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150,000+ Marketers, Agencies, and SEOs grow and get mentioned with Surfer every day

Instead of manual research, which takes A LOT of time, I get a comprehensive competition analysis I can rely on. Running a successful SEO campaign for my target keyword is much easier now.

Daniel Wolszon
Team Leader, iCEA

Surfer's integration with Google Docs allows for a seamless content workflow. It brings critical SEO information directly to content specialists, improving quality and making collaboration between SEO and content teams more effective.

Agency improved content quality and client reporting with Surfer.

Nikolaj Mogensen
Head of SEO, s360

Surfer has quickly become essential in our SEO workflow at ClickUp. It helps us automate crucial steps in our optimization process, and with an unmatched NLP engine and easy-to-use content editor, it's a key addition to any SEO team's toolbox.

+85% blog traffic growth in 12 months, 150+ articles published

Jeremy Galante
SEO Director, ClickUp

Grew to nearly 400,000 monthly visitors in just 9 months through content SEO with Surfer.

We love Surfer for content freshness, keyword research, and to help with writer's block. We have more than 2x'd our blog content production and decreased the cost to produce SEO content by more than 4x. So double the content at a quarter of the price. As a bootstrapped AI startup this is huge for us.

Engineered an SEO growth flywheel with programmatic pages, growing from 0 to $3M ARR in 2 years.

Sam Wright
Head of Partnerships, Huntr.co

SurferSEO has completely flipped our content strategy on its head - In a good way!

Casey Jones
CJ&CO

Before Surfer, we built every piece of content from scratch, which was too time-consuming and didn't let us scale fast enough. Surfer let us automate much of the process around outlining, briefing, and optimizing content for visibility. We shortened our content release time by 30% and eliminated a lot of manual work. Surfer is now an essential part of our content ops.

Bartłomiej Borucki
Senior SEO Content Specialist

Reached 3 million clicks from Google through a 3-step SEO content strategy with Surfer.

Surfer has been an absolute game-changer for our digital marketing efforts. The Content Editor has completely revolutionised the way I create and optimise content. I would recommend it to any online business.

Niels Corver
Cofounder / CEO, WhyDonate

My first question when I start working with a copywriter is: Do you use Surfer SEO? If the answer is YES I know that it will speed up our cooperation and the whole process will be much easier.

Jarek Siekierski
Owner, Datgrowth

SurferSEO is a game-changing platform that has revolutionized how we approach SEO optimization. We discovered SurferSEO when we were searching for a tool that would not only boost our search engine rankings but also allow our content creators to produce engaging, reader-friendly material.

Alex Zuev
SEO Director, Market My Market

Our main objective is to increase the number of prospects we generate for sales. Surfer brought our organic baseline up about 5x since we started using it.

Increased organic leads by 340% and traffic by 200% with a Surfer-built SEO strategy.

Lucas
First Hire, CommandBar

With the Content Editor's help, I created 32 high-quality text briefings in 4.5 hours (keyword research and competitor analysis included). It was enough to fill in the editorial calendar for the next two months.

Matthis Janssen
Head of Client Services, YOYABA GmbH

SurferSEO is a super easy-to-use tool for our on-page optimisation needs. We like the SERP Analyzer because we can easily compare our pages against top competitors and get detailed instructions on how to optimise our content better.

Charmaine Chee
Truly Experiences

Surfer has righteously earned its place in our Content team's tool arsenal. It has enhanced the creation of our acquisition blog articles and we use it daily and can wholeheartedly recommend trying it.

Jete Laager
Content and Localisation Lead, Bolt

Surfer's analysis told me to delete 22,000 words of content which was...weird. So I deleted 85% of my content. 2 days after doing precisely what Surfer told me to do, I moved straight into the number 1 position.

Matthew Woodward
Director, matthewwoodward.co.uk

E-learning company went from SEO newcomer to 230,000+ clicks, gaining visibility in both Google and AI search.

With NLP words introduced into three, already optimized articles, we managed to reach the top five in Google search for relevant keywords. Within the first month of using Surfer, we recorded 15% organic traffic growth. Now it's an essential part of our content creation process.

Oksana Kosachenko
GetResponse

I wanted to get everything into one platform that we could build our workflows around. We are publishing between one and three blog posts a day and the team needs a structured workflow.

Video tool streamlined SEO content production, improving output by 20x without needing dedicated SEO experts.

Pete Bennet
Head of Growth, Pictory.ai

This year, my agency wrote 1,975,002 words with Surfer. The writers know exactly which words they should use, and how they should use them. Most importantly, they genuinely enjoy working with Content Editor. We would be lost without it.

