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May 2025

  • Personalize AI-generated content with brand-specific drafts. Say goodbye to revising multiple drafts and prompts to get the output that you need. Customize the context the AI uses to create stronger content in Writing Assistant.
  • Unified rank and engagement data. See impressions, clicks, and click-through rates alongside your rankings—all in the Keywords report's single, unified interface.
  • Visualize SERP changes over time with a side-by-side comparison. See a side-by-side comparisons of the actual SERP for a given topic over time in Keyword Details, so you can hone in on what’s causing your rankings and traffic to fall.
  • Manage keywords at scale with powerful bulk controls. The updated Keyword Settings activity lets you update your tracking frequency, preferred URLs, and group membership for multiple keywords simultaneously. And, gain context with details like creation date, last modified date, and user attribution—helping you maintain better governance of your keyword tracking.

March 2025

  • Align your content strategy with audience search intent. Quickly understand what your audience wants with Conductor’s intelligent search intent classification in Explorer. Our engine categorizes keywords by intent—navigational, informational, commercial, or transactional—so you can create content that aligns with their goals.
  • Complete hreflang monitoring for multilingual sites. Ensure your multilingual content reaches the right audience with Conductor Website Monitoring, which tracks hreflang implementation across your entire site. Get 24/7 alerts on any issues—whether in HTML or XML sitemaps—so you can resolve them before they impact engagement and revenue.
  • Streamline team onboarding with one-click login reminders. Encourage platform adoption with our new Remind button in User Management. Admins can now send quick activation reminders to invited users in a single click, making team onboarding effortless.
  • Jump from insight to action with Writing Assistant shortcuts. Turn keyword insights into content faster with a direct shortcut to Writing Assistant. With one click from Explorer's topic reports or the Keywords report, you can seamlessly start content creation with AI-driven recommendations.
  • Unlock regional insights with state-level tracking. Gain granular visibility into how your content performs across U.S. states to tailor strategies to local search behaviors. Optimize your campaigns for regional preferences, ensuring relevance and higher engagement across all the locations that matter to you.
  • Restore reporting accuracy with "srstlid" parameter removal. Our platform now automatically removes Google's "srstlid" parameter from URLs in keyword and analytics data. This eliminates false cannibalization signals and ensures reliable, parameter-free reporting for better decision-making.
  • Clearer insights on AIO in People Also Ask. We've refined Google AI Overview result reporting and People Also Ask tracking to correctly classify nested results, preventing mislabeling in reports. Plus, we now identify the first referenced URL as the true People Also Ask "owner," giving you a more accurate competitive landscape.

February 2025

  • Build content faster with multi-keyword analysis. In Content Guidance and Writing Assistant, you can search up to five keywords at once and build a broader understanding of customer intent. Only have one keyword in mind? Enter a term and we’ll automatically suggest the best keywords to add to your query.
  • The most advanced content engine is now even smarter. Unlike competitors that tell you to keep adding keywords, Writing Assistant equips your team with intelligent, genuine direction on what ideas and topics their projects should address.
  • Tap into the Conductor Community. The Conductor Community is your go-to space to connect with peers and learn from fellow SEO, content, and digital product experts. And, now it’s available directly within Conductor Intelligence.
  • Pick up where you left off in seconds. Conductor Intelligence remembers exactly where you left off, so you can pick things up without missing a beat right from the platform's Home page.
  • Optimize keyword tracking with best-in-class efficiency. Manage keywords in bulk, directly from the Keywords table. You can now make critical configuration changes that ensure you’re getting the most valuable insights possible from every SERP you’re monitoring.
  • Level up your technical SEO skills, on-demand. We’ve launched a fully self-guided training course to make sure you’re getting the most out of it: Improve Your Technical SEO with Conductor Website Monitoring.

December 2024

  • Get a complete view of your performance with new keyword reporting. Powered by our new data infrastructure, deliver a comprehensive overview of the performance, threats, and opportunities for your most important keywords in the Keywords and Keyword Details reports.
  • Improve content collaboration in Writing Assistant with assignee and status. The new Assignee and Status fields in Writing Assistant let you assign ownership to drafts and monitor their progress to publication.
  • Fine-tune content suggestions in Writing Assistant. You can now shorten—as well as lengthen—passages in Writing Assistant using generative AI. Let Conductor suggest refinements to your copy using all the insights and recommendations generated by Writing Assistant.
  • Maximize your SERP visibility with AI Overview insights. You can monitor AI Overview results for your most important keywords across Conductor Intelligence, including in the Keywords, Keyword Details, Market Share, and Result Types reports, and in Explorer.
  • Outrank competitors on SERPs with a strong backlink foundation. The new Backlink Competitive Gap Analysis service in Conductor's Marketplace compares your backlink profile against your top three competitors, revealing exactly where you're falling behind and, more importantly, how to catch up. 
  • Streamline user management with enhanced visibility controls. We've enhanced our User Management interface to see who's actively using the platform, at-a-glance, and which accounts they can access. 
  • Scale your page tracking with expanded group limits. We've increased our default URL limit for custom page groups from 1,000 to 10,000 pages.

