ArticlesRanker is an independent advice site about one narrow subject: why articles fail to rank on Google, and how to write articles that do. It publishes long-form guides, checklists, and research-based tool reviews for bloggers and small website owners.
What we publish
The site is organised into complete guides: diagnosing why articles do not rank, the writing system behind articles that do rank, practical SEO checklists, and honest reviews of popular SEO tools. Every article answers one question completely rather than skimming ten questions shallowly, and every article links to the complete guide it belongs to.
Who runs it
ArticlesRanker is published by Ali Hassan, who also runs other independent websites, including a how-to site with several hundred published articles. That hands-on publishing work — writing, watching most of it underperform, diagnosing why, and fixing it — is the experience base behind these guides. We do not claim agency credentials, Google partnerships, or insider access, because none of those would be true.
How the site is funded
Reading is free. The site is funded by advertising and by affiliate links inside some articles (clearly governed by our editorial policy): if you buy a tool through one of those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate relationships never decide our conclusions — several reviews on this site recommend not buying the tool for most readers.
What we are not
We are not an SEO agency and we do not sell consulting, audits, or courses. We do not offer a ranking tool or software. If you arrived here expecting the old ArticlesRanker software landing page, that product concept has been retired; this site is articles only.
What ArticlesRanker teaches
The site teaches four skills, in the order a stuck publisher needs them. Diagnosis: a repeatable way to find out why a specific article is invisible — indexing, intent, depth, links, or self-competition — before changing anything. A writing system: how to organise what you publish into complete guides and focused articles so each new piece strengthens the ones around it. Checklists: short, observable checks that catch the recurring publishing mistakes memory and plugin scores miss. Tool literacy: how to judge SEO software — what it can and cannot do, what it really costs once add-ons are counted, and when the free method is the better answer. Everything else on the site exists to support one of those four.
Our sources and method
Guides are researched from primary sources first, in a fixed order: Google's own documentation (the Search Essentials, the guidance on helpful, people-first content, Search Console help, and the public Search Quality Rater Guidelines), then the live search results themselves, then — for reviews — the vendor's published pricing, feature documentation, and terms. Practitioner opinion is used last and labelled as opinion. Every article links its sources so a reader can verify a claim in one click, and articles carry published and last-updated dates; when Google's documentation changes, the affected guides are revised and the date moves. Our editorial policy sets out the full method, including how tool reviews are conducted.
Who the site is for — and not for
ArticlesRanker is written for bloggers, niche-site owners, and small business websites publishing in English with no SEO staff. It assumes you can edit your own site and are willing to do unglamorous work in the right order. It is probably not for enterprise SEO teams (your problems are different in kind), for anyone looking for loopholes or automation tricks (we do not publish them), or for anyone who needs a ranking result by a deadline — no honest site can sell that, and this one does not try. Our disclaimer is explicit: rankings are never guaranteed, here or anywhere.
How the site grows
New guides are added to the existing clusters when readers ask questions the current map does not answer, and existing guides are refreshed when facts, prices, or Google's guidance change — the same maintenance method the site teaches. There is no content quota and no publishing calendar to fill; a smaller library we can stand behind beats a larger one we would have to apologise for.
Independence
ArticlesRanker has no investors, no agency clients, and no sponsored-content programme. Nobody outside the publisher can commission, approve, or veto an article, and no advertiser or affiliate partner sees content before it is published. The site's only commercial relationships are the ones disclosed on this page and in the editorial policy: display advertising and affiliate commissions on tools some readers choose to buy. That narrow funding model is deliberate — a site that teaches independence from SEO folklore should practise a little independence of its own.
A short history, honestly told
This domain previously hosted a landing page for an article-ranking software concept that was never built into a working public product. When the decision was made to retire that concept, the domain was rebuilt from scratch as the advice library you are reading now. We mention it because readers occasionally arrive looking for the old page — and because a site that teaches honest publishing should be honest about its own past, dead ends included.