Editorial planning
SEO editorial plan: choose AI engines on editorialPlan
Before you approve an SEO editorial plan in RankAI, open editorialPlan and confirm which AI engines you are actually observing. The page ties approval to the engines RankAI measures, so nothing outside that scope slips into the plan.
Before you approve an SEO editorial plan in RankAI, open the editorialPlan page and check which AI engines you are observing. That is where you tie the approval of a plan version to the engines RankAI actually measures, so you do not mix them up with engines outside the scope. In practice: you have a draft plan, human approval is the default setting, and you need to decide which AI engines to read signals from before you sign off. Make that choice inside editorialPlan, because that page is what connects the SEO editorial plan and its approval to the engines RankAI observes.
What we observe and what stays out
RankAI's public pages name ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok and Google AI. Claude and Grok are measured only after you connect them. Gemini and Google AI Overviews are not the same observation: treat them as two separate entries, not as a single engine. That is the scope you can select in editorialPlan. Anything not on this list is not observed by RankAI, so do not put it in the plan as if it were.
How to choose engines before you approve
The following is a suggested workflow from RankAI, not a universal standard. Adapt it to your plan.
- List the engines available in editorialPlan. Check: the list shows only ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok and Google AI, and Claude and Grok are selectable only if they are connected. If an engine is not on the list, it is not observed and does not belong in the plan.
- Keep Gemini and Google AI Overviews apart. Check: the plan keeps the two entries separate, with separate observations. If someone merges them into one line, fix that before you go further.
- Check the connection status for Claude and Grok. Check: the entry is active only if the connection exists; otherwise it stays out of the plan. Do not force the selection of an engine that is not connected.
- Review the approval setting. Check: human approval of a version is on by default. Automatic publishing is turned on per site and still goes through the checks. If it is on, confirm that is what you want for that site before you approve.
- Approve only after you confirm the list. Check: the approved version shows the selected engines and no engine outside the list. If the list changes after approval, you need a new version.
The tricky part of using editorialPlan is not treating engine selection as a technical detail to leave until the last minute. Our suggestion is to read the page as a gate: first you lock in the list of observed engines, then you approve the plan version. In practice, note next to the draft which entries are active and which are not, so the person approving sees the same picture as the person who prepared the plan. A common mistake is assuming that an engine named on the public pages is automatically connected. That is not true for Claude and Grok, which are measured only after you connect them. Another mistake is confusing Gemini with Google AI Overviews and writing a single observation in the plan: they are two separate entries and must stay separate in the selection too. Finally, remember that human approval of a version is the default behavior. Automatic publishing is an exception per site and still goes through the checks, so do not turn it on out of habit. Running these three checks before approval keeps the SEO editorial plan consistent with what RankAI actually observes.
A limit to keep in mind
RankAI observes the engines listed on the public pages and, for Claude and Grok, only after you connect them. We do not observe other engines, and we should not present them in the plan as if they were measured. Also, an API response is not a person's screen: read the signals with that limit in mind. For the full picture of the page and its controls, see the detailed page.
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