Andrew Petrovics

Creating Blog Posts

<p>The first step to creating a blog post is adding a video. We currently support two methods: YouTube link, upload a video/audio file, or via a YouTube channel link.</p><callout-component color="Sky"><p>Note: All videos must have spoken audio. Music videos, video game streams, etc will not work.</p></callout-component><h2 id="6zps1twiiae" data-toc-id="6zps1twiiae">YouTube Link</h2><p>You can enter the YouTube URL for any YouTube video that is publicly available.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01923013-100e-7dad-a2e0-db53b9bf8b7a.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>The video can be unlisted but it cannot be private. Also, it must not contain censored or age restricted content and must be available to view in the US.</p><callout-component color="Sky"><p>We do not currently support YouTube live videos. You can use live video links once the video is done streaming, but not while it’s currently live / streaming.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Green"><p>Videos up to 3 hours long are supported.</p></callout-component><h2 id="qs1r4lcf646" data-toc-id="qs1r4lcf646">Upload Video or Audio File</h2><p>We also support uploading any video or audio file in any format. Simply click the “Or upload a file” button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01923011-edcd-7bce-ace7-26c8c6dc00ec.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Then choose a file from your local computer.</p><h2 id="3yxi86btkm7" data-toc-id="3yxi86btkm7">Bulk Generation from YouTube Channel (coming soon)</h2><p>You can also generate multiple blog posts at once from any particular YouTube channel.</p><p>To do so, simply paste in a YouTube channel URL like below and select which videos you want to generate a blog post from and click the Next button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01946ae9-a63a-7098-b184-09b23c24e9bd.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Yellow"><p><strong>Warning:</strong> It is highly recommended that you only use the bulk upload feature when you are sure you know which settings you want to generate the blog posts from (see <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/3732445-adding-videos#3yxi86btkm7">Recommended work flow for bulk uploads</a>)</p></callout-component><h3 id="z1033q5656c" data-toc-id="z1033q5656c">Recommended work flow for bulk uploads</h3><p>When generating blog posts via bulk upload from a channel, we recommended the following work flow…</p><ol><li><p>Generate 1 blog post from the channel.</p></li><li><p>Review, regenerate (if needed), edit, and publish the blog post.</p></li><li><p>Repeat steps 1-2 (at least a few times) until you are confident you will not want to change the blog generation settings.</p></li></ol><h3 id="mf0o3rx2rbi" data-toc-id="mf0o3rx2rbi">Saving YouTube channels for future use</h3><p>When you add a YouTube channel, it will automatically be saved so next time you can just click on it instead of having to paste a link.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01946b02-20ea-73e9-8f66-37231205a1c9.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p></p>

Adding Videos

<p>Custom instructions are an extremely powerful way to customize your blog post exactly to your liking. You can do things like add writing examples, add sources, customize tone, and much more. These instructions get sent directly to our AI.</p><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip:</strong> You can include links to articles in custom instructions and they will automatically be parsed by the AI.</p></callout-component><p>To add custom instructions click the “Enter Custom Instructions” button when creating your blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019229e0-a2aa-72af-841f-576daaf268bc.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><p></p><h2 id="zep6icp3ad1" data-toc-id="zep6icp3ad1">Examples</h2><p>You can do so many things with custom instructions. This is just a small list of things you can do…</p><details class="details"><summary>Customize tone</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><pre><code class="language-plaintext">Write in a casual, conversational, and optimistic tone</code></pre></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Add a custom outline</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><pre><code class="language-plaintext">Use the following outline…
• Header 1
• Header 2
...</code></pre></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Optimize on keywords</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><pre><code class="language-plaintext">Optimize on the following keywords…
• Keyword 1
• Keyword 2
…</code></pre></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Add writing examples</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p></p><p><strong>Using links…</strong></p><pre><code class="language-plaintext">Write in the same tone, voice, and structure as the following articles…
•&nbsp;https://www.website.com/article_1
• https://www.website.com/article_2
...</code></pre><p><br><strong>Using raw content…</strong></p><pre><code class="language-plaintext">Write in the same tone, voice, and structure as the following articles…

&lt;example-article&gt;
{{ ADD IN ARTICLE CONTENT HERE }}
&lt;/example-article&gt;

&lt;example-article&gt;
{{ ADD IN ARTICLE CONTENT HERE }}
&lt;/example-article&gt;

…</code></pre><p></p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Add sources</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p></p><p><strong>Using links…</strong></p><pre><code class="language-plaintext">Use the following articles as sources…
•&nbsp;https://www.website.com/article_1
• https://www.website.com/article_2
...</code></pre><p><br><strong>Using raw content…</strong></p><pre><code class="language-plaintext">Use the following articles as sources…

&lt;source&gt;
{{ ADD IN ARTICLE CONTENT HERE }}
&lt;/source&gt;

&lt;source&gt;
{{ ADD IN ARTICLE CONTENT HERE }}
&lt;/source&gt;

…</code></pre><p></p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Provide additional context</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><pre><code class="language-plaintext">There are two speakers in the video. The interviewer is name “John” and the person being interviewed is named “Bob”</code></pre><p></p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Add a table with relevant data</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p><br><strong>Using data from the video (if applicable)…</strong></p><pre><code class="language-plaintext">Add a table using the data discussed in the video.</code></pre><p></p><p><strong>Providing your own data…</strong></p><pre><code class="language-plaintext">Add a table using the following data…
&lt;table-data&gt;
{{ ADD IN TABLE DATA }}
&lt;/table-data&gt;</code></pre><p></p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Customize screenshots</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><pre><code class="language-plaintext">Add only 2-3 screenshots and only add screenshots from the second half of the video.</code></pre></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Customize stock images</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><pre><code class="language-plaintext">Include stock images related to dogs and cats or other household animals.</code></pre></div></details><callout-component color="Yellow"><h3 id="53b3ok5xlzq" data-toc-id="53b3ok5xlzq">Important!</h3><p>Only links to <strong>articles</strong> can be parsed by our AI. If you’re including links to non-articles, you will need to include a link description (or the content itself) to the AI so it understands. You will see a warning for any links you include that cannot be parsed by our AI.</p></callout-component><h2 id="xf0t35z2xrw" data-toc-id="xf0t35z2xrw">Additional Resources</h2><p>I highly recommend looking over these guides for prompting techniques in general…</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="link" href="https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview"><strong>Anthropic’s Prompt Engineering Guide</strong></a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="link" href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering"><strong>Open AI’s Prompt Engineering Guide</strong></a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="flex items-center ml-auto space-x-3 group link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/creating-blogs/getting-started"><strong><br></strong></a></p>

Custom Instructions

<p>Adding images and/or videos is a great way to take your blog post to the next level. We give you three ways to <strong>automatically</strong> add visuals to your blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019224e3-1135-775e-9729-6aec3947b7a0.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Blue"><p><strong>Good to know: </strong>This article describes how you can <strong>automatically</strong> add visuals to your blog. We also give you numerous ways to manually add visuals after your blog post is generated. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/0304993-adding-and-editing-images">Learn more</a>.</p></callout-component><h2 id="kp81sbzsw4k" data-toc-id="kp81sbzsw4k">Add a Featured Image / Video</h2><p>A featured image or video is one that gets displayed at the beginning of the blog post. There are a few options you can choose from…</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193645b-e565-75b6-9922-b34db44bdb85.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><h3 id="xo3o8rbxfqq" data-toc-id="xo3o8rbxfqq">None</h3><p>This will not add any featured image or video to your blog post.</p><h3 id="m8b42ccpmpi" data-toc-id="m8b42ccpmpi">Embed Video</h3><p>This will embed the actual video into the blog post itself.</p><h3 id="sx5bz6qim8x" data-toc-id="sx5bz6qim8x">AI Generated Image</h3><p>This will add an AI generated image to your blog (using <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://www.recraft.ai/">Recraft</a>). Click the button to the right of the drop down to specify a custom prompt and/or specify an image style.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01936495-3cbc-798d-8902-178de3b6ed1f.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up a dialog like below where you can make your changes…</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193645e-2640-7fbf-8358-ddf49be0faa7.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p></p><h3 id="az32mcblbl2" data-toc-id="az32mcblbl2"><br>Stock Image</h3><p>This will automatically add a relevant stock image from <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://unsplash.com/">Unsplash</a> as your featured image.</p><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip</strong>: You can add customize what stock image gets automatically added by adding <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/4846773-custom-instructions">custom instructions</a>.</p></callout-component><h3 id="5fkd3kab1mp" data-toc-id="5fkd3kab1mp">Video Thumbnail</h3><p>This will add the YouTube video thumbnail as your featured image.</p><callout-component color="Yellow"><p>This option is only available with blogs posts created via a YouTube link.</p></callout-component><p></p><h2 id="76zc5ipdyql" data-toc-id="76zc5ipdyql">Add Screenshots</h2><p>Our AI can automatically add screenshots from the video into your blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019224e9-7ec1-7819-b5b6-8f34abaa4e3f.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip</strong>: You can specify the number of screenshots you want to add in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/4846773-custom-instructions">custom instructions</a>.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip</strong>: Click on a screenshot to quickly edit, replace, or see other options. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/0304993-adding-and-editing-images">Learn more</a>.</p></callout-component><h2 id="2fi64kcrrey" data-toc-id="2fi64kcrrey">Add Stock Images</h2><p>Our AI can automatically add relevant stock images from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://unsplash.com/">Unsplash</a> into your blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019224ee-1413-7d97-91a4-98bca1e3ee82.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip</strong>: You can specify the number of stock images you want to add in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/4846773-custom-instructions">custom instructions</a>.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip</strong>: Click on a stock image to quickly edit, replace, or see other options. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/0304993-adding-and-editing-images">Learn more</a>.</p></callout-component><h2 id="07lc55037fa" data-toc-id="07lc55037fa">FAQs</h2><details class="details"><summary>How long should it take for screenshots to be automatically added?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p></p><p>It shouldn’t take longer than a couple minutes depending on how long the video is. If your screenshots are stuck loading you can hit the Stop button and regenerate and it should work.</p><p></p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Why didn’t any screenshots get added?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>Auto screenshots work about 95% of the time, but sometimes it fails to add. The reason why this fails sometimes is because we had trouble downloading the video. If your screenshots did not get added here’s what you can do…<br></p><ol><li><p>Try regenerating the blog (the works most of the time time).</p></li><li><p>Upload the video using our upload feature instead of using a YouTube link (this works all of the time).</p></li><li><p>Manually add screenshots yourself with our screenshot tool (type “/” in the editor and choose the screenshot option)</p></li></ol><p></p></div></details><h2 id="rw7bbslsxks" data-toc-id="rw7bbslsxks">Related Articles</h2><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/articles/0304993-adding-images" data-organization-id="66f0434084b3d12af24634ca" data-help-center-id="1trlttmthuhpn9ef" data-slug="0304993-adding-images" data-article-id="0304993" data-locale="en" data-hash=""><strong>Adding Images</strong></a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/articles/8012588-editing-images" data-organization-id="66f0434084b3d12af24634ca" data-help-center-id="1trlttmthuhpn9ef" data-slug="8012588-editing-images" data-article-id="8012588" data-locale="en" data-hash=""><strong>Editing Images</strong></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

