Hermes Workspace V2.30: Ultimate AI SEO Agent & Setup Guide
Learn how to use the brand new Hermes Workspace update to scale your website traffic using autonomous agents. This guide covers everything from installation and agent swarms to a deep comparison between Hermes and OpenClaw.
00:00 - Intro: Hermes Workspace V2.30
00:28 - Real AI SEO Traffic Results
01:10 - How to Install & Connect Hermes
02:48 - Building Websites with Agent Swarms
06:39 - Hermes vs. OpenClaw Comparison
11:50 - Using OMI & Obsidian for Context
14:46 - Creating AI Videos for SEO
16:51 - AI SEO Training & Strategy Session
Full transcript
Today, we're going to be looking at how to do AI SEO with Hermes Workspace. Now Hermes Workspace, it just got a brand new release. This is like an awesome free mission control for your Hermes agent. You can control your agents.
You can create agent swarms. There's all sorts of cool stuff you can do. And it just had a new update for the latest version. So Hermes version 0.13 just dropped.
And now Hermes Workspace has created an update out of the back of it. Right. And this is a free open source project. Now, what I'm going to show you is basically how I'm using Hermes agent to do AI SEO.
You can see some examples of it here is another example of a website that is popping off in terms of traffic. Look at this website is growing from zero clicks a day, all the way up to 346 clicks a day is another website that is growing since we started using Hermes agent. Previously, it was getting one click a day. Now that's growing to 78 clicks per day.
And here's another website as well, right? They're all following the same trajectory because Hermes is so powerful as an AI SEO agent. Now, if you're watching live, feel free to ask any questions as we go along. Otherwise we're going to get straight into this.
And if you want to set up Hermes workspace, then it's free to set up with this GitHub, right? So basically you can install it using this and this will work directly with your Hermes workspace. So you can check it out on GitHub directly, or you can get it from their website, which is as you can see right here. And once you've done that, you can actually get Hermes to run it locally, like you can see.
And then if you already have this installed, what you want to do is just make sure that you have the latest version and the new update, right? And that it's connected. So that's what we're doing over here. Let me show you an example.
All right. So we've installed Hermes workspace. We've just updated the latest version. And what we need to do now is just connect our Hermes agent to the workspace connection over here.
And then these work nicely. All right. So this is Hermes inside the terminal. This is Hermes inside Hermes workspace.
And if you want to get access, you can go over here and get it for free. All right. So what do we get with the new update? Why is it so powerful?
It's pretty interesting. So Hermes workspace is a new release. So this is v2.30. They've actually got this interesting game or AI agents that you can play inside here too, which is pretty cool.
Let me find this. So here's an example, right? You can have your AI agents in this game, this real world game playing together, which is pretty insane. These are all AI agents just going off and doing stuff, which is pretty crazy.
And then they've added a bunch of patches here, but also they've got a new dashboard with widgets as well, which is pretty cool. And there's an agent view panel. Now there's some other really cool stuff for Hermes agent. Like for example, what you can actually do is you can create agent swarms and with agent swarms, you can basically create and build a full website using this, and you can switch between models and providers pretty quickly as well.
Right? So if you just want an easier way to manage your agents, this is one of the best ways to do it. If you have any issues connecting, like you can see, I have here, I'm just going to paste in the GitHub documentation over to Hermes and just make sure that it gets that fixed. And then we can go from here, boom.
And we have that working, right? So we just have to paste in the documentation from GitHub, give that to Hermes, Hermes fixed and connected it directly, which is great. Now you might say, okay, why would you use this? Look at this, right?
Unless you're a coder or developer, look at the terminal compared to the workspace here. This is the terminal and this is Hermes workspace. Which one is nicer to use? Of course it's this one, right?
This is way nicer to use, right? And so that's why I'd recommend using this. It's just way easier and way better to use. Now we've got some good questions here.
For example, Kenny asked, how about paperclip? Can these two work together? So I would recommend that if you have a choice between Hermes workspace and paperclip, I would go with actually using paperclip directly. The reason, sorry, using Hermes workspace directly.
The reason for that is like it's built. It's literally built for using Hermes directly, right? It's custom designed for Hermes. Whereas you look at something like paperclip and it can be a bit buggy sometimes with Hermes.
