Changelog
What shipped
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- Comparison pages and industry SEO guides written by our own content engine, served under /compare and /seo-for, plus a live case study of Rank Sphere running on Rank Sphere.
- Learning loop: every Monday the articles that earn clicks are compared with the rest, and the winning length and structure become the writer's target.
- Google AI Overviews tracked on every rank check, prompt research with volume, AI crawler analytics, internal linking on hosted blogs, location pages for multi-location businesses.
- City-level rank checks, author bylines with Person schema and an author page, brief approval before drafting, meta description and cover alt editing, prompt limits per plan.
- Annual plans, add-ons for extra sites, posts and prompts, pause instead of cancel, a what-you-lose screen, and a win-back offer.
- Public status page with five-minute health checks and automatic recovery, nightly backups, cookie consent, sub-processors list.
- Owner: costs and profit per client with every AI, image, rank-check and email call priced.
- Onboarding fixes from a full new-customer walkthrough: no human check for signed-in audits, audits never time out, clearer duplicate-blog errors, first-article screen always runs, titles keep acronyms, articles carry today's date.
- Instant hosted blog: go live on <brand>.ranksphereai.com without DNS, first article within minutes, blog placement guide.
- Guided product tour, content grouped by site, article editor with preview, redraft, humanize and improve-score.
- Authority Boost: vetted link placements bought per unit, verified live and re-checked for 90 days.
- Google Search Console and GA4 connect per site with automatic property matching.
- Weekly reports redesigned; websites can be added and removed within plan limits; full mobile layout.
- Team invites with owner, admin, and member roles, sent as branded emails.
- Agency client workspaces: isolated org per client, switchable from the Agency page.
- White-label weekly reports with your brand name, logo, and accent color, downloadable as PDF.
- Referral links: give a month, get a month.
- Comparison pages and industry-specific free audit pages.
- Discovery pipeline fixed for crawls started from the dashboard; crawls now run in the background after the request returns.
- Google sign-in through our own OAuth flow.
- Stricter audit grading with a floor for established brands.
- Setup progress turned into quests with XP and levels; friendlier director copy throughout.
- Security pass: safe post-auth redirects, OAuth callback ownership check, server-side HTML sanitization for articles and fixes, header-only cron secret.
- Branded confirmation, resend, and password-reset emails sent through Resend with our own verification route.
- Onboarding and auth overhaul: verify-email state, Google button, forgot and reset password, First Day wizard, onboarding checklist, mobile dashboard nav.
- Exhaustive audit grading with full issue reveal and tighter severity penalties.
- Cinematic landing redesign: pinned scroll storytelling, parallax backdrop, feature cards with video loops, HUD stat counters.
- Competitor intelligence derived from SERP snapshots, refreshed on every rank check, plus a live competitor X-ray on the landing page.
- Custom 404, sitemap, robots, llms.txt, per-page titles and canonicals, Organization, WebSite, SoftwareApplication, and FAQ structured data.
- Turnstile on the free-audit form, enforced server-side.
- Blog hero and social images generated and stored in Supabase Storage.
- Production config: ranksphereai.com, 3-day trial, Growth at $99, live Stripe prices.
- AI visibility tracking moved to the current Gemini model.
- Phases 3 to 5: rank tracking, Search Console, AI-visibility tracker across four engines, on-page fixes with rollback monitor, dashboard director, weekly report email, integrations, agency plan.
- Phase 2: site connections, discovery pipeline, content engine with quality gates, hosted blog, scheduling.
- Phase 1: landing page with a real free audit engine, auth and organizations, Stripe billing, dashboard, director chat.
- Hero and engine-sequence visuals.