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🌟 Content Genius Knowledge Base

A single, practical guide to Content Genius (V3): quotas, workflows, Topical Map, AI settings, WordPress sync, audits, and FAQs.

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Content teams juggle briefs, clustering, on-page checks, and publishing. This V3 knowledge base puts everything in one place—from creating AI-assisted drafts to syncing with WordPress, mapping topics, and auditing pages. If you’re moving from legacy docs, you’ll find normalized paths, quota specifics, and all the new folder-level AI features clearly labeled [V3].

🔍 Overview

Content Genius is an AI-powered SEO content editor that simplifies content creation and optimization. It offers integrated keyword research, SERP analysis, and NLP suggestions to help you write SEO-optimized articles. With one click, you can generate content that ranks and drives traffic — ideal for SEOs, content writers, and bloggers.

🧰 Content Genius Tools

  • SEO Content Assistant (editor + scoring + NLP terms)

  • Content Planner (keyword/topic clustering)

  • Topical Map (cluster ideation + diagram/table + article generation)

  • WordPress sync (publish/sync via plugin)

  • PR Generator (AI press releases)

  • On-Page Audit (content quality, technicals, UX)

📊 Quotas

📦Content Genius Quotas Breakdown

Content Genius Tools

Resets Every Month

Quota Breakdown

✍️ Write Yourself

✅ Yes

1 Articles Quota + 1 Target Keywords Quota (for each keyword chosen)

🤖 Write With AI

✅ Yes

3 AI Premium Quotas + 1 Articles Quota + 1 Target Keywords Quota (for each keyword chosen)

📦 Write With AI in Bulk

✅ Yes

Each Complete AI Article = 3 AI Premium Quotas + 1 Articles Quota + 1 Target Keywords Quota

💡 Note: For each keyword chosen while generating AI content, 1 Target Keywords Quota is consumed. Example: 3 keywords = 3 Target Keywords Quotas.

🤖 About AI Quotas

  • Premium AI quota is used in:

    • OTTO Topic Maps: 1 unit for AI article generation

    • Content Genius: 3 units for AI article generation

    • Standalone Topical Map: 3 units for Topical Map generation

  • Regular AI quota is used for:

    • Content Outline (AI writer)

    • Terms Insertion (Content Genius)

    • Links Insertion (Content Genius)

    • Content Ideas tool

    • Meta Generator tool

    • Company Global Background (AI writer)

    • AI Templates

Summary
​Premium AI quota → longer content generation
​Regular AI quota → shorter content generation

🧭 Access & Navigation

🚪 How to Access Content Genius in SearchAtlas

  1. From the SearchAtlas home screen, go to Content (main menu).

  2. Inside Content, open Content Genius.

  3. Scroll down to view your AI articles table (once created).

🧵 Workflows in Content Genius

  • Write Yourself

  • Write With AI

  • Write With AI in Bulk

📝 Note: To use these workflows and generate AI content, first create a Settings Folder.

🗂️ Folders & Settings

📁 Create a Folder in Content Genius

  1. Click All Articles.

  2. Click Create Folder.

  3. Provide general information about your website.

  4. Choose preferred writing options.

  5. Provide additional info and click Create Settings.

  6. A new Content Genius folder is created.

  7. To view the folder, click Folder Settings.

  8. A pop-up shows the settings of the selected folder.

  9. Edit settings and click Update Setting to save.

🔄 Switch Between Folders

  1. Click on the Folder Name.

  2. Choose your desired folder from saved folders.

📍 Location / Micro-Location Targeting

If you are a local business, specify micro-location. The tool will analyze competitors' ranking in that specific area for your target keywords and give content suggestions. Supports targeting by country, state, city, or county.

✨ Generate AI Content

  1. Choose from the AI Folder Settings.

  2. In Content Genius, select Write With AI.

  3. Enter the topic and related keywords; select the country.

  4. Generated articles appear in the table.

  5. Click an article to open it in the Content Editor.

  6. Use the editor to refine content and improve Content Score.

How it works


The tool searches for your target keyword in Google, performs competitor analysis on the top 20 ranking pages, and returns metrics (DR, Content Score, Schema, internal/external links, H1/H2/H3, word count) and a Relevant Terms (NLP entities) grid to guide optimization.

🔄 WordPress Publishing & Sync

⬆️ Upload Articles/Pages to WordPress

Prerequisite: Your WordPress site must be synchronized via the official SearchAtlas plugin. See WordPress Plugin for details.

