Getting started

Writing Studio plans, writes and publishes blog posts for your website. Here's the first ten minutes.

1. Add your website

Type your address and choose Continue. Writing Studio starts reading the site straight away: what you sell, who it's for and how you sound, and who you compete with.

2. Connect Search Console while it reads (optional, recommended)

Reading takes about a minute, so that's when we ask. With Google Search Console connected, your plan starts from the searches you nearly win already: pages in positions 5 to 20, questions people ask, and posts that are losing clicks. Access is read-only. Choose Skip for now if you don't use it or someone else looks after it; the plan then comes from your site, your competitors and keyword research.

Either way you're taken into the app, and a small panel in the corner shows the rest as it happens:

• Planning your next 30 days (a couple of minutes): topics you can win, with the reason for each, three posts a week.
• Writing your first article (10 to 15 minutes): researched, fact-checked, with a featured image. Three articles on a paid plan. We email you when it's ready to read.

You don't need to wait for it; look around. If Writing Studio can't read the site (a typo in the address, or a site that turns visitors like us away), the panel says so, and you can try again or use another address.

3. Make it yours (optional)

The Getting started list in the sidebar has the rest, whenever you like:

• Connect Google Search Console, if you skipped it. New topics then also come from your own searches; choose Replan on the site's page to rebuild the topics you haven't started from your data.
• Connect where you publish: WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Shopify, Ghost, Next.js, or an automation (a webhook, Zapier or Make). Publishing to your site comes with a paid plan; on Free, or without a connection, you can copy or download each post and paste it in yourself. See Publishing.
• How often to post: one to seven posts a week on the site's page, up to what your plan covers, and auto-publish if you want approved posts to go out on their day without you.

What happens next

• New drafts are written three days before their date and wait for your review (or go out by themselves with auto-publish).
• The plan tops itself up so there are always 30 days planned.
• Posts losing traffic show on the Refresh page.

Questions? Email support@writingstudio.com.