Verified against Claude · 2026-08-06
Turn a topic into a content brief with search-intent notes
Feed in a target keyword and your audience, and get a structured content brief back — intent classification, the SERP features to design around, a heading outline mapped to what each section needs to do, and the E-E-A-T signals worth including — before you write a single sentence.
The prompt
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Act as a senior SEO content strategist. I need a content brief for a page targeting: best project management software for agencies Audience: marketing agency owners with 5-20 employees Business context: we sell a project management SaaS with a 14-day free trial Target length: 1,800-2,200 words Do this in order: 1. Classify search intent. State whether this query is informational, commercial-investigation, transactional, or navigational, and justify it in one sentence based on what kind of page would actually satisfy it. 2. List the SERP features likely present (featured snippet, People Also Ask, AI Overview, video carousel, local pack, shopping results) and what each implies about the format the winning page needs. 3. Build a heading outline (H1-H3) that answers the query completely at the depth this intent expects — not padded, not thin. For every H2, note in brackets what job that section does for the reader, e.g. "[addresses the objection that stops conversion]". 4. List the sub-questions a genuinely thorough page would answer that the searcher hasn't typed but is implicitly asking — the unstated-intent layer. 5. Flag the E-E-A-T signals worth including: what experience, credentials, data, or first-hand specifics would make this page read as more trustworthy than a rewrite of the top 10 results. 6. Name one differentiation angle — something the top-ranking pages are likely missing that my business context makes uniquely easy to include. Output as a structured brief with clear section headers, not prose paragraphs.
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Why this works
Intent classification comes first because Google ranks primarily on satisfying intent, not keyword match — a page shaped for the wrong intent (a listicle where the SERP wants a calculator) rarely breaks into the top results no matter how well-written it is. Naming the likely SERP features turns that classification into a concrete format decision instead of a guess. The unstated-intent layer and E-E-A-T checklist both map to the same target: Google’s Quality Rater Guidelines explicitly reward depth, first-hand expertise and trust signals over content that just restates the top 10 in different words — briefing for those before writing is cheaper than discovering the gap after a page fails to rank.
What you get back
Intent: Commercial-investigation. The query implies comparing options before buying, not learning a concept or navigating to a brand. Likely SERP features: featured snippet (a definition-style answer), People Also Ask, possibly an AI Overview summarizing 3-4 tools by price tier. Outline: H1: Best Project Management Software for Agencies in 2026 H2: What agencies actually need that generic PM tools miss [sets the evaluation criteria before naming tools] H2: Top picks by team size [addresses "which one for me," the real decision point] H2: Pricing comparison table [SERP feature match — searchers screenshot these] H2: Common switching mistakes [E-E-A-T: first-hand migration experience] Unstated questions: "Will my client see this tool?", "What happens to my data if I cancel?" Differentiation angle: most competitor pages are generic top-10 lists; your 14-day trial context lets you honestly note which tools have the shortest real onboarding time — something reviewers who haven't run an agency can't credibly claim.
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Changelog
- 2026-07-20 — Initial publish, verified against ChatGPT and Gemini.
- 2026-08-06 — Re-verified against Claude Sonnet 5; added the explicit "don’t pad, don’t skip depth" instruction after a test run over-trimmed a commercial-investigation brief.
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