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Quick Start

Add your website, configure a webhook, and receive your first AI-generated SEO article in minutes.

Overview

FirstSearch.AI generates keyword-targeted SEO articles and delivers them directly to your website via webhook. Here's the setup flow:

1
Add your website
Enter your domain and let the system analyze your site
2
Connect your CMS
Configure a webhook endpoint where articles will be delivered
3
Review your content calendar
45 keyword-targeted articles are planned automatically
4
Receive articles daily
One article per day, delivered as a webhook POST request

1. Add Your Website

After signing up, add your website domain. The system will:

  • - Crawl your site to understand your business, niche, and target audience
  • - Discover your competitors in the same niche
  • - Extract your existing content for internal linking
  • - Build a business profile that guides all future content
Sitemap helps
If your site has a sitemap.xml, the analysis is faster and more accurate. You can add or update it in Settings later.

2. Connect Your CMS

Go to Settings → Integration and add a webhook URL. This is the endpoint on your server where FirstSearch.AI will POST completed articles.

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Webhook URL: https://yoursite.com/api/firstsearch-webhook
Secret:      auto-generated (copy and store as an environment variable)

Click Test Connection to verify your endpoint receives requests correctly. For detailed setup instructions including code examples, see the Webhook Integration guide.

3. Content Calendar

After onboarding, the system runs keyword research for your niche and creates a content calendar with 45 articles scheduled over the next 45 days. Each article targets a specific keyword selected for:

  • - Search volume — real monthly search demand
  • - Difficulty — realistic ranking opportunity for your domain authority
  • - Intent match — informational queries your audience is searching
  • - Uniqueness — no keyword cannibalization across your calendar

You can review, reorder, or replace keywords in the calendar before generation starts.

4. Article Delivery

Every day at 00:05 UTC, the system generates one article from your calendar. The full pipeline takes 3-5 minutes:

StageWhat HappensTime
ResearchAI researches the topic, finds sources, plans structure~30s
WritingParallel section writing (2,000-3,500 words)~60s
ImagesAI-generated illustrations matching article style~90s
DeliveryWebhook POST to your endpoint with full article~1s

Each delivery includes the article content (Markdown), SEO metadata, AI-generated images, structured data (JSON-LD), and FAQ schema. See Webhook Integration for the full payload reference.

What's in Each Article

Every article is a complete, publish-ready package:

  • - 2,000-3,500 words of keyword-targeted content with real source citations
  • - 3-4 AI-generated images in a consistent visual style
  • - SEO metadata — title tag, meta description, focus keyword, Open Graph, Twitter cards
  • - Structured data — Article schema + FAQ schema for Google rich results
  • - YouTube video embed (when relevant)
  • - Internal links to your existing content
Content format
Article content is delivered as Markdown. Your CMS or rendering layer converts it to HTML. See Content Structure for the full format reference.

Next Steps