Connect Google Search Console to ChatGPT

Steps

Claude (claude.ai and the desktop app)

1. Open Customize → Connectors, select + Add → Add custom connector.
2. Name it Search Analyst, paste https://search.tidewellsoftware.com/mcp and select Continue.
3. Choose Sign in now. On the Search Analyst page select Continue to Google, pick your Google account and allow View Search Console data for your verified sites.
4. Turn the connector on in a chat from the + menu and ask, for example, "Why did my traffic drop last month?"

Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds it under Organization settings → Connectors; each member then connects their own Google account.

ChatGPT

1. On the web, open Plugins (chatgpt.com/plugins), select +, then Add custom MCP server.
2. Name it Search Analyst, choose Public endpoint, paste https://search.tidewellsoftware.com/mcp, and set Authentication to OAuth.
3. Accept the custom-server notice, choose Create as a plugin, then sign in with Google when ChatGPT opens the Search Analyst page.
4. Turn it on in a chat. Every tool except IndexNow submission is marked read-only, so ChatGPT runs them without asking each time.

Claude Code

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

Then run /mcp inside Claude Code, choose search-analyst and sign in with Google in the browser.

Cursor

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

Put this in ~/.cursor/mcp.json (all projects) or .cursor/mcp.json, reload, and sign in when Cursor asks. Clients that can only send headers can use an API key from your account page as Authorization: Bearer <key>.

Good first questions

• "Compare my Google clicks for the last 28 days with the same period last year."
• "Diagnose the traffic drop since the start of October."
• "Which keywords on /blog/ are in positions 8 to 20?"
• "Do any of my pages compete for the same queries?"

Custom MCP servers are added on the ChatGPT website; workspace admins on Business and Enterprise plans can restrict them. Read-only tools run without a confirmation prompt each time; the IndexNow submission asks first.