Podia is made for courses, downloads and memberships, but it offers no API to publish posts into a blog. Sorank still gives you a fully automated SEO blog on your own domain.
Podia focuses on selling digital products and running your storefront, not blog publishing. There is no endpoint to push an article into a Podia blog, so instead of pasting every post by hand, you let Sorank host the blog for you.
Sorank publishes and hosts your articles on your own subdomain, for example blog.yourdomain.com, linked from your Podia site. Every post strengthens your domain authority.
Full walkthrough: Host your blog on Sorank.
Add a Blog link in your Podia navigation pointing to your hosted blog subdomain. Visitors move smoothly between your storefront and your blog, and Google indexes both under your domain.
Can Sorank publish directly into Podia? No. Podia has no public API to create blog posts, on any plan.
Do I keep my content if I leave? Yes. Export your whole blog any time and re-import it elsewhere. Your content is always yours.
Does the hosted blog cost extra? No, it is included in your Sorank subscription.