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Prioritize striking-distance SEO fixes with GSC, Thordata, OpenAI and Sheets

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Last update 8 hours ago

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Quick overview

This workflow runs manually or weekly to identify “striking distance” SEO pages from Google Search Console, pull first-page SERP references via Thordata, compare your page content against rivals, generate a single prioritized improvement with OpenAI, log results to Google Sheets, and post a run digest to Slack.

How it works

  1. Runs on a manual trigger for testing or every Monday at 09:00 (Asia/Shanghai) on a schedule.
  2. Queries the Google Search Console Search Analytics API for two date windows and selects pages with enough impressions and average positions in the configured range.
  3. For each unique query, calls Thordata SERP API (Google Search) to collect first-page organic results and choose a small set of rival reference URLs.
  4. Fetches the HTML for the target page and reference pages, then extracts titles, meta descriptions, headings, and opening text to build an evidence bundle per opportunity.
  5. When there is readable target and reference evidence, sends the evidence to OpenAI to return one JSON recommendation (missing topics, recommended action, intent match, confidence, and cited URLs).
  6. Writes all opportunity rows (analysed and manual-review) into a Google Sheets worksheet and composes a summary digest with run status, limitations, and request counts.
  7. Posts the digest message to the configured Slack channel.

Setup

  1. Add Google API (service account) credentials with access to your Google Search Console property and include the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters.readonly scope for the HTTP requests.
  2. Install n8n-nodes-thordata and add Thordata SERP API credentials for the Google Search operation.
  3. Add OpenAI credentials and set a valid model ID in the Settings node (for example gpt-4o-mini).
  4. Add Google Sheets OAuth2 credentials with edit access, create a worksheet named Striking Distance with the provided 41-column header template, and set the spreadsheet ID in Settings.
  5. Add Slack credentials with chat:write, invite the bot to your channel, and paste the Slack channel ID into Settings (then test with max_pages=1 before enabling the schedule).