Manus SEO: Hand Off the Research, Keep the Data Real

Manus finishes long, multi-step tasks on its own computer. Add SEOmatic as a custom MCP server and those tasks run on your own site: real Google Search Console data, a live crawl, your AI visibility, and on paid plans fixes staged for you to approve. Set an Automation and the SEO brief arrives every Monday.

Custom MCP server, OAuth sign-in on first use
Automations for a weekly SEO brief
Nothing goes live until you approve

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About SEOmatic for Manus

SEOmatic is a hosted MCP server that Manus adds as a custom MCP connector. Once connected, any Manus task or Automation can call SEOmatic's SEO tools on your site: Search Console, audits, AI visibility and, on paid plans, the agents that stage fixes.

Last Updated

October 2026

Requirements

A Manus account that can add custom MCP connectors, and a free SEOmatic account, which you can create during sign-in.

Pricing

Free to connect, with 5 questions a month from your own data (plus 10 once you connect Search Console). Paid plans add agents that stage fixes for your approval. See pricing.

Full Docs

Endpoint, auth, every tool and what it costs: SEOmatic MCP server docs.

Manus for SEO, Grounded in Your Own Data

SEO Tasks to Hand Manus

Weekly SEO Brief

An Automation runs every Monday and reports only what changed: clicks, movers, AI visibility and approvals waiting.

Competitor Comparison

Your Search Console data next to two competitors' domains and backlinks, written up as a report you can share.

90-Day SEO Plan

A plan built from your striking-distance queries, traffic drops and audit issues, ordered by expected impact.

Blog Topics That Can Rank

Queries you already get impressions for without a page, turned into a content calendar.

AI Answer Check

How ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Overviews describe your business, and who they name instead of you.

Pre-Relaunch Audit

A crawl of up to 30 pages plus the pages that earn your clicks, so a redesign does not lose them.

Manus is built to research, compare and write up. SEOmatic gives it the one thing it cannot find on the open web: how your own site performs on Google and in AI answers. The result is research that ends in a decision, not a generic checklist.

Example: Ask Manus About Your Site

An example on the Acme Plumbing demo site. You ask Manus:

“Every Monday at 8am, run my SEOmatic weekly brief and send me only what changed. Ask me before staging anything.”

Manus calls SEOmatic:

gsc_performance: Oct 3 to Oct 9 vs Sep 26 to Oct 2 (7 days each)
get_ai_visibility: latest scan
task_manage: read the plan board

Manus answers:

Automation saved: every Monday at 8:00. Here is what this week's brief would have said:

Clicks: 1,184, up 9% (Oct 3 to Oct 9 vs Sep 26 to Oct 2, 7 days each). /drain-cleaning-cost did most of it, +41 clicks.
Watch: /emergency-plumber slipped from position 6.8 to 9.2 for "emergency plumber near me".
AI answers: ChatGPT named you in 4 of 12 tracked prompts, one more than last scan. Google AI Overviews still cite a competitor for "water heater repair cost".
Waiting for you: 2 staged title changes in SEOmatic.

I will not stage or approve anything without your say-so.

Also try:

“Audit my site and rank the fixes by impact”
“Compare my site with two competitors”
“Which pages has Google not indexed?”
“Plan 30 days of SEO from my data”

Set Up a Weekly SEO Brief With Manus Automations

Manus Automations start a task on a schedule. Pair one with SEOmatic and the Monday SEO check writes itself:

Connect SEOmatic as a custom MCP server (steps below) and connect Google Search Console in SEOmatic.
Write the task once: “Run my SEOmatic weekly brief. Tell me only what changed since last week: clicks, pages that moved, AI visibility, and anything waiting for my approval. Do not stage or approve anything.”
Schedule it as an Automation for Monday morning.
Read, then decide. When the brief flags a fix, reply in the task to stage it. It lands in SEOmatic as a proposal, and nothing changes on your site until you approve it.

Each brief compares two full weeks with exact dates, so you can check every number against Search Console.

Manus SEO Prompts That Use Your Real Data

Start a Manus task with SEOmatic connected and try:

“Use SEOmatic to compare my site's last 28 days on Google with the 28 days before, and write it up as a one-page report.”
“Pick five blog topics I can rank for, based on queries I already get impressions for.”
“Compare my site with these two competitors and tell me where they beat me.”
“How do ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews describe my business today?”
“Build an aggressive but realistic 30-day SEO plan from my data.”
“Audit my site before next week's relaunch and list what must not break.”

