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A schedule trigger runs the workflow daily at 8 AM.\n2. The **Configuration** node holds every variable you may want to change (keywords, target domain, country, language, AI model, report email).\n3. Each keyword is sent to the **Apify Google Search Scraper**, which returns the top organic results for your country and language.\n4. A Code node flattens the results into clean rows: keyword, rank, title, URL, domain, description, and whether the result belongs to your target domain.\n5. Every row is appended to a **Google Sheets** ranking log, building a day-by-day SEO history.\n6. All rankings are combined and sent to **OpenAI**, which writes a short SEO report: where your domain ranks, who the top competitors are, and 3-5 prioritized opportunities.\n7. The report lands in your inbox via **Gmail** as a clean HTML email.\n\n## Setup\n1. Open the **Configuration** node and set your keywords (comma-separated), target domain, country code, language code, results per keyword, OpenAI model and report email. This is the only node you need to edit.\n2. Select your **Apify** credential on the \"Scrape Google results with Apify\" node (header auth with your Apify API token).\n3. Select your **Google Sheets** credential and pick the spreadsheet + tab on the \"Log rankings to Google Sheets\" node. Create a sheet with the columns: checked_at, keyword, rank, title, url, domain, description, is_target_domain.\n4. Select your **OpenAI** credential on the \"OpenAI Chat Model\" node.\n5. Select your **Gmail** credential on the \"Email the SEO report\" node.\n6. Run the workflow once manually to verify, then activate it.\n\n## Requirements\n- An [Apify](https://apify.com) account and API token (the Google Search Scraper actor is used via the REST API)\n- An OpenAI API key\n- A Google account with Sheets and Gmail access\n\n## Customization\n- Change the schedule (hourly, weekly) in the trigger node.\n- Track more keywords: just extend the comma-separated list in Configuration.\n- Increase `results_per_keyword` (up to 100) to monitor deeper SERP positions.\n- Localize your tracking with `country_code` and `language_code` (e.g. fr / fr for France).\n- Edit the system prompt in \"Generate AI SEO report\" to change the tone or structure of the report.\n- Replace Gmail with Slack or Telegram to receive the report elsewhere.\n\nNeed help customizing?\nContact me for consulting and support : [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/doctor-firass/)\n\n# MY NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL\n\ud83d\udc49 [Subscribe to my new YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@DrFiras_AI). Here I'll share videos and Shorts with practical tutorials and FREE templates for n8n.\n\n[![The AI Doctor](https://www.dr-firas.com/the-ai-doctor.png)](https://www.youtube.com/@DrFiras_AI)" }, "typeVersion": 1 }, { "id": "6ce91983-82d8-462c-bd1c-dc8e6c36cd49", "name": "Sticky Note 03b9eeb7", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [ -64, -80 ], "parameters": { "color": 7, "width": 460, "height": 460, "content": "## 1. Schedule & configuration\nThe workflow runs daily. Set ALL your variables in the **Configuration** node: keywords, target domain, country, language, results per keyword, OpenAI model and report email." }, "typeVersion": 1 }, { "id": "fd8c31f7-fa21-4cbc-9908-6499b16abbc9", "name": "Sticky Note 5bbeb576", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [ 432, -80 ], "parameters": { "color": 7, "width": 680, "height": 460, "content": "## 2. Scrape Google results with Apify\nEach keyword becomes one item and is sent to the Apify Google Search Scraper (REST API, synchronous run). Requests are throttled to 1 per 2 seconds." }, "typeVersion": 1 }, { "id": "f7971bd0-9a68-4617-9d14-8348c9e24c76", "name": "Sticky Note 4333a547", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [ 1120, -80 ], "parameters": { "color": 7, "width": 420, "height": 460, "content": "## 3. Parse & log rankings\nA Code node flattens the SERP results into clean rows (keyword, rank, title, URL, domain, target-domain flag) and appends them to your Google Sheets ranking history." }, "typeVersion": 1 }, { "id": "acf5a00e-678a-4694-bbe4-f55d91d1ed91", "name": "Sticky Note 70a5333e", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.stickyNote", "position": [ 1568, -80 ], "parameters": { "color": 7, "width": 760, "height": 620, "content": "## 4. AI SEO report by email\nAll rankings are combined into one payload. 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