Content Plan

Programmatic articles are the core of Ryze’s on-page engine: long-tail landing pages, planned from your data, written in full, and published to your CMS. Each one targets a real keyword and points readers toward the pages you want to rank. Find them under Content Plan in the SEO sidebar.

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At the top of Content Plan

Above the article list, Ryze shows cards for anything that needs your attention:

• Where articles go live — the platform your articles publish to, with Open blog, Change destination, Connect custom domain and Turn on auto-publish. If nothing is connected yet, you see Connect your blog instead: articles are being written, but they have nowhere to go.
• N drafts to approve — shown when Publishing mode is Manual. Nothing goes live until you approve the drafts.
• Recommendations — Add brand reference images and Add writing instructions. Both open SEO → Preferences on the Content tab.
• Problems — N articles didn’t publish (open them on the Failed tab to see why and publish again) and N articles published with warnings (on the Warnings tab: the article is live, but the sitemap, page status or image needs a look).

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Article types

Each month’s topics are split across seven article types. The type is shown as Archetype on the article page:

• Best-N listicle — about a quarter of the plan
• Alternatives
• Vs comparison
• Segment guide
• Integration guide
• Benchmark
• Question page — fills the rest of the plan

Topics come from your keywords, your Search Console queries and pages, your competitors’ top pages and your brand profile. Each planned topic carries a real keyword, search volume, and difficulty — nothing invented.

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Article statuses

You’ll see articles move through states, available as tabs: The Failed and Warnings tabs appear only when they have articles in them. Warnings lists articles that are live but need a look — see Publish.

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How articles get written

You don’t need to start anything. Ryze writes each planned article automatically: the nightly run picks up every article whose scheduled date has arrived and writes its body if it isn’t written yet. With Publishing mode set to Automatic, the article is published in the same run; in Manual mode it waits as a draft for your approval. Want a draft sooner? Click Generate on a planned article (or ⋯ → Generate now in the list). The draft is ready in a few minutes, and the article moves to Drafted. Every article includes:

• Body — a complete article at the length set in SEO → Preferences → Content → Article length: Dynamic (adapts to search intent), 1,200–1,600, 1,700–2,300 or 2,400–2,800 words.
• Meta title and meta description — for search snippets.
• Images — an AI-generated cover plus up to 3 in-article images in your chosen Image style (SEO → Preferences → Content → Visuals). Add reference images there so they match your brand, or turn AI images off to publish without images. You can regenerate or replace the cover on the edit page.

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The article page

Click an article to open it:

• Article score — a score out of 100 based on 9 checks: Optimal content structure, Internal links, External links, Statistics data points, Image alt texts, Semantic keywords, FAQ section, Optimized meta tags and JSON-LD schema.
• Details — Status, Archetype (the article type), Primary keyword and, once published, Live URL. The meta title and meta description are edited on the edit page.
• Search Performance — published articles show impressions, clicks, CTR and average position from Search Console. In the list, the Impressions and Trend columns show the same; click Refresh at the top of Content Plan to update them.
• Improve This Article (on drafts) and Improve Articles (at the top of Content Plan, for the whole plan) open the agent. It reviews the articles and asks you before changing anything.

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Edit an article

Open an article and click Edit (in the list: ⋯ → Edit / Reschedule). The edit page has:

• Title, and on the right a Details card with Slug, Meta title, Meta description and Scheduled date.
• Featured image — Replace, Remove or Regenerate (describe what should change and the AI reworks the image).
• A visual editor for the body: headings, lists, tables, links, and Ryze blocks from the / menu — TL;DR, Stats, FAQ, Quote, Products (pick products from your store) and CTA.

Click Save when you’re done. You can also just ask the agent in chat to make a change. To delete an article that isn’t published yet, open its ⋯ menu and click Delete, then confirm.

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Edit, move or remove a published article

Published articles stay editable in Ryze. Open the article, click Edit and save — then click Publish edits in the banner at the top of the article page to update the live copy. The slug of a live article can’t change; unpublish it first. From the ⋯ menu of a published article in the list you can also:

• Republish — push it again, or move it to another connected platform (optionally removing the old copy).
• Unpublish — remove it from your site and return it to drafts.
• Delete — remove it from Ryze. The Also delete from your platform box is ticked, so the live page is deleted too — untick it to keep the page live. On a Ryze-hosted blog the live copy is always removed.

Ryze warns you if live links — from your other articles or from Backlink Exchange partners — point to the article. Articles published through a custom webhook can’t be removed by Ryze — delete them on your site yourself.

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Scheduling

Ryze plans up to 90 articles per billing cycle and gives each one a publish date automatically — up to 3 a day, on weekdays only — so your content rolls out at a steady pace instead of landing all at once. You control the timing on the article’s edit page:

• Move a date. Change the Scheduled date to publish an article sooner or later.
• Stack a day. Point several articles at the same date for a bigger drop — the nightly run publishes everything that’s due.

With Publishing mode set to Automatic, each night Ryze publishes every article whose date has arrived — today or earlier — and lets future-dated ones wait their turn. In Manual mode, you publish each due draft yourself with Publish now.

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Content calendar

Switch between List view and Calendar view with the two icons at the top of Content Plan. The calendar shows a Week or a Month; each card is an article on the day it goes live, colored by status (published, drafted, planned, failed). Click a card, then View full to open the article. To change a date, open the article, click Edit and change the Scheduled date.

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Can I stop Ryze from creating drafts?

There’s no switch that pauses the content plan. To stay in control:

• Set Publishing mode to Manual in SEO → Preferences. Drafts are still written, but nothing goes live until you click Publish now.
• Delete the planned topics or drafts you don’t want before their date, or move their scheduled dates.
• Ask the agent in chat to remove topics for you.

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Publish

On a Drafted article, click Publish now. A dialog lets you choose where this one article goes live — your workspace default is preselected. Ryze pushes it to your connected store or CMS and, once live, resubmits your sitemap in Google Search Console (this needs Search Console connected) and about 30 minutes later checks that the page opens. The article moves to Published with a link to the live page. If the article is live but something needs a look, it shows Published with warnings at the top of the article page, with Resubmit sitemap or Check page to fix it.

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Where it publishes

What gets pushed: the article HTML, meta title and description, slug, excerpt, and the featured image. Connect a platform under Integrations first — without one, there’s nowhere to publish. Ryze also publishes to HubSpot, HighLevel, Lightspeed, Magento, BigCommerce, Duda, Contentful, Sanity, Directus and any site through a Custom webhook. Each page explains how to connect.

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Choose the publish target

With several platforms connected, pick which one receives your articles in SEO → Preferences → Publishing → Publish to. The gear icon (Settings) at the top of Content Plan opens the same page.

• Publish to — the connected platform that receives generated articles. With a single platform connected, it’s used automatically.
• Override blog URL (optional) — for headless setups (like GitHub) where articles live at a different public address than the CMS itself. Set it and Ryze uses that address for live links, sitemap submission and page checks.

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Manual vs automatic

• Manual — you click Publish now on each draft.
• Automatic (the default) — Ryze publishes drafts on schedule, by their assigned date, at a steady daily pace rather than all at once. Change a draft’s date on its edit page.

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