How Automatic SEO Blog Publishing Works

This page is for founders and content teams who want a steady flow of search-ready articles on their own domain without a writer on payroll. It explains each step of the loop and the rules that keep it from flooding a site with thin pages.

The publishing loop, step by step

Automatic blog publishing is a loop of five steps: topics, draft, factual review, approval, publish. AutoSEO runs them in this order for every article.

1. Topics. You add a few topics, or AutoSEO proposes question-shaped ones. It can also mine the real questions people ask (search suggestions, forums and your Search Console data) and rank them.
2. Draft. Each article is written in a citation-friendly format: a short answer at the top, answer-shaped headings, a visible FAQ, Article and FAQPage JSON-LD where the connector supports it, and a cover image.
3. Factual review. A mandatory source-backed review checks the draft and holds unsupported or contradicted claims for you. Editing a draft invalidates its previous review, so the check always matches the text that ships.
4. Approval. The article lands in the approval queue as a draft. You approve, edit or reject it. Full autopilot is a setting you can switch on once you trust the output.
5. Publish. The connector publishes the approved article to your site at its scheduled time, on the same scheduler that runs your social posts. Published articles can also be turned into social posts.

The four publish connectors

AutoSEO publishes to the site you already own through one of four connectors, and setup routes you to the one with the least friction for your stack.

For the webhook connector, setup hands your own coding assistant the code for a POST /autoseo-publish receiving endpoint, so it works with any framework. Every connector is verified before you rely on it: verification proves TimeToPost can publish, detects what the site supports, and degrades gracefully if a target cannot inject JSON-LD. Details are in the connector docs.

How the cadence works

AutoSEO earns its cadence from search evidence: every site starts at one article per week, and the ceiling moves up one step at a time, to a maximum of three per week. You set a weekly cadence in the dashboard (1 to 14), and the cadence that runs is the lower of your setting and the evidence ceiling.

The ceiling is evaluated from your Search Console data, which you connect read-only, and can rise at most about once a week:

• It rises one step (up to three per week) when at least four live articles are older than 21 days, at least half of them have impressions, and the group has at least one click.
• It returns to one per week when 60% or more of the articles older than 28 days have no impressions, or when impressions fall by more than 40% over two consecutive weeks.

The reason is simple: an article nobody finds does not need a sibling yet. Keep volume low enough that each article can be reviewed, linked and improved. The cadence and approval docs cover the settings.

Approval: the default, and when to switch it off

Every AutoSEO article waits for your approval by default, because your business stays responsible for what appears on its site. Approve the first article by hand, keep approval on until you have an editorial checklist you trust, and raise the cadence only after the first articles hold up. When you are ready, Growth lets you switch a site to full autopilot. The factual review runs on every draft either way.

What it costs

AutoSEO Blog Autopilot is included in the Growth plan at $99 per month, or $79.20 per month billed annually. Growth also includes everything in Pro: unlimited social posts, AI content generation, best time to post and backlink outreach, plus cross-site backlinks between your own properties. Blog Autopilot on its own is $49 per month, and an Agency tier is $199 per month. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial. See the plan-by-plan breakdown or the AutoSEO page.

Setting it up from an AI agent

The whole setup is also available as MCP tools, so an AI agent can configure AutoSEO for you. The sequence is autoseo_connect_site, autoseo_integration_kit (the code and install steps for the endpoint), autoseo_verify_site, autoseo_configure (topics, cadence, backlinks, image style, approvals and social repurposing) and autoseo_generate_post. autoseo_auto_configure proposes topics, saves safe defaults and can queue the first draft in one call. Articles you already wrote can be imported with autoseo_import_article, or up to 50 at a time with autoseo_import_batch. The AI agent guide shows how to connect.

How we know

The steps, connectors and tool names come from TimeToPost's public docs as of 1 November 2026: the AutoSEO connectors and cadence and approvals docs, the AutoSEO page and the MCP tool reference. Prices are from the pricing page on the same date. The cadence thresholds are the values in the production cadence rules on 1 November 2026.