Tracking your guest posts

My Guest Posts is the list of everything you are writing for other sites, described under the title as "Every article you're writing for another site, and where each one is in its journey." A Start a Guest Post button sits in the header for the next one.

The table

Five columns:

• Title, which opens the article.
• Submitted Organisation, the workspace the destination site belongs to.
• Status.
• Current Version, shown as v{n} and going up by one each time you resubmit.
• Latest Update.

Above the table, a search box reading "Search title, organisation, or status" filters as you type across all three. Next to it, a status filter with six options: All statuses, Imported, Submitted, Changes requested, Approved and Verified live. Those five are the ones worth filtering on day to day, not the full status list. Sorting offers Latest update, Title, Submitted organisation and Status.

Under the table, a disclosure called How this works keeps the four-step explanation from the empty state around: "Each article on the list is somewhere on this path. Open one to see its exact next step."

The statuses, in journey order

These are the ones a writer actually meets, with the label exactly as the badge renders it.

Draft is an article started in the Rankbank editor and not yet sent. Imported is the same stage for an article that came from a Google Doc. Both are fully editable, and both are yours alone.

Submitted means you pressed Send for review and the package is with the destination site. Editing is locked from this point. The site's admins have been notified.

Under review means somebody there has picked it up and pressed Start Review. You get a notification for this too, filed as information rather than as something to act on: "The site has picked it up. Nothing to do — we'll tell you what they decide."

Changes requested means they want revisions before they will publish. Editing reopens. What to do next is When the editors ask for changes.

Approved means they accepted the article. Nothing is required from you. The site now publishes it on their own schedule, on their own site.

Publication pending is the gap between approval and a live link existing. The article is accepted and waiting on the site to put it up.

Live URL submitted means the site has published it and pasted the address back into Rankbank. Your notification for this reads "{title} is live" with "The site published it. We're checking the link now."

Validating is the check itself: Rankbank fetching the live page and comparing it against the approved version.

Verified live is the finish. The page loaded, it is indexable, its content matches what was approved, and every expected link is really there pointing where it should. The article is now in your Content Library.

Two more you may meet:

Rejected means they will not publish this article. The notification is "Your article wasn't accepted" with "They passed on this one. Their notes explain why." It is final for that review, so there is no resubmit path. The note explaining why is on the article page.

Partially verified and Validation failed mean the live check did not come back clean. Some expected links were missing, the page was not indexable, or the published content had drifted too far from what was approved. You get a notification filed under Action needed, and so do the site's admins, because in most cases the fix is on their side.

The article page

Clicking a title opens it, under the line "Your article as we received it — check it over, then follow its progress here."

Three actions sit at the top: Edit article, Review & send →, and, for Google Doc articles only, Re-import from Google Docs.

Alerts stack under those, and which ones you see depends on where the article is:

• Sent for review: "The editors have it now. You can't edit while they read — if they want changes, you'll get a comment here and editing reopens."
• Review outcome: {decision}, carrying their note or "No review note was provided.", and the date.
• It's live!: "We confirmed this guest post is published on the destination site. You'll find it in your Content Library from now on."

Three stat tiles follow: Word count, then either Imported or Started with the date, then either Imported from naming the document or Written in: The Rankbank editor.

The preview panel is headed Your article, with "Every link is highlighted — click one to see where it points."

Where it's been

The panel that answers "what has actually happened to this" is Where it's been: "Versions, the live link once it's published, and our link checks." Three tiles:

• Current source version, the number of the version currently in play.
• Live URL, a clickable address once the site has published, or "Not published yet".
• Latest validation, the outcome of the most recent live check, or "Not validated yet". Underneath it, a line reading "{x} of {y} links verified on {date}."

When a check has run, an alert titled What our check found carries the plain-language summary. Passing looks like "The live page is accessible, indexable, matches the approved content, and contains the expected links." Failures name the reason: "The live page is accessible, but one or more approved links are missing.", "The live page is accessible, but the content does not sufficiently match the approved version.", "The live page is not indexable.", or "The live page did not return a successful HTTP response."

Every validation attempt is kept, not just the last one. A post that failed, got fixed, and passed shows all three moments.

When a post is part of a link exchange

Guest posts can be attached to a link swap. When one is, an extra alert appears reading Exchange status: {status} with one of three explanations:

• Active: "This article is part of an active link exchange. The Rankbank team handles publication and checks from here."
• Cancelled: "The exchange this article was part of has been cancelled. It can be attached to a new one if it still qualifies."
• Otherwise: "This article is attached to a link exchange plan."

That is the guest post's view of it. The swap itself lives in the other module, explained in Link swaps on Rankbank.

Reading the list well

Filter to Changes requested first thing. That is the only status where something is genuinely waiting on you, and it is easy to lose one in a long list.

Approved and Publication pending are waiting on the destination site. Chase those by talking to your contact there, not by pressing anything in Rankbank.

Submitted and Under review need nothing from anyone but time. Resubmitting an already-submitted package does nothing and does not nudge anybody, which is by design.