Rank Math provides AI-ready SEO abilities that let you optimize content, perform SEO tasks, and access Rank Math data directly from your AI assistant. These abilities can be accessed through compatible AI integrations, including the WordPress MCP adapter.
In this knowledgebase article, we will show you how to complete SEO tasks using the tools available in Rank Math MCP.
In this article, we’ll cover:
- Available Rank Math MCP Tools
- How to Complete SEO Tasks With Rank Math MCP
- Run an SEO Audit of Your Site
- Fix Failed SEO Tests From the Audit
- Run an SEO Audit of a Competitor’s Site PRO
- Retrieve Schema Markup From Your Posts
- Retrieve Your Post’s SEO Metadata
- Retrieve Links From Your Post
- Check the Status of Links Across Your Site
- How to Track and Update Your AI Mentions Using Rank Math MCP
1 Available Rank Math MCP Tools
An MCP tool is a command that lets your AI assistant interact with specific features and capabilities in Rank Math. Depending on the available MCP tools, you can ask your AI assistant to retrieve reports and metrics or perform SEO tasks.
Rank Math has multiple MCP tools for various tasks. To see which MCP tools are available, simply ask your AI assistant a question such as, “What MCP tools are available on my site?”
2 How to Complete SEO Tasks With Rank Math MCP
Here are the SEO tasks you can complete using Rank Math MCP.
- Run an SEO audit of your site
- Fix failed SEO tests from the audit
- Run an SEO audit of a competitor’s site
- Retrieve Schema markup from your posts
- Retrieve your post’s SEO metadata
- Retrieve links from your post
- Check the status of links across your site
2.1 Run an SEO Audit of Your Site
The Run SEO Audit MCP tool (rank-math/audit-site-seo) instructs Rank Math to run a detailed SEO audit on your site. Once complete, Rank Math passes the result to your AI assistant, which uses it to generate a detailed report for you.
To run an SEO test, prompt your AI assistant to run an SEO audit. Rank Math will run your SEO tests and return its results to your AI assistant, which generates a report for you.
2.2 Fix Failed SEO Tests From the Audit
The Fix SEO Test MCP tool (rank-math/fix-site-seo) instructs Rank Math to fix the failed SEO tests. This tool comes in handy after you’ve run an SEO audit. The SEO tests that can be fixed include:
- Blog public: This sets your blog’s visibility to public
- Permalink structure: This sets the permalink structure to
/%postname%/ - Site tagline: This updates the site’s tagline to that provided by the user or AI assistant
- Sitemaps: This enables the Sitemap module
- Schema: This enables the Schema module
- Noindex meta: This sets the
robots_globalvalue in the Titles & Meta settings toindex - Robots.txt: This adds the default Disallow rules to the robots.txt file
- Missing focus keywords: This sets the post title as the focus keyword of posts without one
To get started, enter a relevant prompt into your AI assistant and instruct it to fix the failed SEO tests. Your AI assistant will fix the supported SEO tests using MCP.
2.3 Run an SEO Audit of a Competitor’s Site PRO
The Run SEO Audit MCP tool also lets Rank Math to run a detailed SEO test on your competitor’s site. This is helpful when you want to understand how well a competitor’s site is faring or how your site compares against theirs.
To get started, instruct your AI assistant to analyze a competitor’s site or even compare yours against theirs. For example, let us prompt our AI assistant to compare our site with another site.
Once done, your AI assistant will return a comparison of your site and your competitor’s site.
2.4 Retrieve Schema Markup From Your Posts
The Get Post Schema MCP tool (rank-math/get-post-schema) lets your AI assistant retrieve the Schema already applied to your post, as well as other Schema types available in Rank Math that can be applied to your content.
This ensures your AI assistant is aware of the Schema already applied on your post. It also ensures your AI assistant can suggest relevant additional Schema to include in your content.
Note: If you use Rank Math Free, the tool will only return Schema types available to free users, while Rank Math PRO users will see both free and PRO Schema types.
