Prompts that work
Copy-ready prompts for audits, keyword research, competitor analysis, link building and AI visibility, and how to write your own.
How to ask
Assistants do best with a clear goal, a scope and the output you want. Compare:
- Vague: "Do SEO for my site."
- Clear: "Audit brewlab.coffee/guides/cold-brew, then give me the three fixes with the biggest impact as a numbered list with the exact HTML changes."
Mention your budget when a task could run many lookups: "Use at most 30 credits and tell me the plan before you start."
Audits and fixes
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Audit https://brewlab.coffee and list every Critical and High issue. For each, explain it in one sentence a non-developer understands, then give the exact fix.text
Run find_issues on https://brewlab.coffee/pricing, then fix the issues in this project's code. When you are done, audit the page again and show me the before and after score.text
Audit our homepage and beanhouse.com. Compare the category scores in a table and tell me where they beat us and why.Keyword research
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Find keyword ideas for "pour over coffee" in the US. Keep those with difficulty under 30. Group them by intent and suggest one page for each group, with a working title.text
What questions do people ask about cold brew? Turn the ten most searched into an article outline, with a direct two-sentence answer under each heading.Competitors
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Who are brewlab.coffee's real organic competitors? Leave out marketplaces and encyclopedias. For the top three, show their top pages and what topics they cover that we do not.text
Run a content gap for brewlab.coffee against beanhouse.com and grindgear.co. Give me the 15 missing keywords with the best volume to difficulty ratio, grouped into page ideas.Link building
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Find sites that link to beanhouse.com and grindgear.co but not to brewlab.coffee. Keep those with a low spam score and explain why each would link to us. Draft a short, friendly outreach email for the top three.text
Show brewlab.coffee's backlinks gained and lost over the last 12 months. Did anything important disappear?AI visibility
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How visible is brewlab.coffee in ChatGPT and Google AI? Which questions mention our competitors but not us? Suggest one page or section for each.text
Compare our share of voice in ChatGPT with beanhouse.com, grindgear.co and dripstudio.io, and tell me what the leader does differently.Tracking
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Add these keywords to the rank tracker for brewlab.coffee on mobile in the US: cold brew recipe, pour over ratio, best coffee beans. Then check them and tell me where we stand.text
Check my tracked keywords and summarise what moved into or out of the top 10, and which striking-distance keywords to work on first.Writing your own
- Name the site and the country. "in the UK" changes every number.
- Say what you want back: a table, a list, an outline, a draft email, code.
- Chain steps: research, then decide, then write. Assistants handle multi-step requests well.
- Ask for sources: "show the numbers behind each suggestion" keeps answers grounded in real data.
- Set a budget for anything that could run many lookups.