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  1. seo_desk-0.1.0/LICENSE +21 -0
  2. seo_desk-0.1.0/PKG-INFO +426 -0
  3. seo_desk-0.1.0/README.md +391 -0
  4. seo_desk-0.1.0/pyproject.toml +61 -0
  5. seo_desk-0.1.0/seo_desk.egg-info/PKG-INFO +426 -0
  6. seo_desk-0.1.0/seo_desk.egg-info/SOURCES.txt +47 -0
  7. seo_desk-0.1.0/seo_desk.egg-info/dependency_links.txt +1 -0
  8. seo_desk-0.1.0/seo_desk.egg-info/entry_points.txt +3 -0
  9. seo_desk-0.1.0/seo_desk.egg-info/requires.txt +16 -0
  10. seo_desk-0.1.0/seo_desk.egg-info/top_level.txt +1 -0
  11. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/__init__.py +3 -0
  12. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/__main__.py +329 -0
  13. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/agent.py +210 -0
  14. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/audit.py +334 -0
  15. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/crawl.py +376 -0
  16. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/dashboard/__init__.py +0 -0
  17. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/dashboard/auth.py +113 -0
  18. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/dashboard/server.py +318 -0
  19. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/dashboard/static/assets/logo.svg +12 -0
  20. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/dashboard/static/index.html +580 -0
  21. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/dashboard/static/login.html +86 -0
  22. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/dataforseo.py +165 -0
  23. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/db.py +466 -0
  24. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/demo.py +181 -0
  25. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/errors.py +10 -0
  26. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/geo.py +137 -0
  27. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/llm.py +135 -0
  28. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/llmstxt.py +67 -0
  29. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/mcp_server.py +108 -0
  30. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/pipeline.py +308 -0
  31. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/probes.py +128 -0
  32. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/progress.py +280 -0
  33. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/runlock.py +77 -0
  34. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/serp.py +100 -0
  35. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/settings.py +261 -0
  36. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/stores.py +175 -0
  37. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/templates/config.yaml +43 -0
  38. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/templates/env.example +18 -0
  39. seo_desk-0.1.0/seodesk/templates/example-site.yaml +66 -0
  40. seo_desk-0.1.0/setup.cfg +4 -0
  41. seo_desk-0.1.0/tests/test_audit.py +105 -0
  42. seo_desk-0.1.0/tests/test_checks.py +202 -0
  43. seo_desk-0.1.0/tests/test_core.py +170 -0
  44. seo_desk-0.1.0/tests/test_dashboard.py +111 -0
  45. seo_desk-0.1.0/tests/test_llm.py +53 -0
  46. seo_desk-0.1.0/tests/test_mcp.py +67 -0
  47. seo_desk-0.1.0/tests/test_probes.py +85 -0
  48. seo_desk-0.1.0/tests/test_sites.py +376 -0
  49. seo_desk-0.1.0/tests/test_stores.py +101 -0
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+ Metadata-Version: 2.4
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+ Name: seo-desk
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+ Version: 0.1.0
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+ Summary: Is your site ready for AI search? SEO, AEO and GEO audits from the CLI, CI, Claude Code or MCP: AI crawler access, llms.txt, answer-ready pages, AI visibility tracking, and an AI analyst that writes the to-do list.
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+ Author: Syed Anas
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+ License-Expression: MIT
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk
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+ Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/issues
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+ Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
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+ Keywords: seo,aeo,geo,generative-engine-optimization,answer-engine-optimization,llms-txt,ai-crawlers,robots-txt,seo-audit,ai-visibility,mcp,claude-code
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
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+ Classifier: Environment :: Console
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+ Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Information Technology
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+ Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.9
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Requires-Dist: httpx>=0.27
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+ Requires-Dist: beautifulsoup4>=4.12
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+ Requires-Dist: PyYAML>=6.0
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+ Requires-Dist: python-dotenv>=1.0
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+ Requires-Dist: pydantic>=2.7
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+ Provides-Extra: mcp
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+ Requires-Dist: mcp<3,>=2; python_version >= "3.10" and extra == "mcp"
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+ Provides-Extra: dev
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+ Requires-Dist: pytest>=8.0; extra == "dev"
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+ Requires-Dist: mcp<3,>=2; python_version >= "3.10" and extra == "dev"
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+ Dynamic: license-file
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+ <!--
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+ SEO Desk (seo-desk): free, open-source SEO, AEO and GEO audit tool for the AI search era.
