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Get started with Rankvia

Rankvia starts with your website. It analyzes the business and existing content, builds the context it needs for planning, and turns search opportunities into a Content Calendar of pages to create or improve.

This guide takes you from adding your website to your first Rankvia content workflow.

Using Rankvia through Shopify?

Start with the Shopify getting-started guide so Rankvia begins with the correct Shopify store context.

1. Add the website you want to grow

Start by entering the website Rankvia should analyze and manage. Rankvia planning is website-specific, so use the website you want the Business Profile, Content Calendar, and generated content to belong to.

You can add other websites separately. Each website has its own Rankvia planning context.

Free preview and plans: depending on how you entered Rankvia, you may first see the current free-preview or plan-selection flow for that website. Complete the flow shown for that website, then continue with analysis.
Learn about plans and billing

2. Let Rankvia understand the website

Rankvia analyzes relevant public pages across the site to build the business and website context needed for search planning. This includes the business identity, existing pages, products or offers, audience signals, topics, positioning, and conversion context.

Keep the analysis running until Rankvia confirms that the website understanding is ready.

Learn how website analysis works

Why Rankvia analyzes the website first

Rankvia doesn't start from an isolated keyword. Website analysis gives it the context needed to decide what the business should create or improve.

Website Business Profile Planning

3. Review your Business Profile

After analysis, Rankvia organizes the business context it found into the Business Profile. Review the important information before relying on it for planning.

Check Business Details, Audience & Voice, Products & Offers, and Competitors. Correct anything materially wrong or incomplete-you don't need to rewrite every field before continuing.

Learn about the Business Profile

Check these before continuing

Business / brand

Is Rankvia identifying the actual business rather than one product or feature?

Products or offers

Are the important products, services, or offers represented correctly?

Audience

Does the intended customer make sense?

Competitors

Are the confirmed competitors genuinely relevant?

4. Build your Content Calendar

Rankvia combines the Business Profile, existing website, search research, and supported connected search evidence to prioritize opportunities for the site. The Content Calendar turns those opportunities into an actionable plan of pages to create and existing pages to improve.

Learn how the Content Calendar works

Not every opportunity needs a new page

Rankvia can recommend improving an existing page when that page is already the better owner for the opportunity.

Search opportunity
Relevant existing owner?
No: CreateYes: Improve

Optional: add Google Search Console evidence

Google Search Console is not required to use Rankvia. When connected, Rankvia can use supported first-party Google search evidence alongside its existing website and search analysis.

If you already have a Content Calendar, use the supported flow for keeping it or rebuilding it with the additional Search Console evidence.

5. Open an opportunity from the Content Calendar

Choose an opportunity you want to work on and open it to see Rankvia's recommended action and planning. Depending on the opportunity, you may see the topic, Create or Improve recommendation, an existing-page target, schedule or status, and available instructions.

6. Review the Page Plan

Before content is generated, Rankvia creates a Page Plan describing what the page should accomplish and how it should approach the opportunity. Review the target need, Create or Improve action, page type, structure, existing-page target where relevant, internal-link context, and business context.

Learn about Page Plans

7. Generate the content

When the Page Plan looks right, generate the content. Rankvia uses the plan together with the Business Profile, website context, and relevant search research to create the finished draft.

Generation is the execution of the Page Plan-not a separate blank-prompt writing workflow. When the content workflow includes a generated image, Rankvia prepares it as part of the content process.

Learn about generating content

8. Review the finished content

If your workflow uses review-first publishing, review the generated content before sending it to the final destination. Check the title, main content, important business and product context, internal links, featured image when present, and publishing destination details.

If the result reflects incorrect Business Profile or Page Plan context, correct the underlying information rather than repeatedly regenerating without addressing the source.

9. Publish when you're ready

Send content after review to the publishing destination available for the website. WordPress and Shopify are supported publishing destinations. Automatic publishing sends eligible scheduled content through the supported workflow only when it has been explicitly enabled.

Review before publishing

Review finished content and send it when you are ready.

Automatic publishing

Eligible scheduled content can continue only after the supported workflow is enabled.

Your normal Rankvia workflow

Content Calendar
Page Plan
Generate
Review
Publish

You're ready to use Rankvia

  • Correct website added
  • Website analysis completed
  • Business Profile reviewed
  • Content Calendar available
  • First opportunity understood
  • Page Plan ready
  • Publishing path understood

What should I do next?

Started through Shopify?

Shopify handles the store association and Shopify-managed subscription entry. Once you're inside Rankvia, the Business Profile, Content Calendar, Page Plans, and generation workflow follow the same core Rankvia model.

Still need help?

Contact Rankvia support if you can't complete setup for the intended website. Do not include passwords or credentials.

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