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programmatic-seo
Builds SEO-optimized pages at scale from templates and data — twelve playbooks (locations, comparisons, integrations, glossary, and more), chosen deliberately to avoid thin-content penalties.
What it actually does
- Walks through business context, opportunity assessment, and competitive landscape, then picks from twelve documented playbooks — templates, curation, conversions, comparisons, locations, personas, integrations, glossary, translations, directories, profiles — based on what data you actually have.
- Centers the strategy on a data-defensibility hierarchy (proprietary beats product-derived beats user-generated beats licensed beats public) and a quality bar meant to avoid Google's thin-content and doorway-page penalties, not just generate volume.
- Outputs a strategy document plus a page template (URL structure, title/meta templates, content outline, schema) rather than the pages themselves.
When to use it — and when not to
Use it when
- You want to target many similar keyword patterns — locations, integrations, comparisons, "X vs Y," or directory-style pages — with a repeatable template rather than hand-writing each page.
- You have a real data source to drive the pages (proprietary, product-derived, or at minimum licensed/public) and want a framework for keeping each page genuinely unique rather than a template with swapped variables.
Not for
- You're auditing SEO problems on pages that already exist — that's `seo-audit`, which this skill explicitly defers to.
- You're planning general content strategy rather than templated pages at scale — see `content-strategy`.
- You don't have a data source that can support real per-page uniqueness — the skill's own principles flag swapped-variable pages as a common mistake and Google penalty risk, not a shortcut worth taking.
The caveat that matters
It explicitly routes two adjacent jobs elsewhere in its own description: auditing existing pages to `seo-audit`, and content strategy planning to `content-strategy` — a real signal of a carefully scoped trigger, not a generic "SEO skill."
Agent compatibility
- Claude Code
marketingskills' README states the collection "works with Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, and any agent that supports the Agent Skills spec" as a collection-wide claim.
- Codex
Same collection-wide compatibility statement.
- Cursor
Same collection-wide compatibility statement.
Confirmed means the skill’s own source or vendor states it works with that agent. Portable means it only reaches that agent through the shared SKILL.md format and a directory convention — real, but a weaker claim. An agent with no entry here isn’t known to be unsupported; it simply isn’t documented either way, so nothing is claimed. Full model on Agent Skills Compatibility.
Requirements and operational surface
What it actually does at runtime
- Reads `.agents/product-marketing.md` (or the legacy `.claude/` path) if present, for shared product context — no writes or network access of its own
Workflow fit
Opportunity assessment → template design → programmatic-seo build → schema markup → site-architecture linking → seo-audit after launch.
Related skills
- seo-auditThe source's own Related Skills section: for auditing programmatic pages after launch.
- schemaThe source's own Related Skills section: for adding structured data to the pages this skill designs.
- site-architectureThe source's own Related Skills section: for the page hierarchy, URL structure, and internal linking the pages need.
- competitorsThe source's own Related Skills section: for the comparison-page playbook specifically.
More from coreyhaines31/marketingskills
49 skills known from this source.
- competitors ↗Create competitor comparison or alternative pages for SEO and sales enablement.
- schema ↗Add, fix, or optimize schema markup and structured data on their site.
- seo-audit ↗Audit, review, or diagnose SEO issues on their site.
- site-architecture ↗Plan, map, or restructure their website's page hierarchy, navigation, URL structure, or internal linking.
- ai-seo ↗Optimize content for AI search engines, get cited by LLMs, or appear in AI-generated answers.
- aso ↗Audit or optimize an App Store or Google Play listing.
Evidence and provenance
Maintained by Corey Haines (community). Primary source: coreyhaines31/marketingskills, last checked against this page’s claims on . This page summarizes and analyzes that source — it isn’t a copy of its SKILL.md or README, and installation happens at the source, not here.
Topic: Marketing.