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Claude Built Me An AI SEO Rank Tracker In 10 Minutes

SEO Gold Daily · 2026-06-29 · 10 min
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Build a Free AI SEO Rank Tracker with OpenSEO + Claude (No Subscriptions) The script demonstrates how to build a free, customizable rank tracker using OpenSEO, a trending open-source GitHub project, inside an Agent OS SEO section. It explains why a self-hosted tracker can replace paid subscriptions and shows how OpenSEO supports keyword research and rank tracking for Google and AI visibility. The setup includes adding a domain, selecting country, mobile/desktop tracking, and search depth, then powering the tool with the DataForSEO API (with an example cost of about $0.50/month for 50 keywords). It also shows viewing rankings over time, exporting data, and pulling metrics like search volume, keyword difficulty, and SERP features. The creator outlines their setup process: importing OpenSEO from GitHub and using Claude to configure it with the DataForSEO API and customize features.
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Problem solved
Paid SEO rank trackers are costly and not customizable, so this episode shows building a free self-hosted AI rank tracker with Claude and OpenSEO in 10 minutes.
Benefits
  • Free, open-source, fully customizable rank tracker
  • Track unlimited domains and clients with no upsell
  • Combine Google, AI answers, and Search Console data
  • Built and customized via Claude in minutes
  • Auto-publish SEO content to WordPress or Netlify
Use cases
  • Tracking 50 keywords for only ~50 cents/month via DataForSEO
  • Set up OpenSEO via a Claude conversation by pasting GitHub details and the DataForSEO API
  • Pulling Google Search Console data (28/7-day) to find impressions-without-clicks keyword opportunities
  • AI visibility tracking plus competitor and client domain overviews in one dashboard
  • Generating articles on a topic and posting directly to a WordPress site
KPIs / results
  • Tracker built with Claude in ~10 minutes
  • ~50 keywords tracked for ~$0.50/month
  • OpenSEO trending on GitHub
Tools / build
  • OpenSEO rank tracker
  • DataForSEO API integration
  • Claude CLI + Netlify publishing
  • Google Search Console / Workspace API research workflow
  • Agent OS SEO content machine with MCP connectors
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00:00
Free Rank Tracker Intro
  • Free AI SEO rank tracker built with Claude, intro
00:16
Why Build Your Own
  • Build your own to avoid subscriptions and gain customization
00:40
OpenSEO Overview
  • OpenSEO: free open-source project trending on GitHub
00:59
Keyword Research Demo
  • Keyword research demo with instant data
01:10
Rank Tracking Setup
  • Rank tracking setup: domain, country, mobile/desktop, depth
01:28
Costs and Unlimited Domains
  • ~50 keywords for 50 cents/month; unlimited domains via DataForSEO
02:27
Tracking Keywords and SERP Data
  • Tracking keywords with positions, volume, difficulty, SERP features
03:09
Setup with Claude
  • Setup via Claude conversation with DataForSEO API
03:40
Search Console Research Workflow
  • Search Console research finds rankable keyword opportunities
04:47
AI Visibility and MCP Connectors
  • AI visibility tracking and MCP connectors for Claude Code/Codex
06:02
Competitor Tracking and UI
  • Competitor and client domain tracking in simple UI
07:15
APIs Needed and Publishing
  • APIs needed; publish content via Claude CLI, Netlify, WordPress
08:36
Full Agent OS and Community
  • Full Agent OS with SEO content machine, Oracle, Memory Galaxy
10:35
Wrap Up
  • Wrap up
Today I'm going to show you a new free Rank Tracker that you can easily build out with Claude for AI SEO. So if we go to the SEO section inside our Agent OS, you can see that we've added OpenSEO. And this is a free open source project that you can use to create your own Rank Tracker. Now why would you want to do that? Because then you don't need subscriptions to fancy tools. Also a lot of Rank Trackers out there aren't very good for actually tracking your data. And I'll show you a better way to do that in a second. And also this is all free, right? It's free and open source. You can customize it, change it however you want. That's the other cool thing. It's like, for example, if you're using Ahrefs to track your Rankings, well, you won't be able to customize it in the same way. That'll show you how to do it in a second. So how does this all work? Well, basically we've got OpenSEO, which is a free open source project. It's actually trending on GitHub. Really powerful. And basically what you can do is you can use this for keyword research and also for tracking your visibility, both on Google and also on AI. So it's a really powerful SEO tool and it's fully customizable. So for example, if we want to do keyword research, we just type in, for example, stuff like this. Then we can hit search. And from there we can start getting the data as you can see, right? How easy was that? And then we get all of the keyword research you want. But if you want to use this for rank tracking, then what we can do is we can add a domain. We can plug in our website. We can track the country, track where we want to see our rankings on mobile and