Cursor + Answer Socrates
How to Do SEO in Cursor
Add Answer Socrates to Cursor and do your SEO research inside your editor. Ask in plain English and Cursor pulls real Google data: hundreds of real searches for any keyword, 12 months of Google Trends and the searches rising right now. Then it groups the lot into a content plan, next to the code you are writing.
- Keyword research from real Google searches, not guesses
- Google Trends and rising searches for any country
- Clusters by topic, search intent and funnel stage
Last updated: October 2026
How do I connect Answer Socrates to Cursor?
Add Answer Socrates to Cursor as a remote MCP server: one entry in your mcp.json and an API key from your Answer Socrates account.
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Create an API key on your Answer Socrates Account page. It is shown once, so copy it somewhere safe.
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Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or .cursor/mcp.json for one project) and add this, with your key in place of as_live_YOUR_KEY:
{ "mcpServers": { "answersocrates": { "url": "https://answersocrates.com/api/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer as_live_YOUR_KEY" } } } } - 3
Save the file and restart Cursor. Under Customize in the sidebar, check that answersocrates is switched on.
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Open the chat in Agent mode. Cursor asks before it runs a tool, so allow the Answer Socrates tools when it does.
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Ask your first question in plain English, for example: Use Answer Socrates to pull the keywords for real estate.
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Keyword research in Cursor
Ask Cursor for keywords on its own and it guesses from what it learned in training. With Answer Socrates connected it pulls what people actually type into Google: hundreds of real search phrases per keyword (1,413 in the pull below), sorted into four groups.
Questions
How, what, why, can: the questions people ask about your topic, ready for FAQs and blog posts.
Prepositions
For, with, without, near: the qualifiers that show what people actually want.
Comparisons
Vs, or, like, and: the head-to-head searches that sit right before a buying decision.
Autocomplete
The full a to z list of Google suggestions for your keyword.
YouTube keyword research in Cursor
Planning videos? Ask for the YouTube version and Cursor pulls what people type into YouTube's own search box, sorted into the same four groups. YouTube searches lean towards tutorials, reviews and how-tos, so the list is different from Google's.
Pull the YouTube keywords for home workout and show me the how-to questions first.
get_youtube_keywords
Here are the YouTube searches for home workout, grouped into Questions, Prepositions, Comparisons and Autocomplete, with the how-to questions up top. Want the Google version too?
Google Trends in Cursor
Name a market and Cursor maps it: what's climbing, what's seasonal and what's fading, from 12 months of Google Trends data in any country. Rising searches adds the related searches growing fastest right now.
12-month trends
Weekly Google Trends interest for any keyword across the last 12 months, in any country.
Seasonality
See when a keyword peaks and when it dips, so your content is live before the rush.
Compare locations
Run the same keyword in the UK, the US or any other country and chart them side by side.
Rank a basket of keywords
Compare 10 or more keywords at once to see which are climbing and which are fading.
Rising and Breakout searches
The related searches growing fastest right now, including brand-new Breakouts.
Charts, tables and CSVs
Ask Cursor to chart it, table it or export it. Reworking data it already pulled costs nothing.
And much more. Ask in plain English and Cursor picks the right tools, like this UK vs US comparison:
What's happening in the supplement space?
get_rising_topicsget_trends ×12
Over the last 12 months, the big movers are clear whey +190%, creatine gummies +94% (a real format shift, not hype), electrolytes +63% and magnesium glycinate +62%. Classic whey is resurging (+64%) while ashwagandha is the only decliner (−5%). That trend has peaked.
In the rising searches, Nutricost whey is up +1,850% and two brands hit Breakout. Almost everything peaks in April, so publish by March to catch the crest. Want me to pull the full keyword set for creatine gummies? (1 request)
Keyword clustering in Cursor
Use the list Cursor just pulled, or point it at a file of your own. Answer Socrates groups it into topics and labels every keyword with search intent and funnel stage, so you know what to write first. Clustering is paid in cluster credits, 1 per keyword, not requests.
Group those into topics and tell me which are commercial
cluster_keywords
931 keywords into 18 topics. The biggest is what keyword research is at 206 keywords, almost all top-of-funnel. The money is elsewhere: free keyword research tools (144) and paid tools and pricing (72) are both commercial and mid-funnel.
Only 13% didn't fit a topic. Want me to list any cluster in full, or export the lot as a CSV?
Cursor on its own vs Cursor with Answer Socrates
Cursor is great at building, editing and refactoring code. What it lacks is live search data, and that is the part Answer Socrates adds.
| Task | Cursor alone | With Answer Socrates |
|---|---|---|
| Keyword ideas | Guesses from training data | Hundreds of real Google searches per keyword |
| Questions people ask | Plausible-sounding questions | Real questions from Google autocomplete |
| Search trends | No Google Trends data | 12 months of Google Trends, any country |
| What's rising now | Whatever web search turns up | Google's rising searches, Breakouts included |
| Clustering | Groups whatever you paste | Topics, intent and funnel stage for every keyword |
| Saving the work | Stays in the chat | Saved to your projects for the whole team |
What can you ask Cursor?
Anything you would ask an SEO on your team. Name the topic, the market and what you want back, and Cursor can write the results straight into your project files.
Keyword research
Pull the keywords
“Pull the full keyword set for “standing desk” in the UK and show me the questions first.”
Content plan
Plan a month of content
“Find what's rising in home fitness, pull keywords for the top three topics and cluster them into a content plan.”
Trends
Compare a basket
“Compare interest in creatine gummies vs powder over the last 12 months. Which one is growing?”
Your website
Research my site
“Read the pages in this repo and do keyword research for the topics they cover.”
Search intent
Find the money keywords
“Group these keywords by topic and tell me which ones are commercial.”
Files
Write it to a file
“Cluster the questions and save the plan as content-plan.md in this folder.”
Can Answer Socrates help me rank in AI search?
That is a different job, on the same account. This page is about using Cursor to do your SEO. To find out whether AI assistants recommend your brand, the LLM Brand Tracker runs your prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and more, and shows who gets mentioned.
Track your brand in AI searchWhat does it cost?
Connecting is free. The data comes from your Answer Socrates plan, where every plan includes 3 requests a month to try it and Seneca and above include the full allowances. Your plan has two separate allowances:
Requests
1 request per data call: rising topics, Google Trends or a full keyword pull. Checking your usage, saving to projects and exports are free.
Cluster credits
1 credit per keyword you cluster, 10 to 1,000 keywords per call. These are the same cluster credits as the clustering tool in the app, and clustering never spends requests.
| Plan | Requests | Cluster credits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 3 /mo | ✕ |
| Lite | 3 /mo | ✕ |
| Seneca | 500 /mo | 12,000 /mo |
| Aurelius | 2,500 /mo | 40,000 /mo |
| Senate | 25,000 /mo | 100,000 /mo |
Free and Lite include 3 requests a month to try it, renewed on the 1st, with no clustering through MCP. Yearly plans get 12 months of both allowances up front. Team plans share one pool across all seats.
See plansUse Answer Socrates in other AI assistants
Same account, same tools. Answer Socrates works in any assistant that supports MCP.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Cursor can build, script and write, but on its own it has no live search data, so its keyword ideas are educated guesses. Add Answer Socrates and Cursor can pull real Google searches, Google Trends and rising searches, then cluster them into a content plan, inside your editor.