Add Visuals

<p>Links are an incredibly important part of creating a high quality blog post. They not only boost SEO, but also give readers additional context. We give you three ways to automatically add links to blog posts…</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019224f9-576c-736a-9b79-866f9bcfdc4b.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Accent"><p><strong>Good to know:</strong> This article explains how you can <strong>automatically</strong> add links into your blog post. You can always add links manually after your blog is generated.</p></callout-component><h2 id="zbo3kr8o2fe" data-toc-id="zbo3kr8o2fe">Include Links From Description</h2><p>This option will tell our AI to scan all the links listed in the YouTube video description and include one or more of them into the blog in a natural way.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922500-259a-7fb6-b437-831c4b442a29.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Yellow"><p>This option is only available when a YouTube video link is used to generate a blog post.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Green"><p>You can further customize which links get added by using <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/4846773-custom-instructions">custom instructions</a>.</p></callout-component><h2 id="p112p1ksmie" data-toc-id="p112p1ksmie">Include Links From a Sitemap</h2><p>With this option you can add your own sitemap and our AI will automatically scan your website and include relevant links from your website into your blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922503-cf5d-7052-a465-8b21239e2d75.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><h3 id="r0e11mk6c68" data-toc-id="r0e11mk6c68">How to Add a Sitemap</h3><ol><li><p>Click the Add Sitemap button.</p></li></ol><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922507-f8cd-7b12-9645-6f2dc9bb5305.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><ol start="2"><li><p>Enter your sitemap URL and click Add.</p><p></p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922508-b696-738d-bcd7-deb214be37b5.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"></li></ol><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip: </strong>If you don’t know where your sitemap is located ask your website administrator. The most common place for a sitemap is http://www.MyWebsite.com/sitemap.xml</p></callout-component><ol start="3"><li><p>Go through and select the webpages you want the AI to consider adding into your blog post(s).</p></li></ol><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192250a-7d56-76c0-a6f6-0c0abfbd69b4.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Yellow"><p><strong>Warning:</strong> You can only include at max 250 pages from your website.</p></callout-component><h3 id="c34s5zz3q6z" data-toc-id="c34s5zz3q6z">How to Edit a Sitemap</h3><p>To edit a previously added sitemap, simply select the sitemap in the drop down box and click the Edit button (pencil icon).</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192250d-fb55-7328-84ae-2e06670f2b1c.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><h3 id="k4l7f6yaoe1" data-toc-id="k4l7f6yaoe1">How to Delete a Sitemap</h3><p>To delete a sitemap, click the Edit button (see above), then click the ellipsis button to the right on the Sitemap dialog, and then click Delete.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192250f-1060-74e0-b659-ed5b972a0762.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><h2 id="556ordmf5a7" data-toc-id="556ordmf5a7">Add Other Links</h2><p>You can also specify any other links that you want to be automatically included into the blog post by clicking the Add a link button…</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922510-bb51-7f58-8a08-f29d30311304.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>…and then inputting a URL and a description of the link.</p><p></p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922511-d3e3-771a-b0b1-4decfda5492a.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Accent"><p>Good to know: When you add a URL it will automatically be checked to make sure it’s valid along with attempting to generate a description so you do not have to.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip:</strong> Be sure the description field is accurate and relevant. This is what the AI will use to understand your link.</p></callout-component><div data-type="horizontalRule"><hr></div><h2 id="6ai80lrpzbl" data-toc-id="6ai80lrpzbl">FAQs</h2><details class="details"><summary>My links did not get added. What can I do?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>By default, our AI will only include links that are relevant to the blog post. You can force the AI to include any and all links by adding <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/4846773-custom-instructions">custom instructions</a>. For example, you can say something like “Be sure to include each and every link that has been given to you. This is very important.” or something similar.</p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>My links only get added to the end (or beginning) of the blog post. What can I do?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>You can specify where you want (or don’t want) the links to be added by using <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/4846773-custom-instructions">custom instructions</a>. You can say something like “Include links throughout the blog evenly - not just at the end” or something similar.</p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Can I specify the anchor text?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>Sure, use <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/4846773-custom-instructions">custom instructions</a> to do so.</p></div></details><p></p>

Add Links

<p>Adding CTAs (Call to Actions) to your blog posts can be a great way to get your readers to perform a desired action like subscribing to channel, visiting your website, signing up for an email list, and more.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225b8-1101-7da3-b758-3809e5cea2c6.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><h2 id="oxik8tmoe8l" data-toc-id="oxik8tmoe8l">How to Include a CTA in your Blog Post</h2><p>You can automatically include a CTA into your blog post simply by clicking the “Add a CTA” switch (shown above) and selecting a particular CTA in the drop down.</p><callout-component color="Accent"><p><strong>Good to know</strong>: You can also add CTAs in your blog after a blog is generated by typing the slash character (“/”) to open the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/articles/6184046-quick-action-toolbar" data-organization-id="66f0434084b3d12af24634ca" data-help-center-id="1trlttmthuhpn9ef" data-slug="6184046-quick-action-toolbar" data-article-id="6184046" data-locale="en" data-hash="">quick action toolbar</a> and selecting the “Add CTA option”</p></callout-component><h2 id="l74m3alcq3m" data-toc-id="l74m3alcq3m">How to Create a CTA</h2><p>To create your first CTA click the Add CTA button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225ba-6900-7041-b75a-542910d53bcc.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>Then, create your CTA by filling out the fields shown in the CTA dialog.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225bb-71e0-7518-afb0-831e967cc51c.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Finally, click the “Add” button at the bottom. You can customize everything from the text, colors, image, and more.</p><callout-component color="Yellow"><p>The button link field is required. This is the link that readers will be taken to when they click the button.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip: </strong>When adding an image, use a .png with a transparent background for the best results.</p></callout-component><h2 id="1aykdclty1a" data-toc-id="1aykdclty1a">How to Edit and Delete CTAs</h2><p>To edit and delete already created CTAs simply select the CTA in the drop down box and click the Edit button (pencil icon) to the right.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225bf-cbb0-7792-b03b-41896edfb0cd.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><p>You can delete CTAs by clicking the edit button mentioned above and then clicking the Delete button at the bottom of the CTA dialog.</p><h2 id="4wpfqk3722o" data-toc-id="4wpfqk3722o">How to Add or Edit a CTA After a Blog Post is Generated</h2><p>You can also add CTAs in a blog post that is already generated by selected the “Add a CTA” in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/6184046-quick-action-toolbar">quick action toolbar</a>.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019233f7-6a9f-7061-8eb5-e13a3f6a1def.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the CTA dialog that will let you select or create another CTA. You can also edit a CTA before adding it by clicking the Edit button (pencil icon).</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019233f8-d94e-7358-9cee-48d7e692fe96.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p></p>

