Description
Houtini SEO Audit Console is a free, open-source SEO audit tool designed for use with Claude Desktop and Claude Code. It integrates your Google Search Console history with a comprehensive crawl of your website, storing all data in a local SQLite database on your PC. This powerful combination allows the tool to perform 143 distinct SEO checks, identifying issues and ranking them by their potential impact on clicks per developer-hour.
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The console provides actionable, paste-ready fixes for common SEO problems, including 301 redirects, JSON-LD implementation, and internal link optimization. It distinguishes between deterministic findings, Google's own data, and judgment-based heuristics, ensuring transparency and reliability in its recommendations. By default, it only presents findings with high certainty, with options to reveal more nuanced insights upon request.
Beyond core auditing, SEO Audit Console offers advanced capabilities. It can pull real-user Core Web Vitals data from the Chrome UX Report API, providing insights into LCP, INP, and CLS trends. For content strategy, it suggests new pages based on underperforming queries and clusters existing queries by ranking page, identifying content opportunities. Optional paid integrations with DataForSEO and Majestic enhance its functionality, allowing for keyword volume analysis, search intent classification, competitor research, backlink analysis, and rank tracking.
This tool is particularly valuable for SEO professionals and marketing engineers looking to reduce their reliance on expensive third-party SEO suites. By leveraging Claude and this open-source MCP server, users can significantly cut their SEO tool expenses while maintaining a high level of audit detail and actionable insights. The local data storage ensures privacy and control, with no telemetry collected. It supports detailed analysis across various categories including crawlability, indexation, on-page SEO, content quality, structured data, security, performance, accessibility, and merged Search Console data insights.
- CategoryAI SEO Tools
- Pricing ModelFree
- DeploymentLocal
- PlatformsClaude Desktop, Claude Code
Houtini SEO Audit Console's Core Features
Free and open-source SEO audit tool
Integrates Google Search Console data
Performs first-party site crawls
Conducts 143 SEO checks
Prioritizes fixes by clicks per developer-hour
Provides paste-ready fixes (redirects, JSON-LD, internal links)
Runs locally on your PC with SQLite database
Supports Claude Desktop and Claude Code
Offers deterministic, Google data, and judgment-based labels
Includes Core Web Vitals (CrUX) data integration
Suggests new content pages from search queries
Clusters top Search Console queries by ranking page
Optional integration with DataForSEO for keyword data
Optional integration with Majestic for link equity metrics
Monitors rank tracking with scheduled refreshes
How to use Houtini SEO Audit Console?
Install the package: Open a terminal and run `npm i -g @houtini/seo-audit-console` to install it globally.
Add to Claude config: In Claude Desktop, open Settings → Developer → Edit Config and add an entry under `mcpServers` pointing to `@houtini/seo-audit-console`.
Restart Claude: Close and reopen Claude Desktop completely for the new MCP server to appear in the tool list.
Connect Search Console: Enable the Search Console API in Google Cloud, create a service account, download the JSON key, and add the service account to your Search Console property.
Configure environment variables: Set `GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS` to the path of your JSON key file in Claude's config.
Run first sync and crawl: Ask Claude to "Refresh sc-domain:mysite.com" to sync Search Console history, crawl your site, and inspect top URLs.
Perform an audit: Ask Claude to "Run a technical SEO audit" to get a prioritized list of issues.
Explore data and fixes: Use commands like "Do any of my pages link to a broken URL?" or "Show me the dashboard for mysite.com" to analyze and find solutions.
Houtini SEO Audit Console's Use Cases
- Technical SEO Audits
- Traffic Fall Diagnosis
- Content Opportunity Identification
- Competitor Backlink Analysis
- Core Web Vitals Monitoring
- Internal Link Optimization
- Rank Tracking
- Google Discover Optimization
- Indexation Issue Resolution
- Structured Data Validation
