Money pages

Money pages are the pages you would like your articles to funnel readers toward: a pricing page, a contact page, a signup form, or the key category pages of a webshop. When RankYak writes an article, it keeps your money pages in mind and links to them with a contextual call to action wherever one genuinely fits the content. This page explains how money pages are used and how to manage them.

How articles use money pages

Every article is written with your money pages as context. When the topic touches on what one of them offers, the writer inserts a call to action at a natural moment in the text and links the reader through. The links are contextual rather than mechanical, so not every article links to every money page; a page is only referenced where it answers the reader's next step.

The closing call to action gets first pick of your money pages, because it is the one link written for the click rather than for search engines. RankYak also revisits it: where an article closes on a page that no longer suits it, the closing sentence is rewritten to send the reader to the money page the article is actually about. Typically this matters most for articles written before you named the money page they should have pointed at.

A page does not need to be a money page to earn links. RankYak reads every section of an article and links the page of your site that section genuinely calls for, so a free tool or a guide gathers links from the paragraphs about its subject on its own. You should reserve the money page list for the pages you want readers funneled toward, because those are the pages the closing call to action prefers.

Beyond that closing call to action, RankYak also links your money pages from the body of your articles. One thing decides it: whether a reader of that paragraph would want the page next. An article about writing meta descriptions links the page that helps a reader write one, and an article about something else does not link it at all.

Sometimes an article carries no body link to a money page. That happens when none of your pages belongs in it, and it is deliberate: a forced link reads as an advertisement and earns nothing. The article still closes with its call to action, so the reader always has a next step.

Adding a money page

1. Go to Money pages in the left-hand menu.
2. Click Add page.
3. Enter the full URL of the page.
4. Describe what a visitor may do on that page.
5. Click Add page.

If you are adding several pages at once, enable Add more pages at the bottom of the dialog and it stays open after each save. New money pages are used automatically in every article generated after they are added.

The URL must use https. The page also does not need to sit on your own website: an affiliate page, a booking service, or a page on a subdomain may be a money page too. Articles link it the same way, and its links are counted the same way.

Writing a useful description

The description tells the writer what the page offers and when linking to it makes sense, so a specific description produces more natural calls to action. "Get a free demo by booking a call with us" gives the writer something concrete to work with, while "our contact page" does not.

The description is also how RankYak decides which article a money page belongs in, so it is worth writing well. A description naming what the page actually offers earns the page links from the articles where a reader would want it.

If you would like to be precise, write the description as a rule. Name the page, then name the case it is for, then name where a neighboring case belongs instead. "A free tool that writes meta descriptions. Link here when the article is about writing or rewriting one. For checking the length of tags a page already carries, use the SERP preview." A description written this way keeps two similar pages out of each other's articles.

Checking how well your money pages are linked

The Money pages page lists every money page with the number of your own pages that link to it. The list is ordered by address, with your homepage first if you named it, so a page stays where you last saw it. The count includes links inside the body of your content and excludes the ones in your header, footer, navigation, and sidebar, because a link your template places on every page says nothing about which page you consider important. The count is a report rather than a target: RankYak links the page a reader wants, whatever the number next to it says.

A page marked Enough links has gathered as many as another one would usefully add. Treat it as a reading of where your site's attention already goes, not as an instruction: a page a reader wants is worth linking whatever the count says.

Typically a money page you added recently sits at zero for a while, because only articles written after you added it can link to it, and the count moves when RankYak next reads your site.

Three notes on what the page may tell you. A money page that lives off your website carries an Off-site label; that is a statement of where the page lives rather than a problem, and its links are counted all the same. If a page of your own site is marked Not found on your site, RankYak's crawl never reached that address; check the URL is correct and that the page is not blocked from crawling, because writing more articles will not fix it. And if RankYak has not read your site's links yet, the page says so rather than reporting zero: counting links requires a crawl, which needs Google Search Console connected so that RankYak can scan your site.

Editing and removing money pages

Each money page in the list has a menu with Edit and Delete actions. Editing lets you correct the URL or sharpen the description at any time. Deleting a money page stops future articles from linking to it; links already placed in existing articles remain untouched.

Of course, you may also manage money pages by asking the copilot, which can add, update, and remove them for you.