SEO Inspector MCP server

The SEO Inspector & Schema Validator MCP server is a tool that integrates with Cursor to analyze web pages for SEO issues and validate structured data schemas directly from your codebase, eliminating the need for browser extensions.

Installation

To get started with the SEO Inspector & Schema Validator MCP server, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/seo-inspector-mcp.git
   cd seo-inspector-mcp
   

2. Install the required dependencies:

   npm install
   

3. Configure Cursor to use this MCP server:

   • Navigate to Settings > Features > MCP in Cursor
   • Add a new MCP server with the following details:
     • Name: SEO Inspector
     • Type: sse
     • URL: http://localhost:8767/sse

Usage

Running the Server

Start the MCP server by executing the run script:

./run-mcp.sh

Available Commands

Once the server is running, you can use the following commands in Cursor:

• seo.analyze-codebase - Scans all HTML files in a directory for SEO issues
• seo.analyze-html - Analyzes a specific HTML string for SEO issues

SEO Checks

The tool evaluates web pages based on several SEO components, organized by priority:

Critical Components

• Page Title
• Meta Description
• H1 Heading
• Canonical URL

Important Components

• Heading Structure (H2-H6)
• Image Alt Text
• Structured Data (JSON-LD)
• Robots Directives

Recommended Components

• Open Graph Tags
• Twitter Cards
• Internal Linking
• URL Structure
• Mobile Friendliness

Schema Validation

The MCP server can validate the following schema types in JSON-LD format:

• Organization
• LocalBusiness
• Product
• Article
• WebPage
• FAQPage
• Event
• Recipe
• Review

How to add this MCP server to Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > MCP and click "Add new global MCP server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "cursor-rules-mcp": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "cursor-rules-mcp"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explictly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.