Blog Autopilot keeps a site's blog alive without you writing it. On a schedule you choose, Haven researches your destination, picks the one post a traveler or homeowner would actually search for, writes it with cited sources, and either saves it as a private draft for your review or publishes it for you — then emails you either way. It is designed so that a machine-written post can only ever help your search ranking, never hurt it.
When to use Blog Autopilot
- Your blog has a handful of posts from launch day and nothing since.
- You run a brand or multi-unit site and want steady content about your homes, your area, and what it is like to have you manage a property.
- Your destination is seasonal — blooms, festivals, ski openings, harvest weekends — and you want the post live before travelers search for it.
- You tried generic AI blogging, got invented restaurants and wrong dates, and want something grounded instead.
Step 1: Open the blog in your library
Go to Grow your brand → Shared Page Content → Blog library (/host?tab=page-content&contentSub=blog) and open a blog. The Blog Autopilot card sits at the top of the blog's articles.
The blog must be attached to at least one property or multi-unit site — Autopilot needs a site (and its location) to write about. See Reusable Content Libraries & Inheritance for attaching a blog.
Tick the content pillars you want. Autopilot rotates through them, covering the one you have covered least first:
- Our properties — what makes each home worth booking.
- Local destinations — neighborhoods, day trips, and places guests ask about.
- Events & what's on — real, dated happenings nearby. Skipped automatically when Haven knows of nothing upcoming.
- Travel tips — practical planning advice for your area.
- Property management — homeowner-facing posts about hosting and what you handle for owners.
- The brand experience — what staying with you is actually like.
Add Voice and focus notes — a sentence or two on tone and what to mention ("warm, plain, no exclamation marks; mention the sunrise coffee ritual"). They travel with every brief.
Step 3: Pick how often and what happens to a finished post
- How often — every week, every two weeks, or every month. One post per run.
- Draft for my review — Haven saves a private draft and emails you a link. Nothing is public until you publish.
- Publish automatically — Haven publishes when the post passes the quality checks (below), submits it to Google, and emails you the live link with a one-click way back to draft.
Flip the switch to On. The first post lands within the hour; the card shows Next post from then on. Every control saves as you change it (watch the Saving / Saved pill).
Generate one now writes a single post on demand with the same research and checks — useful before you commit to a schedule. It respects whichever publish mode is selected.
- "A new draft is ready for {site}: {title}" — a review link, the excerpt, why this topic, and — when Autopilot is in auto-publish mode but held the post back — why it is waiting for you.
- "Published on {site}: {title}" — the live link, the excerpt, why this topic, and an edit link.
Emails go to your account's notification recipients (Settings → Account & Profile → Notifications).
Why a post was written
Every Autopilot post carries a plain-language log. Open the post in the editor and expand Why Autopilot wrote this to see which pillar was chosen and why, what the planner found, what the quality checks said, why it was published or held, and the Sources read — the exact pages the writer grounded the post in. Posts show an Autopilot badge in the article list.
Search engines penalize scaled, unhelpful content, so Autopilot is deliberately stricter than a human publishing by hand:
- Grounded research — the planner only cites pages it opened; the writer must ground the post in them. No invented events, businesses, or dates. If a pillar has nothing worth writing right now, the run says so and waits rather than producing filler.
- Quality checks before auto-publish — 500–1,800 words, at least two section headings, a title and excerpt sized for search results, no placeholder text, no near-duplicate of an existing title, the destination actually named for local pillars, at least one source for timely and local posts, and a verified hero image. A miss saves the post as a draft with the reasons in your email.
- Monthly caps — at most 5 Autopilot posts per blog per 30 days on a verified custom domain, and 2 on a Haven-hosted site (whose pages canonicalize under bookwithhaven.com). Over the cap, posts land as drafts. Weekly auto-publish needs a verified custom domain; weekly review mode works anywhere. See Custom domains.
- One canonical URL — when a blog appears on a multi-unit site and on member listings, every copy of an article points search engines to the multi-unit site's version (or the first property's, when there is no group), so the pages never compete with each other. This applies to every blog post, not only Autopilot's.
- Thin-content gate — posts under 300 words of body copy are left out of your sitemap and index pings, whatever their source.
- Drafts are never indexed — a draft is only visible to you, through the editor's preview.
- It does not publish anything in Draft for my review mode.
- It does not run when the blog is attached to no visible site, or when no pillars are selected.
- It does not translate posts itself — published posts flow through the normal guest-translation pipeline like any other article.
- It does not touch posts you wrote by hand, and it never edits a post after it is saved.
Flip the switch to Off on the card. Nothing scheduled runs; existing posts stay exactly as they are. Switch it back on later and the next post is scheduled within the hour.