Craig Dewart
My Content Pal

Surfer is easy to use and quickly identifies content gaps that would be time-consuming and difficult to find manually. It increases productivity within the team and delivers exceptional results for our clients.

Event organizer drove 677% SEO growth in 6 months.

Michelle Symonds
Founder & MD, Ditto Digital

Surfer is a quick yet extremely accurate way to get data-driven advice for your site. I've seen ranking gains in many different niches by applying its suggestions. It takes the data and presents it in such a way that even beginner SEOs would understand.

Matt Diggity
CEO and Founder, Diggity Marketing

Surfer is the perfect balance between ease of use and depth of data. They understand SEO and make optimizing for your queries accessible to the masses.

Gael Breton
Authority Hacker

I've been using Surfer AI for about a month now and it has been a game changer for me. I'm able to push out content a lot faster than ever before — not just content, but highly optimized quality content that ranks.

Michael
Southtown Web Design

Surfer helped us scale Hostinger Tutorials drastically to over 1 million clicks per week.

Scaled SEO workflow with Surfer to reach 1M+ weekly clicks.

Aurimas
SEO Team, Hostinger

Once we have the brief, we use Surfer to develop the content, ensuring we hit recommended keyword density, structure, and readability targets.

Achieved 127% conversion growth YoY through a targeted SEO strategy that drove high-intent leads from search.

Hennika Kestila
Growth Marketing Consultant, BugHerd

Articles were not fully aligned with the specific pain points of their audience. This led to missed opportunities and untapped potential for organic traffic.

Achieved 10x content growth and 176% traffic increase in 6 months.

Andreea Stefan
SEO Lead, Planable

We use Surfer for multiple languages and markets across South East Asia. It has allowed us to scale up content production and grow significantly, saving our writers hours of research time.

Phil Anderson
VP Traffic, iPrice Group

Surfer AI has been SUPER helpful in getting my content marketing campaign from 0 to 60 in seconds! The AI-generated content is spot-on and only takes a minimal amount of editing before it's ready to publish.

Ryan Sekine
CEO & Founder, Fox and Owl Marketing

Surfer has been a total game-changer for my agency. Surfer gives us all the data we need to make informed, effective decisions for our client's campaigns. It is truly the most comprehensive SERP analysis tool on the market.

Adam Colbert
President, Rocket 31

Using Surfer, I was able to realize 100% growth in organic traffic, 150 new leads, and 3 sales for one of my clients in just 2 months.

Agency helped a small business client grow organic traffic by 100% in just 2 months.

Daan van Lonkhuizen
Owner, Dapper Marketing

AI startup achieved 5,000% SEO growth with a small team, beating VC-backed competitors without external funding.

The progress we have made in the past 16 months is pretty clear. Notice the spike starting in July, right after we started using Surfer.

Used Surfer to achieve 740% growth in organic visibility in 90 days.

Sean McPheat
CEO, MTD Training

HR SaaS agency grew client traffic by 17x in a competitive industry using Surfer — 6 key lessons documented.

We love Surfer so much that if we had to choose one SEO tool to live with forever, it would be Surfer.

Lauren Petrullo
Founder, Mongoose Media

Surfer's Content Editor is a game changer. It is a lot easier for me to visualize what can be enhanced in each content piece, what new sections can be added, and complementary topics that were not considered previously.

SaaS cloud provider recovered from core updates to drive consistent organic traffic.

Julia Araujo
SEO Manager, V2 Cloud

We started using Surfer in August and we have seen an almost 200% increase in impressions and a 150% jump in organic clicks.

Enterprise AI platform drove 150% organic traffic growth through 4 core SEO tactics with Surfer.

Vaibhav
Marketing Lead, Lyzr AI

I love using Surfer because it allows me to scale on-page optimization in the most effective way possible. Creating SEO-driven briefs is a snap with Content Editor and writers love it because of how straight-forward the recommendations are.

Steve Toth
Creator, SEO Notebook
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USE CASES

Surfer MCP Use Cases

Write optimized articles end-to-end, improve existing content, create briefs and outlines, manage templates, and act on recommendations with just one command.

