> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://help.rankability.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://help.rankability.com/changelog/2026-05.md). # May 2026 Rankability product updates originally published in May 2026. {% hint style="info" %} Historical entries describe Rankability at the time of release. Use the [Help Center](/rankability-help-center.md) for current product instructions and availability. {% endhint %} [Back to the latest product updates](/changelog/changelog.md) ## Releases ## Serena - A portfolio-level briefing and chat across all your clients **New** Serena now works at the agency level. From your dashboard it reads across your entire client portfolio, tells you where to focus, and answers follow-up questions in plain language. **A proactive portfolio briefing** — Open your dashboard and Serena greets you with a briefing spanning every client: a short summary plus prioritized items grouped into Needs attention, Opportunity, and Operational — each tied to the specific client it's about, so you know exactly where to look first. **Ask questions across all your clients** — Switch to chat and ask portfolio-wide questions like "Which clients need attention this week?", "Where are my biggest growth opportunities?", or "Which clients have missing integrations?" Serena can drill into any client's rankings, search performance, and recent activity to answer. **Your conversations are saved** — Every portfolio conversation is kept in history, so you can pick up where you left off or start a fresh thread anytime. Open your [agency dashboard](https://app.rankability.com/) — Serena is waiting at the top. ## Client portal v1.0 - Give clients their own read-only login **New** Invite your clients to a read-only portal where they can see their own rankings, audits, and shared reports — and ask Serena questions — without a Rankability seat or your login. **A read-only window into their results** — From a client's settings, open Client portal access and send an invite. They sign in with a magic link (no password) and land on a dashboard showing their rankings, audits, and shared reports. They can view everything and change nothing. **Built-in Serena chat** — The portal includes an Serena chat tab so clients can ask questions about their own data and get answers in plain language, scoped to just their account. Open any client's [settings](https://app.rankability.com/client-settings) and find Client portal access to send the first invite. ## Client goals - Set per-client KPIs and track pace to target **New** You can now set measurable goals for each client and watch how they're pacing toward them — from the client's settings and on your agency dashboard. **Pick from real metrics** — Choose from metrics that already live in Rankability: average SPI score, keywords ranking in the top 3 or top 10, organic clicks and impressions (Search Console), sessions and conversions (GA4), and Google Business Profile calls, direction requests, website clicks, reviews, and rating. **See pace at a glance** — Each goal shows progress from its starting point toward your target, and the agency dashboard rolls goal pacing up into a per-client badge so you can spot who's on track and who needs attention. Open any client's [settings](https://app.rankability.com/client-settings) and find the Goals tab to set your first one. ## Alerts - Custom alert rules with Slack delivery **New** Set your own alert rules — for your whole organization or per client — and choose where they get delivered, including a new Slack channel. **Rules you define** — Build rules for the signals that matter: rank drops, SPI drops, Search Console click drops, GA4 traffic drops, lost AI citations, citation count drops, lost backlinks, and Google Business Profile review and impression changes — each with its own threshold. **Delivered to Slack** — Point a rule at a Slack webhook and alerts land in the channel your team already watches, alongside the existing email digests. Open [Settings](https://app.rankability.com/settings) (or any client's settings) to create your first alert rule. ## Scheduled reports - AI executive summary on every send **New** Scheduled client reports can now include an AI-written executive summary at the top — a short, plain-language read on what changed since the last report. **Auto-written, on by default** — When a scheduled report goes out, Rankability generates a concise summary of the client's progress so the recipient gets the story, not just the charts. Toggle the AI summary on or off per schedule. **Edit before it sends** — Don't like the wording? Edit the summary and your version is saved and used on the next send. Open any client's [settings](https://app.rankability.com/client-settings) and find the report schedule to turn it on. ## Chart annotations - Mark key events on your charts **New** You can now annotate charts to mark when something happened — a content change, an algorithm update, a link campaign — so spikes and dips actually have context. **Categorized markers** — Add an annotation with a date, a note, and a category: Content change, Algorithm update, Link building, Technical fix, Client event, or Other. Each shows up on the chart with its own icon and color. **Visible to clients on shared reports** — Annotations render read-only on shared report and audit pages, so clients see the same context you do without being able to edit it. Open the [Promoter](https://app.rankability.com/promoter) and add an annotation to a chart. ## CSV export - One-click export across your data tables **Improved** More of your data tables now have a one-click