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title: "Welcome to Surfer!"
description: "It's great to have you on board 🏄"
url: https://docs.surferseo.com/en/articles/7911702-welcome-to-surfer
collection: "Getting Started"
updated: 2026-10-06
language: en
alternates: [fr, de]
---

# Welcome to Surfer!

It's great to have you on board 🏄

In the following articles, we’ll explain:

-   What Surfer is and **how it can help you**,
    
-   Show you **how to choose the best plan for your needs**
    
-   **Share proven workflows to grow your visibility in SERPs** (search engine result pages) and AI answers (think: AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other LLMs)
    

Learn the basics of Surfer in a few steps and start producing high-quality, SEO and AI-optimized content right away. 🙌

If you ever need more educational resources, make sure to check out:

[Surfer blog](https://surferseo.com/blog/)

Practical AI SEO tips, data studies, how-to articles, winning case studies with workflows you can copy, and more.

[Surfer changelog](https://surferseo.com/updates/)

Product updates and monthly product roundups to keep you up-to-date with all new releases and cool things you can do with Surfer.

[Surfer Academy](https://surferseo.com/academy/)

Live webinars with Michał Suski, our Head of Innovation, walking you through the app and answering live questions.

[Surfer Academy on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@SurferSEO)

Educational videos about AI Search strategy.

[Surfer Community](https://community.surferseo.com/c/start-here/)

Worldwide community of marketing professionals, our expert, certified courses: [Content Optimization Masterclass](https://community.surferseo.com/c/content-optimization-masterclass/) and [AI Search Optimization Masterclass](https://community.surferseo.com/c/ai-search-optimization-masterclass/), and official [Surfer Expert certification](https://community.surferseo.com/c/2025-surfer-certification/).

💡Next: [**What is Surfer?**](https://docs.surferseo.com/en/articles/7859434-what-is-surfer.md)

**Additional resources:**

[Surfer vs Clearscope](https://surferseo.com/blog/surferseo-vs-clearscope/)

[Surfer vs Frase](https://surferseo.com/blog/surferseo-vs-frase/)

[Surfer vs ChatGPT](https://surferseo.com/blog/chatgpt-vs-surferseo/)

[Surfer vs Ahrefs](https://surferseo.com/blog/ahrefs-vs-surferseo/)

[Surfer vs Semrush](https://surferseo.com/blog/semrush-vs-surferseo/)

[Surfer Step-by-step](https://docs.surferseo.com/en/collections/12929937-surfer-step-by-step)