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+ Checks AI crawler access in robots.txt (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended), llms.txt, answer-ready
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+ pages, structured data and on-page SEO; tracks AI visibility in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude; writes a
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+ prioritised to-do list with an AI analyst. CLI, GitHub Action, Claude Code plugin, MCP server and self-hosted
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+ dashboard. Python, MIT licensed.
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+ -->
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/main/docs/assets/hero.png" width="100%" alt="SEO Desk: is your site ready for AI search? SEO, AEO and GEO scores, AI crawler access and llms.txt, from one command: uvx seo-desk audit yoursite.com" />
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+ </p>
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+
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+ <h1 align="center">SEO Desk</h1>
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <b>Your site ranks on Google. Does ChatGPT cite it?</b><br />
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+ Open-source SEO, AEO and GEO audits that tell you what to fix first,<br />
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+ from your terminal, your CI, Claude Code or any MCP client.
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+ </p>
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <a href="#quick-start">Quick start</a> ·
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+ <a href="#use-it-your-way">Use it your way</a> ·
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+ <a href="#the-dashboard">Dashboard</a> ·
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+ <a href="#ai-visibility">AI visibility</a> ·
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+ <a href="#how-it-compares">Compare</a> ·
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+ <a href="#faq">FAQ</a>
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+ </p>
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <a href="https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img src="https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg" alt="CI" /></a>
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+ <a href="https://pypi.org/project/seo-desk/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/seo-desk?color=2563eb" alt="PyPI" /></a>
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+ <a href="https://pepy.tech/project/seo-desk"><img src="https://static.pepy.tech/badge/seo-desk/month" alt="Downloads a month" /></a>
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+ <a href="https://pypi.org/project/seo-desk/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/seo-desk" alt="Python versions" /></a>
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+ <a href="#claude-code-plugin"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Claude%20Code-plugin-D97757" alt="Claude Code plugin" /></a>
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+ <a href="#mcp-server"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-server-6D5DF2" alt="MCP server" /></a>
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+ <a href="https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/blob/main/LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-22c55e" alt="MIT license" /></a>
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+ <a href="https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/stargazers"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/stars/Anas660/claude-seo-desk?style=social" alt="GitHub stars" /></a>
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+ </p>
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+
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+ ## Quick start
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+ ```bash
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+ uvx seo-desk audit yoursite.com
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+ ```
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+
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+ No account, no API key, nothing to configure. (No `uv`? `pip install seo-desk`, then `seodesk audit yoursite.com`.)
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/main/docs/assets/audit.svg" width="820" alt="seodesk audit example.com in a terminal: Overall 34, SEO 60, AEO 0, GEO 42; llms.txt missing; eight quick wins, from publishing a sitemap to adding a canonical link" />
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+ </p>
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+ <p align="center"><sub>A real run against example.com, October 2026.</sub></p>
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+ Want to see the dashboard first? `uvx seo-desk demo` opens it on eight weeks of sample data.
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+ ## Why SEO Desk
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+ AI assistants answer the question and cite a handful of sources. Ranking on Google doesn't make you one of them;
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+ being readable, quotable and known does. SEO Desk checks all three, every day if you like:
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+ - **Can AI crawlers read you?** robots.txt read the way GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Google read it (RFC 9309 wildcards and
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+ longest match, which Python's own robots parser gets wrong), plus `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt`.
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+ - **Is each page quotable?** Question headings, a 25-90 word answer straight under them, FAQ schema, tables, structured
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+ data, and every classic on-page check.
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+ - **Do AI models name you?** Ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Claude what your customers ask and see who they cite
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+ instead, and whether they repeat something false about you.