September 2024

  • Expand and refine your content with your AI co-pilot. Highlight any section of your draft and select "Expand selection". Informed by the full context of your draft, Writing Assistant generates additional content that seamlessly integrates with your existing work and insights.
  • Keyword Groups report: A fresh look for smarter insights. The Keywords Groups report has an updated look, designed to provide clearer insights at a glance and streamline your SEO workflow. The new design features an updated filter bar for simpler, more efficient filtering and eye-catching performance cards that surface key trends in your keyword group performance.
  • Outsource your redirect troubleshooting. Conductor Website Monitoring customers can now check any of their domains for redirect chains and loops by requesting the specific OMR from the Conductor Intelligence Marketplace. 

July 2024

  • Improved content workflow for Writing Assistant with a focused window for identifying the best topic and competitive opportunities, more AI insights to set criteria around objective, audience, journey stage, and content type; and a new start screen for better draft management. Learn more about these enhancements.
  • Prioritized tasks and trend analysis from the home screen. From the new Home screen, review summary data, see and jump to recent accessed reports, and launch Quick-Start Tasks to learn your way around.
  • On-demand seasonality reports across keyword groups. A new and improved seasonality report in Marketplace offers valuable insights into keyword demand patterns throughout the year.

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June 2024

  • Editable insights and auto-save in Writing Assistant. Keep contributors focused on the most important content objectives by editing all of the automatically generated insight cards. Learn more about Writing Assistant.
  • New SERP parsing engine and Product result type. All Product result types, including those with labels such as Deals, Fast Shipping, Delivery, and others will be captured as a Product result within Conductor’s reporting.
  • Conductor module now live in Drupal CMS. Conductor customers that use Drupal can access powerful SEO guidance on how to build and optimize high-performing content from the same place they create and manage digital experiences.
  • Build annotations for custom URLs. Create custom annotations for any URL, including pages that you have not yet created or pages that do not yet have any organic traffic and appear in the Pages or Page Details report.
  • Download and export your data in more ways. Download trended keyword visibility data from Keywords and chart data from Pages and Page Details; Trended data from Market Share; and Percent Change calculations from Pages. 
  • More GA4 metrics, including Key Events. Connect as many metrics as you need to bring all of your business’s key data points and metrics to one place.
  • Start a free trial. Our new trial experience lets you see how you can boost traffic, engagement, and conversions with actionable SEO, content, and technical insights. Already a customer? Share this free 30-day trial with your network!
  • The Knowledge Base is now public. Conductor's Knowledge Base can now be accessed without signing in—meaning you can discover our in-depth articles, tutorials, and guidance directly from your favorite search engines.

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March 2024

  • Fresh AI tools to save you time on research and writing. Generate AI title tag and meta description suggestions—and suggested content outlines—with Writing Assistant that are pre-optimized using live SERP data and discovered insights.
  • Automatic annotations on Google algorithm updates. With Public Event Annotations, automatically get context on how events like Google algorithm updates, Google incidents, and industry changes have impacted your results.
  • More ways to access your Google Search Console data. Access critical engagement GSC metrics side-by-side with your analytics data in Pages.
  • Revamped Knowledge Base. Conductor's refreshed Knowledge Base makes unlocking the full value of the platform simpler than ever. 
  • Increased data security with SOC 2 Type 2 Certification. Conductor Intelligence and Conductor Website Monitoring (formerly ContentKing), the two products in Conductor’s website intelligence suite, have both achieved SOC 2 Type 1 and 2 certifications. Learn more about Conductor's dedication to your account security.

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December 2023

  • Quick Start Tasks and on-demand education. Review bite-sized onboarding paths through Conductor's most popular workflows.
  • Increased security with 2FA enablement. Set up 2FA in your Conductor account using your preferred method or authenticator application, including Google Authenticator or Authy, to receive an added layer of security.
  • Advanced semantic analysis and AI-driven keyword categorization. New and improved Body Copy Suggestions, used in two of our most-loved features—Content Guidance and Writing Assistant—prioritize keywords across three categories.
  • Conductor’s AI SEO insights in your CMS. Starting next year, joint customers of Conductor And Drupal will be able to access on-demand SEO recommendations within the Drupal CMS to accelerate content creation and optimization workflows

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November 2023

  • Multi-account access in ContentKing. Access all of your ContentKing accounts from just one sign-in.
  • German Conductor website and SEO resources. Access Conductor’s detailed guides and helpful SEO resources in English or German for the guidance you need in the language you prefer. Visit us now!

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October 2023

  • Expanded reporting flexibility. Research a domain, subdomain, or page in Explorer across with customizable reporting dates—and from up to 14 months of historical data.
  • Two new technical SEO services from our experts. Request a Primary Metadata Issues Report or Internal Linking Issues Report from the Marketplace to receive on-demand technical SEO support from our team of experts.
  • Sign-in with Google. Sign in to your Conductor account using your Google credentials. When you have an active Google session, you’ll be able to jump into Conductor with just one click from the sign-in screen. Learn more about Conductor's dedication to your account security.

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