--- title: "About SEO Skill and Ian Nuttall | SEO Skill" description: "SEO Skill gives AI agents your real Search Console, Google Analytics and keyword data. Built by Ian Nuttall, in SEO for more than 20 years." canonical: "https://seoskill.dev/about" language: "en" --- # About SEO Skill SEO Skill gives your AI agent facts from your own Search Console, Google Analytics and keyword data, so its SEO answers are about your site instead of an average one. [Get started free](https://seoskill.dev/account) Run it in a terminal, then sign in with Google. Or run it on your machine Installs the CLI, signs you in and adds the skill to your agents. Site crawls and Bing data run this way, on your own machine. A crawl fetches many pages, and Bing blocks our hosted server. ## What SEO Skill does One hosted MCP server and an open source CLI that your agent uses to answer questions about search. - [Reads your own search dataSearch Console, Google Analytics, URL Inspection and Clicky through one read-only Google sign-in, plus Bing in the CLI.](https://seoskill.dev/integrations) - [Answers SEO questions in your AI agentQuick wins, low click-through rates, traffic drops, index problems and Google updates, in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor and other agents.](https://seoskill.dev/features) - [Adds market data with your own keyKeyword volumes, SERPs, competitors and backlinks from DataForSEO or Ahrefs, kept apart from your own numbers.](https://seoskill.dev/features/keyword-research) - [Free web toolsBacklinks, Domain Rating, competitor keywords, SERPs and traffic estimates in your browser, with no account.](https://seoskill.dev/tools) ## Built by Ian Nuttall I've spent more than 20 years building, growing and selling SEO businesses. Now I build with AI. I'm a British marketer, software engineer and founder, and I've worked in SEO for more than 20 years. I've built and sold SEO tools, a portfolio of programmatic SEO sites and an education startup, and taught programmatic SEO to over 1,000 students. I write about SEO and shipping software with AI agents on [ian.is](https://ian.is/), and share what works with a large audience on X, YouTube and LinkedIn. I build SEO Skill so your AI agent starts from your real Search Console numbers instead of guessing. My plan is for this site to prove it works the only way that counts in SEO: by ranking. - [81.8kfollowers on X](https://x.com/iannuttall) - [16.9ksubscribers on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@inuttall) - [4.5kfollowers on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/iannuttall) ## Track record SEO Skill comes from two decades of ranking my own sites and selling the businesses behind them. ### I built this idea once before Keyword Metrics found the keywords a site already ranked for in Search Console and emailed a weekly report of what to change, years before AI agents could do it. It passed $2,000 a month in revenue and was acquired. ### I built and sold an indexing tool URL Monitor got more pages indexed in Google, grew to $8,000 a month and was acquired for $250,000. I have since rebuilt the idea as Index My Site. ### I taught over 1,000 students My programmatic SEO course, Practical Programmatic. I bought two rival courses along the way and sold it in 2025 to Joshua Hardwick, former head of content at Ahrefs. ### I grew and sold SEO businesses I bought a content site for $2,000 and sold it for $500,000 two years later, and ran the tech at Clever Bytes, which sold in two seven-figure exits. 1. ### [SEO Skill and Index My Site](https://indexmysite.app/) Founder, now I build SEO Skill for AI agents, and rebuilt my indexing tool as Index My Site, which gets your most important pages indexed by Google. I also run a portfolio of small tools, apps and websites built with AI agents and marketed with programmatic SEO. 2. ### [Practical Programmatic](https://practicalprogrammatic.com/) Founder A programmatic SEO course with over 1,000 students and more than $200,000 in sales. I grew it by buying pSEO OS for $20,000 and programmaticseocourse.com, and sold it in 2025 to Joshua Hardwick, former head of content at Ahrefs. 3. ### URL Monitor Solo founder An SEO product that got more pages indexed in Google. Acquired for $250,000, and now rebranded as Cromojo. 4. ### Keyword Metrics Founder My first version of the SEO Skill idea, before AI agents. It scanned Search Console for keywords a site already ranked for and emailed a weekly report of what to improve. It passed $2,000 a month in revenue and was acquired. 5. ### Programmatic SEO content sites Owner A large portfolio of programmatic SEO sites. I bought the biggest for $2,000 and sold it for $500,000 two years later. 6. ### Clever Bytes Co-founder An education startup where I ran the tech behind Kids Konnect, A-Level Biology, Teach Computer Science and other sites. Acquired in two 7-figure exits in 2021. ## Key facts The short version, for people and for AI answers. Product SEO Skill: a hosted MCP server, an open source CLI and local MCP server, and one skill for AI agents Built by Ian Nuttall, founder of Practical Programmatic and URL Monitor Hosted MCP server https://seoskill.dev/mcp Price Every on-demand tool is free with no usage cap. The weekly site audit is $50 a month per site. Data it reads Google Search Console, Google Analytics, URL Inspection, Clicky, Bing Webmaster Tools (CLI), and DataForSEO or Ahrefs with your own key AI clients Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Le Chat and any remote MCP client Licence Apache 2.0 for the CLI, both MCP servers and this site Source code https://github.com/iannuttall/seo npm package seo Support GitHub Issues ## Questions about SEO Skill