The cognitiveSEO Changelog

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Change Log

All notable changes for cognitiveSEO

[4.1] - Dec 12, 2018

cognitiveSEO Site Audit is launched

Added Features

• The cognitiveSEO platform has a new important addition: The OnPage Site Audit
• The new Site Audit flags all possible OnPage SEO issues a site might have and provides recommendations on how to fix them.
• This new feature allows users to improve their website’s onpage SEO performance, at the highest level of detail.
• The addition of the Site Audit feature makes cognitiveSEO a complete SEO software and the only SEO tool an SEO pro, webmaster or digital marketing needs.

[4.0] - Mar 28, 2018

cognitiveSEO is transitioned to an improved platform

Changes

• Big speed improvements - the cognitiveSEO app has now up to 5 times faster loading times.
• A cleaner, easier to understand interface is now used.
• User experience improvements - users can now enjoy better usability and flow of work.

[3.14] - Oct 11, 2017

cognitiveSEO Signals is launched

Added Features

• The cognitiveSEO suite adds a new tool: Signals, a tool that tracks how Google rankings fluctuate on a daily basis.
• Over 100k keywords for both desktop, mobile and local rankings are monitored in order to spot important Google fluctuations.
• Users also have the possibility of being notified via email when Google is volatile.

[3.13] - Oct 3, 2017

Keyword Tool & Content Assistant Improvements

Added Features

• Importing the content directly from a URL is now possible.
• Users can now export the lists of keywords used for optimization.
• The optimized files are automatically saved within the tool.
• Users can now download the files they've worked on.

[3.12] - Jul 13, 2017

The Keyword Tool & Content Assistant is launched

Added Features

• cognitiveSEO extends its list of features by offering a keyword research and a content optimization tool.
• The newly launched tool helps users to gain higher rankings by using 3 newly developed features: Keyword Explorer, Ranking Analysis and Content Assistant.
• A new metric is introduced in the industry - Content Performance. This score measures how relevant and optimized any piece of content is.
• The new tool is offered within all cognitiveSEO's plans at no extra charge.

[3.11] - Jul 5, 2017

cognitiveSEO Tool Redesign

Changes

• The cognitiveSEO tool gets small redesign improvements.

[3.10] - Jan 30, 2017

cognitiveSEO has now switched to the secure protocol

Changes

• The whole cognitiveSEO platform along with its website and blog are now redirected from http to https

[3.9] - Jan 18, 2017

Improvements made on the link navigator

Bug Fixes

• The Link Navigator now works accurately on the minimal resolution as well

[3.8] - Jan 6, 2017

Improvements made on the reports section

Bug Fixes

• The scheduled and shared reports are now deleted automatically once the campaign for which they were created is deleted.

[3.7] - Dec 9, 2016

Improvements made on the SEO Visibility chart

Added Features

• The possibility of visualizing the overlaid SEO Visibility for up to 5 websites is now available
• A better reporting and improved strategies can be made due to the comparative SEO Visibility chart.

[3.6] - Nov 17, 2016

Improvements made on the cognitiveSEO payment page

Changes

• A better and more friendly user experience on the cognitiveSEO payment page.
• The registration and payment processes are now faster.

Added Features

• Users can now better manage their payment updates from their accounts.
• The possibility of adding the VAT number directly from the cognitiveSEO account is now available for all users.

[3.5] - Nov 14, 2016

Improvements made on Rank Tracker

Changes

• The navigator section from the rank tracking chart is now updating along with the main chart

[3.4] - Nov 9, 2016

Improvements made on Site Explorer and Rank Tracking

Added Features

• The Search Visibility chart history from the Site Explorer goes back to 5 years now
• The possibility of visualizing 5 years of historical search visibility is available for the Elite up packages.
• The possibility to search by Keyword and URL in the Rank Tracking module in the Input Box is now available.

[3.3] - Oct 28, 2016

Improvements made on Content Visibility

Bug Fixes

• The "most shared pages" chart is now showing correctly on all devices for all users
• General fixes and improvements

[3.2] - Aug 29, 2016

Improvements made on Link Audits and Rank Tracking

Added Features

• Luxembourg is now available for Rank Tracking
• Adding notes on a domain, subdomain or link level feature is now available for the inbound link analysis
• The email templates from the reports section are now even more customizable
• Improved UX on inbound link analysis through better name labels and tool tips
• Better keyword management for the Rank Tracking set on a weekly basis

Bug Fixes

• Rank Tracking is now fully functional on IE 11
• General fixes on the historical Rank Tracking table

