RankedContentChangelog
What’s new in RankedContent
Features and improvements, newest first. New here? Start with the help center.
- New
The Keywords page now flags when Google ranks the wrong page
Set a target page for a tracked keyword and RankedContent now compares it with the page Google actually serves. When another of your pages ranks instead - or outranks the target you picked - the keyword detail page says exactly which page won and where, so two of your pages competing for the same search never goes unnoticed. From there, one click makes the ranking page the new target, or keep your choice and strengthen it through the Analyze button.
- Improved
Alert emails now celebrate wins - bundled into one daily email
Alert emails are now good news only, and at most one per day. When tracked keywords enter a new band on Google - the top 50, 40, 30, 20 or 10 - or an AI engine starts citing your site, every win from that day arrives together in a single daily wins email, sent only on days with wins and celebrating each milestone once. Ranking drops and lost citations moved to the Monday digest: search results rarely reward a fix within days, so the news arrives once a week with the full picture instead of interrupting you. On Mondays your wins lead the digest itself, so there is never more than one email in a day. The digest also got stricter about what counts as a drop worth reporting - small dips stay on the Keywords page.
- New
AI engine tracking: see if ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews cite your site
Keyword tracking now asks the AI engines themselves. Each tracked keyword gets a companion AI search query - generated for you based on real search demand and editable at any time. RankedContent runs the query through ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google, including its AI Overviews, and records what comes back: Was your brand mentioned? Was your site cited? Did the AI engine even visit your pages while researching its answer? The Keywords page turns those checks into a per-engine status - Cited, In rotation, In the pool, Mentioned only, Not visible, or No AI Overview when Google is not showing one - plus a visibility score, and each status points at the right next step: strengthen the page when you are in the pool but not cited, create content when the engine cannot see you. Rounding it out: instant email alerts for major ranking drops and for citations gained or lost, and the Monday digest now includes AI engine citation changes.
- Improved
Two sharper AEO/GEO score factors
The AEO/GEO score gained a new factor and a deeper one. Served content depth (new - also on the free score checker) verifies that the main content of your page actually arrives in the HTML your server sends: most AI engines read raw HTML and do not run JavaScript, so text rendered only in the browser is invisible to them. Organization schema now expects an enriched entity - besides the markup itself, at least two of logo, sameAs, contactPoint and address - and a failing row names exactly which properties are missing. Scores can shift slightly on re-analysis; every failing row comes with concrete guidance.
- New
The AI crawler checker now checks your brand entity
New card on the free AI Crawler Access Checker: Brand entity. We look your domain up on Wikidata - the machine-readable knowledge base behind Wikipedia, one of the heaviest grounding sources for AI answers - and report if a verified entity lists your domain as its official website, including a link to the entity and a note on its Wikipedia article. A verified entity lets AI engines confidently bind your brand name to your site; without one, they fall back on weaker signals.
- Improved
Site basics now checks your 404s
The Site basics card on your Projects page gained a fourth check: 404 hygiene. We fetch a made-up URL on your domain and verify it answers a real 404 status. If it answers 200 instead (a soft 404), crawlers cannot tell your real pages from junk - broken links linger in indexes and crawl budget gets wasted on nothing. A failing check comes with step-by-step How to fix guidance; hit Run checks on any project to see the new row.
- Improved
The AI crawler checker now watches 16 crawlers and runs three new checks
The free AI Crawler Access Checker got a big upgrade. It now evaluates 16 AI crawlers - including the newer search and on-demand fetchers behind Claude and Perplexity, plus the crawlers for Meta AI and Apple Intelligence - across eight answer engines. Three new cards join the report: 404 hygiene (does your site answer made-up URLs with a real 404, or quietly serve junk pages that can pollute what AI engines index), Sitemap (is a valid XML sitemap in place so crawlers can discover every page you want read), and Markdown for agents (an emerging convention where a site hands AI agents a clean markdown version of a page on request).
- Improved
Analysis failures now tell you where a redirect went
When a URL you analyze redirects somewhere else - most often to a login page - and that landing page has nothing to read, the failure message now says so and names the page we actually ended up on. Before, this could surface as a confusing note about JavaScript rendering. It usually means the address you entered doesn’t exist or needs a login, so you can spot the typo or the wrong link right away.
- Improved
A proper page for links that go nowhere
Mistyped or outdated rankedcontent.ai links now land on a real page instead of a bare browser error. It says plainly that the page doesn’t exist and offers two ways forward: back to the homepage, or straight into the free AEO/GEO Score Checker.
- New
See your plan at a glance
Settings now opens with a Your plan card: the plan you are on, how many analyses you have used, your keyword slots and projects, and what your plan includes. Trial accounts also see how many days are left. Need more room? The card links straight to us.
- New
Choose each keyword’s target page
Every keyword page now shows the target page - the page meant to win that search - and you can set or change it at any time, not just when adding the keyword. The Win this keyword card also got smarter about your credits: View analysis opens the results you already have for free, Analyze this page runs a fresh check when you have made changes, and re-analyzing clearly says it uses one analysis credit before you confirm.
- Improved
Keywords pages update themselves
No more reloading to see fresh data: after you add a keyword, the scoreboard refreshes itself as the first checks land, and returning to the tab pulls the latest results automatically. Run now and Pause moved out of the row menu into their own Tracking column, and the position cards on each keyword page now show when each device was last checked - even when a check has not found a ranking yet.
