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SEO + GEO: Search Console, Bing, Yandex, IndexNow, AI Overviews and LLM citation tracking.

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SEO + GEO: Search Console, Bing, Yandex, IndexNow, AI Overviews and LLM citation tracking.

Security Report

5.6
Moderate5.6Moderate Risk

geoseo-mcp is an SEO/GEO audit server whose code reviewed here (README, pyproject, __main__, server, config, on_page audit) shows credentials read only from environment variables, no hardcoded secrets, no shell execution, and network calls limited to the user-supplied URLs and documented search/LLM provider APIs. The main caveats are that the HTTP transport has no built-in authentication (documented, localhost-bound by default), the full source for the tool modules and remaining files was truncated so they could not be audited, and fetching arbitrary user-provided URLs is a mild SSRF-style consideration for a server that may be exposed over HTTP. Supply chain analysis found 4 known vulnerabilities in dependencies (1 critical, 2 high severity). Package verification found 1 issue.

7 files analyzed · 9 issues found

Security scores are indicators to help you make informed decisions, not guarantees. Always review permissions before connecting any MCP server.

Permissions Required

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HTTP Network Access

Connects to external APIs or services over the internet.

File System Read

Reads files on your machine. Normal for tools that analyze or process local data.

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What You'll Need

Set these up before or after installing:

OpenAI API key for ChatGPT citation checksRequired

Environment variable: GEOSEO_OPENAI_API_KEY

Anthropic API key for Claude citation checksRequired

Environment variable: GEOSEO_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

Gemini API key for Google Search grounded checksRequired

Environment variable: GEOSEO_GEMINI_API_KEY

Perplexity API keyRequired

Environment variable: GEOSEO_PERPLEXITY_API_KEY

xAI API key for Grok citation checksRequired

Environment variable: GEOSEO_XAI_API_KEY

Brave Search API key (Answers plan) for Brave citation checksRequired

Environment variable: GEOSEO_BRAVE_API_KEY

SerpAPI key for Google AI Overviews trackingRequired

Environment variable: GEOSEO_SERPAPI_API_KEY

Bing Webmaster Tools API keyRequired

Environment variable: GEOSEO_BING_WEBMASTER_API_KEY

Yandex Webmaster OAuth tokenRequired

Environment variable: GEOSEO_YANDEX_OAUTH_TOKEN

IndexNow key hosted at https://yourdomain.com/<key>.txtRequired

Environment variable: GEOSEO_INDEXNOW_KEY

Path to a Google OAuth client_secret.json for Search ConsoleOptional

Environment variable: GEOSEO_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET

Comma-separated toolsets to expose (default: all)Optional

Environment variable: GEOSEO_TOOLSETS

How to Install

Add this to your MCP configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-rachit8484-geoseo-mcp": {
      "env": {
        "GEOSEO_TOOLSETS": "your-geoseo-toolsets-here",
        "GEOSEO_XAI_API_KEY": "your-geoseo-xai-api-key-here",
        "GEOSEO_INDEXNOW_KEY": "your-geoseo-indexnow-key-here",
        "GEOSEO_BRAVE_API_KEY": "your-geoseo-brave-api-key-here",
        "GEOSEO_GEMINI_API_KEY": "your-geoseo-gemini-api-key-here",
        "GEOSEO_OPENAI_API_KEY": "your-geoseo-openai-api-key-here",
        "GEOSEO_SERPAPI_API_KEY": "your-geoseo-serpapi-api-key-here",
        "GEOSEO_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "your-geoseo-anthropic-api-key-here",
        "GEOSEO_PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "your-geoseo-perplexity-api-key-here",
        "GEOSEO_YANDEX_OAUTH_TOKEN": "your-geoseo-yandex-oauth-token-here",
        "GEOSEO_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET": "your-geoseo-google-client-secret-here",
        "GEOSEO_BING_WEBMASTER_API_KEY": "your-geoseo-bing-webmaster-api-key-here"
      },
      "args": [
        "geoseo-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

Documentation

View on GitHub

From the project's GitHub README.

geoseo-mcp

An open-source MCP server for traditional SEO and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Google Search Console, Bing, IndexNow, Google AI Overviews, and citation tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok and Brave, all in one server.

