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Getting Started

Quick Start

Go from zero to your first published article in under 5 minutes. This guide walks you through every step of the onboarding flow.

1. Create your account

Head to /signup and enter your email. You'll receive a magic-link — click it to log in. No password required.

2. Enter your website URL

Paste your website's URL (e.g. https://example.com). Outclimb uses this to kick off a full site crawl. You can optionally add competitor domains at this step so the system can benchmark your site from day one.

3. Connect Google (optional)

Link Google Search Console and Google Analytics for richer keyword data and traffic insights. This step is optional — Outclimb discovers keywords via SERP analysis even without GSC — but connecting Google unlocks impression and click data that sharpens priority scoring.

4. Connect your CMS

Choose your CMS and follow the setup guide. We support WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, and Sanity. Once connected, Outclimb can publish articles directly to your blog.

5. Watch the pipeline run

After you submit, Outclimb kicks off a fully automated pipeline. Here's what happens behind the scenes:

  1. Crawl — every page on your site is fetched and analyzed
  2. Audit — technical health score, broken links, structured data checks
  3. Competitors — domains that rank for your topics are identified and profiled
  4. Keywords — high-opportunity keywords are discovered via SERP analysis
  5. Clustering — keywords are grouped into topical clusters
  6. Content Plan — a 30-day publishing calendar is generated
  7. First Brief & Article — your first article is drafted and queued for review

You can track each stage on the Dashboard — status cards update in real time as jobs complete.

6. Review your content plan

Once the pipeline finishes, visit the Content Plan page to see your 30-day strategy. You can approve articles as-is, adjust priority, or regenerate the plan with different parameters.

7. Content ships daily

Approved briefs are turned into full articles, reviewed for quality, and auto-published to your CMS on the cadence you set. New articles are submitted to search engines for indexing and tracked for ranking performance over time.

Read the Publishing & Optimization guide for details on auto-publishing, refresh queues, and performance monitoring.