Release Log
Latest updates in AccuRankerNew Functionality
SERP Feature: Trains
We are excited to announce that we are now supporting the SERP feature trains.
Read more about it in the help guide.
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We now track if you own Ads, Shopping, Image pack and Carousel SERP Features!
We now track if you own: Ads at the top, Ads in between, Ads at the bottom, Carousels, Image packs and Shopping. Please note that you can currently only own the Shopping feature if the URL is explicit on the page and not a redirect link.
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URLs for competitor ranks
On the competitors tab, you can now hover the rank of a competitor to see the URL they rank on. In addition, the URL is available in the competitor ranks report you can download.
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People also ask can now be 'owned'
We now detect whether or not your domain is found in the 'People Also Ask' SERP feature
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Filter by keywords where you rank more than once
We've added a filter "Has extra ranks" which finds all the keywords where you rank more than once.
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See Google Trends keywords
We've implemented a graph to show the trend from Google Trends for a given keyword. You can find it by going to the keyword list, clicking on a keyword (the same way as when you want to see ranking history) and switching tab to "Google Trends" at the top.
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Domains card view mode
We are excited to introduce a brand new view mode for the Domains page. This update offers:
- A visual overview of all your domains
- An easy way to compare metrics across domains
- Sparklines to show trends in key metrics
Additionally, we've added a new feature that allows you to compare metrics across domains and drill down to groups, domains, folders, or individual tags.
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Knowledge panel price comparison
Added support for a new SERP feature on Google.
Read more about it in the help guide article.
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Google AI Overview
We are excited to announce our latest feature: Support for Google's AI Overview. This addition to our toolkit allows you to identify and monitor the presence of AI Overview in your Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Leverage our robust filtering capabilities to gain valuable insights into how AI Overview impacts your search visibility and performance. Stay ahead of the curve by tracking this innovative SERP feature and adjusting your SEO strategies accordingly.
Read more about this in the help guide article.
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New SERP Feature: Ads In-Between Organic Results
We are now tracking ads in-between organic results as a SERP feature in the AccuRanker platform. This update enhances your ability to monitor and analyze ads that appear within organic search results. This allows users to gain insight into how paid ads are integrated into search results, providing a comprehensive view of both organic and paid search visibility.
This should help you refine your SEO strategy by understanding the interplay between ads and organic listings.
For a detailed overview and examples, check out this article by Barry Schwartz, which discusses Google's recent experiments with ad placement within search results.
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Filter Keyword Option Ignored Domain
It is now possible to filter by ignored domains with the keyword option filter.
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Update to SERP Analysis tab
The SERP Features tab now displays all features on the SERP, not just those you own. We've also added a toggle to switch between viewing the history of owned features and the total feature count.
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Table headers
Table headers have been updated with new styling and a menu for quickly sorting data or adding filters. Access the menu by clicking anywhere on the table header.
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Tag Redesign
Dynamic and static tags has been redesigned, featuring new visuals and enhanced functionality. You can now easily add tags as filters, edit dynamic tags & remove static tags within the Keyword Table.
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Above the Fold icon has been moved
The "Above the Fold" icon, which was previously found in the "Rank" column is now instead found in the "Pixels from Top" column.
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AI Share of Voice and sorting on Home screen
Added the possibility to see AI Share of Voice (SoV) on the home screen. In addition, made it possible to sort your domains by change in rank, AI SoV or SoV.
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SERP Feature update - Shopping
We're excited for our latest update, bringing extensive support for a range of Google SERP features specifically tailored to enhance the shopping experience, particularly on Google's mobile SERP. This update supports:
Stores: Discover items available in online stores, prominently displayed at the top of your search results. This feature integrates online store listings into regular organic positions. You can now rank on these just as regular organic results.
Popular Stores: Quickly navigate to popular retail brands and stores relevant to your search query. This feature provides quick links to the brand's website or specific products, presented in a battle card-style at the top of the SERP. You can now rank on these just as regular organic results.
Image Product Pack: This specialized feature displays a series of product images from a specific site, including price and availability, directly in the SERP. Clicking on an image opens a larger view with more information and options to visit the product page. We can tell if you own one of these cards if you have added the corresponding My Google Business name.
Shop the Look and Popular Styles: Dive into fashion and home decor with curated outfits and room looks matching your search query. This feature provides inspiration and facilitates the discovery of products that match the user's aesthetic preferences. We can tell if you own one of these items for sale if you have added the corresponding My Google Business name.
Rich Product Info: Get detailed product information right in your search results. This includes price, availability, product reviews, ratings, and descriptions, along with images pulled from multiple sites to facilitate at-a-glance comparison shopping. This feature is an enhancement to the organic result, we will track whether you own it and/or it resides on another SERP result.