Add CTAs

<p>To see more ways to customize your blog post click the “More Options” button when generating or regenerating a blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225d6-ddfc-7147-ad84-e0666162e575.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><h2 id="kq2kaomsztq" data-toc-id="kq2kaomsztq">Length</h2><p>Use the length option to customize the length of your blog. There are 3 options…</p><ul><li><p>Short (~700 words)</p></li><li><p>Medium (~1500 words)</p></li><li><p>Long (~2500 words)</p></li></ul><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225d0-2262-75a3-8328-b52a77426c30.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>In general, we recommend using the “Short” option unless you have a longer video (over 30 minutes) and only using the “Long” option if your video is over 45 minutes.</p><h2 id="aoxf5228s8a" data-toc-id="aoxf5228s8a">Language</h2><p>Use the language option to tell the AI which language to generate the blog in (regardless of what language the video is spoken in). We offer just about any and every language available.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225d2-6316-7938-b168-016b29654488.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>If “Auto” is selected then the blog post will be generated in the same language as the video.</p><h2 id="7b5mxf85335" data-toc-id="7b5mxf85335">Tone</h2><p>Use the Tone option to specify a particular tone for your blog to be generated in. There are many options along with an option to add a custom tone.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225d3-be42-785a-99cf-ca2e2793613f.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>If “Auto” is selected, then the AI will attempt to match the same tone that is in the video.</p><h2 id="1wsz1pawmqo" data-toc-id="1wsz1pawmqo">Point of View</h2><p>Use the Point of View option to select a particular point of view that you want your blog post to be written in.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225d5-5746-792e-ab9c-eaa6eee749fe.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><h2 id="s0k653tc0qz" data-toc-id="s0k653tc0qz">Primary Keyphrase</h2><p>Use the primary keyphrase option to specify a particular keyphrase for your blog to be optimized on.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225d8-8a3d-7e7a-a7aa-dc48fd7ff192.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Green"><p>Tip: Want to add more than one keyphrase to optimize on? Use <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/4846773-custom-instructions">custom instructions</a>.</p></callout-component><h2 id="xrdytlf2src" data-toc-id="xrdytlf2src">Add Table of Contents</h2><p>Enable this option to add a Table of Contents to the beginning of your blog post. This is especially useful for longer blog posts.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225d9-2f0a-70f7-9179-16e9574adf75.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip</strong>: You can also add a Table of Contents to your blog post after it has been generated by selecting “Add a Table of Contents” the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/articles/6184046-quick-action-toolbar" data-organization-id="66f0434084b3d12af24634ca" data-help-center-id="1trlttmthuhpn9ef" data-slug="6184046-quick-action-toolbar" data-article-id="6184046" data-locale="en" data-hash="">quick action toolbar</a>.</p></callout-component><h2 id="fycs8m7rrm8" data-toc-id="fycs8m7rrm8">Add FAQs</h2><p>Enable this option to add a Frequency Asked Questions (FAQ) section to the end of your blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225db-431f-71e9-8b0f-082660e0f2bf.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip</strong>: You can customize the FAQs using <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/4846773-custom-instructions">custom instructions</a>.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip</strong>: You can also add a FAQ section to your blog post after it has been generated by  selecting “Add FAQs” in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/articles/6184046-quick-action-toolbar" data-organization-id="66f0434084b3d12af24634ca" data-help-center-id="1trlttmthuhpn9ef" data-slug="6184046-quick-action-toolbar" data-article-id="6184046" data-locale="en" data-hash="">quick action toolbar</a>.</p></callout-component><h2 id="r5rqlkbk3my" data-toc-id="r5rqlkbk3my">Use Chapters as Outline</h2><p>Use this option to tell the AI to follow the same outline as the chapters in the YouTube video.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225dd-b851-7a13-9f9d-47d7fca6bfb6.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Yellow"><p>This option is only available for blog posts generated with a YouTube link and for videos that have chapters on them.</p></callout-component><h2 id="icsx6b3ez4o" data-toc-id="icsx6b3ez4o">Use Emojis</h2><p>Use the option to tell the AI to add emojis to all headers in the blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225df-148e-7b75-b703-868d6a2a839a.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h2 id="icxs8s7ikak" data-toc-id="icxs8s7ikak">Add Speaker Labels</h2><p>Use this option to identify speakers during transcription. This is useful for videos with more than one speaker.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225df-c668-7159-bf8a-43b54bf800f2.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip: </strong>You can add <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/articles/4846773-custom-instructions" data-organization-id="66f0434084b3d12af24634ca" data-help-center-id="1trlttmthuhpn9ef" data-slug="4846773-custom-instructions" data-article-id="4846773" data-locale="en" data-hash="">custom instructions</a> to tell the AI who the speakers are so it will know their names.</p></callout-component><h2 id="53w0b8oxlbe" data-toc-id="53w0b8oxlbe">Time Range</h2><p>Use this option to tell the AI to only look at particular segment of a video. This is useful is you’re only wanting to generate a blog from a particular portion of a video.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225e1-bde0-706b-a538-f11919bc56f7.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p></p>

More Options

<p>Many times when creating blog posts you will want to reuse particular settings or custom instructions for multiple videos. This is where templates come in handy.</p><p>With templates you can save all the settings (including custom instructions) to easily reuse them later.</p><h2 id="f2tsx4rsdqa" data-toc-id="f2tsx4rsdqa">Saving Templates</h2><p>To save a template simply click the “Save as template” button on the top right when you are creating or regenerating a blog.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225e3-78e2-7db9-90bb-f39d02890525.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>Then, enter a template name and click the “OK” button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225e5-09a8-7513-afea-0059e5cca958.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>This will save all the current settings (including custom instructions) so you can reuse them later.</p><h2 id="ke4xri5qt02" data-toc-id="ke4xri5qt02">Selecting and Deleting Templates</h2><p>To use a previously created template click on the button to the top right when creating or regenerating a blog post and select the desired template.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019225e5-f186-752a-be1b-4d3ca37d8d10.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><p>To delete a template, simply click the delete (trash) icon to the right of the template you want to delete.</p>

Templates

<p>Automations allow you to automatically create blog posts when new videos are released on a particular YouTube channel.</p><p>To get started with automations click on the Automation menu (the robot icon) or navigate directly to it <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://www.videoToBlog.ai/automations">here</a>.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01924ea8-dd14-7bdb-8e9e-d0f4717b2602.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p></p><callout-component color="Sky"><p><strong>Good to know: </strong>All blog posts created via an automation will count towards your usage the same as if you created the blog manually.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Yellow"><p><strong>Important: </strong>All automations will create <strong><u>AT MAX 5 blog posts per day</u></strong>. If you need more than this please reach out.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Sky"><p><strong>Good to know: </strong>Automation will <strong>not</strong> pull any YouTube Shorts videos.</p></callout-component><h2 id="i1cseo8i5sw" data-toc-id="i1cseo8i5sw">Creating Automations</h2><p>To create an automation click on the “Create Automation” button and then following these steps…</p><h3 id="oi8xz7y8d8m" data-toc-id="oi8xz7y8d8m">1. Enter a YouTube Channel URL</h3><p>This will be the YouTube channel for which blog posts get created each time a new video is released on the channel.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01924eae-4c1b-7858-9375-fdd2f53d0b2f.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Sky"><p>Channels will be checked every hour for new video releases.</p></callout-component><h3 id="6xw8mz8ybbd" data-toc-id="6xw8mz8ybbd">2. Select an Action</h3><p>This is where you specify what you want to do once your blog post is generated. You have the option of emailing the blog post to you in one or more formats as well as exporting the blog post directly to your website.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01924eb1-4d3d-7018-a1fc-1047472cd8b0.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><callout-component color="Sky"><p><strong>Good to know: </strong>Only websites added in your integrations will show. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/articles/8135171-export-to-website" data-organization-id="66f0434084b3d12af24634ca" data-help-center-id="1trlttmthuhpn9ef" data-slug="8135171-export-to-website" data-article-id="8135171" data-locale="en" data-hash="">Learn more.</a></p></callout-component><callout-component color="Sky"><p><strong>Good to know:</strong> You will always be emailed when a blog post is generated.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip: </strong>You can select multiple export formats and/or website to export your blog to.</p></callout-component><h3 id="cb05bl5wd2w" data-toc-id="cb05bl5wd2w">3. Configure Blog Generation Settings</h3><p>Lastly, you can configure the exact settings to be used for your generated blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01924eb3-75af-7f7f-b540-c1679efc66b4.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Once you are done click the “Create Automation” button and that’s it!</p><h2 id="6aa4mmarabd" data-toc-id="6aa4mmarabd">Editing Automations</h2><p>You can edit your automation at anytime by clicking on your automation in the <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://www.videoToBlog.ai/automations">automations screen</a>.</p><p>This will bring up the Edit Automation dialog where you can make any desired changes to your automation.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01924eb7-9039-7cdc-b8b6-e9733838873e.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><h3 id="xkf3peakme2" data-toc-id="xkf3peakme2">Disabling Automations</h3><p>If you want to disable your automation (but not delete it entirely) you can do so by clicking the switch to the right of your automation.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01924eb8-dbd3-781d-ad0b-d5b55f83b175.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>This will stop your automation from checking for new video releases.</p><p>When you enable your automation again it will start checking for new releases from the time after you reenabled it.</p><h3 id="xbww6x7owpa" data-toc-id="xbww6x7owpa">Deleting Automations</h3><p>To delete your automation click on your automation to bring up the Edit Automations dialog and then click the ellipsis button on top right and then click Delete.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01924eba-4ea3-75aa-8c90-1bd2b5545646.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p></p>

