# AltoRank

> AltoRank gets a site ranked on Google and cited by AI assistants. It checks
> whether assistants can read the site, fixes what they cannot, researches a
> keyword, writes the article and scores it. Drafts export as Markdown or HTML, and
> CMS connections are set up with the customer. Every publish is attributed to a
> named person, by a click or by a rule they set. Open source, licensed AGPL-3.0.

AltoRank has no published case studies yet. The source repository is public at
github.com/AltoRank/altorank. Where a figure appears it is first-party and the
method is stated alongside it.

## Start here

- [AltoRank | SEO content for your next customers](https://altorank.co/): Bring keyword research, AI writing and editorial review into one workspace. Create useful content for your audience with AltoRank. Start without a card.
- [Agency Blueprint: Running SEO Content Across a Client Roster](https://altorank.co/agency-blueprint/): Multi-client workspaces, ungated white-label, approval before publish. What AltoRank is building for agencies, what it costs, and data from 1,758 agency sites.
- [Can an AI agent read your site? Free AI-readiness check](https://altorank.co/check/): Nine checks on any domain's public configuration: crawler rules, structured data, sitemap, a machine-readable copy. Free, no signup, results in seconds with a shareable link.
- [Free SEO Growth Plan for Any Domain](https://altorank.co/growth-plan/): What your site ranks for, the terms competitors hold, and whether AI can read it. Free, 60 seconds, no signup.
- [Open Source SEO Tools: One Self-Hosted Content Engine](https://altorank.co/open-source/): AltoRank is open source, the whole product, no feature gates. What that means for you, what stops a competitor reselling it, and what ships first.
- [Pricing: Self-Host Free, Managed €69, Agency €199](https://altorank.co/pricing/): Self-host free, or let us run it from €69 a month. Articles are the only meter: no seats, no add-ons. 7-day free trial on hosted plans.

## How it works

- [Approval-First AI SEO Content: The Editorial Workflow](https://altorank.co/approval-first-seo-content/): Every AI page gated behind human review before it publishes. Why it matters, and how the workflow works.
- [E-commerce SEO Content for Shopify and WooCommerce](https://altorank.co/ecommerce/): Collection pages, product descriptions and buyer-intent articles for your store, reviewed before they publish.
- [AltoRank for E-commerce](https://altorank.co/for/ecommerce/): E-commerce pages are under-represented in AI answers. Rank on Google and get cited, with buying guides and schema.
- [Integrations: Where AltoRank Publishes](https://altorank.co/integrations/): Publishing adapters for WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Ghost, HubSpot and webhooks, set up with you and documented. Drafts export as Markdown or HTML.

## Agents and MCP

Hosted MCP server: https://app.altorank.co/api/mcp (Streamable HTTP, OAuth). The page below covers the tools, scopes and the agent API.

- [MCP Server and Agent API: Drive AltoRank from an AI Agent](https://altorank.co/docs/mcp/): 26 MCP tools, a scoped REST API and a hosted endpoint for ChatGPT, Claude and Claude Code. No publish call anywhere, on purpose.

## Setup guides

- [Docs: Setup Guides for Every Connector](https://altorank.co/docs/): Setup guides for AltoRank publishing destinations: what each connector asks for, what approving does on that platform, and how to revoke it.
- [Connect GitHub to AltoRank: Setup Guide](https://altorank.co/docs/git/): How to publish approved articles to GitHub from AltoRank. What the connector asks for, what it never asks for, and how to revoke it.
- [Connect Shopify to AltoRank: Setup Guide](https://altorank.co/docs/shopify/): How to publish approved articles to Shopify from AltoRank. What the connector asks for, what it never asks for, and how to revoke it.
- [Connect Webhook to AltoRank: Setup Guide](https://altorank.co/docs/webhook/): How to publish approved articles to Webhook from AltoRank. What the connector asks for, what it never asks for, and how to revoke it.
- [Connect WooCommerce to AltoRank: Setup Guide](https://altorank.co/docs/woocommerce/): How to publish approved articles to WooCommerce from AltoRank. What the connector asks for, what it never asks for, and how to revoke it.
- [Connect WordPress to AltoRank: Setup Guide](https://altorank.co/docs/wordpress/): How to publish approved articles to WordPress from AltoRank. What the connector asks for, what it never asks for, and how to revoke it.