2.5 Retrieve Your Post’s SEO Metadata
The Get Post SEO Meta MCP tool (rank-math/get-post-seo-meta) lets your AI assistant retrieve your post’s SEO metadata. This includes its title, description, focus keyword, robots settings, canonical URL, OpenGraph metadata, Twitter Card metadata, and SEO score.
This gives your AI assistant full visibility into your post’s SEO setup and helps it to understand what is already configured, how it may be performing, and what is missing.
2.6 Retrieve Links From Your Post
The Get Post Links MCP tool (rank-math/get-post-links) lets your AI assistant retrieve all internal and external links in your posts. This includes the post’s total link count along with each link’s URL, anchor text, and follow status.
This gives your AI assistant a clear picture of your post’s link profile. This helps it to avoid duplicating URLs or anchor texts already in the content, and uncover link opportunities relevant to your post.
2.7 Check the Status of Links Across Your Site
The Get Link Report MCP tool (rank-math/get-link-report) lets your AI assistant retrieve the status of the links across your site.
- For Rank Math Free users, your AI assistant can identify posts without internal or external links, as well as retrieve the number of internal and external links on your site
- Rank Math PRO users get all of that, plus a comprehensive link audit that includes the total number of broken links and redirect chains, as well as the follow status of the links, and their HTTP status
This helps your AI assistant assess the health of your links and identify opportunities for improvement. For example, your AI assistant can use this tool to detect broken links before suggesting whether to remove or redirect them.
3 How to Track and Update Your AI Mentions Using Rank Math MCP
Rank Math also offers MCP tools that let you access the reports and features available in AI Visibility. The available MCP tools and abilities include:
- Retrieve AI Visibility report for all tracked brands
- Retrieve AI Visibility report for a specific brand
- Retrieve all queries being tracked for a brand
- Add a New Brand to Track on AI Platforms
3.1 Retrieve AI Visibility Report for All Tracked Brands Content AI
The Get AI Visibility Overview (rank-math/get-ai-visibility-overview) MCP tool lets your AI assistant retrieve metrics and reports about your brand’s overall visibility on AI platforms.
The reported metrics will typically include your global AI Visibility score, the total number of brands you’re tracking, the average number of mentions per brand, and the number of analyses performed in the last 24 hours.
It will also include insights into individual products or brands, such as their name, URL, mentions, citations, sentiment, rank, and AI visibility score.
3.2 Retrieve AI Visibility Report for a Specific Brand Content AI
The Get AI Visibility Brand Insights (rank-math/get-ai-visibility-brand-insights) MCP tool lets your AI assistant retrieve the AI Visibility metrics for a specific brand.
The reported metrics will typically include the brand’s AI Visibility score, rank, recent mentions, citations, average sentiment, and queries. It will also include its competitors, their mentions, and average sentiment.
For example, we track multiple brands, including the iPad. So we can instruct our AI assistant to retrieve its AI Visibility reports and metrics.
3.3 Retrieve All Queries Being Tracked for a Brand Content AI
The Get AI Visibility Brand Queries (rank-math/get-ai-visibility-brand-queries) MCP tool lets your AI assistant retrieve the specific queries that are being monitored for a product or brand you are tracking.
3.4 Add a New Brand to Track on AI Platforms Content AI
The Create AI Visibility Brand (rank-math/create-ai-visibility-brand) MCP tool lets you add new brands for AI Visibility to track.
You just need to provide your AI assistant with the product or brand name, URL, description, and country (optional). Once done, AI Visibility will begin tracking it.
Note: Make the description as detailed as possible. Tell us what the brand or product is used for, who the target audience is, and what makes it stand out from the competition. This helps AI Visibility to accurately track it across AI platforms.
For example, we want to track a brand called Adidas. So, we will enter a relevant prompt such as the one below.
In this example, you can see the AI Visibility dashboard available at WordPress dashboard → Rank Math SEO → AI Visibility now includes the new brand (Adidas) we just started tracking.
That is how to use the available Rank Math MCP tools to complete SEO tasks directly from your AI assistant. If you have any questions, you’re always more than welcome to contact our dedicated support team, who are available 24/7, 365 days a year.