therankingstore.com is our own site, run by the same owner as The Ranking Factory, and it is not a client. That makes it the one property where we can run our own software and report the results in full. From Aug 15, 2026, The Ranking Factory asked AI engines the questions people actually ask about the site's subjects — rank tracking and ranking software, local and digital marketing, backlink and link building services, Google penalties, SEO pricing and ranking timelines — and listed each subject it found missing from the site as a gap to close. That framing matters to anyone weighing a buy rank and rent plugin decision: before pointing ranking software at a property, it helps to know whether the pages it produces get fetched and cited at all.
We ran The Ranking Factory, our own software, on therankingstore.com. Between Aug 28 and Oct 21, 2026 it wrote and published 112 pages on the site, one subject per page, and submitted every one of them to IndexNow. The pages covered rank tracking and ranking software, local and digital marketing, link building, Google penalties, SEO pricing and ranking timelines — the gaps the questions had exposed, rather than topics picked by hand.
Measurement ran alongside publication. On Oct 9 we added our crawler log to the site through our WordPress plugin, to see which crawlers fetched each page. Roughly once a week from Aug 15 to Oct 21 the AI engines were asked the site's questions again, and each answer's sources were checked for the site's pages. The aim was to see whether new pages were being fetched and whether they were being used as sources in answers, not merely published.
75 of the 112 pages (67%) had been cited by at least one AI answer by Oct 23, 2026; the first was cited on Sep 4. By Oct 21, 34 of the pages had been cited in answer to a question that did not name The Ranking Store.
The citations were spread across engines. Perplexity Sonar had cited 66 of the pages, DeepSeek 19, Google Gemini 14 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna 13, and Google AI Overviews were the first to cite 5.
Crawling followed the same pattern. Between Oct 9 and Oct 21 the crawler log recorded a fetch of every one of the 112 pages, 104 of them by a crawler whose identity was verified.