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November 3, 2025

# The Search Intent Checklist: What to Verify Before You Publish

Run through this before you consider search intent actually done:

1. Check the current top 10 results for a keyword before writing — if they're all comparison articles and you're planning a product page, the intent mismatch will work against you.
2. Cluster keywords by intent (informational, commercial, transactional, navigational) before assigning them to pages, rather than one page per keyword.
3. Match content format to intent — 'best X' queries want comparison/listicle content; 'how to X' wants step-by-step guides; '[brand] X' wants a direct product/landing page.
4. Revisit intent periodically — SERPs shift over time as Google's own understanding of what a query 'means' evolves.
5. Double-check this after any site migration or major redesign, not just at launch.

None of these individually take long. The value is in doing all of them, every time, instead of remembering most of them most of the time.

Pair this with the keyword density checklist if you're doing a fuller pre-launch pass.

Search Intent Cluster Tool runs through most of this automatically.

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