desktop. And then from there we can add the search depth. So how many pages we go deep on that. And also bear in mind, you're going to plug in data for SEO as an API into this, which is still pretty cheap as you can see right here. So for example, if you're tracking with the, bear in mind, like the actual tool itself is free, but then you just plug in your own API. So if you're tracking like 50 keywords, it would only be 50 cents per month, right? And you could do this for all your clients. You could add as many as you want. There's no limitations. That's the other thing as well. For example, you're using tools. I don't want to hate on any tool, so I'm not going to mention any names. But like if you add too many domains for SEO audits to some tools, they make you upgrade or they make you pay extra, or you can't even do it on the current plan. Whereas with this, you can track as many domains as you want, my friend, right? So again, you get a lot more freedom with this sort of stuff. So this runs on data for SEO, which is pretty powerful API. Probably one of the best APIs for getting SEO data. And then for example, we can see our rankings over time. We can export it. We can add keywords if we want to actually track. So you can add all the keywords here like this. And then once you add a keyword, it will start getting the rankings for that particular keyword. So you can see that's instantly pulled in our position, where we were previously, the keyword that it is, the URL that we're actually ranking for with that particular keyword directly from our website, and how easy was that, right? Well, you can also see, for example, how much search volume we got, the keyword difficulty of that keyword, and also the SERP features, right? So does it have AI? Does it have video on the SERP? Does it have people also ask questions, et cetera? And so this is really easy and simple to use and pretty powerful. Now, if you're wondering how to set up, here's how I personally set up. So I got the GitHub from OpenSEO. I went into Claude directly. I created a new conversation called OpenSEO, and then I plugged in the details here and just asked it to set up for me. And I gave it the data for SEO API. That was it. Simple as that. So you can easily use Claude to help you set this up. And if you want to add new features into this section, you can, right? You would just ask Claude, okay, add this, change this, change the color on that, et cetera. And you can customize it as much as you want. The other cool thing that we've done here is we have a research section here, which again is pretty good for rank tracking. And this is completely like, this is, you can make this fully yours. So for example here, we can type in Hermes. And what it's going to do is look through my existing Google Search Console data for rank tracking. And then for example, it will pull in from Google Search Console for each of our websites over the last 28 days, seven days or nine days for our particular keyword, all of the keywords we rank it for. And then if we want to create new content around that keyword, because we don't already have a page about it, we can just click on use that topic, plug in a case study for information gained, like for example, this, plug in the keyword, hit generate file articles, and then they'll actually post the content directly to our website, as you can see on this page right here. So we can create the content, track our rankings, do more keyword research, and it's all available in a fully customizable UI like this. How amazing is that, right? You couldn't do this last year. You certainly couldn't do this like two years ago with something like ChatGPT 3.5. So I think SEO is number one, easier than ever, but number two, it's more fun than ever, right? Like you can create your own tools at this point. You can create stuff that's fully customizable. And then you can see, for example, we can also set up AI visibility tracking. So not only can we track our rankings inside Google, not only can we track our rankings from Google Search Console data, but we can also add AI visibility. So we can do brand lookup here. We can plug in data for SEO. So we just confirm AI optimization access here. We can open up data for SEO, like so, plug in an API, and then we can start using that as well, right? And the way that we do that is we just have to enable inside data for SEO, access for AI, right? So once you've confirmed it, once you've turned that on, then you can add it inside this section too. You can also add like MCPs. So if you wanted to connect this rank tracking to Claude Code or Codex or Claude Desktop or Codex Desktop, no problem at all. So you have this MCP server URL inside the AI and MCP section of OpenSEO, and then you can go into Claude Desktop or Claude Code, plug that in. You can also set up SEO for skills, right? So what this means, for example, is if you want skills for keyword research, competitive landscape, link prospecting, SEO coach, keyword clustering, you can plug all of those skills into Claude, Codex, or Hermes Agent, whatever you want as well. So that's a really powerful system. So that's basically how you can use this. And then also you've got the domain overview here. So this is kind of rank tracking, but for competitors too. So we