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SEO Audit in ChatGPT

SEO and local AI readiness. The MCP server is https://seoaudit.openkrill.app/mcp. No key. The steps below are only for ChatGPT. A call to audit_page was checked against that server on 2026-10-01.

What this server answers

Audit a website for technical and on-page SEO problems. Ask "audit example.com", "what SEO problems does https://example.com/docs have?" or "which pages on my site have missing titles or duplicate descriptions?".

audit_site reads the homepage, the sitemap and the pages they link to (up to 25 pages), respecting robots.txt, and returns the rules that failed grouped by priority, each with the affected pages, the fix and the link to the documentation the rule comes from. It covers robots.txt and sitemap problems, broken links and redirect chains, noindex, nofollow and canonical issues, crawlable links and URL tidiness, titles, descriptions, headings, thin and duplicate content, image alt text, structured data and review markup, share tags, language and hreflang, mixed content and page weight. For sites with many similar pages (a page per city or product) it compares the pages it read: groups of near-identical pages, pages with little text of their own once the shared template wording is removed, hreflang links the other page does not return or sets without x-default, and sitemap pages that no page links to. For local businesses it checks LocalBusiness markup (name, address, telephone, opening hours, map or coordinates), whether those details match what the page shows, and whether each location has its own page. audit_page applies the page rules to one address.

local_ai_readiness checks whether that same site is ready to be named in AI search. It reads only the business's own public pages and returns pass, warn or fail for a page per service, location or service-area pages, visible prices, an FAQ, LocalBusiness schema (name, address, phone, hours, geo, sameAs), consistent name address and phone, on-site proof, a clear one-line description and recent dated content. Each check names the page it was seen on and a concrete fix. It adds what Gemini (first-party site, 41.9%), OpenAI (directories, 40.9%) and Anthropic (reviews, 20.5%) leaned on in a Yext study of 492,000 local queries, as of 2026-10-01, plus advice about claimed profiles, cover photos and attributes. It does not query those engines and does not fetch directories or review sites. It is limited per day and per network.

check_ai_instructions reports whether a public site publishes /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt, an AI page, home-page links, and whether the file matches the site's own name, products and facts. generate_ai_instructions drafts an llms.txt from those pages for the owner to review and does not publish it. Both cite https://x.com/chris_nectiv/status/2105655128162468334 (2026-10-01) as the reason they exist. They do not query AI engines and do not promise an effect on AI Overviews.

The rules follow Google Search Central documentation; the catalog is adapted from the MIT-licensed jev-seo project, and rules that are conventions rather than requirements are marked as heuristics. Optionally, a judgement step (off unless requested) reads the pages' text with a language model service to say what each page is for, how specific it is, and which pages compete for the same searches. It is limited per day and per network, and when it is unavailable the rule results are returned with a note. local_ai_readiness does not use that step.

Only the site you name is crawled: public websites on the standard ports, robots.txt respected, a small number of requests at a time, with a User-Agent that names Agent Tools. Private, local and internal addresses and redirects into them are refused. It does not run JavaScript, does not measure rankings, traffic or backlinks, and does not test whether a firewall blocks crawlers.

It stores nothing about you or the site: pages are read, turned into findings and dropped. Answers are cached for ten minutes. The only lasting records are a daily count of calls, daily totals for the optional judgement step, and daily totals for local AI-readiness checks (a day count, plus a count per coarse daily hash of the network, deleted after a few days).

What it can do

Tools

Add SEO Audit in ChatGPT

ChatGPT does not read a local config file. A custom MCP server is added in the product, and only after developer mode is on. These steps were checked against OpenAI's plugin connect guide and the ChatGPT MCP guide on 2026-10-01. Developer mode can be hidden by a workspace policy, so a Team or Enterprise admin may have to allow it first.

  1. Open ChatGPT settings, then Security and login, and turn on Developer mode.
  2. Open ChatGPT plugins and select the plus button.
  3. Enter a name such as "SEO Audit" and a one-line description of what you want it to answer.
  4. Under Connection, choose the public endpoint and paste https://seoaudit.openkrill.app/mcp. Include the /mcp path. Do not add a tunnel id: this server is already public.
  5. Create the connection and review the tools ChatGPT lists. You should see audit_site, audit_page, local_ai_readiness, check_ai_instructions, generate_ai_instructions. The feedback tools on the same server are optional and not required for the lookup.
  6. Start a new conversation, add the connection from the tools menu, and ask: Audit example.com for SEO problems

No API key and no OAuth client id are required. The server answers without a login. Calls are limited per network and per day, and a limit comes back as a tool error rather than a partial answer. If the tool list is stale after a server change, open the connection and select Refresh, then start a new conversation.

The ChatGPT desktop app, Codex CLI and IDE extension share a different config. In the desktop app, open Settings, then MCP servers, choose Add server, select Streamable HTTP, and paste the same URL. In ~/.codex/config.toml the equivalent is a table named mcp_servers.seo-audit with url = "https://seoaudit.openkrill.app/mcp". ChatGPT on the web does not read that file. A published directory listing is also a different path: this page is the developer-mode connection, not a claim that SEO Audit is already in the ChatGPT directory.

Treat the server as untrusted until you have read a few answers. A remote MCP server sees the arguments the model sends. SEO Audit is read-only and documents what it sends onward on the privacy page.

A call checked on 2026-10-01

example.com is one public page. Judgement stays off, so no page text is sent to a language model. The request below was posted to https://seoaudit.openkrill.app/mcp as tools/call. HTTP 200. Source: the SEO Audit server, read 2026-10-01.

{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "audit_page",
    "arguments": {
      "url": "https://example.com",
      "judge": false
    }
  }
}

Repeat the call yourself if you need a newer reading. Cached answers expire. A rate limit is not a result: wait and try again. Nothing in the call is a ranking, a filing, or advice.

Same server, other clients

Roles that use SEO Audit

Terms used on this page

Source: plugin listing for seo-audit in this repository, and a live tools/call on 2026-10-01. As of 2026-10-01.