Changelog
3 years ago
Custom element monitoring 🤖
New
  • You can now monitor changes for custom HTML elements using CSS or XPath selectors
3 years ago
SERP Features 👑
New
  • We now display the most common SERP features in the keywords table (don't forget to add the column to your existing sites !)
  • You can now filter keywords by SERP features presence
  • You can now export your keyword positions for a given date range See how to
  • Fix: lil' bugs squashed as usual 🐛
3 years ago
Backlink owner 🏷️
Improvement
  • You can now assign an account to a backlink. See how to
  • You can now see the backlink owner in the backlinks table. See how to
  • The account adding a new backlink is by default the backlink owner
  • You can now import backlinks from a CSV file
  • Fix: lil' bugs squashed as usual 🐛
3 years ago
Text/Regex presence check 📜
New
  • You can now check if a page contains a specific custom text/regex (new check type)
3 years ago
Improvement
  • You can now load URLs through a XML sitemap (page checks)
  • After group creation, the group is now automatically selected
  • Fixing a bug when loading keyword details page before any ranking fetch
  • Fixing a bug leading to alert edit not saved in some cases
4 years ago
Improvement
  • You can now see changes history in a check's details page
4 years ago
New
  • Check details page
  • H1 change detection
4 years ago
New
  • You can now display the Page Rank score (between 0 and 100) of your backlinks
4 years ago
Fix
  • Fixing a bug on backlinks date filter
  • Fixing a bug alert edition
4 years ago
Fix
  • Fixing keywords search
4 years ago
Fix
  • Fixing sorting by last checked date
4 years ago
Fix
  • Fixing a bug while sorting + filtering the backlinks table
  • Improved backlink analysis accuracy
  • Improved bulk edition/deletion speed
4 years ago
Fix
  • Easier selection of the Google Analytics property
  • Fixed a confusing redirection when adding mobile keywords on a site with desktop view as default
4 years ago
Fix
  • Multiple fixes following last update
4 years ago
New UI
Improvement
  • Big rework on how the app works for a more modern UX. Some parts are still with the old look and will get reworked progressively
4 years ago
Improvement
  • You can now specify link cost when adding backlinks instead of individual editing
  • You can now filter backlinks by creation date
4 years ago
Bugs fixes 🐛
Fix
  • Fixing keyword up count computation
  • Some behind the scenes improvement
4 years ago
Core Web Vitals monitoring 💓
New
Health checks can now monitor the Core Web Vitals metrics of your pages and trigger alerts when it's above a specific threshold !
4 years ago
Keyword details improvement 🔎
Improvement
  • Redesigned ranking chart
  • You now have 4 charts for the GSC data (if integration enabled)
  • There's now a period picker to zoom charts on preset periods
  • SERP Diff now have a light and a full mode
4 years ago
Bugs fixes 🐛
Fix
  • Fixing a bug that did not allow addon users to add a website
  • Addon users are not shown on-boarding checklist anymore
  • When you put multiple keywords in a group it does not override existing groups anymore
  • Whitelabel logo is resized to fit correctly
  • The sidebar UI is cleaner
4 years ago
Local tracking 📍
New
You can now track your positions in the local rankings !
4 years ago
Bugs fixes 🐛
Fix
Fixing competitor tracking and select all button in backlinks explorer
4 years ago
Delete/edit individual item tags
Improvement
Before you couldn't delete a tag without deleting the item as edit was add-only. Now you can overwrite tags of items when it's the only item selected (batch edition is still add-only)
4 years ago
Keyword volatility checker
New
Added a new keyword volatility checker tool accessible through the top-right menu
4 years ago
Keyword group list
Improvement
The list of keyword groups is now updated when adding/deleting a group, without having to refresh anymore
4 years ago
Shared view loading bug 🐛
Fix
Fixed a bug where data could not load with filters in shared views
4 years ago
#OutOfBeta milestone 🎉
New
Not really a new feature, but just wanted to acknowledge that SEOwl now finally looks more like what I initially visualized when starting out.
Still loads of ideas on the roadmap but it will be more improvement in the features than brand new positioning feature.
Big THANK YOU to everyone who joined early, especially day 1 supporters (you know who you are).
Have a comment ? I'm always available at [email protected] !
4 years ago
Automatic backlink discovery 🤖
New
You can now enable automatic backlinks discovery on your website to automatically add new backlinks under monitoring as soon as they are created (and crawled)
4 years ago
Automatic backlinks finding 👌
Improvement
Remember that button 'Find my backlinks' in beta for ages ?
It is now connected to a larger data source and is now finally worth its name...
Use it to find your existing backlinks when you first add a website !
