How to write and publish an SEO blog article with AI (hosted blog)

1:58 · Published 2026-10-09

In CustomIQ blog articles are created in two ways: in the IQ chat, when the marketing plan includes blog or SEO and the agent writes and schedules them, or from the Studio Article generator, where you choose the topic and keywords and generate right away. Articles are managed in Blogs and published on your hosted blog or on WordPress.

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0:00Introduction

In this tutorial you'll create an SEO-optimized blog article and publish it to your blog hosted on CustomIQ. We're in the Article Generator.

0:13Set up the article

First, pick the segment the article is written for. Then pick that segment's blog campaign. If you don't have one yet, you create it from Campaigns. Here's the SEO strategy the agent prepared for the campaign: the content pillars and the planned articles. Your articles come from this plan. Under destination blog, WordPress is the default. We'll pick the blog hosted on CustomIQ.

Choose how many articles you want and whether you want AI-generated images. For this example, one article with no images. Before generating, you see the total cost in credits. Each article costs one hundred credits. Click Generate.

0:56Generate the article

The agent researches topics, writes the article, adds structured data and scores its SEO quality. It takes a few minutes, and you can keep working in the meantime. Done. The article shows up as a draft. Nothing gets published until you review it.

1:15Review the article

Open it to review it. Here you read the article exactly as it will look on the blog, with its meta description, tags and categories on the right. From Social content you can turn the article into an image or a video for your connected social accounts.

1:32Your published article

Because you chose your hosted blog as the destination, the article is already live. This is its address, with sitemap, RSS and structured data for Google and AI assistants. If you need to take it down, Unpublish turns it back into a draft. That's it: from strategy to published article in a few minutes.

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