Your First Hour with GoDaddy Airo AI Builder

In your first hour with GoDaddy Airo AI Builder, you can go from a blank prompt to a published website — and set up everything your business needs to grow. This session replay covers prompting tips, publishing, custom domains, connectors, Inbox, SEO, AEO, automations, and analytics in one practical walkthrough.

What you will learn in this session

• How to write a strong first prompt so Airo builds what you actually have in mind
• How to make edits without spending AI credits
• What to do immediately after you publish your site
• How to connect your social accounts, Google Business Profile, and third-party tools
• How to set up Airo Inbox for contact forms and chat widgets
• How to optimise your site for SEO and AEO (AI search visibility)
• How to use Airo automations to run recurring tasks automatically
• How to read your analytics dashboard and act on what you find

How to write a great first prompt for Airo AI Builder

The single most important thing you can do before Airo generates your first preview is give it enough context. Instead of typing "build me a website," include:

• Your business name — Airo uses it throughout the site
• What you sell or offer — products, services, or content
• Your preferred vibe or layout — modern, minimal, bold, warm
• Your location — especially important for local businesses

If you leave details out, Airo fills them in with its best guess, which may not match your vision. The more specific your first prompt, the closer the first preview will be to what you want.

After the first preview, give Airo one change at a time. Long prompts with ten instructions take longer to execute and are more likely to miss something. Short, focused prompts get faster, more accurate results.

Bonus tip: End a prompt with "show me what you plan to do before making any changes" when you want to review Airo's interpretation before it acts.

How to make changes without using AI credits

Once your site is live in the builder, click the Edit button to enter edit mode. In edit mode you can:

• Change any text directly on the page — no credits used
• Update text colour, size, font, alignment, bold, and italic
• Replace images with your own photos — no credits used

Chatting with Airo to make structural changes, add sections, or build new features does use credits. Edit mode is the right tool for copy and image updates.

What to do immediately after you publish

1. Connect a custom domain

When you first publish, your site lives on an Airo subdomain. Connecting your own domain makes your site look professional and starts building your relationship with Google. In the Domain tab you can:

• Connect a domain you already own in your GoDaddy account
• Purchase a new domain and attach it in one step
• Connect an external domain from another registrar

2. Connect your third-party tools

Open the Connectors tab (the + icon) to link the tools you already use. Auto-connectors — Facebook, Instagram, Google Business Profile, Notion, Figma, Mailchimp, Discord, Patreon, Slack, and QuickBooks — connect in a few clicks. For any other tool with an API, ask Airo to walk you through the steps: it will tell you exactly where to find your API key and how to paste it into Secrets.

Once connected, you can manage posts, reviews, email campaigns, and more without leaving Airo.

3. Test every button and form

Before you share your site, click every button and submit every form to confirm they work end to end. If a contact form is not sending notifications, tell Airo: "I tested my contact form on the published site and I want it to send me an email every time someone submits it." Airo will fix it.

4. Set up Airo Inbox

Airo Inbox (also in the + menu) gives you two tools:

• Contact form integration — all form submissions appear in one inbox so you can reply directly
• Chat widget — a live chat bubble on your site that routes messages to the same inbox

Both are free to set up and keep all your leads in one place.

How to get found on Google and in AI search (SEO and AEO)

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) helps your site appear in Google results when people search for what you offer. AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) helps AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude mention your business when people ask relevant questions.

To optimise for both, open the Automations tab and run the SEO and AEO automation. You can run it once or set it on a recurring schedule — weekly or monthly — so Airo continuously scans your site, identifies gaps, and sends you a report.

You can also run the AI Visibility check to see whether AI assistants currently mention your business and get a list of specific improvements.

Other recommended automations: security scan, accessibility check, and performance (Core Web Vitals) monitoring.

How to use Airo automations for marketing

Automations let you schedule recurring tasks without touching the builder. One practical example: if you have a Facebook page connected and a menu with ten items, you can tell Airo: "Every Monday for the next ten weeks, create one Facebook post about a different menu item and publish it on my behalf." Airo handles the writing and posting automatically.

You can also ask Airo to suggest automations based on your business goals — it will recommend workflows tailored to what you are trying to achieve.

How to run a marketing campaign with Airo

Tell Airo your promotion goal and date range and it will build a full campaign for you: a dedicated landing page, optional blog post for SEO, social media drafts, and if Mailchimp is connected, an email campaign. You can say: "Help me run a marketing campaign for a 10% off promotion running from 1 October to 31 October" and Airo will set up all the assets.

How to read your Airo analytics dashboard

Your analytics dashboard shows:

• Page views and unique visitors over the last 7, 15, or 30 days (or a custom range)
• Engagement rate and clicks
• Daily traffic trend — new vs returning visitors
• Visitors by country and city
• Sessions by device — mobile, tablet, desktop
• Top referrals — which channels are sending you traffic (search, social, direct)

If you are running paid ads, referral data tells you which channels are working. If most of your visitors are coming from the wrong country, that is a signal to adjust your SEO targeting or ad geo-settings.

You can also chat with Airo about your analytics: "I had only three visitors last week — what should I do to get more?" and Airo will give you specific recommendations.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Ask Airo to connect Google Analytics and it will walk you through the steps to add your tracking ID. The built-in analytics dashboard is a strong starting point, but Google Analytics gives you additional data if you need it.

No. Copy edits, colour changes, font changes, and image replacements made in edit mode are free. Credits are only used when you chat with Airo to make structural or AI-powered changes.

Auto-connectors (Facebook, Instagram, Google Business Profile, Mailchimp, Notion, Figma, Discord, Patreon, Slack, QuickBooks) connect in a few clicks through a guided OAuth flow. Manual connectors work with any third-party tool that has an API — you retrieve your API key from that tool, paste it into Airo Secrets, and Airo handles the integration. You can ask Airo to guide you through the steps for any manual connector.

Run the AEO optimisation automation in Airo. It audits your site for the signals AI assistants use to identify and recommend businesses — structured data, clear entity definitions, FAQ content, and authoritative copy — and tells you exactly what to fix.

Be more specific in your next prompt. Instead of "move this section up," say "move the contact form section from the bottom of the homepage to just below the hero section, and do not change anything else." You can also ask Airo to describe what it plans to do before it acts by ending your prompt with "show me your plan first."

Yes. You can tell Airo to run any check — SEO, AEO, security, accessibility, performance — on a weekly or monthly schedule and send you an email report with the results. You decide which fixes to apply.