  1. In Content Genius, click the article you want to upload.

  2. In the editor, click Synchronize → Not Synced.

  3. Fill out required fields and click Publish Blog Post.

  4. The article is uploaded to WordPress.

  5. Click the blog post URL to view it.

✏️ Edit Blog/Page and Sync Updated Version

  1. Make changes to your blog content.

  2. Click Synchronized → green Synced label → choose Author → Sync to post.

  3. Changes deploy to WordPress; click the blog URL to view.
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    • Permalink: URL slug for the post

    • Categories & Tags: Must be selected for successful sync

    • Author: Assignable during sync
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    Limitations
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    • Featured Image: Uploaded directly to your WP wp-content folder.

    • Inline AI Images: Remain hosted on SearchAtlas servers (not copied into WP media library).

    👉 Helps set expectations when syncing blog posts.

🧰 "Write With AI" Drawer

  1. Provide all necessary information and click Create Article.

  2. In the editor, click Write With AI to open the generation drawer.

  3. Choose content type.

  4. Enter the topic and select a pre-saved AI folder.

  5. Click Build with AI to generate an outline.

  6. Review the outline; add/delete topics as needed.

  7. Optionally add Terms to include/exclude, Questions, and Links.

  8. Choose AI image settings and aspect ratio (Midjourney used for image generation).

  9. Select AI model and writer settings.

  10. Click Generate AI Content.

    Your AI content is generated.

🎛️ Customize Your Content

Use Write with AI to access settings and fine-tune:

  • AI Model

  • Enable FAQ

  • Language

  • Point of View

  • Reading Level

  • Writing Style

  • Subject Niche

Outcome: Tailor content to your brand/audience and iterate for best results.

🧪 On-Page Audit

Enhance performance with a full audit across Authority, Content, Technicals, and Page Experience.

  • Audit pages in bulk (URLs + keywords + locations) to create multiple audits.

  • Optimize existing content with the SEO Content Assistant.

  • Metrics: Content Score, Domain Rating, Page Referring Domains, Technical Score, Desktop PSI, Mobile PSI.

Metric

Example Value

Notes

Content Score

74/100

Suggested improvement: more NLP terms

Domain Rating

63

From Ahrefs-style DR scale

Page PSI (Mobile)

82

Below recommended 90+

Word Count

2,350

Competitors averaged 2,700+

🥊 Compare Content Quality Against Competitors

  • See the top 10 pages ranking for your target keyword with their content scores.

  • Guidance on ideal ranges for Content Score, Word Count, and Readability.

🧩 Technical Score & Page Experience

Identify issues for uniqueness, links, images, content, meta descriptions, Twitter Meta, OG Meta, and Page Headers.

🗺️ SERP Competitor Analysis & Page Structure

Evaluate competitive landscape and improve page structure for visibility, relevance, and UX.

🗓️ Content Planner

Quickly create editorial calendars with hundreds of keyword/topic ideas relevant to your products/services. Automates keyword research and clustering to help you browse and optimize content using relevant clusters.

  • Enter the target keyword and specify the country/city.

  • Tool queries the top 20 SERPs, retrieves keywords each page ranks for, and clusters them.

  • Use Table view to compare and create articles via Create Article → SEO Content Assistant.

Example:

Input: “running shoes” (US)

Output:

  • Cluster 1: trail running shoes, best trail shoes 2024

  • Cluster 2: running shoes for flat feet, orthopedic running shoes

  • Cluster 3: Nike Pegasus review, Asics Gel comparison

📝 Create Articles from Clusters

  1. Click the pen icon on the desired topic cluster.

  2. Select keywords in the cluster to create the article.

  3. (Optional) Click Generate Article Suggestions for new ideas.

  4. Click Create New Article → opens in SEO Content Assistant.

  5. Use Write With AI; selected keywords are auto-loaded into the article.

🗺️ Topical Map

Build relevant topical maps based on a target keyword or topic. Input how many clusters you want, long-tails per cluster, and titles per long-tail.

🧮 Topical Map Quotas (Content Genius)

Topical Map (Inside Content Genius)

  • Integrated within Content workflows

  • Connected to Content Assistant for direct article creation

Topical Map (Standalone)

  • Separate module

  • Can be used for multilingual maps (Portuguese, Spanish, etc.)

