ContentForge settings
Choose which content formats your brand commissions, whether the Writer uses web search, check draft languages, and manage your images.
The ContentForge tab under Settings holds four things: the content formats your brand commissions, whether the Writer may use web search, Language Check, and the media library your articles draw images from.
Only admins (and superadmins) can change these. Other users see them read-only.
Content formats
GEOforge writes in five formats:
- Blog — explainers, points of view and trend analysis.
- FAQ — short, direct answers to buyer questions. The strongest format for getting cited.
- Case Study — a customer outcome with real numbers and named scenarios.
- How-To — step-by-step guides for readers who want to do something.
- Commercial Page — service, solution, product and local pages that convert visitors who already have intent. (Called Page until October 2026.)
Each one shows how many topics you currently have in it, which is the number to look at before switching one off.
Switch a format off and it disappears from the Add Topic dropdown and the Generate Recommendations menu, and the Strategist stops recommending it.
Topics you already have in that format keep working. They still generate, publish, and show up in filters — switching a format off only stops new ones being commissioned.
Saving your selection
Until you save a selection, your brand is running on defaults. The panel says so.
One behaviour worth knowing: the Strategist won't recommend Commercial Pages until you've saved. They're only proposed for brands that asked for them, so leaving the defaults in place means you won't see Commercial Page recommendations even though the format is available.
The Generate Recommendations menu follows the same rule: Commercial Page is listed there only once you've saved with it ticked.
If you want Commercial Pages, save the form with Commercial Page ticked.
Page types
A Commercial Page topic carries a page type as well as a format, which the other formats don't:
- Services — a service or capability the brand sells, with its own process and deliverables.
- Solution — an offer framed around one buyer problem or use case, possibly spanning several services.
- Product — a specific named product, with its own features rather than a bundled service.
- Local — a location-specific variant of an offer. This needs genuinely local detail, not a swapped city name.
Publishing Commercial Pages
Commercial Pages publish to their own destination rather than to your blog. On a connected CMS you map that destination separately — a WordPress site, for example, can send Commercial Pages to a different post type from your articles.
If Commercial Pages aren't publishing where you expect, the mapping is the first thing to check, under Settings → Integrations.
Web search
When web search is on, the Writer can look up public web pages while drafting, alongside your BaseForge knowledge base. It's off by default.
It helps while your knowledge base is still thin, because the Writer can fill gaps it would otherwise leave. The trade-off is that what it brings in is information anyone can find. That lowers a draft's Information Gain score, the measure of how much a draft adds beyond what's already out there. Once your knowledge base covers the topics you write about, turn it off.
Searches per article sets how many searches the Writer may run for one draft, up to 2. Each search can bring back several pages, so the limit keeps cost and drafting time in check.
Language Check
Finds drafts written in a different language from the one set for your brand, and rewrites them in place. Click Check drafts to scan. See Language Check for the details.
Media library
The images available to your content live here. This is the same library the editor's image picker reads from, so anything you upload becomes available to every draft for this brand.
Images used in an article are re-hosted on your own site when it publishes, so your published content doesn't depend on GEOforge serving the file.
Related
- Language Check — find drafts written in the wrong language.
- SignalForge settings — where and in what language the Google AI engines are asked.
- Brand profile settings — including the Content Language every draft is written in.