RankYak writes an article a day and publishes it into a CMS you already run. Blogged writes the posts and hosts the blog itself, from $99 a month.
RankYak and Blogged both research keywords, write articles and publish them without a person in the loop, and both list at the same monthly price. The difference is where the posts land. RankYak publishes into a CMS you already run, so it needs a WordPress, Shopify, Webflow or Wix site to exist first. Blogged hosts the blog itself on a subdomain or your own domain. RankYak adds backlinks and a paid upkeep add-on. Blogged adds conversion reporting. Blogged starts at $99 per month per Project.
Written by the Blogged team. RankYak details were checked against public pages on September 2026 at rankyak.com. Products change, so verify anything that decides your purchase.
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| Capability | Blogged | RankYak |
|---|---|---|
| Hosts the blog for you | Yes Blogged hosts the blog: a Blogged subdomain immediately, your own subdomain once connected, or your path by reverse proxy. | No RankYak publishes into a site you already run and hosts nothing of its own. |
| Publishes into an existing CMS | No Blogged owns the destination rather than pushing posts into WordPress, Shopify or Webflow. | Yes Native publishing to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix and WordPress.com, plus Zapier, Make, API, webhooks and RSS. |
| Runs unattended once configured | Yes Full autopilot is on every sold plan, with governance deciding whether a post is allowed to go live. | Yes Autopilot fills the calendar, writes and publishes without you, and research runs can be set to auto approve. |
| Hold posts for review before publishing | Yes Assisted autopilot is on every sold plan, so drafts can wait for a person rather than going live directly. | Yes Choose live publishing or drafts, where every article waits for approval and any edits you make. |
| Several properties on one subscription | No Blogged is priced per Project, so a second blog is a second Project. | No Every additional website is the same price again, subject to fair use, though all sites share one dashboard. |
| Capability | Blogged | RankYak |
|---|---|---|
| Picks its own topics | Yes Topics are generated under approved Content Directions, 40 a month on Starter. | Yes Keywords are scored monthly against your authority and grouped into a topical map of clusters and core topics. |
| Researches live search results before writing | Yes Posts are researched against the current results for the Topic rather than written from the model alone. | Yes Every article starts from a live analysis of the pages ranking now, setting shape and length against them. |
| Cites real sources | Yes Posts carry sources, so a claim can be traced rather than taken on trust. | Yes Facts are verified and backed with citations to their sources. |
| Generated images with each post | Yes Images are metered per plan, 150 a month on Starter and 450 on Ultra Growth. | Yes On brand images are generated for every article, and relevant YouTube videos are embedded alongside. |
| Publishes in many languages | No Blogged publishes a Project in one language, so a second language is a second Project. | Yes RankYak writes and publishes in 40+ languages, listed individually on its own FAQ. |
| Capability | Blogged | RankYak |
|---|---|---|
| Search Console feeding decisions | Yes Search Console sync is on every sold plan rather than an upper tier upgrade. | Yes Your real Google performance data steers the keyword plan and marks articles that are losing ground. |
| Reports on conversion, not only ranking | Yes Newsletter lead capture is on every paid plan, so a published post can be joined to what it brought in. | No Measurement stops at search performance. Nothing public joins a published article to a signup or a lead. |
| Refreshes posts that lose ground | Partial Posts can be revised, 1 time per post on Starter and 3 on Ultra Growth. | Yes Underperforming articles are rewritten with new research on the same URL, keeping a snapshot of what they replaced. |
| Repairs pages you already had | No Blogged works on the blog it publishes and does not audit or edit the rest of your site. | Partial Site Guard does exactly this, daily, but it is a separate add-on rather than part of the base subscription. |
| Builds backlinks | No Blogged does not build links and does not join any exchange network. | Yes A vetted exchange network places contextual links inside relevant articles, with no outreach required. |
RankYak is built to publish into something that exists: a WordPress install, a Shopify store, a Webflow or Wix site. That is a real advantage when you have one, because every article lands on the domain whose authority you have already built. It is a prerequisite when you do not. Blogged inverts that: the blog is part of the product, so the first post can be live before you have touched DNS. If you already run a site you are happy with, this argument favours RankYak, and the page would be dishonest to pretend otherwise.
