Find keywords to target for a topic

Keywords with intent, your current position and difficulty, grouped into topics, with 5 posts to write first.

  • You start it: When you start it

What it does

The task

Find keywords about topic for the site site url. Read the queries in Google Search Console for the last 3 months, the related searches and the People also ask boxes in Google search, and the pages that rank in the top 5 for each seed keyword. Use Google Trends to compare interest. For each keyword, record the intent, our current position, the type of pages that rank and a difficulty from 1 to 5 based on who ranks. Group the keywords into topics, and put at most 80 keywords in a new Google Sheet. Suggest the 5 posts to write first.

  • It works in Google Search Console, Google Trends and Google Sheets, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
  • It runs once, when you start it.

What you give it

BlankWhat to giveExample
topicThe subject your customers search forSourdough baking at home
site urlYour website, as it is set up in Search Consolehttps://crumbandcrust.com

What you get back

An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.

Keywords for sourdough baking at home: 74 keywords in 9 topics

KeywordIntentOur positionDifficulty
sourdough starter not risingProblem182
sourdough discard recipesRecipeNone3
best flour for sourdoughBuying414
how long to proof sourdough in fridgeProblem92

Posts to write first: starter problems, fridge proof times, discard crackers, a flour guide, Dutch oven sizes

Sheet: Keywords sourdough, 74 rows

Run it in Cuiar

  1. 01

    Open it

    Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.

  2. 02

    Fill in 2 blanks

    Type topic and site url. Tab moves to the next blank.

  3. 03

    Run it

    Run sends it to the agent. Follow each step in the panel, and stop it at any time.

From the terminal

cuiar exec "Find keywords about Sourdough baking at home for the site https://crumbandcrust.com. Read the queries in Google Search Console for the last 3 months, the related searches and the People also ask boxes in Google search, and the pages that rank in the top 5 for each seed keyword. Use Google Trends to compare interest. For each keyword, record the intent, our current position, the type of pages that rank and a difficulty from 1 to 5 based on who ranks. Group the keywords into topics, and put at most 80 keywords in a new Google Sheet. Suggest the 5 posts to write first."

Run it from your AI agent

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call run_task yourself.

1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp

2. Ask your agent

Use the Cuiar tool run_task to run my "Find keywords to target for a topic" template with topic = Sourdough baking at home; site url = https://crumbandcrust.com.

Setup for other agents: AI agents.

The tool call

{
  "name": "run_task",
  "arguments": {
    "task": "Find keywords about Sourdough baking at home for the site https://crumbandcrust.com. Read the queries in Google Search Console for the last 3 months, the related searches and the People also ask boxes in Google search, and the pages that rank in the top 5 for each seed keyword. Use Google Trends to compare interest. For each keyword, record the intent, our current position, the type of pages that rank and a difficulty from 1 to 5 based on who ranks. Group the keywords into topics, and put at most 80 keywords in a new Google Sheet. Suggest the 5 posts to write first."
  }
}
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