SKILL.md
Programmatic SEO Skill
Programmatic SEO turns a data set + a template into hundreds or thousands of pages that each target a specific long-tail query ("best [tool] for [use case]", "[city] [service]"). Done well it captures huge long-tail demand; done badly it's thin doorway spam that gets deindexed. This skill plans the good version — real data, real value per page, and the guardrails to stay on the right side of that line.
Required Inputs
Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:
- The business & the money pages — what you sell and what these pages should drive (signups, leads).
- The pattern — the head term + the modifiers (e.g.
[integration] + alternatives,[role] + templates). - The data — what data set powers the pages, and where it comes from (is it real and maintained?).
- Competition & intent — who ranks now and what the searcher actually wants on the page.
Output Format
Programmatic SEO plan: [pattern]
1. The page model — head term × modifier(s) → URL pattern, and the realistic page count. Prioritise the modifier sets with real search volume and commercial/informational intent.
2. Page template — the sections every page has, and what makes each page genuinely useful (unique data, comparisons, specifics) — not just swapped keywords. Show the template with data placeholders.
3. Data schema — the fields each page needs, the source, and how it stays fresh. (No data = thin page.)
4. Quality guardrail — the bar a page must clear to be published (enough unique value, real data, intent match). Pages that can't clear it shouldn't exist. How to avoid near-duplicate/thin pages.
5. Internal linking & indexation — hub/spoke linking, sitemaps, and a phased rollout (publish a quality batch, confirm it indexes and ranks, then scale) rather than dumping 5,000 pages day one.
6. Measurement — what to watch (indexed %, rankings, traffic, conversion) and the kill criterion for pages that never rank.