PyPI CI License: MIT Python 3.11+ MCP

Try it in 30 seconds (no API keys)

# Audit any page: title, meta, headings, schema, freshness, GEO quotability, 0-100 score
uvx geoseo-mcp audit https://example.com

# Check a site's llms.txt against the spec
uvx geoseo-mcp llms-txt https://llmstxt.org

# Same audit after running JavaScript (for SPAs); needs the [render] extra
uvx --from 'geoseo-mcp[render]' geoseo-mcp audit https://your-spa.com --render

Sample output:

$ uvx geoseo-mcp audit https://example.com
https://example.com
  score: 15/100
  title: 'Example Domain'
  words: 27

  8 issue(s):
   ✗ meta_description: Meta description should be 70-160 chars  [length=0]
   ✗ h1: Exactly one H1 expected  [found=0]
   ✗ word_count: Pages under 300 words rarely rank or get cited  [words=27]
   ✗ schema: No JSON-LD schema found; LLMs and Google use this heavily
   ✗ canonical: Missing canonical URL
   ✗ open_graph: Missing core Open Graph tags (og:title, og:description)
   ✗ freshness: No published-date signal found; LLMs deprioritize stale content
   ✗ quotability: Few short, fact-dense sentences; LLMs prefer quotable lines  [quotable_sentences=0]

  3 check(s) passed. Use --json for the full report.

Other keyless commands: audit-site ./content, generate-llms-txt ./content https://yourdomain.com, status. Run uvx geoseo-mcp --help for everything.

Poke at all 47 tools in the MCP Inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx geoseo-mcp

Running geoseo-mcp with no arguments starts the MCP server over stdio, which is what MCP clients expect.

Add it to your MCP client

Cursor

Install MCP Server

Or add it to ~/.cursor/mcp.json by hand (see examples/cursor-mcp.json).

Claude Code

claude mcp add geoseo -- uvx geoseo-mcp

# with keys
claude mcp add geoseo \
  -e GEOSEO_OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... \
  -e GEOSEO_PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=pplx-... \
  -- uvx geoseo-mcp

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "geoseo": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["geoseo-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "GEOSEO_OPENAI_API_KEY": "sk-...",
        "GEOSEO_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "sk-ant-...",
        "GEOSEO_GEMINI_API_KEY": "AIza...",
        "GEOSEO_XAI_API_KEY": "xai-...",
        "GEOSEO_BRAVE_API_KEY": "...",
        "GEOSEO_PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "pplx-...",
        "GEOSEO_SERPAPI_API_KEY": "...",
        "GEOSEO_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET": "/absolute/path/to/client_secret.json",
        "GEOSEO_BING_WEBMASTER_API_KEY": "...",
        "GEOSEO_YANDEX_OAUTH_TOKEN": "y0_...",
        "GEOSEO_INDEXNOW_KEY": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Every key is optional; drop the ones you don't have. Other clients (Continue, Cline, Windsurf, VS Code) take the same command / args / env block. See examples/.

Then just ask:

"Which of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok cite acme.com for 'best CRM for startups'? Run 3 samples each." "Audit my ./content folder and show the 5 worst pages." "Build the internal link graph and find orphan pages."

What it covers

SurfaceTools
Google SearchGSC performance, URL inspection, sitemaps
Bing WebmasterSite stats, query/page stats, URL info, URL submission, crawl issues
Yandex WebmasterSite quality index, popular queries, important-page status, recrawl queue, diagnostics + broken internal links
Bing / Yandex / Naver / SeznamIndexNow submission
Google AI Overviewsaio_check + aio_citation_check via SerpAPI
LLM citationsChatGPT (web search), Claude (web search), Gemini (Google Search grounding), Perplexity (Agent API), Grok (xAI web search), Brave (Answers API), plus multi_llm_* tools that fan out across all of them
On-pageTitle / meta / heading / schema / internal-link audit, 0-100 score, optional JS rendering
Internal link graphOrphans, dead-ends, hubs, dangling links, related-page suggestions with anchor hints (TF-IDF by default, or OpenAI / Gemini / local embeddings)
llms.txtGenerate from a folder of HTML, validate against the spec
Trend trackingLocal SQLite snapshots of GSC, LLM citations and AIO, with trend tools

MIT licensed and local-first: your credentials and data stay on your machine.

