Therankingstore.com is our own site, run by the same owner as The Ranking Factory, so it is not a client. From Aug 15, 2026, The Ranking Factory asked AI engines the questions people 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. The questions behind a search like "google page rank checker download" sit in that first cluster: people want to see where a page or a keyword stands. Rank checkers report positions for a given term, and doing the same check by hand in Google is unreliable, because results are personalized by location, search settings, browser and device, as Seobility explains on its Free Website Ranking Checker | Google Keyword Rankings page. Some of that demand arrives as browser extensions rather than downloads — SEOSpace, in How to Check Google Rank in 2026 (Rank Tracking Tools), names Fat Rank, SEOquake and the Ahrefs SEO Toolbar as examples. Each of those was a subject the site had nothing on, and so a gap worth closing.
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. 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. Publishing one subject per page, and telling IndexNow about each one, kept the coverage checkable: page by page, subject by subject, question by question.
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. 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. 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.