Your profile and account

Your profile belongs to you rather than to any workspace, so what you set here follows you between sites. The page is Profile, headed "Tell us how you use Rankbench — it shapes what we put front and centre for you."

Your name and photo

Your name is described as "How you appear across Rankbench — on your workspace, and to anyone you swap links with." That last part matters: a partner deciding whether to trade links with you sees this name.

Upload photo takes a JPEG, PNG or WebP. Large photos are resized in your browser before they are uploaded rather than being sent in full and shrunk afterwards. The photo appears in the app's header as soon as it saves.

Email address

Described as "The address you sign in with, and where anything important gets sent."

Changing it is deliberately two-step, and the page explains why: "We email the new address first — the change only happens when you open that link, so a typo cannot lock you out."

So until you open that link you keep signing in with your current address. Nothing breaks in the meantime.

Password

Current password, then the new one twice. At least eight characters.

One useful detail: "Changing it signs out nothing else — your other sessions keep working." Changing your password here is not an emergency lockout of every device.

How you sign in

"More than one way can be connected to the same account."

The list shows Email and password with your address, and Google. Connecting Google to an account that has a password gives you both routes in, which is worth doing before you need it.

About you

Two questions, with the honest framing above them: "Change these anytime — nothing breaks, the product just re-arranges around what you care about."

What best describes you? offers freelancer, author, agency and organisation, and takes as many as fit. The helper line says "Writer, site owner, or both — pick everything that fits."

What are you interested in? offers guest posts, link swaps, site check-up, auto blog posts, ranking better in search, and paid collaborations. It is described as "What we put first in your sidebar and dashboard."

Neither answer grants or removes anything. Every module you can reach with one set of answers, you can reach with any other. They are preferences about emphasis, not permissions.

Save preferences commits them.

Notifications

A section at the bottom pointing at the real controls, described as "Choose what appears in your bell and which updates arrive by email." Manage notification preferences opens them. See how Rankbench tells you things.

Where to go next

To change what a whole workspace looks like from outside, read workspace settings.