Articles & Editor

Articles are what the Content Engine produces: full SEO-optimized posts with images, internal links, FAQs, and structured data, ready to publish to your CMS. The Articles page (app.grandranker.com/articles, reachable via View Articles on the dashboard) lists everything Grandranker has written; each article has a detail page and a full editor.

How an article gets written

When a keyword's scheduled day arrives (or you hit Generate on the calendar), Grandranker runs a multi-phase pipeline:

1. Research: web research, SERP analysis of what already ranks, search-intent classification, plus your product data on e-commerce sites.
2. Plan: outline, title, meta description, URL slug, and FAQs.
3. Write: the article itself, then checks for brand positioning, competitor differentiation, factual accuracy, fluency, and word budget.
4. Enrich & assemble: internal links, external links, YouTube videos, a hero image and in-article images, table of contents, JSON-LD schema, and an SEO score.

If Auto-publish is on and a CMS integration is connected, the finished article publishes on its own. Otherwise it waits as a draft.

The articles list

Columns: Cover, Title, Target Keyword, Stats (difficulty and volume), Status, Date. Filter with the search box and the Status dropdown: All, Draft, Published, Publish failed, Failed, Needs refresh.

Statuses you'll see:

• draft: generated, not yet on your site. Drafts with a future publish date show as scheduled.
• published: live; the article page links to View live on your site.
• Publish failed: the CMS rejected the publish; the article page shows exactly why (for example an expired token or a Cloudflare block) with a fix action and retry.
• Needs refresh: Search Console data shows the article is underperforming (rankings dropped, clicks dropped, no traffic, or lots of impressions but almost no clicks). For the low-CTR case a one-click Fix title & meta action rewrites the search snippet and republishes.

The article page

The detail page shows the rendered article with a sidebar:

• Status & Actions: Edit, Publish to Website (or Unpublish Article), Delete Article, and downloads: Markdown (.md) and Optimized for Google Sites.
• SEO Settings: URL Slug, Meta Title (60-character guide), Meta Description (160-character guide).
• Article Score: click Analyze Article for a 0-100 SEO score broken into factors: Title Optimization, Meta Description, Content Structure, Keyword Usage, Readability, Link Quality, Media & Images.
• Cover Image, Target Keyword, History (every edit, publish, and restore point), and Webhook History.

The Share button opens ready-made social posts for the article.

The editor

Edit opens a full rich-text editor. It supports headings (H1-H4), bold/italic/underline/strikethrough, highlights, links, images, aligned text, lists, blockquotes, code, tables (with Bordered, Striped, Minimal, and Colored Header styles), video embeds, and callouts. Select text for a floating format bar; click an empty line's plus button to insert images, headings, lists, quotes, tables, or dividers.

Below the content you can manage the article's FAQs and Image Captions; the sidebar sets the Publish Date shown on the article and its Category (existing categories are suggested; WordPress categories are pulled from your site).

Changing an image opens the image picker with four tabs: Media Library, Upload, Stock Photos, and AI Image.

Publishing

Publish to Website sends the article to your connected integration. See the Integrations overview. With no integration connected, publishing marks the article published locally and prompts you to connect one. After your first successful publish, Grandranker offers to Publish all remaining drafts. Scheduled drafts publish automatically each day when their date arrives, and failed publishes are retried.

Unpublish Article removes the post from your website and reverts it to draft.

FAQ

Can I edit an article after it's published?

Yes. Edit and save, then publish again. Grandranker updates the existing post on your CMS rather than creating a duplicate.

Why is my article a draft when auto-publish is on?

Either its scheduled publish date is in the future, no integration is connected, or the publish failed. The article page tells you which and how to fix it.

What does "Needs refresh" mean?

After a refresh, Grandranker verifies the outcome about a month later and marks whether performance improved.

Can I write in an article style of my own?

Yes. Set the writing style, length, tone, and more in Article Settings, and per-article overrides on the Content Planner.

Questions? Contact us at [email protected].