Ghost SEO on autopilot
Ghost SEO on autopilot means software runs the work an SEO team would run for your publication: finding the queries your readers actually search, writing and optimizing articles, publishing them on a schedule, and tracking the results. Seonix does exactly that for Ghost sites — it researches keywords with real demand, generates articles tuned to your business, and ships them straight to Ghost as native posts through the Ghost Admin API.
You connect your publication once with an Admin API key, approve the content plan, and choose how much control to keep: review every article inside Seonix before it ships, or let the autopilot publish on the cadence you set. Everything below is what actually works today — no roadmap promises.
What Seonix runs for your Ghost publication
One connected publication gets the full loop — the same four stages an in-house SEO process would run, executed continuously.
Research
Seonix studies your site and builds a project profile — what you sell, who you serve, how your brand sounds. It then researches queries with real search demand, clusters them into topics, and lays them out on a publishing calendar you can edit before anything ships.
Write and optimize
Each article is generated against your project profile with on-page SEO applied at creation time — structured headings, internal links, and images are part of the draft from the first version, not an afterthought. Content generation works in 50+ languages.
Publish on schedule
Articles land in Ghost as native posts through the Ghost Admin API — with the title, slug, excerpt, meta description, feature image with alt text, and a tag already set. Re-publishing after edits updates the same post instead of creating a duplicate.
Track and refresh
Seonix follows rankings and traffic for every published page and checks where your brand appears in AI answers. The calendar mixes brand-new articles with refreshes of existing ones, so the pages that win keep getting stronger instead of decaying.
How to connect Ghost to Seonix
The whole setup is one custom integration and one paste — a few minutes in total, and it never asks for your Ghost login. It works the same way for Ghost(Pro) and self-hosted Ghost.
Ghost(Pro) or self-hosted, the setup is identical: Seonix only needs the site URL and the Admin API key of a custom integration — nothing to install in Ghost, no theme changes.
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Create a custom integration in Ghost
In your Ghost admin, open Settings → Integrations and click Add custom integration. Copy the Admin API key — the long id:secret value. Make sure it is the Admin API key, not the Content API key.
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Paste the URL and key into Seonix
In the Seonix dashboard, open Channels → Ghost and paste your Ghost site URL (for example, https://your-blog.ghost.io) together with the Admin API key. The key is stored encrypted and is never displayed again.
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Click Connect — Seonix verifies instantly
The moment you save, Seonix automatically checks the connection and shows the result on the channel panel. You can re-run the check anytime with the Verify button.
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Approve the plan and let it run
From here the standard Seonix flow takes over: a free analysis of your site, a keyword-backed content plan laid out on a calendar, and articles publishing to Ghost on the schedule you set.
What the autopilot delivers
Auto-publishing has two modes, set per project. In draft mode Seonix plans and writes on schedule, and every article waits for your approval inside Seonix before it is sent to Ghost. In auto mode articles from the approved plan publish themselves at the scheduled time. The Free plan covers the technical site audit; publishing automation is part of paid plans, starting with Starter at $49/month instead of $100 — 51% off, or $470 a year instead of $1,200.
- Up to 30 published articles per month on the Starter plan
- Publishing cadence from daily to weekly — you set the rhythm
- A visual content calendar you can edit before anything ships
- New articles mixed with refreshes of existing posts
- Email when an article is published; Telegram alerts can also announce drafts ready for review
Why publishing to Ghost stays truly native
Plenty of tools can push text at an API. The Seonix connector is built so the result is indistinguishable from a post written in Ghost itself: it speaks the Ghost Admin API, hands over clean HTML, and lets Ghost convert it into the native format of its own editor. Your theme renders it like any other post, and your team can keep editing it in Ghost afterwards.
Native posts via the Ghost Admin API
Seonix sends the finished article as HTML, and Ghost converts it into the native format of its editor. The post looks and edits in Ghost exactly like one written by hand — open it, change a paragraph, hit save, and nothing fights you.
Complete post metadata, set on arrival
Every article arrives with its title, slug, excerpt, meta description, feature image with alt text, and a tag taken from the article's category — and lands with published status. No half-filled fields to finish by hand afterwards.
Updates without duplicates
Publish, edit in Seonix, publish again: the connector updates the same Ghost post rather than creating a copy. Your URLs stay stable and your archive stays clean.
No media juggling
Images are hosted on the Seonix side and passed to Ghost as URLs — there is nothing to upload into Ghost and no media storage to manage for the generated content.
Ghost(Pro) and self-hosted alike
Whether your publication runs on Ghost(Pro) or on your own server, the connector works the same: give it the site URL and an Admin API key, and it publishes. There is no separate setup path for either.
Friendly to themes and memberships
Because posts are native, everything built around your publication — your Ghost themes, memberships, and newsletters — works with Seonix articles exactly as with posts you write yourself. Seonix never injects iframes or third-party widgets into your content.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a Content API key or an Admin API key?
An Admin API key. Ghost's Content API only reads published content — creating posts requires the Admin API. When you add the custom integration in Ghost (Settings → Integrations → Add custom integration), copy the Admin API key: the long value in id:secret format. Seonix stores it encrypted and never shows it again.
What exactly does a published article include?
A native Ghost post with the title, slug, excerpt, meta description, feature image with alt text, and a tag based on the article's category. The body arrives as clean HTML that Ghost converts into its own editor format, with headings, internal links, and images already in place. Seonix does not set a separate SEO title in Ghost — the post's own title fills that role — and it does set the meta description alongside it.
Can I review articles before they appear on my Ghost site?
Yes — inside Seonix. Posts created in Ghost go live as published posts, so the review step happens before anything is sent: switch the project to draft mode, and every generated article waits for your approval in the Seonix editor before it goes to Ghost. When you trust the output, flip the same project to auto mode and articles from the approved plan publish themselves at the scheduled time.
Does it work with both Ghost(Pro) and self-hosted Ghost?
Both. The connector needs just two things — your site URL and the Admin API key of a custom integration — and Ghost(Pro) and self-hosted installations provide them the same way, through Settings → Integrations. There is nothing to install on your server and no difference in what gets published.
What happens when I edit and re-publish an article?
The same Ghost post is updated in place — re-publishing never creates a duplicate. That makes iteration safe: refine the article in Seonix, publish again, and the live post simply reflects the new version at the same URL. The content plan uses the same mechanism for scheduled refreshes, mixing updates of existing articles with brand-new ones.
How much does Ghost SEO automation cost?
The Free plan is $0 and includes a full technical audit of your site. Automated publishing is part of paid plans: Starter is $49/month instead of $100 (51% off), or $470 a year instead of $1,200, with 30 published articles per month. Before subscribing, a 3-day trial for a one-time $1 analyzes your site and publishes 3 real articles — you judge the quality on your own publication, not on samples. One Seonix project publishes to one platform, so several sites simply mean several projects.
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