How RankedContent works

RankedContent runs an AI-powered analysis of any page you submit and scores it twice: once for classic SEO and once for GEO, which measures how ready the page is to be cited by AI answer engines. Every factor that needs work comes with a concrete, copy-paste-ready fix such as rewritten tags, JSON-LD schema, or suggested FAQ content.

A project represents one website you optimize. Every project includes a Site basics check that reviews the foundational signals AI answer engines rely on - AI crawler access, an llms.txt file, and an XML sitemap. Open a project from the Projects list to see its analyses, tasks and tracked keywords together on its own page.

A typical analysis finishes in about two minutes. During busy periods your analysis may briefly wait in a queue; the page shows a live status while it waits and updates automatically when scoring starts.

The SEO score covers classic search ranking factors such as the title tag, meta description, headings, internal links, and page setup. The AEO/GEO score measures how citable your content is for AI answer engines: question-style headings, statistics, lists and tables, structured data, freshness, and author signals. The two scores are independent, and each factor is graded on its own.

The Keywords page tracks the searches you want to win. Each keyword is checked on Google every week, on desktop and mobile, recording your position in the top 50 results, the page that actually ranks, and the AI Overview for that search, including if your site is cited in it. Every keyword also gets AI engine checks: RankedContent runs its companion AI search query through ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews and records what comes back, including if your site is cited and how the answer portrayed your brand. Add up to five competitor domains in a project's tracking settings and every check records them too: their Google positions in the keyword's Google check history, and if the AI engines cited or mentioned them in its AI engine check history. When you analyze a page you can choose to track its focus keyword too, keywords can be paused, resumed or removed at any time - a removed keyword keeps its check history and picks it back up if you add it again - and Run now gives you a fresh check on demand. Your keyword slots and on-demand allowance are shown right on the page.

An owner or admin connects a project to the Google Search Console property for its site, with read-only access that you can revoke at any time. RankedContent then imports the site's search performance once a day - the queries people searched, the pages that appeared, impressions, clicks and positions, filtered to the project's country - starting with the last three months of history. The Discovery tab turns that data into lists you can act on, each row ending in an analysis or a tracked keyword, and the weekly digest counts the week's new striking-distance queries and decliners. Disconnecting stops the imports; the data already imported stays with your project.

Three reasons, none of them a bug. Google sends the top queries only and filters out rare or private searches, so totals in RankedContent run a little lower than in the Search Console interface. Google finalizes each day's data about three days late, so the newest days arrive later and the Discovery tab says which day the data runs through. And a position in RankedContent is the plain average of the daily positions over the window, while Google's own report weights each day by its impressions, so the two can differ slightly for a query with uneven traffic.

They measure different things, so RankedContent shows them side by side and never combines them. The tracked position is a precise weekly snapshot of one neutral search for the keyword, on desktop and on mobile, in the keyword's locale. The Search Console average is the average of Google's daily positions over the last 28 days, across every page of your site that appeared for the query and every device, and it arrives about three days late. A page that ranked third for some searchers and fifteenth for others shows an average near nine, while the tracked check records what one search sees that week. Read the tracked position for week-to-week movement and the Search Console figure for how the query performs for your site overall.

A query your site already wins with a page in the top 7 is not an opportunity: optimizing a page that sits at number 2 buys almost nothing. Striking distance lists the queries where a page of yours sits at positions 8 to 20, close enough that one round of fixes can move it onto the first page. The queries you already win are covered by the other lists: Untracked winners offers to track them, Decliners warns you when one of them slips, and AI Overview gaps shows the ones where Google's AI answer leaves your site out.

Keyword checks run as neutral, automated searches for the keyword’s locale, with no signed-in account or browsing history. What you see in your own browser is personalized - your location, language, device, and search history all shift the results - so a small difference is normal. The tracked position is the comparable, repeatable measurement; judge progress by its week-to-week trend rather than a one-off search of your own.

Each check asks the AI engine your keyword’s question through the engine’s own official interface with live web search enabled - the same models doing the same web research as the consumer apps. The recorded answer is representative of what the engine says about your topic, but the exact wording a person sees in an app can still differ, because apps add their own context such as chat history and location.

AI answers are not deterministic: the same question can cite different sources on different asks. That is why each keyword is checked once per period, and the statuses and rates on the Keywords page read your last several checks together instead of treating any single answer as the truth. A status like In rotation means recent answers cited you even though the latest one did not - normal variation, not a lost ranking.

Search engines and AI answer engines need time to re-crawl and re-evaluate a page, so ranking changes typically appear over weeks or months, not days. Publishing the fixes from your analysis is the part you control; the weekly keyword checks record the movement as it happens, and each keyword’s trend shows the progress over time. Run now gives you an up-to-date snapshot of a keyword’s current ranking - a fresh, optional data point, not evidence that your changes have already taken effect.

An optional Monday email that sums up each project’s week: keyword movement and work completed on the task board. Weeks with nothing to report are skipped, and every email includes a one-click unsubscribe link. With Search Console connected, it also lists the queries that newly came within striking distance and the ones where a page of yours dropped 10 or more places that week, each with its page and positions.

No. RankedContent only reads the page you submit and never modifies your site. You stay in control: the analysis hands you ready-to-use fixes, and you or your team decide what to publish.

A fresh analysis replaces the previous results for that page, and the tasks linked to the old analysis are removed, including completed ones. The same applies when you delete a page from your dashboard. If your task board holds work you want to keep, finish or note it before re-analyzing.

Each URL you submit uses one analysis. On paid plans the allowance is monthly and starts fresh each calendar month, and the free trial comes with a fixed number of analyses. If you need more, move to a bigger plan from Settings.

Yes, at any time from Settings in the app. Manage billing opens your billing portal, where you can switch plans, change the billing interval, update your card or cancel. An upgrade applies immediately and you pay the difference for the rest of the period. A downgrade applies immediately too, and the unused part of what you paid becomes a credit on your next invoices. Cancelling stops future renewals, and your plan runs until the end of the period you paid for.

Your access continues while the payment is retried. The card is retried up to 8 times over two weeks, and a payment that is waiting for your bank's confirmation is kept open for 15 days. You get one email from us when the first attempt fails, and the Manage billing button under Settings opens the billing portal where you can update your card. If no attempt succeeds, the subscription is cancelled and the workspace is paused: nothing is deleted, and your projects, keywords and history are kept for 90 days.

Your workspace is paused, not deleted. Keyword and AI search tracking stop and new analyses are on hold, but your projects, keywords and history are kept for 90 days after the subscription ends. Choose a plan again within that time and everything picks up where it left off. If a renewal payment fails, it is retried for about two weeks first, and your access continues meanwhile.

Fees are non-refundable, with two exceptions. A billing error, such as being charged twice for the same period, is refunded in full. Any refund right that mandatory law gives you is not limited. The Refund and Cancellation Policy has the details.

RankedContent is currently in private beta, but you can join the waitlist from the sign-up page. You will receive an email invitation when your access is ready.

Classic search engines such as Google and Bing, and AI answer engines including ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Bing Copilot. The same underlying improvements - clear structure, direct answers, and valid schema - help across all of them.

When you submit a URL, RankedContent fetches that public page, extracts its content for scoring, and stores the analysis results in your workspace. It does not crawl the rest of your site. See the Privacy Policy for how personal information is handled.