How citation checks work

multi_llm_citation_check(questions, target_domain) asks every configured engine each question several times (samples, default 3), because LLM answers vary from run to run. For each engine you get:

  • citation_rate with a 95% Wilson interval, plus a per-question cited_rate and a stable flag
  • mention_rate and unlinked_mention_rate: answers that name your brand without linking to you
  • top_competing_domains: who gets cited instead of you
  • subdomain-aware matching (docs.acme.com counts for acme.com)

Brand aliases are derived from the domain (acme.com → acme) and you can pass your own via brand_aliases. Requests run in parallel up to GEOSEO_MAX_CONCURRENCY (default 8).

Rough costs

Approximate list prices as of October 2026; check each provider's pricing page before running large batches.

EngineWhat we callApprox. cost per query
ChatGPT (pricing)Responses API, gpt-5-mini + web_search~$0.01 search fee + tokens, roughly $0.01-0.02
Claude (pricing)Messages API + web_search tool$10 / 1k searches + tokens
Gemini (pricing)gemini-3.5-flash-lite + Google Search grounding5,000 free grounded requests / month, then $14 / 1k + tokens
Perplexity (pricing)Agent API, fast preset~$2.50 / 1k searches + tokens
Grok (pricing)Responses API, grok-4.3 + web_searchper-token + per-search-call pricing
Brave (pricing)Answers API, streaming with citations~$4 / 1k searches + $5 / M tokens
Google AI Overviews (pricing)SerpAPI250 free searches / month, then plan pricing

A 10-question check with 3 samples across four engines is 120 calls, which is usually well under $2. Use samples=1 for quick spot checks.

Get credentials

  • OpenAI: API key. Uses the Responses API with the web_search tool. Override the model with GEOSEO_OPENAI_MODEL.
  • Anthropic: API key. Uses Claude with the server-side web search tool.
  • Gemini: API key from AI Studio. Uses Google Search grounding (the same index AI Overviews use).
  • Perplexity: API key. Uses the Agent API with the fast preset; set GEOSEO_PERPLEXITY_EFFORT or GEOSEO_PERPLEXITY_MODEL to change it.
  • xAI Grok: API key from the xAI console, set as GEOSEO_XAI_API_KEY. Uses the Responses API with the web_search tool; override the model (default grok-4.3) with GEOSEO_GROK_MODEL.
  • Brave Answers: API key with the Answers plan, set as GEOSEO_BRAVE_API_KEY. Answers come from Brave's own index.
  • SerpAPI: API key. Free plan: 250 searches/month. Used for AI Overviews tracking.
  • Google Search Console: see docs/setup-gsc.md. One-time OAuth flow.
  • Bing Webmaster: API key from Bing Webmaster Tools → Settings → API access.
  • Yandex Webmaster: OAuth token. Register an app with both webmaster:hostinfo and webmaster:verify (hostinfo alone only lists sites), then get a token via https://oauth.yandex.com/authorize?response_type=token&client_id=<id> and set GEOSEO_YANDEX_OAUTH_TOKEN. Docs.
  • IndexNow: any random 32-char hex string hosted at https://yourdomain.com/<key>.txt. Spec.

Tools that need a key you haven't set return a clear error; everything else keeps working.