[3.1] - Jul 6, 2016

Fully actionable Site Explorer

Added Features

• Almost all charts and data from Site Explorer are now actionable
• Fresh Links tab becomes New/ Lost Links tab with the possibility of visualizing and exporting new or lost links on a daily basis.
• Top 10 links for each referring domain can now be visualized
• Easy to view and manage specific segments of links or referring domains

[3.0] - Jun 29, 2016

cognitiveSEO is now available in several languages

Announcements

• The public site cognitiveseo.com is now available in Romanian.
• The cognitiveSEO tool is now available in Romanian, Italian and Polish

[2.22] - Jun 28, 2016

Several widgets improvements

Bug Fixes

• Google Analytics widgets connectivity issues are now fixed
• Referring Domains and Links Analyzed widgets are now working better

[2.21] - May 19, 2016

cognitiveSEO Public Changelog Launch

Announcements

• The public cognitiveSEO Changelog is published.

[2.20] - May 13, 2016

Added Features

• Google Analytics actions are now logged.

Changed Features

• "Domain and Link Authority" metric becomes "Domain and Link Influence".
• A series of speed optimizations are implemented for Google Analytics.
• Google Authorization flow is improved to work on customer subdomains.

Bug Fixes

• Several tooltips added on Site Explorer
• Various Rank Tracking widgets were improved.
• An e-mail validation bug was corrected.

[2.19] - Apr 28, 2016

Google Analytics Integration

Added Features

• Google Analytics widgets on Dashboard.
• Google Analytics widgets on Reports.
• Google Analytics dedicated Reports.

[2.18] - Apr 26, 2016

Added Features

• The following user actions are now logged: Add/Edit/Delete for Campaign/Site/Keyword/Tag/Report/User.
• Improved UX by adding a tool tip in the "Edit campaign" section when a campaign is being re-crawled.

Bug Fixes

• Slow loading of Anchor Text Cloud in the Inbound Link Analysis section was fixed.

[2.17] - Apr 12, 2016

Changed Features

• Rank Tracking Widgets Get Set of New Columns

Removed Features

• Twitter Share Counts Are No Longer Tracked in the Content Visibility Module

[2.16] - Apr 1, 2016

Added Features

• Yearly Subscriptions Added on the site.

[2.15] - Mar 10, 2016

Removed Features

• Google PageRank Metric was Removed due to Google's Decision to Stop Providing the Metric

[2.14] - Feb 25, 2016

Site Explorer

Added Features

• Instant Backlink Explorer becomes "Site Explorer"
• Search Visibility gets integrated on the Site Explorer
• Instant ranking analysis is now available for Site Explorer
• The possibility to instantly compare the search visibility for several countries, for up to 2 years, for up to 3 websites is now available
• "Show Google updates" on the Search Visibility chart option
• "Top 20 Ranking Keywords" list of any website chart is now available
• The possibility to view present search visibility as well as the changes occurred in the search visibility since last week.

[2.13] - Nov 24, 2015

Improved Link Audit

Added Features

• The possibility to run campaigns based on imported links only
• The possibility to analyze only specific segments of a link profile

[2.12] - Nov 6, 2015

Improved Instant Backlink Analysis

Added Features

• New feature available for the Instant Backlink Explorer - Broken pages identifier
• The possibility to instantly analyze any page listed on the Instant Backlink Explorer

[2.11] - Sep 24, 2015

Content Visibility

Added Features

• Social Visibility becomes Content Visibility
• LinkedIn Integration
• Pinterest Integration
• Overall functionality improvements

Bug Fixes

• Several social visibility bugs fixed

[2.10] - Sep 10, 2015

New Local & Universal Rank Tracker

Added Features

• New Rank Tracker with completely new design and improved capabilities
• Local and universal tracking possibilities
• Mobile and desktop tracking possibilities
• Keyword suggestion option
• Volume of search info shown for the tracked keywords

[2.9] - Sep 1, 2015

Link Management Deprecated

Removed Features

• Link Management Module

[2.8] - Jul 22, 2015

Automated Digital Marketing Reports

Added Features

• Fully customizable reports are now available
• Possibility to create reports from scratch or with the help of templates
• Schedule and automatically reports sending functionality
• Fully white-labeling reports
• Instant sharing reports via link or PDF file

[2.7] - Jun 24, 2015

Better UX and Improvements on SEO Dashboard

Added Features

• Better user experience due to a more friendly user interface
• Improved shared dashboard functionality
• Improved widget management

[2.6] - Jun 4, 2015

Improved Backlink Audits

Added Features

• Number of backlinks analyzed per website increases for all subscriptions - price remains unchanged
• 25 sites & 200.000 backlinks/site for the Pro Subscription
• 50 sites & 1 million backlinks/site for the Premium Subscription
• 100 sites & 3 million backlinks/site for the Elite Subscription

