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A SaaS docs content plan from the live SERP. Blog, docs and landing pages that each own a query.
Most SaaS sites grow three content piles: the blog, the docs and the landing pages. Each team plans its own, and before long a help article and a blog post chase the same search. SerpDad builds one SaaS docs content plan across all three. It reads the top 10 for every keyword, gives each keyword one owner page, and labels each page with the format searchers get today, so you know which team should own it.
Your first plan is free up to 1,000 keywords. No card needed.
Before you read on. Is this you?
- Marketing owns the blog, product owns the docs, and nobody owns the overlap.
- A help article and a blog post both show up for the same query in Search Console.
- You ship features faster than anyone writes about them.
- AI Overviews for your category cite a competitor and not you.
- Your team lives in Linear, Asana or Slack, not in another dashboard.
Probably not a fit if you need answers tracked in ChatGPT or Perplexity. SerpDad checks Google AI Overviews and AI Mode only. It is also not a docs platform: SerpDad plans and briefs the pages, and your docs tool hosts them.
Three SaaS jobs, and how the SaaS docs content plan covers each.
One plan across three piles, briefs for docs and use cases, and Google's AI answers watched every week.
1. One plan across the blog, docs and landing pages
Import keywords for all three into one project, with your site address set. Existing URLs go in first, wherever they live. When a docs page or a product page already ranks, the verdict says Ranks or Optimize. When a help article and a blog post chase the same queries, the plan marks Pages compete and names both.
Each page gets the format most common in its top 10. How-to results point at docs. Landing results point at a product or pricing page. List and comparison results usually belong on the blog. A split top 10 goes to the review queue with the counts.
2. Brief docs and use cases from the same plan
The SaaS docs and use cases template plans the list, then splits it. The top 10 how-to pages get briefs tagged Docs. The top 10 other pages get briefs tagged Use cases. Both sets get an internal link plan and export as Markdown, and the workflow owner gets an email for each.
Link anchors come from each target page's own keywords, and no anchor is used twice in the project. Docs link to use cases and back, on purpose.
3. Watch Google's AI answers, and send work where your team works
SerpDad reads AI Overviews from the results it already fetched, at no extra cost, and shows which URLs they cite and whether yours is one. AI Mode checks run on a schedule for the queries you pick. The Weekly AI visibility template does both each Monday for about $0.06 a week.
When something needs doing, a workflow creates a task in Linear, Asana or Trello with your key for that tool, or posts to Slack. Nobody has to remember to log in.
The SaaS workflow. From keyword pile to docs and use case briefs.
Import from your tools and Search Console
Upload an export, pull from your Ahrefs account, or route queries from the keyword inbox. Search Console adds the queries your docs already earn.
Approve the estimate and run
The cost gate shows the price on your keys first. Our 1,797 keyword run took 1 hour 22 minutes.
Settle ties between the piles
Pick which page keeps a contested query. Your answers hold on every later run.
Turn on the SaaS template and the weekly AI check
Docs and use case briefs export as Markdown. AI visibility lands in your inbox, or in Linear as a task.
Proof, for now. We are a SaaS site. This is our run.
From our own run on serpdad.com
serpdad.com is a SaaS site with a blog, docs and landing pages, so our own run is the closest thing to a SaaS case study we can honestly show. The largest hub in the plan has 62 pages, 224 keywords and 19 H2 sections, and, like the rest of the plan, 0 pages that compete.
Read every decision, and what we would do differently next time, in the build log.
Founding SaaS team: your name here. The first 30 paying workspaces keep $15 a month for life while they keep paying. Claim a founding seat.
The math. What a SaaS content plan costs.
| Item | What you pay |
|---|---|
| First plan for about 1,800 keywords | About $13 in provider fees. Ours cost $13.10. |
| 20 briefs: 10 docs and 10 use cases | About $0.72 in AI fees, at Run 2 rates |
| Weekly AI visibility | About $0.06 a week on your DataForSEO key |
| Linear, Asana, Trello and Slack outputs | No charge from SerpDad |
| SerpDad plan | $15 a month per workspace for the first 30 workspaces, locked for life. Product, docs and marketing join free. |
Questions and answers.
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Can our blog, docs and landing pages share one plan?
Yes. Import the keywords for all three into one project. SerpDad gives each keyword one owner page, whichever pile that page sits in, and marks Pages compete when two of your existing URLs chase the same queries.
How does SerpDad know a query belongs in the docs?
It counts the page types in the top 10. When most results are how-to pages, the page gets the how-to format. When the results are split, the call goes to the review queue with the counts.
Does SerpDad track ChatGPT or Perplexity answers?
No. AI visibility covers Google only: AI Overview citations, AI Mode and "In the lists".
Can it send work to Linear or Slack?
Yes. A workflow can create tasks in Linear, Asana or Trello with your key for that tool, and post to Slack through an incoming webhook URL.
Does SerpDad publish to our docs site?
No. It exports briefs and signed articles as Markdown or HTML, and can stage drafts in WordPress, Webflow, Shopify or Google Docs. Your team publishes.
Stop the blog fighting the docs.
Plan all three free.
Your first plan is free up to 1,000 keywords, with briefs for the top 5 pages. No card needed.