Content Generation
Turn a draft title into a full-length, grounded, SEO-optimized article with AI.
Once an article has a title, RankTurn can write the full piece for you — the body, a meta description, an excerpt, tags and categories, links, and optional media. RankTurn writes using your business information and a set of per-article controls, and it researches the web as it goes so the article cites real sources instead of inventing them.
Starting Generation
- Open the Articles page and pick a Draft article — one that has a title but no body yet.
- Click the article to open it, then choose Generate now.
- In the dialog, leave Use default settings on to use the defaults from your Generation Settings, or switch it off to adjust this article's length, research depth, media, and more.
- Optionally add an instruction for this article in the Additional prompt box (see Tone & Style).
- Click Generate.
Writing happens in the background, so you can leave the page and come back. The article switches to a Writing state and updates as each step finishes. See Progress & Quality below.
Length & Structure
Choose one of four article lengths. Each sets an approximate target and a recommended number of H2 sections; the AI uses these as guidance, not a hard cutoff.
| Length | Approx. target (EN / JA) | H2 sections |
|---|---|---|
| Short | ~1,200 words / ~3,500 chars | 2–3 |
| Medium | ~2,000 words / ~5,500 chars | 3–5 |
| Long | ~3,000 words / ~7,500 chars | 5–7 |
| Super Long | ~4,000 words / ~12,000 chars | 8–12 |
Super Long is a special option that only appears for accounts that have it enabled. If you don't see it, your account uses the standard three lengths.
Structure templates. By default, RankTurn picks a structure that fits the topic — for example, a how-to layout for a step-by-step title, or a comparison layout when the title compares options. You can override this in Generation Settings with a fixed template, or choose Freestyle, which gives RankTurn only the length target and quality criteria and lets it choose the section layout itself.
Tone & Style
There is no separate tone picker. The voice of every article comes from your account settings plus an optional note for the individual article:
- Business context — Your main product, audience, and strategy notes from your Business Profile shape how your product is referenced and what angle the article takes.
- Writing style — The style guide saved in your Generation Settings defines your brand voice and is followed for every article.
- Additional prompt — A free-text instruction for this article only (up to 1,000 characters). Use it for one-off guidance like "focus on beginners" or "include a short comparison with the previous approach." It adds to, rather than replaces, your saved style.
RankTurn will not state or imply pricing, free-trial, or guarantee claims about your product unless those terms are explicitly present in your business information.
Research & SEO
Before writing, RankTurn researches the web for you: it searches, ranks the sources it finds, and uses the strongest ones as evidence. It only states specific facts (numbers, dates, names) when a source backs them up, so your articles stay factual.
- Search-results coverage analysis — A slider with four levels: Off, Light, Balanced, and Full. It controls how thoroughly the article covers the subtopics that already rank for your keyword in search results, and how many sourced facts are added with citations. Off maximizes original depth; Full produces more standardized, well-sourced coverage. Lighter settings leave more room for your own angle.
- People Also Ask FAQ — When enabled, RankTurn pulls the related questions Google shows for your keyword (the "People Also Ask" box) and adds a matching FAQ section. This better matches what searchers are looking for and feeds your FAQ structured data.
- References section — Adds a References list at the end of the article, built from the verified sources used during research (no extra search is run). It's left out automatically when there are no verified sources to cite.
- SEO optimization — When on, the article follows SEO best practices such as keyword frequency, keyword placement (the title, a heading, the opening, the closing), and a clear heading hierarchy. The meta description and excerpt are always generated either way; turn SEO optimization off for newsletters or premium content where you don't want keyword constraints.
Structured data (Schema.org for FAQ, HowTo, and Article) is generated based on your Generation Settings, not in this dialog. The People Also Ask FAQ above feeds the FAQ markup.
Content Decorations
Decorations make the body easier to skim. Most are set account-wide in Generation Settings and apply to every article. They're used sparingly by design, because over-decorating hurts readability.
- Highlights — A highlighter mark on the single most important phrase in a section, in one of four soft colors.
- Callouts — Boxed notes for a genuine tip, warning, or summary, with a fitting icon and color.
- FAQ accordion — Reader questions collapsed into an expandable list at the end of the article. (When a dedicated FAQ is already required — from the People Also Ask FAQ or a guide template — that one is used instead, so it can power your FAQ structured data.)
- More natural writing — An English-only option that trims common AI "tells" from the text: filler openers, empty intensifiers, formulaic contrasts, em dashes, and self-referential commentary. It applies to the body text only and never removes needed structure. It's off by default and has no effect on Japanese articles.
News & Foreign-Language Sources
- Include news — A per-article toggle. When on, RankTurn searches for recent related news and cites the most relevant items, with their source links, to add freshness to time-sensitive topics.
- Foreign-language sources (Japanese articles only) — Set in Generation Settings to Off, Auto (recommended), or Always. For Japanese articles, this draws on overseas (English) primary sources to fill gaps the Japanese web doesn't cover well. With Auto, those foreign sources are used only when they're stronger than the available Japanese sources.
What Gets Generated
A single run produces a complete article package:
- Article body — Headings, paragraphs, lists, and comparison tables where they help.
- Meta description — A search-result snippet, roughly 150–160 characters.
- Excerpt — A short summary for article cards and social sharing, separate from the meta description.
- Tags and categories — Assigned automatically from your existing tags and categories when enabled in Article Settings.
- Internal & external links — Relevant links woven in when enabled. Internal links are checked against your own site so they aren't made up.
- Media — Optional thumbnail, inline images, diagrams, screenshots, and YouTube embeds. See Images, Diagrams, Screenshots & Videos for the full set of controls.
- Promotion card — A call-to-action block inserted from a chosen template, when you have promotion cards set up. See Promotion Cards.
Progress & Quality
A typical article takes about 2 to 10 minutes, depending on how much media you requested (images, diagrams, and screenshots add the most time). While it runs:
- Live progress — You see each step as it happens (researching, writing, generating images, capturing screenshots, SEO and fact-checking) with a progress percentage, so you always know where it is.
- SEO score — After writing, RankTurn scores the article and may make a quick pass to improve it. The final SEO score is shown when it's done.
- Fact-checking — Claims are checked against the sources found during research. Anything questionable is flagged so you can review it in the editor.
- Quality warnings — If something is off (for example, a section came back incomplete, or screenshots couldn't be captured), you get a warning rather than a silent failure. The article still opens for review.
When it's done, the article opens in The Article Editor, where you can revise the body and adjust SEO before publishing.