seo-strategy

seo-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (6,440 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to search engine optimization, the work of helping search engines find, understand, and rank a website's pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan technical, on-page, and off-page SEO, improve content for searches, check crawlability and indexing, and track organic search results.
Why use it?
It helps address technical problems, weak content, unclear search intent, and missing measures of search performance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan technical, on-page, and off-page SEO, improve content for searches, check crawlability and indexing, and track organic search results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/seo-strategy
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill seo-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,440 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 302
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00044 $0.06440
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.03220
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00644

Measured 8d ago against content hash c646ca38a8eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-strategy scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

categories/marketing/seo-strategy/SKILL.md · 640 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 640 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SEO Strategy

Core Principles

1. Search Engines Want What Users Want

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible. Every algorithm update rewards content and technical setups that serve user intent. SEO is not about "gaming the system" — it is about making your site the best answer to a searcher's question.

2. Content is the Foundation, Not an Add-On

No amount of technical optimization can save thin, irrelevant, or unhelpful content. SEO begins with understanding what your audience searches for and creating resources that genuinely satisfy that need. Technical SEO opens the door; content quality earns the ranking.

3. Authority is Earned, Not Built

Search engines evaluate authority through signals like backlinks, brand mentions, E-E-A-T signals, and user engagement metrics. You cannot buy authority or shortcut it with spammy tactics. Consistent value delivery over time is the only durable path.

4. Technical Health is Table Stakes

If search engines cannot crawl, render, and index your pages, your content quality is irrelevant. Technical SEO is not optional — it is the prerequisite for every other effort. Core Web Vitals, mobile usability, and structured data are minimum requirements in 2024.

5. SEO is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

Meaningful organic growth takes 3–6 months minimum for new content and 6–18 months for new domains. Algorithm updates, competitor moves, and shifting user behavior mean SEO requires continuous investment. Quick wins exist, but sustainable rankings are earned through consistency.

6. Data Drives Decisions, Not Hunches

Every SEO decision should be grounded in data: search volume, click-through rates, conversion rates, ranking positions, crawl errors, and user behavior. If you cannot measure it, you cannot optimize it.


SEO Maturity Model

Level Name Characteristics Technical Foundation Content Approach Measurement
L1 Unoptimized No tracking, no structured approach, content published without SEO consideration No sitemap, default robots.txt, no structured data Ad-hoc, no keyword research None or basic Google Analytics
L2 Foundational Basic keyword research, manual tracking, meta tags optimized Static sitemap, basic robots.txt, manual canonical tags Keyword-stuffed, single-page focus Google Search Console set up
L3 Systematic Structured keyword strategy, regular content publishing, basic link building Dynamic sitemap, automated canonicalization, Core Web Vitals monitored Topic clusters, content calendar, keyword mapping Monthly reporting, rank tracking
L4 Data-Driven Content gap analysis, competitive intelligence, programmatic SEO Structured data across site, CDN/edge optimization, mobile-first Authority building, E-E-A-T signals, pillar pages Conversion tracking, attribution modeling
L5 Optimized & Scaling Automated SEO workflows, predictive analytics, multi-market Full SEO automation, real-time monitoring, AI-assisted optimization Content at scale with quality control Full attribution, predictive ranking, ROI modeling

Read the full file on GitHub · 640 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 640 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A c646ca38a8eb

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seo-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (470 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 6,440 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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