The same autopilot, minus the borrowed links.
Outrank publishes SEO content on full autopilot, and then does something Mastheads never would: it runs a reciprocal "Backlink Exchange" that drops links to your site inside other users' articles, and theirs inside yours. In its own words, "when other users create content, our AI automatically adds links to your website in their articles." That's the reciprocal-link pattern Google's link-spam policy discourages, and when a network is flagged, the penalty lands on your domain, not Outrank's. Mastheads spends that same engineering on the opposite thing: checking claims and earning trust.
I would never let a tool put strangers' links in my articles, or mine in theirs. That is the whole of this page.
Outrank publishes on autopilot with no fact-check, no citations, and no AI-disclosure, and its headline growth feature is a reciprocal backlink exchange, link-scheme mechanics that put risk on your domain you can't see or control. Broad reach, borrowed authority, and none of the editorial accountability that lets you put a name on it.
The tape.
Fact-checked against cited sources
Waits for your review before publishing
Real named byline / editor of record
Auto-publishes to your CMS
Runs autonomously on a schedule
Native languages
EU AI Act disclosure · GDPR rights · DMCA agent
You own it + one-click export
Positioning
- No reciprocal backlink network, so a flagged link scheme can't take your domain down with it.
- Every article fact-checked against its sources, and a weak one says so rather than passing as clean, instead of published unverified.
- Named bylines, an authenticity trace, EU AI Act disclosure and a registered DMCA agent.
- Authority you earn because the writing is worth citing, not authority borrowed from a network you don't control.
What you get that Outrank doesn't.
Sourced, or it doesn't ship
Every article is written from cited sources and cross-checked against them before delivery. A judge vets each source for the specific story - right event, right dates, real substance - and a topic that can't be properly sourced is dropped, not padded. No source, no article.
A real editor of record
Nothing publishes anonymously. Each article carries a real named byline and a human editor of record, accountable for editorial standards, source policy, and disputes - the person whose name is on the door.
Review by default; auto-publish you can defend
Every claim is checked against its sources and the result is written on the article, and nothing ships silently. Auto-publish is opt-in and runs the very same checks - trustworthy when it's unattended, not merely unchecked.
Compliance built in, not bolted on
EU AI Act Article 50 disclosure on anything published unattended, self-serve GDPR export and account deletion with access and correction on request, a registered DMCA agent, and cover images we draw rather than take off the open web, so there is no stock-image rights question to clear - standard on every plan.
A newsroom in any language
Any language, for any country - written in its own grammar and idiom rather than translated, held to the same quality bar, all under one subscription. Where we curate a local newsroom register, it takes that too.
Your content, never locked in
A read-only pull API, and one-click export to WordPress WXR, Ghost, and Markdown with every image. You own the articles outright - no royalty, no attribution back to us.
Outrank and Mastheads publish to your CMS on autopilot in many languages, genuinely similar machinery. Then Outrank bolts on a backlink exchange to inflate domain rating, the exact tactic Google's 2026 link-spam work targets, and hands you the downside if the network is caught. Mastheads spends that same engineering on checking claims, naming what fell short, and leaving a trace you'd be happy to show a search engine.
Under the hood: it discovers stories in your niche, writes them in your voice, fact-checks against sources, illustrates, and publishes to your CMS, on your schedule.
How it worksCommon questions
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