AI Content Editor

The AI Content Editor is Rankion's content workshop. You start with a keyword, get a fully generated article, have it scored against SEO and GEO criteria, surgically fix weak areas, and publish straight to WordPress or Shopify — without switching browser tabs. Built for content teams, solo operators, and agencies that want their content not just to rank on Google, but to be citable in ChatGPT and Perplexity.

What it can do

• AI article generation — Full articles from a single keyword. Optionally with outline, tone, target length, style profile, and content goal.
• Quote guard — Rankion removes quotes it cannot verify from any AI-generated text before it is saved. To include a genuine quote, add it yourself, together with its source.
• SEO+GEO scoring — Two scores per article: classic SEO signals (headings, keyword distribution, meta) plus GEO signals (citability, factual density, semantic entities).
• Optimize — Targeted improvement of weak score areas. No full rewrite — surgical edits.
• Versions — Every generation and optimize round is versioned. Restore with one click.
• Repurpose — Turn one article into LinkedIn posts, Twitter threads, Instagram captions, newsletters, YouTube scripts, TikTok scripts, or Facebook posts.
• Publish — Post directly to connected WordPress or Shopify instances via your saved CMS integration.
• Internal linking — Suggestions for internal links between your articles based on semantic proximity.
• Freshness — Periodic check whether articles are getting stale (dates, tools, statistics). History included.

When to use

• You need a first draft for a keyword in under 90 seconds.
• You have existing articles that don't rank on Google or aren't cited in ChatGPT.
• You want social posts from a long-form article without copy-paste.
• You run multiple brands/style profiles and want to enforce stylistic consistency.
• You need a repeatable workflow keyword → article → score → publish without switching CMS.

Workflow

1. Pick or create a project — every article belongs to exactly one project.
2. Submit a keyword — POST /articles/{id}/generate with {keyword, article_type, target_length, tone, language, style_profile_id, content_goal_id}. Runs as a queue job (see Long-Running Pattern).
3. Check the score — POST /articles/{id}/score returns SEO and GEO subscores with findings.
4. Optimize — POST /articles/{id}/optimize works through the findings.
5. Repurpose (optional) — POST /articles/{id}/repurpose with or without format.
6. Publish — POST /articles/{id}/publish with cms_integration_id. Returns 409 if a publish is already running.

Import existing articles: If your website already has posts, you do not have to write them again. In the page header of the article list, next to New article, you find the button Import existing articles — even when the project already contains articles. It scans the website for existing blog articles; you then choose what to take over. Imported articles then follow the same path: score, optimize, freshness.

Quotes without a source get removed: Fabricated experts and made-up claims are the most common reason an AI-generated text becomes unusable. Rankion therefore does not let them stand. If a generation or optimization run finds a quote for which no verifiable source exists, it disappears from the text, and a notice appears above the article: One quote without a verifiable source was removed. Click Show to see every affected quote with its attribution and the reason; if a later check run did find a matching source after all, it appears there under Source found. Insert with source opens the Insert quote with source dialog, where you enter Wording, From whom or where, and a Link to the source — the link is recommended, because it lets readers and AI search systems recognize the source. The article list shows how many quotes were removed for each article; the details are in the editor.

Step-by-step with screenshots: First Article. Deep dive on optimization: Optimizing Content.

API

Full body structure and response examples: Article API.

Credits & Limits

• Generate: 5 credits per article
• Repurpose: 3 credits per format bundle (all formats at once = 3, individual = 3)
• Internal-linking analysis: 5 credits per project run
• Score / Optimize / Publish / Freshness: no credit cost (only internal AI model cost)
• Standalone Generate (/generate/article, no project required): 5 credits

Generate and Repurpose run as queue jobs. You receive HTTP 202 with a job ID and poll via the UI or status endpoints.

Related modules

• Keyword Explorer & Research — provides the keywords you feed into Generate.
• AI Visibility Tracking — measures whether your generated articles are cited in ChatGPT/Perplexity.
• Agentic Chat — can orchestrate Generate, Score, and Repurpose ("Write me 5 articles about X and publish them on blog Y").
• Guide: First Article