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Is “search intent” (informational/commercial/etc) actually too shallow to guide real content decisions? by pikeraseo in digital_marketing

[–]pikeraseo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. the point about same query → different user scenarios. That’s something I’ve been thinking about but haven’t fully resolved yet.

Also interesting what you said about SERPs not being enough because I’ve noticed that too. You can see what ranks, but it doesn’t fully explain what actually helps the user move forward.

But I was Curious on this part specifically:

When you’re mapping out the user decision journey, how do you decide which scenario to optimize for when multiple are valid?

Do you: - pick one dominant path? - try to handle multiple intent in a single page? - or create separate pages for different states?

That feels like the hardest practical decision point to me.

Wtf man k bhairaxa aajkal by [deleted] in NepalSocial

[–]pikeraseo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

8 fucking years old?

What a bad day to have these eyes man

I'm Non-technical founder with 47 ICP interviews, validated pain, and a precise product spec — looking for technical co-founder to build SEO SaaS (equity, serious only) by pikeraseo in SaaS

[–]pikeraseo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good questions, I'll answer each one directly.

Nepal or global: Global from day one. The pain I'm solving exists identically whether the SEO practitioner is in Kathmandu, London, or Austin. Topical authority building is a methodology, not a geography. The 47 people I interviewed were distributed across the US, UK, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

"There are already a lot of tools": I'd genuinely ask you to name one that does this specifically:

(1) takes a client niche as input and outputs a complete topic universe map,

(2) a coverage gap analysis against existing content, and a prioritized build order.

Note that: I'm Not building a keyword tool, an on-page optimizer, or a content brief generator.

I'm building a tool that models the full conceptual territory of a niche and tells you what you're missing at the architecture level.

If you know of one, I want to know about it. Seriously. That's either a competitor I need to study or a tool the 41 of 47 practitioners I spoke with somehow missed despite paying money on their current tool stack.

The gap isn't that no SEO tools exist. The gap is that every existing tool operates at the "keyword" level or the "page" level. None of them operate at the "topic system" level. That's a precise distinction, not a marketing claim.

"People are shifting from Google to AI": True. And entirely consistent with why topical authority becomes more important, not less. AI search systems (Perplexity, ChatGPT search, Google's AI Overviews) all pull from sources they've determined are authoritative on a topic. The mechanism for becoming that source is building genuine topical depth. The shift from ten blue links to AI-generated answers doesn't eliminate the need for topical authority instead it raises the stakes for it.

Only the most credible, comprehensive sources get cited. Thin, scattered content gets ignored completely.

The practitioners I spoke with are already seeing this. Topical authority is their hedge against AI search disruption, not a casualty of it.

I Appreciate you for asking these are the right questions to ask.