Content Engine overview
The workspace where a missed question becomes a topic, an outline and an article. What the Summary tab shows and how sources work.
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In short. The Content Engine is where you plan and write. It has four tabs: Summary, What to write, New article and Schedule. Everything in it belongs to a source, which is usually one of your websites.
The four tabs
| Tab | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Summary | Where you stand: your open gaps, work that has stalled, and every outline and article in progress |
| What to write | Suggested topics, ranked by the gap each one answers. See What to write. |
| New article | Start an article from a blank title. See New article. |
| Schedule | Coming soon |
Coming soon. Schedule. The tab is there and says it is not built yet. Planned articles with dates will live there.
Sources
A source is the thing your content is written for. The selector at the top lists them, one entry each:
- A website you have checked
- An added URL, such as a pricing or product page, treated separately from the main site
- An added topic, a niche or angle you described yourself
Switching the source changes everything below it: the gaps, the suggestions and the work table.
Checking the same website again does not create a second source. All checks of one website count as one source, so topics and articles from an earlier check stay where you left them.
What Summary shows, in order
- Your gaps. The questions the latest check found you missing from. Each links into What to write for that question.
- Stalled work. Outlines waiting to be written, so a half-finished piece is not forgotten.
- Counts. How many articles you have, and how many need review because a quality check flagged them.
- The work table. Every outline and article for this source.
Gaps come first on purpose. You arrive here from a visibility report, so the first question is what you are missing, not how much you have produced.
The work table
The table lists outlines as well as articles. An outline waiting to be written is real work, and it would be invisible in a table of finished articles only. Once an outline's article exists, the outline drops off, so nothing appears twice.
Selecting a row opens it in a panel over the page, with the real editor inside. Your edits save automatically, and closing the panel saves anything still pending. On a phone the panel fills the screen.
The usual path
- Open What to write and approve a suggestion.
- Generate its outline, and edit it.
- Approve the outline to write the article.
- Review the article against its quality checks.
- Publish.
Writing articles needs a paid plan. See Plans and billing.