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Show the top 10 sources for the prompts I'm tracking that don't mention my brand. If price is available, show that too.
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Track AI search visibility. Get info on your mention rates and gaps, position in answers, tracked prompts, top sources, competitors, and more directly from the agent.
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Give me a list of the top five Recommendations that will increase my ChatGPT visibility.
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Get daily recommendations. Learn what to optimize, what to write, and which mention to get next based on personalized Surfer recommendations. Then, act on it in the same chat.
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Create a Content Editor for “[keyword]”, show me the outline, and once I approve it, generate the article.
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Create and optimize content. Create documents, pull SERP-derived outlines and AI SEO guidelines to create briefs, generate articles and images, write and update content, optimize any text for SEO and AI Search.
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Here's our current blog post on [topic]. Create a new Content Editor for its main keyword “[keyword]” and tell me what's missing according to the SEO and AI Search guidelines.
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Update underperforming articles. Re-score any existing article for AI SEO guidelines and update it for better SEO and GEO results with a single command.
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How did our AI visibility change since last month, per platform? Where's our mention gap compared to competitors? Create a report.
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Automate reporting. Set up scheduled reports on your performance, your team’s work, or AI visibility.
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Chain with other MCPs. Connect your CMS so you can draft with Surfer and publish in the same thread.
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Surfer works where you work

Claude

1. In claude.ai or the Claude desktop app open Customize → Connectors and click Add custom connector.

2. Name it Surfer, paste this URL and select Continue.

<https://mcp.surferseo.com/mcp>

3. Keep the detected authentication settings and click Add.

4. Click Connect next to Surfer and sign in. Pick the organization if you have more than one and select Authorize.

5. In a new chat, enable Surfer under + → Connectors.

💡 Free plans allow one custom connector. On Team and Enterprise plans an owner adds it under Organization settings → Connectors → Add → Custom, then each member clicks Connect on it in Customize → Connectors.

6. Then ask your assistant to confirm it works:

List my Surfer workspaces

Claude Code

1. Run this in your terminal. Drop -scope user to add Surfer to the current project only.

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user surfer <https://mcp.surferseo.com/mcp>

2. Start Claude Code, run /mcp, select surfer and choose Authenticate. Sign in with your Surfer account in the browser. If the browser does not open, copy the URL Claude Code prints and open it yourself.

3. Then ask your assistant to confirm it works:

List my Surfer workspaces

ChatGPT

1. In ChatGPT open Settings → Security and login and turn on Developer mode.

2. Go to chatgpt.com/plugins and click +. Name it Surfer, paste this URL as the server URL, choose OAuth, tick I understand and want to continue and click Create.

<https://mcp.surferseo.com/mcp>

3. On the plugin page click Connect, then Sign in with Surfer. Pick the organization if you have more than one and select Authorize.

4. In a chat, open the + menu, choose Developer mode and select Surfer.

💡 Developer mode works on ChatGPT web for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu accounts. Whether it is available can depend on your workspace policy.

5. Then ask your assistant to confirm it works:

List my Surfer workspaces

Codex

Add to Cursor or set it up manually:

1. Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (all projects) or .cursor/mcp.json (this project) and save:

{
 "mcpServers": {
   "surfer": {
     "url": "<https://mcp.surferseo.com/mcp>"
   }
 }
}

2. Open Customize → MCPs, click Authenticate on the surfer row and sign in with your Surfer account. The row reads Ready once connected.

3. Then ask your assistant to confirm it works:

List my Surfer workspaces

Cursor

Add to Cursor or set it up manually:

1. Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (all projects) or .cursor/mcp.json (this project) and save:

{
 "mcpServers": {
   "surfer": {
     "url": "<https://mcp.surferseo.com/mcp>"
   }
 }
}

2. Open Customize → MCPs, click Authenticate on the surfer row and sign in with your Surfer account. The row reads Ready once connected.

3. Then ask your assistant to confirm it works:

List my Surfer workspaces

PLANS

Included in selected Surfer plans

Surfer MCP is available on AI Search Analytics, Pro, Peace of Mind, and Enterprise plans.

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Track AI Visibility
AI Search Analytics
82
USD
per month
Track your brand's visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, and other AI models.
Includes:
Track AI Visibility
Track 50 AI Prompts
refreshed daily
Mention Gap and Brand Sentiments
5 Brand Spaces
Brand Knowledge
MCP
Plan, Write, and Track AI Visibility
Peace of Mind
299
USD
per month
Dominate the market with uncapped optimization, API access, and VIP support.
Everything in Pro, plus:
Track AI Visibility
Track 100 AI Prompts, refreshed daily
Create or Optimize Unlimited* Documents
Integrations
Unlimited* Brand Spaces
Advanced SERP Analysis
Personalized Onboarding
Dedicated Success Manager
API Access
MCP
Enterprise
999
USD
per month
Tailored packages
Lead with advisory strategy, automation, and enterprise-grade controls.
Everything in Peace of Mind, plus:
SSO & Enterprise-grade Security
Comprehensive Advisory Program
Legal Onboarding Assistance
Early access to new features
Custom Limits
Tailored Team Onboarding
White-label
Priority Support
MCP

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Connect once, then research, write, optimize, and track AI visibility without leaving the chat.

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