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+ - **What should you do first?** Rule-based quick wins on every audit; with a model key, an AI analyst reads the
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+ evidence and writes a prioritised to-do list that doesn't repeat itself day after day.
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+ ## What it checks
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+ | | Measures | Checks |
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+ | **SEO** | Ranking in Google | Every sitemap page: status, title and description length, canonical, noindex, H1s, thin pages, alt text, duplicate titles, slow pages, broken or retired JSON-LD. Google positions for your keywords ([Serper](https://serper.dev)); search volumes and every keyword you rank for ([DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com)). |
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+ | **AEO** | Being the quoted answer: snippets, AI Overviews, People also ask | Question headings, answer-first paragraphs, FAQPage schema, tables and lists. |
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+ | **GEO** | Being named by AI assistants | Which AI crawlers robots.txt lets in, `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt`, structured data, claims your site must never make, and what AI models actually answer. |
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+ Pages are read without running JavaScript, as most AI crawlers read them: a page that only renders in the browser
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+ shows up thin here, and that's worth knowing.
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+ ## Use it your way
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+ | | Get it | Then |
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+ | **Terminal** | `uvx seo-desk` or `pip install seo-desk` | `seodesk audit yoursite.com` |
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+ | **Claude Code plugin** | `/plugin marketplace add Anas660/claude-seo-desk` | "audit my site for AI search", and it fixes what it finds |
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+ | **MCP server** | `claude mcp add seo-desk -- uvx --python ">=3.10" --from "seo-desk[mcp]" seodesk mcp` | Claude, Cursor or any MCP client calls the tools |
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+ | **GitHub Action** | `uses: Anas660/claude-seo-desk@v0.1.0` | A score on every deploy, in the job summary |
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+ | **Daily agent** | `seodesk init` | History, trends, AI analyst, dashboard, many sites |
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+ ### Terminal
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+ ```bash
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+ seodesk audit https://www.example.com # text report
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+ seodesk audit example.com --format markdown -o report.md # or json
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+ seodesk audit example.com --keyword "invoice template" # + Google rank (SERPER_API_KEY)
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+ seodesk audit example.com --brief # + the AI analyst's actions (LLM_API_KEY)
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+ seodesk audit example.com --fail-under 70 # exit 1 under 70, for CI
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+ seodesk llms-txt example.com -o llms.txt # draft an llms.txt from the site's pages
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+ ```
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+ <details>
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+ <summary>All audit options</summary>
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+ | Option | |
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+ | `--format text\|markdown\|json`, `-o FILE` | Report format and where to write it; `--json FILE` also writes the full JSON |
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+ | `--max-pages 50` | Sitemap pages to crawl |
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+ | `--keyword K` (repeat), `--country us`, `--language en` | Google rank checks, needs `SERPER_API_KEY` |
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+ | `--brief`, `--model`, `--base-url`, `--max-usd 0.25` | The AI analyst's brief, needs `LLM_API_KEY` |
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+ | `--fail-under N` | Exit with 1 when the overall score is under N |
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+ | `--ignore-robots` | Crawl pages robots.txt disallows for SEODesk (only on a site you run) |
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+ </details>
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+
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+ ### Claude Code plugin
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+ ```
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+ /plugin marketplace add Anas660/claude-seo-desk
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+ /plugin install seo-desk@seo-desk
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+ ```
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+ Then ask *"audit www.example.com for AI search"* or run `/seo-desk:audit https://www.example.com`. Claude runs the
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+ audit, explains the scores, and, when you're in the site's repo, finds where robots.txt, titles, structured data and
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+ llms.txt come from and fixes them with you, then checks the result. `/seo-desk:llms-txt` writes the site's llms.txt
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+ from its real pages. The bundled MCP server needs [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/).
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+ ### MCP server
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+ Four read-only tools for any MCP client: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code.