Automations (Beta)

<p>If you would like to create a blank blog post (without using a video), but still use all of the features in our editor like AI edits, AI images, stock images, etc., you can do so by clicking the more button (three little dots) to the right of the Create Blog Post dialog and select the “Create Blog Post without video” option.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01946ba1-2244-794f-8de9-bd940c3eaa07.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><callout-component color="Yellow"><p>Please note that this will still count toward your usage.</p></callout-component><p></p>

Creating Blog Posts Without a Video

Editing Blog Posts

<p>Regenerating your blog post is a natural part of crafting the perfect blog post and experimenting with getting the AI to output the content in your desired form. </p><p>If you’re new to Video To Blog, our recommended workflow is to first generate a blog post without any <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/articles/4846773-custom-instructions" data-organization-id="66f0434084b3d12af24634ca" data-help-center-id="1trlttmthuhpn9ef" data-slug="4846773-custom-instructions" data-article-id="4846773" data-locale="en" data-hash="">custom instructions</a>, then once you read through the blog post and know what you want to change you can then regenerate the blog post to your liking by adding<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/articles/4846773-custom-instructions" data-organization-id="66f0434084b3d12af24634ca" data-help-center-id="1trlttmthuhpn9ef" data-slug="4846773-custom-instructions" data-article-id="4846773" data-locale="en" data-hash=""> custom instructions</a> or adjusting any other settings.</p><p>To regenerate your blog simply click the “Regenerate” button at the top right of your blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019229e8-2913-70c0-90fe-18a9c7285fb0.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>You can change and update any and all settings that you specified during blog post creation.</p><callout-component color="Accent"><p><strong>Good to know: </strong>A revision will be created each time you regenerate a blog post so you can always revert to a previous revision if you would like. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/2660491-revision-history">Learn more</a>.</p></callout-component><p></p>

Regenerating

<p>The quick action toolbar provides you with an easy way to access various actions when editing your blog post. </p><p>To access the quick action toolbar, simply type the slash character (“/”) anywhere in the blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a0f-5d89-7249-a07c-32cb8d97735d.gif" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p></p>

Quick Action Toolbar

<p>Once your blog post is done generating, you can edit everything on it just like you would any document editor.</p><p>Simply click anywhere in the blog to start editing.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a54-da71-779a-9662-6926a017f669.gif" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Yellow"><p>⚠️ You can not edit a blog post until it is done generating.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>💡</strong> Type the slash character (“/”) anywhere to bring up the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/6184046-quick-action-toolbar">quick action toolbar</a>.</p></callout-component><h2 id="2er0zekop27" data-toc-id="2er0zekop27"></h2><p></p>

Basic Editing

<p>You can use AI to edit existing content and write new content using our built in AI Editor and AI writer.</p><callout-component color="Accent"><p><strong>Good to know: </strong>Both AI Editor and AI Writer have context of your entire blog and the video</p></callout-component><h2 id="5flydw4etit" data-toc-id="5flydw4etit">AI Editor</h2><p>To access our AI editing tools simply highlight any text and click the AI Edit button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192773b-4b5b-73fd-acce-10685d5d31f6.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>This will bring up the AI Editor as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192773c-534e-742e-9765-61f1e2dd4fdd.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Here you can tell the AI exactly how you want to edit or regenerate the selected text. You can also select from one of our predefined actions.</p><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip:</strong> The AI has full context of the blog and the video so you can reference content in the video.</p></callout-component><p>Once your text has been generated you have the choice of inserting the new text into the blog by replacing the selected content, inserting after the selected content, trying again, or discarding.</p><h2 id="ay7468io7w3" data-toc-id="ay7468io7w3">AI Writer</h2><p>To help you write any additional content you can use our AI Writer. To access this feature simply type “/” and select the AI Writer option.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a01-c022-7e97-9fea-b020d5b845b5.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>Then, enter a prompt describing what kind of content you want to generate.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192773f-3885-782f-ac38-4678e0c15cd0.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>Tip:</strong> The AI has full context of the blog and the video so you can say reference content in the video.</p></callout-component><p>Once your text has been generated you have the choice of inserting the new text into the blog trying again, or discarding.</p><p></p>

AI Editor / Writer

<p>Images are extremely important in blog posts. They are great for SEO and help give readers a visual component to go along side the text.</p><p>In addition to giving you multiple ways to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/4258380-add-visuals">automatically add images to your blog post</a>, we also give you multiple ways to add images to your blog post after the blog post is generated.</p><callout-component color="Sky"><p><strong>Note: </strong>This article explains how to add images into your blog post <strong><em>after</em></strong> it has been generated. To learn about how you can add images to your blog post <strong>automatically</strong> during generation see <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/4258380-add-visuals">this article</a>.</p></callout-component><h2 id="5bzz1bt1ctc" data-toc-id="5bzz1bt1ctc">Adding Screenshots</h2><p>You can add screenshots to your blog post at any time using our easy to use screenshot tool. Simply click the “Screenshot” option in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/6184046-quick-action-toolbar">quick action toolbar.</a></p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a16-1468-7cce-a235-22855f36e9da.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up our screenshot selector dialog which you can use to easily select screenshots from the video by dragging the slider.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a24-5d9b-7e7a-b182-58b6e5169409.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Green"><p><strong>💡</strong> Use the slider to make large jumps in the video and then use the fine tune buttons to the right and left of the slider for smaller adjustments.</p></callout-component><h2 id="wo8bd4qil0z" data-toc-id="wo8bd4qil0z">Adding Stock Images</h2><p>Quickly add stock images from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://unsplash.com/">Unsplash</a> to your blog post by using our easy to use stock image tool which can be accessed in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/6184046-quick-action-toolbar">quick action toolbar.</a></p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a38-d750-7553-abe2-f717295a5cb7.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>To insert a stock image enter a search query into the search box, click the Search button, select an image, and then click the Insert Image button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a3c-9bc6-7241-8dc9-67716cff5e5d.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><p>Your stock image will be inserted along with the require attribution from the photographer via Unsplash.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a3d-913d-70dd-8b78-bb6ca261e929.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Yellow"><p>⚠️ You much keep the attribution per the terms of Unsplash.</p></callout-component><h2 id="a4ftx4rtmar" data-toc-id="a4ftx4rtmar">Adding AI Generated Images</h2><p>Easily add 100% unique AI generated images to your blog by selected the “AI Generated Image” option in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/6184046-quick-action-toolbar">quick action toolbar.</a></p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a46-1220-7e71-b3b8-2c40441eb821.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the AI Image Generator dialog. Enter a prompt to describe the image you want to generate and then click the “Generate Image” button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193645f-ac4f-7c2e-a293-5c38501ce7d7.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>You can also select a particular image style by clicking the “Image Style” button to the bottom left.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01936460-f053-7444-b37b-6caf96c34c9b.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Once the image is generated, you can click the “Insert” button to insert it into the blog post or you can also edit the prompt and regenerate the image until you get the desired result.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01936460-9e88-7710-8f92-43cc46bb1be7.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h2 id="84fzzc1z6fz" data-toc-id="84fzzc1z6fz">Adding Video Thumbnail</h2><p>Quickly add your video thumbnail to your blog post by selecting the “Video Thumbnail” option in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/6184046-quick-action-toolbar">quick action toolbar.</a></p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a4d-3a0e-747c-920b-73fba8b9930f.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>This will add the video thumbnail to your blog post.</p><callout-component color="Sky"><p><strong>Note: </strong>This option is only available for blog posts created with a YouTube video link.</p></callout-component><h2 id="qbbrxafpl1x" data-toc-id="qbbrxafpl1x">Upload an Image</h2><p>You can upload any image by simply clicking the “Image” option in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/6184046-quick-action-toolbar">quick action toolbar</a> and selecting an image from your computer.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a4f-21a6-74f6-88e0-07c1776f7e3e.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p></p>

