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

Description

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
Sign up for a SerpAPI account (free tier available)
Create an OpenAI account and get an API key
Set up your credentials within N8N
Run the workflow and enter your keyword in the form.
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