> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.searchable.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart

> Get up and running with Searchable in under 5 minutes

## Setup your account

You can set up your account by following [this link](https://app.searchable.com/onboarding). You'll choose a plan, then complete a simple onboarding form. Before your first visibility report runs, we'll show you the prompts we've suggested for your brand so you can review them. Once you confirm, your first domain is ready to go!

To complete the setup quickly and easily, make sure you've got this information on hand:

* Your details - name, email that you have access to
* Your brand name, and any other names or spellings it goes by
* Your brand's reach - global, primary market + international reach, nationwide, regional, or local
* Your primary location and language
* Your target website (e.g. yourwebsite.com) that you want to analyse
* 3 of your main competitors (you can add up to 5)

<Tip>
  Prompts are the questions we ask AI engines on your behalf. You can add, edit, or remove them at any time.
</Tip>

## Find your way around

After you sign in, you'll land on the **Searchable Agent** - an AI assistant that can answer questions about your data. Try asking "What is ChatGPT getting wrong about my brand?"

To make setup easy, open **Getting Started** from the progress card in your sidebar. It's a short checklist that walks you through the essentials:

1. Watch a quick overview
2. Review your visibility scores
3. Build your Knowledge Base
4. Ask the AI agent
5. Connect Google Search Console
6. Invite team members

The sections below walk you through the key ones.

## See your AI visibility

This is the heart of Searchable: how your brand shows up when people ask AI engines questions about your industry. We run your prompts through the AI engines on your plan on a regular schedule (daily on most plans) and show you the results in **Analytics** → **AEO Insights**.

### Key Tabs to Start With

* **Visibility**: Your share of voice compared to competitors, where you rank, and your average position when you're mentioned
* **Mentions & Citations**: Every time your brand was named in an AI answer, and the sources cited alongside it
* **Sentiment**: How AI answers describe your brand, and where competitors are praised instead
* **Sources**: Which websites AI engines rely on when answering questions in your space

<Tip>
  Use the filters at the top to narrow by date, AI engine, topic, or competitor. The Branded / Unbranded filter shows how you perform when people don't mention you by name, which is often the more honest picture.
</Tip>

To track more questions, go to **Prompts** → **Your Prompts**. Adding prompts uses your plan's prompt allowance. Learn more in [Working with Prompts](/using-searchable/working-with-prompts).

<Card title="View AEO Insights" icon="chart-bar" href="https://app.searchable.com/ai-search-insights">
  See how your brand shows up in AI answers
</Card>

## Set up your Knowledge Base

Knowledge Base is where you tell Searchable who your brand is, who you compete with, and how you want your content to sound. It feeds your visibility reports, your prompts, and the Searchable Agent, so it's worth a few minutes early on. Open it from **Knowledge Base** at the bottom of your sidebar.

### Brand Profile

Your brand's identity. Click **Auto-detect** and we'll draft a description of your brand from your website, which you can then edit.

<Tip>
  Add any other names your brand goes by under **Brand naming**. If AI engines refer to you by a shorter name or a different spelling and it isn't listed, those mentions may not be counted.
</Tip>

### Competitors

The brands you're measured against in AI search. We will automatically suggest some, and also surface companies that appear alongside you in AI answers. You can always amend the list.

### Topics

Topics group your prompts, so you can filter your analytics by the areas that matter most to your business.

### Tone / Writing Style

Your brand's voice is unique, so let's make sure that is reflected in your content. Set the voice, formatting, and phrases to avoid.

### Memory

Long-term context about your brand and strategy that the Searchable Agent reads before every response.

### E-E-A-T

Authors, credentials, and trust signals that power schema markup and author attribution in your content.

<Warning>
  Always double-check generated content before publishing. AI can make mistakes.
</Warning>

## Run your first audit

Searchable's audit system provides comprehensive analysis of your site's SEO and AEO performance.

As soon as you set up your domain, Searchable will automatically fetch the pages of your website using your sitemap. You'll be able to see the full list of URLs in the **On Page** → **Site Health** section of the platform.

To run an audit, select the pages you want, then click the **Audit** button. Before anything runs, you'll see a confirmation showing how many pages will be audited and how many audit credits you have left. Each page uses one audit credit from your monthly allowance.

