50 AI SEO prompts for Google Search Console — copy and paste
50 battle-tested prompts to use with Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT when your Google Search Console data is connected via MCP. Covers quick wins, indexing, cannibalization, GA4, and reporting.
50 AI SEO prompts for Google Search Console — copy and paste
These prompts work with any AI client that has Google Search Console connected via MCP — Claude, Cursor, Codex, or ChatGPT. For each prompt, replace the bracketed placeholders with your actual values.
Required: a GSC MCP connection. The fastest setup is GenieSeo (60 seconds, GSC + GA4, no Python).
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Quick wins and ranking opportunities
Find all queries where my site ranks in positions 5–15
with more than 500 impressions in the last 28 days.
Sort by impressions descending. These are my quick-win opportunities.Show queries with more than 1,000 impressions and CTR below 2%.
For each, suggest one reason the CTR is low and one fix.Which of my pages have average position above 10 but more than 500 impressions?
List them with current position, clicks, and impressions.Find queries where I appear in position 1 but CTR is below 30%.
Something is wrong with my title or meta description. List these queries.Show pages that gained the most impressions in the last 7 days
compared to the previous 7 days. What content is climbing?---
Period comparison and trend analysis
Compare this month's Search Console data vs the same month last year.
Show clicks, impressions, CTR, and average position. What changed most?Which 10 queries lost the most clicks in the last 28 days vs the prior 28 days?
List the query, old clicks, new clicks, and the delta.Compare /blog/ performance this quarter vs last quarter.
Clicks, impressions, CTR. Which blog posts dropped most?Show week-over-week click delta for my top 20 pages.
Highlight any page that dropped more than 20%.---
Indexing and crawl triage
Check indexing status for these URLs: [paste 5–10 URLs].
For each non-indexed URL, tell me the reason and what I should fix.List all submitted sitemaps. Show last crawl date and any errors.Inspect [URL]. Is it indexed? What canonical does Google see?
Are there mobile usability or structured-data issues?Find pages in my sitemap that have zero impressions in the last 90 days.
These may be orphan pages or thin content. List them.Check indexing issues across [list of URLs].
Group the results by reason: Discovered, Crawled not indexed, Blocked by robots.txt, etc.---
Keyword cannibalization
Show queries where two or more of my pages both appear in Search Console
for the same keyword. I want to find cannibalization issues.For the query "[target keyword]", which of my pages is Google showing?
Is it the page I intend to rank? Show clicks and position.Run a cannibalization check for my /blog/ folder.
Find queries that are split between more than one blog post.---
Content and on-page optimization
Show the top 20 queries for my page [URL].
Based on these queries, what topics should I add or expand in the content?For [URL], list the queries driving impressions but with zero clicks.
My content is being shown but not clicked. What's the issue?Take the top 30 queries for my homepage. Group them by intent:
informational, navigational, commercial, transactional.Suggest 5 new blog post ideas based on the queries I rank for
in positions 5–20. These are adjacent topics I'm not fully covering.---
Sitemap and technical SEO
Show all my sitemaps. Which ones have errors or have not been crawled recently?Submit sitemap [sitemap URL] to Search Console for [site URL].List the URLs in my sitemap that Search Console has not yet crawled.
These may be new or blocked pages.---
Device and country analysis
Compare mobile vs desktop performance for my site over the last 28 days.
Clicks, impressions, CTR, and average position for each. Is there a mobile gap?Which countries drive the most impressions but lowest CTR?
These markets may need localized content or hreflang.Show clicks by country for [URL]. Am I getting traffic from countries I don't serve?---
GA4 cross-reference (requires GA4 on same MCP URL)
Map my top 20 Search Console queries to GA4 conversion rate.
Which high-traffic queries produce the most conversions?Which landing pages have high Search Console clicks but a GA4 conversion rate below 1%?
These pages convert organic traffic poorly.Show weekly organic sessions and conversions by landing page for the last 4 weeks.
Which pages are trending up on both metrics?Run a GA4 funnel for organic-search visitors: session_start → engagement → purchase.
At which step is the biggest drop-off?What was my organic-search revenue by landing page last month?---
Reporting and executive summaries
Write a weekly SEO performance summary for [site] based on the last 7 days.
Cover: total clicks, impressions, CTR, top 5 performing pages, top 5 queries,
and 2–3 actionable takeaways. Format for a stakeholder who is not technical.Create a month-over-month report for [site]. Compare [month 1] vs [month 2].
Include percentage changes for clicks, impressions, CTR, and position.
Highlight wins and drops.What was my organic performance for the last 28 days? Give me 5 bullet points
a CEO would understand, with no jargon.---
Branded vs non-branded split
Separate my top 50 queries into branded (contains [brand name]) and non-branded.
What percentage of clicks are branded? What does this tell me about organic reach?---
Structured data and schema
Inspect [URL]. Does Google see structured data on this page?
If there are errors, tell me what schema type and what to fix.---
Competitor and intent gaps
Based on the queries I rank for in positions 5–20, suggest 10 new topics
I should write about that are adjacent to my existing rankings.Take my top 30 queries and identify which ones signal a buyer intent
vs an information-seeking intent. I want to prioritize commercial queries.---
Automation prompts (Claude Code / Cursor Composer)
Every Monday morning, run this sequence:
1. Show me last week's top 10 queries and pages.
2. Compare to the previous week.
3. Find any page that dropped more than 15% in clicks.
4. Write a 3-bullet briefing I can share with my team.Generate a sitemap health report for [site]:
- List all sitemaps
- Check last crawl date
- Find URLs with zero impressions in 90 days
- Flag any that are not indexed
Output as a markdown table.---
Getting these prompts to work
All 50 prompts require a Search Console MCP connection in your AI client:
- Sign up for GenieSeo — free, 60 seconds, GSC + GA4 on one URL.
- Paste your MCP URL into Claude, Cursor, or Codex.
- Copy any prompt above, replace placeholders, run.
The prompts marked GA4 cross-reference also need GA4 connected — GenieSeo includes both on the same URL.
Browse curated short recipes for even more copy-paste prompts, or read the GSC MCP server guide to understand how the connection works.