4 years ago
Backlinks explorer 🧭
New
You can now find and export the backlinks of any website
using the backlink explorer ! Access it in the top right corner at any moment.
4 years ago
Automatic keywords import 🤖
New
You can now add new keywords automatically from Google Search Console to the rank tracking.
Configure which keywords should be added based on clicks/impressions and enjoy your automated rank tracking !
4 years ago
Alerts v2 🔔
New
Brand new alerting system
Good bye old notification settings, you now create your own alerts from various conditions, various triggers to various channels
Maximum flexibility 👊
4 years ago
Smart views🧠
New
You can save your filtered keyword views as a smart view for easy access.
For example you can create a filtered view called "Winners" highlighting keywords with ranking increase, that kind of thing 🥰
4 years ago
Speed improvement 🚅
Improvement
You should now have reduced load time overall, especially when you have lot of keywords/backlinks ✨
4 years ago
GDS Connector 📈
New
You can now access your SEOwl keywords data in Google Data Studio ! See documentation
4 years ago
Organic visits
Improvement
Now making a distinction between overall visits and organic visits in your dashboard and in your reports (new widget : organic visits) Slight changes in how organic visits are counted for pages
4 years ago
Health Checks
New
Now introducing health checks 👉 Monitor all your websites for things like domain expiration, ssl expiration, indexation issue, redirection issue and more ! 10+ checks already available 🔥
4 years ago
Minor bug fixes
Fix
Found little bugs, destroyed little bugs 🔪🐛🐛
4 years ago
Filter by keyword group / tags in keywords widget
Improvement
In your reports you can now filter the table by keyword group and/or keyword tags 🔥
4 years ago
Duplicate components in reports
Improvement
Until now you couldn't add the same widget multiple times in report... now you can ! (with different settings)
4 years ago
Mail reports widgets
Improvement
Backlinks table, keywords table and all analytics widgets are now available for HTML reports 🎉
4 years ago
Support user timezone
Improvement
Reports and dates will now be using your timezone instead of UTC. Your timezone is guessed automatically from your browser and can be edited manually in your profile settings.
4 years ago
Minor bug fixes
Fix
🐛 those usual bug squishes to start the new year off on the right foot.
4 years ago
Shift select on tables
Improvement
You can now select multiple rows in a range using the shift+click shortcut
4 years ago
Fixing empty tags in client emails on UI
Fix
4 years ago
Display referring domains count
Improvement
4 years ago
Select only filtered results
Fix
4 years ago
Keywords group
Improvement
You can now display keywords belonging to a group by clicking on a group and setting the group directly when adding keywords.
4 years ago
Fixing Group keywords inaccurate graph when using competitors
Fix
Thanks @tyler for the finding
4 years ago
Issue with report saving
Fix
Thanks @tyler
4 years ago
Fixing issue with SERP View
Fix
Thanks @Mohan for bringing this to our attention
4 years ago
Fixing incorrect matching of URL in SERP
Fix
Thank you @Marco for the finding
4 years ago
Fixing some mobile responsivity issue
Fix
4 years ago
Change column order - Keyword Tab
Improvement
4 years ago
Rework table filters UI
Improvement
4 years ago
Adding background color to highlight keyword ranking fluctuations
Improvement
Thanks @CaioNogueira for the suggestion
4 years ago
Adding the possibility to reorder columns and save tables state in the browser
Improvement
Thanks @CaioNogueira for the suggestion
4 years ago
Adding a collaborative feedback widget
Improvement
4 years ago
Fixing duplicate results during backlinks search
Fix
4 years ago
Fixing slow loading of notifications page
Fix
4 years ago
Fixing empty no-follow backlink notification
Fix
4 years ago
Fixing missing translation on keyword group
Fix
4 years ago
Fixing URL count in keywords table
Fix
4 years ago
🔨 1.2.13
Fix
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing layout of sites management sidebar
  • Fixing a parameter value in Google search - this could slightly change your ranking results
  • Fixing automatically applied darkmode
  • Fixing some errors related to whitelabel setup
4 years ago
💪 1.2.12
New
New features :
  • You can now have a whitelabel domain
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing layout issue when adding a large number of websites
4 years ago
🔨 1.2.11
Fix
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing tags management
  • Fixing handling of foreign characters (eg. chinese) in backlink anchors
  • Fixing backlinks live/present filters
5 years ago
💪 1.2.10
New
New features :
  • You can now add notes in keyword page
Feature improvements :
  • Adding a new column in keywords table "url count". Useful to check for featured snippets and keyword cannibalizations !
