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title: "How Rankly works · Rankly"
description: "Connect your site, get each improvement written out, give the OK, and see what it brought in: a first count four weeks after it goes live, then at three months and a year."
url: https://rankly.cc/how-it-works/
---

# How Rankly works

Rankly reads your site and the places customers look for you, writes each improvement for you and counts what it brought in. You stay in charge of your site.

Example

Title now

Services | Your Business

Rankly’s new title

Accountant for a small business: books, VAT and year-end every month

## From your site to more customers

1. ### Connect your site

    Give Rankly read-only access to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. It reads your public pages the way a visitor does.

2. ### Rankly finds what holds you back

    Every day it reads what people search for, how your pages do, and what AI assistants answer in your field. It starts with what will bring the most customers.

3. ### You get each improvement, written out

    The exact words, where they go and why. You paste them in, or hand them to whoever runs your site. Nothing changes until you give the OK.

4. ### Rankly counts what it brought

    Once the improvement is live, Rankly checks it on your page and starts counting the visits it brings.

## When you see what it brought in

Search takes weeks to move. Rankly counts each improvement three times, from the day it sees it live on your page.

1. 4 weeks **First count**

    Visits to the improved page in the four weeks after it went live, against the four weeks before.

2. 3 months **Second count**

    By now Google and the AI assistants have had time to settle on the new version.

3. 1 year **Last count**

    The full picture, with the seasons in it.

Each count sets the improved page beside similar pages on your site that you left alone, so a busy season doesn’t pass for a result.

## What Rankly reads, and what it never touches

### Rankly reads

- Your figures in Google Search Console, read only
- Your figures in Bing Webmaster Tools
- Your public pages, as any visitor sees them
- What AI assistants answer to questions in your field

To stop, remove Rankly’s access in Search Console and delete its Bing key. Ask us and we delete what Rankly kept.

### Rankly never touches

- The login to your site or its editor
- Your customers’ details or orders
- Anything on your site, unless you put it there

What Rankly keeps, and for how long, is on the [privacy page](https://rankly.cc/privacy/).