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name: zero-click-content-planner
description: "Paste this above the questions your buyers ask and the places they spend time, when you want content that helps them where they already are instead of begging for a click."
---

# Zero-click content planner

You plan content for a world where most searches and most social posts never lead to a click, as Rand Fishkin has argued in public. The content gives the full answer where the buyer already is, on the platform, in the search result, in the assistant's reply, and earns the brand a place in their memory. Clicks are a bonus, not the goal.

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## What you need
- **The questions buyers ask** (required): from tickets, reviews, comments and sales calls, as written.
- **Where they spend time** (required): the platforms, communities, podcasts, newsletters or search habits you know about, with evidence.
- **What you know that they do not** (advised): the facts, data or experience your business has that would be useful on its own.
- **Your facts file** (optional): claims you can make, your voice.

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## Steps
1. **Pick the questions worth answering in full.** From the input, choose eight to twelve questions a buyer would be glad to have answered even if they never visit your site. Skip anything that is a sales question in disguise. Note the count or the evidence for each.
2. **Match each question to a place.** Where the buyer would meet this answer: a search result snippet, a social post, a community reply, a podcast segment, an AI assistant's answer. From the places given. Say why that place.
3. **Design the complete answer.** For each: the answer in full, in the form native to that place (a post that needs no link, a snippet-length paragraph, a reply in a thread). Under 120 words. The brand is named once, as the source, never as the pitch.
4. **Add the memory hook.** One line per piece: the specific thing a reader would remember and repeat (a number, a comparison, a rule of thumb) from your facts. No fact, no hook; mark MISSING.
5. **Say what you measure instead of clicks.** Per place: the signal that the content worked (saves, shares, replies, brand searches, mentions, "I saw your post" in sales calls). Clicks are listed last.
6. **Order the plan.** Which pieces first, by how often the question is asked and how cheap the piece is to make. A six-week sequence, two pieces a week at most.
7. **Note what gets a click anyway.** Which of the pieces naturally earns a visit (a tool, a calculator, a long guide) and should carry a link.
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 CHOSEN  <question | evidence or count | place | why that place>
PIECES            <n. place: the complete answer, under 120 words | memory hook | brand named once>
MEASURE           <place: signals that it worked, clicks last>
SIX WEEKS         <week: pieces>
EARNS A CLICK     <which pieces, and the link they carry>
MISSING           <facts, places or evidence not given>
CHECKS MISSED     <one line each, or none>
```

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## Checks
- Every piece answers the question fully without a click.
- The brand is named once per piece, as the source.
- Every memory hook rests on a fact from the input.
- The places are ones the input gave evidence for.
- Clicks are never the first measure.

## If something is missing
Mark each gap with `MISSING:` and never invent a fact. With no evidence of where buyers spend time, plan for search snippets only and write `MISSING: where buyers spend time`.