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What’s new in Semhack

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  1. New feature pages for everything that shippedImproved

    • New pages for the Search Console explorer and keywords, competitor comparison, team and collaboration, and the API.
    • The home page, features list, security page and FAQ now describe branded report links, client emails, teams, the API and the help center as they work today.
    • Help and Developers links in the site’s menu and footer.

  2. Compare your page with competitorsNew

    • Audit your page and up to 3 competitor pages side by side: scores, every check, key on-page facts and “Where they do better”.
    • Content gaps: frequent words and two-word phrases on competitor pages that yours doesn’t use.
    • Re-run, rename, print or export a comparison as CSV. Competitor pages count as audits but take no website slot.

    Commit 10d6458

  3. White-label reports, client emails and teamsNew

    • Branding settings: your logo, brand color, footer, contact email and website on shared briefs, audit reports and emails. Plans with white-label can hide “Prepared with Semhack”.
    • Share a page audit as a read-only link at /r/…, with an optional expiry, view counts and a switch to turn it off.
    • Scheduled weekly or monthly client emails with the latest audit, Search Console numbers and the brief, with preview, test sends and unsubscribe links.
    • Team settings: invite people by email, owner, admin and member roles, resend or revoke invitations, and switch between workspaces.

    Commit 192d1b2

  4. Search Console explorer and keyword trackingNew

    • Pages and Queries explorers for every client: 7, 28 or 90 days against the period before or a year earlier, filters, search and CSV export.
    • Page and query details, with the page’s latest audit and the pages ranking for a query.
    • Track keywords per client and see their week-over-week movement, with an alert when one moves.

    Commit c1b6d06

  5. Help center, command palette and shortcutsNew

    • A public help center at /help with guides and an article for every audit check, searchable, with “Was this helpful?” feedback.
    • A setup checklist on This week for new workspaces.
    • A command palette (⌘K or Ctrl+K) to search websites, clients and pages, jump anywhere or audit a URL, and keyboard shortcuts (press ? in the app).

    Commit 21538c3

  6. Comments, due dates and a boardNew

    • Comment on any action and @mention a teammate, who gets a notification and, if they want it, an email.
    • Due dates, priorities and a history of every change on each action, and a “Due this week” filter on This week.
    • A board with To do, In progress and Done columns, a My tasks view, and a Monday reminder about overdue actions.

    Commit d6e76cc

  7. Core Web Vitals from PageSpeed InsightsNew

    • Run a PageSpeed Insights test from any page audit report: real-user Core Web Vitals from the Chrome UX Report where available, and Lighthouse lab data.
    • A Core Web Vitals view per monitored site with history charts; monitored pages are tested on their schedule where PageSpeed API access is set up.

    Commit d4856fa

  8. REST API, webhooks and SlackNew

    • A REST API for audits, site audits, websites, clients and findings, with read or read-and-write keys created in Settings → API.
    • Signed webhooks and Slack messages when audits finish or fail, findings appear or change, and monitoring raises an alert, with retries and a delivery log.
    • API documentation with curl examples at /developers.

    Commits 1ed4340, f9a379c

  9. Feature pages, a blog and a security pageNew

    • A rewritten home page, plus pages for each part of the product: site audit, Search Console, monitoring and client reports.
    • A blog with three guides: why a page lost clicks, soft 404s, and the 40-check technical audit checklist. RSS at /blog/rss.xml.
    • Security, about and changelog pages.
    • Old addresses left over from the domain’s previous owners now answer 410 Gone.

  10. AI drafts, off by defaultNew

    • Optional fix suggestions for failing checks, title and description rewrites, and brief summaries, written with Claude.
    • A workspace admin turns them on and sets a monthly budget. The app lists exactly which data each request sends.

    Commits cce3208, a22b606

  11. Plans and billingNew

    • Free, Pro and Agency plans with monthly or yearly billing through Stripe, discount codes and tax handling.
    • Plan limits for websites, audits per month, pages per site audit, Search Console clients and monitored pages, with a usage bar in the app.

    Commits 1e8fde6, 17bb7ec, 4598ac3

  12. Monitoring and alertsNew

    • Homepage uptime checks every 5 minutes (configurable per site), with incidents and uptime history.
    • Daily SSL certificate checks with warnings before expiry.
    • Scheduled daily or weekly re-audits of the pages you pick; the homepage is added after a site’s first audit.
    • Seven alert rules, a notification bell, alert emails with per-member preferences, and a Monday digest.

    Commit b049d10

  13. Site audits: crawl a whole websiteNew

    • A polite, resumable crawl that follows internal links and sitemaps and respects robots.txt.
    • Site-wide issues such as broken links, duplicate titles, redirect chains, orphan pages and possible soft 404s, compared with the previous crawl.
    • Every crawled page gets the page checks; issues and pages export as CSV.

    Commits d19a247, 264eb64

  14. Many more free toolsNew

    • Website and network tools: status, SSL, DNS, WHOIS, IP and reverse IP lookups, HTTP headers, IDN conversion and an uptime calculator.
    • Developer and text tools, and a tools index grouped by category with search.

    Commits d1c0aa7, a26b636, f9db41f

  15. Audits and Search Console in one weekly listNew

    • A page audit with 40 checks across SEO, security, performance and markup, a 0–100 score and CSV export.
    • Reports list and report pages, with what changed since the page’s previous audit.
    • This week ranks Search Console findings and audit findings together by clicks at stake, and shows the audit changes behind a drop.
    • “Did it work?”: clicks in the 28 days after a fix against the 28 days before.

    Commits 328e9bc, 763ebf3, fb12d45, 81ae3c2

  16. Slow declines and context checksImproved

    • A new rule for pages that slide over four weeks, which the 28-day drop rule can miss.
    • Context checks for every action type, such as whether impressions held or rankings slipped.

    Commit 3d38601

  17. A lighter, clearer redesignImproved

    • A new design across the site and the app.
    • This week gained 8-week trends, To do and In progress statuses, owners, filters and an evidence panel with daily clicks.
    • Assign an action to a workspace member, or add it to the client’s brief.
    • Tokens from “Sign in with Google” are now encrypted at rest.

    Commit 33cf60c

  18. Private beta accessNew

    • Invites for the private beta, and anyone refused at sign-up is added to the waitlist instead of being turned away.

    Commit 6ba9e72

  19. Many clients, and Monday briefsNew

    • Connect Google once and import any number of Search Console properties, one client each.
    • This week merges every client’s top actions into one ranked list.
    • A plain-language brief per client drafted every Monday, editable, under your agency’s name and logo, shared with a private link you can turn off.

    Commit 44bcf80

  20. Accounts, workspaces and Search ConsoleNew

    • Sign-up with email and password, or Google.
    • Read-only Search Console connection with encrypted tokens: 100 days of history, then a daily sync.
    • The first rules: traffic drops, low click-through, near misses and overlapping pages, each with its evidence.
    • A demo client with realistic sample data.

    Commit 947b92f

  21. First public versionNew

    • The first website, a waitlist, and five free SEO tools: SERP preview, meta tag checker, schema generator, redirect checker and robots.txt tester.

    Commit 0407407