Getting started
What this is and what it asks of you.
What does Crumbr actually do?
It writes your blog. You give it your website, it reads the site to work out what you sell and who buys it, then suggests things worth writing about. You pick one, it writes the post, you read it and approve it, and it goes up on your own domain. After that it tells you which posts brought you signups.
What do I have to set up?
Three small things, and you can skip all of them at first: one DNS record to point blog.yourdomain.com at us, one click to connect Google Search Console, and the name of the event your app fires when somebody signs up. You'll read your first draft before we ask for any of it.
How long until my first post is live?
The first draft is usually ready in a few minutes. Publishing takes as long as your DNS takes to catch up, which is normally under an hour. Search traffic is a much slower story, and there is a question about that further down.
Do I need to know anything about SEO?
No. The part founders usually get stuck on is deciding what to write about, and that is the part we do. Your job is to read the draft and say whether it's true and whether it sounds like you.
The writing
How the posts get made, and who has the last word.
Will it sound like me?
It learns your tone from what is already on your site, and you correct it from there. Every draft opens in an editor. Change a sentence, cut a paragraph, rewrite the lot — what you change sticks, and the next draft comes back closer.
Isn't AI writing against Google's rules?
Google's own position is that it judges the post, not the tool that typed it. What gets punished is writing made to game rankings. Every Crumbr post is researched against real sources, written in your voice, and read and approved by you before anyone else sees it.
Does anything publish without me seeing it?
No. There is no setting for it and no button that skips the review. A draft sits where it is until you approve it.
What if a draft is wrong, or I just don't like it?
Edit it or throw it away. Editing is free and there is no limit on it. A draft you bin is a draft you never published, and we would rather you binned it than shipped something you did not mean.
How long are the posts?
Between 1,200 and 2,000 words, with the sources linked so you can check them.
Where do the topics come from?
From your own site, and from what people are typing into search about the thing you sell. You approve or dismiss every topic before a word gets written, so the list stays yours.
Can it change a post I already published?
It can suggest a change and show you what it would be. You accept it or you do not. Nothing public gets rewritten without you saying so.
Your blog, your domain
Where the posts live and who owns them.
Where do the posts actually live?
On your domain, at something like blog.yourdomain.com. Not on ours. That matters twice over: the credit search engines give those pages builds up on your site instead of ours, and a reader clicking from a post to your signup page never leaves your domain.
What if I already have a blog?
Keep it. Crumbr publishes to a subdomain of its own, so nothing you have already written moves or breaks.
Can I make it look like the rest of my site?
Yes. Colours, fonts, logo and layout are all yours to set, and you can see the change on a real page before you save it.
What happens to my posts if I leave?
You keep them. Export the lot as Markdown whenever you like, and because the addresses were always on your domain, you can host them somewhere else without losing the ranking they earned.
Knowing it worked
The part most blogs never answer.
How do you know a post brought a signup, with no tracker on my blog?
Because the blog sits on your domain, a reader who clicks through to your signup page is still on your site, and nothing is lost in between. When your app tells us somebody signed up, it names the post they came in through. We do not put a tracking cookie on your readers.
Where do the traffic numbers come from?
From Google Search Console, which is your own data and not our estimate. You connect it once, and we show the searches and the clicks for each post next to that post.
How long before any of this shows up?
Google usually takes a few weeks to index a new blog and a few months to decide where it belongs. Anyone promising faster is guessing. Thirty days is long enough to watch the first traffic arrive, not long enough to see the whole picture.
Paying for it
One price, and what it covers.
What does it cost?
$19.99 a month per workspace, with no limit on drafts. The first 30 days are free and we do not ask for a card to start.
Is there a limit on drafts?
No. You set the publishing rhythm and Crumbr writes to it; the practical limit is how much you want to read and approve. Editing, rewriting and publishing cost nothing extra either.
How hard is it to cancel?
One click, on the same billing page you started from. Nothing you have published comes down.
Still wondering something?
Write to us and a person answers. If the answer is useful to somebody else, it ends up on this page.
More about why we built this on the about page.