Article Metadata, SEO Score & Sidebar

When you open an article in The Article Editor, a sidebar runs down the right side of the screen (it stacks below the editor on smaller screens). This is your control panel for everything around the content: publishing status, SEO metadata, scoring, statistics, promotion cards, and feedback. Each section is its own card, and edits save independently so you can adjust one thing without touching the rest.

The cards are described below, roughly in the order they appear from top to bottom.

Quality Feedback

When an article has freshly generated content and you haven't rated it yet, a feedback card appears at the top of the sidebar asking how the result turned out.

• Click thumbs up to record a positive rating.

• Click thumbs down to record a negative rating and reveal a short form where you can check one or more reasons:

  • Outdated or inaccurate
  • Unnatural writing
  • Confusing structure
  • Unnatural keyword usage
  • Wrong tone
  • Low-quality images
  • Unnatural links

  You can also add a free-text comment (up to 500 characters). Click Submit to send it.

Once you've submitted feedback, the card disappears. This feedback helps improve generation quality over time.

Status & Schedule

The Article Status card shows the current state of the article as a badge — for example Draft, Review, Published, Publish Scheduled, or Generation Scheduled.

If the article is scheduled, a summary appears below the badge:

• Publish Scheduled — shows when the article will go live. Use the X button to cancel the schedule.
• Generation Scheduled — the body hasn't been written yet, but a future publish slot is reserved. You'll see the target publish date plus two actions:
  • Generate now (the lightning icon) — opens the generation dialog so you can write the content right away instead of waiting for the scheduled slot. The article keeps its auto-publish setting and scheduled date.
  • X — cancels the schedule.

Below the schedule info, a delivery status summary shows where the article has been (or will be) published once your platforms are connected. See Publishing & Scheduling for the full publishing flow and Scheduling Articles for how schedules are set.

Publish and Schedule buttons appear directly under this card when the article is ready to publish.

Keyword, Tags, Category & Author

Below the status card you'll find selectors for organizing the article. Each one is independent and saves on its own:

• Keyword — the target keyword the article is optimized around. Choosing a keyword also drives the keyword-density stat and parts of the SEO score. See Keywords for managing your keyword library.
• Tags — attach one or more tags. You can search existing tags or create a new one on the fly.
• Category — assign a single category; search existing categories or create a new one inline.
• Author — assign an author from your account's author list.

Tags, categories, and authors carry through to platforms that support them when you publish — see Article Settings for how taxonomy maps to each destination.

Metadata Form

The Metadata card holds the SEO and publishing fields. By default it's read-only; click Edit to make changes, then Save (or Cancel to discard).

Save one field at a time: the form only checks and saves the fields you actually changed. An old value sitting in a field you didn't touch will never block you from saving an edit to a different field. If you change the slug to one that's already taken, the save is rejected with a notice so you can pick another.

Article Statistics

The Article Data card gives at-a-glance metrics based on your current content:

• Title and body length — character counts for Japanese articles, word counts for English articles.
• Keyword density — the target keyword's share of the body, shown as a percentage (only appears when a keyword is set).
• Headlines — total count of H2–H6 headings, with a per-level breakdown (e.g. H2: 5 H3: 8). The title (H1) is not counted here.
• Links — total number of links in the body.

Below the metrics, quick SEO tips surface when something stands out — for example if the keyword doesn't appear in the body, the keyword density is high, there are no headings, or there are no links. A Generation Data link is also available, showing you the details from when RankTurn wrote the article.

SEO Score

The SEO Score card rates the article from 0 to 100 and breaks the result into six weighted criteria.

To run it, click Evaluate (it becomes Re-evaluate after the first run). The AI reviews the current title, body, target keyword, and meta description, then returns:

• An overall score with a color and label — Excellent (80+), Good (60–79), Fair (40–59), or Poor (below 40).
• A criteria breakdown — each criterion shows its points out of its maximum and a progress bar. Click a criterion to expand its specific feedback.
• Strengths — what the article already does well.
• Suggestions — concrete improvements to consider.
• The date and time of the last evaluation.

The six criteria are:

If the article has no target keyword, the Keyword Usage criterion is shown as skipped rather than scored.

The Evaluate / Re-evaluate button only appears when SEO re-evaluation is available for your plan. When it isn't available, the card still displays a previously saved evaluation but you can't trigger a new run. See Plan Details for what's included on each plan.

Search Performance (GSC)

When Google Search Console is connected and the article is published, a metrics card shows real search performance such as impressions, clicks, and position. See Google Search Console to connect it, and AI Insights (CTR & Content Gaps) for AI-assisted interpretation of that data.

Promotion Cards

The Promotion Card card lets you drop a call-to-action block into the article body from one of your saved templates.

1. Pick a template from the dropdown (your default template is marked with a star).
2. Click Insert Promotion Card to add it to the content at the editor's cursor position.
3. If the article already contains a promotion card, you'll be asked to confirm before inserting another.

If you haven't created any templates yet, the card shows a prompt with a shortcut to the promotion settings page. Templates come in eight visual styles — minimal, featured, banner, gradient, product, split image, image only, and email form — each created and configured in Promotion Cards under Settings.

Publication & Delivery Status

Inside the Article Status card, a delivery summary lists each connected destination the article has been delivered to (or is queued for). See Integrations for connecting platforms.