Publish your first page

By · Updated June 19, 2026

Let's get a real page live. It takes about five minutes and walks through the whole loop: create, write, optimize, preview, and publish. Everything starts as a draft, so you can experiment freely and nothing goes public until you say so.

Create a draft

Open Content and click New, then choose what you are making:

  • Blog post for news, guides, and articles. The everyday workhorse for SEO.

  • Wiki article for reference pages, with an optional infobox and citations.

  • Documentation for product or developer docs with a grouped sidebar (this page is one).

Give it a title and you are in the editor.

The Content list in BeeRanked, with the New button and filters for Blog post, Wiki article, and Documentation
Content: click New, then pick a blog post, wiki article, or doc.

Write

The editor is clean and familiar. A few things worth knowing:

  • Type / anywhere to insert a block: images, videos, code, callouts, infoboxes, tables, and more.

  • Select text to make it bold, italic, or a link.

  • To add a link, just type it markdown style, [your text](https://example.com), and it becomes a real link automatically.

  • Use headings to structure the page. They build the table of contents and help search engines understand what the page is about.

Do not worry about getting it perfect. You can keep editing after it is published.

The BeeRanked editor with the slash command menu open, listing Heading, Subheading, Bullet List, Numbered List, and Code Block
Type / in the editor to insert headings, lists, images, code, and more.

This is where BeeRanked earns its name. Open Content Enrichment and pick your page. Write the meta title and description yourself, or let BeeRanked suggest optimized ones for you, along with structured data, Open Graph tags, and a canonical URL. The live Google preview shows exactly how your page will look in search results. Good metadata is what turns a page into traffic, so it is worth a minute here.

The Content Enrichment page with SEO, Structured Data, Open Graph, Canonical and Preview tabs, a meta title and description, and a live Google search preview
Content Enrichment: tune your SEO title and description, with a live Google preview.

Preview

Click Preview to see your page exactly as it will appear live, with the real layout and styling, right beside the editor. Drafts are clearly marked "not visible to the public," so previewing is always safe.

The editor's split-screen preview showing the draft rendered on the live site, with a banner reading draft preview not visible to the public
Preview shows your page exactly as it will appear, right beside the editor.

Publish

Happy with it? Click Publish (or Update if it is already live), and your page goes live immediately at your site's address.

What's next

  • Publish a few more pages to build momentum. Search engines reward fresh, consistent content.

  • Group related pages with categories so visitors and crawlers can browse them.

  • Set your goals so the dashboard can track your cadence and progress.

That is the whole loop. Everything else in BeeRanked builds on these same five steps.