Google's Filter Menu: Refine your search results with ease using specific filters such as date, price range, color, and type of content. This feature is now accessible for shopping, news, and image searches on both mobile and desktop platforms.
Forum Posts and Discussions: Gain community insight with aggregated forum posts and discussions relevant to your search query. Each entry includes the thread title, a snippet, and the source website, allowing users to explore community-driven advice, opinions, and solutions. If the post is on a forum on your site, we will track it for you.
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RegEx in filters and dynamic tags
We are excited to introduce the possiblity to use Regular Expressions (RegEx) in dynamic tags and the Keyword and URL filter.
Learn more about how to RegEx in AccuRanker here.
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Improved Column Customization
The "Table settings" features has been renamed to "Configure columns" and now includes new functionality for custom column ordering in the keyword table. Furthermore, table view modes have been relocated for improved accessibility.
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Date Picker Enhancement
The date picker has been redesigned for enhanced accessibility and efficiency in modifying date comparison ranges. You can find the picker in the top right corner.
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Improvements to Google Search Console integration
Enhancements to our Google Search Console integration now allow for the import of up to 1 million keywords, a significant increase from the previous limit of 5,000. Furthermore, we've introduced two new columns: "position" and "ctr", showcasing the average values from GSC over the most recent 30-day period.
To utilize the updated GSC integration, navigate to the "Add keywords" window and press "Import from Google Search Console".
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Live counts when filtering
We've significantly enhanced several of our filters, now allowing you to view the count of keywords included within the filter in real-time as you enter the filter.
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Top competitor filter
We've introduced a new filter to show only keywords where a specific domain is at rank 1.
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AI Winners / Losers
We've introduced the "Top AI Winners/Losers" box on the domain overview. This shows how many keywords increased/decreased their rank, and what the effect on AI SoV are for these keywords. In addition, it gives a quick view of the keywords, filtered to see either Winners or Losers. Note: This functionality already existed for regular SoV.
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Alphabet filter
We've introduced a new filter to show only keywords using a specific alphabet, e.g. Arabic, Cyrillic or Latin.
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Introducing Local Pack Rank
AccuRanker has unveiled a new metric called "Local Pack Rank." This metric reflects your ranking on the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) when all results, except for local listings such as those on Google Maps, are excluded. It is important to note that this metric is relevant only for SERPs that include local results.
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Added "System notes" to charts
When Google makes a large update that can impact your data, you will from now on see a small note in all graphs with an explanation of what happened.
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Track the progress when adding/refreshing keywords
When adding keywords or refreshing an entire domain, you can now follow the progress - even when leaving the domain! This also utilizes the updated notification system.
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Improvements to folder management in Tag Cloud
The folder editing and management experience should now be a much smoother experience! Especially for domains with a large amount of tags and folders.
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API landing page endpoint now includes Google Analytics 4
If you have your Google Analytics 4 account connected to AccuRanker, you can pull analytics data related to your landing page(s). See the API documentation for details. The GA4 API object is in beta and therefore the available fields are subject to change. Please contact our support if you have any questions or suggestions for metrics/fields that should be available.
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Added support for tracking SoMe profiles
When you add or edit a domain (or a competitor), it is now possible to also add your company or personal LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok profiles associated with your domain to track their performance alongside your regular domain name, just as you could already do with your Twitter profile.
You can configure this when adding or editing a domain if you press "Show advanced settings".
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Improved Tag Cloud table
Introducing our enhanced Tag Cloud table.
Key features of the new table include:
Virtualization: This advanced feature enables the table to handle an unlimited number of tags and folders without compromising speed. Whether you have a few or an extensive collection, the table will remain lightning fast.
Horizontal Scroll with "Sticky Columns": Now you can seamlessly navigate through the table, even when viewing the last columns. The "sticky columns" functionality ensures that as you scroll horizontally, the tags and folders remain visible, allowing you to easily track the data you're viewing.
Enhanced Scrollbar Integration: We have integrated the table with the browser's default scrollbar, eliminating the need for a separate scrollbar within the table. This intuitive design improves the scrolling experience within the table, making it more user-friendly and efficient.
Experience the convenience and improved performance of our new Tag Cloud table today!
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Introducing Enhanced Keyword Discovery: Unlocking New Possibilities
We are thrilled to announce a major facelift of Keyword Discovery. With some exciting new features your keyword research process just got a major boost!
One of the standout enhancements is the ability to explore keywords from competitor sites. Gone are the days of being limited to your own domain(s). Now, you can effortlessly search any domain and location to uncover a treasure trove of related keywords.
To further streamline your keyword exploration journey, we are proud to introduce Quick Actions. This comprehensive collection of frequently used filters enables you to effortlessly refine and filter the discovered keywords. With Quick Actions, finding precisely what you are looking for has never been faster or easier.