## For agencies

- [White Label SEO Software for Agencies: Self-Hosted](https://altorank.co/for-agencies/): A workspace per client, white-label reports, and an approval gate before anything reaches a client site.
- [Creator Partner Programme for SEO Educators](https://altorank.co/partners/): Teach AI search and SEO? Earn 30% of what your referrals pay for 12 months, with a free tool worth showing on camera.
- [AI Readability Report 2026: 6 of 274 agencies pass all nine](https://altorank.co/reports/ai-readability-2026/): Nine AI-readability checks on 274 European SEO and GEO agency sites: 6 pass all nine, 61% fail two or more. Method, per-check pass rates and the fixes.

## Generative engine optimization

- [Generative Engine Optimization for Agencies](https://altorank.co/geo/): Practical GEO guides: what generative engine optimization is, how to measure citations, how to price it, and how to run it across e-commerce sites.
- [Collection and Category Page SEO Content at Scale](https://altorank.co/geo/collection-page-seo-content/): Unique, citable content for Shopify collection and Magento category pages: intros, schema, buying-guide depth.
- [GEO vs SEO: Does GEO Replace SEO? (2026 Agency Guide)](https://altorank.co/geo/does-geo-replace-seo/): No, GEO builds on SEO. AI engines cite content that already ranks. How generative engine optimization and SEO work together for e-commerce agencies.
- [GEO Services Pricing: How to Sell GEO to Clients (2026)](https://altorank.co/geo/geo-services-pricing/): Sell GEO as a layer on the retainer: a one-time baseline plus monthly tracking. Price the work, not a citation.
- [Optimize Shopify for ChatGPT Shopping](https://altorank.co/geo/optimize-shopify-for-chatgpt-shopping/): Six steps to make Shopify products citation-ready: schema, answer-shaped copy, AI crawlers, feeds and signals.
- [Unique Shopify Product Descriptions at Scale](https://altorank.co/geo/shopify-product-descriptions-at-scale/): Unique descriptions across thousands of SKUs: per-product briefs, answer-shaped copy, schema, review before publish.
- [How to Track AI Citations for Clients](https://altorank.co/geo/track-ai-citations-for-clients/): A six-step method: freeze a prompt set, sample logged-out, log citations, compute citation rate, report monthly.

