Release Notes

September 30, 2025

Page Groups Filtering

Now available for all users in the Pages alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

For more targeted analysis, you can now filter the new Pages report by your existing page groups. This enhancement allows you to narrow your focus to specific, meaningful sections of your website.

You can select up to 10 of your configured page groups. The report data will then update to show only pages that belong to one or more of the selected groups, helping you focus your insights on the parts of your website that matter most.

September 30, 2025

Improved Topic Tracking Management and Forecasting

Now available for all Conductor Intelligence users with AI Search Performance and credits for tracking

To provide greater clarity and control over your topic tracking, we’ve rolled out two enhancements to the Topics and Prompts settings page. These updates are designed to make usage and spend more transparent, helping your team make more informed, data-driven decisions.

Forecast Impact per Topic

When adding a new topic or tracking an existing topic on a new search engine, you will now see the projected impact of that change on your overall usage forecast.

Weekly Rate Visibility

The Topics grid in your settings now includes a Weekly Rate column for each topic, giving you a clear, at-a-glance view of consumption trends and costs.

September 24, 2025

Now available for all Conductor Monitoring users with verified domains

We’ve made two small but important updates to how Conductor Monitoring interacts with your website. These changes are designed to improve the accuracy of our crawls and provide more flexibility for your internal analytics.

What's new?

Updated Google User Agent

Our default Google user agent has been updated to a more modern version to ensure our crawler interacts with your site in a way that better reflects the current Googlebot.

Unbranded User Agent Option

You can now remove the Conductor identifier from our crawl requests. This allows for fully unbranded crawling, which can provide cleaner data in your internal analytics. You can configure this in your Monitoring settings

September 24, 2025

Fine-Grain Log File Analysis for AI Bot Crawling

Now available for all Conductor Monitoring Enterprise users

To provide deeper insight into how AI platforms interact with your content, we have enhanced our Log File Analysis feature to provide more information about the AI crawler activity. You can now see a detailed breakdown of the specific types of bots from AI platform like OpenAI and Perplexity visiting your site, helping you understand the purpose behind each AI crawl.

What's New?

Granular Bot Breakdown 

The Search Engine Activity report now distinguishes between different AI bot types. This allows you to differentiate between crawls for model training, inclusion in live search results, and on-demand fetches triggered by user questions.

Specific Bots Tracked

• OpenAI Bot: Crawls content that may be used to train generative AI foundation models.
• OpenAI Search: Crawls content to surface in ChatGPT's live search results.
• OpenAI User: Fetches pages when a user's interaction in ChatGPT requires it.
• Perplexity Bot: Crawls content to surface in Perplexity's search results.
• Perplexity User: Fetches pages to help answer direct user questions in Perplexity.

September 19, 2025

Track AI Visibility on Gemini

Now available for all Conductor Intelligence users

As the AI search landscape expands, tracking your visibility across emerging platforms is critical. We have now added support for Gemini to AI Search Performance, allowing you to monitor your brand's presence in another key AI environment. 

You can now select Gemini as a search engine option when tracking your topics. This new integration captures responses from the Gemini 2.5 Flash model, which, depending on the prompt, strategically uses a live search only when it determines that external, current information is necessary to provide an accurate and relevant answer.

September 2, 2025

AI Traffic & On-Site Engagement Analytics 

Now available for all users in the Pages alpha program in Conductor Intelligence with GA4 integrated

Measure and report on how your website content has been achieving AI-sourced traffic and on-site engagement, helping you measure the true business value of your AI visibility.

What’s New:

• AI vs. Organic Performance Chart: Measure and compare traffic trends (Sessions, Conversions, etc.) from AI Search vs. traditional Organic sources. Also available at the page-level.
• Performance by AI Engine: Break down traffic and engagement metrics driven by specific AI search engines, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Also available at the page-level.
• New 'AI Search' Data Columns: The Pages data table now includes a new 'AI Search' column group with filterable metrics from your GA4 integration, allowing you to see page-level session and conversion data specifically from AI-sourced traffic.