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing billing portal
  • Show site url in keyword ranking chart legend
5 years ago
👌 1.2.9
Improvement
Feature improvements :
  • You can now choose notification frequency for dead backlinks, per channel
  • You can now choose notification frequency for no-follow backlinks, per channel
  • Those notifications are now grouped per site
5 years ago
💪 1.2.8
New
New features :
  • You can now automatically find your backlinks. Note : as we are an early stage startup, we may miss some of your backlinks. We hope to add more backlinks source in the future !
Bug fixes :
  • Duplicate backlinks in a file import are no more imported twice
  • Fixing pages tab with Google Analytics
5 years ago
👌 1.2.7
Improvement
Feature improvements :
  • You can now set datatable default length in your user settings
  • You can now set default Google region in your user settings
  • Added a loader when deleting a lot of keywords at once
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing some layout issues with french translations
  • Fixing layout issue on mobile
  • Fixing some bugs related to Google integation
5 years ago
💪 1.2.6
New
New features :
  • You can now create keyword groups and see progress per keyword group
  • You can now fully use Google Analytics - everywhere. Analytics tab, our "not provided" algorithm, keyword CVR and reports widget can use the data of your Google Analytics account ! Important note : to enable GA access, you will have to disable Google integration, then enable it again so that we can request permission to access your Google Analytics data. You may also have a security warning until Google approves our application (can take a few days).
Feature improvements :
  • Visitor can now access keyword details through the shared view
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing some layout issue for free users on small devices
  • Fixing french onboarding translations
5 years ago
💪 1.2.5
New
New features :
  • Site level dashboard
  • You can now create templates for your reports
  • Reports are now associated to a website instead of your user account. Existing reports have been converted to templates
Feature improvements :
  • You can now send reports by mail using a button
  • You can now see the history of sent reports
  • You can now show anchors in backlinks report widget
  • You can now show acquisition cost in backlinks report widget
  • You can now set client informations in your site settings
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing keywords table filter & sort
  • Fixing PDF layout of reports
  • Fixing wrong backlink status when protected by Cloudflare
5 years ago
💪 1.2.4
New
New features :
  • We started exposing our API publicly
  • We have started a Zapier integration. Currently in private beta, if you want an access, please reach out !
Feature improvements :
  • You can now use search through your list of websites
  • You can now duplicate a report
  • You can now edit a report name
  • You can now filter keywords by tag by clicking on a tag
Bug fixes :
  • Sorting the keywords table fixed when keywords are favorited
5 years ago
💪 1.2.3
New
New features :
  • Added translation support. We're now supporting French almost everywhere
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing reports rendering bug
5 years ago
👌 1.2.2
Improvement
Feature improvements :
  • You can now use your whitelabel logo in your shared view
  • You can now choose which sections to show in your shared view
  • You can now whitelist keywords for notifications
  • You can now exclude keyword for notifications
  • Settings section redesigned
Bug fixes :
  • Your account credits are not shown anymore in your shared view
  • Visual progress chart fixed
  • Share button moved to navigation bar
5 years ago
🔨 1.2.1
Fix
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing Google Search Console integration for domain properties : if you had an error with GSC, try enabling it again
  • Fixing some missing keyword volume fetch that ended up as a misleading 0 volume
5 years ago
💪 1.2.0
New
New features :
  • Analytics : you now have a full-featured web analytics with SEOwl
  • Analytics widget in reportsOnboarding checklist
Feature improvements :
  • Backlinks table widget in reportsYou can now set a default Google region for your keywords (site level setting)
  • Better search volume data
  • Redesign register & login pages
  • Redesign site tour
  • Redesign documentation
  • Import Google Search Console keywords
  • Redesign layout : moved navigation bar & worked on some responsivity issues
Bug fixes :
  • Remember previously used tags
  • Fixing profile picture upload on chrome
  • Fixing Google region selection reset after adding keywords
  • Fixing shared view
5 years ago
🔨 1.1.8
Fix
Feature improvements :
  • Group keywords datatable actions in one column
  • Enhance UI of datatablesRemember tab for navigation
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing shared view
  • Fixing scrolling for sidebar menu
5 years ago
👌 1.1.7
Improvement
Feature improvements :
  • Keywords on-demand updates
  • Enhance UI of keyword pageReduce stroke of keyword trend graph
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing tables columns resizingFixing "add website" button not shown when hovering sidebar
5 years ago
👌 1.1.6
Improvement
Feature improvements :
  • You now have the possibility to favorite keywords (they will appear above non favorited keywords)
  • You can set an expected rel to your backlinks (Do you expect your backlink to be do-follow or no-follow?)
