Search Analyst

Ask Claude or ChatGPT why your Google traffic changed, using your Search Console and Bing data.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http search-analyst https://search.tidewellsoftware.com/mcp

Cursor: ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search-analyst": { "url": "https://search.tidewellsoftware.com/mcp" }
  }
}

Claude and ChatGPT: add the same URL as a custom connector and sign in with Google.

What it answers

Ten tools. Methods: tool reference.
Tool	What it returns	Ask it
`list_sites`	Your Search Console properties and Bing sites	“Which sites can you see?”
`performance_summary`	Clicks, impressions, CTR and position vs the previous period or last year, with top movers	“How did my site do this month?”
`traffic_drop_diagnosis`	Splits a click change into ranking, demand, click-through and disappeared queries or pages; finds the day it started	“Why did my traffic drop?”
`decaying_pages`	Pages with a sustained click decline over 6 to 26 weeks, with the likely reason	“Which pages are losing clicks?”
`striking_distance_keywords`	Queries at positions 8 to 20, ranked by clicks you would likely gain at position 3	“What keywords am I almost ranking for?”
`keyword_cannibalisation`	Queries where several of your pages split impressions, with a suggested owner page	“Are my pages competing with each other?”
`inspect_url`	Index status, coverage, last crawl, robots.txt, Google's chosen canonical vs yours	“Is this page indexed?”
`bing_query_stats`	Top Bing queries with clicks, impressions, CTR and position vs the period before	“What do people search on Bing to find us?”
`bing_crawl_issues`	4xx, 5xx, DNS, time-out, robots.txt and malware issues Bing found	“What is Bing failing to crawl?”
`submit_indexnow`	Notify Bing and other IndexNow engines of new or changed URLs on your verified site	“Ping Bing about these new pages.”

Plans

Free

No card. Starts automatically when you connect.

Free1 site a month

50 tool calls a month

Connect

Starter

Bing and IndexNow tools included.

£12 + VAT a month3 sites a month

2,000 tool calls a month

Buy

Pro

For consultants and in-house teams.

£29 + VAT a month10 sites a month

10,000 tool calls a month

Buy

Agency

For agencies reporting on client sites.

£79 + VAT a month50 sites a month

50,000 tool calls a month

Buy

A site is one website; the count resets on the 1st of each month. The sample site is free. Checkout by Freemius with a VAT invoice; the plan attaches to the account with the same email, or paste the licence key on your account page.

Specification

Data: Google Search Console (Search Analytics, URL Inspection), Bing Webmaster Tools, IndexNow
Clients: Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and other remote MCP clients
Google access: Read-only webmasters.readonly scope
Sign-in: OAuth 2.1 with Google. Bing uses your own Bing Webmaster API key
Free plan: 1 site, 50 tool calls a month, plus a sample site for trying every tool
Limits: About 16 months of Search Console data; periods end 3 days ago; Bing queries in weekly buckets; Google doesn't use IndexNow

Google data

Search Analyst reads your Search Console data only when you ask, keeps it in memory for at most 10 minutes and never writes it to a database. It isn't used for advertising or AI training, sold or read by people. Search Analyst's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Details: privacy and data handling.

FAQ

Can Search Analyst change anything in my Search Console?

No. It asks Google only for the read-only scope. Its one action is the optional IndexNow submission for URLs on a site you own, and your AI app asks before running it.

How is this different from the free open-source Search Console MCP servers?

Those pass raw API rows to the assistant and need your own Google Cloud credentials and hosting. Search Analyst is hosted, signs in with Google, returns finished analyses and adds Bing and IndexNow.