Using Rankira
Content calendar
Schedule one keyword per day, rearrange by dragging, and generate on demand.
The Content Scheduler is where you see what Rankira is going to write and when. Each keyword sits on a day; when that day arrives, the article gets written and published. That’s the whole model.
Reading the calendar
On desktop you get a month grid, seven columns wide. On a phone the same schedule appears as a scrolling day-by-day list — everything works the same, it just stacks.
- Keyword chips
- The coloured pills sitting on each day. A chip shows the keyword plus its search volume and difficulty.
- Active days
- Days you opened for scheduling. Only these accept keywords, and only these get articles.
- Inactive days
- Greyed out. Rankira skips them entirely — your weekends, if you set it up that way.
- Today
- Highlighted so you can see at a glance what’s coming next.
Choosing your publishing days
Set these in Settings › Publishing under Active scheduling days. Tap a weekday to switch it on or off. Keywords can only be placed on days you’ve switched on.
Publishing every single day isn’t automatically better. Three to five days a week is a healthy, sustainable pace and leaves you room to read what’s being published. Consistency matters more than volume.
Opening a single day
Rearranging the plan
Drag a keyword chip onto a different day to move it. Drop it on a day that already has a keyword and the two swap places. It works with touch, so you can reshuffle from your phone.
Things worth dragging:
- Seasonal topics onto the dates they’re relevant — gift guides well before the holidays, not during.
- Your strongest keywords to the front, so the best articles get indexed soonest.
- A product-launch keyword onto launch week.
To edit a keyword’s wording or remove it, use the menu on its chip. Deleting a keyword frees that day for something else.
Creating an article early
You don’t always want to wait for a keyword’s scheduled day. Click a day and choose Create article to write it now.
- How far aheadtoday + 2 days
- You can generate for today or up to two days ahead. Anything further out waits for its scheduled date.
- Availabilitypaid subscriptions
- Creating articles early is available once your paid subscription is active — during the free trial, articles are generated on their scheduled day.
The article appears in Content History once it’s written. Generation takes a few minutes; you can leave the screen.
What the statuses mean
Each keyword’s chip and each article in Content History carries a status:
- Scheduled
Scheduled — the article is queued for a future date. Nothing has been written yet.
- Created
Created — Rankira has written the article. It exists in the app but hasn’t reached your Shopify blog.
- Saved
Saved — the article is in your Shopify blog as a hidden draft. Customers can’t see it yet.
- Published
Published — live on your blog and visible to everyone.
- Deleted
Deleted — archived. Recoverable from the Archived tab in Content History.
Keeping the calendar full
You shouldn’t have to think about this. Automatic Keyword Generation — in Settings › Publishing, on by default — keeps 25 to 30 keywords queued in your content planner. As articles get written and days tick past, fresh keywords are researched and added behind them.
So the calendar stays stocked on its own. Your job is reviewing what lands there, not topping it up.
Still worth a look every couple of weeks
Adding keywords yourself
Automatic top-ups cover the general case. Reach for Generate keywords or Add keywords when you have something specific in mind — a product launch, a season, a question customers keep asking. See Keyword research for what each option does.
Turning Automatic Keyword Generation off hands the calendar over to you entirely: nothing new is queued, and articles stop once the last scheduled keyword is used. Nothing is lost when that happens — publishing simply pauses until you add more.