You want a website. Nothing built yet, no rankings, nothing to undo. That is the easiest place to start, because you get to build it right the first time instead of fixing someone else’s guesses.
Here is how to get going, starting with the fastest path.
First, a domain and a place to host it
Before the Xagio plugin can go anywhere, you need two things in place: a registered domain name and a hosting account with WordPress on it. That is true of any WordPress site, with or without Xagio.
The domain. Every site needs one. What we have found is that exact-match domains can rank exceptionally fast when the site is built right, and the way we find them is Killer EMD, a separate tool that scores domains on how winnable the keyword behind them is. It is not part of Xagio, but it is how we source the domains we build on, so it is worth a look when you are choosing yours.
The hosting (optional, but the smooth path). You can host your site anywhere you already host and connect the plugin to it. If you would rather not deal with a separate host, Xagio hosting is built in: you pay for it with your Xagio credits, so there is no extra bill to set up, and it deploys a site on Cloudflare and WordPress in under 60 seconds. Same account, same credits, fully in sync. Optional, but it is the fastest way from nothing to a live site ready for the plugin.
Connect the plugin
With a domain and host in place, install the Xagio plugin on the site and connect it to your account. (If you spun the site up on Xagio hosting, this is already handled.) Once the plugin is connected, your site is talking to Xagio and everything below is available.
The fast path: build it with Agent X
For most people building a new site, Agent X is the way to do it. It runs the entire build in succession and, just as importantly, it starts from a template and applies that design across every page it creates. You end up with a finished, consistent, designed site, not a pile of raw pages you still have to style. A designed build beats an undesigned one every time, and automating the content and schema across every page is far more efficient than writing them one at a time.
Here is what Agent X does, in order:
Research. You give it your niche and location. It finds the sites already ranking on page one and pulls the keywords they rank for. The best keywords are the ones your competitors already win, because Google has already proven those terms have demand. You are not guessing what the market wants. You are reading what it already chose.
Cluster and optimize. It groups those keywords into tight clusters, one searcher intent per group, and optimizes each group into the best title, meta, and H1. This is the hinge the whole build turns on: the content and schema are written from these optimized groups, so they have to be right before anything is generated.
Build, write, and design. It creates the pages, writes the content, generates the schema, and lays it all onto the template so every page is styled and consistent.
Two minutes of prep before you run it
Because Agent X builds on a template, a little setup first saves real cleanup later:
Set your profile data. Your business name, phone, location, and the rest feed the schema generated for every page. Fill it in before the build and the schema is right from the start. Add it later and you are editing schema page by page.
Pre-edit the service page. A template is four pages: home, service, legal, and contact. The service page is the only one that gets duplicated for every location and service page you build. Get the form, phone, map, images, and call-to-action right on that one page, and every page Agent X generates inherits them. Skip this and you are fixing the same form on twenty pages later.
The home, legal, and contact pages are single pages that never get duplicated, so you can polish those whenever you like, before the build or after.
The manual path: when you want full control
Everything Agent X automates is also a feature you can run by hand in the plugin: the research, the clustering and optimization, creating pages, generating content, and generating schema, one step at a time. The SEO output is identical. You are running the same procedure, just driving each step yourself.
Two things to know before you choose this road:
The hinge does not move. Your keyword groups still have to be clustered and optimized before you generate any content or schema, because that is still what they are written from. Manual or automated, that order holds.
The design is on you. The manual route gives you the SEO tools, not the template design. Agent X is what applies a finished look across every page. Build by hand and you style the entire site yourself.
Most people are better off letting Agent X build the designed site and then refining it. The manual path is there for when you want to control every step or you are working in a setup Agent X cannot drive.
Then get it indexed and tracked
A built site that Google has not crawled is invisible. Add the site to Search Console, submit the sitemap, and request indexing on the pages that matter. Then turn on rank tracking so you can watch the keywords climb and confirm the build worked.
That is getting started on a new site: connect, build it with Agent X (or by hand if you want the control), index, and track.
Where to go deeper
This is the overview. When you are ready for the exact clicks, the three-pass research method, and the clustering rules that separate a page that ranks from one that does not, the step-by-step guides take you the rest of the way.
Not starting from scratch? If your site is already built, ranking or not, you start somewhere different: by pulling what you already rank for first. That walkthrough is here. Or head back to the start to pick your path.