seo-traffic-diagnosis

seo-traffic-diagnosis is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills-seo. It costs 110 tokens per session (1,764 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of seo-traffic-diagnosis, MIT.

A workflow for finding out why a website's unpaid search traffic changed, using Ahrefs, Google Search Console, and analytics data. Organic traffic is visits that arrive from search results without paid ads.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps diagnose site-wide or page-specific traffic changes and produce a likely root cause with an action plan. It is also used when competitors appear to be gaining search visibility.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork when traffic drops, stalls, or rises unexpectedly. It connects the timing of the change with deployments, migrations, content changes, links, and search-engine updates.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rampstack-seo plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps diagnose site-wide or page-specific traffic changes and produce a likely root cause with an action plan. It is also used when competitors appear to be gaining search visibility.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills-seo/seo-traffic-diagnosis
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 rampstackco/claude-skills-seo --skill seo-traffic-diagnosis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills-seo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-seo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,764 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00110 $0.01764
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00882
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00176

Measured 12d ago against content hash c692568650d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-traffic-diagnosis 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to seo-traffic-diagnosis — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/seo-traffic-diagnosis/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SEO Traffic Diagnosis

Diagnose why organic traffic moved (down, flat, or unexpectedly up) using Ahrefs MCP combined with Search Console and analytics data. Stack-agnostic. Produces a root-cause diagnosis and an action plan.


When to use

  • Organic traffic dropped sharply
  • Organic traffic has been flat for months despite content investment
  • After a known Google algorithm update
  • After a migration, replatform, or domain change
  • After a deploy that touched routing, redirects, or rendering
  • When a competitor is visibly taking organic share
  • When a single page dropped from a ranked position
  • When stakeholders need an explanation, fast

When NOT to use

  • Routine performance reporting (use analytics-strategy)
  • Pre-emptive content planning (use seo-content-gap-audit)
  • Backlink-only investigations (use seo-backlink-audit)
  • Technical issue triage outside of traffic concerns (use seo-site-health-audit)

Required inputs

  • Description of the symptom (what changed, when, magnitude)
  • Date the change started (best estimate)
  • Recent SEO history: deploys, migrations, content changes, link campaigns
  • Access to Ahrefs MCP, Search Console, and analytics
  • Confirmation the change is real (not a tracking artifact)

The framework: 5 layers of diagnosis

A traffic change has one or more root causes. Move through the layers in order. Stop when you have enough evidence.

Layer 1: Confirm the change is real

Before diagnosing, rule out:

  • Tracking gaps (analytics outages, tag manager issues)
  • Bot traffic changes
  • Reporting comparison errors (different date ranges, wrong segment)
  • Seasonality (compare year-over-year, not just month-over-month)
  • Holiday or weekday effects

Cross-check Search Console clicks against analytics organic sessions. Significant divergence often points to a tracking issue, not a real traffic change.

Layer 2: Localize the change

Where is the change happening?

Segment by:

  • Country and language
  • Device (mobile, desktop, tablet)
  • Page or section (homepage, blog, product, category)
  • Query type (branded vs non-branded)
  • Landing page

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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 · 181 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A c692568650d1

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seo-traffic-diagnosis is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills-seo (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,764 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to seo-traffic-diagnosis, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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