Article Settings

Article Settings (select Article Settings directly in the app sidebar, or open app.grandranker.com/article-settings) controls how every future article for a website is written, illustrated, and linked. It's one scrolling page of sections, and it autosaves. You'll see Saving… then Saved in the header as you change things. Settings apply to articles generated from that point on; existing articles are not rewritten.

Publishing & writing style

• Auto-publish: publish articles to your website automatically after generation.
• Show branding and Email notifications: toggle the article footer branding and the "new article generated" email.
• Writing Style: pick one of four voices: Professional, Casual, Friendly, or Academic.
• Article Length: the default for new articles: Micro (~300 words), Short (~1,000), Medium (~2,000), or Long (3,000+). You can override this per keyword in the content planner.
• Toggles: Include emojis, First-person writing (use "I" and "we"), and Mention competitor products & services. Comparison and alternatives articles rank well, but turn this off if you'd rather only publish about your own brand.
• Custom Instructions: up to 2,000 characters applied to every article, e.g. "Always use British English. Avoid jargon. Mention our product in the conclusion."
• Your services / offers: list up to 10 services with optional URLs; articles mention and link the most relevant ones where they genuinely fit.
• Learn from your articles: paste up to 3 links to your existing blog posts and Grandranker analyzes your tone, sentence structure, and formatting so future articles match your voice.

Call to action

Turn on Show call-to-action blocks to add buttons inside articles, each pointed at the most relevant product or service with a fallback link. Configure the Button text, Fallback link, Style (Button, Banner, or Inline band), Placement (Mid-article + end, Mid-article only, End only), and How many per article (1-3, long articles only; short ones always get a single closing CTA).

Visuals

• Image styles: every article's images follow one style: Real Life, Sketch, Watercolor, Cinematic, or Digital Illustration.
• Brand color: auto-detected from your site; used as the palette for diagrams and illustrations and accent tones in photos.
• Title-Based Featured Image: generate the featured image with the article title displayed in the center using your brand color; body images keep your image style.
• People-focused photos: for photographic styles, prefer warm photos of real people over empty objects or workspaces. Best for care, coaching, education, and other people-centric sites.
• Brand logo: upload a logo (transparent PNG works best). When a generated photo shows branding (a van, a sign, a uniform), it uses your real logo instead of inventing one.
• Image captions and YouTube videos: toggle caption lines under images and embedded videos.

A Premium Images add-on ($49/month) upgrades to better image models, 5 images per article instead of 4, and custom style presets. The section includes a See Examples gallery.

Author

Set the Name and Title used as the byline on generated articles.

Links

• Blog URL: where your blog index lives; used as the link target inside articles.
• Sitemap URL: usually https://example.com/sitemap.xml; feeds internal linking (see below and Sitemap & Liftability).
• Only link to my own website: keeps third-party URLs out of the article's structured data.

Internal Linking

Grandranker builds internal links automatically. With Use all pages from sitemap on, every discovered page becomes a link candidate. Each article links only to the pages that fit its content. The section shows how many pages were found, with a Refresh button and a browsable list. On top of that:

• Additional links: custom URLs to always include as candidates.
• Excluded links: URLs that must never be linked.

Behind the scenes, candidates come from your custom links, your Google Search Console top pages, your sitemap, and previously generated articles; the best-fitting ones are scored and placed, with link counts scaled to article length.

FAQ

Do changes apply to existing articles?

No. Edit existing articles in the editor.

Can I set different settings for one specific article?

Content type, length, and custom instructions can be overridden per keyword from the Content Planner's settings modal.

Where do I change the content language?

The website's language lives in General Settings; additional languages are managed on the Languages screen.

Questions? Contact us at [email protected].