Custom API
SEO Dashboard for Custom API
The HaloSEO dashboard shows what was published to your Custom API site, where it ranks, and whether the blog is on its cadence. It is a read-only view of work already done.
How HaloSEO connects to Custom API
You give HaloSEO an API endpoint and a credential for your Custom API site. The credential needs permission to create and update posts, and to read the post list so the dashboard can match published work to live URLs. It does not need access to users, orders, settings or anything outside the content endpoints. You can revoke the credential at any time from your own side, and publishing stops when you do.
What a published post looks like on a Custom API site
HaloSEO sends the post as structured content to your API. Your site renders it in your own theme, with your templates, your typography and your components. Nothing is injected into your front end and no widget is added. The post is a normal record in your system, so it appears in your listings, your sitemap and your internal search the same way your own posts do.
What happens on Custom API that does not happen elsewhere
Because the content goes through your API rather than a fixed integration, your own validation rules apply before anything goes live. If your API rejects a field, requires a category, or runs a moderation step, that step runs. The dashboard reads back the result, so what you see is what your API accepted, not what HaloSEO intended to send.
What breaks, and what happens when it does
If your API is down, slow or returns an error, the publish fails and the dashboard shows the failure with the response your API returned. HaloSEO does not retry blindly into a broken endpoint. If your credential expires or your field requirements change, publishing stops until you update the connection. Nothing is queued for later and nothing is held back for approval, so a failed publish stays failed until the connection is fixed.
Who this is not right for
This is not right for you if you want to review and approve each post before it goes live, or if you want a queue where work waits for a person. The dashboard is read-only. It reports on work already done and does not let you schedule, edit or hold posts. If your site has no API, or your API cannot accept content from an outside system, this connection will not work for you.
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How it runs, once it is connected
You do the first step. HaloSEO does the other six, on its own, every week.
- 01
Connect your website
- 02
HaloSEO researches keywords
- 03
Writes blog posts
- 04
Publishes automatically
- 05
Creates internal links
- 06
Builds backlinks
- 07
Improves rankings on Google and AI search engines