[2.5] - May 18, 2015

Rank Tracking Improvements

Added Features

• Number of keywords that can be analyzed are tripled for all subscriptions - price remains unchanged
• The rank tracking default is set to “daily” instead of “weekly” for a more accurate tracking

[2.4] - May 6, 2015

Unnatural Link Detection Improvements

Added Features

• AI- Automatic Self Learning added. It also becomes a new metric in the unnatural classification algorithm
• AI – Crowd-sourced Self Learning added. It also becomes a new metric in the unnatural classification algorithm
• Improved classification due to lower false positive ratio

[2.3] - Feb 20, 2015

3rd Party Metrics and New Widgets Integrated Within the Dashboard

Added Features

• HTML Widgets
• Alerts Widgets
• Anchors Widgets
• Text Widget
• New rank tracking trigger - Top 10/20/30 Rank Tracking E-mail Alert

[2.2] - Jan 27, 2015

API Launch

Added Features

• API available for all packages $199 up
• Link analysis, rank tracking and social visibility API calls available

[2.1] - Sep 30, 2014

SearchMetrics Integration & Other Improvements

Partnerships

• Searchmetrics Partnership for getting historical development of a domain’s visibility in Google

Added Features

• SEO Visibility chart available for several countries, with historical data for up to 2 years
• Page customization feature added on inbound link analysis page
• Export PDF file feature improved due to the possibility of fully customized it.
• Better crawling algorithms
• Better user experience due to several improvements added and bugs corrected

[2.0] - Aug 4, 2014

SEO Dashboard

Added Features

• A digital marketing dashboard is integrated within the tool, with the possibility of adding +37 customizable widgets.
• The possibility to add as many widgets as needed
• The possibility to share the dashboard in read only format
• The possibility to manage any widget from dashboard
• Automatically updated widgets

[1.19] - Jul 16, 2014

Google Index and Malware Check

Added Features

• Google Index Checker feature - the possibility to check if links are indexed/ not indexed by Google
• Not indexed in Google becomes a new rule in the unnatural link detection algorithm
• Google Malware Check - the possibility to identify malware infected sites linking to a site

[1.18] - Apr 20, 2014

Improved Anchor Text Classifier & Unnatural Link Navigator

Added Features

• Filter anchor text feature is now available
• Bulk classify anchors
• Show only misc anchors option
• Individual anchors classification
• The possibility to save a bookmark within the link navigator
• The possibility to mark links as visited/not visited and filter them accordingly within the link navigator

[1.17] - Jan 15, 2014

E-mail Alerts

Added Features

• New link triggers, Lost link triggers and Rank tracking triggers are now available
• Highly customizable features for the triggers
• Instant email notifications are now available

[1.16] - Dec 11, 2013

Improved Customer Care

Added Features

• Better user experience due to support platform with tool documentation -support.cognitiveseo.com
• "How to" buttons integrated inside the tool on the majority of widgets where help videos are displayed

[1.15] - Sep 16, 2013

Fresh Links & A Fine-tuned Instant Backlink Explorer

Added Features

• Fresh Links tab available for Instant Backlink Explorer, for domain, subdomain, URL, prefix/folder
• Dedicated Instant Backlink Explorer bookmarklet

[1.14] - Sep 5, 2013

Custom Backlink Filters & Page Speed Improvements

Added Features

• The possibility to create custom filters and apply them later on.
• Improved page load speed for up to 20% on the inbound link analysis page

[1.13] - Jul 31, 2013

Instant Backlink Explorer

Added Features

• The possibility to view instant & fresh link data including:
  • Monthly Link Velocity
  • Daily New/Lost Links
  • Nofollow vs Dofollow – Visual Link Explorer.
  • Link Profile Authority
  • Backlinks List.
  • Social Metrics
  • Domains TLD Distribution
  • Domain Profile Authority
  • Referring Domains List + Site-wide Backlink Data.
  • Top Site’s Pages
  • Anchor Text List

[1.12] - Jul 30, 2013

Announcements

• James Bot becomes the official cognitiveSEO mascot.

[1.11] - Jul 2, 2013

Unnatural Link Detection

Added Features

• Automatic unnatural link classification is now available within the tool.
• Transparency & detail on each classified link - each unnatural link has listed the reason why is considered to be unnatural.
• Google disavow export.
• Fast Double-Check using the Link Snapshots.
• Flag & Tag Links -bulk actions available also.
• Advanced Link profile segmentation using unnatural filters.
• Ignore Links that are already disavowed, or unimportant to the analysis
• Unnatural link classification available both for own site or for competitors.

