How to Use the Bulk Writer in PixelClaw: Autopilot, the Topic Queue and Your Schedule

The bulk writer produces better posts when it knows your business, so spend ten minutes on setup before queueing anything.

First, the business profile. Add your website and PixelClaw reads it into a profile: what you sell, where, for whom, at what price. Posts then mention your real services. Second, a brand voice: how formal you are, words you use and avoid, an example paragraph. Third, check your credits. A standard post uses 25, and Autopilot shows the price per post before you start.

If you have no topics yet, that is fine. The bulk writer can suggest them, and Research has ideas, keywords and competitor gaps to pull from.

Open Autopilot from your blog's menu. In the topic box, paste your topics one per line, up to 50 at a time; the queue holds up to 200. Write them as the questions readers ask, such as "How long does a heat pump last", rather than single keywords.

Prefer suggestions? Click Suggest topics and choose the ideas you like. Each queued topic shows "Keyword picked when it runs", because Autopilot chooses the best keyword from fresh research at the time it writes.

You can take a topic out of the queue at any time, or clear a finished run from the list; the post it wrote is kept.

Choose how many posts a week Autopilot should write. Your plan sets the most it can publish per blog: one on Free, two on Starter, seven on Pro, and up to 14 on any plan while you have bought credits. No blog goes past 14, because a business blog publishing several times a day reads as content made to rank.

Then choose the days and the time posts go live, on your blog's clock. Autopilot starts writing each post about a day before its slot. That leaves time for a retry if something fails and time for you to read the post before it publishes.

Pick the brand voice the posts should use; leave it on the blog's default if you only have one. Pick a research depth: quick, standard or deep. Deeper research reads more sources and costs more credits; standard is the right default for most posts.

If your plan includes translation and the blog has extra languages switched on, you can have each new post translated as well. Each translation's price is shown before it starts, and each translation targets the keyword people search for in that language.

This is the most important setting. In approval mode, the default, each finished post waits for you, booked for its time. Approve it and it goes live then; it never goes live without you.

In automatic mode, Autopilot publishes posts that score 77 or more out of 100 and pass the remaining publication checks, at their booked time. A post that falls short is held in Needs review with the reasons listed, and an owner or admin can approve it from there.

Start with approval. Switch to automatic only once the posts arriving in your review list need little or no editing.

A bulk writer is only hands-off if its queue refills. Autopilot has four sources it can draw on when the queue runs low.

Saved keywords are the keywords on your blog's list that no post targets yet, oldest first. This source is free and stays off until you turn it on, so older tracked keywords are not all queued at once. Research ideas that score 70 or more and that no post covers yet are free too. When no good idea is left, Autopilot can find new topics, which uses credits like Find topics in Research. On plans with competitor gaps, it can also check up to three competitors from your business profile for searches they rank for and you don't.

A blog owner or admin switches Autopilot on at the top of the page. From then on, the run list shows each post moving through research, outline, draft, image and score, with a reason if a step could not finish.

Check in weekly. Read a sample of what was published, look at anything in Needs review, and glance at your credits. If you want the bulk writer to run with less of you, read hands-free autoblogging for what Autopilot can safely do alone.