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SEO for startups works under three constraints older companies do not have: a new domain that Google barely knows, a product name nobody searches yet, and a positioning that may change after the next ten customer calls. Sorank is built around them. It finds the problem searches a young site can rank for, publishes articles that lead to your signup, brings links from other Sorank users' sites, and checks every month whether ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini mention you at all.
Setup takes one session with a founder, and plans start at $49 per month.
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"How to track inventory in Google Sheets", "how to split rent with roommates fairly", "first employee contract checklist": people who need a new product describe their problem, rarely the category, and many of these searches face little competition. Sorank finds them in your Search Console data and on the sites you compete with, sorts them by difficulty and plans the articles a young site can rank with before it goes after broad terms.
Intent and difficulty are shown for every keyword in keyword research.
Google finds pages mostly through links from pages it already knows, and a domain registered last quarter has almost none. Sorank brings links to your site from other Sorank users' websites, then shows which domains the AI assistants cite in your field: launch platforms, directories, podcasts, newsletters or a rival's blog. That list tells you where a founder interview or a product listing will weigh most.
Every cited domain is ranked, model by model, in the GEO leaderboard.
A new product is often missing from AI answers for a plain reason: the assistants have read little about it. Ask ChatGPT for "the simplest way to [the job your product does]" and you see who it names today. Sorank asks the prompts of your problem every month in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and lists the questions where you are absent, so each new article and each new mention can aim at one of them.
Pick those questions, each tagged with its intent, in AI prompt research.
A Webflow landing page, a WordPress blog, a Wix or Shopify store, or a custom stack through a webhook: Sorank publishes where your site lives and reads Search Console from its very first impressions.
Describe the problem you solve, who has it and the tools or habits they rely on today. Sorank builds the first keyword plan from that brief and from the competitors you name.
Articles go live on the days you choose or wait as drafts. When the positioning moves, edit the brief: the next articles follow it, and the dashboard shows which earlier ones still bring visits.
THEY TRIED SORANK BEFORE YOU
“I tested Sorank on a real client site and it's insane. It does everything an agency would bill you $1500 a month for. It's going into production on that client now.”
Guillaume Guersanguersanguillaume.com
“I just let the Sorank software do its thing, and now my DR is 25 and my page is ranking higher.”
Lucas Flandrefoundertrace.fr“Great service, works well for our website and helps us understand how to improve it to rank better on Google and elsewhere. Congrats, keep going, I recommend it.”
Hugo T.E-commerce merchant“For 2 years, 100% of my clients came from LinkedIn. Posting daily, commenting, DM follow-ups… totally dependent on the algorithm. I knew I needed to work on SEO but always postponed it: too long, too technical, not my job. With Sorank, I finally took the step. In 4 months, I generate 15 organic leads per month without posting anything. It’s not 50/50 with LinkedIn yet, but I sleep better knowing I now have a second lead source growing on autopilot.”
Valentin ThomyColdMailing Agency
“I’m a developer, not a marketer. My Shopify theme was selling only through word-of-mouth and ads. With Sorank I finally understood how to structure my SEO and write articles to rank. The audit showed my product page was too slow. In 2 months, my organic traffic doubled and I’m starting to appear in ChatGPT answers when people search for Shopify themes. All of that with about 2 hours per week.”
Thème FullStackgo.themefullstack.com“Great solution to manage SEO without headaches. Audits are fast, the interface is clear, and you quickly see which actions to implement. It has become an essential tool to track and improve the SEO of my sites. I highly recommend it.”
XavEntrepreneur“I used Sorank for a client who needed SEO and it clearly made my life easier. I can quickly audit a site, track my projects, and keep a clear overview without multiplying tools. The onboarding is fast and the interface is great.”
Céline MaurinFreelance CM
“Blown away by Sorank’s performance. After testing many solutions on the market, I was amazed by how quickly our articles started ranking in the SERP. The results are concrete and much faster than anything we’ve experienced so far. It has been an excellent surprise for our team. We are confidently renewing our trust and highly recommend Sorank to agencies that demand fast and measurable results.”
Patrick PerretFreelance Webdesign SEO“We’re a development agency and we use Sorank to run on-page audits on our clients’ Shopify stores. It helps us quickly identify optimization opportunities, structure fixes, and collaborate more easily with clients on the SEO side. Very useful to complement our technical support 🔥”
Younes Yahyaluvaika.com“We are an Ads agency and we wanted to get our SEO back on track once and for all. Sorank gave us a clear view of our site, helped us prioritize optimizations, and properly structure our content. The tool is easy to use, well designed for a team, and very practical for centralizing tracking without having to juggle multiple platforms. A very solid foundation to start fresh with our SEO.”
Gaspard MadouiAds Agency“I specialized in GEO thanks to Sorank. The GEO Leaderboard allows me to show my clients their position vs competitors on ChatGPT. It’s a real commercial differentiator.”
MélanieSEO Freelance“I manage our dealership’s website and it had dozens of issues: slow pages, 404 errors, missing tags. We were losing rankings every month without understanding why. The Sorank audit detected everything in 5 minutes. I sent the report to our web provider with the priority fixes. We regained our rankings and traffic picked back up. Perfect for someone non-technical like me!”
Xavier BreullMarketing Manager“I’m a CMO for a SaaS and I manage acquisition in a very competitive market. We were investing heavily in our product but not working on our SEO. No visibility on our real competitors, no tracking of our presence in AI. Sorank showed us our positioning vs competitors, which keywords to target, and GEO opportunities we had completely ignored!”
Louis RAPPCMO SaaS
“Very good version 2, I recommend it.”
