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Getting started

Your first-week checklist

The dashboard's getting-started checklist, plus what else is worth doing in your first week with Clodix.

Your dashboard tracks setup with a small checklist — it disappears once every item is done. Beyond it, a handful of other things pay off if you do them early.

The dashboard checklist

Find this on Home, as a ring showing the percentage done:

  1. Finish onboarding — already ticked the moment you have a site.
  2. Generate first article — write (or let autopilot write) your first piece, so you can see how Clodix sounds. → Generate an article
  3. Connect your website — the step that lets articles publish themselves instead of sitting as drafts. → Connect your website
  4. Publish first article — put that first piece live. → Publish an article
  5. Connect Bing Webmaster Tools — free, two minutes; Bing indexes you sooner and feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. → Connect Bing Webmaster Tools

Each item clears itself based on what you actually do in the app — there's nothing to tick by hand.

The rest of the first week

Once the basics are moving, these are worth ten minutes each:

  • Tighten your Brand DNA guard rails — service area, topics to avoid, tone of voice — before more articles pile up on whatever Clodix assumed. → Brand DNA overview
  • Decide on your autopilot cadence — how often, and whether weekends are skipped. → Autopilot
  • Connect Google Search Console — it feeds real numbers into Analytics and unlocks rebuilding your plan from actual search data. → Connect Google Search Console
  • Run Site Insights' checks — page speed, worldwide reachability and technical SEO, all free. → Site Insights
  • Open the Site Health roadmap — a step-by-step path to a site Google and AI assistants can find. → Site Health
  • Read your first article's SEO score — see what Clodix's own checks are grading you on. → SEO score and originality

FAQ

Does the getting-started checklist ever go away?

Yes — once all five items are done, the whole card disappears from your dashboard.

Do I have to do these in order?

No. Generating, connecting your site and publishing can happen in any order; the checklist just tracks what's left.