could have juliangoldy.com, but then we could have my competitors, and we could also have our clients. So you can manage everything inside one simple place. The other thing that I quite like about this whole system is that it's so simple, right? It's very intuitive to work with. And if we go to the rank tracking section here, how easy it is to just navigate between this. Whereas sometimes with these SEO tools, particularly the AI visibility ones that I've seen, personally, they can be a little bit confusing or time consuming to use. So this is basically, this is the free rank radar system that we have tested out. And it's an engine that works in real time, as you can see right here. And so you get the full picture as well, because you can plug in AI answers, you can plug in Google rankings, you can also plug in search console. So you can get the data from three different places, plug that into your system. Like we've got it all set up inside our HNOS, and then it's ready to go. As you can see right here, it also does serve analysis, which is super useful. And you can export any of the data as well, whenever you need it. So with this new system, we can see where we show up, where we rank on Google, what Google has actually got in terms of data from Google search console. This is a free self-hosted tool. Then you plug in data for SEO as an API, and it's really simple and easy. For actually getting the Google search console data, we got a Google workspace API. Again, Claude can help you set that up. We have the agent operating system ready to go if you want this full setup, like we've got custom made inside the AirPuffer boardroom. But basically that's it. So if you're thinking, okay, which APIs you need. So you want Google workspace for this section here. Then for open SEO, you want data for SEO. And for generating the content, we use a combination of Claude CLI. Plus we use Netlify for actually publishing the content. So we can get a personal access token from Netlify and publish a content directly to our website. The other thing that I would say here is if you are using WordPress, all you need is login details and a personal access token for that. And that's pretty easy and simple. So once you give that to your agents, they can easily publish content for you. And so you get all the signals. You got AI visibility. You know, are you showing up inside the AI answers? Are you ranking with your website? And also what's your Google search console telling you? And the reason that we check Google search console is also because we want to spot new opportunities for ranking our website, right? We want to find, okay, what we're getting impressions for, but not clicks for so that we can easily find new keyword opportunities that would actually help us rank. So that's basically it. That is the whole system, my friends. And then we connect it once. Agent OS pulls the Google search console data. We see what we're ranking for and it goes from there. So if you want to get the full agent operating system for me with the rank trackers, our full systems, for example, for Hermes agent, we have the SEO content machine inside there too. We have a agent group chat for managing orchestrating all your agents. We have the Oracle as well, which can also pull in the latest trend in data. So for example, we pulled in the, you know, Grop 4.5 is entering private beta. That just, that is literally trending right now. That's brand, brand new news. And then if we want to create SEO content for it, we just click the published WordPress section here and it will publish you directly to our websites. As you can see, again, these are, these are actually hosted on WordPress. So you can link to WordPress or Netlify, whatever you want. And also the cool thing about this is it all links inside our memory galaxy. So if we go to the memory section here, all the SEO content that we create, all the keyword research data that we get, every time we use Hermes agent, et cetera, is all plugged into this memory system. So that it's organized into one second brain is automatically logged whenever we use this stuff. And then we can come back to it in everyone, which is super powerful in itself. So if you want to get all this, it's inside the AI Profit Water. We also have a full classroom on AI SEO automation to help you as much as we can. And then if you want to get the agent OS, just go to the new daily update section here, and you can find the agent OS videos tutorial, when it was last updated, the zip file, and we update that daily. Also inside the community, there's lots of SEOs. You can ask questions whenever you want. So if you ask questions, I'll personally answer them with video tutorial each day. And then also there's members online 24 seven that can help you too. So you get answers, not just from me, but also the whole community. You get all of my best trainings inside the classroom here. We had new daily tutorials and guides as well. And then you can jump on weekly coaching calls, ask questions, and get help in real time. Inside the map, you can actually meet people in your local area who are building with AI agents like this. And this is all available inside the AI Profit Water. Link in the comment description, or just go to the AI Profit Water. Thanks for watching.