ChatGPT Prompts for SEO Content Writing: 12 to Copy

ChatGPT prompts for SEO content writing are most useful for the work around the words: working out what the searcher needs, getting your own experience onto the page, answering the question in the first sentences, and cutting filler in the edit. Give ChatGPT your notes, your draft, and the query you are targeting, because it does not know what you have tested or seen. Below are 12 copy-paste prompts grouped by stage, plus a flagship prompt that runs a full people-first edit pass on a draft.

This page is the writing hub. If you need a brief and outline first, start with the SEO content brief and blog outline builder; for a first draft from a brief, use the SEO blog post generator. The prompts here cover what happens between and after those steps.

What people-first SEO writing means here

Google's guidance on helpful, reliable, people-first content asks whether a page shows first-hand experience, answers the reader's question, and leaves them feeling they learned enough. Using AI to help write is not against Google's guidelines, but mass-producing pages to rank is treated as spam. So every prompt below works from your own notes and asks ChatGPT to edit, not invent. Never let it add statistics, quotes, or experiences you did not give it.

Prompts before you write

1. Search intent and reader tasks

The query is [query] and the reader is [audience]. List what this reader is trying to do, in order, and the questions they will have at each step. Mark which questions need my own experience to answer well.

2. Outline from pages you have read

Here are notes I took from the top pages for [query]: [notes]. Build an outline that covers what they share, then list what all of them miss that I can add from my own experience: [what I have done or tested].

3. Interview me for first-hand detail

I am writing about [topic]. Ask me ten specific questions, one at a time, about what I actually did, saw, measured, or got wrong, so I can add real detail. Do not suggest answers.

Prompts for drafting

4. Answer-first intro

Write a two or three sentence intro for [query] that answers it directly in the first sentence, using only these facts and my experience: [notes]. No "in this guide" or "let's dive in".

5. Section from my notes

Turn these notes into the [section name] section, about [length], in my voice from this sample: [sample paragraph]. Use only the facts in the notes and mark anything that needs a source with [SOURCE?].

6. FAQ from real questions

These are real questions readers asked me or that I found in comments: [questions]. Write short answers from my notes, [notes], and skip any question I cannot answer from experience or a source.

Prompts for editing

7. People-first edit pass

Use the flagship prompt below: paste the target query, the full draft, your first-hand notes, reader tasks, internal links, and audience. It returns an intent check, a gap list, experience inserts, filler cuts, an outline, links, and a fact check list.

8. Cut the filler

Quote every sentence in this draft that a reader could skip without losing anything, and say cut or replace for each, with the replacement: [draft].

9. Readability for beginners

Edit this section for a reader who is new to [topic]: shorter sentences, define [terms] the first time, and put steps in a numbered list. Keep my opinions and examples: [section].

Prompts for on-page details

10. Title and meta description options

Write three title options and three meta descriptions for this page about [query], each one honest about what the page gives: [summary]. Google often rewrites titles and snippets and truncates by pixel width, so focus on clarity, not a fixed character count.

11. Internal link placements

Here are pages on my site with URLs: [list]. Read this draft and suggest where each link fits naturally, with descriptive anchor text, and skip any page that does not help the reader here: [draft].

12. Image alt text and captions

Here are the photos for this post and what each shows: [photo notes]. Write alt text that describes each image for someone who cannot see it, and a short caption that adds one fact from my notes.

Run the full edit with the flagship prompt

The SEO Content Writing Edit Pass: Draft to People-First Copy combines prompts 4, 7, 8, 10, and 11. In its example, a thin draft on how to repot a snake plant opens with an unsourced popularity claim. The edit pass replaces it with an answer-first intro, adds the writer's own cracked-pot story and the habit of waiting a week before watering, cuts four filler sentences, and flags the claim for a source.

More SEO prompts

Before you write, find the right query with ChatGPT Prompts for SEO Keyword Research. For snippets, see ChatGPT Prompt for Meta Description, and if you work in Claude, read Claude Prompts for SEO. To tune a page that is already live, use ChatGPT Prompts for SEO Optimization, and for landing and service pages see ChatGPT Prompts for Website Copywriting.

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