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For affiliate + niche sites

Commissions, without
the AI-slop look

RankSpiral writes the reviews and comparisons your niche actually searches for, places your affiliate links only where a sentence earns them, and keeps every anchor inside Google’s rules. Then it counts the clicks.

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  • rel=sponsored on every affiliate anchor
  • Three per article, enforced in code
  • Every click counted per article
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reusable makeup pads

rel="sponsored noopener"

2 of 3 in this article · never in the intro

Without RankSpiral

An affiliate site earns trust
before it earns commissions

The cheap way to run a niche site is to publish a hundred posts that read machine-written and hope volume wins. It stopped working the moment everyone could do it.

The whole site reads as one machine

Forty reviews, one cadence. Readers notice by the second paragraph, and they stop clicking anything.

Links stuffed until nobody trusts them

An affiliate anchor in every paragraph, missing attributes, the same target linked three times.

Old posts rot while new ones ship

The reviews that earned last year slide off page one, and nobody goes back for them.

Clusters picked on volume alone

Three posts chasing the same search result, cannibalising each other instead of covering the niche.

Partner links

4 of 20 configured

Encore ESP grinder

amzn.to/enc-esp…

Affiliate

Stagg EKG kettle

shareasale.com/r.cfm…

Affiliate

Brew course bundle

gumroad.com/brewschool

Product

Old grinder (discontinued)

amzn.to/old-gr…

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Paused links skip new articles

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Your affiliate links

Compliant by construction,
not by reminder

Add your links once — a label, the URL, a line on when each fits. The writer weaves one in only where a phrase genuinely warrants it, and a publish-time pass guarantees the rules a prompt can only request.

  • Every affiliate anchor ships with rel="sponsored noopener" — the attribute Google asks for on paid links, added at publish, not requested of the AI.
  • Three affiliate links per article at most, never in the opening section, never two to the same target. The caps are enforced in code after the article is written.
  • A sentence that criticises a product never carries your link — an endorsement inside a warning is worse than no link at all.

Writer personas

A masthead,
not a machine

Readers notice when forty reviews share one cadence — and so does anyone rating the site. Give each site a small roster of writers with real voices, and the blog index stops reading like one tool on a schedule.

  • Up to four writers per site from Growth up, each with their own name, role, portrait and voice — a preset tone or a fully custom description.
  • Writers own beats: assign a persona to a topic pillar and every article in that cluster keeps one voice, the way a real masthead works.
  • The rotation carries an anti-streak guard — the same byline never publishes three posts in a row.

Writers

4 of 4 personas

MC

Maya Calloway

Reviews editor

Owns: Grinders + machines
JM

Jonas Mercer

Brewing guides

Owns: Brew methods
RA

Ruby Ashford

Beginner content

Writes 2× more often
TV

Theo Vega

Deals + comparisons

Rotation only

Never the same byline three in a row

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Back catalogue

38 posts imported

Best espresso grinder under $200

Position 11 · 6 queries in striking distance

Refresh

Moka pot vs AeroPress

Slid 8 → 19 over 90 days

Rewrite

How to clean a burr grinder

Holding page one

Leave alone

Espresso tamping guide (2023)

Imported · 2 anchor phrases found in your prose

Retrolink

Imports are free — no allowance spent

Review verdicts →

Your back catalogue

Your old posts are
the fastest money

A niche site that has been publishing for years is sitting on rankings it already paid for. RankSpiral starts there before it writes anything new.

41%

of customer revenue comes from posts that existed before RankSpiral

  • Import your existing posts free — they never count against your article allowance.
  • Every post gets a verdict from its real performance — refresh, rewrite, or leave alone. Refreshes only add sections and FAQ entries; the text that already ranks is never touched.
  • The retrolink pass threads your affiliate links into old posts using phrases already in your prose, under the same caps as new articles. Nothing changes on a live page without your approval.

One article, end to end

From a keyword to a commission, in five steps

The same pipeline every article runs. What makes it an affiliate pipeline is step four.

1

Cluster

Reviews and comparisons grouped on live Google results, not model guesses.

Day 1
2

Brief

Outline built from what currently ranks, plus real People-Also-Ask questions.

Day 1
3

Write

One of your writer personas takes it, in their own voice.

Day 2
4

Link

Your affiliate links placed where a sentence earns them — capped and attributed in code.

Automatic
5

Count

Every affiliate click tracked back to the article that sent it.

Ongoing

Niche sites running on RankSpiral

What a niche site does in year one

Averages across the 214 sites on the platform. Niches differ; the shape of the curve does not.

$25.7k

new revenue per site in the first twelve months

1 in 6

articles reach the top ten, against 1 in 34 for other AI SEO writers

41%

of that revenue comes from posts that existed before RankSpiral

4,820

clicks a month by month twelve

Revenue as reported by customers; clicks are measured, and ad-blocked visits are never counted — treat each figure as a floor.

Sep 2025 – Sep 2026 · Organic trafficOrganic traffic over twelve months: from a flat line to 40k

We had forty old posts doing nothing. RankSpiral rewrote twelve of them before writing a single new one, and that alone tripled our clicks.

Dana Whitfield

Dana Whitfield

Founder, gardenlab.co

Questions from affiliate operators

You add them once, in your site's settings: up to twenty partner links, each with a label, the URL, whether it's an affiliate link or a plain partner link, and an optional line on when it fits. The writer weaves one in only where a phrase genuinely warrants it — a recommendation, a "where to buy" moment — and an article that fits none of them carries none of them. Pause a link and new articles stop using it; delete one and your already-published articles keep theirs.

See what your niche
could still pay

Start with one site. We map the niche on live Google results, surface the clusters you can actually win, and write your first two articles with your links in place.

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