SEO for sites built with Windsurf
Windsurf's Cascade agent will scaffold, build and iterate your site at remarkable speed. Like every AI editor, it optimises for the thing you described. Discoverability is rarely described. This page is the checklist for the part that was not in the prompt.
The recurring gaps in editor-built sites
Sites that come out of AI editors share a failure profile, and Windsurf projects are no exception:
Metadata debt. Starter titles, missing descriptions, no social tags. Search listings are assembled from these, and defaults read as noise.
Rendering opacity. Scaffolded single-page apps deliver empty HTML and paint content with JavaScript. Google copes with delay; AI crawlers like GPTBot and PerplexityBot do not execute JavaScript and simply see nothing.
Missing crawl infrastructure. No sitemap.xml, no robots.txt, no canonical tags, no llms.txt, no structured data. Each is ten minutes of work, if you know it is missing and know what correct looks like.
The launch checklist
- Unique, buyer-intent title and meta description on every page
- Key content present in the initial HTML response, not JavaScript-only
- sitemap.xml, robots.txt and llms.txt at the root
- Canonical tags on every page
- Open Graph tags with a real share image
- JSON-LD structured data for the product and FAQs
- Google Search Console verified and sitemap submitted
Automate it with Drazen
Drazen runs the audit from the outside, exactly as crawlers experience your site, then writes every fix. Connect GitHub and the fixes arrive as a pull request you approve with one click. Or take Drazen's fix prompt, paste it into Windsurf, and let Drazen re-scan the live site to verify. Monitoring runs continuously afterwards, because agent-driven refactors have a habit of eating head tags.
Questions
Does it matter which framework Windsurf used?
For the audit, no: Drazen reads the live site over HTTP like any crawler. For the fixes, Drazen writes code in your project's own conventions, whatever the stack.
How fast do results show up?
Fixes ship in days, but rankings compound over weeks: Google needs to recrawl and re-evaluate. AI answers can move faster once your site becomes readable and clearly described. Treat it as infrastructure, not a stunt.
What does the free scan include?
The full technical audit with every finding explained in plain English, your site's score, and a free AI visibility check showing whether ChatGPT and Perplexity currently mention you.
See what your site scores
Drazen scans your site the way Google and ChatGPT see it, shows you everything that is hurting you, and writes the fixes itself. Free, about 30 seconds.
Run the free scan →