Export CSV button, so you can pull results into a spreadsheet without copy-pasting. **Export what you see** — The export matches the table as you've filtered and sorted it, so you get exactly the rows on screen — now available on the Page Auditor list, the Promoter, and more. Look for the Export CSV button on the [Page Auditor](https://app.rankability.com/page-auditor) and other data tables. ## Auditor v1.9 - Redirect destinations, filters, and loop warnings **Improved** Site Auditor now makes redirects easy to understand at a glance — where each one points, how many hops it takes, and whether it's a problem. **See the destination and hop count** — Redirected pages now show their final target and how many hops it took to get there, in the table and in the CSV export. **Filter to just redirects** — One toggle narrows the report to redirected pages only, so you can review them as a batch. **Loop and excessive-hop warnings** — Redirect chains that loop back on themselves or take too many hops are flagged as issues, so you can fix the ones actually costing you crawl budget. Open any client's [Audit](https://app.rankability.com/audit) section and pick Site Auditor. ## Auditor v1.8 - Search Console clicks and impressions in Site Auditor **Improved** Site Auditor now layers Google Search Console performance onto your crawl, so you can see which pages are actually earning traffic right next to their technical health. **Per-page Search Console metrics** — Each page row can now show clicks, impressions, CTR, and average position from Search Console — sortable like every other column, and included in the CSV export. **Find the pages worth fixing first** — Sort by clicks or impressions to prioritize technical fixes on the pages that already matter, instead of guessing. Connect Search Console and open any client's [Audit](https://app.rankability.com/audit) section to run Site Auditor. ## AI crawler analytics - Find pages AI bots read but never cite **New** Your AI crawler report now flags pages that AI bots crawl but never cite — the content opportunities sitting right under your nose. **Crawled but never cited** — When an AI bot (OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Perplexity) repeatedly fetches a page but never cites it in answers, that page is surfaced as a content opportunity. **Jump straight into Copywriter** — Each flagged page has a "Strengthen in Copywriter" action that opens Optimize pre-filled with the URL, so you can improve it without retyping anything. Open any client's [Audit](https://app.rankability.com/audit) section to view your AI crawler report. ## Tracker v5.16 - Per-keyword columns inside topic groups **Improved** Topic groups in Tracker now show the same per-keyword detail columns you get in the main list — no need to ungroup to see the numbers. **Detail without leaving the group** — Inside each topic group you can now see per-keyword columns like score change, keyword data, and ranking URL, using the same Visible columns toggles as the rest of the table. Open the [Tracker](https://app.rankability.com/tracker) and expand any topic group. ## Tracker v5.15 - Faster keyword suggestions from Search Console **Improved** When you set up tracking, Tracker now suggests keywords your client is already getting impressions for in Search Console — add them in one click. **Suggestions from your own data** — Tracker surfaces queries the client is already gaining impressions for, pulled from multiple sources, so you start from what's already working instead of a blank box. **One-click to add** — Tap a suggestion to drop it straight into the keyword list. Anything you've already added is filtered out automatically. Open the [Tracker](https://app.rankability.com/tracker), start a new project, and check the suggested keywords. ## Serena - Bing Webmaster Tools is now a first-class data source **New** Serena can now read your Bing Webmaster Tools data alongside Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Business Profile, and YouTube. Connect once per client and Serena pulls in your Bing queries, pages, clicks, impressions, and average position automatically — so when you ask "what's working on Bing?" or "which pages should I optimize for Bing?", Serena actually has the data to answer. **Connect with an API key — no OAuth, no Azure app registration** — Open any client's settings → **Connected services** → **Bing Webmaster Tools** → **Connect**. Paste the API key from your client's bing.com/webmasters → **Settings → API access**, pick the verified site from the dropdown, and you're done. Total setup time is about 30 seconds — no Microsoft sign-in, no consent screen, no IT ticket. **Pulled into Serena automatically** — Once connected, Serena's context includes a Bing Webmaster Tools section every time you chat about that client: total clicks, impressions, average CTR, average position, your top 15 queries by clicks, and your top 10 pages by clicks. No toggle, no extra prompt — it's just there, sitting next to the GSC block in Serena's brain. **Now visible in the Connections popover** — Open the **Connections** dropdown in any Serena chat and Bing Webmaster Tools now appears as the fifth row, with the same live status dot the other integrations use: green when connected, amber when the API key is in but you haven't picked a site yet, red on an auth error, gray when not connected. The connected-count badge on the Connections button now counts Bing too. **Refreshes itself every 6 hours** — Bing data syncs automatically in the background so Serena is always working from a recent snapshot. Need it sooner? The **Resync** button in client