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# Nonprofit and Charity SEO Nonprofits have three audiences with almost nothing in common — donors, service users, and funders — and most charity websites are built for the first while the second is the one searching. They also have structural advantages nobody uses: genuine institutional authority, unique service data, and in many markets a substantial free advertising grant that most organisations under-spend. ## Three audiences, three strategies | Audience | What they search | What they need | |---|---|---| | **Service users** | Their problem, urgently | Clear help content, fast, accessible | | **Donors** | The cause, the organisation, "best charity for X" | Trust, impact evidence, easy giving | | **Funders and partners** | Sector data, the organisation's track record | Credibility, outcomes, transparency | **Service users are the largest search audience and the least catered for.** Someone searching "help with X" is in need now, and the charity that answers clearly is both fulfilling its mission and building the authority that serves the other two audiences. ## The pages that matter | Page | Intent | Why it matters here | |---|---|---| | **Help and service pages** | Do | The mission, and the largest search audience | | **Condition/issue explainers** | Know | Where authority is built | | **Donation page** | Buy | Optimise ruthlessly. It's the revenue | | **Impact and outcomes pages** | Trust | Donors and funders both | | **Local service pages** | Do | Where services