  • Consumes 3 Premium AI Quotas per map

  • Resets: monthly

  • Topical Map: 1 Topical Map = 3 AI Premium Quotas

  • Full Article Generation (Topical Map): 1 full AI article = 1 AI Premium Quota

  • Note: These apply to topical map generation; if you generate a full AI article after, 1 AI Premium Quota is also consumed.

🧭 Topical Map Walkthrough

  1. Go to Content > Topical Map.

  2. Click Create Topical Map.

  3. Provide Folder for AI Settings, Pillar Page URL, Target Keyword, Preferred Language.

  4. Choose # of clusters, # of long-tail keywords per cluster, and # of titles per long-tail.

  5. Click Create & Continue.

  6. Choose preferred AI setting → Update Settings.

  7. Generated maps appear in the table.

  8. Click View Topical Map to access ideas.

  9. Click Edit Topical Map to add ideas.

  10. View ideas in Diagram or Table format.

  11. In Diagram, select a node.

  12. In the pop-up, click Add To Topical Map (gray = not added; green = added).

  13. After adding, you can create content, publish, and view on WordPress.

  14. In Table, select clusters/topics/keywords to add to the topical map.

  15. If you want to generate an article with SearchAtlas Content Assistant, first add the clusters/topics/keywords to the topical map.

  16. Click Scroll to generate content, publish, and view on WordPress.

  17. After adding ideas, view them in the topical map ideas list.

🗂️ Create New AI Settings Folder (From Topical Map)

  1. Click Create Topical Map.

  2. In Select folder, choose Create a new folder.

  3. Select required settings → Create & Continue.

  4. Fill AI Writing Settings → Update Settings.

  5. New AI folder is created with updated settings.

  6. To view AI folder settings: View Topical Map → AI Settings (pop-up shows saved settings).

🧩 Diagram Format Tips

  1. Click-hold and drag to navigate the canvas.

  2. Select a node.

  3. Use Add To Topical Map to include the idea (gray = not added; green = added).

  4. After adding an idea, create content → publish → view on WordPress.

🌍 Other Languages (Standalone Topical Map)

  1. Go to Content > Topical Map (Standalone) and click Create Topical Map.

  2. Choose AI folder and keyword.

  3. Select your language (e.g., Portuguese – Brazil).

  4. Set clusters, long-tails per cluster, titles per long-tail.

  5. Click Create & Continue.

  6. Choose folder settings → Update Settings.

  7. Click Add Ideas to Topical Map.

  8. Your topical map ideas will appear in the selected language.

🔔 Note: Publishing from Topical Map to WordPress requires your website to be synchronized via the SearchAtlas WordPress Plugin.

📰 Content Genius PR (Press Release)

Overview
Generate press releases with AI: research, build, and review effective PRs without heavy manual work.

Quotas

  • Resets monthly

  • 1 Complete Press Release = 1 AI Premium Quota

Walkthrough

  1. Go to Content (main menu).

  2. Open Content Genius.

  3. Provide PR topic & keywords → Generate Article.

  4. In the Content Assistant, click Write with AI.

  5. Select Press Release and provide the required info.

  6. Click Generate AI Content.

  7. Edit the PR in the content assistant as needed.

🧩 OTTO: AI Local Landing Page Builder

Overview


Create fully functional local landing pages with one click; publish to WordPress in a single click.

Quota

  • 1 AI Landing Page = 15 AI Generations (resets monthly)

Walkthrough

  1. From the SearchAtlas homepage, go to Otto SEO V2.

  2. Choose your Otto project → View.

  3. Tabs → New Content.

  4. Left menu → AI Landing Page Builder.

  5. Table lists all pages for the project.

  6. Click Generate a page.

  7. Provide basic page information.

  8. Provide business information → Generate Landing Page.

  9. Page is generated.

  10. If unsatisfied, click Regenerate Page.

  11. To publish: choose website, permalink URL, page status → Publish Landing Page.

  12. Page is published to your site.

💡 You can choose saved AI folders within the Content Assistant settings drawer.

🧷 Editor Utilities

🏷️ Edit & Update Image Alt Tags (Content Assistant)

  1. Hover over the image to edit its img alt tag.

  2. Click the pencil icon.

  3. Edit the alt text → Save Changes.

  4. Alt text updated.

🖼️ AI Generated Images in Content Assistant

Featured images generated by Content Assistant front-load the related keyword or descriptive text of the AI image.

