Use SEOmatic in Cue
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Before you start
Access to Cue (early access needs an invite code; Cue Plus is listed at $20 a month and free during early access) and a free SEOmatic account, which you can create during sign-in.
Connect Cue#
- Add SEOmatic as a connector. Ask your Cue agent in chat to add a custom MCP connector named SEOmatic with the URL https://app.seomatic.ai/api/mcp over HTTP with OAuth. If Cue offers no custom MCP option, add the server in your Manus account under Settings, Integrations, Custom MCP Servers, Add Server (older builds: Connectors, Custom MCP).
- Sign in. Sign in or create a free SEOmatic account when asked, and pick your site. If no sign-in link arrives, add the server in Manus settings with the header Authorization: Bearer and an API key from SEOmatic instead.
- Pick one agent. Choose the agent that will look after your SEO. Cue has not documented per-agent connectors, so assume connections are shared across your agents and keep the SEO responsibility with one of them.
- Paste the responsibility. Paste the responsibility from this page as that agent's job, and add your domain.
- Ask your first question. Ask “How is my site doing on Google this week?” and check the answer gives exact dates and your real numbers.
Cue setup
# 1. Ask your Cue agent in chat: # "Add SEOmatic as a custom MCP connector over HTTP with OAuth: https://app.seomatic.ai/api/mcp" # No custom MCP option in Cue? Add it in Manus: # Settings > Integrations > Custom MCP Servers > Add Server (older builds: Connectors > Custom MCP) Name: SEOmatic Server URL: https://app.seomatic.ai/api/mcp (HTTP, OAuth sign-in) # no sign-in? add this header in the Manus form instead: Authorization: Bearer smk_live_... # 2. The SEO agent's responsibility You look after the search traffic for my website, using SEOmatic. - Use SEOmatic for every SEO question, and give the exact dates behind each number. - Every Monday at 9am, run the SEOmatic weekly brief and send me only what changed. - When a fix is worth making, explain it and stage it only after I say yes. - Never approve a change yourself. Approving is my job.
Note
No Search Console yet? The agent hands you a one-click link to connect it in SEOmatic. There is no Google Cloud project or service account to set up.
OAuth, an API Key or a Shared Manus Setup?
| Route | Best for | How |
|---|---|---|
| Custom MCP connector with OAuth | Most people. No key to copy | Ask your Cue agent in chat to add a custom MCP connector with the URL https://app.seomatic.ai/api/mcp over HTTP with OAuth. No custom MCP option in Cue? Add it in your Manus account: Settings, Integrations, Custom MCP Servers, Add Server (older builds: Connectors, Custom MCP). |
| Custom MCP connector with an API key | When the sign-in window will not open | Same server, added through the Manus settings form with the request header Authorization: Bearer smk_live_.... Keys come from SEOmatic's Settings, AI Agents, API Keys. |
| Manus instead | One-off SEO tasks, like an audit or a 90-day plan, rather than a standing job | Cue uses the same connector setup as Manus. See Manus SEO. |
Pick the custom MCP connector with OAuth, and paste the responsibility above into one agent. That agent becomes your SEO teammate. Cue has not documented per-agent connectors, so assume connections are shared across your agents: the responsibility, not the connector, is what keeps SEO with one of them.
Try Asking#
- “Every Monday, run my SEOmatic weekly brief and send me only what changed.”
- “When a Search Console email reaches your inbox, check the URLs it mentions and tell me if anything needs me.”
- “We just changed our redirects. Check index health every morning this week.”
- “How do ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Overviews describe my business?”
- “Pick three blog topics I can rank for and send them to the writing agent.”
- “What is waiting for my approval in SEOmatic?”
What It Costs#
Connecting is free. Reading your own data never uses credits: Search Console performance and insights, index status, rankings, site audits, AI citations, traffic and your tasks. Only live market lookups (keyword metrics, search results, backlinks), AI visibility scans and the fixes you approve use AI credits; every tool is labelled free or billed. On the Free plan, market lookups count against 5 free questions a month. The workspace Owner sees every credit spent, by feature, in Settings > Usage. Cue itself is billed by its maker, not by SEOmatic: nothing on our side counts tokens.
Nothing Changes on Your Site Without Your Approval#
A Cue agent 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. Keep the SEO responsibility with one agent, and keep any API key in the connector's header, never in a chat message.
- Cue says SEOmatic is connected but answers without my data.
- Start a new chat and check that SEOmatic is enabled for that conversation in the tools menu. This is the step most people miss.
- The SEOmatic page says "This connection request expired".
- Start the connection again from Cue, or paste the setup prompt again.
- The Authorize page shows the wrong email or no workspace.
- Click Switch account on that page and sign in with the SEOmatic account that owns the site.
- Why does Cue say it cannot change my site?
- Fixes need a live paid plan or trial. On the Free plan, or when billing is paused or failed, your assistant can read and answer only.
- How do I disconnect?
- Open Settings > AI Agents, scroll to API Keys and delete the row named OAuth: Cue. See disconnect an assistant.
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