## Comparisons

- [SEO Tool Comparisons: 23 Head-to-Heads](https://altorank.co/alternatives/): An index of AltoRank's head-to-head comparisons with the SEO content tools people actually evaluate, each decided by one use case.
- [8 Ahrefs Alternatives, Including Cheaper Ones (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/ahrefs/): Eight Ahrefs alternatives, cheaper and free options included, compared by job and price, with every price read from the vendor on a stated date.
- [AltoRank Alternatives: When to Pick One Over Us](https://altorank.co/alternatives/altorank/): The twelve tools people weigh against AltoRank, what each is better at, and where AltoRank is the wrong choice. Checked September 2026.
- [BabyLoveGrowth Review and Alternative (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/babylovegrowth/): BabyLoveGrowth publishes on autopilot with an automated link network. AltoRank is the open-source alternative where every publish is your call.
- [8 Clearscope Alternatives, Compared by Price (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/clearscope/): Eight Clearscope alternatives compared by job and price, every price read from the vendor on a stated date, plus where Clearscope is still ahead.
- [contentbird Review and 8 Alternatives (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/contentbird/): contentbird is a B2B content-ops suite from €399/mo. We tested 8 alternatives on price, e-commerce fit and white-label.
- [Describely Review and 6 Alternatives (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/describely/): Describely does bulk catalog content for one team. We compared 6 alternatives on multi-client, white-label and scope.
- [Distribb Review and Alternative: Open Source, Approval-First](https://altorank.co/alternatives/distribb/): Distribb publishes on autopilot. AltoRank is the open-source alternative where every publish is your call and every article is tracked. With sources.
- [8 Frase Alternatives for Agencies (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/frase/): Eight Frase alternatives compared by job and price, every price read from the vendor on a stated date, plus where Frase is still ahead.
- [8 Jasper AI Alternatives, Compared by Job (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/jasper/): Eight Jasper AI alternatives compared by job and price, with every price read from the vendor on a stated date, and which tool beats Jasper for which job.
- [8 Mangools Alternatives, Compared by Price (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/mangools/): Eight Mangools alternatives for keyword research and rank tracking, compared by job and price, with every price read from the vendor on a stated date.
- [7 MarketMuse Alternatives With Published Prices (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/marketmuse/): MarketMuse hides its paid prices behind a demo. Seven alternatives that publish theirs, compared by job, with every price read on a stated date.
- [Outrank Review and 8 Alternatives (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/outrank/): Outrank publishes on autopilot, one subscription per site. We compared 8 Outrank alternatives on draft review, cost per site and ownership, with Outrank's own reviews.
- [Ranking Coach Alternatives 2026: 8 Tools and Prices](https://altorank.co/alternatives/rankingcoach/): Eight ranking coach alternatives compared by job and price, what rankingCoach actually costs, and which tools are better than ranking coach for each job.
- [RankPill Review and Alternative: Open Source, Approval-First](https://altorank.co/alternatives/rankpill/): RankPill runs a $1 trial that converts, with no refunds. AltoRank lets you read your first article before the card and names the day it charges.
- [RankYak Review and 6 Alternatives (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/rankyak/): RankYak publishes daily on autopilot. We tested 6 alternatives on editorial control, white-label and e-commerce fit.
- [Search Atlas Review and 9 Alternatives (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/search-atlas/): Search Atlas is a broad-stack platform. We tested 9 alternatives on white-label, voice profiles and CMS breadth.
- [8 Semrush Alternatives, Compared by Price (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/semrush/): Eight Semrush alternatives compared by job and price, every price read from the vendor on a stated date, and what changed since Adobe bought Semrush.
- [SEOForge Review & Alternative: Open Source, Approval-First](https://altorank.co/alternatives/seoforge/): SEOForge publishes on autopilot with undisclosed backlinks. AltoRank puts a named person behind every publish and measures what happens after.
- [SEOwind Review and 6 Alternatives (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/seowind/): SEOwind builds SERP-driven briefs. For stores needing a full publish workflow, we compared 6 alternatives.
- [Shopify Magic Review and 6 Alternatives (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/shopify-magic/): Shopify Magic writes product descriptions. We tested 6 alternatives on multi-client, white-label and collection SEO.
- [Soro Alternative: Open Source, Approval-First AI SEO (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/soro/): Soro publishes daily on autopilot for $39/mo. AltoRank automates the same pipeline, open source, then measures whether it worked: indexing, rank, AI visibility.
- [8 Surfer SEO Alternatives for Agencies (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/surfer/): Eight Surfer SEO alternatives compared by job and price, with every price read from the vendor on a stated date, and which tool beats Surfer for which job.
- [8 Ubersuggest Alternatives, Including Free Ones (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/ubersuggest/): Eight Ubersuggest alternatives, free and paid, compared by job and price, with every price read from the vendor on a stated date.
- [8 WooRank Alternatives for Agencies (2026)](https://altorank.co/alternatives/woorank/): Eight WooRank alternatives for agencies compared by job and price, every price read from the vendor on a stated date, plus what to use after the audit.
- [AltoRank Head-to-Heads: Where Each Tool Wins](https://altorank.co/compare/): Twelve head-to-heads on publishing model, backlinks, integrations and price. Each names where the other tool wins. Checked September 2026.

