What is RankIQ?
RankIQ is an artificial intelligence (AI) search engine optimization (SEO) tool (using IBM Watson’s AI technology) built to help you write high-quality content that ranks on the first page of Google quickly. It suggests what target keyword phrases to put into your new posts (or old posts) and title to rank.
The SEO toolset’s interface is very intuitive and easy to use and is designed to help bloggers and business owners write SEO optimized articles quickly and efficiently, rather than be overwhelmed by all the bells and whistles of other ‘all-in-one’ large-scale, comprehensive SEO keyword tools such as Ahrefs and SEMRush.
RankIQ’s Keyword Research Library
One of the core features of Rank IQ is the Keyword Research Library.
This is a hand-picked library of the lowest competition keyword phrases with the highest traffic potential in 136 blog niches by SEO expert Brandon Gaille. This takes the hard work out of trying to come up with your own topic ideas to write about (which may not even rank if you’re a beginner and haven’t yet learnt how to search for keywords that can potentially rank).
If you don’t find your niche listed, you can ask for a list of keyword phrases to be completed for your niche.
If a number of reports are run for the same keyword phrase, it will be deleted off the list, so that you won’t have lots of fellow subscribers on RankIQ all potentially trying to compete for the same keywords. These lists are continually updated.
Some of these niche topics include further sub-topics which gives you many more pages of keyword ideas to target and write about if you have a website or blog covering these niches. These include: Arts/Crafts, Business, Christian, Decor, Dogs/Cats, Fashion, Fitness, Food, Gardening, Health, Home, Mom, Nutrition, Outdoors, Parenting, Personal Finance, Pets, Relationships, Sports, and Travel.
The current list of niche topics are:
- Adult Party Ideas
- Airmiles Loyalty
- Anime
- Arts/Crafts: Balloons, Best Paint for, Concrete, Cricut, Dyeing, Etsy, For Kids Glowforge, Jewelry, Journaling, Machining, Macrame, Pastels, Procreate, Soap Making, Crochet, Embroidery, How to, Knit, Mix, Paint, Quilt, Sew, Woodwork
- Autism / ADHD / Dyslexia
- Automobile
- Beekeeping
- Binoculars / Scopes
- Blogging
- Bodyguard
- Books
- Business: Automation, Customers, Excel, Google Business Profile, Packaging, Productivity, eBay, Entrepreneur, Social Media, Software,
- Career / Jobs
- Career: How to Become
- Cars: Autodetailing
- Christian: Bible, Marriage, Sunday School, Commentary, Mix, Verses
- Cigar
- Collectibles: Star Wars
- College
- Coloring Pages: Adults
- Computers
- Crafts: Silhouette
- Cybersecurity
- Decor
- DIY
- DJ
- Decor
- Decor/Interior Design: Bedroom, Floors, How to, Kitchen, Living Room
- Decor: Lighting
- Dental
- Digital Art / Painting
- Disney/Themeparks
- Disney: Characters / Movies
- Dogs/Cats: Beds, Best for, Doodles, Maine Coon, Puppies, Siamese Cats, Breeds, Can they eat, Comparison, Food, Mix, Questions
- Domestic Abuse
- Education/Teaching: English, Facts for Kids, French, History, Math, Science Spanish
- Electric Rides
- Electric Rides: Bikes
- Endangered Species
- English Lanugage Learning
- Esports
- Essential Oils: Non Medical
- Facts About
- Fantasy Football
- Farming: Animals
- Fashion/Makeup: Nails
- Fashion: Earrings, Hair, How to Wear, Jeans / Pants, Men, Plus SIzed, Purses, Shoes, Spandex, What to Wear
- Fashion/Makeup
- Financial Crimes / Scams
- Fishing
- Fitness: best, exercises, mix, running, workouts, yoga
- Food: Appetizers, Baked Desserts, Bars, Beef, Beer Bread, Breakfast, Cake Making/Decorating, Canning, Chicken, Chocolate, Clean Eating, Cookies, Costa Rican, Cupcakes, Curry, Dominican, Fermented Rcipes, Freeze Dry/Dehydrating, Fruits, German, Gluten Free, Healthy, Holidays + heaps more (73 altogether)
- Forklift
- Foster Parenting
- Freight
- Frugal Living
- Funny
- Gaming
- Gardening: Flowers, Indoor, Succulents
- Gift Ideas
- Graphic Design
- HR / Workplace
- Hair: Curly
