How would you rate SurferSeo?

Just started their $ 1-month trial and to be fair, I'm quite overwhelmed with the number of functions.

What is your take on this tool? How are you mostly utilizing it?

It's like Marmite, people either love it or hate it.

I think it was promoted by a few big names and people piled on thinking it is a page 1 shoed in method.

Quite often articles are decent at the 65-70& score, but some people want 90%+ and a lot of these then make no sense to the reader or are rammed with keywords.

For what it's worth, I never use any of these tools for writing content (I feel they are kind of gimmicky tbh). I hire people who work in the niche and ask them to write the content. No keyword density, no content optimization. I just use good content structure H1/H2/H3/H4 wherever required, and write for the reader. It's proofread for spelling, grammar, and sentence structure and it's always meaningful content that caters to the search query. The only thing I really optimize is the page title. Everything ranks just fine.

Used it a couple of times and also had this trial. If you push for the 90+ score your content is heavily over-optimized. Can not take it too serious. If you know SEO, you won't need it. Especially for this price, its not worth it I think.

While I agree that you have to be careful not to over-optimize, Surfer is a great tool for helping you find out what types of content Google is including at the top of the SERPs. I mean it seems like common sense, and you can find this info without SurferSEO, but I use it because it scales and helps me speed up my process. You can include common words and topics that are most relevant to Google, which is just logical, to be honest.

It's when people just stuff keywords and the NLP suggestions nonsensically that a tool like this is spammy and silly to use.

Google has already decided what type of content is the best for this query, it only makes sense to build off of the topics and words included in the best-ranking articles. Or you are starting at a disadvantage. I'm not sure this is great for the internet and providing unique information though. It's pretty rare that Google changes its mind on the general intent of the top results.

For example, a dentist + location page you want to rank should probably include information about the community, specific dental services like dental implants, cosmetic dental service, general dentistry, restorative dental services, sedation options, kid-friendly, hours, and same-day appointments? Etc. etc. --- In my experience, if some of these are missing then you are at a disadvantage. And while each of these services should have its own service page, the root keyword (dentist + location) demands that you have these included (most of the time).

DeadJoe said:

For what it's worth, I never use any of these tools for writing content (I feel they are kind of gimmicky tbh). I hire people who work in the niche and ask them to write the content. No keyword density, no content optimization. I just use good content structure H1/H2/H3/H4 wherever required, and write for the reader. It's proofread for spelling, grammar, and sentence structure and it's always meaningful content that caters to the search query. The only thing I really optimize is the page title. Everything ranks just fine.

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Optimized for page titles and descriptions.
Do you use any tools for title optimization?

I used to use SuperSEO regularly, but now I don't. Over-optimization is not necessary. I just need to write for my audience and serve their search needs.
As for adding keywords and backlinks compared to competitors, I did it at the SERP analysis step from the start.

johnpham said:

Optimized for page titles and descriptions.
Do you use any tools for title optimization?

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My brain (the ultimate tool).

Used to use Surfer Seo...now i use THRUU They have 5 daily free analysis.

Anyone able to sell me a free trial? Or willing to add me to their pro/business account for a fee?

ThaiDreamer said:

Just started their $ 1-month trial and to be fair, I'm quite overwhelmed with the number of functions.

What is your take on this tool? How are you mostly utilizing it?

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This tool is only for newbies or those who don't know how to optimized content properly and speed up your content creation process. Am using surferSEO since more than 1-2years+ still using

Feature in surferSEO which I like NLP Suggestion from multiple competitors + outline suggestion (for basic outline Idea. For better outline you have to change manually). Another great feature SEO Audit Section small minor mistake going to show you in one page.

Too many suggestions on SurferSeo confuse me, Semrush SEO Writing Assistant is enough for me tbh.

Surfer SEO is good for starting but the ultimate aim is to full fill customer needs from your post

Excellent for on-page SEO
I've had good results from several other optimization tools, but Surfer has clearly been the best. I use it mostly to update existing website content that's already ranking in Google, and I consistently get higher rankings and more traffic after using Surfer.

SurferSEO can be a great tool for checking out the competition, coming up with outlines, assessing which keywords are relevant in a certain niche, etc. But it has many features which you don’t really need to spend money on. The content often ends up being overly optimized and almost nonsensical, which defeats the purpose of the tool. If you want to create compelling content, you should think of your target audience and its search needs. That’s the most important type of optimization you need.

SurferSEO is excellent if you want to optimize your SEO content using AI to find the right word count, keyword frequency, FAQs, and headings to use in your content.