How to Read Your Surmado Scan SEO Report
Decode every section of your $25 Surmado Scan audit -- performance, accessibility, security, and SEO -- so you can assign fixes that actually raise your score.
12 min readProduct Guides
Step-by-step guides for using Surmado's Signal, Scan, and Solutions products.
How to Read Your Surmado Signal Report
Learn what Presence Rate, Authority Score, Category Share, and Ghost Influence mean, plus the exact next steps to improve AI visibility.
How Signal + Solutions Work Together: From Diagnosis to Strategy
Signal diagnoses your AI visibility problems. Solutions prescribes the strategic roadmap. Learn how these tools work as a system to improve your AI presence.
13 min readHow Does Solutions Use My Existing Research?
Solutions turns your Notion docs, customer interviews, market research into actionable strategy through adversarial AI debate.
22 min readCan I Customize Surmado Reports?
Customization options for Signal personas, Scan page selection, and Solutions questions. What you can configure vs standard templates.
Can I Test Competitors With Surmado?
How to run Signal, Scan, and Solutions on competitor businesses to reverse-engineer their strategies and identify opportunities.
How Accurate Are Surmado Reports?
Validation methodology, statistical margins, and accuracy benchmarks for Signal, Scan, and Solutions reports.
How Do Intelligence Tokens Work?
Complete guide to using Intelligence Tokens (SIG-, SCAN-, SOLUTIONS- codes) for programmatic access to Surmado report data via structured JSON.
How Do Signal, Scan, and Solutions Work Together?
The complete Surmado flywheel: Signal diagnoses visibility gaps, Scan finds technical fixes, Solutions validates strategy. Step-by-step workflows.
How Long Do Surmado Reports Take to Generate?
Turnaround times for Signal, Scan, and Solutions reports with factors that affect processing speed and when you receive results.
How to Add Schema Markup to Your Website
Step-by-step guide to implementing LocalBusiness, Organization, FAQ, Product, and other schema types. Copy-paste templates with validation.
How to Improve Core Web Vitals
Fix LCP, CLS, and INP scores in 6 steps: optimize images, reduce JavaScript, eliminate layout shifts. Real fixes for Google's Core Web Vitals ranking factors.
How to Fix Ghost Influence
Reclaim your features when AI describes your strengths but credits competitors. Step-by-step GBP optimization, review strategy, and FAQ content tactics to fix Ghost Influence.
How to Interpret Your Presence Rate
Decode your Presence Rate (0-100%): organic AI mentions divided by relevant queries. 0-5% is invisible, 15-30% is strong, 50%+ is category leader. Benchmarks included.
How to Write Effective Personas for Signal
Write buyer personas that reveal true AI visibility: focus on problems, not brands. Example personas for local services, SaaS, B2B. Avoid keyword stuffing.
How to Run Signal for the First Time
First-time Signal walkthrough: prepare your business info, submit 3-7 persona queries, get AI visibility report in 15 minutes. Standard or custom personas explained.
How to Use Intelligence Tokens in Zapier
Step-by-step Zapier automation guide: trigger on new Signal report, extract Intelligence Token, fetch JSON, send to Google Sheets, Notion, Slack.
How to Track Improvements Over Time with Surmado
Quarterly tracking workflow using Intelligence Tokens, trend analysis, Google Sheets integration, and benchmarking progress month-over-month.
What Can Scan Actually Tell Me About My Website?
Scan tests 150+ SEO checks across 9 browsers: performance, accessibility, schema markup, security headers, mobile optimization. Prioritized fixes, not just scores. $25 or $50.
What Can Signal Actually Tell Me About My Business?
Signal reveals your AI visibility score, competitor benchmarks, Ghost Influence, and platform-specific performance across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. $25 or $50, 15 minuteute delivery.
What Can Solutions Actually Tell Me About My Strategy?
Solutions provides strategic recommendations through adversarial AI debate across 6 models. Stress-tested plans, blind spot analysis, Monte Carlo validation. $50, 15 minutes.
Which Surmado Product Should I Use?
Decision guide for choosing Signal, Scan, Solutions, or the Complete Visibility Suite based on your specific business goals and problems.
What is Surmado Studio?
A comprehensive guide to Surmado Studio – Visibility Foundation, our one-time implementation service for AI + SEO foundations.
Surmado StudioVisibility FoundationAI SEO implementation
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