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Rankies FAQ
Practical answers about building and running affiliate comparison sites on Rankies.
Yes. The Settings page includes an "Auto-fill with AI" section where you type a description of what you want your site to compare. Rankies generates a suggested brand name (with 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.
Rankies is a hosted platform for building affiliate comparison and review sites. You choose a niche, add products and affiliate IDs, and Rankies helps generate comparison pages, product rankings, schema markup, click tracking, and a publishable site.
Rankies is built for affiliate marketers, publishers, niche-site operators, and agencies that want to run focused comparison sites without building the software from scratch.
When you create a new site, Rankies generates a queue of comparison-article ideas tailored to your niche. Each day the publishing cron picks the next queued topic, drafts it with AI, and publishes it (or holds it as a draft if you have auto-publish off). You can view, reorder, and add topics from your site dashboard.
By default, yes. Each live site has an auto-publish toggle that drafts and publishes one article per day from your queued topics. You can turn auto-publish off at any time from Site Settings, which keeps new drafts waiting for your manual review before anything goes live.
Yes. When you complete the site creation wizard, Rankies generates a brand logo and a niche-themed hero image for your site in the background — no graphics software or design skills needed. If you want to replace the generated logo later, you can do so from your Site Settings at any time.
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.
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.
Yes, on Pro and Studio. The auto-refresh feature re-drafts published articles that are more than 90 days old (roughly quarterly), updating the content, rankings, and the freshness date in the title so pages stay current without manual effort. You can toggle auto-refresh on or off per site from Site Settings. Free sites are static between manual edits.
House picks are products you own, operate, or have a direct partnership with. On Pro and Studio plans you can add them to a site so the AI drafter features them in relevant comparison articles with a transparent disclosure. Sponsor blocks are a separate banner that appears on every public page of your site, linking to a sponsor destination of your choice — also a Pro and Studio feature.
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. Each site in your dashboard includes a traffic chart showing page views over time. You can switch between Day, Week, Month, Year, and Lifetime views to see visitor trends. Affiliate and sponsor click counts are tracked separately and also appear in the dashboard.
Yes. Rankies provides the comparison-site software and tracking tools, but you normally use your own affiliate IDs from networks such as Amazon, ShareASale, Impact, or direct partner programs.
You can use affiliate IDs from most major networks and direct programs, such as Amazon Associates, ShareASale, Impact, and partner programs you join directly. Rankies provides the comparison-site software and click tracking; the affiliate relationships and commissions stay with your own accounts.
Yes. Rankies tracks outbound affiliate clicks so you can see which comparison pages and products are getting attention. Final commission reporting still lives with your affiliate networks.
Yes. Rankies tracks outbound affiliate clicks, and paid plans let you export that click data as CSV so you can analyze it alongside the commission reporting from 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.
Rankies can create AI-drafted starter content and comparison articles. You should review, edit, and approve content before publishing so the site reflects your actual recommendations and complies with affiliate and search-quality expectations.
Rankies uses per-site publishing limits so comparison sites look like real editorial properties rather than bulk-generated content farms. The goal is steady, reviewable publishing with room for human judgment.
Yes. You can add your own products, adjust rankings, update product information, and edit the published comparison content for each niche site.
Each site can publish up to 30 articles per month on paid plans, with a cap of one published article per day. Free accounts have a lower per-account ceiling of 10 published articles per month across all their sites. That steady daily cadence is intentional, so comparison sites read like genuine editorial properties rather than bulk-generated content.
AI drafting is pooled across your account each month: 30 drafts on Free, 300 on Pro, and 1,500 on Studio. Drafts are separate from publishing, so you can generate, review, and edit before anything goes live.
Bulk article and product import is included on the Studio plan, which is handy when you are migrating an existing catalog or launching several niches at once. Pro and Free accounts add products and content individually.
Yes. Paid plans support custom domains, and Rankies handles the hosting and SSL setup after the domain is pointed correctly. Free sites can use a Rankies subdomain.
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, pick a niche, and add your products and affiliate IDs. From there you can generate comparison pages, adjust rankings, and publish. The free plan lets you test a niche before upgrading, so most people start there and move up once a site is working.
There are three tiers: a Free plan for testing a niche, Pro at $29/month, and Studio at $79/month. Pro and Studio are also available annually at $290 and $790, which works out to two months free versus paying monthly.
The main differences are how fast you can create sites, how much AI drafting you get, and branding. Free is for testing on a Rankies subdomain. Pro ($29/mo) lets you spin up 25 comparison sites per day, 300 AI drafts per month, custom domains, and removes Rankies branding. Studio ($79/mo) raises that to 100 sites per day, 1,500 drafts per month, bulk article and product import, and priority support.
Yes. The free plan is meant for testing a niche before you commit. It lets you create up to 5 sites per day, draft up to 30 articles per month, and publish up to 10 per month, on a Rankies subdomain. Custom domains and the removal of Rankies branding come with the paid plans.
Yes. Pro is $290 per year and Studio is $790 per year, each roughly two months cheaper than paying month to month. You can switch between monthly and annual from your account.
Rankies uses a daily creation cap rather than a total-account limit, so your sites accumulate over time with no overall ceiling. Free accounts can create up to 5 sites per day, Pro up to 25 per day, and Studio up to 100 per day.
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.