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AI answers, WordPress plugin and multi-site management
Searkin measures how your pages show up in AI answers. The WordPress plugin connects on its own, and the agency home manages all your sites with email alerts.
New
- “AI answers” diagnosis of pages and on-demand AI review
- AI answers tab with recommendation tracking
- AI Overviews for tracked keywords and real Google rankings
- Cluster structure of existing internal links, and a Clusters screen with overview and detail
- Multi-site management: To approve, Technical, Content, Reports and Log
- Email alerts: rules, recipients, recommended settings and a Monday summary
- WordPress plugin installed as a .zip, automatic connection by key and a “Connect to Searkin” button in WordPress
- Redirects applied without SSH access and automatic plugin updates
- Standalone mode for the WordPress plugin and import into an SEO plugin
- PayloadCMS plugin and automatic Payload connection
- Help assistant in a chat bubble
- Organisation logos in the breadcrumbs and reports
- Pick a site from your Search Console properties, with the sitemap detected when adding it
Improved
- Single sign-in and sign-up page, styled like searkin.com
- Refreshed interface: overview, audit, agency home, compact metric bands and “Get started”
- Reworked Rankings page
- Sites open faster
- Security hardening
Fixed
- A stopped job is only charged for what completed
- “Sign in with Google” return
- A deleted then re-added site keeps its delays and budgets
Subscription, credits and a free first site
Searkin moves to a subscription: the first site is free and every extra site includes credits. The To do screen and the Connect a site flow make day-to-day work simpler.
New
- Per-site subscription, free first site and credit top-ups
- Credit cost shown before every job, with the balance always visible in the header
- Pay directly from the subscription window, the page or the credits badge
- Passwordless sign-in and sign-up with a code sent by email
- Client role, limited to that client’s sites, with invitations from the client page
- To do screen, bringing the action plan and AI suggestions together
- Four-step Connect a site flow, detecting the CMS and the SEO plugin
- Recommended action for every finding in the action plan and the audit
- Links to a new article suggested in existing articles
- Focus keyword, title and description sent to Rank Math and Yoast with the article
- Choose publishing and the photo when launching an automatic article
- Radar suggested, then an article chained, when no topic is ready, with citable external sources
- Emails sent from your agency’s domain
- Help button and support requests from the app
Improved
- Site menu trimmed to eight entries
- Credits charged only when a job succeeds
- Security hardening
Fixed
- Scheduled cancellation detected, with its end date
- Featured image always attempted and described from the article
- Updating an article published outside the blog prefix
Article generator and topic clusters
Searkin writes articles backed by web research and publishes them to your CMS. Topic clusters find the pages to push and organise their supporting articles.
New
- Article generator: web research, brief, writing and semantic review, schedulable per site
- Strategy to beat Google’s top 10, analysed before the brief
- AI-generated featured image, published with the article
- Automatic article and one-click publishing
- Content enrichment from the Audit: AI adds sections to the pages you pick, and the original content stays restorable
- Topic clusters: pages to push, cluster map, supporting articles, backlinks and impact tracking
- Scheduled client report by email, weekly or monthly, reviewed or sent automatically
- Claude manages keywords, the Radar and the editorial profile, publishes articles to PayloadCMS and removes external links from its content
- Site menu organised by area and a new Editorial strategy page
- Organisation picker under the logo
Improved
- The app becomes Searkin, at app.searkin.com
- Title brand suffix and PayloadCMS locale used in suggestions
- PageSpeed card in the site view
Fixed
- Deleting an already crawled site works again
- Truncated writing or review response recovered
Searkin in Claude and a new interface
Connect Searkin to Claude: it reads your data, reruns collections and drops its suggestions into your approval queue. The whole interface has been redesigned.