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+ | Tool | Does |
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+ | `audit_site(url, max_pages, keywords)` | The whole audit, sized for a model's context |
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+ | `inspect_page(url)` | One page in detail, for checking a fix |
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+ | `check_ai_access(url)` | Which AI crawlers robots.txt lets in; llms.txt files |
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+ | `draft_llms_txt(url)` | A starting llms.txt from the site's pages |
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+ ```bash
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+ claude mcp add seo-desk -- uvx --python ">=3.10" --from "seo-desk[mcp]" seodesk mcp
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+ ```
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+ <details>
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+ <summary>Claude Desktop, Cursor and other clients</summary>
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+ ```json
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+ "mcpServers": {
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+ "seo-desk": {
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+ }
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+ }
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+ }
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+ ```
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+ Or `pip install "seo-desk[mcp]"` (Python 3.10+) and use `"command": "seodesk", "args": ["mcp"]`.
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+ </details>
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+ ### GitHub Action
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+ ```yaml
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+ jobs:
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+ seo:
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+ runs-on: ubuntu-latest
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+ steps:
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+ - uses: Anas660/claude-seo-desk@v0.1.0
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+ with:
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+ url: https://www.example.com
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+ fail-under: 60 # optional: fail the job under this overall score
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+ # keywords: | # optional: needs SERPER_API_KEY in env
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+ # invoice template
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+ ```
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+ The report lands in the job summary. Outputs: `overall`, `seo`, `aeo`, `geo` and `report` (the JSON file).
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+ ### Daily agent
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+ ```bash
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+ seodesk init # config.yaml, sites/example.yaml, .env.example
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+ # put your site in sites/example.yaml; copy .env.example to .env and add the keys you have
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+ seodesk check # keys, and each site's sitemap
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+ seodesk run # crawl, check, score, brief: every site in config.yaml
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+ seodesk dashboard --no-password # http://127.0.0.1:5380, this machine only
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+ ```
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+ Each run lands in `data/seo.db` (SQLite) and compares each week and each month with the one before. The AI analyst
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+ reads the day's evidence, can read pages and run a few live Google checks, and returns 3-8 specific actions, each
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+ with the numbers it rests on. An action suggested again tomorrow updates its row instead of piling up; one you mark
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+ done or dismissed stays that way.
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+ Schedule it with cron (`0 7 * * * cd /path/to/my-seo && seodesk run`) or the systemd units in [deploy/](https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/tree/main/deploy). To
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+ reach the dashboard from elsewhere, set a password (`seodesk password`) and put HTTPS (Caddy, nginx) in front of it.
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+ <details>
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+ <summary>Keys (all optional) and what they cost</summary>
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+ | none | Crawl, GEO checks, scores, history, dashboard | $0 |
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+ | `LLM_API_KEY` | The AI analyst's brief, AI visibility | A brief is about a cent with the default model |
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+ | `SERPER_API_KEY` | Google ranks for your keywords, People also ask, live checks for the analyst | About $1 per 1,000 searches |
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+ | `DATAFORSEO_LOGIN`, `DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD` | Real search volumes, and every keyword Google ranks you for | A few cents a site a month |
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+ `deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash`). Any OpenAI-compatible API works: set `llm.base_url` and `llm.model` in config.yaml
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+ (OpenAI, a local Ollama or LM Studio, your company's gateway). Spending caps stop paid steps per run, per site per
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+ month and for every site per month, and every cent is recorded and shown on the dashboard.
