11 reviewed templates

SEO prompts built around real decisions.

These SEO prompts help you reason from real keywords, audiences, pages, and first-party evidence. They deliberately separate facts from assumptions, so the model supports your analysis instead of pretending it has live search-volume or ranking data.

  • Clarify intent before writing
  • Build evidence-led briefs and clusters
  • Improve existing pages systematically

11 prompts

Replace bracketed variables before use.

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Build a semantic SEO topical map

Organize a subject around reader decisions, entities, subtopics, page roles, and internal links.

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Act as a senior SEO strategist and information architect. Build a semantic topical map for [CORE TOPIC] for [AUDIENCE]. The site offers [SITE OFFER]. Existing relevant pages: [EXISTING PAGES]. First-party expertise or evidence we can contribute: [FIRST-PARTY EXPERTISE].

Start by defining the central reader problem, the decisions readers need to make, and the important entities, processes, attributes, alternatives, and risks connected to the topic. Group the coverage into a small number of coherent clusters. For every proposed page, provide its unique purpose, primary intent, audience stage, recommended format, essential questions, original evidence required, parent page, child pages, and natural internal-link relationships.

Identify pages that would overlap, compete, or add little value. Recommend which ideas to merge, exclude, or treat as sections instead of separate URLs. Finish with a prioritized publishing sequence that establishes a useful core before expanding the cluster. Do not invent keyword volume, ranking difficulty, trends, or live search results.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt creates a useful information architecture from audience needs and real expertise instead of expanding a seed keyword into dozens of interchangeable pages.
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Plan SEO content around original evidence

Turn experience, examples, tests, and customer questions into content competitors cannot easily copy.

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Create an original-evidence content plan for [TOPIC] aimed at [AUDIENCE] and supporting [BUSINESS GOAL]. Available experience: [AVAILABLE EXPERIENCE]. Available data, examples, screenshots, interviews, or tests: [DATA OR EXAMPLES].

Separate what we know directly from what requires research. Propose five content assets that use our evidence to answer a meaningful reader question better than a generic summary could. For each asset, define the unique claim or lesson, the evidence needed, the practical deliverable for the reader, the best page format, the fact-checking requirements, and the internal pages that should support it.

Include a plan for obtaining missing first-party evidence through small tests, interviews, demonstrations, or analysis. Reject ideas that rely mainly on rewriting existing articles. Finish with a quality rubric covering originality, accuracy, completeness, transparency, usefulness, and maintenance.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt shifts the strategy from keyword repetition to information gain, proof, and a useful reader outcome.
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Audit entity and concept coverage on an SEO page

Find missing concepts, weak definitions, unsupported claims, and internal-link opportunities without keyword stuffing.

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Audit the following page about [PRIMARY TOPIC] for [TARGET READER]: [PAGE DRAFT]. Related site pages: [RELATED SITE PAGES]. Verified sources: [VERIFIED SOURCES].

Create a coverage table with the essential entities, concepts, processes, attributes, comparisons, risks, and reader questions. For each item, mark it as complete, partial, missing, unsupported, or better handled on another page. Explain why the item matters to the reader and where it belongs in the article.

Then identify vague language, repeated ideas, unexplained terminology, unsupported claims, forced keyword use, and sections that do not advance the reader's task. Recommend precise edits, useful internal links, and any tables, diagrams, examples, or checklists that would improve comprehension. Do not add concepts merely to increase word count.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt evaluates whether the page explains the subject completely and coherently rather than chasing a mechanical keyword-density score.
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Create a complete SEO content brief

Map search intent, reader questions, evidence needs, structure, and internal links before drafting.

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Act as a senior SEO strategist, content architect, and subject-matter editor. Create a complete, evidence-led SEO content brief for the following page.

INPUTS
- Primary topic or query: [TARGET KEYWORD]
- Audience and level of knowledge: [AUDIENCE]
- Country, language, or market: [MARKET]
- Business objective and desired conversion: [BUSINESS GOAL]
- Product, service, or website context: [ADD CONTEXT]
- Existing pages that may overlap: [PASTE URLS OR TITLES]
- First-party evidence available: [CUSTOMER QUESTIONS, DATA, EXPERT NOTES]
- Verified SERP or competitor observations: [PASTE MANUAL RESEARCH OR WRITE NONE]

PHASE 1 — DIAGNOSIS
1. Restate the search problem in plain language.
2. Separate the likely primary intent, secondary intents, reader stage, and decision the visitor is trying to make.
3. Identify what must be manually validated in the live search results. Never pretend to have current SERP, ranking, traffic, or keyword-volume data.
4. Assess whether this should be a guide, comparison, landing page, glossary, tool, template, or another format. Explain the choice.
5. Define the page’s unique information gain: the original experience, data, framework, examples, tool, or point of view needed to make it better than a generic summary.

PHASE 2 — CONTENT SPECIFICATION
Return:
- Three accurate title-tag options with different angles
- A recommended H1 and concise meta description
- A one-sentence editorial promise
- A detailed H2/H3 outline in the order a reader needs it
- The purpose of every major section
- Questions each section must answer
- Entities, concepts, definitions, and comparisons to cover naturally
- Evidence required: first-party experience, expert input, examples, screenshots, data, sources, or demonstrations
- Claims that require verification or citation
- Recommended tables, checklists, diagrams, calculators, templates, or interactive elements
- What to exclude to avoid scope drift and keyword cannibalization

PHASE 3 — SITE INTEGRATION
Create an internal-link plan with:
- Relevant pages that should link to this page
- Pages this article should link to
- Natural anchor concepts
- Reader reason for each link
- Potential overlap, merge, redirect, or refresh decisions

PHASE 4 — TRUST AND CONVERSION
Define:
- Author expertise or review evidence the page should display
- Transparency notes and limitations
- A primary and secondary call to action matched to search intent
- Objections or anxieties to address before the CTA
- Accessibility and mobile-reading requirements

PHASE 5 — ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA
Finish with:
- A prioritized production checklist
- A fact-check checklist
- An originality and helpfulness checklist
- Five ways this page could fail
- The analytics events and Search Console signals to review after publication
- A 30/60/90-day refresh plan

Do not draft the full article. Do not invent live data. Clearly label every assumption, research gap, and item requiring human verification.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt treats the brief as an editorial and business specification: intent, information gain, evidence, structure, internal links, conversion path, risks, and acceptance criteria are all explicit.
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Map search intent before choosing a page type

Separate informational, commercial, navigational, and action-oriented needs for a keyword set.

