Is the SEO Monitoring skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from kostja94/marketing-skills. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the SEO Monitoring SkillProof Score?

8.8/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 7/10, docs & honesty 5/5.

How do I install SEO Monitoring?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use SEO Monitoring with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

SEO Monitoring

Framework for tracking SEO indexing, traffic, keywords, and backlinks in a monitoring doc

by kostja94 · kostja94/marketing-skills

Tested · Works

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 8.8/10
Tested: Jul 21, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · 63fe59b

Fetched the SKILL.md raw from skills/analytics/seo/seo-monitoring/; frontmatter parses with name+description and the body references no scripts/files (self-contained, no security smells). Trigger test: 3 monitoring/benchmark/dashboard phrasings correctly load it, 2 adjacent ones (write an SEO blog post; run a crawlability audit) correctly do not — 5/5. For output I wrote a baseline SEO-monitoring plan for a mock SaaS blog without the skill, then one following the body strictly; the skill version added things the baseline lacked: an explicit metric->data-source mapping, the exact GA4 benchmark path (Reports > Acquisition > Traffic acquisition), the concrete "keep organic below ~75% of total" diversification threshold, a per-article DB schema, the penalty-recovery workflow (wait >=3 months, ~6-month data window), and owner-per-metric governance.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 7/10
Docs & honesty 5/5

What SEO Monitoring does

A markdown knowledge skill that guides building an SEO data-monitoring system across four metric groups (indexing, traffic, keywords, backlinks), with a natural-traffic benchmark, per-article database schema, tool/source mapping, traffic-diversification thresholds, a penalty-recovery workflow, and a monthly-record template. Triggers when the user wants to set up SEO monitoring, track rankings/indexing/backlinks over time, build an SEO dashboard, benchmark traffic, or manage an SEO work document. Produces advisory structure only; it recommends GA4/GSC/SEO tools but connects to nothing itself.

How to install SEO Monitoring

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kostja94/marketing-skills.git /tmp/seo-monitoring-src
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/seo-monitoring-src/skills/analytics/seo/seo-monitoring ~/.claude/skills/seo-monitoring
# Self-contained single SKILL.md; no scripts, deps, API keys, or external tools required.
# Alternative CLI install (flat layout): npx skills add kostja94/marketing-skills --skill seo-monitoring
# It references sibling skills (google-search-console, traffic, tracking, etc.) but works standalone.

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger SEO Monitoring

/seo-monitoring Framework for tracking SEO indexing, traffic, keywords, and backlinks in a monitoring doc

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Set up a traffic benchmark dashboard for SEO
Track keyword rankings over the last quarter
Build an article database for our SEO content

Frequently asked questions

Is the SEO Monitoring skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from kostja94/marketing-skills. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does SEO Monitoring work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 21, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Fetched the SKILL.md raw from skills/analytics/seo/seo-monitoring/; frontmatter parses with name+description and the body references no scripts/files (self-contained, no security smells). Trigger test: 3 monitoring/benchmark/dashboard phrasings correctly load it, 2 adjacent ones (write an SEO blog post; run a crawlability audit) correctly do not — 5/5. For output I wrote a baseline SEO-monitoring plan for a mock SaaS blog without the skill, then one following the body strictly; the skill version added things the baseline lacked: an explicit metric->data-source mapping, the exact GA4 benchmark path (Reports > Acquisition > Traffic acquisition), the concrete "keep organic below ~75% of total" diversification threshold, a per-article DB schema, the penalty-recovery workflow (wait >=3 months, ~6-month data window), and owner-per-metric governance.
What is the SEO Monitoring SkillProof Score?: 8.8/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 7/10, docs & honesty 5/5.
How do I install SEO Monitoring?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use SEO Monitoring with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.