Blog content and local SEO for small businesses

A blog that runs while you work

You're running the business, not a content calendar. Rankbox finds what customers ask Google and ChatGPT about what you do, writes helpful, sourced articles in your voice, and publishes them to your Square Online, WordPress, or Webflow site without costing you an evening.

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In one paragraph

What Rankbox is, for a local business

Rankbox is an AI search growth engine that small local businesses use as their whole blog. It finds the questions customers ask Google and ChatGPT about what the business does, writes sourced, helpful articles in the owner's voice, scores them for search and AI answers, and publishes them to Square Online, WordPress, Webflow, or Framer. It does not manage Google Business Profile listings, reviews, or directory listings; those stay with the owner.

Questions from the counter

What it would write for a business like yours

Customers ask the same things at the counter every day. They ask Google and ChatGPT too, and each question is an article.

Topic mapSample
01Buying

Before they order

  • How far ahead should you order a birthday cake?
  • How many pastries for an office breakfast?
  • What should you ask a wedding cake baker?
02Comparing

Weighing options

  • Rye vs whole wheat: what's the difference?
  • Sourdough vs yeasted bread: what changes?
  • Buttercream vs fondant: which travels better?
03How-to

At home

  • How do you revive a stale loaf?
  • How should you freeze sourdough?
  • How do you reheat croissants so they stay flaky?
04Explaining

Curious customers

  • How long does sourdough keep?
  • What makes a croissant flaky?
  • Why does sourdough taste sour?

A sample map for Rye & Rise, a fictional bakery. Yours is built from your own site and trade, and nothing is written until you approve it.

Since launch week

Why the website went quiet

Nobody opens a bakery, a salon, or a plumbing business to write blog posts. So the site still says what it said the week it launched.

  1. The last blog post is from the week the site launched.

    Articles publish on a schedule that doesn't wait for a quiet afternoon.

  2. Customers ask the same questions every day, and the answers only live in your head.

    The questions people ask online about what you do become helpful, sourced articles on your own site.

  3. People ask ChatGPT for recommendations now, not just Google.

    Every article is written and scored for how AI answers read a page, not only for a search listing.

  4. Agencies and freelance writers are priced for much bigger businesses.

    One plan at $49.50 a month for 30 published articles. No contract, and you can cancel in one click.

Your time, counted

What it asks of you

About ten minutes once, then a glance whenever you feel like it.

  1. Minute 1
    Step 1

    Paste your website

    Rankbox reads your site, works out what you do and who you do it for, and learns how you talk about it.

  2. Minute 10
    Step 2

    Pick your topics

    A list of real customer questions comes back. Tick the ones that fit and skip the rest.

  3. Day 1
    Step 3

    Connect your site

    Add the Square app, or the plugin for WordPress, Webflow, or Framer. Articles publish from then on.

  4. Any time
    Step 4

    Read, or don't

    Keep new posts as drafts to check first, or let them publish on their own schedule.

Start with your website

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Who does what

What it handles, what stays yours

Rankbox runs this

Knowing what to writeThe questions customers ask about what you do, found for you.
Writing it in your voiceSourced, helpful articles that sound like you, not a template.
Posting itPublished to your site's blog on a schedule, or held as drafts.
A few good linksBacklink credits, so your site is more than a menu and a map.

You keep this

Your Google Business ProfileHours, photos, and reviews. Rankbox doesn't manage listings.
Local knowledgeYour neighbourhood, your regulars, your way of doing things.
What you'll stand behindPrices, promises, and anything about your own service.
The day jobServing customers, the reason the blog never got written.
Off the payroll

What you don't have to hire

The usual ways a small business gets a blog, and why most of them end up empty.

Getting a blog written

  • A marketing agencyA monthly retainer and a monthly reportNot needed
  • A freelance writerPer-post rates, plus explaining your trade to themNot needed
  • An SEO pluginSettings pages nobody has opened since launchNot needed
  • Canned blog contentGeneric posts that could be about any business, anywhereNot needed
  • Doing it yourselfLate nights after close, until it stopsNot needed
Rankbox Business30 articles a month$49.50/mo

One plan covers 1 website: research, writing, publishing, and 30 backlink credits a month. Each location has its own site? Studio adds each extra site for $49.50 a month.

Four that carry the load

The parts that matter when you're busy

No marketing team means nobody to hand things to. These four are why that's fine.

Other use cases

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Publish on a schedule

Simple pricing

One plan, your whole growth loop

Research, a new article every day, auto-publishing and authority backlinks, for less than you'd pay for a single freelance article.

7 days free

Business

1 website

Everything Rankbox does, in one plan.

$49.50/month

Works out to $1.65 an article, all-in.

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  • 30 articles a month

    A new article researched, written and published every day

  • Answer-space research plan

    Tailored to your buyers

  • 2,500+ word articles

    Source-backed

  • Auto-published

    To your website

  • Images, links and promotion

    Handled for you

  • 30 backlink credits

    From your first paid month

  • Unlimited rewrites

    And team members

Studio

For agencies and founders running several brands

$49.50/extra site a month

Your plan covers your first site. Every other site is $49.50 a month, on the same invoice.

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Add sites from your dashboard once your plan is active.

  • The full plan for every site

    30 articles a month for each one

  • One account, one invoice

    Every site on the same subscription

  • Its own voice and topic map

    For each brand you run

  • Unlimited team members

    No per-seat fee

  • Switch between sites

    From the dashboard

Optimized for
  • Google
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Perplexity
  • Bing
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400+ brands growing with Rankbox

Before you start

Questions local businesses ask first

Read the full FAQ

No. Rankbox writes and publishes articles on your website. Your Google Business Profile, reviews, and directory listings stay with you. They matter a lot for local search, and they need your hand on them.

No. The Square app only creates and updates blog posts on your Square Online site. It never reads your items, orders, or customers. If your website runs somewhere else, connect that platform instead.

It learns your voice from the pages already on your site, and you can rewrite any article before it goes live, as many times as you like. Keep posts as drafts and nothing publishes until you've read it.

About ten minutes to set up. After that, none, unless you want to read drafts before they go live.

Any business whose customers ask questions before they buy: bakeries, cafés, salons, clinics, trades, studios, and shops. If people ask “how”, “how long”, or “which one” about what you do, there's something worth writing.

Let the website keep up with you

Paste your website and see the questions your customers are already asking.

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