settings forces an immediate refresh. **Per-client, encrypted at rest, disconnect anytime** — Each client gets its own Bing connection. The API key is stored encrypted on our side and only used to call Bing's API on that client's behalf. Click **Disconnect** in settings to remove the key and clear cached Bing data for that client at any time. **Serena-only for now** — Bing data powers Serena today. Surfacing it inside Researcher, Tracker, and Copywriter is on the roadmap based on demand. Open any client's [settings](https://app.rankability.com/settings) → Connected services → **Bing Webmaster Tools** → **Connect** to get started. ## Site Auditor (Beta) - Crawl your whole site and see every page in one report **New** Site Auditor is now in beta. Point it at any domain and we'll crawl the site for you and hand back a single sortable, filterable, exportable table of every page — no setup, no GSC connection, no waiting for analytics to sync. **One report, every page, the fields that actually matter** — Each page row shows status code, indexability (indexable / noindex / canonicalized away / blocked by robots), title, meta description, H1, the first two H2s, meta robots, canonical URL, word count, and crawl depth. That's it. No vanity scores, no buried tabs — just the raw inventory you need to make a fix list. **Filter to the problems in one click** — Above the table you can filter to just 4xx pages, just 5xx pages, just noindex pages, just pages buried more than three clicks deep, or just thin pages under 100 words. Combine filters (e.g. "noindex AND > 3 clicks deep") to find the exact subset worth fixing first. **Sort, search, and export the whole thing as CSV** — Every column is sortable, you can search URL or title from the top of the table, and the **Export CSV** button hands you the full filtered set as a 12-column spreadsheet so you can hand it to a dev, a VA, or a client without copy-pasting. **Leave it running — we'll email you and toast you when it's done** — Crawls of larger sites take a few minutes. You don't have to sit on the page. We send you an email the moment the report is ready, and the next time you open Rankability the audit page shows a toast confirming it finished. The crawl keeps running in the background either way. **Beta caveats, so you know what to expect** — V1 is intentionally raw-crawl-only. No GSC clicks/impressions, no GA4 sessions, no Core Web Vitals, no backlink data, no AI fix suggestions. Those will come back in V2 as opt-in enrichment layers — for now we wanted to ship a fast, reliable inventory you can trust. If you hit a domain we can't crawl cleanly, let us know. Open any client's **Audit** section and pick **Site Auditor** to try it. ## Tracker - Plain-language SPI narrative + redesigned project overview **New** The Tracker project overview just got a major upgrade. Every run now comes with an AI-written diagnostic of your Search Performance Index (SPI) score — so you don't have to stare at a number and guess what it means — and the overview itself has been reorganized to put the most actionable signals at the top. **Situation-aware SPI narrative** — Every Tracker run now produces a one-paragraph diagnostic that explains *why* your SPI is where it is for that keyword. It calls out which surfaces you're winning (e.g. Google #3, cited in ChatGPT and Perplexity), which surfaces you're missing from (e.g. absent on Gemini and AI Overview), how the score moved versus your previous run, and how you stack up against the top competitors on the same query. **Reads the whole picture, not just the headline number** — The narrative is generated from the full SPI breakdown — traditional search, AI brand mentions, AI citations, video, and local pack — plus the per-platform presence/absence and position data, your prior run, and the top three competitors on the keyword. So instead of "SPI is 62," you get something like "Moderate visibility — strong on Google organic but missing from AI Overviews and Gemini, where two competitors are being cited." **Total SPI chart + top competitors on every overview** — The project overview now shows your total SPI trend chart and a top-competitors panel at a glance, alongside the new narrative. The layout has been reordered so the diagnostic and the trend live above the fold — no more scrolling past tables to figure out how the project is doing. **Zero setup, no extra credits** — The narrative is generated automatically on every Tracker run and stored with the run, so it loads instantly when you open the project. No toggle, no extra cost on top of the run itself. Open any project in [Tracker](https://app.rankability.com/tracker) to see the new overview. ## How-to - Automate your keyword research with Serena **Announcement** A tip from Nathan: Serena can now automate your keyword research process for you — this was the first of many skills we're adding to help you automate more of your SEO work with agents. **Start narrow, then expand** — To get the most out of this skill, start with one primary seed keyword and one cluster you want to attack, rather than trying to cover everything at once. **More skills are coming** — This is just the first skill added to Serena. Over the following weeks and months, more skills were added to help automate more of your SEO work. Open [Serena](https://app.rankability.com/clients) for any client and ask it to research keywords for your seed term and cluster to try it. ## Serena v4.5 - Serena remembers your client across conversations **New** Serena used to forget. Long chats lost the thread, and starting a new conversation meant re-explaining everything