Ghost integration

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Find the questions customers ask AI. Publish the answers. See if AI starts recommending you.

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  1. Ask
  2. See what you're losing
  3. Publish the answers
  4. Re-ask and show what movedDay 7Day 14

How does Rankli work?

  1. Ask

    Every week, Rankli asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini the questions your customers ask. Perplexity too, on Scale and Agency.

  2. See what you're losing

    You see each question where AI recommends someone else, and who it picks instead.

  3. Publish the answers

    Rankli writes an article aimed at each question you're losing and publishes it to WordPress, Webflow, Shopify or 7 more.

  4. Re-ask and show what moved

    7 and 14 days after each article goes live, Rankli asks its questions again and shows you before and after.

Connected in three steps.

  1. Add a custom integration

    Settings, Integrations, Add custom integration.

  2. Paste the key and API URL

    We prove both halves before anything is scheduled.

  3. Choose published or draft

    Set per connection. Change it whenever you like.

It lands as a finished post.

  1. Title and slug.

  2. Custom excerpt and meta description.

  3. Feature image, uploaded to Ghost first.

  4. Body as HTML, converted by Ghost for its editor.

  5. Published or draft, per connection.

  6. Tags, created when they do not exist.

Questions

The full walkthrough is in the Ghost guide.

Can Rankli get my Ghost site recommended by ChatGPT?

Yes. Every week Rankli asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini the questions your customers ask, publishes a post to your Ghost site for each one you are losing, and asks again 7 and 14 days after it goes live.

Which key does Rankli need?

The Admin API key from a custom integration, in the form id:secret. Rankli signs a short-lived token with it for every request, and the connection test reads your site record so both halves are proven before an article is ever scheduled.

Ghost uses the Lexical editor. Does the formatting survive?

Yes. We send HTML and let Ghost convert it, which is the supported path, and everything we send is headings, paragraphs, lists, links, images and blockquotes. Those all arrive intact, so a Rankli post opens in the Ghost editor like a post your team wrote.

Can I review posts before they go live?

Yes. Publish mode is set per connection: draft puts every article into Ghost for review, published puts it live at its scheduled time. Most people start on draft, read a month of writing, then switch it and stop reading it.

What happens to tags?

Tags come from the article’s own keyword cluster, and a tag that does not exist yet is created. Your archive stays organized without anybody tagging 30 posts a month by hand.

Where does the feature image come from?

Every article is written with a cover and in-article images, and the hero is uploaded to Ghost first and set as the feature image. The alt text comes with it, so the post is complete the moment it lands.

What does it cost?

Growth is $99 a month for 30 finished articles with research, images, publishing and measurement included. 7 days free on every plan. A card starts it; on day 8 it becomes your paid plan unless you cancel, which is one click in the app. Cancel during the trial and nothing is charged.

Ghost, in full

The setup, step by step4 steps
1. Add a custom integrationIn Ghost admin, Settings → Integrations → Add custom integration. Name it Rankli and create it. That screen is also where you delete it, which cuts off publishing and nothing else.
2. Copy the Admin API key and the API URLThe Admin key is an id and a secret joined by a colon; copy the whole string including the colon. The API URL is your Ghost site’s address, and on Ghost(Pro) that may be your ghost.io address.
3. We verify it before anything is sentSaving reads your site record as the connection test, which proves both halves of the key. Rankli signs a short-lived token with them for every request, so the key itself never travels.
4. Choose published or draftPublished puts each article live at its scheduled time. Draft puts it in Ghost for review. Set it per connection and change it whenever you like.
Every field, and where it lands7 fields

Every field below is written by the publisher itself. The full walkthrough is in the Ghost guide.

FieldWhere it goes
TitleThe post title.
BodyThe post content. Ghost stores Lexical; we send HTML and let Ghost convert it, which is the supported path.
SlugThe post slug.
Meta descriptionThe post’s custom excerpt and meta description.
Hero imageThe feature image, uploaded to Ghost first.
TagsFrom the article’s keyword cluster. Tags that do not exist are created.
StatusPublished or draft, per the connection.

Published or draft, per connection. Start on draft and read a month of writing in your own editor before you let it go live on its own.

15 checks before it reaches Ghost11 can stop it

The rules are enforced in code on every article, and the verdict is written on the article itself, so a review is a scorecard rather than a full read.

  • No invented specifics. An unsourced percentage, an academic-style reference, a dated study, a quote attributed to a person: each is a hard failure.
  • Subject coverage. A draft that covers the topic without covering your subject is refused rather than scheduled.
  • 1,500 to 3,000 words, with every section measured, so no heading arrives with two sentences under it.
  • Your banned phrases. A list you set, enforced across the title, the excerpt and the body.
  • Keyword placement without stuffing. In the title, the first hundred words and an H2, under a density ceiling.
  • Internal links to your own pages. Contextual links into real articles and landing pages, never into your terms page or your login screen.

11 of the 15 are hard: a draft that fails one does not reach your site.

Then we measure what the posts didafter it publishes

Your own Search Console

Impressions, clicks and position per published page, and the queries each one actually ranks for, read from Google’s report on your property.

3 AI assistants

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, asked your 50 tracked questions every week on Growth. Scale and Agency add Perplexity.

Asked again after it goes live

Each article's questions are asked again 7 and 14 days after it publishes, with before and after on the article.

A rewrite when it is close

A post on the edge of page one gets a proposed rewrite aimed at the query it is nearest to winning, published back to the same post.

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