SEO Software (Self-Serve)

Ranked has two ways to run a project.

Managed service projects are the done-for-you plans (SEO from $99 per month, PPC from $99 per month, 7-day free trial, month to month). Our team does the work: weekly content, publishing, on-page and technical optimization, backlink outreach, AI search indexing and Google Ads management. The full software suite is included in every managed plan at no extra cost. Nothing about your software use is billed separately; it is all inside the service plan. See SEO Service (Managed).

SEO Software projects are self-serve. You run SEO yourself with the software only: keyword rank tracking (desktop, mobile, Maps and AI Mode), AI visibility prompts, site audits, backlink monitoring, heatmaps, Google Search Console, Analytics and Business Profile integrations, reports, and our AI agent for guidance. Our team does no work on the site for software projects: no content, no publishing, no optimization, no outreach.

Both kinds live on your projects overview, in the Service Suite and Software Suite tabs.

Pricing

Software is sold as prepaid blocks: $4.99 per month per 100 tracked keywords and $4.99 per month per 100 AI prompts. One plan covers every software project on your account, with unlimited websites and users.

• Adding usage charges the full new month today and restarts your billing cycle. The unused days you had already paid for are credited, so nothing is paid twice.
• Reducing usage takes effect at your next renewal. You keep your current capacity until then.
• Pausing a project stops all scanning and costs nothing. Its keywords and prompts stay stored and still count against your capacity.
• Included with your plan: 5 audits and 5 backlink scans per project per day, and 100 heatmap scans per keyword block per billing period.
• Any deposit balance on your account is applied to plan invoices automatically.

Creating a software project

Open Projects, switch to the Software Suite tab and click Add Project. All you need is a project name and the website URL. No plan or payment is required to create the project. It appears right away and opens on its Rankings tab.

You can also create software projects from the sidebar's Add Project (choose Only Software), from the AI Agent chat, from the ChatGPT app and MCP integration, or through the public API. Team members can create them too; the project lands in the account owner's Software Suite, so one plan keeps covering everything.

Adding keywords and prompts, running audits and backlink scans, and generating heatmaps all need an active SEO Software plan. Until you add one, each of those actions shows a "needs a plan" message with a link to add usage.

Software projects have no Onboarding or Content tab, since there is no team work to set up. Everything else - Rankings, Audits, Backlinks, Integrations, Reports and Settings - is the same software our service clients use, scanned on the same schedule.

Managing your plan

The Software Suite tab shows your Keyword Usage and Prompt Usage lines. Add Plan opens the two-step checkout (choose usage, then pay by card or US bank account). Once you have a plan the same button reads Manage Plan, where you can add or remove blocks, see exactly what a change costs before confirming, open your card and invoices, or cancel. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period and moves your software projects to Paused.

To pause or reactivate projects yourself, tick them in the Software Suite table and use Move to Paused / Move to Active.

Moving a software project to the managed service

Any software project can be upgraded to the managed service at any time. Use the 'Need help? Add our SEO service' button at the top of the project (or open the project with ?addService=1 in the address bar) to pick an SEO plan and pay. The project keeps everything you have tracked and becomes a managed project; from then on our team does the work and the software is simply part of your service plan.