ContextBolt SEO is a hosted MCP server that puts live SEO research inside the AI client you already use. One MCP URL gives Claude, Cursor, or any compatible client keyword research, difficulty scores, SERP breakdowns, and competitor analysis on demand. You ask the question in plain English and the numbers come back in the conversation. There is no separate data account to wire up. Everything you look up also saves automatically to your own SEO Dashboard, a private dashboard your agent keeps current.
You probably found this page in our free MCP server directory. ContextBolt SEO is one of the two products we build ourselves. The directory is free and always will be. The SEO server is the paid tool, at $35 a month for 1,000 credits.
Why this exists
Serious SEO data has always lived behind dashboards that cost $100 or more a month and pull you out of whatever you were doing. You stop writing, open Ahrefs or Semrush, run a lookup, copy a number, and switch back. The data is good. The workflow is the tax.
ContextBolt SEO removes the tab-switch. The agent you are already prompting becomes the interface to the data. Ask “how hard would it be to rank for iced coffee recipe” and the answer comes back inline: search volume, a difficulty score out of 100, and roughly how many referring domains the current top 10 has. The same class of data as the big tools, asked the way you already think, at a fraction of the price.
What your agent can do with it
Your agent gets research and backlink tools it can call mid-conversation:
- keyword_research finds related keywords and their volumes from a seed term.
- keyword_difficulty scores how hard a term is to rank for, with referring-domain and domain-rank context.
- serp_overview breaks down who currently ranks on page one for a query.
- domain_overview summarizes a domain’s organic footprint.
- ranked_keywords lists the terms a domain already ranks for.
- competitor_keywords surfaces the domains fighting you for the same terms.
- backlink_overview pulls a domain’s authority, total backlinks, referring domains and spam score.
- referring_domains lists every site linking to a domain, ranked.
- backlink_gap finds the domains linking to your competitors but not you, scored for spam.
Research tools cost one credit per call. Backlink tools cost three each, because backlink data is more expensive to pull. Audits cost one per page, AI-visibility checks cost more, and your Search Console, the memory layer and your SEO Dashboard are free.
Because they are MCP tools, the agent chains them. “Find ten low-difficulty keywords around home espresso, check which ones my competitor already ranks for, and tell me the gaps” is one prompt, not ten dashboard sessions.
On top of the research, the memory is automatic. Every lookup is kept on your account across sessions, so the agent builds up a living record of your research and never pays to look up the same term twice. You do not call a save command. It just happens.
The same lookups also land on your SEO Dashboard, a private page you sign in to with your account email. Ask your agent for the link and it hands you the address. It fills itself as you research, you browse it whenever you want the evidence back, and browsing costs no credits. That is also the answer for browser-only clients like ChatGPT, since the dashboard is where the research lives whichever client asked.
Beyond research and backlinks, the same subscription covers on-page audits for a single page or a whole crawl, AI-visibility tracking that reports whether ChatGPT and Google’s AI answers mention you, and a free read-only Google Search Console connection that answers from your real clicks and positions.
How it fits with the rest of your stack
ContextBolt SEO is the research layer. It tells you what to target before you have any traffic. Two sibling servers in this directory cover the other half, your own performance:
- The Google Analytics MCP server reports on the traffic and behavior you already have.
- The Google Search Console MCP server shows the queries and positions you already rank for.
Run all three in the same client and your agent can move from “what should I write” to “did it work” without ever leaving the conversation.
Gotchas
The plan is 1,000 credits a month. That is generous for one person doing real research, but heavy automated crawling will burn through it. Top-ups are available and never expire, so you are never forced into a higher recurring tier just to cover a busy week.
Only the email on your account can sign in to your SEO Dashboard. There are no teammate logins and no share link, so it is one person’s view of the research rather than a team workspace.
The data is keyword and SERP research, not your site’s private analytics. For your own numbers, pair it with the Google Analytics and Search Console servers above. They answer different questions and they do not overlap.
New connections use OAuth at https://seo.contextbolt.app/mcp. Sign in with your SEO subscription email, enter the email code, and approve access. Existing private personal URLs still work for older clients; keep those secret and contact support if one leaks. Your Google Search Console connection is unchanged, and old SEO Dashboard links open the sign-in page first. Full setup guide.
