally, there are significant technical issues, including the absence of a viewport meta tag, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml, which hinder search engine visibility and user…
phdkim.net Traffic and Visitor Engagement
phdkim.net draws an estimated 110 visits a month from search engines. Effectively all of it is organic — about 110 visits from unpaid results. Spread across 87 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 1.3 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
110
Latest estimate
Change
No monthly history yet
It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
110
100% of all traffic
Paid visits
0
No paid search detected
Organic vs paid
100%
0%
We don't hold a month-by-month history for this domain yet.
The traffic dashboard builds one from the first scan onwards.
phdkim.net AI Visibility
On our AI visibility scale phdkim.net earns 59 of 100 points, a grade D. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt. The biggest gap is SEO health, at 0 of 20 points (0/100), worth 20 points if closed. It also loses points on Crawlability (0/10), Company profile (19/25) and Structured data (0/5).
Grade D
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
Present
6/8 core fields
0/100
robots ✗ · sitemap ✗
Not detected
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phdkim.net LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on phdkim.net runs to 78 lines (5,184 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in May 2026. It introduces the site as "PhD Kim | Academic Consulting for Doctoral Students". It tells AI engines the business works in Education & Training, Professional & Business Services and Academic Consulting. It describes 4 products, including PhD Application Package, Dissertation Coaching and Funding Strategy Session. Services it lists include PhD Application Review, Dissertation Editing, Research Design Consultation and Networking Strategy. The audience it names is Graduate students and early-career researchers, aged 22-40 (Global). The keywords it claims start with "PhD application", "PhD dissertation", "academic consulting" and "graduate school".
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
78
In the file
Size
5.2K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated May 16, 2026
What the file says
# PhD Kim | Academic Consulting for Doctoral Students ## About PhD Kim is a specialized academic consulting practice that supports graduate students and early-career researchers through every stage of the doctoral process. The firm provides hands-on guidance on PhD applications, dissertation development, and research design, drawing on years of experience working with students across disciplines. Clients receive personalized strategies for identifying suitable programs, securing funding, and preparing competitive application materials that stand out to admissions committees. The team also assists with dissertation structure, literature reviews, methodology selection, and writing support tailored to each student’s timeline and goals. By focusing exclusively on doctoral-level work, PhD Kim delivers targeted expertise that general academic services often lack. The practice serves students from diverse backgrounds, including first-generation scholars, international applicants, and working professionals returning to academia. Emphasis is placed on practical outcomes such as successful program acceptance, timely degree completion, and publication readiness. PhD Kim maintains a small, highly responsive team that works closely with each client rather than relying on generic templates or large-scale tutoring models. The company’s approach combines deep knowledge of graduate education s
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
None listed
Products it tells AI about
- PhD Application PackageContact for pricing
- Dissertation CoachingContact for pricing
- Funding Strategy SessionContact for pricing
- Interview PreparationContact for pricing
Services it tells AI about
- PhD Application ReviewContact for pricing
- Dissertation EditingContact for pricing
- Research Design ConsultationContact for pricing
- Networking StrategyContact for pricing
- Time Management CoachingContact for pricing
Competitors it names
Audience it targets
Graduate students and early-career researchers · 22-40 · Global
Company type
Private
phdkim.net Organic Keywords
Google lists phdkim.net for about 87 keywords, which together bring an estimated 110 organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
87
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
110
Estimated organic visits a month
Top ranking keywords
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Ranked Keywords pulls the full list on its first run.
What it ranks for
phdkim.net SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of phdkim.net scored 0 out of 100 overall. The audit makes 20 recommendations in all, and 4 of the 4 listed first are rated high priority or critical.
Overall
SEO
Performance
Accessibility
Fix these first
- CriticalImplement Title and Meta Description
- HighAdd H1 and H2 Tags
- CriticalCreate a Sitemap.xml
- HighAdd Robots.txt File
16 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
phdkim.net Competitors and Alternatives
PhD Kim's company profile names https://gradschoolhub.com, https://phdprograms.org, https://academicconsulting.com and https://phdconsulting.com as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds https://gradschoolmatch.com and https://phdnet.com. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are cf-emailsecurity.net, histrf.ru, insai.gob.ve and slon11.cc.
phdkim.net Company Profile
PhD Kim is a specialized academic consulting practice that supports graduate students and early-career researchers through every stage of the doctoral process. The firm provides hands-on guidance on PhD applications, dissertation development, and research design, drawing on years of experience working with students across disciplines. Clients receive personalized strategies for identifying suitable programs, securing…
PhD Kim was founded in 2018, about 8 years ago, and is headquartered in Remote, United States. Its workforce is listed as between 1 and 10 employees. It was founded by Kim. Its profile files it under Education & Training, with further tags for Professional & Business Services, PhD Consulting and Academic Support. Total funding on record is Bootstrapped. Its tagline reads: "Helping aspiring scholars navigate the PhD journey with clarity and confidence".
- Sector
- Education & Training
- Headquarters
- Remote, United States
- Founded
- 2018
- Employees
- 1-10
- Revenue
- Not Disclosed
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
- Founders
- Kim
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