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+ </details>
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+ ## The dashboard
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+ <picture>
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+ <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/main/docs/assets/dashboard-today-dark.png" />
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/main/docs/assets/dashboard-today.png" alt="SEO Desk dashboard, Today: the AI analyst's headline and summary, SEO 71, AEO 53, GEO 85 with sparklines, AI answers naming the site 2 of 4, and today's prioritised actions" />
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+ </picture>
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+ | Progress, week by week and month by month | What AI models answer |
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+ | ![Progress tab: daily SEO, AEO and GEO scores over eight weeks, and a week-by-week table with changes](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/main/docs/assets/dashboard-progress.png) | ![AI answers tab: unbranded answers naming the site, links, false claims, sites cited instead, and every answer by model](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/main/docs/assets/dashboard-ai.png) |
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+ <sub>Sample data from `seodesk demo`: two fictional sites on the reserved .example domain.</sub>
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+ ## AI visibility
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+ Ask AI models the questions your customers ask, the way they ask them:
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+ ```yaml
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+ # sites/example.yaml
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+ ai_visibility:
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+ models: [perplexity/sonar, openai/gpt-5-mini:online] # OpenRouter names; ":online" adds web search
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+ prompts:
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+ - best invoicing software for freelancers
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+ - how do I make an invoice as a freelancer
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+ - {prompt: "What is Example invoicing?", branded: true}
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+ every_days: 7
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+ ```
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+ For every answer: does it **name** you, does it **link** to you, which **sites it cites instead**, and does it repeat
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+ a **false claim** from your claims list. The share of unbranded answers that name you feeds the GEO score; branded
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+ prompts catch what AI gets wrong about you. Each prompt goes to the model with no system prompt and nothing that
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+ hints at your site.
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+ ### Claims your site must never make
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+ List what isn't true ("SOC 2 certified", an old price, a dropped feature). SEO Desk scans every live page, both llms
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+ files and the AI answers for it. Rules can count only sentences about you and skip sentences that deny the claim, so
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+ "we have no SOC 2 report" and "insist on SOC 2 from any vendor" don't trip them:
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+ ```yaml
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+ claims:
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+ - {id: soc2, pattern: '\bSOC[\s-]?2\b', about_us: true, unless: '\bno\b|\bnot\b', why: there is no SOC 2 report}
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+ ```
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+ ## How the scores work
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+ Each score is 0-100, the same formula every day on every site ([progress.py](https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/blob/main/seodesk/progress.py)). A part with no
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+ data is left out and the others count for more.
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+ - **SEO** = keyword visibility 50% (#1 100 points, #2 90, #3 80, #4-5 65, #6-10 50, #11-15 25, #16-20 15) + pages
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+ without errors 30% + pages with clean on-page tags 20%. Without rank checks, SEO is the last two.
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+ - **AEO** = content pages with question headings 30% + an answer-first paragraph 30% + FAQPage schema 20% + tables or
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+ lists 20%.
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+ - **GEO** = AI crawlers allowed 25% + llms.txt (60) and llms-full.txt (40) 15% + pages with structured data 20% + no
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+ false claims 15% + AI models naming you in unbranded answers 25% (a quarter of answers or more scores 100).
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+ - **Overall** = the mean of the three. Change the formula, then `seodesk rescore` recomputes every stored run.
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+
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+ ## How it compares
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+
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+ | | Typical one-off GEO checker | Paid AI-visibility tracker | SEO Desk |
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+ |---|---|---|---|
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+ | Price | Free | Monthly subscription | Free (MIT); you pay only for API calls you turn on |
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+ | Runs on | Your machine | Their cloud | Your machine or server, one SQLite file |
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+ | AI crawler and llms.txt checks | ✅ | Some | ✅, robots.txt read per RFC 9309 |
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+ | On-page SEO and AEO checks | Some | Some | ✅ |
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+ | What AI models answer about you | ❌ | ✅ | ✅, with the models you choose |
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+ | History and week/month trends | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
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+ | What to do next | Rule-based | Varies | Quick wins, plus an AI analyst that cites its evidence |
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+ | CI, Claude Code and MCP | Some | Rarely | ✅ all three |
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+
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+ ## A polite crawler
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+ - One identifiable user agent, `SEODesk/<version> (+https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk)`, four pages at a time.
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+ - It skips pages robots.txt disallows for `SEODesk` (or `*`). On your own site you can turn that off.
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+ - Google results come from Serper's API, never by scraping Google.
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+ ## FAQ
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>What are SEO, AEO and GEO?</b></summary>
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+ SEO (search engine optimisation) is ranking in Google's links. AEO (answer engine optimisation) is being the passage
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+ quoted in featured snippets, AI Overviews and People also ask. GEO (generative engine optimisation) is being named and
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+ cited by AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude. They overlap: a crawlable, well-structured page
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+ with a direct answer helps all three.
