Make

The Make integration sends each finished article to a scenario in your Make account, and from there you may route it anywhere Make can reach: a CMS without a native RankYak integration, a database, a notification channel, or any other connected app. Under the hood, the connection is a webhook pointed at a URL that Make generates for you, so everything on the webhooks page applies here as well.

Connecting Make

The connection starts on the Make side, where you create the scenario and the webhook it listens on.

1. Log in to your Make account and create a new scenario.
2. Search for the RankYak app and add Watch published articles as the trigger.
3. Create a webhook for the trigger and copy the webhook URL.

Then, back in RankYak:

1. Go to Settings, then Integrations, and click Connect next to Make.
2. Paste the webhook URL and click Save.

Once saved, Make appears on the integrations page as connected via webhook, and your scenario receives articles from that point on.

How the trigger behaves

Each time RankYak finishes writing an article, it posts the article's data to your scenario as JSON: the title, the content as HTML and Markdown, the meta title and description, the slug, the header image URL, and the relevant dates. Inside the scenario, you map those fields onto whatever comes next, whether that is creating a post in your CMS, inserting a record in a database, or any other action Make offers. The full payload is described on the webhooks page.

Because Make handles the actual publishing, RankYak has no direct connection to your site, so it marks an article as published once the webhook has been delivered. If you take part in the backlink exchange, you should also report the live URL of each published article back to RankYak, either from the article's actions menu or through the API, so RankYak knows where the article ended up.

Testing the connection

Sometimes you may wish to run an article through the scenario without waiting for the next one to be written. On any finished article's page, open the actions menu next to the publishing controls and choose Send webhook (or Resend webhook once the article is published). The article is delivered to Make immediately, and repeating this is harmless.

Disconnecting

The Make connection is your project's webhook, so you disable it from the webhook settings: go to Settings, then Integrations, open the Developer zone, and click Disable next to the webhook. Make stops receiving articles immediately. Of course, you may enable the connection again at any time.