Adding Images

<p>We offer numerous ways for you to edit your images to ensure you are crafting high quality visuals for your blog post.</p><h2 id="a6y8e02rc4f" data-toc-id="a6y8e02rc4f">Advanced Image Editor</h2><p>Use our advanced image editor to crop, annotate, blur, add effects, and much more. This feature is available for any image (screenshot, stock images, uploaded images, AI generated images, etc.) and can be accessed by clicking on any image and clicking the edit (pencil icon) button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a80-c8a7-70e8-ae64-cb4c159fd236.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the advanced image editor as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a81-59aa-7abe-8b68-d3c928089efd.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><h2 id="14d3x088q1a" data-toc-id="14d3x088q1a">Editing Alt Tags for Images</h2><p>Alt tags are important for SEO and can be viewed, edited, and updated by clicking on an image and clicking the alt tag button to the far right.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a84-7f53-7c88-b794-f4b3fd425dbe.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up a dialog to edit your Alt tag.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a85-bc02-7ab8-a97a-4af96bba1df7.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h2 id="pdpxcdb53rr" data-toc-id="pdpxcdb53rr">Editing Screenshots</h2><p>To edit a screenshot simply click on the screenshot to bring up the screenshot editing toolbar.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a2c-66c9-7114-94d9-f941eb882c19.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h3 id="32strtkms7z" data-toc-id="32strtkms7z">Select Another Screenshot</h3><p>To choose another screenshot simply click the ellipsis button on the toolbar and this will pull up the screenshot selector dialog for you to choose another screenshot.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a2e-740b-7557-a50d-b1088e756dd8.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>For screenshots that were automatically added by the AI you will see other screenshot options in the toolbar so you can quickly select other screenshots that the AI considered adding.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a2d-bfa5-7993-aa2e-e38d8930f524.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h2 id="zt2f6zf18m8" data-toc-id="zt2f6zf18m8">Editing Stock Images</h2><p>To select another stock image simply click on the image to bring up the stock image editing toolbar and then click on the search icon.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a88-3da8-78c6-916f-8f5195625ec1.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the stock image search dialog where you can search for another stock image as described <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/0304993-adding-images#wo8bd4qil0z">here</a>.</p><h2 id="d4w1x04t37l" data-toc-id="d4w1x04t37l">Editing AI Generated Images</h2><p>For AI generated images you can easily generate another image by clicking on the AI image which will bring up the image editing toolbar and then click on the regenerate button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a8a-de9f-7ae2-a997-be85df8d8660.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the AI image generator dialog with the AI image prompt that previously used to generate this image as described <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/0304993-adding-images#a4ftx4rtmar">here</a>.</p>

Editing Images

<p>Each time you regenerate or humanize your blog post a revision gets created. You can see all of your blog post revisions by clicking on the ellipsis button to the right of the Export button and selecting the “Revision History” option.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922aa2-d1fc-7132-af9d-c19b2f90fc91.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the revisions dialog which you can use to select another revision to revert to.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922aa3-20b5-7adf-864a-89a800d9d234.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p></p>

Revision History

<p>By default, all videos are transcribed using our premium transcription service powered by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://deepgram.com/">Deepgram</a> which is much more accurate than the transcript on the YouTube video. You can view, edit, and download your video transcript at any time by clicking on the ellipsis button to the right of the Export button and selecting the “Transcript” option.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922aa5-ada1-7e83-940d-23167a70f911.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the Transcript dialog where you can view and edit your transcript.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922aa6-a8d9-7c19-830c-4315e7e1024f.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h1 id="1laekrdq08t" data-toc-id="1laekrdq08t">Editing a Transcript</h1><p>You can edit your transcript by clicking on the text you want to edit, making your changes, and then clicking the Save button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922aa7-85e1-7870-8933-385504630c95.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>After editing your transcript anytime you regenerate your blog post the newly update transcript will be used.</p><h2 id="aqw650bi1qc" data-toc-id="aqw650bi1qc">Copy a Transcript</h2><p>If you want to copy your transcript, click the ellipsis button to the top right of the Transcript dialog and then click “Copy.”</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922aa9-0b3e-76ab-841d-b96b4044205d.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p></p>

Transcripts

<p>The content analyzer analyzes your blog post for various metrics to ensure you have a high quality blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a8d-8ee5-7323-9503-bc90ddcac960.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><p>You can access the content analyzer for a particular blog post by clicking on the ellipsis (three little dots) button to the right of the Export button and clicking the “Content Analyzer” option as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a90-ac22-738f-9075-4ac3af137e39.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><h2 id="owz64mzdz30" data-toc-id="owz64mzdz30">Readability</h2><p>The content analyzer will analyze the content to give it a readability score based on Flesch reading-ease. The lower the grade level the easier the content is to read. The desired readability will depend on the targeted audience for your blog post.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a96-2049-7b13-908d-df0f07b050c5.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h2 id="f6b6zdyp01i" data-toc-id="f6b6zdyp01i">Content Structure</h2><p>The structure of your blog post will also be analyzed to ensure the content is optimized for easy readability. Word count, long sections, long sentences, long paragraphs, image count, and link count are all things that will be looked at and flagged if necessary.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a95-e9cc-726e-a4f7-099c5f28b2b2.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h2 id="p3brpkcilxb" data-toc-id="p3brpkcilxb">Key phrase Analysis</h2><p>If you optimized your blog on a particular key phrase then your blog post will analyzed to ensure it is adequately optimized on said key phrase.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a97-92c4-7331-9a1a-5b1cb169feae.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p></p>

Content Analyzer

<p>Easily detect if your blog post is likely to be flagged by AI content detectors and if so, humanize your blog post in one click (powered by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://www.rephrasy.ai/">Rephrasy</a>)</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922aeb-0e2b-769a-b0bf-06cafbb010dc.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><p>Access the AI content detector and humanizer by clicking the ellipsis button to the right of the Export button and selecting the AI Content Detector option.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922aeb-cbd1-71af-909d-fce15312898c.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><h2 id="2lfwd35mfq5" data-toc-id="2lfwd35mfq5">Humanize Content</h2><p>If your blog post is flagged as being written by AI, you will see an option to humanize it. Simply click the Humanize button and your blog post will be rewritten to bypass AI content detectors.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922ae9-2e83-7e5f-89d9-74fb5880661c.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Accent"><p>A revision will automatically be created and saved each time you humanize your blog so you can revert to a previous revision at any time. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/2660491-revision-history">Learn more</a>.</p></callout-component><p></p>

AI Content Detector & Humanizer

<p>By default all generated blog posts get metadata automatically generated. This includes meta title, meta description, slug, tags, and alt tags for any automatically added images (screenshots and stock images).</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a9c-ca61-70c5-a1b7-be5d6dcb1e6d.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>To view and edit your meta data click on the ellipsis button to the right of the Export button and click the SEO Metadata option.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a9e-0dd3-7f73-90c7-929096ffa8e3.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><h2 id="2pt2eb2tsi1" data-toc-id="2pt2eb2tsi1">Alt tags for Images</h2><p>You can view and edit image alt tags by clicking on an image and selecting the “&lt;&gt;” button as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922a9f-475a-7b66-84d9-e96b6a1081e9.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the alt tag editor dialog where you can edit your alt tag.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922aa0-6555-7287-bd9c-cb126b5dbcd9.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p></p>

SEO Metadata

<p>All blog posts automatically generate social media and email promotions to help promote your blog post. This includes Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and Email where all promotions are optimized for these specific platforms.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922af1-31e6-701f-b9ec-2b4bed784d51.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><p>You can view, edit, copy, and regenerate these promotions by clicking on the ellipsis button to the right of the Export button and selecting the “Promotions” option.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922af2-7f38-7432-aac4-bec4f37635f3.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p></p>