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Local Search Volume now available for Keywords on Google
It is now possible to get search volume and related data such as Share of Voice and Estimated Visits based on local values instead of country values for Google keywords with a specified location. If you would like to enable this feature for existing domains, go to the respective domain settings page and enable it. For more information on how to do this, see the search volume Help Guide. By default, new domains use the account setting that displays local search volume by default. You can toggle back and forth at your convenience. The effect on historical data is immediate.
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"Not in top 100" Keywords Average Rank Calculation
You can now easily include keywords that don't rank within the top 100 search results in your average rank calculations. Our latest update lets you do this with a customizable rank value.
To use this feature, simply visit your account settings and toggle on the setting: Include "Not in top 100" rank keywords. This will apply to all domains linked to your account by default. Plus, you can set a custom rank value for these keywords.
If you'd like to adjust the settings for individual domains, just head to the settings tab for the domain you want to change. By default, domains follow the account settings, but you can choose to always enable or disable this feature for a specific domain. You can also set a custom rank value for each domain.
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Google Analytics Integration Updated to Support GA4
We're excited to announce that our Google Analytics integration has been updated to support Google Analytics 4 (GA4)!
We wanted to let you know that Google is phasing out Universal Analytics (UA) and replacing it with GA4, so we encourage you to upgrade if you currently have a UA connection.
We've made the upgrade process as easy as possible - if we can identify a GA4 property for your domains, you'll be presented with an option to upgrade all of them at once. If we can't identify a GA4 property for your domains, simply go to the overview page of your domain and click on "Upgrade to GA4."
If you aren't already using our Google Analytics integration, don't worry! We have a step-by-step guide that will show you how to get started.
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Top 10 CTR
By popular demand, we've added the ability to see our AI-based CTR value for the top 10 ranks on the SERP! You can find it in the keyword list by hovering a value in the Max CTR column.
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CPC Currency
We're excited to announce a new feature that allows you to customize the currency of data like cost-per-click across AccuRanker. You can do this in two different places:
- In your Account Settings, you can change the CPC currency setting for all domains on your account.
- In your Domain Settings, you can change the CPC currency setting for an individual domain. This will overwrite the account setting for that domain.
Please note that on group views, the account setting will always be used.
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Updated Dynamic Competitor Chart
A new and improved dynamic competitor chart when viewing a single keyword! Click a keyword in the keyword list to try it out.
The chart is now available on the same page as the keyword rank history table and the chart loads more data by default.
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Improvements to Notes on Charts
All charts outside the overview have received an update to the notes functionality making them much more user-friendly. You can now click a note to see a quick summary, and if there are many notes on top of each other, they will be grouped neatly.
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Search Volume - Historical data in API & Looker Studio
Using our API, it's now possible to read historical search volume up to 3 years back for each keyword!
Please see our API documentation for more information.
This data is also accessible on our connector for Looker Studio (recently renamed from Google Data Studio) as the following new fields:
Date [Keyword Search Volume]
Search volume [Keyword Search Volume]
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Improved Google Data Studio Integration
Our Google Data Studio Partner Connector now includes the following fields where applicable
- Dynamic CTR and Dynamic CTR max
- Dynamic tags
- Estimated visits
- Search intent
- Above the fold
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Search Intent Added to API
You can now get the search intent for each of your keywords through our API.
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Keywords Page Sorting
Order by traffic value (SoV$) for the keyword list
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Add "Add tag" Option to When You Create a Note
You can now optionally add tags whenever you create a note.
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Keyword Discovery Auto Selection Behavior
Changes in user experience regarding selection behavior on the Keyword Discovery page
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API: "Above the fold" on Domain
We have added "Above the fold" to the domains field in our API
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Multiple Google Business Names
We've made it possible to associate more than just one Google Business Name to a domain in AccuRanker
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Keyword Overuse Specification on Invoice
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Google Data Studio: Partner Connector
We are proud to announce that our Google Data Studio connector has been approved by Google as a Partner Connector.
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Reports for Competitor View
Our Competitor page now offers a "Download Report" option so you can download and work with your competitor data offline
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Average Rank in the Competitor and Tag Cloud pages
We've added Average Rank columns in both the Competitor and Tag Cloud pages
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CPC Values in PDF Reports
We've added Cost Per Click - or CPC for short - to reports. Both
- Excel
- CSV
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Yandex & Baidu Keywords
Unfortunately we have had to remove support for adding new Yandex and Baidu keywords. We will continue to monitor existing keywords on those two search engines, but with reduced functionality.
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Show Share of Voice in Keyword Discovery
Share of Voice (SoV) is a key metrics when doing keyword research. So we've added SoV as a column in our Keyword Discovery tool.