Using Cursor for SEO and Modern Web Dev: A Practical Guide

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Thom Wilson
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Why Cursor?

Cursor helps you ship faster without sacrificing quality. It pairs AI with your editor to speed up content edits, schema, internal linking, and component tweaks.

High‑leverage workflows

  • Mass meta updates: generate title/description variants and apply with consistent patterns.
  • Schema additions: inject JSON‑LD (Article/FAQ) across posts; validate with Rich Results.
  • Internal links: add related links at scale based on topic clusters.
  • Core Web Vitals fixes: add sizes/lazy loading and defer scripts safely.
  • Component edits: header/footer improvements with a11y and responsive checks.

Guardrails

  • Always review diffs before saving.
  • Keep a style guide and schema playbook in the repo.
  • Track changes with GTM and GSC annotations to measure impact.

Prompt patterns that work

  • Rewrite with constraints: “Rewrite the intro in 2 sentences, keep ‘Des Moines SEO’ in the first 120 characters, active voice.”
  • Diff-aware edits: “Only add FAQPage JSON‑LD below the closing article tag; do not change existing content.”
  • Internal link sweeps: “Suggest 3 contextual links from this post to these 6 targets with anchor text variants.”

Audit checklist in Cursor

  • Title ≤ 60 chars, meta description 140–160 chars; primary keyword near the front.
  • One H1; ordered H2/H3; scannable bullets.
  • Article/FAQ JSON‑LD present and valid.
  • Images have width/height, lazy/async; AVIF/WebP where possible.

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