## Free tools

- [Free SEO Tools: 46 Checkers, Generators and Calculators](https://altorank.co/tools/): 46 free SEO tools, no signup: AI crawler simulator, keyword research, title and meta generators, schema, robots.txt and ROI calculators.
- [Free AI Crawler Simulator: See What GPTBot Sees](https://altorank.co/tools/ai-crawler-simulator/): Fetch any URL as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot and Googlebot. See each robots.txt verdict, status code and the text in the raw HTML.
- [Free Backlink Checker: Links and Referring Domains](https://altorank.co/tools/backlink-checker/): Enter a domain to see a backlink summary: how many links and referring domains a third-party index has found, and a sample of the pages that link to it.
- [Free Blog Outline Generator: H2 and H3 Headings](https://altorank.co/tools/blog-outline-generator/): Enter a topic and an optional keyword and get an H2 and H3 heading outline for a blog post. Then shape it around what your reader is asking.
- [Free Blog Post Ideas From Real Searches](https://altorank.co/tools/blog-post-ideas/): Enter a topic and get blog post ideas drawn from the questions and related searches people actually run, not ideas invented by a model.
- [Free Canonical Tag Checker: Test Any URL](https://altorank.co/tools/canonical-checker/): Enter a URL to see the canonical it declares, whether it points to itself or elsewhere, and whether the canonical target resolves.
- [Free Character Counter With Title and Meta Limits](https://altorank.co/tools/character-counter/): Count characters with and without spaces, and see how much room is left for a title tag, meta description, X post or LinkedIn post.
- [Free SEO Content Brief Template and Generator](https://altorank.co/tools/content-brief-generator/): Fill in eleven fields and copy a Markdown content brief a writer will follow. Free, in your browser, with the reasoning behind each field.
- [Free Content Idea Generator](https://altorank.co/tools/content-idea-generator/): Enter a topic or niche and get a list of content ideas and angles to write about. Ideas to validate, not a content plan.
- [Free Headline Analyzer: Score Titles Before You Publish](https://altorank.co/tools/headline-analyzer/): Score a headline on SERP width, length, numbers, form, power words, shouting and keyword position. A transparent heuristic, not a CTR forecast.
- [Free Headline Generator for Blog Posts](https://altorank.co/tools/headline-generator/): Enter a topic and get headline options for a blog post or article. Pick one and make it specific to what your piece delivers.
- [Free Internal Link Checker: Audit Anchors on Any Page](https://altorank.co/tools/internal-link-checker/): Paste a page's HTML and get every internal link with its anchor text, flagged for generic anchors, repeated targets, image links with no alt and links to itself.
- [Free Keyword Clustering Tool: Group Keywords by Topic](https://altorank.co/tools/keyword-cluster-mapper/): Paste a keyword list and get topic groups with a page type for each. Free, in your browser, plus the method for confirming groups against the SERP.
- [Free Keyword Combiner: Merge Word Lists Into Keywords](https://altorank.co/tools/keyword-combiner/): Combine two to four word lists into every keyword variation, with broad, "phrase" and [exact] formatting. Copy or download as CSV.
- [Free Keyword Density Checker: A Diagnostic, Not a Target](https://altorank.co/tools/keyword-density-analyzer/): See which words and phrases a page repeats, with counts. Plus why an ideal density figure does not exist.
- [Free Keyword Gap Analysis Tool: Compare Two Keyword Lists](https://altorank.co/tools/keyword-gap-analyzer/): Paste your ranking keywords and a competitor's, get the gaps, the overlap and what is yours alone, with branded noise filtered out. Free, in your browser.
- [Free Link Extractor: Every Link on a Page](https://altorank.co/tools/link-extractor/): Enter a URL and get every link in the page's raw HTML, with anchor text, split into internal and external, and any nofollow, sponsored or ugc attributes.