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Analyze the following keyword list for [AUDIENCE] considering [OFFER]: [KEYWORD LIST]. Group terms by the underlying job the searcher is trying to complete, not only by shared words. For each group, identify likely intent, funnel stage, questions, appropriate page type, desired next action, and evidence needed. Flag keywords with mixed or uncertain intent. Do not claim live SERP knowledge; tell me which assumptions require manual SERP validation.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt prevents one page from trying to satisfy several incompatible reader goals.
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Design a topic cluster with clear page roles

Create a pillar-and-support structure that avoids overlap and keyword cannibalization.

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Create a topic-cluster plan around [CORE TOPIC] for [AUDIENCE], aligned with [BUSINESS PRIORITY]. Existing pages: [EXISTING PAGES]. Propose one pillar page and a limited set of supporting pages. For each page define its unique intent, audience question, scope, exclusions, primary next action, and links to and from the pillar. Identify overlap with existing pages and recommend merge, refresh, or new-page decisions. Avoid producing separate pages for trivial keyword variations.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksEvery proposed page gets a distinct intent, scope, and internal-link role.
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Review internal-link opportunities

Connect related pages through relevant reader journeys instead of arbitrary keyword anchors.

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Act as an information-architecture editor. Review this page inventory: [PAGE INVENTORY]. The priority page is [PRIORITY PAGE] and the site goal is [SITE GOAL]. Recommend internal links based on what a reader logically needs before or after each page. Return source page, destination page, reason for the link, suggested natural anchor concept, and ideal placement context. Flag orphan pages, circular journeys, and pages that should not be linked simply because they share a keyword.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt evaluates links by context, user value, and page role rather than link count.
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Draft accurate title and description options

Create compelling metadata without clickbait or unsupported promises.

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Using this page summary [PAGE SUMMARY], primary query [PRIMARY QUERY], audience [AUDIENCE], and verified proof point [PROOF POINT], draft six distinct title-tag and meta-description pairs. Keep each pair accurate to the page. Vary the angle, not the factual claim. Explain the intent behind each option and flag any wording that would require stronger proof. Avoid fake urgency, vague superlatives, and repeating the same phrase mechanically.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt anchors every option in the actual page content and a credible benefit.
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Find useful content gaps from first-party evidence

Turn customer questions, sales notes, and support issues into valuable content opportunities.

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Review this first-party customer evidence: [CUSTOMER EVIDENCE]. Compare it with the current content inventory: [CURRENT CONTENT] and the offer [OFFER]. Identify unanswered questions, repeated objections, misunderstood concepts, and decisions customers struggle to make. Turn only the strongest gaps into content opportunities. For each, define the reader need, recommended format, original evidence to include, business relevance, and how to avoid duplicating an existing page.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt starts from genuine unmet questions rather than copying competitor topic lists.
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Plan a genuinely local landing page

Build a location page around real service details and local proof, not swapped city names.

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Create a landing-page brief for [SERVICE] in [LOCATION]. Verified local proof and operational details: [LOCAL PROOF]. Preferred contact method: [CONTACT METHOD]. Build sections that help a local customer evaluate availability, process, service area, proof, common questions, and next steps. Identify the exact local facts, photos, testimonials, or policies still needed. Do not invent landmarks, reviews, addresses, coverage, prices, or response times, and do not reuse generic copy with only the city changed.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt demands verifiable local information and rejects thin location-page duplication.
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Diagnose and refresh an existing page

Decide what to keep, update, remove, merge, or verify before rewriting.

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Audit this existing page: [CURRENT PAGE]. Available performance data: [PERFORMANCE DATA]. Relevant business or product changes: [BUSINESS CHANGES]. Separate the review into accuracy, intent alignment, usefulness, originality, structure, internal links, and conversion path. Mark each section keep, update, remove, merge, or verify, with a reason. Propose a revised outline only after the diagnosis. Do not assume that adding more words will improve performance.

EXPERT EXECUTION PROTOCOL
1. Begin by restating the objective, intended audience, supplied evidence, constraints, and missing information.
2. Ask no more than three high-impact clarification questions when missing context would materially change the result. Otherwise continue with clearly labeled assumptions.
3. Work from the supplied facts. Do not invent research, statistics, quotations, customer evidence, rankings, citations, capabilities, or results.
4. Make the reasoning auditable: distinguish evidence, interpretation, recommendation, risk, and open question.
5. Produce a decision-ready deliverable, not generic advice. Prioritize the most valuable actions and explain the trade-offs.
6. Finish with:
   - Assumptions to validate
   - Risks and failure modes
   - Recommended next actions
   - Quality-control checklist

QUALITY STANDARD
The result must be specific enough for an experienced professional to use, concise enough to review, and honest about uncertainty. Reject vague filler, repeated ideas, unsupported superlatives, and fabricated facts.
Why it worksIt treats a refresh as diagnosis and evidence maintenance, not automatic expansion.