getting started
Quickstart
From sign-up to your first article, step by step.
You're going to do five things, in order. Your part takes a few minutes once your CMS is open in another tab.
1. Create your account
Go to /signup and create an account with email and password, or click Sign up with Google. With email, confirm your address from the message we send you before signing in. An organization is created for you automatically and you are its owner.
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2. Connect a site
Open Sites and click Connect a site. Pick your CMS (WordPress, Sanity, Framer, Webflow, Shopify, Ghost, Wix or HubSpot), enter the site name, the site URL and the output language, then follow the per-CMS steps shown next to the credential fields:
- Connect WordPress: your username and an Application Password.
- Connect Sanity: project ID, dataset and an Editor API token.
- Connect Framer: no credentials, paste the feed URL into the AnySync plugin.
- Connect Webflow: API token, Site ID, Collection ID.
- Connect Shopify: an app from the Dev Dashboard, Client ID and Client secret.
- Connect Ghost: an Admin API key from a custom integration.
- Connect Wix: an API key with Blog and Site Media permissions, plus the site ID.
- Connect HubSpot: a private app token with the content and files scopes.
After you click Connect site, Quibo crawls a handful of high-signal pages of your site (home, about, product pages and a few blog posts, up to ten) to learn your brand voice, and reads your CMS to discover post fields and authors. This usually takes a minute or two. The site status goes from Analyzing brand to Ready, and the site page updates on its own. If Quibo cannot read enough of your site, it starts you with a neutral, professional voice and says so on the site page: edit the brand profile to make the articles sound like you. Your edits are kept when Quibo reads your site again, see Brand profile.
Quibo verifies the credentials against your CMS before saving anything: if the check fails, nothing is stored and the error is shown in the wizard so you can fix the values and try again. Once the site is Ready, pick the Default author in the brand profile when your CMS provides one. Test connection on the site page stays available to re-check them later.
3. Discover keywords
Go to Keywords and click + Discover keywords. Pick the site, enter a seed (for example content marketing) and set the cap for this run (5 to 60; the default is set from the articles you have left). Discovery usually takes a few minutes, since one run expands the seed several times, looks up search volumes and takes a SERP snapshot for every surviving keyword. The table updates on its own and shows candidates ranked by opportunity (high volume, low difficulty wins), with gems and long-tail picks flagged.
You can also click + Add manual any time to add keywords by hand, one per line. Manual additions count against your keyword quota like discovered keywords when they are new to your account; a keyword already in your account never counts again. See Add manual keywords.
4. Generate this month's batch
Tick the keywords you want articles for and click Accept (or use the check icon on a row). Then click Plan this month: the dialog shows how many articles remain in your balance and lets you split them across your sites. Stay within the balance and click Generate N articles.
Quibo writes each article in the background, and the Articles board shows live progress. Nothing publishes until you approve it. Quibo emails the organization owner when the whole batch is done. The owner also gets an email if a scheduled article cannot be published.
5. Schedule and ship
Open Articles. Articles in Ready can be edited, scheduled or published from their page: pick a date and time under Schedule publish, or click Publish now. Scheduled and published articles show up in the Calendar, where you can drag them to another day. Batch approve in the calendar schedules every ready article on a cadence you pick, in one go; it is included on every plan.
Once an article is Scheduled, Quibo publishes it to your CMS within a few minutes of the scheduled time (the publisher runs every five minutes). The status changes to Published and the article is live on your site.
If your site refuses the article, Quibo retries temporary problems by itself on WordPress, Ghost and Webflow. If it still cannot publish, the article goes back to Ready, stays on its date marked Publish failed in red, and does not publish by itself. Fix the cause, then open the article and click Publish now or pick a new date under Schedule publish. See Scheduling.
Used keywords are marked used and never appear in discovery again; at the start of the next calendar month they move to archived, where you can pick them again, without using keyword quota, if you want another article on them. Keywords you didn't pick stay in your library for next month.