<Tip>
  Connecting your Google Analytics 4 will allow you to sort by Visitors and audit your highest-traffic pages first.
</Tip>

### Site Audit Features

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Technical SEO" icon="wrench">
    Checks meta tags, headings, canonical tags, structured data, HTTPS, broken links, social tags, and accessibility
  </Card>

  <Card title="Page Speed" icon="gauge">
    Page speed based on real visitor data from Chrome, plus page size
  </Card>

  <Card title="Content Quality" icon="file-text">
    Checks length, structure, TL;DR summaries, authorship, dates, FAQs, and trust signals
  </Card>

  <Card title="AEO Readiness" icon="robot">
    Checks how ready your pages are to be found and cited by AI engines
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

### Understanding Your Results

Your audit results are organized into several key areas:

* **Site Health Score**: An overall score for your site, with separate **Technical** and **AEO** scores
* **Issues**: Every problem found across your site, grouped into Technical, Content, and AEO tabs and ranked by severity. Find them in **On Page** → **Issues**
* **Page Details**: Open any page for a checklist of fixes. You can ask the Agent to explain an issue, or copy a ready-made fix to hand to your developer

<Tip>
  Start with fixing critical issues first, as they have the biggest impact on your overall performance.
</Tip>

## Set up integrations

Connect Searchable with your existing tools and platforms to streamline your workflow.

### Popular Integrations

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Google Search Console" icon="google" href="/integrations/google-search-console">
    Connect GSC for keyword data and SEO insights
  </Card>

  <Card title="Google Analytics 4" icon="chart-mixed" href="/integrations/google-analytics-4">
    Track traffic from AI platforms
  </Card>

  <Card title="View All" icon="plug" href="/integrations/overview">
    See all available integrations
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

### Setting up your first integration

1. Open the user menu at the bottom of your sidebar, select **All settings**, then go to **Integrations**
2. Choose your platform from the available options
3. Follow the platform-specific setup guide
4. Authenticate and grant necessary permissions

<Tip>
  Start with Google Search Console and Google Analytics 4 for the richest data insights. You can also add them in your **Analytics** → **Traffic** tab.
</Tip>

## Generate your first content

Use Searchable's AI content writer to create articles, blog posts, and more. Open it from **Actions** → **Content**.

### Content Generation Process

<Steps>
  <Step title="Choose how to start">
    Start from a blank draft (New content), a guided planning chat (Plan a content piece), or improve something you already have by uploading a file, pasting a URL, or pasting text (Optimize content)
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add context">
    Let the Agent know what kind of post you'd like to write. This can be as simple or detailed as you'd like.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Review the plan">
    If you're planning a piece, the Agent proposes an outline for you to approve before it starts writing. Feel free to add, delete, or tweak any of the sections.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Content generation">
    The Agent drafts your content section by section, and you can steer it in the chat alongside
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check your AI-readiness score">
    The SEO panel scores how likely your content is to be cited by AI, with suggested fixes
  </Step>

  <Step title="Publish">
    Export to WordPress, Webflow, or Shopify, or link a page that's already live so you can track its performance
  </Step>
</Steps>

Content types include articles, blog posts, LinkedIn posts, YouTube descriptions, marketing copy, and product releases. Each piece uses your monthly article allowance.

## Next Steps

Now that you're set up, explore these guides to master Searchable:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Understanding Scores" icon="chart-simple" href="/using-searchable/understanding-scores">
    Learn what your Technical and AEO scores mean
  </Card>

  <Card title="Working with Prompts" icon="messages-question" href="/using-searchable/working-with-prompts">
    Master AI visibility tracking with effective prompts
  </Card>

  <Card title="Content Generation" icon="wand-magic-sparkles" href="/using-searchable/content-generation">
    Create AI-optimized content that gets citations
  </Card>

  <Card title="Team Collaboration" icon="users" href="/advanced/teams-collaboration">
    Invite team members and collaborate effectively
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

### Additional Resources

* **[Plans & Pricing](/getting-started/plans-pricing)**: Upgrade for advanced features
* **[Integrations Guide](/integrations/overview)**: Connect all your tools
* **[Troubleshooting](/using-searchable/troubleshooting)**: Solutions to common issues

<Tip>
  Join our [Slack community](https://join.slack.com/t/searchablecommunity/shared_invite/zt-3d72toig3-5CNPzd1ujFQu_IanWGTHDA) to connect with other users and get tips from SEO experts.
</Tip>


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