Surfer AI Writing Tool Review (Is It Better Than Koala Writer?)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ค. 2023
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In this video, I'm reviewing the new AI writing tool from Surfer SEO, called Surfer AI.
How good is the content? How easy is it to use? Is it better than Koala Writer?
And perhaps most importantly: is it worth the price of $29 per article?
If you want to see how Surfer AI compares to Koala, here's the output from each tool for the same keyword: "how to cook bottom round steak"
Surfer AI: docs.google.com/document/d/1i...
Koala Writer: docs.google.com/document/d/1n...
Thanks for doing this video! Very helpful!
I won't think SurferSEO is 5x better than Koala.
Koala is improving day by day
Yeah, it's definitely not 5x better.
The best Surfer vs Koala review on youtube. Thank you so much 👌👌
Thanks, Baris!
🌊Surfer AI is surfing on a pricey wave while Koala Writer is cuddling its users with friendlier rates. 🏄♂🐨
A great review! I wanted to see how the Koala output would score in Surfer; I created a Content Editor, and copied and pasted the Koala text. Surfer score was 68! Not bad for the price.
Yeah Koala is the best value right now.
Thank you for the review, Mike. Based on the discussions I've been reading, it seems right now it's a Koala Vs. Zimmwriter toss-up. Very few seem to be moving towards Surfer's one-click. They do like the other aspects of it, but not this. This all seems akin to the burger wars of the late 60s. Will Burger Chef pull ahead?
It’s a no brainer man, Koala FTW
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I’m CEO of Surfer, thanks for this in depth review! I see that you kept the Anti-AI detection turned off. In this case, most of the articles will have 100% AI score on tools like Originality. If you want to avoid detection, turn it on and see the magic happen :)
Thanks! Yes, as mentioned in the video, I kept it off because the tool said it would result in a lower content score and less frequent use of terms.
Hey Lucjan, I run a cleaning business and want to use SurferAI for my blog. Should I care about posting AI-written content or not? Please give me an answer :)
@@naydendelchevof course he will say no, he wants you to pay for the tool
I'd love to see you reviewing Agility Writer and ZimmWriter since they're the best right now.
Surfer is way too expensive and I personally wouldn't use it.
Please don't delete my comment.
I’ve heard good things about ZimmWriter!
@@StupidSimpleSEO I'd love to see a review on Zimmwriter compared to the others too! I've heard good things, but haven't tried it.
@@StupidSimpleSEO the best
Got in on the lifetime deal for Koala on launch. If Koala added the 5-featured competitors like Surfer and allowed you to give word count prompts, it would be a game changer! SurferAI with the pricing model vs Koala just doesn’t do it for me. I still love Surfer for adding entities and measuring against competitors. They both still work well together but are great in their own unique ways.
Yeah the value prop just isn't there for Surfer right now IMO!
This update seems to be made for the total newbies hoping for a breakthrough as a travel blogger or something with that price structure;
A quick note on the images that Surfer placed in the article. I believe they do that because the alt text can add a decent amount of points to the surfer score. I use alt text a lot to use those hard to place phrases and really max out my score. So I think if you were to add images and the same alt text to the Koala copy, you may have had a similar score to the Surfer version.
Thanks for the info, Andrew!
Review us Mike!
also you need to factor in that you have to have a $100/month subscription of surfer just to be able to use their AI writer, and then pay the $29 per article on top of that
I mentioned this in the video. It’s $29/mo though.
Compare Surgegraph to Surfer SEO
You’re right. They’re going after the higher end market.
If you’re charging $500/mo for SEO just for content this isn’t for you.
If you’re charging $5,000/mo and providing backlink services and other services $29 is a drop in the bucket.
Niche SEO sites can stick with Koala.
Enterprise SEO has no issue with $29 per article when some can be as long as 5000 words
Yes, largely agree.
They overpriced surfer by so much. Taking advantage of people who haven’t built out their own prompts on ChatGPT or haven’t heard of other tools.
If you care about Ai detection, both articles get 80% on content at scales AI detector whereas with a custom prompt I can get 95+ using 3.5 on ChatGPT.
So basically surfer is an absolute joke in regards to pricing
Zimmwriter works well too for much less.
I think you could have fed Koala the same 5 URLs that you picked in Surfer to make it more equal, but other than that good comparison and quick review.
Can you feed Koala URLs?
@@StupidSimpleSEO oops you are right, you can only add your own keywords but not your own urls. Must have mixed it up with one of the other writers.
Need to double check the effectiveness of this in a sec, but yes, you can feed URLs to Koala. You can add them to the additional prompt sections for the overall article and at H2 level. I presume that means you can also tell it to IGNORE URLs, so you could effectively get the same result as toggling competitor pages in Surfer
With the current offer they are doing you get 25 articles + 15 free ones for $725 which works out $18.125 per article which is not bad for a fully written article in minutes. I have no association to surfer, but I am very much considering taking up this offer... What do you guys think?
Also, does google really care about AI-written content? Should I be worried about publishing this type of content on my business website? Should I edit the content myself before posting it - any SEO pros out here to answer my question?
I think you can get better value with Koala, but if you have the budget, it's worth testing out Surfer.
So if both show as 100% AI, what do you do for your articles? Do you rewrite certain parts?
Surely if these websites can tell its AI, google can also?
Depends on whether you think Google *cares* that it's AI content. According to Google, so long as the content is helpful and demonstrates qualities of EEEAT, they are fine with AI.
@@StupidSimpleSEO Thanks for the response mate, so the content on your site that you showed, is 100% AI? Traffic boner looks insane on it!
Thanks again
I use Surfer SEO for their other features. The content creation is a no for me.
Same 👋
Surfer ai is the new jasper ai in terms of pricing I can get the same quality output with gpt4 at 100x cheaper
It's definitely priced at the upper end of the market!
Surfer”s price is ridiculous! Pay that much for articles that Google is actively trying to de-index ai content. Paying for high risk content is beyond stupid.
Surfer is ridiculously HIGH!! Heck No!! Koala and other tools for the win. Plus at least for me... I will hardly ever post an article without touching it with "human hands".
Ok, so what does it do?
Whats up with Surfer pricing? Its ok for sure but cmon.....
Waste of money use zimmwriter
They need a Mac version!
@@StupidSimpleSEO Ugh. Well never mind my suggestion for a review; I won't use it if it's not Mac compatible.
Nope. Not worth 5 times more in pricing.
Even $6 dollars is costly. Why I don't just use chat-gpt 4 directly. Why would subscribe to these services?