Add facts about your business

Posts often mention your own business: what you charge, your plans and fees, when you're open, where you work. Facts about your business is a short list of those facts, kept on your site's card. Blog AI uses these instead of guessing, and won't flag them as unsourced. Keep them current.

It's optional and free.

Why it helps

Every figure in a post needs a source before it can be published. Your own prices usually live on your website, but a post that states them without a source is held for review, even though the figure is right. With your facts saved, Blog AI states them exactly as you wrote them, and the fact check uses your list as their source.

Add your facts

1. Open the Sites page. Go to Sites, find your site's card and open Facts about your business, just below About this site.
2. Get suggestions (optional). Click Suggest from my website. If you have a pricing page, paste its address, then click Suggest facts. Blog AI reads your homepage and pricing pages and suggests facts it finds there, each with the page it's on. Click Add on the ones you want, or Add all. Nothing is saved yet.
3. Write or edit each fact. Click Add a fact and write one fact per box, in a short sentence of up to 300 characters. Good facts are specific:
   • "Standard boiler service: €120 including VAT."
   • "Open Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm."
   • "We cover Dublin and Kildare."
   • "Family-run, trading since 2004."
   • Product and plan names, years trading, team size.
4. Say where it's published (optional). Add the page that shows the fact, such as your pricing page.
5. Check the date. Last checked is today for a new fact. Change it if you checked it earlier.
6. Click Save. You can keep up to 30 facts per site.

What changes in your posts

• New posts, refreshes and rewrites state your facts exactly: the same figures, currency and plan names. Blog AI won't round them, convert them or give your business a figure that isn't in your list.
• The Fact check panel lists them as From your business facts, with a link to the page you gave. They don't block publishing.
• If a post gives a figure for your business that isn't in your list (an old price, say), it's flagged as Not in your business facts and must be fixed before publishing.
• Figures about your market or other businesses, such as a competitor's fees or an industry average, still need a source, as before.

Keep them current

A post states whatever your list says, so an old price ends up in new posts. To help:

• A fact last checked more than about six months ago is marked on the Sites page, with Is it still right? Click Yes, still right if it is, or edit it. Then click Save.
• Check against my website opens each page you linked and checks the fact's figures are still on it. If a figure has gone (you changed a price on your site, say), you'll see a warning on that fact. Nothing is changed for you.

Changing a fact doesn't change posts already written. Refresh an older post to bring it up to date. See Refresh a post.

Common questions

How is this different from "Add what you know"?

Add what you know is for one post: answers to a few questions about that topic. Facts about your business is for every post on the site: the standing facts that don't change from post to post. See Post ideas.

Does it cost credits?

No. Saving facts, suggestions and the website check are free.

Will every post mention my prices?

No. Blog AI uses a fact where it helps the reader, for example a post comparing costs. When a post does mention your offer, it uses your facts.