Social Media / Email Promotions

Exporting Blog Posts

<p>Export blog posts directly to your website by using one or more of our integrations.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922afa-8305-7a59-bb80-2e760a5b8d4c.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Integrations can be added by going to settings and clicking the Connect button for a particular integration.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922af7-8911-7c05-ad69-ac7b616bed28.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>See below for how to set up a particular integration.</p><h2 id="oxl5f371k3a" data-toc-id="oxl5f371k3a">Wordpress.org</h2><p>To connect your wordpress.org website head to settings and click the Connect button next to the Wordpress.org option.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922afd-2a9c-7f34-b185-d99748a5494b.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>This will bring up a dialog for you to enter the following information to connect your site. See below for more information on these fields.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922b00-1553-7f4e-be55-fc65df7d32df.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h3 id="l5t088x8mqi" data-toc-id="l5t088x8mqi">Website Address</h3><p>This is the public facing URL of your website (i.e. https://www.MyWebsite.com).</p><callout-component color="Sky"><p><strong>Note:</strong> Just enter the public facing URL to your home page. You do not need to add any sort of /wp-admin to the URL.</p></callout-component><h3 id="ekpif4707si" data-toc-id="ekpif4707si">Admin Username</h3><p>This is the username of an admin user to your Wordpress site. Here is how to get the correct username…</p><callout-component color="Yellow"><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://emojipedia.org/warning">⚠️</a> <strong>Important</strong>: This is not necessarily the same username you use to log into your website</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Yellow"><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://emojipedia.org/warning">⚠️</a> <strong>Important: </strong>There is no need to create another user for Video To Blog.</p></callout-component><p>Here is an example of how to get the username from your website…</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922b04-b4f5-711e-aea6-48061c212ce0.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><h3 id="ri36ld0t1l6" data-toc-id="ri36ld0t1l6"><br>Application Password</h3><p>Create an application password on your wordpress site by going to Users → Profile → Add New Application Password.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922b08-e9b2-7d97-84a2-5ca5f26637fe.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Give the password a name (like “Video to Blog”) and copy the value exactly and paste it into the dialog on Video To Blog.</p><h3 id="86f3y8af8c0" data-toc-id="86f3y8af8c0">Troubleshooting</h3><p>If you’re seeing an error like “Sorry, you cannot create posts as this user” then it means you have either entered in some wrong information (usually the wrong username) OR it means you have a plugin that is blocking the ability to create posts from the API (usually for security reasons). In the latter case you must work with your website administrator to identify the plugin that is causing the issue and update a particular setting to prevent this behavior. This is not something Video To Blog can help you with unfortunately.<br><br>Depending on the security plugin you use, if there is an option to not block particular API endpoints (usually called an “allow list”), then adding the following wildcard endpoint could help…</p><pre><code class="language-typescript">/wp-json/wp/v2/*</code></pre><p>If wildcard endpoints are not allowed, then here are the following API endpoints we currently use that you could add to your allow list, but please note we might use more API endpoints in the future…</p><pre><code class="language-typescript">/wp-json/wp/v2/posts
/wp-json/wp/v2/media
/wp-json/wp/v2/tags</code></pre><h2 id="72e5xzq2cd0" data-toc-id="72e5xzq2cd0">Wordpress.com</h2><p>/</p><p>To connect your Wordpress.com website click on the Connect button next to Wordpress.com.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f3d-d914-7c07-82eb-532dd386113e.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>You will then be taken to Wordpress to log in to your account. Enter your login information and you will be navigated back to settings and your account will be connected.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f3e-61bd-77fc-90be-b97c561e5f3f.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h2 id="m8yrqlsi67q" data-toc-id="m8yrqlsi67q">Medium</h2><p>Connect your Medium account by clicking the Connect button next to Medium.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f3f-5478-72fc-ac63-51ca21e7f7a4.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Then, you’ll need to create an integration token on your medium account which you can do by going to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://medium.com/me/settings/security">https://medium.com/me/settings/security</a> and clicking “Integration Tokens”.</p><p></p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f42-6b51-73b1-89d7-989080778840.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Give your token a name (like “VideoToBlog”) and then click the Get Token button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f43-8abe-70ed-a93a-a9e94129367e.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Copy the token from the previous step and paste it into Video To Blog and click Connect.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f3f-e662-7781-8189-59af7342a9f9.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><p></p><h2 id="m6q6llcys4e" data-toc-id="m6q6llcys4e">Blogger</h2><p>Connect your Blogger account by clicking the Connect button next to Blogger.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f44-f3e9-79e8-bbfa-9d23a7f62fa7.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>You will then be taken to a Google sign in page to login to the Google account tied to your Blogger account. Login to your account.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f47-2cb0-7035-b342-03609838431f.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Then, click the Allow button to connect your Blogger site to Video To Blog.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f47-0e38-766a-8928-7d93de10c929.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p></p><h2 id="3f2pyp1f8qk" data-toc-id="3f2pyp1f8qk">Ghost</h2><p>To connect your Ghost account click the Connect button next to Ghost.org.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f48-82e1-785f-b829-3785e7389f99.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Then, go to your Ghost.org account and create a custom integration token by going to Settings → Integrations → Add custom integration</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f49-dd77-7b06-94b2-f1b7f03aeda9.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Give the integration a name (like “Video To Blog”) then copy admin API key and API URL.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f4a-ceb5-7cc2-9fcf-0be93a33368f.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Paste the values copied from above into Video To Blog and click the Connect button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f4b-5304-7370-a3ad-5cd08730c6e4.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><h2 id="ttyxyfdik3t" data-toc-id="ttyxyfdik3t">Wix</h2><p>To connect your Wix account click the “Connect” button next to Wix in settings.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192a691-65bd-7abd-a5d9-bf1ce89cf608.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>This will bring up the Wix connection dialog.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192a691-eb57-77fb-8ccd-00408fc8f2b4.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><p>Next, create an API Key in your Wix account by going to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://manage.wix.com/account/api-keys">https://manage.wix.com/account/api-keys</a> and clicking “Generate API Token” in top right.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192a693-87ec-775d-a76b-9e01e1ff3324.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Give your key a name (e.g. “Video To Blog”)</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192a694-571d-7a7a-b0b8-d45f7cf8c7c2.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Then, under “All Site Permissions” check the box that says “Wix Blog” in order to give us the permission to posts blogs to your site.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192a696-997c-735b-8864-36f4743cebe9.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Next, hit the “Generate Key” button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192a697-5f39-7305-bf13-1451e90981ac.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Copy the API Key in Wix.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192a698-f4c4-7a61-a00f-3eee6c1de0b5.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Lastly, paste the API key into Video To Blog, and click the Connect button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192a699-daab-7d38-b76d-b8e3da25b42e.png" data-width="50%" data-align="center"><p></p><h2 id="c2k57zdzksb" data-toc-id="c2k57zdzksb">Shopify</h2><p>To connect your Shopify account to Video To Blog you will need to create a custom app and generate an admin API token.</p><h3 id="oyspdcl5qfk" data-toc-id="oyspdcl5qfk">1. Create a custom app in Shopify</h3><p>Go to your <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://admin.shopify.com/store/41tvuw-1r/settings/apps/development">Shopify settings</a> and click the “Create an app” button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192bb3d-c4f1-7b48-a36e-9ad5a0c34846.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><h3 id="2o482wklyrp" data-toc-id="2o482wklyrp">2. Name your app</h3><p>Give your app and name (e.g. Video to Blog) and click the “Create app” button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192bb3e-90f5-7e21-b16f-c2e1f00de38d.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h3 id="ezixtc3f87z" data-toc-id="ezixtc3f87z">3. Give the appropriate permissions</h3><p>Click the “Configure Admin API scopes” button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192bb3f-a198-7a3d-a139-11368fded054.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Then, check the <code>write_content</code> and <code>read_content</code> check boxes under “Store content” and click the Save button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192bb40-3033-74c5-b386-a403b350eaa2.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><h3 id="8a8pctz7q5i" data-toc-id="8a8pctz7q5i">4. Install app</h3><p>Click the install app button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192bb42-2e89-702e-88b2-111cab05e610.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><h3 id="65y7swa433m" data-toc-id="65y7swa433m">5. Copy token</h3><p>Under the API credentials tab, click the “Reveal token once” button and copy the token</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192bb42-7022-7fd7-a04d-bbc14de68617.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><h3 id="odca3b361ip" data-toc-id="odca3b361ip">6. Paste token into Video To Blog</h3><p>In Video To Blog settings click the “Connect” button next to Shopify.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192c9b7-e491-7e6e-a225-2cb8990e66ca.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Then, paste in the token in the dialog box as shown below.</p><h3 id="0m0oa8bcyk8" data-toc-id="0m0oa8bcyk8">7. Add your Shopify Domain in the dialog and hit Connect</h3><p>Copy your Shopify store domain (this can found in the image below).</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192d429-4e5c-77f3-96f2-70d767e3d7bf.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><p>Then, paste that into the dialog box and show below and Click “Connect”</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0192c9b8-fc40-7589-ab40-8e2a2a40e2a9.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h2 id="di810sy5yet" data-toc-id="di810sy5yet">FAQs</h2><details class="details"><summary>Do I use Wordpress.org or Wordpress.com?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>Most users need to use the Wordpress.org integration. This is for any wordpress site that is self hosted or hosted somewhere else other than on Wordpress.com.</p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>I am having trouble connecting my Wordpress.org website. What do I do?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>Double check that you are using the correct username (this is where most people mess up). The username should be an admin user and is not necessarily the name username you use to log into your wordpress site.<br><br>If your username is correct and you’ve added an application password and you’re sure all the information is correct and you’re still not able to connect your site, then that means you have a plugin that is preventing the ability from creating posts via the API (usually for security reasons). You will need to work with your website admin to identify the plugin and make the appropriate setting adjustment. <strong>This is not something Video To Blog can help you with since this needs to be done on your website.</strong></p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Can I connect multiple sites?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>Yes, all of our integrations give you the ability to connect multiple sites.</p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Will all metadata get exported to my site?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>Yes, all generated metadata like meta title, meta description, slug, etc will get exported to your website.</p><p></p></div></details><p></p>

Export to External Website

<p>You can download your blog post in a variety of formats.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f70-29c8-7f59-ab9a-c116ac2f4449.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>To download your blog post simply click the Export button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f70-e86f-7756-9561-17e640219869.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><h2 id="5ry8i5wwqql" data-toc-id="5ry8i5wwqql">HTML</h2><p>To download the raw HTML of your blog post, click the HTML button (or the copy button to copy the HTML to your clipboard instead of downloading).</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f73-6f1b-776e-86a3-2555045ed3aa.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h2 id="dkxy20ryay5" data-toc-id="dkxy20ryay5">Text (Markdown)</h2><p>To download the raw text (in Markdown format) of your blog post, click the Text (Markdown) button (or the copy button to copy the markdown to your clipboard instead of downloading).</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f75-1287-70e9-a53f-7ad7132ce76b.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h2 id="2m0tx4eo6w1" data-toc-id="2m0tx4eo6w1">Word (docx)</h2><p>To download your blog post into a Microsoft Word document (.docx) click the Word (.docx) option.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f7a-4187-76c6-b600-4ac0d0f22b96.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><h2 id="1od32s5c1f3" data-toc-id="1od32s5c1f3">PDF</h2><p>To download your blog post as a PDF click the PDF option in the Export dialog.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922f7f-980a-7ddd-b213-123237faf2ce.png" data-width="25%" data-align="center"><p></p>

