Changelog

What has shipped

Only things you can use today appear here. For what is still being built, see the Features page.

  1. Site Explorer, Backlinks, Brand Radar and bigger Site Audit, Rank Tracker and Keywords Explorer

    • Site Explorer: an Authority Score from 0 to 100 for any domain, its rank and history, and up to three domains side by side.
    • Backlinks: referring domains with CSV export, new and lost domains since the last update, and the link gap with your competitors.
    • Site Audit: a Health Score, every issue as an error, warning or notice with how to fix it, page speed and Core Web Vitals, and weekly or monthly re-audits that show what changed. Now in every package.
    • Rank Tracker: follow the keywords you choose with daily positions from your Search Console, winners and losers, and history kept past Google's 16 months.
    • Keywords Explorer: ideas from Google, YouTube, Amazon and Bing in one list, and Bing's own search numbers.
    • Brand Radar: how often AI answers name or cite you and up to five competitors, the questions where only competitors appear, and the weekly trend.
    • A new page explains where every number in Rankbist comes from.
    • Upgrade to a bigger package from Plan & billing, with the exact amount shown before you confirm.
    • A monthly allowance of AI actions (AI fixes, section rewrites, fix-agent pages and more), shown in Usage.
  2. Local SEO and Google Business Profile

    • One place for a business's details, checked against what its website says (name, address and phone).
    • A content pack for Google Business Profile: description, services, hours and a photo plan, ready to paste.
    • The US directories worth being listed in, with tracking.
    • Action required: guided, step-by-step tasks for the business owner and the developer, with progress.
    • Review request messages that follow Google's rules, and a count of reviews over time.
    • A Client role for workspaces: clients can see everything and complete their own tasks.
  3. Files and fixes from a site scan

    • A sitemap, a robots.txt and JSON-LD markup generated from your site scan, ready to download.
    • A to-do list for every page, sorted into critical, recommended and optional, with a PDF report.
    • Step-by-step developer guides for WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Webflow, Squarespace and static sites.
    • A check of your live site that shows which of those are actually in place.
  4. Workspaces, team members and credit packs

    • Keep each client or site in its own workspace, with its own reports, articles and scans.
    • Invite people as editors or viewers. Seats are counted per package.
    • Credit packs: one-off top-ups of URL checks or articles, used only after your plan's allowance runs out.
  5. White-label PDF reports

    • Download any report as a PDF with your own logo, colour and contact details.
    • An option to leave Rankbist's name off the PDF entirely.
  6. Free checker, share links and extensions

    • A free SEO checker on the website: one check a day, no account needed.
    • Share a read-only link to any report, and turn it off whenever you like.
    • A fix queue: Rankbist drafts fixes for your monitored pages and nothing changes until you approve them.
  7. Monitoring and search performance

    • Pick pages to re-check every week, with a weekly email of score changes and new issues.
    • Alerts for pages losing search traffic, and searches where two of your pages compete.
    • Bing Webmaster data: Bing rankings, traffic and inbound links for your own site.
    • Visits and conversions that AI assistants send you, from Google Analytics 4.
    • AI citation tracking: a weekly sample of how often AI answers cite your site.
    • Search-volume ranges and topic clusters in keyword research.
  8. Whole-site scans

    • Scan a whole site from its sitemap and links, with every page scored by the same engine as a single check.
    • A site report with patterns across your pages, and a CSV export.
    • Technical checks: broken links, redirect chains, canonical problems, missing titles and descriptions, noindex and mixed content.
    • Near-duplicate and thin pages, orphan pages, and suggested internal links.
    • Which AI crawlers your robots.txt allows or blocks.
    • Image checks from a scan or a single upload: format, size, dimensions, file names and missing alt text.
  9. Deeper reports and page comparison

    • Issues are underlined where they are in your text. Click one to see what is wrong and how to fix it.
    • A sentence-rhythm view shades paragraphs whose sentences are all the same length.
    • Every re-check is kept as a version, with the score change and what was fixed.
    • New report tabs: what to fix first, AI-answer readiness, trust signals, claims to review, search intent and topic coverage.
    • Generate and validate JSON-LD, and see the markup a live page already has.
    • Compare your page with up to five competitors: scores side by side, a difficulty estimate and what they cover that you don't.
  10. Article generator

    • Generate a full article from a title and a short brief, written to a guaranteed minimum word count.
    • Automatic keyword research, an outline you can edit before writing, and a format chosen from search intent.
    • Every article is scored by the same engine as checks and revised up to three times. The score is never adjusted.
    • Meta title, description, slug, excerpt, FAQ, internal link suggestions and JSON-LD come with each article.
    • Rewrite or expand any section, keep every version, and download as Word, Markdown or HTML.
  11. Packages, a clearer website and an installable app

    • New “Start for free” package alongside Starter, Pro and Advanced, with a side-by-side comparison on the pricing page.
    • Every pricing card now ends with the full list of what the package includes.
    • A Features page that marks each feature as live or being built, taken straight from the product.
    • New pages: AI-content checks, Rank & AI visibility, Integrations, Use cases, FAQ, Security and this changelog.
    • Rankbist can be installed as an app from your browser.
    • The blog has search, pages, a contents list on long posts and an RSS feed.
    • A weekly newsletter you can switch on or off in Settings.
    • Newsletter sign-up with confirmation by email.
    • Plan & billing shows exactly what your package includes and its limits.
  12. Yearly billing and free trials

    • Pay monthly or yearly; yearly is priced at ten months.
    • Trials are shown in the dashboard with the date the first charge happens.
    • Subscription changes made in the billing portal show up in the dashboard right away.
  13. Redesigned dashboard

    • New dashboard layout with usage meters, check history and a faster check page.
    • AI fixes for content issues, quoting your own article and never inventing facts.
    • Keyword suggestions, questions, trend direction and trending topics.
    • Google Search Console rankings with the queries closest to the top.
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