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Situation
therankingstore.com is The Ranking Store’s own site, run by the same owner as The Ranking Factory, so this work was carried out on our own property rather than for a client. People were asking AI assistants which rank tracker or ranking software to use, how tools such as Advanced Web Ranking and Authority Labs work, and how to rank a website higher on Google. The Ranking Factory had already listed these rank tracking and ranking software subjects as gaps on the site. For context, a ranking tool tracks where a website page or Google Business Profile appears in search results for selected keywords, devices, and locations, and digital marketers and website owners use it for exactly that.
What was done and why
Between Aug 28 and Oct 18, 2026, The Ranking Factory, our own software, wrote and published 60 pages on therankingstore.com on rank tracking and ranking software, one subject per page. Among them were rank tracker downloads, page rank software, Authority Labs’ top 100, getting started with Advanced Web Ranking and large scale rank tracking. Each page was submitted to IndexNow (https://www.indexnow.org/), the protocol publishers use to notify participating search engines of new URLs. The intent was to close the gaps The Ranking Factory had identified by giving each question a dedicated destination page instead of a passing mention. Roughly once a week the AI engines were asked the site’s questions again, and the sources behind each answer were checked for these pages, so that citation was observed rather than assumed.
How it turned out
By Oct 21, 2026, 40 of the 60 pages (67%) had been cited by at least one AI answer. The first of them was cited on Sep 4. Seventeen of the cited pages appeared in response to a question that did not name The Ranking Store, meaning those answers were not prompted by the brand name. Perplexity Sonar had cited 39 of the pages, DeepSeek 11, Google Gemini 9 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna 6.
The site’s crawler log recorded a fetch of all 60 pages between Oct 9 and Oct 21, 57 of them by a verified crawler. Ordinary search visibility followed as well: on Oct 23 the nightly rank check found the page on Authority Labs’ top 100 at #2 in Google’s US results for ‘top 100 authority labs’, where on Oct 16 it had not been on page one. The pattern is a useful one for The Ranking Store: publishing one page per question, submitting it for indexing, and reading the sources behind AI answers on a repeating schedule produced citations across several AI engines and a page-one Google position on the same subject.
Sources and supporting material
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