- Improved
You choose what gets tracked
Analyzing a page no longer adds its focus keyword to tracking automatically - a new "Track this keyword after the analysis" option on the analyze form puts that under your control. New projects now tell you about the brand keyword we start tracking for you, and the Keywords page has a Suggest button that proposes keywords for your site or a specific page.
- Improved
Failed checks now retry automatically all week
When a position check fails - a hiccup on the data side, not something you did - we now retry it automatically every day until it succeeds or the week ends, so a bad morning no longer costs you a whole week on the trend line. Gaps in your charts should now be rare; one that remains means the check kept failing for the entire week.
- Improved
Keywords are now case-insensitive
Google treats ‘What is AEO’ and ‘what is aeo’ as the same search, and now your keyword list does too. New keywords are saved in lowercase, and any existing pairs that differed only in capitalization have been merged into one keyword - with their full position history combined, so no data was lost.
- Improved
AI Crawler Checker: email your host in one click
When the free AI Crawler Access Checker finds a firewall or bot-protection layer answering instead of your site, fixing it is usually one support ticket away - so the result now includes an ‘Email this to your host’ button. It opens a prefilled email that explains the problem in plain language, lists the AI crawlers to allow, and links your diagnostic report; just add your host’s support address and send.
- New
Keyword tracking: weekly Google positions and AI Overview visibility
The new Keywords page tracks the searches you want to win. Every keyword is checked on Google weekly, on desktop and mobile: your position in the top 50, the page that actually ranks, a trend sparkline, and the AI Overview for that search - including if it cites your site. Analyzing a page with a focus keyword adds that keyword automatically, every row links straight back to Analyze, and Run now checks any keyword immediately - no waiting for the weekly schedule. Rounding it out: CSV downloads of your scoreboard and analysis history, and an optional Monday digest email summing up each project’s week. The interactive tutorial and the Help guide walk you through it step by step.
- New
Free tool: AEO/GEO Score Checker
A second free tool scores any public page the way our real analyzer does - readability, structured data, FAQ and heading structure, content freshness, statistics and more - and shows exactly which checks the full AI analysis adds. No sign-up needed, every result has a shareable link, and both free tools now live under ‘Free tools’ in the top menu.
- Improved
Share your AI crawler check results
Every result from the free AI Crawler Access Checker now has one-tap sharing - copy the link, use your device’s share sheet, or post directly to X or LinkedIn. Shared links unfurl with a live summary of the verdict (‘5 of 6 AI answer engines can read this site’), so the result travels with the URL. The checker is also easier to find: look for ‘Free tool’ in the top menu, try it right on the homepage, or use the link in the footer of every page.
- New
Free tool: AI Crawler Access Checker
A new free tool checks if the AI crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google’s AI and Copilot can actually read your site. It evaluates your robots.txt crawler by crawler, looks for an llms.txt file, and detects when a firewall or bot-protection layer is answering instead of your pages - with plain-language fixes for anything it finds. No sign-up needed, and every result has a shareable link.
- New
Our crawler now has fixed IP addresses
RankedContentBot - the fetcher behind your analyses - now makes all its requests from a fixed, published IP range. If your website’s hosting or firewall only supports allow rules by IP address rather than by user agent, you (or your host) can now allowlist it in one step. The details, including the range itself, are on the ‘About our crawler’ page - linked from Help.
- Improved
Smarter handling when a page can’t be read
When a page briefly serves no readable content, the analyzer now waits and automatically retries before giving up. If it still can’t read the page, the failure message explains the likely causes - including when a site’s hosting or firewall is blocking automated visitors - and links to the ‘About our crawler’ page, which tells your hosting provider exactly how to allow RankedContent’s fetcher. You’ll also find that page linked from Help.
- Improved
Focus keyword is now optional at submit
You can now analyze a page without choosing a focus keyword - pick one of the suggestions, type your own, or submit without one. Skipping it simply skips the keyword-specific checks; you can always re-analyze with a keyword later.
- New
Projects and site basics
Your workspace is now organized into projects - one for each website you optimize. Every project has a new Site basics check that reviews the essentials AI answer engines rely on - AI crawler access, an llms.txt file, and an XML sitemap - with step-by-step fixes for anything that is missing. Find Projects in the sidebar.
- Improved
Fairer alt-text scoring for decorative images
The SEO alt-text check no longer penalizes decorative images that correctly use an empty alt attribute. Only images missing the attribute entirely, or carrying whitespace-only alt text, count against the score. Re-analyze a page to see the updated result.
- New
Blog
RankedContent has a blog now. The first post covers the launch, with guides on GEO, AEO, and classic SEO on the way - and every post runs through our own analyzer before it ships.
- New
Interactive tutorial
A guided walkthrough of the whole flow - submitting a page, reading your SEO and GEO scores, applying fixes, and working the task board - including a practice board you can drag cards around on. Find it in the sidebar after signing in.
- New
Waitlist and live queue status
You can now request access directly from the sign-up page. We also added a live status view for analyses that are briefly waiting for a slot during busy periods.
- Improved
Analyses are much faster
We re-engineered the analysis pipeline. Most pages now go from submitted to fully scored in about two minutes.
- New
RankedContent is live
RankedContent launched in private beta at rankedcontent.ai: SEO and GEO scoring for any page, with copy-paste-ready fixes and a prioritized task board.
- Improved
Grouped score breakdowns and a new look
Score pages now group every factor by priority - Critical, Recommended, Nice-to-have, and Already optimized - so you always know what to fix first. Shipped alongside a full visual refresh, including radial score gauges and a cleaner dashboard.