SEO Tips & Tricks Podcast: ChatGPT Prompts For SEO Part 3

Welcome back to another episode of the Search Engine Optimization Tips and Tricks podcast, I’m Tim Jennings and I have been in charge of SEO at Soulheart for going on ten years now. In my time with Soulheart, I have helped businesses and non profit organizations obtain their goals through gaining organic traffic to their website. If you’ve ever heard of SEO or search engine optimization, then this is the podcast for you! In today’s episode, we’re going to look at ChatGPT prompts to understand search intent.

As any good SEO practitioner knows, understanding search intent is essential for optimizing keywords and increasing organic traffic to your website. But what exactly does search intent mean? Search intent is essentially the reason why someone entered a certain query into a search engine and how they expect to be served with relevant results, based on their needs.

When you mold your content to match the intent of the user performing the search, the odds of you not only getting shown on the Search Results Pages (SERPs) improve but you’re also not wasting your time by creating content that has no chance of converting. And as you probably already know, getting eyes on your content is only half the battle. Getting the user to perform the action you want is the real victory!

When it comes to understanding search intent, ChatGPT can be an incredibly useful tool. It uses Natural Language Processing to quickly provide you with the help that you need. By simply giving ChatGPT a detailed prompt, you can improve the quality of your content to match the search intent in seconds. But how do you do that? I am glad you asked! Let’s jump right in and find out!

ChatGPT Prompts For Search Intent

Like everything else AI related, using ChatGPT to understand search intent, is all about how you formulate your prompts. It’s important to remember that precision is key here. Think of it this way, if you give ChatGPT a vague prompt that could be interpreted in numerous ways, then your results are going to be the same – vague and unclear.

So as your formulate your prompt for ChatGPT, you will need to include the key words that you are optimizing for and the user intent behind it. This can be achieved by asking yourself questions like: What is the user looking for? What kind of action do I want them to take? How technically complex should my answer be? By doing this, you receive an output that better aligns with your goals.

However, you can speed up your process even more! By incorporating search intent into your prompt formulation, you can enhance and expedite your keyword research process significantly. This means that not only will your research become faster, but it will also yield infinitely more valuable results. By aligning your content with the user’s intentions as interpreted by Google, you can ensure a precise match between your content and what the user is seeking when using that particular keyword.

Search Intent Prompts For A Topic

The first ChatGPT prompt for SEO that I want to give to you today is one that you can use when you already have a topic but don’t know what to write yet. The reason I love this prompt is because it does a lot of the leg work for me.

Let’s say you own a landscaping business and you want to start creating pages on your website to help get found by people in your community. You know you want to produce content on landscaping but you don’t know what the focus should be, what keywords you should use, and what that content should even look like. Well, have no fear. ChatGPT is here!

If I were you, I would head over to ChatGPT and ask it to “Give me 10 long-tail keywords that have to do with ‘Landscaping.’ Match each keyword with one of the four search intents like navigational, informational, transactional, commercial.” If you do that, the result that the AI produces will be a list of 10 long-tail keywords, the search intent for those keywords, and very brief explanation of what the user is looking to accomplish by searching that keyword.

Some examples are:

• “Best landscaping companies in my area” – Search intent: Navigational (user wants to find local landscaping companies).
• “How to design a backyard landscape” – Search intent: Informational (user wants guidance on designing a backyard landscape).
• “Buy landscaping tools online” – Search intent: Transactional (user wants to make a purchase of landscaping tools).
• “Landscaping services for corporate properties” – Search intent: Commercial (user wants information on landscaping services tailored for corporate properties).

Once you have that information in your arsenal, you will be able to create content that is tailored specifically for the user who searches these words. You can also use this information in your SEO strategy to ensure that your pages are properly optimized for the keywords and search intent of your target audience.

ChatGPT Prompt For Search Intent With A Topic: Give me 10 long-tail keywords that have to do with [TOPIC]. Match each keyword with one of the four search intents like navigational, informational, transactional, or commercial.

Enhancing Your Content’s Search Intent By Leveraging Complementary Keywords

Knowing your main keyword and its search intent is a great start but if you want to have a chance at ranking then you need to take advantage of the way that search engines use NLP to help decide what to display on the SERPs. And in order to do that you need to know what other words are commonly used with your main keyword. Those complimentary words are known as semantic keywords.

By using semantic keywords when crafting your content, you can make sure that the search engine sees your page as the best answer for what the user is looking for. It’s like a two-for-one deal: You get to target more than just one keyword and also increase your chances of success with SEO.

Keeping with our landscaping example, it would be a great idea to ask ChatGPT to provide you with the semantically related keywords to your long-tail keyword. But if you really want to nail search intent then be sure to ask for keywords in the same classification as your main keyword. So your prompt should look something like; “Generate a list of 20 semantically related keywords closely related to “Best Landscaping Company in my area” without duplicating any words. Please be sure to only include keywords with navigational search intent.” If you were to do that then you would have a list of 20 keywords with the same search intent as your main keyword that you can use throughout your content.

ChatGPT Prompt To Find Semantically Related Keywords With The Same Search Intent: Generate a list of 20 semantic keywords closely related to “KEYWORD” without duplicating any words. Please be sure to only include keywords with [SEARCH INTENT TYPE] search intent.

Improving Titles For Search Intent

Titles are the first thing a reader is going to see when they come across your content and they need to be as closely aligned with search intent as possible. If you fail here, then it doesn’t matter how great your content is because no one will click on it. A great way to increase the chances of that happening is by using ChatGPT’s Generative Prompts.

With this prompt, you can provide ChatGPT with your main keyword and a description of the search intent and it will generate different titles that you can either choose from or get inspiration from. These titles come complete with semantic keywords that make them as close to perfect for your audience’s needs as possible.

So let’s say we want to write an article about “Best landscaping companies near me.” We could use the following prompt to get titles that hit the nail on the head in terms of search intent: Provide me with a list of 10 title options for my new article related to the keyword “Best Landscaping Companies near me.” The search intent is navigational.

In a few seconds, ChatGPT would provide you with ten titles that with your keyword, semantic keywords, and they will all be formulated to match search intent which means it has a much better chance of earning the click.

ChatGPT Prompt For Improving Titles For Search Intent: Provide me with a list of 10 title options for my new article related to the keyword “KEYWORD” The search intent is [SEARCH INTENT TYPE].

More ChatGPT Prompts for SEO

So before you start creating content for any given keyword, try using ChatGPT to get a better understanding of the type of content users are looking for. This will save you time and energy in the long run by allowing you to create more targeted and relevant content that speaks directly to your target audience.

Well, there you have it, three ChatGPT prompts for SEO that will help you with improving Search Intent. If you enjoyed these tips then I would suggest heading over to soulheart.co/blog to listen to my previous two episodes in this ChatGPT Prompts for SEO series. You can also head over to soulheart.co/seo and sign up for exclusive content that I don’t share anywhere else. Either way, I want you to dominate your competition when it comes to obtaining organic traffic that makes a real difference!