RankTera User Guide

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• The confirmation email can take a minute to arrive. If it does not, check your spam folder before asking for another one.
• Signing up with Google means there is no password to remember or lose.
• One account can hold several websites, so there is no need to sign up twice for a second site.

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• Add the address people actually visit. If your site answers on www, use the www address.
• The card shows a rank chart once there is more than one day of history, so it stays empty on your first day.
• You can add more sites later from the same New Site button, up to the number your plan allows.

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• Start with the searches you actually want to win, not the ones with your brand name in them: you already rank first for those.
• A keyword is tracked per country. The same words in two countries count as two keywords.
• Not sure what to add? Scan Website for Keywords reads your own pages and suggests keywords for each one.

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• Nothing is tracked until you press an Add button, so you can read the whole list first.
• Stop scan halts a running scan and keeps whatever it has already found.
• Pages that could not be read are usually mostly images or navigation. Rescan helps only if the page itself has changed, and rescanning one page does not use up a full scan.

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• Use the filters above the table to narrow it down: by country, by rank range, by collection, or by typing in the search box.
• A keyword with no rank was not found in the results that were checked. It is not an error, it just means you are not placed yet.
• Export Table downloads what you are looking at, filters included, so you can keep a copy or send it on.

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• In SERP Details, a yellow line with an arrow is your page. If there is no yellow line, you were not in the results that were checked.
• Gemini and GPT list the pages each engine leans on for this keyword, which is a good hint at what to write about.
• Click the arrow again to close the panel and keep the table tidy.

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• Filters stack. Country plus rank range plus a word in the search box all apply together.
• Export after filtering, not before, if you only want part of the list.
• Clearing the search box only undoes the search. If you also picked a country, a rank range or a collection, reset those as well before the whole table comes back.

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• Unselect All clears your choice without touching anything.
• A collection is just a label. A keyword can sit in one collection and be moved to another at any time.
• Deleting a keyword deletes its rank history too. Export first if you want to keep the record.

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• A long range is best for spotting a trend; a short one for checking whether a change you made helped.
• The chart can only draw days it has data for, so a new site shows a short line whatever range you pick.
• Cancel closes the picker and leaves the chart as it was.

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• Three is the maximum on purpose: more columns than that and the table stops being readable.
• Click a chosen competitor again to drop it and free up the slot.
• The keywords compared are your tracked keywords, so add the ones you care about first.

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• Research one keyword per topic, not per page. The result covers the whole subject.
• Each run uses one research credit from your plan.
• Researching a competitor's URL shows you what that single page is built from.

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• A high count means the winning pages lean on that term heavily. It is a target, not a quota.
• Untick terms that belong to a different business. They would only pull your article off topic.
• The ranking pages are real competitors, so their titles are a quick read on how the subject is usually framed.

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• A refresh uses another research credit, so refresh when something changed rather than out of habit.
• Clean-up is a suggestion. Look over what it removed before you write from the result.
• Old runs are kept, so comparing this month with last month costs nothing.

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• If you have already researched the keyword, start from the research screen instead and skip the research credit.
• The country matters. The pages it learns from are the ones that rank in that country.
• Nothing is published anywhere. The article stays in RankTera until you copy or download it.

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• Fetching by URL is the quickest route, and it takes the page exactly as a reader sees it.
• You can leave the page while it works. The article keeps going and is waiting in your list when you come back.
• The original is untouched. Nothing is written back to your website.

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• Edit the text on the left and the counts update as you type, so you can watch a term move into range.
• A term inside its range is enough. Going far past the range reads badly to people and does not help.
• Block type changes a paragraph into a heading, a list or a quote, the same as any normal editor.

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• If you signed up with Google there is no RankTera password to change. Manage it in your Google account instead.
• A password needs an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a number and a special character, and at least 8 characters in total.
• Cancel clears the form without saving anything.

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• Give the smallest role that lets someone do their job. You can always raise it later.
• Content Writer and Keyword Researcher are built for exactly those jobs, so you rarely need Full Access.
• Your plan sets how many team members you can have. The Subscription screen shows how many you have used.

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• The log cannot be edited or deleted by anyone, which is what makes it worth having.
• Searching for a site's address brings back everything anyone did to that site.
• If something disappeared, look for a delete action around the time you last saw it.

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• AI visibility is refreshed weekly on every plan, and it runs on all your tracked keywords.
• Rank tracking and the AI Writer are charged as separate plans, so you can hold one without the other.
• Payments appear on your statement under CODERTO, not RankTera.

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• AI visibility is refreshed weekly whichever checking speed you pick.
• The cheapest plan in each group includes a 14-day free tier with no payment details needed.
• Daily checks are worth it while you are actively changing a page, and rarely otherwise.

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• A screenshot of the screen as it looked saves a lot of back and forth.
• One report per problem travels better than several problems in one.
• Include the keyword or the site address involved, so it can be looked at directly.

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• The reset email goes only to an address that already has an account, so nothing arrives if you mistype it.
• Remember Me is per device. Leave it off on a shared computer.
• Still locked out? Send a note through the feedback form on ranktera.com.