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Practical answers about building and running affiliate comparison sites on Rankies.
Yes. The "Auto-fill with AI" panel is available both when creating a new site and later in Site Settings — type a description of what you want your site to compare, and Rankies generates a suggested brand name (plus nine alternatives to choose from), a tagline, niche label, audience description, and competitor URLs. The fields are pre-filled for you to review and adjust before saving.
Yes. In Site Settings you can set a primary color (used for your navbar) and an accent color (buttons, rankings, highlights) using a color picker or a hex code. There is also a 'Try a theme' button that cycles through 20 curated color palettes so you can preview different looks before saving. You can switch the color scheme any time without affecting your published articles.
Rankies is a managed comparison-site service for publishers with an existing audience. It combines hosted comparison pages, an editor for products and rankings, exact affiliate-link routing, schema markup, conservative click tracking, and an AI editorial review by Higgins.
Rankies is best for publishers, newsletter operators, media brands, and agencies that already have an audience and want a focused product-comparison property without building the publishing stack themselves.
When a site is created, Rankies proposes five comparison-article ideas tailored to the niche. A paid site can draft the next queued topic on its publishing schedule; the resulting article remains subject to the Higgins AI editorial review and your site settings.
Paid sites can enable automatic drafting and publishing. A new article is only eligible to publish after Higgins approves it. Turn automatic publishing off in Site Settings to keep approved work as a draft for your own final decision. Free previews never publish publicly.
Yes. During setup you can ask Rankies to generate a logo and niche-themed hero image, then change the logo, colors, tagline, and other brand settings later from Site Settings.
Yes. The Rankies landing page includes a free niche finder: paste in your existing website URL and it scans your content for keywords, then suggests five comparison-site niches you would be well-positioned to build. Anonymous visitors get one scan; creating a free account unlocks more scans and saves your proposals to your dashboard so you can launch a site directly from any suggestion. From your dashboard you can also refresh any suggestion set to get a fresh round of niche ideas — up to three refreshes per scan.
Yes. Each niche suggestion includes an estimated monthly search volume, a competition level (low, medium, or high), and an opportunity score that weighs traffic potential against competition. This helps you quickly compare niches before committing to building a site. Keyword data is sourced from search advertising data and cached to keep scans fast.
Managed Site and Portfolio can refresh older published articles on a roughly quarterly schedule. Refreshed copy returns through the Higgins AI editorial review, and you can disable automatic refresh in Site Settings. A refresh is not a guarantee that merchant facts or offers remain current, so important claims still need owner oversight.
House picks identify products you own or have a direct commercial relationship with. They use the same ranking criteria as every other product and receive no automatic ranking preference. Sponsor blocks are displayed separately from editorial rankings with disclosure. Both are managed-plan features.
Yes. When creating a new site or editing an existing site's settings, a dropdown lets you copy a saved sponsor block or house picks from any other site you own. This saves time if you run a portfolio of related comparison sites and want to carry the same commercial relationships across them. The option appears automatically when you have at least one other configured site.
Yes. Each site has a GA4 ID field in Site Settings. Enter your Google Analytics 4 measurement ID and Rankies will include the tracking snippet on all public pages of that site.
Yes. The dashboard shows directional page-view and outbound-click trends. Page views come from a browser beacon and product clicks require a same-site referrer; known bots are excluded where possible. These counts are conservative operational metrics, not a substitute for GA4 or affiliate-network attribution.
Yes. You normally bring approved affiliate relationships or direct merchant URLs. Rankies stores the exact outbound destination for each product and tracks qualifying on-site clicks; commission reporting remains with the merchant or affiliate network.
Rankies accepts an exact outbound URL for each product, so it can route to major affiliate networks, direct merchant programs, or a normal vendor page. You are responsible for the affiliate relationship, approved tracking parameters, and program compliance.
Yes. Rankies records outbound product clicks that originate from the same comparison site and excludes known automated traffic where possible. Treat the dashboard as a directional on-site count; definitive commission and attribution reporting remains with your affiliate networks.
Yes. You can cancel your Rankies subscription. Paid access normally continues until the end of the current billing period, then the account follows the site subscription policy.
Yes. Rankies can accept valid coupon codes during signup or checkout when a promotion is active.
Yes. Upgrades take effect immediately and are prorated for the rest of your billing period. Downgrades apply at the end of the current period, so you keep your higher-tier access until then.
If a renewal payment fails, your account enters a grace period of about 14 days while you update your payment details. If it is not resolved in that window, the account moves to the Free plan rather than being deleted, so your data is preserved.
Cancellations and downgrades take effect at the end of the current billing period, and your account then follows the Free-plan limits. Your sites and data are retained for a period after that before any deactivation, so nothing disappears the moment you cancel.
Refunds are handled on a case-by-case basis. If something is not working as expected, contact support and we will look into it and make it right where appropriate.
