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Programmatic SEO skill

Build many useful pages from a template and data (locations, integrations, comparisons) without thin or duplicate content.

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Category
SEO
Works with
Claude, Codex, Cursor, any agent
Format
SKILL.md · 1,761 words
Version
v0.2.0
Price
Free · MIT

The Programmatic SEO skill file

cmo-programmatic-seo/SKILL.md1,761 words · MIT
---
name: cmo-programmatic-seo
description: Build many useful pages from a template and data (locations, integrations, comparisons) without thin or duplicate content.
---

Programmatic SEO builds many pages from one template and a dataset, each aimed at a variation of the same search pattern: a service in each city, an integration with each app, a template for each use case, a definition for each term. It works when every page answers its own query with information the other pages do not have. It fails, sometimes with a site-wide penalty, when pages are the same text with a word swapped. This skill decides whether a pattern is worth building, designs a template that produces genuinely different pages, and rolls them out safely. Maggie can then add supporting articles to the CMO.so blog plan.

When to use

  • A business has a natural list of entities searchers combine with a modifier (locations, integrations, use cases, industries, templates, glossary terms, comparisons).
  • A competitor ranks with a large set of templated pages.
  • An existing programmatic section is not indexed or is losing traffic.
  • Not for: a handful of pages (brief them one by one with cmo-content-brief), the content rules of comparison pages (use cmo-competitor-pages), or a single business's map and location presence (use cmo-local-seo).
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Adapts open work by alirezarezvani/claude-skills (MIT), AgriciDaniel/claude-seo (MIT), irinabuht12-oss/marketing-skills (none), irinabuht12-oss/marketing-skills (none), AgriciDaniel/claude-seo (MIT), kostja94/marketing-skills (MIT).

Everyday usage

How people use Programmatic SEO day to day

Ask in plain words. The agent picks this skill, asks for anything it needs and hands back the result. Words in a highlight are yours to change.

Most common · also on the SEO page

Programmatic SEO

Opportunity table: pattern, page count, demand evidence, data source, risk

Ask your agentBuild pages at scale
  • Opportunity table: pattern, page count, demand evidence, data source, risk
  • Page template spec: URL, title and meta formulas, sections, unique-data rules, links, schema
  • Quality gates, rollout batches and kill rules
  • Optional: supporting blog ideas added to CMO.so

More things to ask

  • Programmatic SEO for my site
  • One page per city we serve
  • Integration pages for every app we connect to
  • Template pages from our database
  • Are my programmatic pages too thin?
  • We want to rank for hundreds of similar keywords
How it works

From input to output

  1. 1You give it
    • The repeating search pattern (e.g. \"[service] in [city]\", \"[product] + [app] integration\")
    • The data each page would be built from, and who owns it
    • CMS or framework, and the site's current size
  2. 2It works through the method
    • Asks what's missing, one question at a time
    • Follows the workflow step by step
    • Checks the result against its quality bar and guardrails
  3. 3You get
    • Opportunity table: pattern, page count, demand evidence, data source, risk
    • Page template spec: URL, title and meta formulas, sections, unique-data rules, links, schema
    • Quality gates, rollout batches and kill rules
    • Optional: supporting blog ideas added to CMO.so
Why a skill

The skill against the alternatives

Do it yourselfHire helpProgrammatic SEO skill
CostYour own timeAgency or freelancer feesFree, MIT licence
Time to a first resultHours, every timeDays to weeks, plus revisionsMinutes, in your agent
ConsistencyDepends on remembering every stepAs long as the retainer lastsSame steps and checks every run
The methodIn your headTheir process, often hiddenWritten down: read it, change it
Who does the workYou, from scratchSomeone learning your businessYour agent, following the skill
FAQ

Questions about the Programmatic SEO skill

What it does, what it needs and how to use it with your agent.

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What is the Programmatic SEO skill?

Build many useful pages from a template and data (locations, integrations, comparisons) without thin or duplicate content.

It's one of cmo.so's open SEO skills: a SKILL.md file that tells an AI agent when to use it, what to ask you first, the steps to follow, the checks to pass and what to hand back, so the job is done the same careful way every time.

When should I use it?

Reach for it when you'd otherwise say something like “Build pages at scale”, “Programmatic SEO for my site”, “One page per city we serve”. Your agent reads the skill's description and picks it for requests like these, so you don't need to name it.

If a request is close but not quite right, the skill says so and points to the related skill that fits better, instead of forcing a poor answer.

What do I need to give it?

It works best with the repeating search pattern (e.g. \"[service] in [city]\", \"[product] + [app] integration\"); the data each page would be built from, and who owns it; and cMS or framework, and the site's current size.

You don't have to prepare everything up front. The skill asks for missing pieces one at a time and says plainly when it's working from an assumption instead of your data.

What do I get back?

You get opportunity table: pattern, page count, demand evidence, data source, risk; page template spec: URL, title and meta formulas, sections, unique-data rules, links, schema; quality gates, rollout batches and kill rules; and optional: supporting blog ideas added to CMO.so.

Every result comes from a written method with a quality bar, so numbers name their source, claims are checked and the output is ready to use or share rather than a rough draft.

Is it free?

Yes. The skill is open source under the MIT licence, so you can use it, change it and share it, including for client work.

Seeing, copying and downloading the whole file on cmo.so needs a free sign-in. Copying also upvotes and saves it, so you can find it again under Saved on the skills page.

Which AI agents can use it?

Claude Code installs it from the cmo.so marketplace. Any agent that reads SKILL.md folders, such as Codex or Cursor, can use it once the folder is in its skills directory.

You can also paste the copied skill into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant at the start of a conversation and ask it to follow the skill.

How do I install it?

In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills, then /plugin install cmo-so-seo@cmo-so. That installs this skill together with the rest of the SEO group.

For other agents, sign in, press Copy or Download above and put the file in your agent's skills folder as SKILL.md inside a folder named after the skill.

Do I need a cmo.so account to use it?

No. The skill works on its own with whatever your agent can already see and do: your files, the pages you share and the data you paste in.

With cmo.so connected it can go further, using tools such as ideas_import_sitemap, idea_add through the MCP server. Every change is previewed and confirmed before it happens.

Which skills work well with it?

It pairs well with Site architecture & internal links; and Comparison & alternative pages. The agent can hand over from one to the next in the same conversation, for example research first, then the plan, then the writing.

Each of them has its own page with what it needs and what it returns, linked below.

Can I change it to fit my business?

Yes. It's a plain Markdown file, so you can edit the steps, add your own checks and examples, and keep your version in your own repo. The MIT licence allows it.

If your change would help others too, suggest it on the skills page or open a pull request on GitHub, and it may be folded into the library for everyone.

Where does the method come from?

It's written by cmo.so and adapts open work by others, credited on this page: alirezarezvani/claude-skills (MIT); AgriciDaniel/claude-seo (MIT); and irinabuht12-oss/marketing-skills (none).

Only permissively licensed work is adapted; copyleft repos are used for ideas only and repos without a licence aren't used at all.

Is my data sent to cmo.so when the agent uses it?

No. The skill only guides your own agent; your files, documents and data stay wherever your agent and its tools keep them.

cmo.so only sees what you connect to cmo.so. Your votes and saves on this page are stored against your cmo.so sign-in.

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