A Nova Prompt is a ready-made Supplemental Content instruction in RankGear, tuned to write with information gain, search intent, natural keyword use, entities, and related terminology — without keyword stuffing.
| Term | Nova Prompt |
|---|---|
| Category | AI, Content Generation and Experiments |
| Also known as | Nova Default, SEO-Aware Nova Prompt |
| Where it appears | Supplemental Content → Add the defaults |
What it means in RankGear
The Nova Prompt is one of the presets you load from Supplemental Content → Add the defaults. Instead of writing an AI instruction from scratch, you drop in this preset, which is already worded to balance the signals RankGear’s analysis tends to reward: coverage the competing pages are missing (information gain), alignment to what the query is actually asking, keywords worked into natural sentences, named entities, and the related terminology a thorough page would mention. The point of the default is to steer generated drafts toward that balance while explicitly steering away from stuffing.
How to interpret it
Treat the Nova Prompt as a starting instruction, not a finished answer. Before you apply or publish anything it produces, read back four things: the context you fed it, the model you selected, the cost boundary you set, and the output it returned. The prompt shapes the request — you still own the review of what comes out, and any draft is meant to be inspected and revised rather than pasted straight in.
Example
You are working a thin services page and open Supplemental Content, click Add the defaults, and select the Nova Prompt. You paste in the page’s target query and a few notes about the offer, pick a model, and generate. The result adds two subtopics the top-ranking competitors already cover but your draft omitted. You keep the useful paragraph, cut a sentence that over-repeats the keyword, and verify a statistic it cited before the section goes live.
Important considerations
- AI output can be incomplete or simply wrong. Verify factual claims, statistics, citations, credentials, and — for experiment write-ups — experimental isolation before you rely on any of it.
- The prompt targets patterns RankGear surfaces by comparing your page against the current top results. Those patterns are comparative indicators, not Google ranking scores, and loading the Nova Prompt does not by itself make a page rank — it only helps a draft address the gaps the analysis found.
- It is a default, not a mandate. The supplied context, model choice, and cost boundary all change the output, so review the generated answer against your own judgment for the specific page.
Related terms
Part of the RankGear glossary · how RankGear measures · the 870 factors.