New
- Claude connector, authorised from your Searkin account
- Claude can rerun an audit, a crawl or a performance check, with a minimum delay between attempts
- Claude’s suggestions (titles, descriptions, canonicals, noindex) land in the approval queue, tagged “Claude”
- Claude can dismiss a finding with its reason and leave a summary in the AI Agent tab
- New interface: agency and site navigation, breadcrumbs, light or dark theme, mobile layout
- New Indexing, Performance, Activity, Organisation and Integrations pages
- Semi-automatic or automatic AI suggestions, set per site
Improved
- Each site’s favicon shown in the interface
- Security hardening
Fixed
- More reliable audit with URL variants
- On-page analysis stopping on some pages
Clients, reports, automations and a crawler
Link your sites to your clients, send them reports and let Searkin automate the safe tasks. A new crawler feeds an audit scored across six categories.
New
- Clients: each site can be linked to a client
- Branded HTML and PDF client reports, with preview and test send
- Per-site automations: 301 re-checks, Search Console refresh, safe redirects applied, weekly audit, all logged
- Site crawler: depth, orphan pages, broken links and redirect chains, gathered in the Links page
- Six-category audit score weighted by traffic, with findings tracked from one audit to the next: new, ongoing, fixed, reopened
- Core Web Vitals measured on a sample of pages
- Search volumes, Google results and backlinks for keywords
- Several Search Console accounts per organisation and daily metrics history
- Button to reconnect a Google account
- Editable sitemap URL
- Removals requested in Search Console tracked as handled
Improved
- Broader on-page analysis: H1 and H2, images without alt, hreflang, Open Graph, mixed content, canonical status
- Organisation switching and clearer invitation rights
Fixed
- Google refusals explained instead of an impossible redirect to Search Console
- Daily Search Console collection repaired
- An existing account can join an organisation by invitation
Faster audits and a rebuilt AI agent
Audits run faster and every job clearly reports whether it succeeded. The AI agent now submits its suggestions for approval before writing anything.
New
- Approval queue: titles, descriptions, canonicals and noindex suggested by the AI agent are approved before being written
- Handled 301 redirects tracked, with a count badge
- Action plan filters by category and a toggle to hide handled tasks
- Sortable tables, actions menu and CSV export of the action plan and 301s
Improved
- Faster audit: parallel Search Console inspection and overlapping steps
- Real job progress, with an outcome banner and visible failures
- On-page analysis of JavaScript-rendered pages
- The AI agent remembers previous runs and uses each page’s actual language
Fixed
- Deleting a domain no longer errors, and asks for confirmation
- Truncated AI agent response and duplicate loading banner
- Failures to write titles and descriptions are reported
Agency accounts, PayloadCMS and a new interface
Searkin opens up to teams: organisations with members and invitations, Search Console connected per organisation, a PayloadCMS connector and a brand-new web interface.
New
- Organisations with members and invitations, each with its own sites
- Search Console connected separately for each organisation
- PayloadCMS connector: redirects and on-page fixes, just like WordPress
- New web interface: dashboard, per-site tabs and settings
- AI Agent, Action plan, Product listings and To deindex views
- Competitive analysis of tracked keywords from Google results
- Profile editable from the avatar menu: name, email and photo
- Password change
- Site picker and onboarding for new organisations
- Optional sitemap submission to Search Console
Improved
- Multi-device sessions: signing in elsewhere no longer signs you out
- Grouped navigation and richer dashboards
- Security hardening
Fixed
- Sign-in loop when a session expired
First SEO audit connected to Search Console
Searkin’s first building blocks: a one-click audit that matches Search Console against the real state of every page, then turns it into a prioritised action plan.
New
- Full audit in one click: site crawl, every URL tested and inspected in Search Console
- Prioritised action plan combining Google indexing, HTTP status codes and traffic
- Recommended 301 redirects with an automatically chosen target, applied to WordPress in one click
- Duplicate canonicals and pages to deindex detected
- Each WordPress site connected with an application password
- Product listings tab for e-commerce sites, with the rich results Google sees
- On-page audit and PDF report
- Action plan and redirect exports, as CSV or for .htaccess
Improved
- Search Console inspection ordered by impressions, so the pages that matter come first