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Blog with AI drafting

Publish blog posts on your site with AI-assisted writing.

Why it matters

Answer common customer questions with helpful local content.

The HLB difference

Posts live on your own domain with SEO controls.

How it works

Write and publish blog posts on your site with AI drafting help to answer common customer questions.

Blog with AI drafting helps you publish posts on your HLB website without starting from a blank page. Blog Post AI is built into the blog editor, and it can search the web in real time for current information before it writes.

To start, go to Sites, then Blogs, open your blog and create a new post or open a draft. In the blog editor, open the Ask AI panel and choose a mode:

  • Assist mode: enter a topic and preferences such as word count, target audience and keywords. You get a draft with an outline, headings, SEO metadata and AI-generated images.
  • Build mode: write your own prompt for long-form or highly specific content, such as a 1,500-word beginner's guide or a post with research-backed points. It gives you more control over tone, structure and creative direction.

You can start in Assist mode and use Build mode prompts for extra sections in the same post. After generating, hover over any paragraph to regenerate it, rewrite it or adjust its tone. You can also improve clarity or length, replace or regenerate AI images, delete unused sections and apply SEO enhancement suggestions.

In Assist mode, the Personalize option lets you choose a language and change the writing tone, so you can create or translate posts in different languages. You can also provide reference URLs or images so the output fits your context.

When the draft is ready, click Continue and review the suggested SEO title, meta description and keywords, which you can edit. Then choose Draft, Publish or Schedule and apply it with the button in the top right.

Comments and replies on blog posts

Add a comments section to your blog posts. Readers can comment, reply and react. Review, approve or answer comments from the Comments tab. You can require approval before comments are published, and you can turn on email notifications for new comments.

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