ChatGPT has been used in the SEO field since its launch. However, how the way of use changed over time. When GPT-3 was launched, content marketers and content specialists used it to create meta descriptions mainly. To be honest, it was not advanced enough to create long-form articles and topic clusters. It was not really possible to use it for keyword research or to create a content strategy. However, things changed in time. Today, it would not be an exaggerated expression to say ChatGPT is an essential SEO tool for SEO experts or businesses who need to improve their site in terms of SEO. Today, we'll delve into the best SEO prompts you can use to elevate the SEO performance of your website.

What are SEO Prompts and what are they used for and what are they?

Have you ever heard of the phrase prompt engineering? If you want to use ChatGPT in your SEO department, you must get familiar with that term. ChatGPT can be a great tool for SEO. However, you should know what you are doing with it. Prompts are the most important thing when utilizing ChatGPT for any purpose, and SEO is not an exception. Prompts can be explained as sentences to make it generate texts. With the right prompts, you can get the best of ChatGPT. However, when you do not know how to give the right prompts to ChatGPT it may lead to a failure. Prompt engineering can be explained as mastering giving the right prompts to ChatGPT. Because you are on this page, we guess that you do not have much time to improve your site's SEO performance, and do not want to lose your time learning prompt engineering. Therefore, we brought all ChatGPT prompts for SEO to you. After learning them, you can notice a significant increase in your SEO performance.

The main types of SEO prompts

As you probably know, SEO is a deep deep field. Although many people think that SEO is just placing keywords in an article, it's much more than that. SEO can be explained as all efforts you can to make your site perform better on the SERP (Search Engine Results Page). We can divide SEO efforts into three main sub-categories. On-page SEO can be explained as the efforts for performance improvement in the content of your site. For example, choosing the right keywords for your site's industry and niche, placing keywords in the right places, and publishing informative and SEO-friendly articles for your audience. Choosing images that won't be a burden for your site, and creating meta descriptions for Google to identify your content easily are other examples of on-page SEO efforts.

Off-page SEO, as you can understand from its name, can be explained as the work done for your site's site performance on other websites. The most popular elements of off-page SEO efforts are backlinking and local SEO efforts. As you can guess, our focus would not be on this part of SEO because there are better areas than off-page SEO to use ChatGPT in your SEO efforts.

The third part of SEO is technical SEO. ChatGPT can also assist you in your technical SEO efforts. Technical SEO can be explained as the technical actions you take to make your site more search-engine friendly. Some examples can be reducing the size of images to make your site load faster, eliminating broken links from your website, and editing your Robots.txt document.

Today, we're providing you with the best ChatGPT prompts for SEO both for content (on-page SEO) and technical SEO.

On-Page SEO includes keyword research and implementation, content creation like articles, meta tags, title and meta descriptions, formatting subheadings etc. Keyword research plays a crucial role in On-Page SEO, and we can divide it into three main categories.

● Keyword research prompts

● Identify Long-Tail Keywords prompts

● Keyword Clustering prompts

Keyword Research Prompts

To give the best keyword research prompts to ChatGPT you must be as specific as you can be. If you are familiar with some popular SEO tools like Ahrefs, Surfer, or SEMRush, you know how they work. You provide them with a phrase, and they list the other related words. However, ChatGPT does not work like this because although it can contribute to your SEO efforts, it is not a native SEO tool. Thus, you must be specific about what you need. Below are some examples.

• You are the SEO manager of my website. Find high-volume but low-competition keywords related to [YOUR NICHE].

• Identify the top keywords that can drive organic traffic to [YOUR WEBSITE]. Please also consider conversion opportunities. List them based on the conversion rate.

• Create a table of keywords where I can see keywords related to [YOUR NICHE], their estimated monthly search volume, and keyword difficulties.

• I'm creating a blog post about [YOUR NICHE], and I want to target more than one search term in one article. List related keywords with their search volumes.

• List keywords synonymous with [YOUR MAIN KEYWORD].

Identify Long-Tail Keywords Prompts

Long tail keywords are indispensable parts of a solid SEO strategy. They can be summarized as keywords that have three or more words in them with a strong conversion potential. Here are Chat GPT prompts for SEO to find the best long-tail keywords.

• Suppose that you are a talented content SEO specialist. Find me 5 long-tail keywords related to [YOUR NICHE] that have low difficulty.

• Find me a long-tail keyword about [YOUR NICHE] that can increase the conversion rates of [YOUR WEBSITE].

• Find long-tail keywords around [YOUR NICHE], and explain why they are good keywords to make me create articles for them.

Keyword Clustering Prompts

• Suppose that you are the SEO manager of [YOUR WEBSITE]. I need a new topic cluster to improve my topical authority in [YOUR NICHE]. What are your suggested keywords for the pillar page of the topic cluster?

• How can I support [YOUR PILLAR PAGE] with blog posts? Find keywords to support the pillar page at the center of the topic cluster.

Content Creation Prompts

The keyword research project is the only initial step for a solid SEO strategy. After you've found your target keywords, you know you need to create informative, authoritative, and converting articles for them. ChatGPT is here to help you! Use the prompts below to create great titles, meta descriptions, paragraphs, LSI keywords, headers & subheaders.