- [Free LSI Keyword Generator (Really: Related Terms)](https://altorank.co/tools/lsi-keyword-generator/): Enter a keyword and get the related terms and entities a thorough page on that topic would naturally cover. Honest about what LSI keywords are.
- [Free Meta Description Generator With SERP Preview](https://altorank.co/tools/meta-description-generator/): Meta descriptions that survive Google's rewriting: the length that displays, and five patterns that work.
- [Reading Level Checker: Flesch Score and Grade Level](https://altorank.co/tools/reading-level-checker/): Flesch reading ease, Flesch-Kincaid grade and your longest sentences, longest first. Paste English text and see what to shorten.
- [Free robots.txt Generator With AI Crawler Rules](https://altorank.co/tools/robots-txt-generator/): Build a robots.txt with AI crawler rules. Which bots train models, which answer questions, and why it matters.
- [Free robots.txt Tester: Is This URL Blocked?](https://altorank.co/tools/robots-txt-tester/): Enter a URL and pick a crawler, from Googlebot to GPTBot and PerplexityBot. See the site's live robots.txt and whether that crawler may fetch the page.
- [Free FAQ Schema Generator (JSON-LD, Article, Breadcrumb)](https://altorank.co/tools/schema-generator/): Generate valid Article, FAQPage and BreadcrumbList JSON-LD, and the one rule that keeps it from backfiring.
- [Interactive SEO Checklist: 33 Checks, Saved as You Go](https://altorank.co/tools/seo-checklist/): 33 SEO checks to tick off, grouped from crawl and index to AI crawler access. Saved in your browser, exportable as Markdown.
- [SEO Cost Calculator: Build a Budget From Your Own Numbers](https://altorank.co/tools/seo-cost-calculator/): Add up an SEO budget from your own inputs: people or retainer, content, technical hours, tools and outreach. No invented market rates.
- [SEO Health Check: The Agency Audit Checklist](https://altorank.co/tools/seo-health-checker/): A repeatable SEO health check: crawl, indexation, structure and AI-readiness, in problem-finding order.
- [SEO ROI Calculator: Return, Payback Month and Formula](https://altorank.co/tools/seo-roi-calculator/): Estimate SEO return from your own traffic, conversion and deal numbers: extra revenue, ROI and payback month, with the formula shown.
- [Free SEO Title Generator: Title Tags That Fit](https://altorank.co/tools/seo-title-generator/): Describe a page and its target keyword and get title tag options to edit. Then check each one's pixel width before it goes live.
- [SERP Analysis: How to Read a Search Result Page](https://altorank.co/tools/serp-analyzer/): Read a SERP before you brief a writer: intent from the result mix, and the keywords worth skipping.
- [Free XML Sitemap Checker and Validator](https://altorank.co/tools/sitemap-checker/): Enter a site or sitemap URL. The tool finds the sitemap, checks that it parses, counts its URLs and child sitemaps, and flags obvious problems in a sample.
- [Free Slug Generator: Clean URL Slugs From Any Title](https://altorank.co/tools/slug-generator/): Clean URL slugs in bulk, with proper accent transliteration. Plus why renaming a ranking URL is the wrong call.
- [Free Website Metadata Checker: Title, OG, Schema](https://altorank.co/tools/website-metadata-checker/): Enter a URL and see the page's title, meta description, canonical, robots tag, Open Graph and Twitter tags, JSON-LD types, h1 and language.
- [Free Website Worth Calculator: Traffic Value Estimate](https://altorank.co/tools/website-worth-calculator/): Estimate what a domain's organic search traffic would cost as ads each month: modelled traffic times keyword cost per click. Not a business valuation.
- [Free Word Counter and Readability Checker](https://altorank.co/tools/word-counter/): Words, sentences, reading time and a Flesch grade. Plus why word count is a symptom, not a target.