How It Works, Step by Step

You start a Manus task, or an Automation starts one on schedule.
Manus calls SEOmatic's tools on your connected workspace, for example Search Console performance, a site audit or your latest AI visibility scan.
SEOmatic returns your real data with exact date ranges, plus its own analysis such as CTR outliers or cannibalization.
Manus does the rest of the task with it: compares, writes the report, builds the plan.
When it finds a fix, it offers to stage it. On a paid plan, saying yes stages a proposal in SEOmatic, and you approve it before it goes live through your CMS.

How to Connect SEOmatic to Manus

SEOmatic connects to Manus as a custom MCP server. There is no Google Cloud project to set up, and the OAuth route needs no API key. About a minute.

Open Connectors. In Manus, open Settings, then Connectors, and choose Add connectors.
Add a custom MCP. Open the Custom MCP tab, add a custom MCP and pick direct configuration. Name it SEOmatic, keep the HTTP transport and use the server URL https://app.seomatic.ai/api/mcp. Save.
Log in on the first tool call. Start a task such as “Use SEOmatic to audit my site.” Manus pauses and asks you to log in. Sign in or create a free SEOmatic account and pick your site.
Connect Search Console. If your workspace has no Search Console yet, SEOmatic hands you a one-click connect link, so answers come from your own numbers.
Schedule the weekly brief. Turn the brief task into a Manus Automation for Monday morning.

Manus setup

Manus: Settings > Connectors > Add connectors > Custom MCP
  Name:        SEOmatic
  Transport:   HTTP
  Server URL:  https://app.seomatic.ai/api/mcp
  Sign-in:     OAuth (Manus asks you to log in on the first tool call)

# API key instead of OAuth: add a request header
  Authorization: Bearer smk_live_...

Using an API key? Put it in the connector's request header, never in a task message. Create keys in SEOmatic under Settings, AI Agents, API Keys.

OAuth, an API key or a skill?

Route	Best for	How
Custom MCP with OAuth	Most people. No key to copy	Settings, Connectors, Add connectors, Custom MCP. URL `https://app.seomatic.ai/api/mcp`, HTTP. Log in on the first tool call.
Custom MCP with an API key	Shared Manus accounts, or when the OAuth window will not open	Same server, plus the request header `Authorization: Bearer smk_live_...` with a key from SEOmatic's Settings, AI Agents, API Keys.
Connector plus a Manus skill	Teams who want Manus to follow the same SEO playbook	Add the connector, then upload the SEOmatic skill files from `github.com/Minh42/seomatic-mcp` as Manus Skills, like weekly-brief and seo-audit.

Pick the custom MCP with OAuth. It takes about a minute, no key is stored in Manus, and every task and Automation can use SEOmatic from then on.

Fix SEO on Your CMS From Manus

Manus reads Google Search Console through SEOmatic, and the fixes you approve go live in your CMS. Pick your platform for the exact steps:

Manus or Cue: Which One Is This?

Both come from the same team. This page is about Manus, the general agent you hand tasks to: research, documents, slides, code and, with SEOmatic, SEO work on your own site.

Cue is a separate app for personal agents. Each agent has its own email, phone number and computer, and owns a standing job you give it, like your search traffic: Cue AI agent for SEO.

Pick Manus when you want a task done, like an audit or a 90-day plan. Pick Cue when you want one agent to own SEO week after week. Both reach the same SEOmatic workspace.

What Is Free and What Is Paid

Connecting is free, and so is the SEOmatic account behind it: no card. A free account answers 5 questions a month from your own data, plus 10 bonus questions once you connect Google Search Console. Each tool call counts as one question, so a big request can use a few.

Free covers the diagnosis: Search Console reports and insights, site audits of up to 30 pages, live page analysis, and your AI visibility results. Live market data, like keyword volumes, backlink profiles and competitor domains, is part of paid plans, with one free keyword preview per workspace.

Paid plans remove the question limit and add the treatment: agents stage fixes on your site (titles, descriptions, content updates, technical fixes, internal links) and run campaigns and fresh AI visibility scans. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial. See pricing.

