Viewing an article

Clicking an article in the article overview opens the article page. The main pane shows the article itself, formatted as it will appear on your site, and the sidebar collects everything RankYak knows about it: its score, its keyword, its structure, and the research it was built on. The same page is also where you edit; see editing an article.

The article

The article is shown in full, with its headings, links, images, and embeds in place. Above it sits a collapsible Article summary, a few sentences describing what the article covers, so you may get the gist without reading the whole piece. While an article is still generating, the page streams the text in as it is written and shows how far along it is.

The summary tab

The Summary tab in the sidebar holds the article's numbers.

• Article score. A score from 0 to 100, broken down into headings, structure, and terms. The score reflects how thoroughly the article covers the on-page fundamentals; a lower score does not necessarily mean a weak article, since keywords that are best served by a concise page naturally score lower.
• Keyword. The keyword the article targets, with its search volume and difficulty; see keyword metrics for what those numbers mean.
• Structure. Counts for words, headings, paragraphs, keyword density, internal links, and external links.
• Header image. The generated header image, which you may open at full size in a new tab.
• Lifecycle. The milestones the article has reached, such as being published, being indexed, and receiving a backlink. With Google Search Console connected, the lifecycle extends to impressions, clicks, and ranking milestones.

The research tab

The Research tab shows the analysis the article was built on: the top-ranking pages RankYak studied and their word counts, the search intent it identified, the article type and target length it chose, and the related questions and searches the article answers where relevant. Article generation explains how this research shapes the writing.

Copying the article

The Copy article menu exports the content in whichever format your workflow needs: as rich text, which pastes with formatting intact into most editors, as HTML, or as Markdown. A second group copies the individual metadata fields: the article title, the meta title, the meta description, and the slug. Typically you reach for these when publishing manually to a platform without an integration; see unsupported platforms.

The published article

Once an article is published, a View button opens the live version on your site, and a badge in the header shows which integration it was published through. For unpublished articles, the same corner of the page offers the publish actions described in publishing articles.