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+ </details>
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Do I need API keys?</b></summary>
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+ No. Without keys SEO Desk crawls, runs every GEO and AEO check, scores the site, keeps history and serves the
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+ dashboard. Keys add Google rank checks (Serper), search volumes (DataForSEO), the AI analyst and AI visibility (any
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+ OpenAI-compatible model API).
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+ </details>
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Should I block GPTBot and the other AI crawlers?</b></summary>
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+ That's your call, and SEO Desk only reports it. Know the split: search and answer crawlers (OAI-SearchBot,
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+ ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot) decide whether AI answers can cite you; training crawlers (GPTBot,
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+ ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended) decide whether your pages train future models. Blocking the
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+ first group usually costs visibility.
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+ </details>
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Is llms.txt worth it?</b></summary>
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+ It's a proposal ([llmstxt.org](https://llmstxt.org)), not a standard. Google has said it doesn't use it; some AI tools
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+ and agents do read it. It's cheap to publish and keep current, so SEO Desk checks it and counts it for 15% of GEO, and
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+ `seodesk llms-txt` drafts one from your pages.
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+ </details>
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Does it render JavaScript?</b></summary>
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+ No, on purpose: most AI crawlers don't either. If a page you care about scores thin, it probably renders on the client;
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+ server-side rendering or prerendering fixes that for every crawler.
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+ </details>
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Can I audit a site I don't own?</b></summary>
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+ Yes, politely: SEO Desk identifies itself, fetches four pages at a time and skips what robots.txt disallows for it.
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+ </details>
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+ <details>
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+ <summary><b>Where does my data go?</b></summary>
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+ Nowhere you didn't choose. Everything is stored in a SQLite file on your machine; page text goes only to the model API
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+ you configure, and only when you turn on the brief or AI visibility.
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+ </details>
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+
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+ ## Contributing
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+ ```bash
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+ git clone https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk && cd claude-seo-desk
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+ python -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -e ".[dev]"
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+ .venv/bin/pytest -q # offline, a few seconds: every network call is faked
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+ ```
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+ Ideas that would help most: a Google Search Console connection, optional JavaScript rendering, more answer-engine
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+ checks, and a native Anthropic API client. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md); issues labelled
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+ `good first issue` are a good place to start.
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+ <details>
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+ <summary>Project layout</summary>
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+ | Module | Does |
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+ | `crawl.py` | Sitemap discovery, the page checks, AEO signals |
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+ | `geo.py` | AI crawler access (RFC 9309 robots.txt), llms.txt, the claims scan |
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+ | `probes.py` | AI visibility |
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+ | `audit.py`, `llmstxt.py` | `seodesk audit` and its reports; the llms.txt draft |
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+ | `mcp_server.py` | The MCP server |
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+ | `serp.py`, `dataforseo.py`, `stores.py` | Google ranks, search volumes, WordPress.org and Shopify listings |
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+ | `progress.py` | The scores, and week and month comparisons |
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+ | `agent.py`, `llm.py` | The AI analyst and the chat-model client |
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+ | `pipeline.py`, `db.py` | One daily run of one site; the SQLite store |
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+ | `dashboard/` | The dashboard (standard-library HTTP server, one HTML page) |
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+ | `skills/`, `.claude-plugin/` | The Claude Code plugin |
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+ </details>
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+ If SEO Desk saved you an afternoon, a ⭐ helps other people find it.
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+ ## Star history
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+ <a href="https://star-history.com/#Anas660/claude-seo-desk&Date"><img src="https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=Anas660/claude-seo-desk&type=Date" width="600" alt="Star history of Anas660/claude-seo-desk" /></a>
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+ ## License
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+ [MIT](https://github.com/Anas660/claude-seo-desk/blob/main/LICENSE) © Syed Anas
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+ <sub>SEO Desk is an independent open-source project. It isn't made or endorsed by Anthropic; Claude and Claude Code
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+ are Anthropic's trademarks, named here because SEO Desk works with them.</sub>