It's just not as useful. And also you just don't, it doesn't feel the same when you eat something like paperclip, I would say Hermes workspace is a lot nicer, from everything I've seen. Cobra says, are you real? I certainly hope so, my friend.
I really hope so. Yeah. All right. So we're going to carry on that note and we've got Hermes workspace right here.
Now just going to go inside my settings and paste this into it. So it's set up and it's connected here, but you can see this authentication required. So I'm just going to get Hermes agent inside the terminal to connect that as well. Right.
I think it's good for you to see this because you can see, okay, what are the issues, what's going on here, blah, blah, blah, and what's going on now. One of the really cool things about Hermes, you can have different profiles. So you can create a new profile for your agent. You can set up the details here.
So you could put like SEO, for example, and then you can change your default model. So we can, for example, use GPT 5.5. If you're actually using it for like content writing, then I would use something like Sonic 4.7. From there, you can create the profile and then just manage it from here.
Now, if we go to details here, we can actually manage like the config, the setup and how it works, et cetera, which is pretty cool as well. We can also activate that. So we can click on activate here and get it running. So SEO is now the agent that we're talking to, or we can switch back to the default one over here or to our other agents, like we can activate that one.
Right. And now what's pretty cool over here is you can manage everything in one session. So you can see, okay, what the sessions, what the messages, how many tool calls, et cetera. Quinn says, yo, good to see it.
Yo, to you too. And then over here, we can set up to-do lists, right? So if you're using this for SEO, you could explain what needs to be done and then you're going to assign it. Right.
So over this side, you'd say, okay, what needs to be done? We need to build an AISEO blog post, something like that. You can put in a description here of what you want it to do exactly. And then you can put in the to-do list or in progress or review, et cetera.
What priority is, who you want to assign it to, the due date and the tax. Right. As you can see, and then you can actually get your agents to go off and start working with these directly. So they can start actually implementing this as a combat board.
So you can switch between to-do, backlog, in progress, or review. That's a nice little way to manage your agents. And so you can give it tasks from there. So it could be like keyword research.
It could be, for example, building an SEO tool, that sort of thing. So what we got here, Kenny says, I'm still not sure about open call versus Hermes. Can you explain a bit more? Yeah, sure.
All right. Let's compare these now. So here's how I would look at it when I put a little column here and we can just compare the two between them. All right.
So when you're looking at something like, for example, open call, and then you've got Hermes, some of the biggest differences here, number one, Hermes self-improving, so it gets better every time. Open call doesn't get better. Actually after every update, it tends to get worse, right? It's getting worse after each update.
The other big issue, both of them are like open source. So they're both open source projects, which is pretty cool. And also free, which is great. So unlike for example, cloud code or something like that, these are both open source pre-projects.
The other thing I would say here is like more updates daily. So open call release updates daily, whereas for example, something like Hermes, they update weekly. And also if you look at the updates with Hermes, recent updates are all about becoming more autonomous, right? So for example, you look at Kanban boards that they've released recently, goals.
You look at stuff like that and you think, wow, they're really trying to create something that's super autonomous as an AI agent, when you actually look at something like, for example, open claw, they're just trying to stay stable. They're really, and they're struggling. That's the big issue here. And also if you look at open router and the usage of both, if you go over to open router and we have a look and we see, okay, what's trending here, what apps are using which, right?
So we can have a look at, for example, open claw, we can have a look at Hermes. Top two most popular agents on open router in the world. So if we have a look at open, open claw, you can see the trajectory here. It's going down, right?
It's going down quite a lot. Significantly, if you ask me, right now you look at Hermes and you look at the trajectory of Hermes. Okay. That's a project that's getting better all the time and more and more people are using it.
So open claw is getting worse with each update. Hermes is getting better with every update. Okay. And then also big difference in the owners.
So Peter Steinberger plus OpenAI are both behind OpenClaw along with the open source community. Right. There's a lot of open source contributors. If you look at who's behind Hermes agent, basically you've got Noose Research, which one of the most respected AI labs in the world, plus have their own models.
