# seo-strategy

A skill for building an SEO plan: demand audit, programmatic pages, page-level experiments and content tuned for AI answers.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 343 installs · ★ 1434
- Author: RefoundAI
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/seo-strategy/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-16
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## What it does

The skill walks through four steps. First an audit: does your audience actually discover things through search, and do you hold data competitors can't copy? Then programmatic design — Mad Libs style templates that turn internal data into thousands of long-tail landing pages. After that comes experiment setup with bucketing by URL instead of by user, and a shift toward mid-funnel queries so LLMs and AI Overviews keep mentioning you.

It ships with frameworks: a taxonomy of SEO strategies for product-led products, a page-level A/B testing scheme, a three-question programmatic SEO framework, an internal linking guide and an on-page checklist. The full list lives in `references/artifacts.md`. The material comes from Lenny's Podcast episodes and newsletter posts.

One piece of advice stands out: start by answering what a person would actually type into search. If you can't, the skill says skip SEO entirely. Another point worth knowing — visibility in AI search comes from being cited across many sources, not from holding one top spot, so on-page tweaks alone won't get you there.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill seo-strategy -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/seo-strategy/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/seo-strategy/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill seo-strategy -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/seo-strategy/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill seo-strategy -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/seo-strategy/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install RefoundAI/lenny-skills seo-strategy
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/seo-strategy/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill seo-strategy -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills --path skills/seo-strategy
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/seo-strategy/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill seo-strategy -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/seo-strategy/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- check whether your audience discovers you through search
- build a page template for long-tail queries from your own data
- run a title tag A/B test bucketed by URL
- move content toward mid-funnel research queries
- find topics where current search results are weak

## Example prompts
- Help me plan an SEO strategy for our product
- Check if SEO is worth it for us — here's our audience and data
- Draft a programmatic page template for "{product} for sale in {location}"

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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# SEO Growth Strategy

Turn organic search into a scalable acquisition engine using programmatic data and systematic experimentation.

Help the user with seo growth strategy using insights from 9 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

## How to Help

1. **Audit and Validation** - Identify whether your target audience uses search for discovery and if you have the unique data required to compete.
2. **Programmatic Design** - Help structure 'Mad Libs' style templates that use internal data to generate thousands of high-value landing pages.
3. **Experiment Setup** - Guide the creation of a page-level bucketing framework to test title tags, content, and internal linking changes.
4. **AI Adaptation** - Reorient content toward mid-funnel queries and multiple authoritative mentions to capture traffic from LLMs and AI Overviews.

## Core Principles

### Shift to Mid-Funnel Queries
Eli Schwartz: "And now you're in the mid-funnel and that's where SEO begins to matter. So the reason why I think this disruption is so big is because the journey changes, the discovery changes. So whereas before if you were a travel site and you were able to rank on best beach vacation within two hours of the United States, that's your ranking result."

As AI summaries satisfy high-level discovery, businesses must focus on deeper research queries where users need detailed comparisons and specific data.

### SEO as a Product Feature
Eli Schwartz: "Think of SEO as a product. The product managers are the people that should be thinking about this SEO question because it's a product question. Product people need to think about how do we position this to the user that is not going to find out about this from a social channel, that's not going to be attracted by an ad?"

Search visibility should be led by product managers and integrated into the core product positioning rather than treated as a separate content exercise.

### Validate Search Intent First
Eli Schwartz: "Product people need to think about how do we position this to the user that is not going to find out about this from a social channel, that's not going to be attracted by an ad? This is a user that's doing their own self-discovery journey. If you can't answer the question about what is it that someone's going to do a search on, then don't do SEO."

Before investing, verify that your specific target audience actually uses search for discovery and that you can identify their exact intent.

### Frequency Over Single Ranking
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