Plan content
Content Planner
How SEOForge builds your content calendar from keyword data, and how to review, add, schedule and generate articles from it.
The Content Planner is your publishing calendar. Each item is one article: a keyword, a working title, a content type and a date.
How your plan is built#
SEOForge builds your first plan right after you start your trial. It takes 2–4 minutes:
- Reads your brand identity, audience and up to five competitors.
- Finds keywords your competitors rank for that you don't.
- Uses AI to find the main topics your business should cover and the questions your audience asks.
- Looks up the search volume and difficulty of every keyword.
- Groups related keywords so each article targets one topic, writes a title, and scores its priority.
- Spreads the articles evenly across your calendar, starting today.
Each article gets a content type from its keyword, such as a how-to guide, an explainer, a listicle or a comparison. Keywords that name past years are left out.
How far ahead the plan runs depends on your plan's monthly articles:
| Plan | Articles per month | First plan covers |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | 5 | 3 months (15 articles) |
| Premium | 30 | 2 months (60 articles) |
| Pro | 100 | 2 months (60 articles) |
Views and statuses#
Switch between Calendar and List at the top. Each item has a status:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Planned | Waiting to be written |
| Generating | The article is being written |
| Generated | The article is ready to review |
| Published | The article was published to your site |
| Skipped | You decided not to write it |
The usage badge shows how many articles you've generated this month out of your plan's limit.
Article details#
Click any item to open its details. You can change:
- Title, Content Type and Date
- Article length: Short (1,000–2,000 words), Medium (2,000–3,000), Long (3,000–4,000) or Comprehensive (4,000–5,000)
- Status
- Notes: instructions for this article only, added on top of your global instructions
- Ignore global instructions for this article
Click Generate Article to write it now, or View Article once it's done.
Add your own articles#
Click Add Keywords, then enter a Date, a Keyword and a Content Type (Blog post, Guide: How-to, Guide: Explainer, Listicle, Comparison or Case Study). The title and notes are optional. Click Add to Plan.
You can also add keywords from Keyword Research and the Rank Tracker.
Extend your plan#
When your calendar runs low, click Extend Content Plan. SEOForge looks at this month and the next two, and fills each one up to your plan's monthly articles.
Export#
Click Export to download the plan as a CSV with each item's date, title, keyword, cluster, type, status, volume, difficulty, intent and priority score.
Limits#
- Articles count toward your plan's monthly limit per project, from the 1st of each calendar month. Failed articles don't count.
- During the free trial you can generate 2 articles in total.