Cursor AI Website Audit: Complete SEO Checklist
Built your site with Cursor AI? Use this SEO checklist to find and fix common issues with metadata, performance, accessibility, and search visibility.
Cursor is one of the fastest ways to go from idea to working website. It's an AI-powered code editor that generates entire pages, components, and layouts from plain English prompts. For solo founders, freelancers, and small business owners who want a custom site without hiring a developer, that's genuinely useful.
But speed creates blind spots. Cursor helps you build fast. It does not check whether Google can find your site, whether your pages load quickly on a phone, or whether your metadata actually describes your business. Those problems stay hidden until you wonder why nobody is visiting.
This checklist covers the most common issues we see on Cursor-built sites and tells you exactly how to check for them.
What Cursor Does Well and Where It Stops
Cursor is a code editor with AI built in. You describe what you want, like "build a landing page for a dog walking business in Austin," and it generates working code, usually React or Next.js. It can scaffold projects, write components, and handle routing.
What it does not do is optimize for search engines, write your meta descriptions, compress your images, add structured data, or test your site on a slow mobile connection. SEO, performance, and accessibility are your responsibility after the code exists.
This is not a knock on Cursor. Traditional developers skip these things too. The difference is that Cursor makes it so easy to ship that you might not realize what you skipped.
If you have also looked at other AI-built site tools, our Vercel v0 audit guide covers similar ground for that platform.
1. Check Whether Google Can Actually See Your Content
This is the single biggest issue on Cursor-built sites.
Cursor typically generates React or Next.js code. If your pages rely on client-side rendering, where JavaScript builds the page in the browser, Google may see a mostly empty page. Your site looks fine when you visit it, but search engines see a blank shell.
How to check: Open your site in Chrome, right-click anywhere, and select "View Page Source." Look for your actual content: your business name, your headings, your service descriptions. If all you see is a