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Autopilot & Publishing
The featured images, in-body images, and internal links HarperFlow adds to every article automatically.
Two things happen to every article without any manual work on your part: it gets imagery, and it gets linked into the rest of your site.
Every article gets an automatically generated featured image sized for your CMS. Where it fits the content, articles also get a distinct image placed in the body itself, separate from the featured image, so a long article isn't just a wall of text under one header photo. There's no stock-photo search or upload step to do yourself; both are produced, with descriptive alt text included, as part of writing the article.
When HarperFlow publishes a new article, it automatically looks for opportunities to link it to articles you've already published on the same site, where the topics are genuinely related. Anchors are matched against what the target article is actually about, its title and topic cluster, rather than a keyword match that happens to line up on the surface. If the writing step didn't surface a specific opportunity for a given article, HarperFlow still falls back to matching against an existing article's own keyword or title, so linking doesn't depend entirely on that earlier step succeeding. Links only ever point to your own already-live content; a new article never links to a competitor, and never links to itself.
Each project has an internal-link density setting: Off, Light (up to 2 links), Standard (up to 4, the default), or Rich (up to 6). Change it from your project settings whenever you want more or fewer links woven per article, and the new setting applies from the next article onward.
Note: Linking runs forward, not backward. A new article can link to your older ones; HarperFlow doesn't go back and edit already-published articles to add links to the new one.