Articles

An article record holds a generated draft, your edits and, once you add it, the live URL used for citation tracking. Open Content → Drafts, then the article row to review it.

Access and article credits

Generating, editing and retrying an article need owner or editor access to the brand. Client portals do not include Content.

• Eligible Free accounts have 1 generated article per 30-day credit period. This is an account allowance, not one free article for every brand. Purchased top-up credits can add to the balance.
• Paid Growth normally includes 25 article credits per period; Scale normally includes 100. Add-ons and managed accounts can change the balance. Read the balance shown before starting.
• Paused subscriptions and cancelled trials do not automatically qualify for the Free allowance. Resolve the access message shown on the page.
• Campaign creation, section rewrites, CMS publishing and live URL tracking need paid access. A Free article can still be edited by hand and exported.

One full article generation reserves one credit. On success it consumes that credit. A failed generation returns the reserved credit automatically. Credits belong to the billing account and can be shared across its brands.

Create and review a draft

1. 1.Open Content and choose Write → Write article, or choose Write article on an idea.
2. 2.Enter a title. A manually entered title is still a request for a generated article; the current composer is not a blank manual editor.
3. 3.In Setup, choose Template, Length and an optional Destination. A destination can be chosen later.
4. 4.In Review, read the credit cost and confirm the writing action. A single article has Title, Setup and Review steps; a campaign also asks for its name and brief.
5. 5.Open the article in Drafts. The stage runs through Research, Draft, Enhance, Verify and Score. Allow a few minutes and follow any error shown.
6. 6.Review the finished draft, especially its claims, quotes, source URLs, product details and links. Supply facts only your team knows through the Knowledge base.

The writer uses the brand settings, voice, knowledge, template, site link candidates and available citation research. These inputs help shape a draft; they do not remove the need for an editorial review.

Failed generation and retries

Use Retry generation on the failed article. It starts another full attempt on the same article record and reserves a credit again. The earlier failed attempt is refunded, so a successful retry should leave one article credit spent overall.

If a request times out or queue confirmation is pending, reopen the same record and check its status before starting another article. Repeating the same creation request or retry is designed to recover the existing work without a duplicate article or credit charge. A separate creation submission is a separate request. If the page says the article changed, reload it before retrying. Contact support if the status or credit balance remains wrong.

Editing the draft

Click a paragraph, heading or list to edit it. Escape cancels, Cmd+Enter (or Ctrl+Enter) commits, and clicking away saves. Check the saved indicator before leaving.

On a paid plan, Regenerate section rewrites body prose while preserving separate headings, quotes, statistics, lists and source blocks. Review the replacement before relying on it. It does not spend a full article credit.

History lists the generated draft and edit checkpoints. Restoring a checkpoint saves the version you are leaving too. Manual edits and restores do not spend article credits. They update the record in Trakkr, not the live page in your CMS.

Checks and citation likelihood

The rail shows Checks and Citation likelihood. Both are aids for reviewing the draft. Neither proves that the facts are correct, that a source supports a claim, or that an AI engine will cite the page.

Citation likelihood is a 0 to 100 heuristic based on document features and scoring signals, with per-engine estimates. It is not a measured probability or a validated forecast. Use its breakdown to spot possible improvements, then judge the article against the buyer question and sources.

The eight visible checks inspect the structured draft:

Checks and estimates update when you save. A pass can reflect that a check is not applicable or has limited evidence, so read the detail and the draft instead of treating eight passes as publication approval. Never invent statistics, quotes or dates to improve a score.

Publishing

Publish or export an article

Open Publish on the article. The sheet is called Publish or export. Choose the route that matches where the article will live.

Export to publish yourself

1. 1.Choose Export.
2. 2.Use Copy Markdown, Copy HTML or Download .md. Older articles with only Markdown may export Markdown instead of HTML.
3. 3.Paste or import it into your publishing tool. Review formatting, sources and links there, then publish.
4. 4.On a paid plan, return to the same article's Publish sheet, choose Already live somewhere, enter the public Live article URL, then Verify and track.
5. 5.Check URL health and confirm that the URL points to the intended article. Use Recheck after fixing an access or indexing issue.

Exporting alone does not publish the article or bind a live URL. Free accounts can export their draft; live URL tracking needs paid access.

Send a CMS draft

Connect the site for this brand under Sites, then select it in the Publish sheet and choose Push draft. This route sends a draft, so review and publish it in the CMS. Return with its public URL to verify tracking. If delivery could not be confirmed, check the CMS before pushing again.

The sheet disables another push to a site that already holds a recorded CMS draft. Editing in Trakkr does not automatically update that draft or the published CMS page.

Bind an existing page

Choose Already live somewhere to attach a page you have already published to this article record. Enter its public URL and use Verify and track. This is a binding workflow, not an import of arbitrary page text into a new blank article.

The match check is limited; a verified title is not a full comparison of every paragraph. A sitemap match may suggest a URL for an unbound article, but review it before accepting.

After it goes live

A bound article gains Performance: citations, engines, queries, crawler activity and a timeline, where those measurements are available. Citations match the recorded live URL, so keep it accurate and check redirects or canonical changes when evidence looks missing.

Crawler visits do not prove the content was used in an answer. No recorded crawls can also mean a missing connection or a collection gap. If citations are absent, inspect access, prompt fit and the competing cited pages before deciding what to rewrite. Investigate a citation shows how.

Campaigns and refresh

Campaigns group articles with target queries and an editable brief. Read their coverage against the recorded baseline, keeping the same query scope when comparing.

Refresh stale applies to campaign articles published more than 21 days ago with no recorded citation. It needs paid access and enough credits. Each selected article queues a new generated draft linked to the earlier article and reserves one credit. Repeating the same refresh is designed to recover that batch.

Refresh does not rewrite the live CMS page automatically. Review each replacement draft, update or publish through your chosen route, and verify the live URL. A refresh is an editorial decision, not a promise that the next draft will be cited.

Common questions

Can I write entirely by hand?

Write in your own editor or CMS if you want to avoid generation. You can edit an existing Trakkr article by hand, and on a paid plan bind its corresponding live page. The current Create composer generates from the title; it does not offer a blank article without generation.

Does an edit after publishing reach the live site?

No. It changes the Trakkr record. Make the matching update in your CMS, then check the live page and URL health.

Which operations use an article credit?

Full generation, a successful full retry and each campaign refresh draft use a credit. Failed generation is refunded. Manual edits, checkpoint restores, exports and URL rechecks do not spend article credits. Section rewrites do not spend a full article credit, but need paid access.