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Getting started with AIRRNK

Create an account, connect your first site, and run your first scan in under five minutes.

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title: "Getting started with AIRRNK" slug: "getting-started" description: "Create an account, connect your first site, and run your first scan in under five minutes." group: "Getting Started" order: 1

Welcome. AIRRNK is built to get you from nothing to your first actionable AI-visibility report in under five minutes. This page is the end-to-end on-ramp.

What you'll need

  • A site you control (WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Framer, Next.js — any of them).
  • An email address to sign up with.
  • Roughly two minutes of uninterrupted attention.

You do not need code access, DNS access, or an analytics tag to run the first scan. Those are only required when you want to move from observation mode to active mode, which ships automatic fixes.

Step 1 — Run a free scan

Go to airank.tech and paste your domain into the scanner on the home page. The scan runs live — no signup — and returns a report in about 40 seconds.

The report includes:

  • Your AI Score out of 100, broken down across the 47-point rubric.
  • A sample of current citations across ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity for your top five buyer queries.
  • The three highest-lift fixes, ranked by expected score improvement.

Step 2 — Create an account

To persist the scan, set up recurring monitoring, and unlock the copilot, create an account from the report page. We only ask for an email — no credit card. The free tier includes one connected site, six-hour rescans, and a 7-day citation history.

Step 3 — Connect your site

Connecting a site lets AIRRNK (a) watch for changes, (b) run a weekly deep audit, and (c) eventually ship fixes for you. You have two options:

  1. Read-only verification (the default). Drop a <meta> tag in your <head>, or add a TXT record to your DNS. Takes sixty seconds. This is sufficient for everything except automatic fixes.
  2. Write access. Install the WordPress plugin or the Shopify app. See the WordPress install guide and Shopify install guide.

Step 4 — Set up your query intents

On the dashboard, you'll see a list of suggested buyer queries we inferred from your content. Review them — this is the only manual step in onboarding, and it's the single most important one. The quality of your citation tracking is bounded by the quality of the query list. Add queries that reflect your buyer's actual language. Remove generic ones. Aim for 15–25 queries.

What happens next

On a rolling six-hour cycle, AIRRNK will:

  1. Run your query list against ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode.
  2. Log every citation — with the exact snippet, the source URL attributed, and the position in the response.
  3. Re-audit your site against the 47-point rubric and diff against the last run.
  4. Surface fixes ranked by expected lift.

You'll get a weekly email summary. No dashboard-checking required.

Next steps