Title Creation Prompts

• Suppose that you are the content SEO specialist of [YOUR WEBSITE]. We've found [A KEYWORD] and want to give this article a title that attracts the attention of audiences and has the selected keyword in it. What is your suggestion?

• I need visitors to stay on [YOUR WEBSITE] after seeing the title of the page. Can you suggest some titles?

• Create a title for an article about [YOUR NICHE] that is not longer than 80 characters.

• Create a title for an article that will be written for [YOUR TOPIC]. The title should not be a clickbait one.

Description Creation Prompts

Meta descriptions are texts that tell Google and the visitors on the SERP what the content is about in 2-3 sentences. They play a crucial role in SEO. If you are having a struggle in creating good meta descriptions, the prompts below may help you.

• Suppose that you are the SEO manager of my team. Find high-volume but low-competition keywords related to [YOUR NICHE].

• If you were the SEO specialist of my team, what meta description would you offer for [YOUR ARTICLE] to rank in a higher position on Google?

Headers Creation Prompts

• We have created [YOUR ARTICLE] with my team. However, we are not experts in content SEO. Thus, we're struggling to find SEO-friendly headers and subheaders for it. Can you suggest headers and subheaders for this content?

• What are the best H2, H3, and H4 headings in terms of SEO-friendliness and readability for [YOUR ARTICLE]?

Paragraph Creation Prompts

• We have [YOUR KEYWORD] and need to write an article for it. The topic of the article will be [YOUR TOPIC] and the target audience is [TARGET AUDIENCE]. Could you write an introduction paragraph that serves as a hook and keeps the reader on the page?

• Could you write a conclusion paragraph for [YOUR ARTICLE] with a CTA that directs the reader to the store page and converts them to the customers?

Implementing LSI Keywords in text prompts

For the people who never heard of LSI keywords before, we wanted to explain this term before moving to prompts. LSI means "Latent Semantic Indexing" and the LSI keywords term is used to define keywords that are related to the main keyword conceptually and used together with the keyword frequently. Below are prompts you can use to find and use the best LSI keywords with the help of ChatGPT.

• Suppose that you are an SEO expert specialized in finding LSI keywords. I have [YOUR KEYWORDS] to be used in future articles. Please provide me with LSI keywords for each, and explain how they are related to the main keyword.

• Provide me with a list of LSI keywords related to [YOUR TOPIC] Also categorize them based on their relevance to the topic.

Technical SEO prompts

As we said before, technical SEO is a really important part of SEO. In fact, if your site is slow, or not providing the visitors with good UX, your site could not rank on the higher positions on Google although you have high-quality content on your site. Thus, we suggest you to use these prompts below to improve the technical aspects of your website for a solid performance.

Site map creation prompts

Sitemaps help Google Bots to navigate Google or other search engines' bots to navigate on your website. Here are some site map creation prompts that you can use.

• You're my technical SEO lead. I need you to create a valid site map containing [YOUR URL]. (Provide the URLs you choose in the prompt)

• I'm having difficulties in creating a valid sitemap for [YOUR SITE]. However, I'm not an expert in technical SEO, and I do not know what I should do to create & edit a site map. Can you teach me how to do it?

Robots.txt creation Prompts

• Please create a Robots.txt file for [YOUR SITE]. I need this directory (Provide URL again) not to be crawled.

• Analyze [YOUR WEBSITE] and create a Robots.txt file. Some pages on my site are not crawled, create a file that allows crawling for these pages.

Schema.org Markup prompts

• Check [YOUR WEBSITE] and identify the best schema markup. Take the content of my website into consideration.

• Suggest some additional properties to include in the schema markup if there are any.

htaccess rewrite rules prompts

Because htaccess is not a widely known term, we wanted to explain what it is first before informing you about some prompts to use. htaccess is an editable file type that allows you to make some customizations on the Apache based servers. It's a highly technical element of SEO, and you must be careful implementing the prompt to your website.

• Create a .htaccess rewrite rule for [YOUR WEBSITE] to direct 301 pages to ...domain

• To ensure a smooth redirection process, create a .htaccess rewrite rule to direct specific pages in the old location to a new one.

Create a Hreflang Attribute prompts

• Suppose you are a technical SEO expert, create a hreflang attribute page targeted [COUNTRY] in [LANGUAGE].

• Write a code for me to add a hreflang attribute to [YOUR WEBSITE].

Conclusion

As you can see, with ChatGPT, you can improve your website's performance on the SERP with some prompts. This is especially good for business or website owners with a low budget. If you're new to e-commerce or website management and have a limited budget, you won't need to pay high amounts to SEO experts to make your site perform better. Moreover, these prompts are also great for individuals who are pursuing a career in SEO but do not know where to begin. With these prompts, you can more easily understand how SEO works. At the end of the day, ChatGPT will do what you need from it. If you need to get some ideas from ChatGPT about SEO and perform the task yourself, ChatGPT is also a great tool for that. As we said at the beginning of the article, all you need to do is to know how to write good prompts!