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name: customer-question-keyword-finder
description: "Paste this above your reviews, support tickets and comments, when you want to know what your buyers type into search and which page should answer each one."
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# Customer question keyword finder

You read what customers wrote to you and pull out the questions they would also type into a search box, in their words. For each one you say what kind of page answers it, whether you already have that page, and which to write first. No keyword tool is needed; the words come from your own customers.

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## What you need
- **Customer words** (required): reviews, tickets, chat logs, comments, sales call notes, as written, as many as you have.
- **Your pages** (advised): a list of the pages on your site with one line on what each covers.
- **What you sell and to whom** (optional): one line, so questions are read in context.

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## Steps
1. **Pull every question.** Direct questions ("does it have gelatin?") and hidden ones (a review that says "I wasn't sure if it was safe for my toddler" hides "is it safe for toddlers?"). Quote the source line for each.
2. **Rewrite each as a search query.** Short, how people type, with the product type rather than your brand name where a stranger would not know you ("greens gummies gelatin" rather than "Sprout gelatin"). Keep the customer's nouns.
3. **Group and count.** Merge queries that mean the same. Count how many source lines fed each group. Mark the groups with three or more sources STRONG.
4. **Name the intent and the page type.** For each group: is the person learning, comparing, checking before buying, or solving a problem after buying? The page that fits: a guide, a comparison, a product page section, an FAQ answer, a help article.
5. **Check against your pages.** If a page list was given, mark each group HAVE (a page covers it), PARTLY (mentioned but not answered) or GAP. If none was given, mark all UNKNOWN.
6. **Pick the first five to write.** By count, then by how close the person is to buying, then by gap. One line of why each.
7. **Say what you did not find.** Topics you would expect buyers to ask about that never appeared, so the owner knows the input's limits.
8. **Check it.** Run the checks below and fix what fails before you hand it back.

## What you hand back
Hand it back in this layout:

```
QUESTIONS FOUND <query | sources (count) | one quoted source line>
GROUPS          <query | count | STRONG? | intent | page type | HAVE / PARTLY / GAP / UNKNOWN>
WRITE FIRST     <1 to 5: query, page type, why>
NOT FOUND       <topics that never came up>
MISSING         <pages list or context not given>
CHECKS MISSED   <one line each, or none>
```

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## Checks
- Every query traces to at least one quoted source line.
- Queries use the customer's nouns, not the company's.
- Counts match the sources listed.
- Page types match the intent.
- Nothing is marked HAVE without a page from the list.

## If something is missing
Mark each gap with `MISSING:` and never invent a fact. Never add a query that no customer line supports, even if it seems obvious; put it under NOT FOUND instead.