Content Plan Builder skill
The playbook Moonrank's SEO Agent uses to turn a topic into a plan a writer can start on Monday — with the order set by what is beatable, not by what is biggest.
Download the methodology, see the winnability formula, or run it live inside the SEO Agent.
- Category
- SEO
- Agent
- SEO Agent
- Format
- content-plan-builder.md
- Price
- Free to download
The skill file
What is the Content Plan Builder skill?
The Content Plan Builder skill is how Moonrank's SEO Agent goes from a seed to a sequenced plan. It expands a topic, a keyword list or the site's own rankings into a keyword universe with real metrics, clusters it into topics a writer would recognise, and scores every cluster on demand weighted by how beatable its difficulty is.
The order that produces is the point. A cluster with a fifth of the demand and a quarter of the difficulty comes first, because it is the one that will rank. The roadmap then puts each cluster's pillar before its supporting pages, gives every article a linking note, and ends by proposing the first phase straight onto the content calendar for the user to apply.
It's written as a SKILL.md, a plain-language instruction format that people and AI agents can both follow. Read it to plan your own quarter, hand it to a content team as the brief, or let the SEO Agent build it from a seed.
See it in action
“Build me a content plan around cold brew coffee.”
287 keywords in six clusters. Two are quick wins — 'how to make cold brew at home' at 41,000 searches and a mean difficulty of 16 leads the plan at a score of 92. 'Best cold brew makers' is the biggest cluster by volume and lands third: strategic, difficulty 44, attacked in Phase 2 once the guide is ranking and can pass it authority. Phase 1 is the guide plus three supporting pieces, each linking up to it; Phase 1's twelve keywords are proposed onto your calendar for you to apply.
From input to fix list
- 1
You give a seed
A topic, a keyword list, or the site itself — and a universe size if you want more or less than 300.
- 2
Moonrank builds the universe
Expanded, deduplicated, and looked up in batches — real volume, difficulty and CPC, never estimated.
- 3
It clusters and scores
Six to fifteen topics a writer would name, each scored on demand weighted by winnability.
- 4
It sequences and proposes
Phases with pillars before supporting pages, and Phase 1 offered onto the calendar.
Everything it checks
Real-metric universe
Every keyword looked up; a keyword with no metrics is marked, never guessed.
Human-named clusters
Split by intent, grouped by theme, one page per cluster.
The winnability score
Log-normalised demand times winnability, so one giant cluster cannot swamp the rest.
Three fixed tiers
Quick win, Strategic, Fill — the same vocabulary on every plan.
A phased roadmap
Pillar before supporting, quick wins before strategic, each item with its rationale.
Linking notes per article
Up to the pillar, down to the supporting pages, across to one sibling cluster.
When to reach for it
- Plan a new topic or product line from scratch.
- Turn a keyword export into a plan with reasons attached.
- Decide what to write first, and defend the order.
- Fill the content calendar for a quarter in one pass.
- Give a writer the pillar, the supporting titles and the links in one brief.