Right. Well, as you look at something like, for example, OpenClaw, they don't have their own models behind it. You could say our OpenAI have their own models, but OpenAI are more like behind the scenes and have really just hired Peter Steinberger. It's not OpenClaw themselves have got a model called OpenClaw, whereas Hermes actually has models called Hermes.
Right. So that's the differences here. So just to recap, OpenClaw is getting worse after each update, OpenSource plus free, more updates daily, trying to stay stable and Peter Steinberger and OpenAI behind it. Hermes, self-improving, gets better every time, OpenSource, updates weekly, not daily.
Recent updates are all about becoming more autonomous and powerful. Hermes is getting better with every update. And also, if you look at the trajectory, more people want Hermes, as we saw with OpenRoot's chart before, whereas OpenClaw is declining as a project. Right.
Less and less people are using AI agents like OpenClaw. So those are the big differences between them, I would say. I would, if you have time, try them both, see what you think. But that's what I would say between them.
They're the biggest differences. Those are some crazy looking headphones. Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that.
So that's basically it. So we've talked about how to do AI SEO with the Kanban board here. We've also got something called Conductor. So this is like an office, as you can see here.
I want to also see, where is the, something I want to check out here, which is Hermes World Integration. How do we get to that? I'm going to go inside Hermes and ask it. So let's take a look here.
It's going to give us some ideas. You can see our agents working around here, by the way. This is our office area, Hermes agents working together. He's real because he can say, oh llama.
There we go. Thanks, man. Happy to help. Hermes is best.
What about the update? It's working pretty well for me so far. And we're using it with GPT 5.5. It's just having a look at the details here.
So then what we've also got is Swarms, right? Now with Agent Swarms inside Hermes workspace, you can give it a mission and then it will go off and build that, right? So as an example of this, we actually built out this example right here, and this is a full website that we built out with a mission inside Agent Swarms, right? And it's built out the blog post, built out all the design.
It's added the internal links, the CTAs, et cetera, throughout the website, optimize it for all the keywords, planned out the strategy before I actually built it, et cetera. Now, the way that you could do that is you can go into Agent Swarms like when you just described a mission. So you would say, okay, go off, build me a website, go off, do my keyword strategy, go off, do a full SEO strategy for my website, and it's pretty powerful for doing that. You can see an example right here.
So that's basically how it works directly. And then you can also add knowledge. You can add memories, et cetera, which is pretty cool. But there's so much cool stuff here.
Even the fact that you can build out a whole website is pretty amazing itself, pretty crazy stuff. You can see it's nicely designed and everything else. What do you use for AI avatars? I have a lot of training on that inside the AI Profitable Boarding.
So I definitely recommend checking out. Link in the description or go to the AI Profitable Boarding.com. How you find Omni? Yeah, it's really good.
I like Omni. It's really powerful. It's, if people watching this are not familiar with it, basically Omni is like a way of, it's a powerful way of like recording everything that you do. And then it will create to-do lists for you.
It will create a lot of context for you, add tasks or add memories and that sort of thing, as you can see right here. And then what you can actually do is the way that I like to do this is I will export that into Obsidian, right? So I can export that to a memory file inside Obsidian. And then it stores all my memories, right?
We literally got a thousand memories inside there, inside Obsidian, which is crazy. And then I can give that memory MD file to my AI agents so that they have a lot of context on exactly how it works and what I'm working on, what I do, et cetera. And I think that's one of the most powerful ways you can use AI agents. It's just giving it a lot of information and context in terms of what you do, how you do it, what you work on day to day, because the more context your AI agents have in terms of what you do and what you work on, the better they're going to be understanding how to help you.
And that is the goal, right? That's what we're all focused about. So I really love it. And that's what we're really about.
So you can see here that it is now fixing some things. Good job. We've got Hermes here to help us set this up, to be honest with you. But yeah, that's another powerful way of using this, right?
So if you, for example, if you use OMI and you sync this to your apps, then the cool thing about this is when you sync this to Obsidian and you plug that inside AI agents, like for example, Hermes, the content that you create is going to be hyper relevant because it's going to be written from first person and it's going to have unique details about the project that no other AI has, right? And so your content becomes better for AI SEO, it becomes better for ranking and becomes more interesting, right? It's better for personal branding because the AI understands you, who you are, what you do, et cetera, day to day on a level that maybe even you don't realize, right? Because it's just understanding everything.