Serena already knew about the client. That changes today — Serena now keeps the context of long conversations and remembers facts about each client across separate chats. **Long conversations stay coherent** — In a long chat, Serena used to lose track of the earliest turns after about ten messages. Now it quietly summarizes the older parts of the conversation in the background and keeps the recent turns word-for-word, so you can refer back to "the keyword list we built earlier" or "the brand voice we agreed on" and Serena still knows what you mean. **Per-client memory across chats** — Serena automatically remembers durable facts about each client — their voice, their priorities, the topics they care about, the decisions you've made together — and brings them into every new conversation. Open a fresh chat for the same client and Serena already knows what you've established with it before. **Memory stays scoped to the client** — What Serena learns about one client never leaks into chats about another. Each client gets its own memory. **Self-correcting** — When you tell Serena something that contradicts what it remembered, the older fact gets replaced — not stacked on top. Things you mention repeatedly stick around longer. **Nothing to configure** — Memory builds itself from your conversations. The chat interface is unchanged; Serena just gets sharper the more you use it on a given client. Open the [Serena](https://app.rankability.com/clients) and pick up where you left off. ## Serena v4.4 - Run keyword research without leaving the chat **New** Serena can now run full keyword research for you, right inside the chat. No more bouncing over to the Researcher tool, filling out a form, and coming back to paste results. **Ask in plain language** — Tell Serena something like "run keyword research for emergency plumbing in Austin" and it kicks off the job for you. Or open the **Prompt library** in Serena and click the **Keyword research** skill if you'd rather not type the request from scratch. **Free when someone else on the client already asked** — If a teammate has pulled the same topic recently, you get the results back instantly at no credit cost. **Same data as Researcher, no parallel reports to manage** — Top keywords and search volumes show up right in the chat, with a one-click link to the full report. Every run is a real Researcher job, so it lives in your Researcher history and exports the same way. Open the [Serena](https://app.rankability.com/clients) and try "run keyword research for \[your topic]" to give it a spin. ## Copywriter v5.4 - Publish straight to Webflow in one click **New** Webflow joins WordPress as a first-class publish destination. Connect a client's Webflow site once, then send any finished Copywriter draft to a CMS collection — as a staged draft or live — without leaving the app. **One-time connection per client** — Open client settings → Integrations, paste a Webflow Site API Token, pick the site, pick the collection (typically Blog Posts), and click **Connect**. The token is stored encrypted and scoped to that client only — Test connection and Disconnect are both one click. The connect step talks to Webflow only through secure POST requests, so your token never ends up in a server access log or a browser URL. **Draft or publish from the Copywriter project** — Open any finished project, click **Publish to Webflow** in the Export menu, choose **Save as draft (staged)** or **Publish immediately**, and the article lands as a new Webflow collection item with title, slug, post body, summary, and main image already filled in. Staged drafts let you review inside Webflow first; immediate publish pushes the item live in the same step. **Live deep-link on success** — When you publish immediately, the success toast carries a direct link to the published item on your Webflow site. One click takes you to the live URL — no hunting in the Webflow Designer. **Per-publish history** — Every attempt to Webflow — success, failure, or the rare "staged but the publish step failed" partial — is recorded against the project alongside your WordPress history, so you can see exactly when each draft went out and where it lives. Failures show the reason in plain language so you can fix and re-publish without guesswork. **Standard Webflow blog fields, with a clear error if yours differ** — Rankability maps to Webflow's standard blog collection fields (name, slug, post-body, post-summary, main-image). If your collection uses different field slugs, the publish surfaces a specific error pointing you at the docs — no silent failures. Open any [Copywriter](https://app.rankability.com/copywriter) project with a finished draft and pick **Webflow CMS** from the Export menu to try it. New here? Open client [settings](https://app.rankability.com/settings) → Integrations to connect Webflow first. ## Copywriter v5.6 - See every publish attempt and retry failures in one click **Improved** Every send to WordPress or Webflow now has an audit trail you can actually see, and any failure is one click away from being retried — no more re-opening the publish dialog, re-picking the destination, and re-publishing from scratch. **Publishing history in the More actions menu** — Open any Copywriter project, click the **More actions** menu (next to Version history) and pick **Publishing history**. A dialog lists the last 25 publish attempts for the project, each row showing destination (WordPress or Webflow), timestamp in your local time, status (Published / Staged / Staged-publish-failed / Failed), and an **Autopilot** badge when the attempt was triggered automatically. **Retry