Download

<p>You can share your blog post with others easily by using a share link.</p><p>Share links give you a way to share your blog post without have to export directly to your website.</p><p>To copy your share link click the Export button and then click the Copy Link button. </p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922fd2-27a2-73b1-bdd8-e02e674ee389.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Yellow"><p> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://emojipedia.org/warning">⚠️</a> Your blog must be Public for share links to work.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Yellow"><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://emojipedia.org/warning">⚠️</a> Use share links to share your blog post. DO NOT just copy the URL from your browser. That is a link to EDIT your blog post (not share it).</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Yellow"><p> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://emojipedia.org/warning">⚠️</a> Share links are not indexed by search engines. Your blog post will not show in search engines by design. You will need to export a blog post to your website in order to show in search engines.</p></callout-component><p></p>

Share

<p>Export your blog posts to your publication by clicking the “Export” button on your blog post and then click the “Publish” button next to your publication.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193efbf-bb66-71b2-a724-3c0b7e0e7284.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Accent"><p><strong>Note:</strong> To learn more about creating a publication see <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/7535650-getting-started">here</a>.</p></callout-component><p>This will bring up the Publish dialog where you can specify a featured image, URL slug, author, tags, featured, and more.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019422f5-d413-7fa4-8e4f-4bbe9182e0e9.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Once you have filled in all the information, click the “Publish Now” button to publish your post.</p><p>After your blog post is published, you can edit any of the fields at any time by clicking the side bar icon button as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019422f9-6d82-7fcb-be16-f32d549a1255.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the Blog Settings side bar where you can make any changes to any published settings…</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019422f9-da78-7bfb-a15d-93f61a52d59a.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><p>Any changes made to these settings will be published and live right away.</p><p>Any changes made to the actual blog content itself (after being published), you will need to click the “Update” button (shown two screenshots above).<br><br>You can always unpublish your blog post by pressing the “Unpublish” button (shown two screenshots above).</p>

Export to a Publication

Publications

<p>Don’t have a website? No worries, you can easily create a publication on Video To Blog to host and share all of your blog posts.</p><h2 id="qfb6zafs05z" data-toc-id="qfb6zafs05z">What are publications?</h2><p>Publications are an easy way to create your own website to publish and host all of your blog posts. You can host your publication on your very own Video To Blog subdomain or connect a custom domain.</p><h2 id="sote4frszp0" data-toc-id="sote4frszp0">How to create a publication?</h2><p>You can create a publication clicking the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://emojipedia.org/globe-with-meridians">🌐</a> icon in the side bar and then clicking the “Create Publication” button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01942dfd-0b47-72fb-ac4c-5ea6a3e5bb70.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Next, give your publication a title and click “Create Publication”</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef7a-9d4d-7871-9302-f693ad1ee2db.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>That’s it! You now have a fully functioning website to publish and share all of your blog posts.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef7d-bd23-7f52-a137-9c68eba0ba0b.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Learn more about how to manage and customize your publication <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/8997990-customizing-publications">here</a>.</p><h2 id="5yb65emo8i4" data-toc-id="5yb65emo8i4">How do I publish blog posts to my publication?</h2><p>You can publish blog posts to your publication by clicking the Export button on any blog post and then clicking the “Publish” button next to your publication.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef82-88a6-79aa-aa3d-b44b368bf199.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h2 id="yqpcl3abe5r" data-toc-id="yqpcl3abe5r">Learn more</h2><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/8997990-customizing-publications">Customizing Publications</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/4951172-export-to-a-publication">Exporting Blogs to a Publication</a></p><p></p>

Publications - Getting Started

<p>Customize and manage your publication at any time simply by clicking 🌐 icon in the left side panel and then clicking on your publication.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01942dff-421f-7498-ae2d-35556bbb030b.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><h2 id="b4r0w7xoasx" data-toc-id="b4r0w7xoasx">Title &amp; Description</h2><p>Your site title and description are used to identify your website on the web. These will be shown in search results are elsewhere.</p><p>Simply click the edit button next to each field to edit.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef88-fec9-7f91-abf3-22743afff0ff.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><h2 id="x5d7kwykcxy" data-toc-id="x5d7kwykcxy">Design &amp; Branding</h2><p>To edit the design and branding of your website click the Customize button next to Design &amp; Branding.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef8a-21a1-7b8c-b067-e3c903928a31.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>This will bring up the publication editor where you can add a logo, change your front, specify an accent color, and much more.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef8b-3c8b-70b6-a0e5-2ceb54278b9d.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><p></p><h2 id="4ykepwro5kz" data-toc-id="4ykepwro5kz">Pages</h2><p>Pages are a way for you to create static content for your publication. They can be used to create an about page, contact page, and/or more. Pages are usually linked to in the Navigation Menu or elsewhere on your site.</p><h3 id="bf4e0mtop5s" data-toc-id="bf4e0mtop5s">Create a new page</h3><p>To create a new page click the Add Page button as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef8d-b535-7ec9-968d-c567f6e5bacc.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Next, give the page a title and click “Create Page”</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef8e-ea53-75e3-87c4-4de7cdc74326.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the Page editor as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef90-2abb-71f5-8236-47e30cda01e6.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Next, add some content to your page and once your are done click the “Publish” button to publish your page.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef91-41f3-74f7-99a3-d87e10eb4c0d.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>You can also click on the sidebar icon to bring up Page settings which will allow you to edit the page’s slug and description.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef92-3a15-7406-b184-a4b1e6ac852f.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef92-9fc8-7bf5-838f-0d7b5c23116b.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h2 id="lbbks5ryqcs" data-toc-id="lbbks5ryqcs">Editing Pages</h2><p>You can edit pages anytime by clicking on them in your publication.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef93-b78d-7b5f-b0af-11a7d97a2d62.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p></p><h2 id="b5ks6tmokqa" data-toc-id="b5ks6tmokqa">Navigation Menu</h2><p>Add links to internal pages and/or external websites on your publication’s header by adding navigation menus.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef95-22e1-7317-9f31-f8e2edf58e02.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><h3 id="qe4cliokz2c" data-toc-id="qe4cliokz2c">Add a new menu</h3><p>To add a new navigation menu simply click the “Add Menu” button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef96-3a75-7731-9a78-939cc5ff9e65.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>This will bring up the navigation menu dialog where you can add a label, select a navigation menu type, and an internal page or external website to link to.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef98-b5bf-73aa-be9c-8a9276bc8ee4.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h3 id="d4irokt4wo3" data-toc-id="d4irokt4wo3">Editting menus</h3><p>You can edit menu anytime by clicking on them in settings.</p><h3 id="zfr17po2pam" data-toc-id="zfr17po2pam">Reorder menus</h3><p>Change the order of menus by clicking the up and down arrows next to each menu in settings.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193ef9a-06f8-73b3-82d9-9f814614e1c1.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p></p><h2 id="ykdtmes5mlw" data-toc-id="ykdtmes5mlw">Social Media Links</h2><p>You can add links to all your social media sites and they will appear your site’s header and footer.</p><h3 id="sw6kq2imlsq" data-toc-id="sw6kq2imlsq">Add a Social Media Link</h3><p>To add a social media link, simply click the “Add Link” button as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019422e7-36a6-75da-9700-2e57b13ce83b.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the social media link dialog where you can select a social media type and then enter a link to your social media account. Then, click the “Create Social Media Link” button and that’s it!</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019422e9-3ae1-7ef2-a002-8a243ec554e1.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><h3 id="pt8ftcqc5iy" data-toc-id="pt8ftcqc5iy">Edit a Social Media Link</h3><p>To edit a social media link after you’ve created it, simply click on it.</p><p>To change the order of how your social media links show on your site, use the up and down arrows next to each social media link.</p><h2 id="36ct87xcwrz" data-toc-id="36ct87xcwrz">Tags</h2><p>You can create tags for you publication that can be used to tag blog posts.</p><p>For each tag that is created, a separate webpage (located at <code>/tag/&lt;tag-slug&gt;</code>) will be created where your readers can access all blogs published under that tag. You can also link to tag pages in the navigation menu as well as create sections on your home page for each tag (using the “Group by tags” option available in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://docs.videotoblog.ai/en/help/articles/8997990-customizing-publications#x5d7kwykcxy">customization dialog</a>).</p><h3 id="t5qpiso73dp" data-toc-id="t5qpiso73dp">Add a Tag</h3><p>To create a tag simply click the “Add Tag” button as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019422f0-6e84-7cc4-bf61-effdc6d87ab4.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the tag dialog where you can enter a name, slug, and an optional description for your tag. Then, click the “Create Tag” button as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019422f1-db8b-7800-b5c1-bd6d6090bb38.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Accent"><p><strong>Good to know: </strong>You can also create tags when <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/dashboard/articles/4951172">publishing blog posts</a>.</p></callout-component><h3 id="wroe6e1zr27" data-toc-id="wroe6e1zr27">Edit a Tag</h3><p>You can edit and delete tags simply by clicking on them in Settings.</p><h3 id="6qzem0aw641" data-toc-id="6qzem0aw641">Tagging Blog Posts</h3><p>You can tag blog posts when publishing them (see <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://feedback.videotoblog.ai/dashboard/articles/4951172">Published Blog Posts</a>).</p><h2 id="mqyf61eeflm" data-toc-id="mqyf61eeflm">Editors</h2><p>Add and mange editors in settings. These editors can be selected when you go to publish a blog post to your publication.</p><h3 id="wtd5kei781s" data-toc-id="wtd5kei781s">Add an editor</h3><p>To add an editor simply click the “Add Editor” button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01942e00-b74d-76dc-b788-4701246d4330.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><p><br>Next, fill out the author’s information and click the “Create Editor” button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01942e01-274f-7ad7-afca-c28d406ba0a7.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><h3 id="opdilo4s7xm" data-toc-id="opdilo4s7xm">Edit an editor</h3><p>You can edit an editor’s information at any time by clicking on the editor.</p><h3 id="0rypwmyyqmr" data-toc-id="0rypwmyyqmr">Delete an editor</h3><p>You can delete an editor at anytime by clicking on the editor and the clicking the more button to the top right and clicking the “Delete Editor” button.</p><callout-component color="Accent"><p><strong>Good to know: </strong>Deleting an editor will mean this editor will not show on any published blog posts that were previously edited by this editor.</p></callout-component><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01942e02-4d65-7cb1-9b25-9ccd0bc1f9b1.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><h2 id="dbyzb6rx176" data-toc-id="dbyzb6rx176"><br>Domain</h2><p>You can customize the public URL where your publication lives.</p><h3 id="sbywq4s7321" data-toc-id="sbywq4s7321">Subdomain (Video To Blog)</h3><p>By default, all publications are given a subdomain on VideoToBlog.ai to host your publication.</p><p>You can edit your subdomain at any time by clicking the Edit button next to your subdomain.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193efa3-fe71-74cf-8c0c-65ac5dbf6e74.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>This will bring up a dialog where you can edit your subdomain. Simply enter a new domain and click “Update”.</p><callout-component color="Accent"><p><strong>Good to know:</strong> Subdomains have to be unique so your desired subdomain might not be available if someone has already taken it.</p></callout-component><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193efa4-6c34-7c47-9757-e85e182b26da.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><h3 id="i7zd80lmofb" data-toc-id="i7zd80lmofb">Custom Domains / Subdomains</h3><p>You can also connect a custom domain to your publication. To do so, click the “Add a custom domain” button as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193efa6-af02-7f88-81b3-94467463b51b.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>This will bring up the Custom Domain dialog where you can enter your custom domain.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193efa7-da6c-723c-91b1-71894e53808b.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><callout-component color="Yellow"><p><strong>Important! </strong>In order for your custom domain to successfully connect, you’ll need to add one or two A records to your domain settings as described in the dialog.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Accent"><p><strong>Good to know: </strong>You can also enter a custom subdomain like <code>blog.customdomain.com</code>. In this case you’ll only need to add one A record to your domain provider settings for the subdomain.</p></callout-component><callout-component color="Accent"><p><strong>Good to know:</strong> Domain changes can take up to 48 hours to fully take effect.</p></callout-component><p>Once you make those changes, enter your custom domain, and the click the Connect button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193efac-4624-73a3-8499-8067183df24c.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>Next, you’ll see the status of your custom domain connection as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193efad-1d6e-757c-a95a-701ccbfa0745.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>It will take at least a couple minutes to fully connect and will often take much longer (up to 48 hours) for the changes you made to your domain to fully propagate through.</p><p>You can see more information about your custom domain connection status by clicking on the label.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193efaf-85ee-7027-a969-e816810b4234.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><p>This will open a dialog where you will see more information on what exactly is going on with the custom domain connection.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193efaf-7e06-7054-ad7f-5448c42498d2.png" data-width="75%" data-align="center"><p>Once the custom domain is fully connected and all domain changes have fully propagated through, you’ll see a green success indicator as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193efb1-172d-7078-ae77-870a98d80e87.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><callout-component color="Accent"><p><strong>Reminder: </strong>It can take up to 48 hours for your A record changes on your domain settings to fully take effect.</p></callout-component><h2 id="pymce5m6wip" data-toc-id="pymce5m6wip">Deleting</h2><p>You can delete your publication at any time by clicking the more button (top right) and clicking the “Delete Publication” button.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0193efb2-d6de-7a08-bfc5-78374bc03c82.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p></p>

