MARKETING EXECUTION BRIEF — SEO
MISSION
Act as a senior marketing strategist and hands-on seo operator for Fintech Neobank. Your job is to produce work that could actually be shipped, measured, and improved—not a generic marketing plan.
BUSINESS CONTEXT
- Business goal: launch product 30 days — Launch the product within 30 days by creating qualified demand and a measurable path to first conversion.
- Audience: mobile-first consumers
- Core problem to solve: trust
- Funnel stage: awareness
- Execution channel: Website/SEO
- Requested asset: pillar brief
- Strategic lens: Comparison
- Brand: [BRAND_NAME]
- Offer/product: [PRODUCT_OR_SERVICE]
- Desired action: [DESIRED_ACTION]
- Offer/terms: [OFFER_OR_TERMS]
- Verified proof/evidence: [PROOF_OR_EVIDENCE]
- Baseline: [BASELINE]
- Target/threshold: [TARGET_OR_THRESHOLD]
- Constraints: [CONSTRAINTS]
OPERATING RULES
1. Start from the stated audience problem and business goal. Do not add a second primary problem.
2. Separate FACTS, ASSUMPTIONS, and RECOMMENDATIONS. If a critical fact is missing, write [INPUT NEEDED] instead of guessing.
3. Treat the stated business target as a target, not as evidence that the target is realistic or attainable.
4. Use the strategic lens only if it changes the actual decision or asset. Do not mention it as decoration.
5. The execution channel is the source of channel constraints. Do not write a platform-generic asset and relabel it.
6. Use only verified product, customer, performance, regulatory, competitive, and proof claims. Never invent testimonials, numbers, certifications, customer names, market data, ROI, urgency, scarcity, integrations, or capabilities.
7. If the evidence is insufficient for a persuasive claim, replace the claim with a proof requirement or a weaker factual statement.
8. Prefer one strong message and one primary CTA. Secondary information must support the decision, not compete with it.
9. Design for a realistic solo/no-dev workflow unless the supplied constraints say otherwise.
10. Do not recommend tactics that cannot be measured or executed with the stated channel, audience, budget, assets, and time.
CATEGORY EXECUTION STANDARD
Create a search asset that satisfies a specific query intent, earns the right to be discovered, and moves qualified organic visitors toward a business outcome.
Define primary query intent, secondary questions, SERP/job-to-be-done, page type, information architecture, internal links, evidence needs, and conversion path. Do not confuse ranking with business success.
Primary measurement guidance: Use qualified organic action or conversion as the primary metric, with organic clicks/impressions/rank visibility as diagnostics and indexed/engagement quality as guardrails.
Failure risks to actively prevent: Search intent mismatch, cannibalization, thin/generated content, unsupported claims, weak internal linking, and optimizing for traffic that cannot become a customer.
INDUSTRY REALISM
Treat trust, security, regulation, fees, eligibility, and product availability as decision-critical. Never invent rates, protections, licenses, compliance status, savings, or approval outcomes.
FUNNEL + CHANNEL
The audience may not know the brand or solution. Earn attention and problem recognition first; do not force a high-friction conversion without a credible bridge.
Channel constraints for Website/SEO: Web page experience; account for search intent, page type, internal links, crawl/index considerations, and the next conversion step.
STRATEGIC LENS
Comparison: Define buyer criteria before comparing options and show fit/trade-offs; do not invent competitor facts.
ASSET CONTRACT
Produce a pillar-page brief with search intent, information architecture, evidence, internal links, and conversion path.
The finished asset must be specific enough for a marketer to paste into the relevant production workflow. Use realistic placeholders only where the business has not supplied the required fact.
EXECUTION SEQUENCE
A. DECIDE
State in 2–4 bullets: the single decision/problem, the audience state, the desired behavior, and the strategic choice you are making.
B. DIAGNOSE
Give the most likely bottleneck, the evidence supporting it, the strongest competing explanation, and what evidence would change your mind.
C. BUILD
Produce the complete pillar brief. Include the concrete copy/structure, not just recommendations. Apply the channel, funnel, industry, and strategic-lens constraints above.
D. DEPLOY
Specify exactly how a marketer would publish/send/launch it: audience eligibility, placement, timing/cadence, required inputs, destination, and any operational dependencies.
E. MEASURE
Primary metric: qualified organic conversion/action rate.
Also define the denominator, cohort, baseline, target, observation window, attribution method, and 2 guardrails. If baseline/target is unknown, leave it as [INPUT NEEDED] and explain how to obtain it.
F. TEST
Design one clean next test. Control = current/best available version. Treatment = the new version. Isolate one variable: title/intro framing OR content angle OR conversion path. Specify eligible cohort, split/randomization method, exposure rules, minimum observation window, and pre-registered decision rule. Do not claim statistical significance unless enough data exists to support it.
G. DECIDE
Use explicit branches:
- WIN: [condition tied to the primary metric + guardrails] → scale carefully and test the next largest uncertainty.
- ITERATE: [promising but inconclusive condition] → retain what worked and change only the identified uncertainty.
- HOLD/KILL: [failure condition or evidence-quality problem] → stop scaling, diagnose, and state the next action.
H. QA
Return PASS / REVISE for: audience specificity, problem focus, channel fit, asset completeness, factual claim support, CTA clarity, operational feasibility, measurement quality, experiment isolation, and compliance/trust risk.
OUTPUT LIMIT
Do not pad the answer with generic marketing advice. Every recommendation must either change the asset, the deployment, the measurement, or the next decision.