without leaving the dialog** — Failed rows get a **Retry publish** button right inline. Click it and the original attempt is replayed with the same destination and the same draft/publish choice you originally picked. If a draft attempt failed it retries as a draft; if a publish attempt failed it retries as publish. **Smart handling of the half-failed case** — When a Webflow item was staged successfully but the publish step failed (the page exists in your collection but isn't live), Retry calls only the publish endpoint on the existing item — so you finish the publish without creating a duplicate item in your collection. **Failures explain themselves** — Failed rows show the reason inline in plain language ("Invalid token," "Collection field mismatch," "Rate limited") so you can fix the underlying issue before retrying, instead of guessing. **Direct link to the live or staged post** — Successful rows link straight to the post in WordPress or the live URL in Webflow. Rows without a URL fall back to the remote post ID, so you can still find the item in your CMS. Open any [Copywriter](https://app.rankability.com/copywriter) project, click **More actions** → **Publishing history** to try it. ## Copywriter v5.5 - See exactly what will land in WordPress or Webflow before you publish **Improved** Both publish dialogs now show a live preview of what will actually appear in your CMS — title, slug, meta description, and hero image — so there are no surprises after you click Publish. Slug and meta description are inline-editable right there, and your edits save back to the project so the next publish (and the actual API call you're about to make) uses them. **Preview card in the publish dialog** — Click Publish to WordPress or Publish to Webflow on any finished project and a **Preview what will land** card appears above the draft/publish options. You see the hero image thumbnail (or an empty-state if there isn't one), the title pulled from your H1, the URL slug, and the meta description — all resolved exactly the way the publish step would resolve them. **Inline-edit slug and meta description** — Click the slug or meta description in the preview card to edit them right there. Edits are sanitized (slug stays URL-safe) and persisted back to the project's SEO assets — so the next publish uses your new values, and so does any future publish from the SEO popover in the action bar. **Single source of truth for what gets published** — Under the hood, both Webflow and WordPress now resolve the title, slug, meta, and hero image through the same code path. As a side effect we fixed a quiet bug where slug and meta description edits made in the SEO popover weren't always making it through to the CMS payload — they do now, every time, for both destinations. Open any [Copywriter](https://app.rankability.com/copywriter) project with a finished draft, click **Publish to WordPress** or pick **Webflow CMS** from the Export menu, and you'll see the new preview card. ## Copywriter v5.3 - Publish straight to WordPress in one click **New** Finished drafts can now go from Copywriter to your client's WordPress site without copy-paste, without a CMS export, and without leaving the app. Connect once per client, then publish — as a draft or live — from any project in seconds. **Official Rankability plugin** — Download the Rankability WordPress plugin from the integrations card in client settings, install it on your client's site like any other plugin, and you're connected. The plugin is the only piece that touches the WordPress side — no application passwords, no SMTP credentials, no admin-username storage on our end. **One-time connection per client** — Generate an integration token in client settings, paste it into **Settings → Rankability** on the WordPress site, and click **Test connection** to confirm. The token is stored encrypted and scoped to that client only — disconnect at any time to stop the app from using it. **Draft or publish from the Copywriter project** — Open any finished project, click **Publish to WordPress**, choose **Save as draft** or **Publish immediately**, and the post lands on the WordPress site with title, body, slug, meta description, and featured image already filled in. Drafts let you keep a human in the loop; immediate publish is there for projects you've already reviewed. **Meta description lands in your SEO plugin** — If the WordPress site uses Yoast SEO, Rank Math, or All in One SEO, the meta description from your Copywriter project is written into the corresponding plugin field automatically — so your on-page SEO is set the moment the post is created, with no extra step in WordPress. **Per-publish history** — Every publish attempt — success or failure — is recorded against the project, so you can see exactly when a draft went out, whether it landed, and where it lives in WordPress. Failures show the reason so you can fix and re-publish without guesswork. Open any [Copywriter](https://app.rankability.com/copywriter) project with a finished draft and click **Publish to WordPress** to get started. To connect your first site, open the WordPress card in client settings → Integrations. ## Copywriter v5.2 - Pick which platforms to research (and only pay for those) **New** Every Copywriter project now opens with a research platform picker — choose exactly which sources you want to query, and the platforms you skip aren't fetched and aren't charged. Credit cost has been the #1 piece of feedback on Copywriter, and this puts the dial directly in your hands. **Pick your sources, see the cost change live** — A new Research platforms card sits above the Continue