September 2, 2025

Page-level AI Citation Insights

Now available for all users in both the Pages and AI Search Performance alpha programs in Conductor Intelligence

To help you identify which content resonates most with AI models, our page-level performance reporting now provides a content-focused lens into how often your pages are being cited by AI search engines, for which topics, and in response to which specific user prompts.

What’s New:

• AI Citation Trends: A new "AI Prompts with Citations" chart in the Pages Overview tab measures the total number of unique prompts that have resulted in a citation to any of your pages over time.
• Page-Level Citation Data: The Pages data table now includes an "AI Citations" column group, showing how many unique prompts have cited each page and for which of your tracked AI Topics.
• Specific Prompt Details: In the Page Details report, a new "AI Citation Prompts" table lists the exact user prompts that are driving citations to that specific page, along with the prompt's associated topic, persona, and search intent.

August 27, 2025

Sentiment Analysis in AI Search Performance

Now available for all alpha users with AI Search Performance in Conductor Intelligence

Understand not only if your brand is mentioned, but how your brand is perceived in AI search. The Sentiment Analysis feature is designed to measure the tone of your brand mentions and trace that sentiment back to the specific sources shaping your brand’s narrative online.

What’s New:

• Sentiment Score & Trends: Track your overall brand perception with a Sentiment Score, available at the topic, prompt, or roll-up level. You can also monitor trended sentiment data to see if perception is improving or declining over time.
• Source Identification: Identify the top websites driving positive and negative statements about your brand. You can also explore all statements by their original source for deeper context.
• Sentiment Categories: Break down sentiment by categories like "pricing," "quality," or "support" to pinpoint specific brand strengths and weaknesses as they are reflected in AI responses.
• Competitive Benchmarking: Compare your brand's Sentiment Score directly against competitors within the Market Share view to see how your brand's perception leads or lags in the market.

August 25, 2025

Technical Performance Trends in Pages Report

Now available for all users in the Pages alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

Technical website health directly impacts search visibility and user engagement. To help you more easily spot trends and report on performance, we've added three new technical insight visualizations to the Overview tab in the new Pages report.

What’s New:

• Page Indexability Chart: Track the number of your indexable vs. non-indexable pages over time and see how this trend correlates with your organic impressions or traffic.
• Schema.org Usage Chart: Visualize the adoption of schema markup across your site and see its relationship with your organic click-through rate or traffic over time.
• Page Speed Chart: Assess trends in your site's Page Speed Performance, with pages categorized as Good, Needs Improvement, or Poor.
  • Note: This chart is currently available only for Conductor Monitoring customers with Core Web Vitals Lighthouse Monitoring.

August 12, 2025

Custom "Revise" Action in Writing Assistant

Now available for all users and plans in Conductor Creator

When editing a draft, you often need to make specific, nuanced changes that go beyond predefined commands like "Shorten" or "Expand". Our new "Revise" action provides you with flexibility and precise control to instruct Writing Assistant to edit any part of your text exactly how you want.

What’s New:

Select any portion of text, or even your entire draft, and provide a custom prompt for revision in the open-ended text field. Use it for specific tasks like "Rephrase this sentence to be more active" or "Turn this paragraph into a bulleted list."

August 12, 2025

Now Track Google AIO & AI Mode Visibility

Now available for all alpha users with AI Search Performance in Conductor Intelligence

We’ve expanded our tracking capabilities to give you visibility into Google's two primary AI search environments. This release adds full support for Google's AI Overviews and the dedicated AI Mode, allowing you to monitor your brand's presence in these critical, high-traffic channels.

What’s New:

• Google AIO Tracking: You can now monitor your brand's mentions and citations within Google's AI Overviews—the AI-generated answers that appear directly on the main search results page.
• Google AI Mode Tracking: Track your performance in Google's dedicated, fully conversational AI Mode to understand your visibility in this emerging, interactive search experience.

Read more on our blog.