[1.10] - May 14, 2013

New Partnership, Upgrades & Better Pricing

Partnerships

• MajesticSEO data integration

Added Features

• Better Credit System
• New Pricing Plan
• Daily link updates – Moving from Weekly to Daily updates and introducing New/Lost links on a daily basis
• Anchor Text History - the ability to historically track anchor text evolution
• Introducing the Link Velocity chart - the ability to view the monthly link evolution, since the existence of a site.
• Link Quality Metric – cognitiveSEO Link and Domain Authority score
• Possibility to track more keywords and the ability to switch from weekly to daily Rank Tracking (and vice versa)

[1.9] - Apr 10, 2013

Social Visibility Module

Added Features

• The Social Visibility module added - it allows the social footprint' analysis of any website on Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus.
• Correlation charts between number of shares vs referring domains.
• Most shared pages chart.
• Pages with Share Increase section.
• Complete social footprint competitor comparison.
• Social share distribution among the tracked social media networks.
• Social share velocity for any site on the tracked social media networks.
• Advanced anti-noise technology for the exclusion of duplicate shares on the tracked pages.

[1.8] - Mar 4, 2013

Improved Backlink Audit

Added Features

• The ability to run prefix based backlink analysis.
• Support for https crawling & importing.
• The ability to analyze a selected set of URLs from the set of originally analyzed URLs.
• Improved loading speed of the dashboard page

Bug Fixes

• Various bugs corrected.

[1.7] - Feb 19, 2013

Tagging and Tag Filtering

Added Features

• Tag functionality added
• Individually assign tag & bulk assign tag
• Filtering by tag feature
• Export assigned tags

[1.6] - Feb 6, 2013

Visual Link Explorer

Added Features

• Visual Link Explorer chart is now available - the easiest & most advanced site’s link profile visualization
• The possibility to create link graphs instantly within the new Visual Link Explorer
• Highlighting link relations option.
• In-depth zoom on each link.
• Easy navigation using sliding and zooming.
• Optimized to work fast with tens of thousands of links.

[1.5] - Dec 12, 2012

Improved UX

Added Features

• Better processing performance increase - up to 500%
• cognitiveSEO Link Rank™ (CLRank™) is now available - crowd-sourced and customizable score that gives an overview on a sites’ link profile value
• Real-time campaign processing preloader available - allowing to see how fast a campaign is processed

[1.4] - Oct 4, 2012

Improved Backlink Analysis Tool

Partnerships

• Fresh & Complete Link Data from Ahrefs, MajesticSEO, SEOmoz, Blekko & SEOKicks are now integrated

Added Features

• One page dashboard
• Import extra links feature from Google Webmaster Tools and other tools is now available.
• New Link Velocity data points.
• Top Linked Pages chart is available
• Better Competitive Link Analysis
• Side-by-side Competitor Comparison.
• Analyze 1 link per referring domain filter option.
• New Link Alerts for both your site and your competitors.
• Anchor Text Cloud & Common Anchor Texts.
• Common Referring Domains & Common IPs
• Full Domain & Sub-domain & Link List Analysis.
• Recurring & One-time Snapshot Campaigns.
• in-Content Links Distribution Chart.
• Link History Dimension.
• The New Trust & Citation metrics from MajesticSEO.
• Highly scalable system for Enterprise users.
• Dynamic Full page link filters.
• Extended / condensed view for better visualizations.
• Better user interface

[1.3] - Jul 18, 2012

White-label & PDF Reporting

Added Features

• White-label capability.
• PDF Export functionality

[1.2] - May 8, 2012

cognitiveSEO Improved Version

Added Features

• Competitor common/uncommon links visualization feature added
• Condensed View for the Backlink Reports
• Improved Rank Tracking functionality
• Servers Upgrade and Speed Improvements
• New Charts in the inBound Link Analysis (Rating Distribution, Deep Link Ratio and Deep Backlink Ratio)
• “Link Preview” feature added in different areas of the tool.
• To-dos Mail Notifications

Bug Fixes

• Various bugs corrected

[1.1] - Feb 28, 2012

Major Tool Improvements

Added features

• Faster Backlink Checker.
• Refined inBound Link Analysis
• Daily Rank Tracking
• A Better Plan & Price Structure

[1.0] - Dec 7, 2011

cognitiveSEO Launch

Partnerships

• Integration with SEOmoz & MajesticSEO as backlinks providers.

Added features

• Link Profile Filtering.
• Competitive Link Analysis
• Historical Evolution
• Weekly Rank Tracking
• Link Management