If you ship the marketing site, SEO is your problem whether or not it is your job. And every tool for it is built for somebody who does not use an editor.
The usual loop is that a marketer runs an audit in a dashboard, exports a PDF, pastes three screenshots into a ticket, and two sprints later you are guessing which of the forty items still apply.
The tool goes where the code is
ContextBolt SEO is an MCP server. It is one URL in your client’s config and then the tools are in the agent, next to the file you have open.
That changes the loop rather than the data. The audit runs against the page you just edited, the agent already has the file, and the fix lands in the same session. Nothing gets transcribed into a ticket and nothing goes stale on the way.
Decisions that are cheap now and expensive later
Slugs, H1s and route names are almost free to choose well at the moment you are writing them, and painful to change once Google has indexed them.
Asking “what do people actually search for this” before you name /features/team-inbox takes one lookup. It is the highest-leverage SEO work a developer does, and it happens entirely inside the editor.
Research that survives the ticket
Every lookup lands on your SEO Dashboard, a private page only you can sign in to. It keeps the history behind every page target, and when a reviewer or the person who asked for the numbers needs the reasoning, your agent can write it up in plain markdown for the PR.
Six months later, “why is this H1 phrased like that” has an answer on the dashboard rather than in somebody’s memory.
The honest edges
The page audit is the on-page layer. It is not Lighthouse and it is not a rendering crawl, so Core Web Vitals and render-blocking work still belong to the tools built for them. There is no CI mode, so it will not fail a build.
And there is no scheduled crawler or rank tracker. Everything happens because you asked for it in a session. The Ahrefs comparison sets out where a suite is genuinely the right answer instead.
For everything else, it is $35 a month and it lives where you already are. Setup for Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf and JetBrains is a couple of minutes each.
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Codex
Muse Code
Cursor
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Windsurf
Gemini CLI
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