August 12, 2025

Strategic ChatGPT Tracking: Auto vs. Search Modes

Now available for all alpha users with AI Search Performance in Conductor Intelligence

Gain a more strategic understanding of your ChatGPT performance. We’ve added separate tracking modes to reflect both real-world user experience and allow for deeper strategic analysis of what content influences AI-generated results.

What’s New:

• ChatGPT (Auto) Mode: A new tracking option that mirrors the default user experience, where ChatGPT intelligently decides whether to perform a live web search or use its training data.
• ChatGPT (Search) Mode: This mode, previously the default for tracking, forces a live web search for every query, allowing you to diagnose which topics trigger a search and what content is pulled from the live web.  

Read more on our blog.

August 12, 2025

ChatGPT Tracking Now Powered by GPT-5

Now available for all alpha users with AI Search Performance in Conductor Intelligence

To ensure your insights are based on the most advanced technology available, we have upgraded our platform.

All ChatGPT tracking in Conductor is now powered by the newest GPT-5 model, ensuring your insights are based on the most current and capable version of the LLM and that best reflects how users are searching today.

Read more on our blog.

August 12, 2025

New Tools for Deeper AI Prompt Analysis

Now available for all alpha users with AI Search Performance in Conductor Intelligence

This release introduces new tools to add more precision and context to your prompt analysis, helping you extract more meaningful insights from your performance data.

What’s New:

• Mentioned Brands per Prompt: The Prompts table now shows which of your configured brands were mentioned in a result, making it easier to track changes and performance at a glance.
• Deeper Prompt-Level Insights: We’ve added new columns to the Prompts table—'Search Mode' and 'Response Generated'—so you can instantly see how a response was generated and if an AI answer was provided.

Read more on our blog.

August 12, 2025

Analyze the Same Topics Across AI Search Performance & AI Topic Map

Now available for all alpha users with AI Search Performance in Conductor Intelligence

When setting up topics to track, you will now see suggestions generated by your AI Topic Map, seamlessly connecting your content workflows to performance measurement.

Read more on our blog.

August 6, 2025

AI Content Score in Writing Assistant

Now available for all users and plans in Conductor Creator

We've launched the new AI Content Score in beta, a scoring model in Writing Assistant designed to measure content quality for the AI era. This score provides a more accurate, actionable benchmark to help you create content that performs in both traditional and AI search.

What's New:

• Updated Scoring Model: The score is now based on two primary pillars: Topical Coverage and Intent Alignment, moving away from older metrics like keyword density.
• New 'Subtopics' Insight: A new card within Writing Assistant that analyzes coverage of relevant subtopics to help you build more comprehensive content.
• Updated Writing Assistant UI: A cleaner, more modern design that incorporates the new scoring categories and provides a more intuitive user experience.

Read more on our blog.

July 25, 2025

Connect AI Performance to Business Impact with Audience Insights

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

A mention is good, but a mention from your target persona with clear buying intent is what drives growth. Two new charts on the Overview tab of the AI Search Performance report give you insight into the value of your AI visibility.

• Pinpoint Your Audience: Instantly see if you're reaching your key personas.
• Understand User Motivation: Analyze performance by search intent to see if you're winning at critical stages—from Education-based queries to late-stage Purchase prompts.
• Prove Strategic Value: Stop reporting on vanity metrics. Now, demonstrate how your efforts are driving visibility in AI search with high-value audiences who are ready to convert.
• Accelerate Your Analysis: See a spike in performance? Click any chart segment to drill directly into the specific prompts driving your success, pre-filtered and ready for action.

July 25, 2025

Fine-Tune Your AI Tracking

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

Our AI-powered prompt suggestions give you a head start on building your topic reports. But we know that true success lies in the details: you need more control over tracking the prompts that matter to your brand and your unique personas.

Now, you can now edit and the prompts Conductor generates before you start tracking them.

