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Setup & This Week

3 min read · Updated 2 Sept 2026

Most SEO tools drop you into a wall of tabs. RankAgent splits the work into two modes: a finite Setup you complete once per site, and an ongoing This Week queue that never grows past six items. Both live in the Action Center — the workspace's to-do list.

Client workspaces on Growth and Agency (and the free trial) go through the fuller 9-step Client Onboarding instead; this lighter journey is for your own site and simpler setups.

LiveSetup: all plans · This Week: paid (free 2-item preview)

Setup — done once, and it actually finishes

When you add a site, the page turns into a guided journey that walks five steps inline, reusing the real product screens:

  1. Profile — business type, location, goals (tailors every recommendation).
  2. Keywords — choose what you want to rank for.
  3. Audit — the full-site crawl runs.
  4. First fixes — your top three issues.
  5. Search Console — connect GSC for real rank data.

Each step ticks itself off from what you've actually done anywhere in the app — so work never gets counted twice, and the journey reflects reality. Optional steps have "Skip for now," and there's always an "I'll do this myself — exit the guide" escape hatch (your progress keeps tracking in the background) plus a "Mark setup complete — I know what I'm doing" button.

The Setup journey: five steps with progress, one step open inline

Screenshot coming soon

Setup takes over the page and walks you through — no hunting for the right tab.

It's a one-way ratchet

Once setup is complete, the Action Center's Setup feed gives way to the ✦ This Week queue and stays there. Older sites that were already crawled before this journey existed are never thrown back into a wizard. The one hard rule: a site that supports keywords can't finish setup with zero keywords set.

Express mode — agency (white-label) plans get a compact toggle that strips the teaching copy, so setting up the 8th client site takes about 90 seconds.

Plan

The Setup journey isn't plan-gated as a whole; which steps apply depends on your plan (e.g. the keyword and GSC steps only appear on plans that include them). Express mode is Growth and Agency.

This Week — the whole to-do list, capped at six

Once you're set up, the Action Center runs This Week: one bounded queue, composed fresh each week from everything RankAgent knows, so you never have to decide where to look. It pulls from:

  • Your top open fixes (ordered by your "Your Style" priority)
  • Conversations to join from social listening (one bundled item)
  • Content due in the next 7 days, or a Search Console opportunity (a striking-distance keyword, a decaying page) when nothing's due
  • The next few directory submissions (on link-building plans)
  • Any remaining setup items
  • One rotating recurring habit (publish, build a link) from your checklist

A regression or guardian alert — a score drop, a site-down — pins to the very top and doesn't count toward the six.

The This Week card: up to six items, each with a 'Do →' deep link, a pinned alert on top

Screenshot coming soon

At most six things, each a click away from where to do it. 'Later' snoozes for a week.

Plan

This Week is a paid feature. Free plans see a read-only 2-item preview so you can see what you'd be working on. Every item's "Do →" jumps straight to the right module.

Next: the full-site audit and AI fixes are where most of your This Week items get done.

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