Publishing and the live check

An approved article is published by you, on your own site, in your own CMS. Rankbench never publishes to your site. What it does is check the result.

Publishing it

The article page says what to do: the article is approved, publish it on your site, paste the live link, and Rankbench confirms it.

Publish it the way you publish anything. Nothing about the process is special.

Submitting the live URL

Submit live URL takes the address of the published page.

One thing worth knowing about what this does not do: submitting a live URL starts the publication validation path and nothing else. It does not create a backlink exchange, and it does not commit you to anything beyond the article you just published.

There is also an optional public publication note.

The check

Rankbench opens the page and looks at four things.

Whether the page can be reached at all.

Whether it is indexable, or whether it tells search engines to ignore it.

Whether the content matches the article that was approved.

Whether the agreed links are there, pointing where they should, with the wording that was agreed.

A pass is reported plainly: the live page checks out and the links are verified. A run that found problems reports the results rather than a verdict.

When a check fails

The failures are specific, because the specific thing is the fix.

A link is missing. Usually the CMS stripped it, or the paste lost it.

The wording changed. Someone edited the anchor text, which matters because the wording is part of what was agreed.

The page is not indexable. A draft published as noindex, or a staging setting that came across.

The page cannot be reached. A wrong URL, or a page still private.

The content does not match. Usually a partial paste.

Fix it on your site and run the check again.

What a pass sets in motion

The article's status becomes verified live. It joins the author's Content Library as confirmed work. The author is notified.

The check is a record of the page as it was published. Guest post pages are not rechecked on a schedule afterwards; links exchanged through the backlink exchange are.

The habit worth keeping

Submit the URL the same day you publish. The check is quick, and the failures it catches are the ones that are cheap to fix while the article is still fresh in your mind and expensive to fix a year later.

Where to go next

Reviewing a submission covers the step before. The Content Library is where verified articles end up.