• Increase Tracking Precision: Refine prompts to perfectly match your target personas and their search intent, ensuring the performance data you collect is totally relevant to your goals.
• Scale with Confidence: Effortlessly customize and manage all your prompts, ensuring brand consistency and data precision across all your tracked topics from day one.

Refer to the AI Search Setup article to learn how.

July 24, 2025

Review All Your Tracked AI Prompts in One Place

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

Your AI Search Performance report now streamlines your workflow and unlocks deeper strategic insights. No need to review your prompts by topic. Now, we've consolidated all your tracked prompts into a single, comprehensive table.

• Identify Top Performers: Sort your entire prompt list to see your best-performing content by mentions or citations.
• Dig into the Details: Compare the performance of different personas and intents side-by-side to uncover your biggest opportunities.
• Accelerate Your Analysis: This streamlined view of your prompts gives you the complete picture, so you can move more quickly from analysis to action.

July 21, 2025

Take your unified page insights anywhere

Now available to Conductor Intelligence customers participating in the Pages alpha

Your unified website performance data is now yours to use, anywhere you need it. We’ve made it easier to leverage your insights by adding a highly-requested export option to our Pages alpha. You can now download up to one million rows of your Pages data in XLSX or CSV format.

Benefits include:

• Combine insights with other business data for deeper storytelling and analysis.
• Plug performance data into BI tools like Looker or PowerBI.
• Run custom analyses that go beyond what’s available in our dashboards.
• Build flexible, executive-ready reports outside the platform.

Our new generation of Pages reporting gives you a holistic view of your website performance. Now, you can take those powerful insights beyond our platform to unlock even more value. 

July 21, 2025

Simpler, more consistent keyword research

Now available in Research in Conductor Intelligence

We’ve heard your feedback! To simplify your experience, we’ve updated how data is aligned in your research and tracking workflows. Conductor now uses a single, consistent data source for any keyword you're looking up in Research (formerly known as Explorer), regardless of tracking status, so you no longer need to figure out how different data sources might affect your view.

You'll see this change reflected in three types of metrics:

• MSV
• Top 5 ranking keywords
• Result types

With this improvement you can now:

• Align the right data to your workflow: Research is purpose-built for comprehensive keyword research, leveraging Semrush's expansive index to cover a wide scope. Meanwhile, Conductor's keyword tracking provides the most accurate and up-to-date insights for your most critical terms.
• Experience consistent reporting: See a uniform set of data throughout your entire research process, eliminating confusion.

This change helps you get the right data for the right job, making it easier to explore insights with confidence. 

July 17, 2025

Measure your true performance with year-over-year context

Now available to Conductor Intelligence customers participating in the Pages alpha

Meet the new Year over Year Performance chart in the new Pages report. Without YoY context, it's difficult to know if performance changes are due to your strategy or just seasonal trends. This chart provides a visual side-by-side comparison to help you measure true growth.

You'll be able to:

• Assess the true impact of your work: Benchmark performance against the previous year to see the real effects of your optimizations.
• Identify long-term trends: Spot recurring patterns and assess the impact of major site changes like migrations.
• Create contextualized reports: Provide stakeholders with clear updates that show genuine growth or decline.
• Get a unified performance view: Compare both GSC and Web Analytics metrics in a single YoY chart.

Stop guessing and start measuring your true performance. This chart provides the context you need to make smarter decisions and report on high-level KPIs.

July 16, 2025

Refine your AI insights with editable prompt categories 

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

Take control of your AI search data with editable prompt categorization. While our automated system provides a strong baseline, your input ensures our insights are perfectly aligned with your business. You can now edit the automated classifications for:

• Prompt Type
• Intent
• Persona

With this enhanced level of customization, you'll be able to:

• Ensure complete accuracy: Align prompt data with your unique business knowledge and context.
• Improve insight quality: More precise data leads to more relevant, actionable analysis.
• Enhance reporting: Tailor your data to reflect your specific strategic focus and goals. Your unique expertise is invaluable. By refining our automated categorization, you unlock a deeper, more accurate understanding of your audience’s intent.