So this is just checking the page. Let's have a look here. We should be on the new version now. Then we're just going to log into this.
Boom. We're in. There we go. Oh, look at that.
So we've got this new setup here. This is pretty cool. So our AI agent is not related to SEO at this point, right? This is just something fun that you can check out yourself.
But if we put in, for example, our name here, this is our Hermes agent in a game. Right. How cool is that? I've never seen, and I've seen like obviously interesting setups where you can use Hermes agents, like running around or using the office like we had before, and I showed that earlier on screen, but this is next level.
Look at that. That is wild. And there's 39 humans on here. This is crazy stuff, right?
There's even a chat here. Yeah. Then you can post. This is crazy.
This is wild, right? So you can just play this game. You can run around. I think you could talk to people as well.
And your Hermes agent is having a great time. That's a cool little thing. You can actually speak inside there as well. So it actually gives you missions and stuff.
It actually gives you missions and then you can go off and speak to them and that sort of thing, but it's wild how you can use this right now. Another cool thing that you can do is you can create videos inside Hermes as well. So we can go inside here. For example, we can say, okay, create a video with hyper frames, short animation about AI SEO, something like that.
Right. And so that's using a skill that Hermes now has with the latest updates that can generate videos. Now, why would you want to create videos for AI SEO? Let me show you some interesting examples.
So if we create a video, it will typically rank inside AI search engines like this. It's like Google overviews on the sidebar inside the actual AI overview, as you can see right here, and it can rank within like sometimes within hours, within 10 to 12 hours, you can also see us ranking here multiple times. And if we go to AI mode as well, let's just double check this. Yeah.
You can see that our videos come out top, right? They come out top for SEO. So if you are thinking about using Hermes for SEO, video is one of the most powerful ways that you can use it, right? Crazy stuff.
And you can see here, I'll create that video, generate it and verify it. You can even link that to HeyGen, and then you can use HeyGen for avatar videos. And again, like you just target your keyword, you publish it, you post it on social media, boom, you could rank with AI SEO. So there's multiple different ways that you can use Hermes and Hermes Workspace for AI SEO.
So just to recap, we built out a full website with Agent Swarms. We created videos with hyperframes inside the chat. We played a little game inside Hermes World, not really related to AI SEO, but it's pretty fun to just check that out, how amazing is that? And then also we talked about the differences between OpenCore and Hermes as well today.
Top of that, I showed you the Kanban board and how you can create websites directly from that too. So there's so many different ways you can use this Hermes Workspace for AI SEO. I absolutely love it. It's super powerful.
And you can go back to your previous chats here. So you can actually see your previous sessions and that sort of thing. That's it. Let's see what we've got in the chat here.
That's cool. Having a 3D world, we can all interact, swap skills, et cetera. Absolutely. Yeah.
It's really awesome. I gave my Hermes hyperframes and open design. It works pretty well. Yeah.
100%. It's really cool. Really cool. All right.
So thanks so much for watching. If you want to get all of my best trainings on Hermes agents, how to use them, how to automate your business with AI automation, an amazing community with 3000 business owners who are also interested in AI, and you can ask questions inside here, you can connect with me personally, you can get all of my best trainings, you can drop a weekly coaching course, share your screen, ask questions, et cetera. You can go inside the map here, connect with people in your local city. And we actually add new trainings on Hermes all the time.
So for example, if we go inside here, we've got a beginner to expert course there, but if you go inside the new daily updates, we actually add new tutorials all the time on exactly how to use new updates, right. And we update this daily. So we're very active and we show you the new advanced stuff as well, if that's what you're into. And then also we have a full training on Hermes workspace, how to use it, how to set it up, some of the best use cases, a 30 day roadmap for this stuff, and a full section on AI SEO as well, which you can see over here.
So feel free to get that link in the comments, description, or go to the AIprofitblog.com. And if you want a free one-to-one SEO strategy session that shows you how to get more traffic, how to grow your website, and it's a custom tailored game plan, showing you how to outrank your competitors. Plus you learn how to build backlinks for your website. Then you can get that on a one-to-one call via goldie.agency, link in the comments, description, and you can get free SEO strategy session there.
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