AI Tool Recommendations

Let’s be real:

If you're still doing SEO the old-school way in 2025, you're already behind.

Each month, I’ll spotlight one AI tool that’s actually moving the needle. Not the generic “AI for SEO” fluff. These are real tools we’re using at uSERP and SEO Power Plays to save time and drive results.

We’re talking:

✅ Briefs in seconds ✅ Always-fresh content ✅ Live traffic forecasts

✅ SERP movement tracking ✅ Backlinks on autopilot

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Every AI tool, tested and reviewed. Here are our top picks:

1. Profound

Using the largest dataset on AI visibility in the world, Profound helps brands great highly researched, accurate, and pre-optimized content that LLMs love.

2. Ahrefs

Ahrefs is a leading marketing intelligence platform powered by big data that helps marketers run search engine optimization, pay-per-click, content marketing, website auditing, and competitive research campaigns that drive impact. 

Ahrefs’ built-in AI features help you streamline your SEO tasks with accurate insights.

🚀Kickstart your keyword research from a list of lateral keywords

🚀 Monitor how your brand appears in AI-generated answers

🚀 Review what content performs best from the get go 

🚀 See how you stack up against your competitors (and beat them)

3. Promptwatch

Organic traffic is now a real-time game. I’ve been testing Promptwatch… it lets me see (live) how AI snapshots, crawlers, and GEO changes affect traffic. Their

🚀 Prompt Monitoring shows exactly how you appear in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity responses. Discover where your brand is missing from key industry prompts.

🚀 Website Analytics feature reveals how much traffic comes from AI-driven sources that you probably weren’t even tracking.

🚀 Crawler Analytics exposed which AI bots are hitting your site and what content they're prioritizing.

🚀 AI Agent gives you step-by-step recommendations to improve your GEO.

It uncovers massive visibility gaps you didn't know existed and shows you exactly how to fix them.

4. Morningscore

Morningscore uses AI-driven suggestions for link building to figure out which sites might bring you the most benefit and alerts you to potential link gaps. 

Morningscore stands out by integrating multiple AI elements and tools such as automated content creation, link building, health checks and automatic implementation, and more —  all within a single SEO tool.

5. Writesonic

Writesonic’s GEO tool reveals a comprehensive approach to tracking brand presence across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. 

The platform addresses the visibility gap through a systematic approach: 

🚀 You identify key topics your brand should own 

🚀 You create (or use suggested) prompts simulating user queries 

🚀 The system runs these prompts daily across multiple AI engines 

🚀 Results are structured into actionable intelligence 

The most valuable is the competitive benchmarking allowing you to see exactly where you stand against competitors for each topic and prompt.

6. AirOps

AirOps gives content and SEO teams an AI-powered system to research, create, and refresh content that wins. It automates briefs, enriches articles, and keeps pages optimized with continuous updates.

No more manual workflows or scattered tools—just a content engine that keeps content performing.

Teams using AirOps have:

  • Increased organic traffic by up to 20x in just a few months

  • Sped up their content production by 50-90%

  • Increased output by 5x while maintaining brand and domain accuracy

7. Semrush

Predict the potential traffic you can achieve for a target keyword before creating content with Semrush. 

With the Potential Traffic Predictions, you can:

  • Save time by quickly forecasting the traffic potential for different keywords

  • Get precise estimates using domain-specific metrics (more accurate) 

  • Identify high-impact keywords so you can focus on those first to get results

Stay ahead with AI tools by Semrush.

8. Keyword Insights

Keyword Insights is the first platform built to help you establish and own topical authority in your niche. 

Powered by AI and machine learning models, it helps you create high-quality content faster, discover the right keywords, and pinpoint exactly what your audience needs.

Users report saving up to 1200% of their time with Keyword Insights!

9. SE Ranking

See how you stack up against the competition in Google’s AI-enhanced search with SE Ranking's AI Overview tracker.

SE Ranking is your all-in-one SEO toolkit that helps you identify your rivals, detect new opportunities, and fill the analytics gap left by Google.

10. Mangools

Mangools’ AI Search Grader is a free GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) tool designed to evaluate your brand’s visibility and performance within AI-powered search engines like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Combined with Mangools’ powerful SEO tools, like KWFinder and SERPWatcher (rank tracking), you can dominate both traditional and AI search landscapes.