Antoine Verhillethenewblack.ai“I was skeptical at first, but this is the best SEO tool I’ve ever used. The interface is clear, audits are fast, and the recommendations are easy to implement. I’ve saved hours and hours managing SEO and tracking performance. I recommend it to all my entrepreneur friends who run an agency or work independently.”
NoahEntrepreneur
Founder’s Note.
I ran my own SEO agency for years. I built Sorank to deliver the same results to every business, at scale.
Everything I know about Google rankings and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is coded into this software, and it runs on autopilot for you.
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SEO for startups is the work of bringing future users to a young company's site from Google and from AI assistants, before the brand is known. Three things set it apart. The domain starts with few links and little history, so broad keywords stay out of reach for a while. Nobody searches the product name yet, so every visit has to come from a problem search. And the positioning can change within months, so the plan has to follow.
Our guide to SEO for new websites covers the technical first steps; this page covers the content and the AI answers.
As soon as you can describe the problem you solve in your customers' words, even before the product is final. Search takes time to respond: Google's SEO Starter Guide notes that some changes take effect in a few hours and others take several months, and advises waiting a few weeks before judging whether a change worked. Articles started at launch are already working by the time paid channels get expensive or a funding round runs low.
Before you find product-market fit, write about the problem rather than the product: those articles stay useful even if the solution changes. Feature pages and comparisons can wait until the product and its rivals are settled.
Narrow ones, at first. Keep the keyword difficulty low and the intent close to your product:
Broad terms such as "inventory software" come once the site has links and a track record. Our guide to content marketing for startups shows how to sequence them.
By being worth mentioning where your buyers read. The same starter guide states that Google finds pages mainly through links from pages it has already crawled, so the first links also speed up discovery. Early sources are within reach: launch platforms, founder interviews on podcasts, partner and integration pages, a small dataset drawn from your own usage, the newsletters of your niche. Sorank adds links from other users' websites.
One shortcut to avoid: writing your own Wikipedia article. Wikipedia's notability guideline for companies asks for significant coverage in several reliable sources independent of the company, and press releases or routine funding announcements do not count. It matters because Wikipedia weighs heavily on one assistant: our Wikipedia citation study measured it in 3.43% of ChatGPT's answers against 0.03% of Claude's. Earn the press coverage first; an entry written by others may follow.
Ask them, and measure. Pick the ten to twenty questions a buyer would type about your problem and check every month which products ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini name; a new startup usually starts at zero on most of them. On Google, the branded queries filter of Search Console separates searches that include your brand name, its misspellings or your products from all the others. Google introduced it in November 2025 for top-level properties with enough data. Growth on the branded side shows that people have heard of you; growth on the other side shows that your articles reach people who have not, yet. The glossary entry on branded queries explains the difference.
Most of it survives if the articles were about the problem. Update the site brief and the competitors you track, and the next articles follow the new positioning. Then sort the existing ones: keep those that still serve your buyers, rewrite those that describe the old product, and send the rest to the closest page with a 301 redirect rather than deleting them, so the visits and links they earned still reach you.
Sorank handles the keyword plan, the articles with sources and internal links, publication on WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Shopify or any stack through a webhook, links from Sorank users' sites, the monthly AI tracking and one dashboard for Search Console, Analytics and AI visits.
The founders keep what software cannot do for them: the positioning, the product and pricing pages, the launch, interviews and talks, and the customer stories. If you sell software, the SaaS page covers comparison and integration pages; if your product is built on AI, read the AI companies page; for an established small company, the page for business owners fits better.
Sorank costs $49 a month per site on the yearly Essential plan, or $99 without commitment, for 20 articles a month. Pro ($129 yearly, $249 monthly) publishes 60 and adds Grok to the tracking; Business ($249 yearly, $499 monthly) publishes 120 (see pricing). Each plan starts with 3 free days and carries the 90-day results-or-refund guarantee. For a seed-stage team, it is a fixed line in the budget, with no hire and no retainer to manage. Our review of the best SEO tools for startups lists the alternatives.
Longer than for an established site, because a new domain starts without links or history. Google sets no fixed delay: expect the first impressions in Search Console within weeks of publishing and steady clicks over several months. Judge the plan after three months on non-branded impressions and clicks, the signups Analytics attributes to organic search, and the number of tracked prompts where an assistant names you.
As soon as you can describe the problem you solve in your customers' words. Write about the problem first; feature pages and comparisons can wait until the product and its competitors are settled.
Yes, on narrow searches first: problem questions, templates and segment searches with low difficulty. Broad category terms usually need links and history, which a young site builds over months.
From $49 a month per site on a yearly plan, or $99 month to month, for 20 articles a month. There is a 3-day free trial and a 90-day results-or-refund guarantee.
Give it sources to read: articles on your own site that answer the problem, plus independent mentions on launch platforms, podcasts, directories and partner pages. Then track the prompts of your problem every month to see where you are still missing.
Update the site brief and the tracked competitors so new articles follow the new positioning. Keep the articles that still help your buyers, rewrite the others or redirect them to the closest page.
Yes. Sorank publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Wix and Shopify, and to Next.js or any custom stack through a webhook. Articles go live on your schedule or wait as drafts.
We don't. Sorank isn't trying to be another Semrush or Ahrefs. Those tools are built for data, Sorank is built to do the work. Instead of more dashboards to check, it turns SEO and GEO insights into actions: articles written and published, backlinks earned, technical fixes and AI visibility tracking. Less complexity, more results.
From $49/month per website on a yearly plan, with a 3-day free trial and a 90-day money-back guarantee (conditions apply). Every plan includes articles, AI visibility tracking and access to natural backlink acquisition; higher plans add more articles, more AI prompts tracked and more backlinks. No setup fees, no paying for seats you don't use.
You shouldn't need a full marketing team or expensive tools to grow. Sorank handles your entire SEO and AI visibility, so you save time and money.
