Questions

The things founders ask first.

Including the awkward one about Google. We would much rather you asked it here.

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 forwarding rule on your site so the blog lives at yourdomain.com/blog (or one DNS record, if you would rather use blog.yourdomain.com), 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 waits until your blog address works: a forwarding rule is live as soon as you save it, and a DNS record for a subdomain normally catches up in 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.

Where do the facts come from?

From real sources, looked up before the post is written. Each post lists them at the end, with the date they were checked. The writer is told never to make up a number.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Your blog, your domain

Where the posts live and who owns them.

Where do the posts actually live?

On your own site, at yourdomain.com/blog, or at blog.yourdomain.com if you prefer. 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. Of the two, /blog is better for search, because it shares the ranking your site has already earned.

What if I already have a blog?

Keep it. Put Crumbr at a path of its own, like yourdomain.com/journal, or on a subdomain, so nothing you have already written moves or breaks.

Will yourdomain.com/blog work with my website host?

If your host lets you add a forwarding rule, yes. We give you the rule to copy for nginx, Apache, Caddy, Netlify, Vercel and Laravel, and a Cloudflare Worker for any site whose DNS is on Cloudflare. Site builders like Wix, Squarespace and Webflow cannot forward a path, so on those the blog goes on blog.yourdomain.com instead.

Can I switch between /blog and a subdomain later?

Yes, either way, whenever you like. Your blog stays live at the old address until the new one works, then every old link forwards to the same post at the new one, so nothing you have shared breaks and search engines carry the ranking across.

Can I make it look like the rest of my site?

Yes. Crumbr reads the colours and fonts your site already uses and starts the blog from them. From there you set colours, fonts, logo, favicon and button shape, in light and dark. Pick a layout for the blog and one for posts, and a cover style so every post gets its own image in the same look. You see each change on a real page before you save it.

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Will AI tools like ChatGPT find my posts?

Nobody can promise an AI tool will quote you. What we do is write every post the way they quote: each post and section opens on its answer, follow-up questions get a short FAQ with markup to match, and every cited source is checked before it ships. Then we make it easy to find and credit: metadata search engines understand, a link to every heading, a current sitemap, an llms.txt file for AI crawlers, and Bing is told the day a post goes live. All of it on your domain, so the credit lands on your site.

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?

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. None of this puts a cookie on your readers.

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Where do the traffic numbers come from?

Two places. Views and readers come from our own small script on the blog, which sets no cookies. Google impressions, Google clicks and position come from your Google Search Console, which you connect once. Both show up next to each post.

Do I need a cookie banner for the blog?

Not for us. Our script runs on your own domain and sets no cookies, so there is nothing for a banner to ask about. Views and readers are counted without one.

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.

Can I see which searches my site ranks for?

Yes. The Keywords page lists every search Google shows your site for, and every search your posts are written toward, with how often it is searched, how hard it is to rank for and where you stand. Positions come from your Google Search Console once it is connected, and are estimated until then.

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Paying for it

One price, and what it covers.

What does it cost?

$39.99 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.

Get in touch

More about why we built this on the about page.