- Health: Alcoholism AA, Anti-Aging, Benefits of, Caregiving, Diabetes, Disorders, ED, Elderly, Hair Care, Heart Disease, Hypnosis, Light Therapy, Long Term Care, Marijuana, Menopause + more (23 altogether)
- Home: Backyards, Best Paint for, Fences, Landscaping, Remodeling
- Homeschool: 1st & Up, Kinder, Mix, Preschool, Worksheets
- Homesteading / Composting
- Horses
- HR / Workplace
- Hunting/Guns
- Hunting US Animals
- IKEA Hacks
- Immigration / Citizenship
- Insurance
- Law Enforcement / First Responders
- Luxury Kitchen and Bath
- Luxury Lifestyle
- Medical School
- Mental Health: Children and Teens
- Messianic Judaism
- Mindset/Mindfulness
- Mom: Baby Nursery, Coloring Pages, Cub Scouts, How to, Kids Actviities, Kids Beavior, Kids Jokes and Puns, Picky Eaters, Poems for Kids, Postpartum, Pregnancy / Fertility, Printables, Babies, Cakes, Holidays, Mix, Parties, Pregnancy
- Monessori
- Motion Capture
- Music
- Net Worth
- New Age and Astrology
- Non-Toxic / Eco Friendly
- Notary
- Nutrition: Biblical, Fasing, Benefits, Comparisons, Diets
- On Demand Delivery: Instacart / Uber Eats
- Organization Ideas
- Outdoors: Backpacking, Bicycle Trails, Bikes — Best, Camping Food, Foraging Kids, Mountain Biking, Paddleboarding, Van Life, Camping, Hiking, Kayaking, Mix, TV
- Over: 30 Lifestyle, 40 Lifestyle, 50 Lifestyle
- Paper Crafts
- Parenting: Adoption, Baby Sleep, Breastfeeding, Calendars and Trackers, Labor / Delivery, Twins
- Patriotism
- Period Dramas
- Personal Finance: Annuities, Bookkeeping, Credit Cards, Credit Repair, Cryptocurrency, Debt, ETFs, Estate Planning, Life Insurance, Loans, Paying for College, Real Estate Investing, Retirement, Side Hustles, How Tos, Living, Mix, Taxes, Vs
- Personal Safety / Home Security
- Pest Control: Insects
- Pets: Budgie, Goldendoodle, Guinea Pigs, Rabbit
- Photography
- Podcasting
- Privacy
- Programming
- Project Management / Remote Working
- Public Speaking
- Quotes: Movies
- Real Estate
- Relationships: Dating, Honeymoon, Marriage
- Secular Religion
- Sheds
- Singing
- Smart Home
- Solar Panels
- Songs
- Special Education
- Speech Therapy
- Sports: Basketball, Boating, Football, Martial Arts, Other, Pickleball, Roller Skating, Tennis, Ultrarunning, Golf
- Survival
- Tattoos
- Tech: Remote Controls, Streaming Media
- Tests: SAT and ACT
- Tiny Home
- Travel Insurance
- Travel: Australia, Barbados, Bay Area, California, Caribbean, Croatia, Ecuador, Florida, Germany Greece, Guatemala, Hudson Valley, Key West, Mexico, Mount Everest, National Parks, New England, New Hampshire, New Zealand, Portugal, San Francisco, Solo Travel, UK, What to Pack, Cruises, Destinations
- Trivia & Quiz
- Trucking
- Upcycle / Recycle
- Vending Machines
- Vinyl Records
- Water Filters
- Wedding
- Weddings: Elope
- Window Film
Who is RankIQ For?
RankIQ is aimed towards bloggers, content creators, publishers, business owners, consultants, affiliate marketers, website owners, and anybody who writes new blog posts or content generally for the web and wants it to have the best chance of achieving first page google rankings, without needing to be SEO experts.
Usually, pages that are optimized for low-competition, high search volume keywords will eventually bring in decent traffic. This will help bring more potential customers to your business and visitors to your site if you have display ads on your site that make money from ad impressions.
Who Founded RankIQ?
Brandon Gaille is the founder of RankIQ. He’s an SEO expert, owns three successful websites that each get around 2 million page views a month, and is the host of The Blogging Millionaire podcast.
How Does RankIQ Work? — Step by Step Instructions
Step 1: Enter Your Own Keyword Phrase or Select One From the Keyword Library
Once you’re logged in to RankIQ, you can enter a keyword phrase in the Enter keyword phrase search field.
Or you can browse through the niche categories in the Keyword Research Library to find low competition, high traffic keyword phrases to target and to write an article about.
