Blogged vs LotsBlog: the cheaper hosted blog, or the measured one

Autopilot keeps a bounded supply of Topics under approved Content Directions and refills it as posts are used. Plans allow 40, 80 or 120 Topics a month.

LotsBlog finds and saves keyword ideas with volume and difficulty, groups them into clusters, and keeps an idea buffer topped up, expanding commercial patterns such as alternative, versus, best and pricing from the competitor names on file.

Content Directions are approved rules that bound what Autopilot may write, and full Autopilot publishes only inside them. Changing the strategy is an approval step, not a setting.

LotsBlog stores a durable strategy per blog covering purpose, target reader, reader pains, voice, topic territory, cadence and default reader action, plus private content pillars, and the agent reads it before ideation, briefs, writing and review.

The Knowledge Engine holds source bound product facts, competitor facts and keyword knowledge, with official sources, freshness monitoring, conflict resolution and controlled refresh. Stale, rejected, superseded or conflicting entries are not eligible for normal reuse.

LotsBlog keeps a freeform factual brief of up to 20,000 characters that you maintain, instructs the agent not to invent facts outside it, and researches live sources per draft. No public page describes per fact sources, freshness checks or conflict handling.

Competitor Watch runs weekly over approved competitors' feeds, sitemaps and bounded public pages. Signals carry source evidence and never become Topics without human review. 7, 15 or 25 tracked competitors by plan.

Competitor brand names are stored on the blog strategy and used to seed commercial keyword patterns. No public page describes recurring discovery over their content, a signal feed with evidence, or a review step before a topic is created.

Blogged keeps no keyword difficulty database of its own. Topics are supplied and reviewed against approved Content Directions rather than filtered against a volume or difficulty number you set.

Autopilot settings carry a minimum keyword volume, a maximum keyword difficulty, a required primary keyword and a required title to query match, and the service recomputes an opportunity score and rejects ideas with weak demand.

The editor scores readiness, lists blockers, breaks the score down by SEO pillar, orders the priority fixes, and carries a separate GEO checklist.

Every review saves a nineteen item checklist with a pass or fail, a rationale and a recommendation per item, alongside separate SEO, opening, interlink, CTA and voice match scores measured against the pass threshold set for that blog.

Internal links are managed in the editor across the posts Blogged hosts, and the blog site generates related reading between them.

Interlinking is step three of the published loop, an interlink score is part of every saved review, and the hosted blog renders related posts under each article.

The editor carries a sources and citations panel, and generation draws on the official sources recorded against verified facts in the Knowledge Engine.

LotsBlog states the agent researches live web sources and reviews drafts for factual accuracy. The documented post record carries one optional source link field, and no public page states whether individual claims are cited in the body.

Blogged discovers site images and rendered page captures, holds them in a review queue until a member approves them, places an approved visual exactly, and composites your approved logo after generation. 150 to 450 images a month by plan.

Posts take a cover image and per item images, and the API uploads a generated image to the blog CDN. LotsBlog's marketing pages do not discuss article imagery, and nothing public describes capturing, approving or placing a screenshot of your product.

Blogged publishes blog posts. Creation runs from an approved Topic, a custom brief or a Markdown import, and there are no poll, quiz or video post types.

LotsBlog creates articles, listicles with individually editable items, polls, video posts and short notes, and multiple post types are listed as included on every plan.

On a blog site Blogged builds and hosts: a Blogged subdomain to start, blog.yourcompany.com when you connect a domain, or your existing path such as yourcompany.com/blog through a reverse proxy.

On a blog LotsBlog hosts and keeps online, on a LotsBlog subdomain or your own domain, including a path such as yourcompany.com/blog, with SSL and DNS handled for you.

Blogged does not push into an existing CMS. It is the destination rather than a plugin, and that is the main reason to rule it out.

LotsBlog is also the destination. Its comparison section positions against WordPress, Webflow and Ghost as systems it replaces, and it migrates you off them rather than publishing into them.

Maintained themes, brand identity, typography and layout, homepage content, featured stories, navigation, on site reader search, related reading and consent controls all ship with the site.

Five layouts, classic, minimal, editorial, magazine and sidebar, with palette, corner radius and contrast set per blog, plus reader search, topics, a comments system and no platform badge on the published pages.

Blogged imports Markdown, either preserving the body exactly or using a supported general article as a brief for a rewrite, and rejects unsupported high risk types before they consume post quota. The export and the import are yours to run.

LotsBlog advertises free concierge migration from WordPress, Ghost or Webflow, stated to bring across every post, tag and redirect, and lists it on the homepage as a reason to switch.

Each blog is a separate Project with its own bill, discounted by position at 10, 15 and 20 percent, up to 20 Projects in a workspace. Team seats are unlimited on every paid plan.

One, three or ten blogs by plan and more on Enterprise, each with its own agent memory, settings and approval rules, plus per client workspaces, roles and cross client reporting. White label is offered on Enterprise.

Full Autopilot publishes only after approved Content Directions and governance checks pass. A publication hold blocks publication outright, and the review queue is governed rather than advisory.

Idea approval and post approval each switch between requiring a person and running automatically, a pass score from 0 to 100 holds any draft below it, and an hourly evaluator reports why Autopilot is blocked and what needs approving.

Insights reports clicks, impressions, CTR, average position, top queries and top pages from a connected property, plus indexing coverage, on Google's finalized windows.

No LotsBlog page or documented endpoint describes a Search Console connection. The reporting it publishes is the platform's own traffic and engagement data for the blog and for each post.

A CTA view counts only when at least 25 percent of the surface enters the viewport, so the denominator is stated. Insights adds click through, CTA breakdowns, lead conversion, subscriber outcomes, channels and campaigns.

LotsBlog reports traffic and engagement at blog and post level. Conversion is not among its published reports, and its own guide to proving blog return points readers at Google Analytics goals, UTM tags and third party attribution tools.

Newsletter signup and product CTAs are part of the blog site on every plan, with lead capture webhooks and subscriber outcome reporting behind them.

Signup capture is not in the included feature list, not among the documented endpoints, and not present on the LotsBlog hosted blogs checked. One page refers to your email list being yours without saying what collects it.

Posts can be revised 1 to 3 times depending on plan, with revision history, publication snapshots and selective restore. There is no automatic detector that queues a refresh for you.

Refresh is step five of the published loop and a named role on a content idea, and a post performance report gives the agent the data it reasons over to decide which live posts to revisit.