Account and site settings

Dashboard → Settings is where you teach autopilot your brand, choose how often it writes, and manage your login. Most of the page belongs to the site you're viewing; the Account section at the bottom applies to your whole account. Changes save as you go, with no save button.

Settings at a glance

The page has five sections, in this order:

If you run several sites with Studio, switch sites with the site switcher before you edit. Each site keeps its own brand, writing and autopilot settings.

How saving works

The fields in Your brand and How autopilot writes save themselves:

• A change saves a moment after you stop typing, about 0.7 seconds.
• Leaving the page saves anything still pending.
• Switching to another site saves your edits to the site they were made on first, then loads the other site's settings. One site's words are never saved onto another.
• Each section shows its state next to its title: "Saving…", "Saved", or "Couldn't save" with a Retry link.

The Autopilot controls save the moment you click them and confirm with a short message. A pace change also offers Undo.

Your brand

"Who autopilot writes for. Every article is built around this."

Publishing connections aren't set here. API keys and publishing connections are configured per site in Dashboard → Integrations, and the backlink exchange verifies its own domain on the Backlinks page. The site's logo is set when the site is created and isn't edited in Settings.

How autopilot writes

"The voice every article is written in. Changes apply to the next article it writes." Articles already written keep the voice they were written in.

Choosing Your own for tone or writing style opens a text field where you describe it in a few words. A field you leave blank falls back to its default, and the default shows as the selected option so you can see what's in effect.

Good house rules are short and testable, for example:

Say "teams", not "users".
Never name competitors.
Use US spelling.

What autopilot reads

The last row, What autopilot reads, shows the exact brief the writer gets before every article, built from the fields above. It's read-only and updates as you type. It has these lines:

Brand: <Brand name>
Product context: <What you sell>
Tone: <Tone>
Writing style: <Writing style>
Target audience: <Audience>
Brand voice instructions: <House rules>
Always apply Rankbox core rules: keyword optimization, clear heading structure, internal linking logic, and high readability.

The same brief is used when you click Write now and when autopilot writes on schedule. For more on how these settings shape an article, see Brand voice and writing settings.

Autopilot

"Whether it writes, and how often."

Write automatically

A switch that turns autopilot on or off for the site. It's on by default.

• On reads "On — writing every day" (or the pace you chose).
• Paused stops autopilot from writing. Scheduled articles wait in the queue and nothing is lost.

Before you start the free trial, this row shows a Start free trial button instead of the switch, with "Autopilot starts writing when your free trial does."

Pace

How many articles a week autopilot writes for this site.

Under the options, Rankbox shows the monthly estimate next to your plan's allowance, for example "About 30 articles a month · your plan covers 30." If the pace would use more credits than the site has, it adds "autopilot will run out before the month ends."

Changing the pace also re-spaces the site's scheduled articles from tomorrow, so the calendar matches what autopilot can deliver. The confirmation offers Undo, which restores both the old pace and the old dates. See Autopilot and the publishing schedule.

Studio

"How this site sits on your account." What this section shows depends on the site you're viewing.

Removing a site from here works exactly like removing it from the Studio page. See Remove a site.

Account

"Your login and plan." This section is the same whichever site you're viewing.

Sign out clears your account's data from the browser tab and returns you to the sign-in page, so the next person to sign in on that computer never sees your data. It ends your Rankbox sessions in other browsers too, which sign out the next time their session refreshes.

What isn't in Settings

Some account tasks live elsewhere:

Troubleshooting settings

Related

• Brand voice and writing settings: how the brief shapes each article.
• Autopilot and the publishing schedule: pace, queue and schedule in depth.
• Studio: run several sites: per-site settings and removing a site.
• Billing, invoices and cancellation: the plan behind the Account section.
• Security and privacy: sign-in, sessions and deleting your data.