Getting started

This guide covers your first session: sign up, add a website, connect Google, then run a keyword search, a rank check and a site audit.

Create your account

Sign up at app.ranktide.io/sign-up. New accounts start on the Free plan:

• 1,000 credits, granted once. That's $1 of usage.
• 1 project.
• 25 tracked keywords and 50 audit pages per crawl.

Paid plans add monthly credits and higher limits. See credits and billing or the pricing page.

Add your website

A project is one website. After you sign up, setup asks for your website first. Enter the domain, like example.com.

To add another site later, open the project switcher and choose New project. Agencies usually create one project per client site. See teams and client workspaces.

Connect Search Console and GA4

The next two setup steps connect Google Search Console and Google Analytics 4.

1. Choose Connect with Google and sign in with a Google account that can see the site's data.
2. Pick the Search Console property for this website.
3. Pick the GA4 property.

You can skip these steps and connect later from the project's settings, under Integrations. Ranktide reads Search Console and GA4 through your own Google connection, so these reads use no credits.

Search Console gives you clicks, impressions, click-through rate and average position for the queries and pages that already get traffic. GA4 adds organic sessions, key events and revenue.

Run your first keyword search

1. Open Keyword research.
2. Enter a seed keyword, like running shoes, and choose the country and language.
3. Ranktide returns about 150 keyword ideas with search volume, keyword difficulty, CPC and search intent.

A search for 150 ideas costs up to about 54 credits. Save the keywords you want to keep. Reading saved keywords later is free.

Track your rankings

1. Open Rank tracking and add your domain.
2. Add the keywords you want to follow.
3. Choose the device, how deep to check (top 40 by default) and a schedule: daily, weekly, monthly or manual.
4. Run a check. A check usually takes about an hour, and up to 2 hours.

Ranktide shows the cost before a check runs. One keyword on one device, checked in the top 40, costs about 7.5 credits per check. Your plan sets how many keywords you can track across your organisation.

Audit your site

1. Open Site audit.
2. Enter your website and the most pages to crawl. Free allows 50 pages per crawl.
3. Start the audit.

The crawler checks each page for broken links, missing or duplicate titles and descriptions, redirect chains, canonical problems, orphan pages, thin content and more. A standard crawl uses no credits.

Two options cost credits:

• Render JavaScript loads each page in a browser first. Use it for sites that build their content in the browser.
• Include Lighthouse measures performance on a sample of pages.

If your firewall or bot protection blocks the crawler, see RanktideBot.

Invite your team

Teammates share your organisation's projects and credits. In Settings, open the organisation tab and choose Invite teammate. Free and Solo include 1 seat, and Growth includes 3. See teams and client workspaces.

What uses credits

Credits pay for the data Ranktide buys for you and for AI model calls.

These use credits:

• Keyword research, domain overviews and backlink data.
• Rank checks and local map grids.
• AI visibility checks, prompt research and prompt explorer.
• Site audits with JavaScript rendering or Lighthouse.

These use no credits:

• Search Console and GA4 reads.
• Standard site audits, without JavaScript rendering or Lighthouse.
• Saved keywords, saved results, reports and exports.
• Creating projects, rank trackers and reports.

See what common actions cost for estimates.

Use Ranktide from your AI assistant

Ranktide works inside Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor through its MCP server. Follow agent setup to connect your agent and sign in. Reading your projects and context from an agent uses no credits.

Then add the SEO skills: workflows like an SEO audit or keyword research that your agent runs with Ranktide data and saves as a report. Start with SEO project setup, then run an SEO audit.