Over the past year, we've been dealing with dashboard drill through bugs where the url kept accumulating more query params, and sometimes you would get to a dashboard and see errors in all the widgets. We would fix those where we found them, and otherwise recommended users delete all the search params in the URL and reapply filters / view options. While there are no major visual changes, today we launched a massive update to our link navigation that should solve all those problems, and make it even easier for us to add more drill through links.

The primary thing you'll notice is that the URL will be more legible and not quite as long as before. While we have put redirects in place so that your old bookmarks should take you to the correct reports, we recommend that you update your bookmarks to the new link structure. Please let us know via chat if you see anything not working as expected. This should be a major quality of life improvement for those of you regularly navigating through the app.

We’ve just pushed out a big update that improves, streamlines, and resolves several issues.

Favicon detection

• We have switched from string match to numeric range of favicon sizes
• This means favicons are now identified when an image height/width is between 16px and 36px
• The definitions were also added to help the system discern between favicons and icon-images

Travel Card Packs

• The new travel-related scrolling card packs in mobile SERPs are now identified as either Video, Hotel, or MapTravel

Weather Card Packs

• The new daily weather scrolling card packs in mobile SERPs are now identified

Story Item Detection

• Story items were getting missed due to favicons not being detected properly

Organic Card Pack

• We added a definition for organic card packs that were being incorrectly identified as “jobs”

Forum Sub-Items

• We have added a “Forum” sub-item to the list of sub-items that were found in the expander items (PeopleAlsoAsk, ThingsToKnow, etc.)

Organic Store ISE Link

• There is now support for a RelatedPhrase link that sometimes appears in the organic store pack/item

Video Result Metadata

• The definitions for title and metadata handlers for video results have been updated.

Local Buttons with Text

• We added support for local buttons that have text in them

These updates will help enhance and improve your SERP tracking and open new opportunities to examine more data. If you have any questions or feedback, be sure to reach out to us and let us know.

This week we have fixed some bugs and made improvements to the Advanced mode for inputting your keywords. (Check out this page for more information on the different Keyword Input Modes/Source Types)

In the Advanced keyword input mode, there was a bug in the Devices|Locales table, in which the Locales link didn’t work as intended. This has been resolved and is working correctly.

There was also an issue with the Import Keywords functionality that caused a problem if more than one Locale ID was include in a single cell in the spreadsheet. That has been fixed so the import will work more smoothly.

We’ve also changed to terminology that we use to describe the different Keyword Source types to help avoid confusion.
Now, when you click on Add Keyword Source, you’ll see these options:

And, when you arrive on the Keyword Manager page, we’ve changed the dropdown menu to make it more visible and more clear what mode you’re in. And, since this mode is the one that allows you to upload a spreadsheet with your keywords/groups/locales/devices, we’ve made that clearer in the name.

A few bug fixes to cover this week:

On the Single Keyword dashboard, the joint scrolling on the SERP Results chart and the HTML snapshot were a little out of sync. This has been improved for a better user experience and to ensure everything moves together smoothly.

The CTR metric button just under the Rollup section of the dashboards had a bug that was increasing the number shown there by an unnecessary multiplier. This didn’t affect the numbers in the charts, just in this one place. We hunted that bug down and squashed it so that is back to showing the correct CTR.

The Import YouTube Videos option for adding your videos to your brand had a bug that was causing it to find up to 50 videos from the specified channel, but then grab a range of random videos from all over YouTube.

This has been corrected, and now, if you want to add videos to your brand (or your competitors’ brands) the Import YouTube Videos button will pull in up to 500 videos from the specified channel.

Just a quick update this week:

Setting Dates for Custom Tracking Schedules Bug

There was a bug causing an isssue setting an end date for a cutom tracking schedule. This was apparent for clients who wanted to track their keywords hourly during Prime Days and Black Friday and daily the rest of the time.

Our team has hunted down this bug and got everything on track again, so users can set a custom schedule to meet their exact needs.

A few updates and bug fixes to share this Wednesday.

Import YouTube Videos
The Import YouTube Videos modal has been updated so that users can once again select all of the videos or check certain ones to add to their Brand.

Search Functionality
The search function in on the Keyword Phrase chart in the Keyword Manager was originally using a “match string” search, but we tried a “fuzzy search” temporarily. We decided to change this back to the string search because, while fuzzy searches have their benefits, we found that the more traditional search methods to be more valuable.

Bug Fix in Progress
Clicking the green checkmark button to extend the number of rows shown in a chart wasn’t working correctly. That has been fixed everywhere in the app except the Keyword Phrases chart in the Keyword Manager.

Clicking the green checkmark on that chart will refresh the entire page without saving anything. The dev team is currently running down this bug. Until then, you can get around this bug by simply hitting “Enter” on your keyboard instead of the green checkmark.

The date range picker now works for everyone. A handful of you were having issues with it. It has been fixed.