Step 2: Run and View the AI SEO Report
In the example below, I selected the ‘Fashion: Sustainable’ niche from the Keyword Library and then selected the phrase ‘sustainable sneakers’.
I then hit the ‘Run Report’ button to generate an AI SEO Content Report for the keyword phrase ‘sustainable sneakers’.
Shown below are screenshots of the different sections of the SEO reports. (Note: the Content Analysis and Title Analysis sections have more rows in the actual report than displayed below).
If you follow RankIQ’s report suggestions, you should be able to write search engine optimized articles in about half the time it usually takes. It helps you save time by suggesting what high traffic keywords to use to create a top-notch title and what topics and LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing — or related terms) phrases to cover in your article or blog post.
Step 3: Write Your Article in the Content Optimizer Editor
You can then go to the Content Optimizer tool and start writing your article in the blank document template. Or you can paste the text over from another document tool you originally used to write your document such as Google Docs or Microsoft Word.
You can also bring in the text from an old underperforming post from your blog or website and optimize it in RankIQ and republish it to improve its ranking.
RankIQ will keep track of the recommended topics you’ve included in your article by giving you a green dot for the ones you’ve covered, as well as a progressive score/ content grade on your article so far, as well as keeping a running word count of your article.
Once you’re happy with the article you’ve written and optimized it for SEO as much as you can, you’re ready to copy and paste it to your website or another publishing platform.
Key Features of RankIQ
- It’s very simple and easy to use
- It gives you lots of high traffic, low competition keywords
- It tells you how competitive the keyword phrase is to rank
- It gives you an estimate of the number of visits/year you can expect from the keywords
- It tells you the approximate time frame for your article to rank ie average, fast, very fast or ultra fast
- Helps you create SEO optimized content by telling you what topics Google wants you to cover in your article
- It lists the highest frequency keywords to target in your title
- It tells you the suggested word count to target for your article to rank
- It has a template that lets you write or paste in an existing article to optimize
- There’s a RankIQ Mastermind Group on Facebook to offer you support within an online community
How much does RankIQ cost?
RankIQ usually costs $US99/month. But there’s currently a limited time 50% discount on the tool’s Standard Plan which means you can subscribe to it for $US49/month. The link that gives you this offer is at the end of the 5mins 13s video titled: ‘How RankIQ Works’ that pops up when you go to the RankIQ website.
There are 4 pricing options available currently. You can access these plan options from the ‘Upgrade’ link under your User Profile (Check the website for current pricing as it may have changed since this article was written).
- Lite Plan: US$29/month. Run 8 AI SEO reports/month.
- Standard Plan: US$49/month. Run 16 AI SEO reports/month.
- Pro Plan: US$99/month. Run 36 AI SEO reports/month.
- Agency Plan: US$199/month. Run 80 AI SEO reports/month.
There is no free trial for RankIQ. If you want to use it you’ll have to subscribe to the tool for a minimum of one month.
RankIQ Support
If you need Support, you can click on the ‘Click for Help’ button on the bottom right-hand side of your screen and a box pops up.
You can select ‘New Feature Requests’ if you’d like to suggest a new feature to be added to RankIQ.
Or you can select ‘All Other Support Requests’ if you have a billing question or other customer service question.
Current subscribers can also request to join the private RankIQ Mastermind Group on Facebook. This group has over 2K members. You can post your question to the group and Brandon Gailles himself or another member of the group will usually respond to your question very quickly.
Final Thoughts on RankIQ
I’ve found RankIQ to be a good SEO tool especially for the new blogger. I like how it generates pages of article topic ideas. Plus I know the articles will more likely rank on the 1st page of Google faster, as they’re hand-picked low competition and high volume keywords.
I can also just incorporate the highest scoring topic keywords listed in the reports to outline and write the article a lot faster, without needing to research keywords from scratch myself.
The curated list of keywords also gives you some interesting ideas and approaches of ways to search for further keyword phrases if you use Google Auto Suggest or other SEO tools.
I currently also have a subscription to Ahrefs and I wouldn’t replace that tool with RankIQ exclusively.
I still love all the bells and whistles offered in the Ahrefs tool, and how it’s indexed 10 billion pages and discovers 30 million new pages every 24 hours. It also has a humungous keyword index database of search queries totalling 19.3 billion keywords over search 10 search engines and 243 countries.
RankIQ is a nice supplementary tool to try out, but I wouldn’t select it as the one and only SEO tool that I use.