ZimmWriter SERP Discombobulator

A discom… whatsit? Huh?

A discombobulator silly.

It discombobulates things of course!

Here’s how it works.

You’ll input a list of queries (or blog post titles) that you have already SERP scraped (or maybe you want SERP scraped). Next, you’ll load up some custom prompts, which are a weee~ bit different than the custom prompts you’re used to. Finally, you’ll set some additional options and press the button to create a discombobulated CSV file.

What happens when ZimmWriter starts discombobulating?

ZimmWriter takes the merged summary for each SERP scrape (which usually consists of a combined summary from five URLs) and performs your custom prompt on that merged summary. You can use it to extract facts, build your own meta description, your title, or just about anything you want.

List of Search Titles

List your search queries here. Usually, these will be blog post titles that you SERP scraped in the Bulk Writer or SEO Writer. Just put each query (or title) on its own line.

Custom Prompts 1 and 2

These are custom prompts that you created in the Bulk Writer, SEO Writer, or Penny Arcade. But… and this is a BIG butt… the prompt I feed to OpenAI is different than normal. Here is the system prompt:

[DATA TO PROCESS]:

the merged summaries from up to five URLs from the SERP scrape

[INSTRUCTIONS]:

your custom prompt, which should probably refer to DATA in all caps, or DATA TO PROCESS in all caps.

[RESULT]:

If you check the custom prompt page, you’ll notice that the formatting is different than in the discombobulator.

The reason is because the discombobulator doesn’t rewrite the text. Instead, it’s designed for using the summary as a data resource that you want to extract something from to create something new.

I highly recommend testing your prompts in the playground. You can easily get the summaries to feed into the prompt above by:

1. Writing an article using the SERP scrape feature in the Bulk Writer
2. Opening the text file that is created and copying out the individual URLs
3. Opening notepad, typing “summarize=” followed by the URL, and performing a magic command on it to get the summary

Enable Prompt Stacking

As a default, each prompt operates on the merged summary. But when you enable prompt stacking, then prompt 2 will work based off of prompt 1 (and not the merged summary).

Output in Non-English Language

As always, your titles and prompts need to be in English. However, you can enter a non-English language in this box and ZimmWriter will translate the output in the CSV file.

Note that when you enable prompt stacking, only prompt 2 is translated.

Job Name

The name to give to your CSV file you want ZimmWriter to create.

GPT Model

The GPT model that you want applied on the prompts. The SERP scraping is always performed using GPT 3.5 regardless of your selections.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is the SERP Localization Dropdown?

If you want to use the discombobulator on a non-google.com domain, then perform the scrape first in the SEO writer or the Bulk Writer (use 1 heading, no conclusion, nice cheap and simple). Then load up the same title in the discombobulator and it will pull the result from the cache.

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