button on both new projects and the Optimize flow. Toggle any of nine sources — Google Organic, AI Overview, AI Mode, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Brave, Claude — and the credit estimate updates as you click. A green helper line on the right tells you exactly how many credits you saved versus all-on, so the trade-off is never hidden. **Three one-click presets** — **Select all** runs the full research pass like before. **Select none** drops you to the cheapest possible run (Google Organic stays on — it's the SERP backbone) for fast iteration. **Recommended** picks the high-signal subset most projects benefit from: Google Organic, AI Overview, AI Mode, Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Gemini — skipping the heavier or less-frequently-cited sources so a typical project still gets strong coverage at a meaningfully lower cost. **Deselected = no fetch, no credit** — When you uncheck a platform, that source isn't queried at all. No partial billing, no "we ran it anyway just in case" — the credits genuinely stay in your account. The same picker works for both new briefs and the Optimize flow. **Progress UI matches your selection** — The research progress screen now hides the "Scanning AI platforms" step when you've turned all AI sources off, so the live status reflects what's actually running. No more watching a step that was never going to fire. **Available everywhere new research starts** — The picker appears on every entry point that kicks off a fresh research run: new project, Optimize an existing URL, and the bulk-keyword path. Existing projects keep working as before — the picker only applies to runs you start from now on. Open the [Copywriter](https://app.rankability.com/copywriter) and start a new project (or run Optimize) to choose your platforms. ## Serena v4.3 - Turn messy uploads into clean knowledge Serena can actually use **New** When you upload a long transcript, a sprawling sales page, or a dense PDF to your client knowledge base, Serena now offers to clean it up first — so the answers you get back are sharper, more on-brand, and grounded in the parts that actually matter. **Automatic detection of long or messy sources** — As soon as you add a new source, Serena checks whether it's the kind of file that tends to confuse the AI — long transcripts with timestamps and filler words, marketing pages mixed with navigation copy, or huge documents where the useful bits are buried. When it spots one, a small prompt appears asking if you'd like to optimize it before using it. **One click to a structured version** — Choose **Optimize and use structured version** and Serena pulls out the parts that matter — your brand voice, your offers, your customer language, your proof points — and saves a clean version that's much easier for the AI to read. Prefer to keep the original visible? Pick **Keep both versions** instead. Either way, the raw upload is preserved in the background so nothing is ever lost. **You stay in control of every field** — The optimization opens an editable preview with every section laid out as a simple text field. Tweak the brand voice, add a missing customer quote, fix a stat — then save. Nothing goes into Serena's brain until you approve it. **Tag each source with its role** — A new role label on every source (brand knowledge, customer language, proof & case studies, competitor context, and more) tells Serena *how* to use that source — as voice reference, as evidence, as competitive context, etc. The result is recommendations that sound like you and cite the right kind of material for the question being asked. **You only pay if it works** — The optimization runs on our drafting-tier model and costs 250 credits — but credits are only deducted when you commit a successful result. Previews, retries, and dismissals are free. **Better answers, lower noise** — When both a structured source and its raw original are eligible for an answer, Serena uses the structured version and quietly sets the raw one aside — so prompts stay focused and your responses don't get diluted by transcript filler or boilerplate. Open the [Serena](https://app.rankability.com/clients) and add or revisit a source in your client knowledge base to try it. ## Copywriter v5.1 - SEO pill in the action bar with one-click AI meta **New** Title tag and meta description have moved out of the bottom collapsible and into a discoverable **SEO** pill in the Draft action bar — with a status dot, a one-click popover, and AI generation for any field you leave blank. **SEO pill with at-a-glance status** — A new **SEO** button sits in the Draft action bar next to your other top-level actions. A small dot turns green the moment both your title tag and meta description are filled, and stays amber while either is empty — so you can see whether your page is publish-ready without opening anything. **Anchored popover, no scrolling required** — Clicking the pill opens a focused popover with title tag, meta description, and slug right where you're working. Edits save automatically through the same flow as before, so nothing about persistence changes — just where you do it. **Generate with AI for empty fields** — When a field is empty, a small **Generate** button (with a Sparkles icon) appears next to its label. One click drafts a title tag or meta description tailored to the topic, intent, and brand on the project, then drops it straight into the field and saves. The other field is used as soft context, so a generated meta description complements the title you already wrote. **Friendlier character counter** — Counters now read `52 / ~60 chars` for