A quick edit makes your data even more precise, which leads to sharper, more relevant insights and analysis.

June  16, 2025 

Streamline your competitive analysis with brand grouping

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

Tracking competitors can be complex, especially when they operate under multiple brand names or domains. You can now add brands to comparison web properties in AI Search Performance, making it easier to label and track competitor performance — both at the website level and the brand level. 

This gives you a clearer, more accurate view of their total impact so you can:

• See the complete picture: Understand the total market share of your competitors, across all their brands.
• Eliminate manual work: Stop adding up brand mentions and performance data yourself.
• Make smarter strategic decisions: Base your plans on a more accurate view of the competitive landscape.

July 16, 2025 

Redesigned Platform Navigation and Home Experience

Now available in beta for Conductor Creator and Conductor Intelligence

We've updated the Conductor platform with a more intuitive navigation and a brand-new homepage to help you find insights faster and work more efficiently. These changes are designed to give you a clearer view of all your tools and create a platform that better supports your needs.

Meet Your New Homepage

Your redesigned homepage helps you quickly access tools, discover new features, and resume your work. Key updates include:

• A unified entry point for you to explore and access our entire suite of products (Conductor Creator, Conductor Intelligence, Conductor Monitoring)
• A new Competitor Comparison widget for a quick overview of how your site compares to your tracked competitors in terms of modeled traffic.
• A new Opportunity Snapshot widget to see an estimate of the expected value of  opportunities identified within the platform.

Understanding the New Navigation

We've restructured the platform's navigation to be more intuitive and align with your workflows. The biggest change is the introduction of new top-level platform areas:

• Content: All your content strategy and generation tools.
• Performance: Tools and reports focused on visibility tracking and ROI measurement.
• Technical: Access the Conductor Monitoring product (if included in your subscription).

We know changes can take time to get used to. During this initial beta period, you'll see a toggle that lets you switch between the new and old navigation experiences. Watch the video walkthrough below or download our 1-page guide to easily get up to speed on where to find all your favorite features!

July 14, 2025 

Get smarter topic recommendations automatically

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

Finding the right topics to write about just got easier. We've upgraded our topic generation to automatically consider the top monthly search volume (MSV) keywords you're tracking for a specific country. This means the recommendations you receive are more relevant and directly tied to your core strategy.

Here's what this means for you: 

• More relevant topics that align with your keyword priorities.
• Better content prioritization so you can focus on what has proven search demand.
• And less time spent on research since high-impact ideas are surfaced for you automatically.

July 11, 2025 

Go global with localized topic and prompt recommendations

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

When you market to a global audience, your insights should speak their language. We've expanded our recommendation engine to let you specify both a country and a language, delivering topic and prompt ideas that are truly relevant to local search behaviors. This moves beyond a one-size-fits-all approach and allows you to build a global content strategy with confidence.

By aligning with regional search trends and behaviors, you can create content that truly connects with your audience, no matter where they are. This is a critical step in making your international SEO and content efforts more effective.

July 1, 2025 

Turn insights into action instantly

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

Stop switching between tabs and losing your train of thought. We've closed the gap between analysis and action. Now, when you uncover an opportunity within AI Search Performance, you can act on it immediately. Select the tracked prompt you want to work on, and you will see new options to:

• Access Content Guidance for optimization ideas
• Start a new draft in Writing Assistant

This seamless connection accelerates your workflow and helps your team drive results faster than ever.

June 26, 2025 

Track an existing topic on a new engine or in a new location

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

As the search landscape evolves, your strategy should too. We've made it easier to future-proof your work by allowing you to track an existing topic, with all its associated prompts, in a new search engine or within a brand new location.

This new capability allows you to:

• Future-proof your strategy: Instantly start tracking in an emerging AI engine
• Expand into new markets: Apply your existing topic strategy to new locations with one click
• Maintain consistency: Keep your prompts and topics aligned as you scale your tracking efforts

This ensures your topic strategy can evolve right alongside your audience and the market.

