# Quickstart

> Add your website, review your brand profile, connect publishing, and publish your first page from the RootSmith dashboard.

Source: https://docs.rootsmith.io/docs/quickstart.md

This guide uses the dashboard. To let a coding agent do the setup, see
[Install with an agent](https://docs.rootsmith.io/docs/agents/install.md).

## 1. Add your website

Create a RootSmith account and enter your website. RootSmith reads your
homepage and up to five business pages, drafts your brand profile, and
suggests competitors. This takes a few minutes, and you can answer three
short questions while it works.

## 2. Review your brand profile

Open **Sites**, select your site, and open **Brand**. Check each detail in
**What we learned**, fix anything that's wrong, and select
**Accept all profile details** when it looks right. Your corrections are
kept when RootSmith reads your site again.

Fill in **What you don't offer** yourself. RootSmith uses it to avoid
claiming features or plans you don't have.

Under **Competitors**, accept the suggestions that fit and add any that are
missing.

## 3. Check your page types

Open **Page types**. Each page type has a fixed URL prefix and its own
writing guidance. Every site starts with:

| Page type         | URL prefix      |
| ----------------- | --------------- |
| Blog article      | `/blog`         |
| Comparison page   | `/compare`      |
| Alternatives page | `/alternatives` |

Add a custom page type when you need another kind of page. A page keeps its
path after it's published, even if you change its page type later.

## 4. Connect your website

Open **Publishing** and pick how approved pages reach your site. For a
Next.js site, use the SDK. See
[Choose how to publish](https://docs.rootsmith.io/docs/publishing.md) for every option.

## 5. Track the questions your buyers ask

Open **Performance**, then **Questions**. Add questions your buyers ask AI
assistants, or track the ones RootSmith suggests from your brand profile.
RootSmith checks how AI engines answer them every week and shows who gets
named in **AI visibility**.

## 6. Plan, write, and publish

Open **Content**. RootSmith suggests ideas from your brand profile and from
gaps in AI answers. Review them one at a time: approve, change, or remove
each one. Select **Write now** on an approved idea to get a draft with
sources and claim checks.

Edit the draft, send it to review, approve it, then publish it now or
schedule it. Your site shows the page at its saved path.

## 7. Automate and measure

- **Automations** write approved ideas or refresh live pages daily, weekly,
  or monthly. With automatic approval in **Publishing**, drafts that pass
  their checks publish without a person.
- **Performance** shows AI citations and Google clicks for each published
  page before publication and at 14, 30, 60, and 90 days. Connect Google
  Search Console in **Integrations** to see search data.