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Content calendar
A rolling month of articles planned from your own search data, written on the day each one is due, and sent where you publish.
How it works
Where the plan comes from, and what it needs to get started.
- The content calendarA rolling month of articles planned from your own search data, written on the day each is due, and sent where you publish. What it does on its own, and where you stay in the loop.
- Setting up your calendarThe four stages before a plan exists, correcting the brief Rankbench drafts from your site, and what the first build produces.
- Where the keywords come fromThe four bands on the Keywords page, the sources behind each keyword, how each one is judged before it is planned, and one keyword per day.
Working through a month
Reading the grid, steering a draft, and editing what comes back.
- Reading the calendarThe month grid: what each day carries, every button label, the day menu, moving a day, and what you see while an article is being written.
- Steering a day before it is writtenThe day panel: changing the topic and shape, correcting the brief, answering the interview questions, and leaving instructions the writer follows.
- The day page and the editorReading a finished draft with the evidence behind it, editing it, choosing its cover, writing it again, and sending it where you publish.
- Refreshing your topicsThe one button that re-plans the month, the three things you can change on the way, and what survives a refresh.
Getting it published
Connecting your CMS, publishing, and setting the house style.
- Connecting where it publishesThe platforms Rankbench publishes to, adding a connection, draft versus live, and the webhook for anything not on the list.
- Connecting WordPressStep by step: create an application password, connect it, test it, and fix each message the Test button can show.
- Publishing and what happens nextThe two ways an article goes out, the statuses it passes through, what happens when publishing fails, and how to stop the whole thing.
- Brief and settingsThe brief every article is written against, the four decisions that shape the writing, and the rarely-touched settings folded underneath.
- PicturesOne place for everything about the pictures in your articles: the look, the cover, the pictures inside, a note for the artist, and a preview on your next article.
Afterwards
Everything the calendar has written, and the pages worth rewriting.