Configuration

Env varDefaultWhat it does
GEOSEO_TOOLSETSallComma-separated toolsets to expose: gsc,bing,yandex,indexing,llm,aio,audit,graph,trend. Fewer tools means less context for your agent.
GEOSEO_CITATION_SAMPLES3Default samples per question for multi_llm_citation_check (max 10).
GEOSEO_MAX_CONCURRENCY8Max parallel LLM requests.
GEOSEO_OPENAI_MODELgpt-5-miniModel for ChatGPT checks.
GEOSEO_ANTHROPIC_MODELclaude-sonnet-5-5Model for Claude checks.
GEOSEO_GEMINI_MODELgemini-3.5-flash-liteModel for Gemini checks.
GEOSEO_GROK_MODELgrok-4.3Model for Grok checks.
GEOSEO_PERPLEXITY_EFFORT / GEOSEO_PERPLEXITY_MODELfast / unsetPerplexity Agent API preset, or a pinned model.
GEOSEO_TRANSPORTstdiostdio or http (streamable HTTP).
GEOSEO_HOST / GEOSEO_PORT127.0.0.1 / 8000Bind address for HTTP.
GEOSEO_DBuser data dirSQLite file for trend snapshots.

Example: only the keyless audit tools, for a lean agent context:

"env": { "GEOSEO_TOOLSETS": "audit,graph" }

Streamable HTTP

uvx geoseo-mcp serve --transport http --port 8000
# MCP endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp

It binds to localhost by default. There is no built-in auth, so put it behind a proxy you trust before exposing it anywhere.

JavaScript rendering

audit_page reads raw HTML by default. If a page looks like a JS shell (an empty SPA root or almost no text), it adds a js_rendering finding. Install the extra and pass render=True (or --render on the CLI) to audit the rendered DOM:

pip install 'geoseo-mcp[render]' && playwright install chromium

Tools (47)

  • Status: geoseo_status, list_llm_engines
  • Google Search Console: gsc_list_sites, gsc_performance, gsc_inspect_url, gsc_submit_sitemap
  • Bing Webmaster: bing_list_sites, bing_query_stats, bing_page_stats, bing_url_info, bing_submit_url, bing_crawl_issues
  • Yandex Webmaster: yandex_list_sites, yandex_site_summary, yandex_query_stats, yandex_url_info, yandex_submit_url, yandex_crawl_issues
  • Indexing: indexnow_submit_url, indexnow_submit_urls
  • LLM citations: perplexity_query, perplexity_citation_check, openai_query, claude_query, gemini_query, grok_query, brave_query, multi_llm_query, multi_llm_citation_check
  • Google AI Overviews: aio_check, aio_citation_check
  • On-page: audit_page, audit_site, find_broken_external_links, lint_schema_page, lint_schema_site
  • Link graph: internal_link_graph, suggest_internal_links
  • llms.txt: generate_llms_txt, validate_llms_txt
  • Trends: trend_init, trend_stats, snapshot_gsc, snapshot_llm_citations, snapshot_serp_aio, trend_gsc, trend_llm_citations

suggest_internal_links uses TF-IDF by default (offline, free). Pass mode="openai", "gemini" or "local" (sentence-transformers) for embedding similarity; vectors are cached in SQLite by content hash.

For Yandex tools, pass a normal URL as site; it's matched to the Yandex host id (https:example.com:443), following the main mirror. yandex_url_info only covers pages in "Monitoring important pages" (Yandex has no arbitrary-URL inspect endpoint).

Snapshots are append-only and stored at $GEOSEO_DB. Schedule the snapshot_* tools weekly to build a private time series of your AI-search visibility.

Roadmap

Tracked in issues. Shipped in 0.4: broken-link prospector, schema linter, Grok and Brave citation engines, embedding-based link suggestions, Yandex Webmaster.

Contributing

PRs welcome. Each engine is a module in src/geoseo_mcp/engines/ that exposes query() and returns the standard {engine, question, model, answer, citations, cited_domains, usage} shape; tools live in src/geoseo_mcp/tools/. See docs/architecture.md.

git clone https://github.com/Rachit8484/geoseo-mcp.git && cd geoseo-mcp
uv sync --extra dev
uv run ruff check src tests && uv run pytest

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

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