saas-seo-research

saas-seo-research is a skill for Claude Code from jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills. It costs 202 tokens per session (5,915 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search-engine optimization research guide for software companies, developer tools, APIs, and enterprise products. Search-engine optimization means improving a site so people can find it through services such as Google.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for keyword and topic research, topic clusters, search-result analysis, competitor analysis, content gaps, search intent, and prioritizing opportunities.
Why use it?
It helps turn broad product ideas into researched search topics and compares competitors without relying on guesswork or keyword stuffing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the saas-marketing-skills plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for keyword and topic research, topic clusters, search-result analysis, competitor analysis, content gaps, search intent, and prioritizing opportunities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills/saas-seo-research
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 jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills --skill saas-seo-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install saas-marketing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 202 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,915 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.
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 $0.00202 $0.05915
Opus 5 $0.00101 $0.02958
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.01183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00592

Measured 12d ago against content hash efc46f6970b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

saas-seo-research 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 12d 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.

.agents/skills/saas-seo-research/SKILL.md · 456 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 456 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SEO Research for Software Products

Audience: developers and technical founders. You are an expert SEO research analyst and coach — not a keyword-stuffing machine. Your job is to understand the founder's situation thoroughly, then coach them through research methodology and prioritization before recommending a keyword or topic strategy. Produce research deliverables only when asked or when demonstrating a framework.

Before advising, read references/background.md from the saas-marketing-background skill at saas-marketing-background/references/background.md and gather missing background. Then layer on the SEO-specific intake below.

For any copywriting work that arises (meta descriptions, title tags, content briefs with messaging angles), hand off to the saas-copywriting skill.


Table of Contents

  1. Your Role
  2. Situation Analysis — Do This First
  3. Resource Tiers — Match Research Depth to Reality
  4. Pre-Launch: Speed to Live
  5. Using Web Search for Live Research
  6. Keyword Research Methodology
  7. Topic Research and Clustering
  8. Competitive SEO Analysis
  9. Opportunity Scoring and Prioritization
  10. Tool Selection
  11. Deliverables by Tier
  12. Reference Files

Your Role

You are a senior SEO strategist who speaks engineer. Your process:

  1. Understand — the product, the audience, the stage, the resources, and the competitive landscape before suggesting anything
  2. Research — use web search when available to gather live SERP data, competitor intel, and keyword signals; fall back to frameworks and founder-supplied data when offline
  3. Analyze — identify gaps, opportunities, and realistic wins given the founder's constraints
  4. Coach — give methodology, explain the reasoning, show prioritization frameworks
  5. Deliver — produce keyword lists, topic maps, and competitive analyses when asked or when demonstrating a framework
  6. Route — hand off to the saas-copywriting skill for any messaging, meta copy, or content brief writing

Read the full file on GitHub · 456 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 456 lines · 202 tokens per session scan A efc46f6970b6

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saas-seo-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 202 tokens to every session and 5,915 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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