  • You can now hide stats card above your rank table in Site Settings > Customization
  • You can now hide stats card above your backlinks table in Site Settings > Customization
  • Enhance mobile UI & moved a few things around to get more usable space
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing a bug that where competitors data were not shown in keyword ranking graph
5 years ago
💪 1.1.5
New
New features :
  • New tab "Site pages" : see various information about your pages including keyword reach, backlinks count, highest volume keyword data
  • Adding "Link acquisition cost" parameter to backlinks
Feature improvements :
  • Adding tooltips to table headers to describe columns
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing visual progress chart on edge cases
  • Fixing a bug on SerpDiff
5 years ago
👌 1.1.4
Improvement
Feature improvements :
  • Improve backlinks monitor processing speed
  • Anchor charts is now horizontal bar chart instead of doughnut chart for better visualization
  • Renamed "ok/ko" status to "yes/no" status (Backlinks table)
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing site stats when some backlinks were not analyzed yet
  • Fixing Google Mobile parsing
5 years ago
💪 1.1.3
New
New features :
  • Scheduled reports builder : you can now create PDF or mail report that can be either downloaded or scheduled for sending with a powerful editor. More components to display dynamic data from your account will be added progressively.
5 years ago
🔨 1.1.2
Fix
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing "SEOwl Google integration" documentation page title
  • Fixing background color of keyword rank notification when keyword was not in top 100
  • Fixing unwanted backlinks filtering by increasing filters default values
  • Fixing crash when incorrect Google Analytics ViewId was entered. Ensure correct input validation.
  • Fixing keywords export to clipboard button
5 years ago
👌 1.1.1
Improvement
Feature improvements :
  • Show keyword volumeShow organic visits graphic of the last 30 days on site dashbaord & shared view when Google Analytics integration is enabled
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing a bug where a website was wrongly positioned in SERP
5 years ago
💪 1.1.0
New
New features :
  • Rank Tracker (available only with our new plans, see updated pricing).
5 years ago
💪 1.0.20
New
New features :
  • New interface ! Yeah ! (Psst : tell us what you think about it here)
Feature improvements :
  • Show Google Search Console data on keyword details
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing a bug that could prevent site loading
5 years ago
👌 1.0.19
Improvement
Feature improvements :
  • You can now save column visibility in your site settings
  • Switch to a list view of your sites when you have many sites to find your site more quickly
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing social sign-in buttons to comply with Google Brand Identity and many other things behind the scene...
5 years ago
💪 1.0.18
New
New features :
  • Users are now notified of update through the notification system
  • We did a complete rework of our subscriptions & payment handling
  • For free users : no changes for you.For paid users : we're in the process of integrating our new payment system to the current Stripe subscriptions. Once the migration is done (hopefully by this week), everything should be transparent for you and you will be able to upgrade/downgrade your plan through the new system.You can now signup & login through Google & Linkedin accounts
  • We now have a live chat widget. Don't hesitate to come chat with us or leave a message if we're absent ! :)
Feature improvements :
  • Better display on large screensWe have improved our backlink processing speed, meaning they should be processed faster than before when you add them.
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing a bug where backlink was not updated on some edge case with DOM Detailer integration
  • URL parameters are now longer removed from added backlinks when using the UI
5 years ago
💪 1.0.17
New
New features :
  • Add addon & spectator users with whitelabeling options (Agency plan only)
  • Restrict sites access of addon & spectator users (Agency plan only)
Feature improvements :
  • Dashboard is now loaded asynchronously and with a better view
Bug fixes :
  • Backlink monitor should trigger less false positive
  • Fixing some edge cases where link was not detected correctly on the page
5 years ago
👌 1.0.16
Improvement
Feature improvements :
  • Asynchronous loading of backlinks
  • Show latest 10 dead & missing backlinks
  • Show stats card about backlinks (number of dead, missing backlinks, do-follow ratio)
Bug fixes :
  • Website deletion now asks for a confirmation
5 years ago
👌 1.0.15
Improvement
Feature improvements :
  • Improve notifications view
Bug fixes :
  • Fixing some incongruity in site analysis
5 years ago
👌 1.0.14
Improvement
Feature improvements :
  • Added scrollbar usage to get backlinks on lazy-loaded website
  • Added annual plans in billing
5 years ago
🔨 1.0.13
Fix
Feature improvements :
  • SEOwl is now fully SCA-compliant when handling payments
  • SEOwl's error should now be handled more gracefully on user-side
Bug fixes :
  • SEOwl now handles most web server block so you should see less false positive than before
  • Fixing a bug of backlinks update if an unusual anchor was encountered
  • Fixing a bug where a backlink could be shown as "present" and "not live" at the same time