Customizing Publications

<p>All publications come with built analytics so you can monitor the traffic for your entire publication and each blog post and page.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01948f00-3df2-73bc-a863-29ecde68b71f.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><h2 id="kzzdi7c0f2s" data-toc-id="kzzdi7c0f2s">How to View Analytics</h2><p>You can access your publication’s analytics by clicking the chart icon next to your publication on the publications page.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01948f02-22ff-71e1-b718-97b419795f05.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><h2 id="cqke4w5cw2z" data-toc-id="cqke4w5cw2z">Analytics Overview</h2><p>Currently, you will see 3 main metrics for your publication (Views, Outbound Clicks, and Visit Duration) along with a break down of these metrics for each published blog post and page.</p><h3 id="ip58q271mm6" data-toc-id="ip58q271mm6">Views</h3><p>This is how many total views your publication has had for the selected time frame.</p><h3 id="653s7qy4czc" data-toc-id="653s7qy4czc">Outbound Clicks</h3><p>This is the number of times someone has clicked a link on your publication that lead to an outbound website (like your YouTube channel, external website, affiliate link, etc.) for the selected time frame.</p><h3 id="qrsyyqby62m" data-toc-id="qrsyyqby62m">Visit Duration</h3><p>This is the average time people spend on your publication for the selected time frame.</p><div data-type="horizontalRule"><hr></div><p>You can view charts for each of these three main metrics by clicking the drop down right above the chart.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01948f07-2749-7a90-ae16-08bf615dc310.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>You can select a time frame by clicking the drop down on the top right of the page as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01948f11-8a55-7f97-ba4b-73aabd428a56.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p></p><h2 id="tpdaemebxqk" data-toc-id="tpdaemebxqk">Breakdown by Blog Post and Page</h2><p>Scroll down to see a breakdown by blog post or page.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01948f08-9401-7997-ba8a-538130635429.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>If you want to view breakdowns by pages (instead of blog posts) click on the drop down on top left and click the Pages option as shown below…</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01948f09-f1d0-7223-a3e8-69b27ca2e88b.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>This will show a breakdown of your pages which include the home page, any page you’ve created, and pages for any tags you have created.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01948f0a-bb37-7426-9e02-b6c5c36ab881.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>You can also switch how the blog posts and pages are ordered by clicking the drop down in the top right as shown below.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01948f0b-b863-7479-b973-03a172bdf8eb.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center"><h2 id="xfci8d5ewbz" data-toc-id="xfci8d5ewbz">Analytics for Blog Post and/or Page</h2><p>To see more in depth analytics for a particular blog post or page, simply click on any post or page in the Analytics overview.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01948f0d-b2a9-7671-b75f-6c64d8add60b.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01948f0e-4444-79fa-928e-eec0780543b5.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>This view will show you a much more detailed breakdown of views, outbound clicks, source, outbound links, top countries, and devices.</p>

Publication Analytics

Account Management

<p>All billing for Video To Blog is done through Stripe. You can manage your billing through Stripe’s customer portal which you can access by going to Settings → Billing.</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01922ff1-b172-785a-a98d-1059fff6009d.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><p>This will open Stripe’s customer portal where you can upgrade, downgrade, and/or cancel your subscription along with updating any payment methods and viewing your payments and more.</p><p>You can also upgrade and downgrade your plan by visiting our <a target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://www.videoToBlog.ai/pricing">pricing page</a>.</p><callout-component color="Accent"><p>You will only see the Billing option if you have a paid subscription. Otherwise you will see an Upgrade button.</p></callout-component><h2 id="m12f48etzo4" data-toc-id="m12f48etzo4">FAQs</h2><details class="details"><summary>When do credits / blog posts get reset?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>At the first of every month regardless of when subscribed.</p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Can I get a refund?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>We currently offer a 1 blog post per month free trial for you to try out Video To Blog to see if it meets your needs. In order to keep Video To Blog as low cost as possible we do not offer refunds due to the increase support costs.</p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>Can I get an invoice?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>Unfortunately Stripe customer portal does not offer the ability to download invoices so we are not able to send you an invoice. However, you view all your payments in the customer portal and can simply take a screenshot and it should suffice as documentation to give your company for expense reports.</p><p></p></div></details><p></p>

Billing

<p>You can update your email in Settings by clicking the Update email button</p><img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01923003-d0d6-7729-96c1-e258cc13cb42.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left"><callout-component color="Blue"><p><strong>Note:</strong> If you signed up with your Google account you will need to first add a password to your account before you can change your email.</p></callout-component><p>To update (or add) a password click on the “Update Password” option. If you signed up with a Google account, you will see a “Add Password” option instead.</p><h2 id="mzy55wwrkcy" data-toc-id="mzy55wwrkcy">FAQs</h2><details class="details"><summary>I signed up with my Google account but would like to sign in with an email and password instead. What do I do?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>You’ll need to add a password first (click the “Add Password” button in Settings). This will allow you log in with your email and password instead of your Google account. If you would like to change your email, you can do as described above.</p></div></details><details class="details"><summary>I forgot my password. What do I do?</summary><div data-type="detailsContent"><p>There’s a Forgot Password button on the sign in dialog you can use to reset your password.</p></div></details><p></p><p></p>

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Publications

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