Using Rankira

Articles & editor

Review what Rankira wrote, edit it, and rewrite any section with AI.

Content History is the list of everything Rankira has written for you — what’s live, what’s waiting as a draft, and what you’ve archived. It’s also where you open the editor.

Finding an article

Active tab: Everything current — scheduled, written, saved as a draft, and published.
Archived tab: Articles you deleted. Nothing is gone for good; use Restore to bring one back.
Search: Filters by title as you type. Quickest way to find a specific piece once you have a few dozen.
Checkboxes: Select several articles and act on them together — handy for publishing a week of drafts in one go.

What you can do with an article

The available actions depend on where the article is in its life:

Action	What it does
Save to draft	Sends the article to your Shopify blog as a hidden draft. Nothing is visible to customers yet.
Publish	Makes it live on your blog immediately, with its images, links, meta description, and tags.
View in Shopify Admin	Opens the article in Shopify’s own blog editor, for anything you’d rather change there.
Delete	Moves it to the Archived tab. Restorable later.

Read the first few before trusting the rest

Articles are written from your business description, tone, and audience settings. Read two or three closely at the start — if something feels off, it’s almost always a setting worth adjusting rather than text worth rewriting by hand.

The editor

Click an article title to open it. The editor works like any word processor: click into the text and type. Changes save to the article in Rankira — republish to push them to your live blog.

Formatting: Headings, bold, italic, lists, quotes, and links from the toolbar above the text.
Images: Upload your own anywhere in the article — product photos of your actual items usually outperform generated ones.
Video: Paste a YouTube link to embed it. A relevant video keeps readers on the page longer, which search engines notice.
Title and meta description: Editable alongside the body. The meta description is the grey summary under your link in Google results.
URL handle: The last part of the article’s web address. Safe to change while it’s a draft — but see the warning below once it’s published.

Don't rename a published article's URL

Changing the handle after an article is live breaks every existing link to it — backlinks you earned, mentions, bookmarks — and Rankira doesn’t create a redirect. You lose the ranking strength those links were passing, and it takes months to rebuild. Editing the title, body, or images is completely safe; only the handle carries this risk. Full detail in Publishing to Shopify.

Product cards

When an article covers one of your products and your Content goal is Balanced or Sales-driven, the section that recommends it gets a card: the product’s photo, its title, and a button to its page. The card appears in the published post, the preview, and the editor alike, and it is styled to sit on any theme without any setup.

Which product: The one the section is written around. Rankira matches your catalog against the article’s topic before planning, so a card only ever shows a product that genuinely fits. A topic none of your products fit gets no card.
Where it appears: Right after the paragraph that first names the product, never directly next to an image, so it reads as a recommendation rather than an advert. Buying guides and product roundups can carry several; most articles carry one.
The button: View product on Balanced, a plain purchase verb such as Buy now on Sales-driven, written in the article’s language.
The photo: The product’s featured image in Shopify. Rankira re-reads it whenever it renders or publishes the article, so replacing a product photo in Shopify updates the card too.
In the editor: The card is a single block: click to select it, drag it to another spot, or delete it like any paragraph. Its text and button aren’t editable — change the product in Shopify instead.

The product has to be in your link pool

A card links to the product page, and Rankira only links to pages in Link Management › Internal Links. If a product you expect to see isn’t there, add it and the next article can use it. Product links don’t count toward your Internal Links number; that budget is spent on the other pages the article links to.

Rewriting a section with AI

When one section isn’t working, you don’t have to rewrite it yourself. Open the AI Rewriter panel.

Pick the section
The panel lists the article’s sections by heading. Choose the one you want changed.
Say what to change
Use a one-click preset — Shorten it, Simplify it, Make it more detailed, Make it more informative — or type your own instruction, such as “mention our free shipping” or “make it less formal”.
Read it before you take it
The rewrite appears in the panel as it’s generated. Nothing changes in your article until you click Apply. Don’t like it? Try a different instruction — the original stays untouched.

A workflow that scales

Reading every article closely stops being realistic after a few weeks. A practical rhythm:

First two weeks: read every article fully, with publishing set to Save as draft. Fix settings, not sentences.
After that: skim the intro and the headings. If both are solid, the rest usually is too.
Ongoing: once several articles in a row need no edits, switch to publishing directly and check in weekly instead.

Editing in Shopify instead

You can edit an article in Shopify’s own blog editor whenever you prefer. Rankira notices and pulls your changes back in — title, body, tags, meta description, featured image, and whether it’s published or hidden all stay in step. Delete an article in Shopify and Rankira archives its copy too.

Next: how and when articles reach your blog — Publishing to Shopify.