The copilot

The copilot is a chat assistant built into the RankYak app. It reads and manages the site you are working in, so instead of clicking through the app you may simply describe what you want: the copilot looks up the answer in your account, or makes the change and confirms what it did. Everything it does happens through the same actions you may take yourself, on the account you are signed in to.

Opening the copilot

Once you open a site, the copilot lives in the input bar at the bottom of every page. Click the bar and it expands: a few quick prompts appear to get you started, and once a conversation exists, focusing the bar reopens it. From the panel header you may step back to a list of your recent conversations, where you may resume one, start a new one, or delete one you no longer need. Conversations belong to the site you are in, so each site keeps its own history.

What you may ask

Anything you would otherwise do by hand in the app is fair game. A few examples:

• "How many keywords do I have, and which are the strongest?"
• "How is my site doing in Google search this month?"
• "Add keywords about invoice templates and schedule them for next week."
• "Fill the rest of this month's plan with the best keywords."
• "Show me the clusters waiting for review and drop the ones about wholesale."
• "Tighten the intro of yesterday's article."
• "Where did the statistics in this article come from?"
• "What would improve this article's score?"
• "Run Site Guard and suggest fixes for the pages losing clicks."
• "Add our pricing page as a money page."
• "Invite [email protected] to my organization."
• "Read https://example.com/our-product and write about it."
• "We just launched a wholesale range, research keywords for it."
• "Why didn't yesterday's article publish?"
• "Check whether my pages are competing with each other."
• "What did the last optimization change on this article?"
• "Is this statistic in my article still true?"

Behind the scenes, the copilot works with your topics, keyword clusters and keywords, keyword research, the content plan and calendar, your articles, their revisions and the research behind them, publishing, Site Guard and its fix suggestions, money pages and how well they are linked, integrations, your search performance and backlinks, site settings, and team invitations. When you are viewing an article, the copilot knows which one, so "this article" needs no further explanation. Two mechanisms are worth knowing. Every article comes off the content plan and is written in the early morning of its scheduled date, so when you ask for an article about a subject, the copilot adds the keyword and puts it on the first free day. If you want it sooner, ask for a specific day and the copilot moves it there. And when you ask for a content edit while viewing an article, the copilot proposes precise edits that appear inline in the article editor for you to accept or dismiss, so nothing changes on the article until you accept. The same applies to the article's title, SEO title, and meta description: the copilot proposes new values on a review card in the editor, written from the article's own research, and you may steer the result in your own words, for example "make the title a question". These suggestions only work from the article's own page, so if you ask from anywhere else, the copilot will point you to the article first.

Looking things up on the web

The copilot is not limited to what is in your account. It searches the live web and reads individual pages, which is what you want when the answer is a fact about the world rather than about your site.

Typically that means one of three things:

• Give it a URL. Paste a link to your own product page, a competitor, or a supplier, and ask for what you want done with it. The copilot reads the page first instead of asking you to describe it.
• Ask it to check something. Before a price, a statistic, or a claim goes into one of your articles, the copilot can look it up and tell you what it found, with the source.
• Ask it to find a source. When an article would be stronger with a link out to something authoritative, the copilot can search for one and confirm the page actually loads before suggesting it.

Two things are worth knowing. Pages behind a login or a paywall return little or nothing, since the copilot reads them as an anonymous visitor would. And a very long page comes back shortened, so ask about the part you care about rather than for a summary of everything.

The copilot treats whatever it reads as a quotation rather than as instruction. If a page contains text aimed at an assistant, telling it to change a setting or follow a link, the copilot reports that instead of acting on it.

Past conversations

Each conversation starts fresh; the copilot does not carry memory from one chat into the next. However, your earlier conversations for the site are kept, and the copilot searches them when an answer likely lives there: when you mention something from a previous chat, or when you wonder how your account ended up in its current state. Because those are records of the past rather than live data, the copilot double-checks your current account before acting on anything it finds.

Reviewing research through the copilot

When keyword research finishes, its findings wait for your review, and until then they count nowhere: they are not on your topical map and the planner cannot schedule them. A site in that state looks empty even though the work is done.

You may settle it from the chat. Ask what research is waiting and the copilot tells you what the run holds: the clusters it proposes, which topics they sit under, and the strongest keywords in each. Because a cluster is one article, this is where you decide what your site will cover. Name the clusters that do not fit and the copilot rejects them, then approves the rest once you agree. It will not approve or reject a cluster you have not seen, because what your site is about is your decision.

Asking why something happened

Some answers are not in the current state of your account but in how it got there. The copilot reads the reason your last publish failed, in the words your CMS used, so you may ask why yesterday's article did not go live without opening the article yourself. It reads how far an article that is still generating has got, so a run that is working reads differently from one that has stopped. And it reads what an optimization changed, as a comparison against the article as it stands now. You should look at that before restoring an older version, because restoring replaces the current article.

The copilot also reads whether RankYak has read your own site yet, and how many of your pages link each of your money pages. So "why is nothing linking my pricing page" has an answer in the chat, including the case where the page was never reached at all, which usually means the URL has a typo in it rather than that nothing links to it.

Settings and one-off runs

Anything you would switch on in your site settings, you may ask for instead. That covers automatic publishing, keeping the calendar filled ahead, automatic keyword research, and whether research runs land without your review. The copilot tells you what a switch does before it turns it on, and auto-approval in particular means runs land without you seeing what they found.

Some work runs on request rather than on a schedule, and the copilot starts it for you. You may ask it to research keywords for something you have just launched, describing the business in your own words. You may ask whether your pages compete with each other, which runs Cannibalization Guard immediately rather than waiting for the nightly pass. And you may join or leave the backlink exchange.

Limits

The copilot confirms destructive changes before making them. Anything that removes or replaces something, such as archiving keywords or regenerating the content plan, is stated first, and the copilot waits for your go-ahead.

Some things stay in the app: billing and subscriptions are managed on your organization's billing page, Site Guard is added on the site's own Site Guard page, and deleting sites, organizations, or members is only possible in the app itself. The copilot will point you to the right page. Finally, the copilot is a work tool, so it politely declines requests that have nothing to do with your SEO work.

If you would like these same capabilities in an assistant outside the app, see the MCP server.