A long Manus task can call several SEOmatic tools, and each call counts as one question on the free plan. A weekly brief fits easily on a paid plan. Manus bills its own usage under your Manus plan.

Nothing Changes on Your Site Without Your Approval

Manus can stage work in SEOmatic, never publish it on its own say-so. A staged change is a proposal: it says what will change and why, and nothing touches your site until you approve it. The assistant records your decision, and it is told never to approve anything on its own judgment. Approved fixes start within seconds, the page's previous state is stored, and any applied change can be rolled back. Changes that could take a page out of Google, like a noindex, need an extra explicit confirmation. Automations follow the same rule: a scheduled task can report and propose, and the approval is always yours.

Keep Exploring

Want one agent to own SEO week after week? See Cue. Other always-on agents: Perplexity Computer and OpenAI dots. Learn what powers the answers: the Google Search Console integration, AI visibility tracking and the approval workflow. All assistants: AI SEO agents in every assistant. Full reference: SEO MCP server docs.

Using another agent? See Cue, Perplexity Computer, OpenAI dots, or every AI agent.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I connect SEOmatic to Manus?

In Manus, open Settings, then Connectors, choose Add connectors and the Custom MCP tab, and add a custom MCP named SEOmatic with the URL https://app.seomatic.ai/api/mcp over HTTP. The first time Manus calls a SEOmatic tool, it asks you to log in. Sign in and pick your site.

Can Manus do SEO?

Manus can research and write about SEO, but on its own it cannot see your rankings, clicks or indexed pages. With SEOmatic connected, it reads your real Google Search Console data, audits your site and checks your AI visibility, and on paid plans it can stage fixes for you to approve.

Can Manus send me a weekly SEO report?

Yes. Write the task once, for example “Run my SEOmatic weekly brief and tell me only what changed”, and schedule it as a Manus Automation for Monday morning. Each brief compares two full weeks with exact dates.

Do I need an API key?

No. The custom MCP connector signs in with OAuth on the first tool call. Use an API key only if OAuth will not open, and put it in the connector's request header as Authorization: Bearer followed by the key, never in a chat message.

Is SEOmatic for Manus free?

Connecting and the SEOmatic account are free with no card. A free account answers 5 questions a month from your own data, plus 10 bonus questions once you connect Search Console. Paid plans remove the limit and add agents that stage fixes. Manus usage is billed by Manus.

Are the numbers Manus reports real?

Yes. They come from your own Search Console property through SEOmatic, and every answer names its exact date range and day count, so you can check any number yourself.

Do I need a Google Cloud project or service account?

No. You connect Search Console to SEOmatic with one Google sign-in, which takes about a minute. Manus never handles Google credentials.

Can it change my site without asking?

No. By default every change SEOmatic proposes waits for your approval before it touches your site, and your assistant is told never to approve on its own. Approved changes are stored with the page's previous state, so any edit to an existing page can be rolled back. If you later want low-risk fixes to go ahead on their own, you can turn that on in your autonomy settings; changes to your URLs or indexing, and new content, still wait for you.

Does Manus only write the fix, or does it ship it?

On paid plans, a fix Manus stages goes to SEOmatic as a proposal. Once you approve it, SEOmatic publishes it in your connected CMS, such as WordPress, Webflow, Shopify or Wix, and keeps the previous version for rollback.

Is Manus the same as Cue?

No. Both come from the same team. Manus is the general agent you hand tasks to. Cue is a separate app for personal agents that each own a standing job. Both can connect to the same SEOmatic workspace.

SEOmatic in other AI agents

Same server, same tools, same approval rules. Pick the agent that fits the job.

Claude Cowork

Hand Claude Cowork the SEO grunt work: it pulls your real numbers, writes the report into your files, and stages fixes you approve.

Meta Muse

Connect SEOmatic with one message and a sign-in link, then ask Muse about your site from the app, the web or WhatsApp.

Perplexity Computer

Give Perplexity Computer your real Search Console data, so its SEO projects start from your numbers.

OpenClaw

Your self-hosted OpenClaw, answering SEO questions from real Search Console data in the chat app you already use.

Hermes Agent

Nous Research's open agent, wired to your real Search Console data with one hermes mcp add.

nanoclaw

SEO answers from your real Search Console, inside the nanoclaw group where your team already talks.

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