You get a hosted comparison site, five launch-article ideas, an editable cornerstone draft, product and ranking controls, exact outbound-link fields, schema markup, click tracking, and a Higgins AI editorial review before publishing. Paid setup also includes domain and launch configuration.
The Free plan provides one private preview. Managed Site is $399 to set up plus $49/month, or $490/year. Portfolio is $999 to set up plus $149/month, or $1,490/year, and supports up to five sites. The setup fee and first subscription period are charged at checkout.
Yes. Managed Site and Portfolio include custom-domain hosting and SSL. You enter the exact merchant or affiliate destination for each product, so the relationship and tracking parameters remain under your control.
A new site starts with five launch-article ideas and an editable cornerstone draft. Timing depends on your product links, domain setup, and editorial approval; Rankies does not promise an instant or unattended launch.
Rankies fits publishers, newsletter operators, media brands, and agencies that can send relevant readers to product comparisons. It is not a traffic guarantee, general website builder, ecommerce checkout, or get-rich-quick product.
Yes. You control the niche, products, rankings, outbound links, edits, publishing decisions, and domain strategy. Rankies supplies the hosted workflow and AI-assisted drafting and review.
No. Rankies supplies a technically sound comparison-site workflow, but traffic, rankings, approvals from affiliate programs, and commissions depend on your audience, promotion, niche, offers, and content quality.
You can edit products, rankings, copy, and exact outbound links; review conservative traffic and click counts; and request refreshed drafts as offers change. Managed sites are designed to improve through real audience feedback, not bulk publishing.
Rankies creates AI-assisted drafts. Higgins, Rankies' AI editorial agent, then checks niche fit, unsupported claims, disclosure language, and ranking integrity before the content can publish. Higgins is not a human reviewer, and you remain the final decision-maker.
Rankies is designed for focused, reviewable comparison publishing rather than bulk content generation. Every new draft must pass the Higgins AI editorial gate, and account limits keep the managed workflow reliable.
Yes. The article editor lets you add or remove products, change ranks and labels, edit verdicts and page copy, and set the exact outbound affiliate or merchant URL for each product. Saving an edit sends the article back through review before publishing.
The launch workflow proposes five article topics and produces an editable cornerstone draft. Further drafting uses the monthly plan allowance and every article must pass editorial review; Rankies does not sell an unlimited bulk-content feed.
Free includes one AI draft. Managed Site includes up to five AI drafts per month, and Portfolio includes up to 25 per month. Drafts do not publish until they satisfy the Higgins AI editorial gate and the site's publishing setting.
Not currently. Rankies intentionally uses an article editor and exact per-product links so each recommendation can be checked before publication. If you have an existing catalog, contact support before purchasing to discuss the migration scope.
Yes, on Managed Site and Portfolio. Rankies handles hosting and SSL after the domain is pointed correctly. The Free plan is a private dashboard preview and does not include a public site or custom domain.
On a paid plan, add your domain in your site settings and point it to Rankies as instructed. Once the DNS resolves correctly, Rankies handles the hosting and provisions SSL automatically. Free sites run on a Rankies subdomain.
Create a Free account to build one private preview. Choose a focused niche, inspect and edit the initial draft, and add exact product destinations. Upgrade to Managed Site when you want domain setup, public publishing, ongoing hosting, and the managed editorial workflow.
Free includes one private preview. Managed Site is $399 to set up plus $49/month or $490/year for one public site. Portfolio is $999 to set up plus $149/month or $1,490/year for up to five public sites.
Free is a private one-site preview with one AI draft. Managed Site adds one custom-domain public site, five monthly AI drafts, Higgins review, hosting, and quarterly refresh eligibility. Portfolio provides the same managed workflow across up to five sites with 25 monthly AI drafts and priority support.
Yes. Free is a private proof-of-concept: one site preview and one AI draft. It does not include public publishing, a custom domain, or ongoing automated publishing.
Yes. Managed Site is $490/year and Portfolio is $1,490/year, in addition to the one-time setup fee. Monthly billing is $49 and $149 respectively.
Free and Managed Site each support one retained site. Portfolio supports up to five retained sites. These are total account limits, not daily creation quotas.
Yes. Rankies generates structured-data (schema) markup for your comparison and review pages so search engines can better understand your rankings, products, and ratings. It is applied automatically as part of publishing.
Rankies gives you the technical foundations that help, such as clean comparison pages, schema markup, fast hosting, and custom domains. Rankings themselves depend on your niche, the quality and originality of your content, and competition, so we cannot guarantee a specific position. The platform is built to support good SEO, not to promise it.
If a site gets stuck in 'Generating…' or shows an error message, Rankies will automatically resume it after a service restart if it was interrupted recently. If you see a 'Retry generation' button on the site page, click it — your niche brief, brand name, and settings are saved so the process picks up without losing your work.
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