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BlogToStart

Features

Everything you need to launch and run a real website.

BlogToStart combines an AI website builder, managed hosting and a full publishing workspace. Here's what's included.

Build & host

Go from idea to a professional website without touching a server.

  • AI website builder

    Plans the niche, audience, name, structure and first content from your description — or suggests niches if you don't have one.

  • Free subdomain hosting

    Your site is served from yourbrand.blogtostart.com. No domain or hosting account required.

  • Themes & design controls

    Niche-matched presets with editable colours, fonts, layouts, header, hero, cards and buttons.

  • Drag-and-drop page builder

    25+ section types including testimonials, pricing tables, galleries, privacy-friendly video, team and timelines, with a live preview.

  • Dark mode & custom styling

    Automatic or visitor-toggled dark mode with checked colour contrast, curated font pairings and safely sanitised custom CSS.

  • Multilingual websites

    Publish in 30+ languages with translated pages, a language switcher, right-to-left support and correct hreflang tags. AI translation creates drafts for review.

  • Optional custom domains

    Connect a domain you own with guided DNS records and live verification status, on plans that include it.

  • Draft preview

    Preview unpublished changes privately before they go live. Drafts never appear on your public site.

  • Sitemap, robots & RSS

    Generated automatically from what's published.

Content

A CMS designed for long-form, research-backed publishing.

  • Rich editor

    Headings, tables, images, callouts and product boxes, with autosave.

  • Revisions

    Every save keeps a revision so you can compare and restore.

  • AI drafts for review

    Briefs, outlines and drafts are created as drafts — you decide what gets published.

  • Content plan

    Topic clusters and article ideas, each labelled with the source of its data.

  • Media library

    Upload and reuse images with alt text, focal points and usage tracking, within your plan's storage.

  • Automatic image optimisation

    Every upload gets AVIF and WebP versions in several sizes plus a blur placeholder. Location data is stripped from photos.

  • Editorial workflow

    Assign articles with due dates, request reviews, approve or ask for changes, and track everything on a board and calendar.

  • Pre-publish checklist

    SEO title, meta description, alt text, links, headings and disclosures are checked before an article goes live.

  • Programmatic SEO

    Generate many unique draft pages from a spreadsheet and a template, with duplicate and thin-content warnings before anything is created.

  • Repurpose articles

    Turn an article into a newsletter issue, social posts and a video script. You copy and post them yourself; nothing is posted for you.

  • Import & export

    Move from WordPress, Ghost, Medium or any blog URL, with 301 redirects for old links. Export everything at any time, including a WordPress file.

  • Team & authors

    Invite collaborators with roles, and attribute articles to author profiles.

SEO & monetisation

Search-friendly structure and transparent affiliate tooling.

  • SEO audits

    Find missing titles, thin content, broken links and more — with suggested fixes.

  • Keyword research

    Ideas marked as AI estimates unless a keyword data provider is connected.

  • Internal linking

    Suggestions to connect related articles, applied only when you accept them.

  • Affiliate manager

    Track programmes you've joined, products, cloaked links and clicks. Approval is up to each programme.

  • Disclosures

    Affiliate disclosures are added where links appear, and a disclosure page is created for you.

  • Link health

    Scheduled checks flag broken or redirected affiliate links.

  • Display ads with consent

    Google AdSense placements that load only after visitors accept advertising cookies, with a built-in consent banner and ads.txt helper.

  • Digital product store

    Sell ebooks, templates and other files with secure, expiring download links and discount codes. Payments go to your own Stripe account.

  • Podcast hosting

    Upload episodes and publish an Apple Podcasts and Spotify-ready feed, with an accessible player, chapters, transcripts and privacy-friendly download stats.

  • Forms & quizzes

    Lead forms, surveys and quizzes with conditional fields, spam protection, an inbox, CSV export and webhooks.

  • Memberships & paywall

    Free and paid tiers, members-only articles and passwordless sign-in. Payments go straight to your own Stripe account.

  • Revenue dashboard

    AdSense imports, affiliate reports, memberships and sponsorships in one place, with totals per currency and revenue per 1,000 views.

  • Reader comments

    Threaded comments with spam filtering, a moderation inbox and staff replies.

  • Newsletter & lead capture

    Double opt-in newsletters, campaigns and digests, plus popups, slide-ins and bars to grow your list.

Automate & measure

Let routine work run on a schedule, with approvals where it matters.

  • Automations

    Recurring content, SEO and maintenance tasks — set to draft-only or approval-required.

  • Background tasks

    Long jobs keep running after you leave, with step-by-step status and retries.

  • Analytics

    Privacy-friendly page views and affiliate clicks, plus optional Search Console data. Each figure shows its source.

  • Backups & restore

    Daily snapshots of your site's content. Restore everything or a single article, with a preview first and an automatic safety snapshot.

  • Accessibility audits

    Checks your live pages against WCAG 2.2 AA, including colour contrast in light and dark mode, with a score and concrete fixes.

  • Site health

    Core Web Vitals from real visitors, uptime and certificate monitoring, and alerts for articles that are losing traffic.

  • White-label client reports

    Scheduled, branded reports for clients with share links and print-ready PDF layout.

  • Integrations

    Google Search Console, WordPress export and webhooks. Unconnected integrations are clearly marked.

Your idea deserves a real website.

Describe it in a sentence. Review what the AI drafts. Publish when you're ready.

Create my blog — free See how it works

No domain, hosting or credit card needed to start on the free plan.