Create SEO Outlines from Top Google Results with SerpAPI and GPT-4o

Overview

Use this workflow to create SEO-friendly outlines based on articles that do well in Google.

Enter a keyword, and the workflow scrapes the top results, scrapes the content, analyzes it with AI, and builds a MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) outline.

It’s useful for content creators and SEO specialists who want relevant, well-structured content.

How it works

• Accepts a keyword submitted through a form
• Uses the SerpAPI to get top Google results for a chosen country
• Collects the top five URLs. We use five because we expect some to fail at the scraping stage
• Scrapes each URL separately
• Uses the first three articles to fit the AI model’s context window
• Extracts the main text from the page body
• Converts HTML to Markdown to get rid of tags and attributes.
• Combines the cleaned text into a single list for AI processing
• Analyzes the content with an AI language model to find common topics and headings
• Generates an SEO-focused outline based on the most frequent topics

Setup steps

1. Sign up for a SerpAPI account (free tier available)
2. Create an OpenAI account and get an API key
3. Set up your credentials within N8N
4. Run the workflow and enter your keyword in the form.
5. The workflow will generate an SEO-friendly outline for your content

Improvement ideas

• Add another LLM to turn the outline into an article
• Use the Google docs API to add the outline to a Google doc
• Enright the outline with data from Perplexity or Tavily