The day page and the editor

Review & publish on a written day opens the day page: the article on one side, the controls and the evidence on the other.

Nothing has left Rankbench at this point, and nothing will until it is sent.

Before it is written

Two states you may land on instead.

"This one has not been written yet" on a day that is due but not yet run.

"Not yet — this one opens on its scheduled day" on a future day, which is the same rule the grid enforces.

The editor

The title, the article body, and an outline that builds itself from your headings.

It is a rich editor rather than a raw text box: formatting, links, images by URL, and comparison tables. Links are restricted to safe schemes, and images have to be served over HTTPS.

Alt text is checked. Images missing a description are flagged, because that is both an accessibility problem and one of the things the site audit will raise later.

The evidence

The panel that makes this worth reading rather than skimming.

Search Console queries it answers lists the searches behind the article. Where there were none, it says so and explains that the article was planned from your site alone.

The instructions and interview answers that were applied. Where you gave none, it says so, and points out that adding your own experience is the single biggest thing that makes an article unlike anyone else's.

Read the draft against this. An article whose evidence is thin usually reads thin.

The cover

Every article gets a picture at the top, made when the article is written.

If it is wrong, Not the one? → Redraw the pictures draws a new cover and new pictures in your current style without touching the words. See pictures.

Writing it again

Write this article again discards the draft and writes it fresh. It warns first, because it replaces everything below including your edits, and asks you to confirm or keep the one you have.

Worth doing after you have corrected the brief or answered the interview questions, and not much use otherwise: the same inputs produce a similar article.

Sending it

If a CMS is connected, choose where it goes and whether it goes as a draft for you to approve or straight live. The default came from the connection and can be overridden for this one article.

If nothing is connected, the page offers to set that up and brings you back here afterwards to finish. See connecting where it publishes.

When it is locked

Three states where editing is held.

While Rankbench is writing it, which unlocks as soon as the draft lands.

While it is going out to your CMS.

While the last change finishes saving.

When no writer is configured

On an installation without an AI provider set up, the calendar still plans and still produces a day page, but the body is a brief rather than a finished article, and it says so: "This is a content brief, not a finished article."

Where to go next

Publishing and what happens next covers what happens after it is sent. Covers and the pictures inside covers the images.