How to connect Google Gemini to SEO Ops for AI drafting

Plan: Premium. AI drafting is not included in the Free plugin. See pricing.

SEO Ops can use Google Gemini to draft tasks, summaries and report text. AI is optional: without a provider, everything else works and the AI actions are simply not offered. This guide covers the setup.

Before you start

• You need a Google account with a Gemini API key. You use your own key, so you choose the model and control the cost.
• You need to be able to manage integrations in SEO Ops.

Step 1: Create an API key

In Google AI Studio, create a Gemini API key and copy it. Treat it like a password.

Step 2: Add it to SEO Ops

1. Go to Settings › Integrations and find AI providers.
2. On the Google Gemini card, choose Add API key.
3. Paste the API key.
4. Enter the Model. This must be the exact model name from Google, so copy it from Google’s list of Gemini models.
5. Choose Save. The key is stored encrypted and never shown again, apart from its last four characters.

Step 3: Test it, then check the speed

1. Choose Test. SEO Ops checks that Google accepts the key and recognises the model.
2. Choose Speed check. It sends a tiny request and reports how long the model took. If it takes more than about 15 seconds, SEO Ops warns you that drafting will be slow and suggests trying a faster model.

SEO Ops waits up to 45 seconds for a draft before giving up.

Using it day to day

Gemini powers the same AI actions as OpenAI: generating tasks from a strategy, breaking a task into subtasks, analysing an opportunity, suggesting tasks from meeting notes, summarising a strategy or a discussion, drafting strategy sections and drafting a report summary. All output is labelled AI-generated and must be reviewed by a person before a client can see it.

If something goes wrong

• Google rejects the key: check you copied the whole key and that the Gemini API is enabled for it.
• The model is not found: the name must match Google’s exactly.
• A draft times out: choose a faster model and run the speed check again.
• Keys will not save: see the integrations overview.

Only one AI provider is used at a time: the one you saved most recently becomes the active one. To switch back to OpenAI, save its key and model again. See how to connect OpenAI.