## Writing

- [Blog](https://altorank.co/blog/): SEO insights, content strategy, and generative engine optimization, from the AltoRank team.
- [AI Content Traffic Drop: The Recovery Path the Data Supports](https://altorank.co/blog/ai-content-traffic-drop-recovery/): Your AI content lost its Google traffic and there is no manual action to appeal. What the 2026 evidence says happened, and the recovery sequence that follows.
- [Answer Engine Optimization: A Multi-Surface Playbook](https://altorank.co/blog/answer-engine-optimization/): AEO covers every system returning direct answers: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews. One playbook for all.
- [How to Get Cited by AI: 14 Tactics That Work (2026)](https://altorank.co/blog/how-to-get-cited-by-ai/): 14 tactics that earn AI citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, organized by leverage for agencies running GEO across multiple clients.
- [How to Rank in ChatGPT: An Agency Playbook](https://altorank.co/blog/how-to-rank-in-chatgpt/): The four-layer framework agencies use to rank client brands inside ChatGPT, and the loop that sustains it.
- [How to Rank in Perplexity: An Agency Playbook](https://altorank.co/blog/how-to-rank-in-perplexity/): Perplexity cites sources in every answer. The agency framework, adapted to its specific retrieval surface.
- [Best Internal Linking Automation for Agencies (2026)](https://altorank.co/blog/internal-linking-seo/): Propose, don't insert: the criteria for judging internal linking automation, a four-layer link audit, and the publish-time checklist that scales past ten clients.
- [Agency Keyword Research Across 10+ Clients](https://altorank.co/blog/keyword-research-automation/): Per-client keyword sets, opportunity scoring and a monthly refresh cadence that does not burn the strategy team.
- [LLM SEO: How It Differs From GEO and AEO (Agency Guide)](https://altorank.co/blog/llm-seo-for-agencies/): LLM SEO is the practitioner term for optimizing client content to be retrieved and cited by large language models. Here's how it relates to GEO, AEO, and SEO.
- [Open Source AI SEO Tools, Compared by What They Publish](https://altorank.co/blog/open-source-ai-seo-tools-compared/): Eight open-source AI SEO projects verified against the GitHub API: licence, maintenance, and the question listicles skip — which can actually publish to a CMS.
- [Schema Markup for AI: The Inventory-Layer Playbook (2026)](https://altorank.co/blog/schema-markup-for-ai/): A technical deep-dive on schema markup for AI retrieval: the JSON-LD types, properties, and patterns that actually move citation outcomes in 2026.
- [SEO Content Strategy for Agencies: An Operating Model](https://altorank.co/blog/seo-content-strategy-agencies/): How agencies turn SEO content into a repeatable engine: voice, inputs, production and measurement.
- [What Is GEO? Generative Engine Optimization Explained](https://altorank.co/blog/what-is-geo-seo/): Earning citations inside AI answers: what GEO is, how it differs from SEO, and how agencies should structure it.

## Italiano

- [Agency Blueprint: contenuti SEO su un portafoglio di clienti](https://altorank.co/it/agency-blueprint/): Workspace multi-cliente, white-label non bloccato, approvazione prima di pubblicare. Cosa costruiamo per le agenzie, quanto costa e i dati da 1.758 siti.

## Deutsch

- [8 contentbird-Alternativen (2026)](https://altorank.co/de/alternatives/contentbird/): contentbird ist eine B2B-Content-Ops-Suite ab 399 €/Mon. Wir haben 8 Alternativen nach Preis und White-Label getestet.
- [rankingCoach Alternativen 2026: 8 Tools mit Preisen](https://altorank.co/de/alternatives/rankingcoach/): Acht rankingCoach-Alternativen nach Aufgabe und Preis verglichen, plus was rankingCoach wirklich kostet – und welches Tool welche Aufgabe gewinnt.
- [6 Shopify-Magic-Alternativen (2026)](https://altorank.co/de/alternatives/shopify-magic/): Shopify Magic schreibt Produktbeschreibungen. Wir haben 6 Alternativen nach Multi-Kunde und White-Label getestet.

## Company

- [About](https://altorank.co/about/): Why AltoRank exists and who it is for: a site should be found by people searching and named by assistants answering, with a person behind every page.
- [Support](https://altorank.co/support/): How to get help with AltoRank: email, setup guides, bug reports, and how to disconnect an AI assistant.