title tag and `133 / ~155 chars` for meta description — the recommended length is visible at a glance without feeling prescriptive. Length badges read **A bit long** / **A bit short** in a calm muted tone — guidance, not a verdict. **Import from URL now refreshes your SEO meta** — When you import content from a URL, the page's `` and `<meta name="description"\>` now overwrite your current values instead of being skipped when fields are non-empty. Imports are user-initiated, so the source page's metadata is treated as authoritative. Open the [Copywriter](https://app.rankability.com/copywriter) and click **SEO** in the Draft action bar to try it. ## Tracker v5.13 - Choose what to track on each AI platform **New** Rank Tracker now lets you decide, per AI platform, whether you care about brand mentions, citations, or both — so the visibility score you're optimizing against actually matches the kind of keyword you're tracking. **Per-platform Track selector** — Every AI platform tile in the Rank Tracker setup screen now has a **Track** dropdown with three choices: **Both** (the default), **Citations only**, and **Brand mentions only**. Pick what matters for each platform individually — you might track citations on Perplexity (where links carry the answer) but brand mentions on ChatGPT (where the model often names the brand without linking to it). **Smart defaults for informational keywords** — When you type a clearly informational keyword (e.g. "what is local SEO" or "how do I rank on Google"), Rank Tracker now pre-fills every AI tile to **Citations only**. Brand mentions are rare in purely educational AI responses, so citations are the more reliable signal — and a small explainer right above the tiles tells you which keyword triggered it and why, so the change is never a surprise. **Per-tile help, exactly where you need it** — Each Track dropdown has an info icon next to it that explains the three options in plain language. No more flipping back and forth to figure out what "citations" means in this context. **Your overrides stick** — If you change a platform's Track value yourself, the explainer dismisses and Rank Tracker stops nudging you for the rest of that setup session. Manual choices always win over the smart default. Open the [Tracker](https://app.rankability.com/track/rank) and start a new project to see the new Track controls. ## Tracker v5.12 - Brave AI Answers now tracked in Rank Tracker **New** Rank Tracker now monitors your brand's visibility in Brave AI Answers — automatically, on every weekly scan, across all your existing projects. **A new AI surface, already in your projects** — Brave AI Answers generates AI-written summaries at the top of Brave Search results, with inline citations similar to Perplexity or ChatGPT. The new **Brave AI** platform has been added to Rank Tracker and is automatically included in your existing projects — no setup required. Your next weekly scan will capture it. **Full citation and mention tracking** — Rank Tracker checks whether your brand is cited (linked as a source) or mentioned (named in the answer text) and records the position of any citation. The data flows into your existing AI visibility charts and brand comparison view alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and the rest. **Included in your SPI score** — Brave AI is weighted in the Search Performance Index alongside the other AI platforms, so your overall score reflects your presence there without any extra configuration. **Shared reports include it by default** — If you share a Tracker dashboard with a client, Brave AI results are included in the shared view automatically. Open the [Tracker](https://app.rankability.com/track/rank) to see Brave AI in your next scan results. ## Copywriter v5.0 - Research & Cite, your AI research partner inside the editor **New** Copywriter now has a built-in research partner that can pull fresh facts from the web, decide where they belong in your draft, and drop them in with citations — without ever leaving the editor. **Chat-driven research, side-by-side with your draft** — A new **Research** tab sits next to **Serena** in the right-hand AI sidebar. Ask a question ("latest 2026 EV tax credit thresholds", "current Google AI Overview citation patterns") and Research goes off, finds answers from the live web, and brings back a summary with the sources it used. Each research call uses about 150 credits, shown right on the input. **Highlight-to-research** — Select 30+ characters anywhere in your draft and the AI sidebar opens to the **Research** tab automatically, with the Research input pre-filled. Use it to challenge a claim, refresh an outdated stat, or find a citation for a sentence you already wrote. **Smart, embedding-backed placement** — Click **Add to article** and Copywriter uses AI embeddings to find the best heading-aligned spot for each new fact, with a clear **Where to insert** preview and a one-line *why this spot* rationale next to every suggestion. If the topic doesn't fit anywhere obvious, you'll see a plain-English explanation and an **Insert anyway** option that drops it just above your References section. **Before/after diff with word-count delta** — When research updates an existing paragraph, you get a side-by-side **Changes** card with inline insertions and deletions, a **+12 / -4 words** delta pill in the header, and a toggle between **Show diff** and **Show new text** so you can read either view. **Conversational revisions before you accept** — Don't love a suggestion? Click **Revise this suggestion**, tell Copywriter what to change ("shorter, more skeptical"), and it rewrites