Both products list at the same monthly figure, which makes the comparison look simpler than it is. RankYak's base plan covers research, writing, publishing and backlinks. The features that look after the pages you already have, daily title and description checks, the click-through comparison against what a position should earn, and the cannibalization finder with its redirect list, are marked as add-ons and priced separately. A buyer comparing the whole of each product is comparing two subscriptions against one.
RankYak's use of Search Console is real and it is not decoration: rising queries become new articles and slipping pages become refresh candidates, and the click-through check compares a page to what its position should earn. What it does not do is close the loop past the click. Blogged captures newsletter leads on every paid plan, so a post can be attributed to something further down the funnel than an impression. For a SaaS team judging content on signups rather than sessions, that is the difference that matters.
RankYak writes one article on each day you select, so the monthly figure follows your calendar rather than a plan line. Their own FAQ puts a weekday schedule at around 21 articles a month and a daily one at around 30, and notes that some days optimize an existing article instead of writing a new one. Blogged meters posts as a plan allowance, and meters Topics, images and tracked competitors separately alongside them. Neither is better in the abstract, but they are not the same number and should not be compared as though they were.
This page is published by Blogged, so treat it as a vendor comparison. These are the points where RankYak is the stronger answer, stated plainly.
Read their own material at rankyak.comBlogged starts from your website, a product description, or product documents. No existing blog is required, and published work you already own can come with you.
Blogged presents a 3 day trial, which takes a card. A link under it takes a one-time Free allowance on your first Project instead: no card, claimed with a public post about your new blog. Nothing expires while that allowance lasts; a spent Free Project is archived after 14 days and unpublished after 30 unless you upgrade. When you need more, Blogged paid plans start at $99 per month per Project with 30 published posts a month.
See full pricingRankYak published into your CMS, so that archive is yours and it stays where it is. Blogged publishes to a blog it hosts, which means the two archives sit at different addresses unless you serve the Blogged blog from your existing path by reverse proxy. Decide that before the first post rather than after twenty.
RankYak's topical map is arranged as clusters under core topics, which maps cleanly onto Content Directions in Blogged. Restating the two or three core topics is a better import than pasting a keyword export, because Blogged generates its own Topics under a Direction you approve.
Blogged does not build links. If the exchange was doing real work for you, cancelling RankYak stops it, and nothing in Blogged takes over. That is a genuine loss to plan around rather than a feature to find later, and some teams keep both products for exactly this reason.
Both are on every paid Blogged plan. Connecting them before the first post means the new blog has a measurement baseline from the start, and lead capture is the part RankYak never gave you, so it is worth switching on immediately rather than once traffic arrives.
Short answers to the questions buyers ask before they start with either product.
No. RankYak publishes into a site you already run, natively to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix and WordPress.com, and to anything else through Zapier, Make, a REST API, webhooks or RSS. You need that site to exist first. Blogged hosts the blog itself, so the destination is part of what you are buying.
The base plans list at the same monthly figure. RankYak's Site Guard, which watches and repairs the pages you already have, is a separate add-on at $99 a month, so the whole product is $198 for one site. Every additional website is charged again at the same rate, subject to fair use.
One on each day you select. Their own FAQ puts a weekday schedule at around 21 articles a month and a daily schedule at around 30, and notes that some days optimize an article you already have rather than writing a new one. It is a cadence you configure, not a fixed monthly allowance.
No, and that is a real gap rather than a difference of approach. RankYak runs a vetted exchange network that places contextual links inside relevant articles with no outreach on your part. Blogged does not build links in any form. If off page authority is your bottleneck, RankYak addresses it and Blogged does not.
Both read Search Console, and RankYak uses it well: rising queries become articles and slipping pages become refresh candidates. Blogged adds newsletter lead capture on every paid plan, so a post can be joined to a signup rather than stopping at impressions and clicks. That is the measurement difference between them.
Blogged presents a 3 day trial that takes a card, and offers a one-time Free allowance on a new account's first Project instead: 3 posts, 40 Topics, 15 delivered images and 7 competitors. Free takes no card, and you claim it rather than receive it: post publicly on X about your new blog, naming @blogged_app and your blog address, then paste that link within a day of posting. A verified email address is needed too. No clock runs on the allowance itself. Once the posts or images are used up, the Project is archived after 14 days and its blog is unpublished after 30 unless you choose a paid plan; upgrading reverses both.
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