🏷️ Meta Tags

Meta tags are snippets of text that describe a page's content. They don't appear on the page itself but only in the page's code. Meta tags are crucial in SEO as they provide search engines and other web services with information about the content and purpose of a web page. Below are the main types and their importance.

Title Tag


The HTML element that specifies a web page's title. Google may use the page title as a clickable headline in search results. It is crucial for SEO and click-through rates.

Meta Description


A summary of the page's content that can appear below the title in SERPs. Influences click-through rates. Example:

<meta name="description" content="This is a brief summary of the page content.">

Canonical Tags


Used to address duplicate content and indicate the preferred version of a page:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/preferred-page-url">

Robots Meta Tags
Provide instructions to crawlers about indexing and link following.

robots.txt
A text file that tells crawlers which parts of the site should not be crawled or indexed.

Sitemap
An XML file listing site URLs and metadata (last updated, change frequency, priority). XML sitemaps help search engines crawl more intelligently; HTML sitemaps are for users.

🎛️ RICH MEDIA & TAGS

Headers


Use heading tags (H1–H6) to structure multimedia-rich pages. Improves readability and helps search engines understand hierarchy and relevance.

Images


Enhance engagement and SEO. Optimize with descriptive filenames, alt text, compression, and lazy loading.

Videos


Boost engagement and convey complex information. Provide transcripts, schema, and optimized thumbnails.

Iframes


Embed external content within a page. Ensure critical content is crawlable and doesn’t block rendering.

External Links


Point to authoritative sources for context and credibility. Use them to enrich topic coverage and signal relevance.

Internal Links


Connect related pages to aid crawling, distribute authority, and improve UX. Use descriptive anchor text and logical hierarchies.

Schema (Structured Data)


Add context for search engines, enabling rich results. Apply appropriate schemas (Article, FAQ, Video, etc.).

Social (OG/Twitter Meta)


Control how URLs render on social platforms to improve visibility and engagement.

JavaScript


Adds interactivity but can affect crawlability and performance. Follow best practices so content is renderable and indexable; hydrate progressively and avoid blocking resources.

🧠 SCHOLAR (Semantic Content Heuristics for Objective Language Assessment & Review)


Reverse-engineer Google’s content quality signals and provide an objective, data-backed score for content improvement.
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Evaluates

  • Content Clarity

  • Factuality

  • Numerical Precision

  • Human Effort (lists, images with metadata, videos, schema)

  • Information Gain

How It Works
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Plug in your content (URL, doc, or draft) and target keyword/landing page to receive a detailed report and actionable insights. Useful for:

  • SEO professionals

  • Content creators

  • Agencies

Operational Guidance

  • Build a foundation in semantic SEO.

  • Use SCHOLAR as a sparring partner to evaluate/compare content across algorithmic metrics (e.g., unnecessary words, word salience, pronoun usage).

  • Integrate with content generation to refine prompt frameworks, briefs, and first-pass article quality.

  • Implement ~30 algorithmic authorship rules (introductions, concept delivery, factuality requirements in briefs, etc.).

  • Add numerical factuality (stats, competitor comparisons, case study metrics) and then regrade the content.

Limitations

  • Does not currently suggest specific numerical facts to add; competitor examples may be shown in future versions.

❓ FAQs

  • Where can I find keyword clustering ideas?

    Use Content Planner: dashboard.linkgraph.com/content/content-planner.

  • What inputs are required to get started with Content Planner?

    Target keyword + country code (e.g., US).

  • How are keywords clustered?

  • Fetches top 20 SERPs for the target keyword; retrieves the keywords each page ranks for; clusters via MeaningCloud; sorts by MSV (desc) and KD (asc).

  • Can I create articles from clusters?

  • Yes — one-click to open in SEO Content Assistant.

  • When publishing to WordPress, are images uploaded to my hosting?

  • Featured images are uploaded to your WP wp-content folder; other AI images in the blog are hosted on SearchAtlas content assistant servers.

  • What is a keyword cluster?

    A group of related keywords around a theme, used to optimize for multiple terms at once.

  • What metrics are shown per cluster?

    MSV, KD, Search Intent.

  • How is KD categorized?

    Qualitatively (Very easy → Extremely challenging) and quantitatively (1–100).

  • Which intents are identified?

    Navigational, Informational, Commercial, Transactional.

  • What is a Press Release? Why use PR?

  • PRs drive backlinks, visibility, and traffic; the PR Generator streamlines the creation of optimized PRs.

