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March 26, 2026

# Search Intent Cluster Tool: Common Mistakes and Best Practices

Most problems with search Intent Cluster Tool aren't caused by not knowing what to do — they're caused by small, easy-to-miss mistakes that compound quietly over time. Here are the ones that come up most often.

Mistake 1: Writing the content you want to write and picking a keyword to match, instead of starting from what searchers for that term actually want.

Mistake 2: Targeting a single page at keywords with genuinely different intents, which forces compromises that serve no searcher well.

Mistake 3: Ignoring SERP features (shopping results, video carousels, featured snippets) that reveal intent Google has already inferred for that query.

The fix for most of these isn't more effort, it's a regular check. A few habits that prevent them from creeping back in:
- 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.
- Revisit intent periodically — SERPs shift over time as Google's own understanding of what a query 'means' evolves.

Worth reading alongside this: our guide to robots.txt file, which covers the adjacent side of the same part of a technical SEO audit.

Search Intent Cluster Tool catches most of this automatically, which is the easiest way to stop these mistakes from shipping in the first place.

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