RankNest

What is RankNest?

What lives inside a RankNest client workspace, how the tools fit together, and where to start.

RankNest is an SEO platform built for agencies and consultants who manage multiple client sites. Everything is organized around clients: you add a client once, connect their data sources, and every tool works from that shared foundation.

The two dashboard levels

  • Agency level: your client list and account settings (billing, team, integrations). This is where you land after logging in.
  • Client level: open any client to get their dedicated workspace, which is an overview dashboard plus that client's tools in the left sidebar.

Inside a client workspace

The client sidebar mirrors what the workspace contains, top to bottom:

  • Overview is the summary dashboard: Search Console and Analytics KPIs, a live cell per tool, tasks, and recent activity. See the Dashboard Tour.
  • Pages lists every page on the site with its metadata, traffic, index status, and per-feature activity in one table. See Page Inventory.
  • Issues collects problems found by every tool into a single ranked queue: audit findings, link hygiene, and keyword cannibalization. Site Audit crawls feed it, and the crawl history lives one click on from there. See Working with Issues and Running an Audit.
  • SEO Testing runs controlled experiments on titles and meta descriptions, measured with Search Console data. See SEO Testing.
  • Link Mapping crawls the site and shows every internal link on an interactive canvas. Its Linking Plan turns the map into internal linking recommendations. See Link Mapping and the Linking Plan.
  • Message Mining mines customer reviews for the language that converts. See Message Mining.
  • Content Mapping shows how top-ranking pages are structured. See Content Mapping.
  • GBP Management schedules Google Business Profile posts and photos. See GBP Management.
  • Client Settings holds the client's profile, integrations, and AI profile.

Pages and Issues are what tie the tools together. Every tool writes to the same page records, so a change made in one shows up in the others, and problems from every source land in one queue instead of five.

Where to start

Tip: The fastest path is the guided setup wizard, which walks you through connections, a first crawl, and site structure in one sitting.

  1. Add your first client.
  2. Run the setup wizard.
  3. Connect Google Search Console. Most tools use its data.

Last updated 2026-07-31