Surfer SEO
Content optimization scores you can sell as $1,000 SEO audits
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What Surfer SEO is
Surfer SEO scores content against what currently ranks, generates optimization guidelines in its Content Editor, and now tracks AI visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI modes. The visible 0-100 content score is an operator's best sales prop — clients watch their pages go from red to green and understand exactly what they paid for.
Key features
- Content Editor with real-time optimization scoring against ranking pages
- AI visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI modes
- Content audit: weak pages, content gaps, and ranking-drop detection
- 1-click internal linking suggestions
- Built-in plagiarism checker
- Multi-brand workspaces for managing several client sites
💰 Sell it as a service
The offer
The content optimization service: audit a client's existing pages, rewrite the underperformers to green scores in Surfer, and report ranking movement monthly. Add the AI-visibility angle to differentiate from every other SEO pitch they've heard.
What to charge
$1,000-$1,500 for the initial content audit, then $100-$200 per optimized page or $1,500-$3,000/mo for an ongoing SEO content retainer. A $99/mo Standard plan covers multiple client workspaces.
How it gets delivered
Run the content audit to find decayed and gap pages, prioritize by traffic value, rewrite in the Content Editor to 80+ scores, ship through the client's CMS. Before/after score screenshots go in every monthly report.
This is one offer. AI Operator Academy is where operators build the full stack — packaging, pricing, fulfillment, and a peer group selling the same services. $999/yr.
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