Adding keywords

RankYak discovers keywords automatically, but you know things about your business that research may not surface. Sometimes you may have keyword ideas of your own, or a list handed to you by an agency, a consultant, or another SEO tool. You may add these keywords to your project at any time, and RankYak folds them into the same pool it plans content from.

Adding keywords

1. Go to Keywords in the left menu and open the List view tab.
2. Click Add keywords.
3. Enter your keywords, one per line.
4. Click Add keywords to confirm.

You may add up to 500 keywords at once, each up to 80 characters long. Keywords are normalized to lowercase, and any that already exist in your project are recognized rather than duplicated, so pasting an overlapping list is harmless.

Metrics

New keywords are enriched immediately. RankYak looks up the search volume and keyword difficulty for each one, measured against your project's country and language, and the keywords appear in your list with their metrics already in place.

One guarantee is worth knowing: manually added keywords are always kept and remain available for planning, even when the measured volume is low or zero. You added them deliberately, so RankYak keeps them regardless of what the data says.

Planning

Added keywords become part of your keyword pool and are eligible for the content plan from that moment on. However, adding a keyword does not schedule an article for it by itself. If you would like an article for a specific keyword sooner, you may schedule it on a day of your choice on the calendar, where RankYak writes it on the date you picked, or generate its article right away from the keyword list.