📚 Glossary

  1. Topical terms: Related keywords/phrases around a central theme.

  2. POS (Ranking Position): Position in Google’s SERPs for a query.

  3. DA (Domain Authority): Predictive authority metric (not a Google factor).

  4. DR (Domain Rating): Backlink profile strength (log-scale 1–100; not a Google factor).

  5. Ref Domain: Sites with one or more backlinks to the page.

  6. Spam Score: Probability (ML-based) a site has penalized features (ranges: low 1–30%, medium 31–60%, high 61–100%).

  7. Load Time: Average page render time.

  8. Content Score: 1–100 grade of content quality/relevancy.

  9. Word Count / Readability: Content volume and ease of understanding.

  10. Domain Traffic: Visitor volume & engagement at the domain level.

  11. Uniqueness: Originality of content/structure/configuration.

  12. Links: Internal vs. External Hyperlinks for SEO.

  13. Images: Visual assets with SEO best practices (compression, alt, lazy load).

  14. Meta Description: HTML attribute summarizing a page (influences CTR).

  15. Twitter Meta / OG Meta: Social meta tags for X/Facebook previews.

  16. Page Headers: H-tag structure for readability and SEO.

  17. Technical Score: Contribution of technical UX to SEO.

  18. Desktop/Mobile PSI: Page speed metrics for desktop/mobile.

  19. Common Backlinks: Domains linking to multiple competitors.

  20. Recommended Inlinks/Outlinks: Internal/external link suggestions.

  21. Cluster: Group of related keywords.

  22. MSV / KD / Intent: Search volume, difficulty, and searcher motive.

  23. Meta Tags: Title, Description, Canonical, Robots, robots.txt, Sitemap.

  24. Spam Score: ML-based probability (1–100%) that a site shows penalized features.

    Example: “A site with hidden text or link farms may have a spam score above 60% (medium-high risk).”

  25. Domain Rating (DR): Strength of backlink profile (1–100).

    Example: “DR 80+ sites like Forbes or Wikipedia pass significantly stronger authority than DR 20 sites.”

  26. Load Time: Average page render speed.

    Example: “If Load Time > 3s, bounce rate can increase by 30%+ (Google, 2018).”

🚀 Content Genius 3.0 (What’s New)

🚀 Content Genius 3.0 (What’s New) — [V3]

Smarter Defaults, AI-Powered Setup, and Context-Aware Prompting — all at the Folder level.

📍 [V3] Folder-Level Geolocation

Set the target location once in folder settings; the location applies automatically to every keyword and prompt in the folder.

  • Before: Change geolocation per keyword.

  • Now: Open folder → Settings → add location (country/state/city). It applies to all future prompts within that folder.

  • Use Case: Multiple local campaigns → one folder per location.

🧠 [V3] AI-Powered Domain Setup

Auto-populate tone, niche, and context from your website.

  • In folder settings: paste domain → Populate all settings with AI.

  • Auto-fills: Business Purpose, Audience Type, Niche/Industry, Company Background, Preferred Tone of Voice.

  • Benefit: Reduce setup from minutes to seconds; ensure brand-aligned briefs.

🧱 [V3] Prompt Clarity Guidance

The prompt editor now:

  • Pre-loads a recommended structure

  • Suggests missing elements (keyword, angle, etc.)

  • Highlights incomplete/confusing fields

🧠 [V3] Smart Context Memory (Per Folder)

Once you define brand context (audience, tone, background) in a folder:

  • It applies to all briefs in that folder automatically

  • No need to re-enter values for each brief

🖥️ [V3] Refined UI

  • Consolidated folder settings for easier access

  • Faster prompt generation

  • Fewer clicks to start writing

🧭 UI Path Normalization (Reference)

  • "Content Genius" suite → Content

  • Topical Map location → Content > Topical Map

  • ⚙️ Notes & Requirements

  • WordPress Sync: Publishing requires the official SearchAtlas WordPress Plugin.

  • Quotas: AI Premium vs Regular AI quotas behave as defined above.

  • Languages: Topical maps and content can be generated in multiple languages (choose in settings).

Content Genius V3 centralizes strategy and execution: set your brand context once, plan clusters, generate drafts, sync to WordPress, and iterate with audits and SCHOLAR scoring. Keep this guide handy as your operating manual—update folders, watch quotas, and let the [V3] defaults do the heavy lifting so you can focus on publishing work that ranks.

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