in place — so you ship the version you actually want. **Persistent post-apply highlights with one-click clear** — Once you apply a research suggestion, the inserted text stays softly highlighted in the editor so you can see exactly what changed at a glance. A floating **Clear research highlights** pill removes them when you're done reviewing. Open any draft in the [Copywriter](https://app.rankability.com/copywriter), open the AI sidebar, and switch to the **Research** tab to try it. ## Auditor v1.7 - Site Auditor redesign with KPI cards, sortable Pages tab, and CSV export **Improved** Site Auditor has been rebuilt around the questions you actually ask first — "what's working, what's broken, and which pages do I need to look at?" — with a new top-of-report KPI strip, a much more usable Pages tab, and one-click CSV export. **Most-important-metrics KPI strip** — Every audit now opens with four KPI cards: **Search Console** (impressions, clicks, CTR, average position), **Google Analytics** (sessions, engagement rate), **PageSpeed Insights** (average performance score), and **Backlinks** (referring domains). One glance tells you whether the site is healthy or hurting. **Redesigned Pages tab with column visibility toggles** — The Pages table is now sortable on every column, and a **Columns** toggle lets you hide the metrics you don't care about so the table fits on your screen. Configure it once for the way you audit and the layout sticks. **Sticky URL column** — The first column (the page URL) is now sticky during horizontal scrolls, so you never lose track of which row you're reading when you scan across all the metrics. **One-click CSV export** — A **CSV** button on the Pages tab exports the current view to `audit-pages.csv` — perfect for handing a prioritized fix list to a developer or pasting into a client report. Open the [Auditor](https://app.rankability.com/audit) and run a fresh site audit to see the new layout. ## Tracker v5.11 - Tracker auto-recovery and vendor failover transparency **Improved** Rank Tracker now tells you when a scan that originally came back partial was quietly fixed in the background, and keeps a per-scan record of which data vendors served you so you can trust the numbers. **"Auto-recovered" badge on the dashboard** — When the background recovery system retries a partial scan and gets fresh results, the project dashboard surfaces a subtle pill like **Auto-recovered 3 platform(s)** at the top of the screen. Hover for a per-platform breakdown — *Gemini · recovered May 6 · attempt 2* — so you can see exactly what was patched and when. No action needed; the data is already in your report. **Recovery shown on the project overview** — The **Last scan** card on the project overview also picks up an **Auto-recovered** badge when the latest scan was healed in the background, with the same per-platform tooltip. You'll know at a glance whether what you're looking at was a clean primary run or a recovered one. **Per-tier failover history persisted with every scan** — Behind the scenes, every scan now records which vendor served each platform — primary (L1), automatic L2 backup, or L3 fallback — along with the reason for any tier shift. That history is saved with the run, so when something looks off you can trace it back to the exact provider that returned the data. Open the [Tracker](https://app.rankability.com/track/rank) and you'll see the new badges on any project with a recently recovered scan. ## API v1.5 - OAuth 2.0 on remote MCP, Connected apps in Settings, and n8n on the Integrations page **Improved** Connecting Rankability to AI assistants and automation tools just got a lot more grown-up. The remote MCP endpoint now speaks standards-compliant OAuth 2.0, you can review and revoke every authorized app from your settings, and the n8n community node is listed front-and-center on the in-app Integrations page. **OAuth 2.0 on the remote MCP endpoint** — Connecting Claude (or any other MCP client) to Rankability now goes through a standard OAuth flow with an explicit consent screen. You'll see exactly which permissions the client is asking for — for example *Create and run content generation jobs* or *Query search intelligence (Google + AI platforms)* — and you choose **Allow Access** or **Deny** before any token is issued. Discovery endpoints (`/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server`, `/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`) are live so compliant clients can connect with zero manual setup. **Connected apps tab in Settings** — A new **Connected apps** tab in [Settings](https://app.rankability.com/settings) lists every app you've authorized through OAuth (Claude, custom MCP clients, third-party assistants), the date you authorized it, when it was last used, and the exact scopes it has. Each one has a **Revoke** button with a confirmation dialog — kill access in one click without rotating any keys. **n8n node on the in-app Integrations page** — The Settings → Organization → Integrations tab now features the official **n8n** community node card with one-line install instructions (search `n8n-nodes-rankability` in n8n, paste your API key) and three copy-pasteable starter workflows: **Copywriter from Google Sheets**, **Weekly Tracker Digest to Slack**, and **Bulk Page Auditor from URL List**. Connect Rankability to 400+ apps without writing code. Open [Settings](https://app.rankability.com/settings) → Connected apps to manage authorized assistants, or jump to Integrations to grab the n8n node. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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