What is the SEO tab, and how do I use it?
The SEO tab is a workspace in codus where you set up your clients, create SEO projects for them, and run a team of AI SEO specialists that audit a site and hand you evidence-backed gaps and fixes. It appears in the top bar only if your team has the SEO module. If you cannot see it, that is almost always why, and not a fault.
Before you start
- You need the SEO module on your account. It adds the whole SEO area, and without it the tab does not show at all. See What are the modules, and what does each one add?.
- codus is a macOS app, so this all happens in the desktop app, not in a web browser.
What you see
Click SEO in the top bar. The screen splits into three columns.
- Left column: your brands and projects. This is a searchable tree. The header reads Brands, and each brand (your client) opens to show its SEO projects. This is where you add clients and create projects.
- Centre column: the workspace. When you open a project, this shows its work across three sub-tabs, Data, Analysis and Charts. When you open a brand instead, it shows that brand's overview and settings.
- Right column: Live View and the team. The top, labelled Live View, mirrors whatever page an agent is looking at, live. Below it, under Team, is a row of the agents (the SEO Manager and its specialists) and the terminal for whichever one you select.
Nothing is selected the first time you open the tab, so the centre reads Nothing selected with the hint "Pick a brand or an SEO project from the tree on the left, or add one to get started." That is expected.
The shortest path to something useful
- Add a brand for your client. See How do I add an SEO client and create a project?.
- Create a project under that brand, for example "Homepage audit" or "Blog content review".
- Open the project and click Run team. The SEO Manager and its specialists get to work. See How do I run an SEO audit with the team?.
- Read what they hand back in the Data, Analysis and Charts tabs. See Where does the SEO team's work show up?.
A wording thing that trips people up
The left column calls your clients Brands, but the tab's own tooltip calls them "clients". They are the same thing. A brand is a client you are doing SEO for. Under each brand you create projects, which are the individual pieces of SEO work.
How do I know it worked?
If you can see a tab labelled SEO in the top bar of codus, you have the module and you are in the right place. Opening it should show the three columns described above.
Common problems
"There is no SEO tab." Your account does not have the SEO module. That is the single most common reason. See Why can't I see the SEO tab?.
"I saw every tab on someone else's codus and mine has fewer." A development or demo build shows all the areas regardless of what is paid for. A normal account only shows the modules it holds, so fewer tabs is expected, not broken.