Content Intelligence

Prefer a visual walkthrough? Open the Content Intelligence guide, inventory and cannibalization guide, competitor portfolio guide, or page monitoring guide.

Content Intelligence looks at a page you own and returns a deterministic readiness score, the evidence behind it, a plain-language brief and, if you opt in, an AI-generated draft. One analysis draws one content_analyses credit from your monthly allowance or your credit pack.

What it does

• Fetches an eligible page through the configured crawl service.
• Extracts headings, links, structured data, and a small set of on-page signals. No third-party HTML is stored raw.
• Scores the page against the same rule engine that powers the audit report, so the numbers stay comparable.
• Returns evidence for every finding: the rule id, where it fired, the citation excerpt, and a confidence label.
• If you opt in, calls the AI provider order from your operator config to produce a brief and (optionally) a draft. The provider selection is server-side; you never see raw provider payloads.

What it does NOT do

• It never publishes anything. Drafts are yours to accept, edit, or dismiss.
• It never crawls arbitrary URLs. The URL must belong to a site you own or a competitor you have added on the Agency tier.
• It never returns raw provider payloads or hidden AI instructions. The app renders a normalized result, and /api/v1 does not expose analysis mutations.

Starting an analysis

You can start an analysis from:

• Sites → any site → Content: pick a page URL from your inventory.
• Report → Fix now / Watch: the recommendation row opens the workflow pre-filled.
• Keyword research → tracked keyword: analyzes the URL that ranks for the keyword right now.
• Google Search Console → any query: analyzes the URL Google surfaces for that query.
• Competitors → Agency competitor page: Agency tier only.

Each entry point deep-links into the same workflow. Every one of them reserves capacity before enqueueing (see Plans, limits & credits); the flow refuses loudly if you are over your cap.

What one credit includes

One content_analyses credit covers:

• one owned-page fetch plus up to three reviewed public comparison pages,
• keyword and search-result evidence available for that run,
• the deterministic score and evidence,
• the plain-language brief,
• and, when opt-in AI is enabled, one draft.

Regeneration draws another credit. Retrying the same URL within the seven-day snapshot window reuses the cached page but still costs one credit for the new score and brief.

Score, evidence, confidence, citations, brief, draft

• Score. Deterministic from 0 to 100. Same rule engine as the audit report.
• Evidence. Each finding names the rule, points at the exact HTML location it fired on, and shows a short excerpt.
• Confidence. high / medium / low. Confidence is a function of page structure quality. It is not vendor spin.
• Citations. Every AI claim cites the URL and excerpt it came from. Uncited claims are not shown.
• Brief. A short, plain-language plan you can share with a writer.
• Draft. Opt-in. The AI provider order in operator config decides who writes it. You accept, edit, or dismiss it. RankMeFast never publishes it automatically.

Opt-in AI processing and retention

The AI brief and draft are opt-in. When you opt in, we send only the excerpts needed to produce the brief. Excerpts are retained for seven days so we can regenerate on request without a second fetch, then purged. Your export and account-deletion controls in Account security still apply and complete inside the documented grace window.

Partial and refunded results

Sometimes Firecrawl or the AI provider degrades. The analysis surfaces what completed successfully with a partial flag. A regeneration is a new analysis and consumes another credit. If the run failed hard before any useful signal, the credit is refunded automatically and the analysis is marked refunded.

Recommendations and 28-day correlations

The brief lists recommendations. You can:

• Accept: moves the recommendation into your outcome loop.
• Dismiss: records the dismissal reason for the correlation window.
• Apply: marks it applied; the outcome loop measures the 28-day before/after correlation on rank, clicks, and impressions.

The correlation is descriptive, not causal. It is the same window we use in the audit report, and the number tells you whether the change moved.

Pro inventory and cannibalization

On Pro and Agency, the workspace opens a page inventory that groups URLs by topic and flags cannibalization pairs (two of your own URLs competing on the same intent). Inventory uses the separate content_inventory_page_blocks allowance: one block covers up to four requested owned pages, rounded up. Whole unused blocks are refunded when the run reaches its terminal state.

Agency competitor portfolio and monitoring

Agency comparisons start with reviewed ranking pages, not competitor homepages. Open a landscape report, check the suggested page and its keyword evidence, then confirm it or enter a same-domain replacement. RankMeFast does not start paid work from a suggestion alone, and an unavailable suggestion is never replaced with a homepage behind the scenes.

A confirmed content run can compare up to 15 reviewed competitor pages with the owned pages you selected. The review shows the page count and units before anything is reserved. RankMeFast keeps derived facts and short excerpts, not raw HTML; excerpts expire after seven days.

Monitoring is a separate choice. “Monitor this reviewed page” opens the existing monitor form, where you confirm the exact URL before using a monitor slot. It does not create a monitor during analysis, and the existing weekly cadence and plan allowance still apply. A dismissed Firecrawl change signature does not re-fire.

You can also open a focused content analysis from a landscape opportunity. The owned URL, keyword, and reviewed competitor page are prefilled, but you still confirm the analysis before it starts.

Managing allowances and the 20-analysis pack

Your monthly content_analyses allowance depends on your tier. See Plans, limits & credits. If you run out mid-month, the 20-analysis credit pack adds twenty single-use credits that never expire and stack on top of the monthly quota.

Troubleshooting

• Access. The URL must belong to a site you own (or an Agency competitor). Otherwise the flow returns "not found" instead of "forbidden", so it does not leak whether the URL exists.
• robots.txt. If your owned page blocks the crawl, the run fails and its credit is refunded. A blocked optional comparison can leave a partial result. RankMeFast never bypasses robots rules.
• Stale GSC. If Google has not yet indexed a URL, the analysis still runs on the fetched HTML but does not correlate against zero GSC data.
• Caps. The flow refuses with a localized message that names the metric (content_analyses). Buy a pack or wait for the reset.
• Provider degradation. Firecrawl or an AI provider outage surfaces as partial or refunded, never as a silent success.

Connecting the MCP surface

If you use Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code, you can drive Content Intelligence from the RankMeFast MCP endpoint. See RankMeFast MCP.

Export and deletion

Every analysis is included in the account export. Deleting your account purges analyses inside the grace window documented in Account security. We never publish anything you have not explicitly accepted.