Your free trial

Every RankYak subscription begins with a 3-day free trial. The trial is the full product rather than a limited preview, so the three days show you exactly what a paid subscription looks like. You start it during setup by choosing a billing interval and entering your payment details, and RankYak charges you nothing until the three days are over.

Starting the trial

The trial starts partway through setting up your first site. By then you have described your site, connected Search Console, and chosen your core topics, so you know what RankYak will work on before you decide. You pick monthly or yearly, and a secure Stripe checkout collects your payment details. Nothing is charged there: the checkout starts your subscription with the three trial days ahead of it. The wizard then continues with your article settings, your publishing schedule, and your first publication, so your trial days go to a site that is fully set up.

RankYak asks for a payment method up front to keep trials free of abuse. Of course, you may cancel at any point during the three days, and in that case you pay nothing at all. Canceling ends the trial at once rather than at the end of the three days, as described below.

You may start one trial per account. If you have run a trial before, the same page starts your subscription right away instead, and your card is charged.

What the trial includes

The trial runs one site on RankYak Pro, which is the same thing a paying site runs: keyword research, the topical map, the content calendar, an article a day on the days you choose, every publishing integration, the backlink exchange, and the copilot. There is no separate trial tier, so what you see during the trial is what the subscription delivers.

Because the allowance is a day rather than a bucket, three days is three articles, and there is nothing to run out of before then. Site Guard, the add-on that fixes the pages you already have, is not part of the trial; you may add it to your site once the subscription starts.

A trial runs one site. To run a second one, start your subscription from the billing page, which you may do at any point during the trial.

What happens during setup

Research starts the moment the billing step completes, and RankYak approves that first run itself: your niche is mapped into topics and keyword clusters while you finish the last steps of the wizard. When the wizard ends, the content plan fills your calendar and today's article starts, so there is nothing to generate by hand. The dashboard shows a waiting skeleton until the first run lands, and the setup guide in the sidebar keeps track of the one thing left worth doing: connecting your site.

Autopilot is the default

A new site runs on autopilot: keyword research keeps expanding your topical map and approves its own runs, the content plan fills your calendar every month, each planned article is written on its scheduled morning, and finished articles are published to your site through your integration. Each of those is a switch you may turn off, under Settings, then Automation, or on the Research tab and the calendar: turn off auto-approval to review each research run yourself, turn off auto-scheduling to pick your own keywords and days, or turn off auto-publishing to release articles by hand. See changing the schedule and publishing articles.

If you connect an integration such as WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Webflow, Duda, or WordPress.com, each finished article is published to your site automatically, either live or as a draft for your review. Without an integration, articles simply collect in RankYak and you may copy or export them whenever you like.

The end of the trial

When the third day is over, your subscription starts and your card is charged for the first period. Nothing else changes: everything you generated during the trial carries over, your site keeps writing one article a day on the days you chose, and articles keep arriving without interruption. Your organization's billing page shows the date the trial ends, so you always know when the first charge falls.

If RankYak is not the right fit, cancel on the billing page before the trial ends and you are charged nothing. Canceling takes effect at once: your site is deactivated, article generation stops, and the remaining trial days are not served out. So, you should cancel on the last day rather than the first if you would like to keep looking around. Nothing is deleted, and the articles you generated remain in your account. Of course, you may start a subscription at any point afterwards to reactivate your site and pick up where you left off. Because the trial is a one-time offer, that subscription starts and charges right away.