June 23, 2025 

Track how your AI search citations evolve over time

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

Get deeper insight into your AI search performance. Understanding if your content is gaining or losing traction in AI-generated answers requires historical context. In Prompt Details, you can now quickly compare which of your pages are being cited for a specific prompt across two different time periods. With this feature you can now:

• Analyze performance trends: See which of your pages are gaining or losing citations over time.
• Measure content impact: Understand how your content updates affect your visibility in AI answers.
• Identify competitive shifts: See if competitors are gaining ground on your most important prompts.

Your AI search performance is no longer a static snapshot. Analyze trends, measure your impact, and stay ahead of the competition with historical citation data. 

June 17, 2025 

Sharpen your reporting with branded and unbranded filters

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

How does your performance differ between audiences searching directly for your brand versus those searching for a general topic? A new global filter in our AI Search Performance reports helps you answer that question by segmenting your data.

You can now generate more targeted performance reports using the following filters:

• Branded prompts: Isolate and analyze your performance on direct brand-related searches.
• Unbranded prompts: Measure your visibility and authority in broader, category-level queries.
• Combined view: Get a complete, holistic picture of your overall search presence.

This flexibility is now available across your Overview, Explore, Topics, and Topic Details views, allowing you to tailor your analysis to your strategic goals.

June 17, 2025 

Take your competitive analysis anywhere

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

Your data, your way. You can now export the competitive data grid directly from the Explore modal. This makes it simple to pull our rich competitor insights into your own spreadsheets or business intelligence tools for deeper analysis, custom reporting, or sharing with stakeholders. Whether you're auditing a competitor's strategy or backing up your data, you now have the flexibility you need.

June 13, 2025 

Unify your market share analysis with competitor labels

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

Stop redefining your competitors in every report. We’ve added a new Label column, accessible in the Explore modal of the Market Share by Citations view, that lets you directly apply your existing competitor website labels. This makes gathering critical competitive intelligence more consistent and efficient. 

With this update, you can now:

• See labels directly alongside cited websites in the new Label column
• Filter your report based on those labels to focus on specific competitor sets
• Easily customize your market share view to only include comparison website properties

It's a simple way to reuse your configurations and scale your competitive insights across your team.

June 12, 2025 

Focus your strategy on unbranded search opportunities

Now available in the AI Search Performance alpha program in Conductor Intelligence

If your goal is to drive new customer discovery, you can now zero in on the queries that matter most. We've added an option to exclude branded prompts when you generate topics and prompts. This allows you to focus your analysis and content creation on general, problem-solving searches where audiences are looking for solutions, not a company's specific products or services. It's a powerful way to get a clearer picture of your performance on top-of-funnel, non-branded queries.

June 3, 2025

Introducing Conductor AI

We're excited to announce the launch of Conductor AI, a comprehensive suite of AI-powered solutions designed to transform how you create, optimize, and track content performance in the evolving search landscape. These new capabilities work together to help you build authority, maintain brand consistency, and stay ahead in the AI search era.

These updates represent just the beginning of our AI journey. We appreciate all your feedback and encourage you to keep it coming as we continue to innovate.

June 3, 2025

Map your content authority and find opportunities

Meet AI Topic Map. Stop guessing what to write about next—now you can see exactly where your content strategy has gaps and discover which topics will drive the most authority for your site. With this new feature you can now:

• Visualize your topical authority: See how your content clusters together and where search engines view you as an expert
• Identify high-impact opportunities: Spot content gaps where audience interest is high but your coverage is weak
• Prioritize your content roadmap: Focus on topics that will actually move the needle for your visibility
• Jump straight into content creation: Send promising topics directly to Writing Assistant to start writing

Your content strategy just got a lot smarter. Explore your clusters, identify gaps worth pursuing, then start creating content immediately. No more wasted effort on content that won't drive results. Learn more!

AI Topic Map is being released into an alpha program and will soon be available only to Conductor Creator customers on select plans.  

June 3, 2025

See how your brand appears in ChatGPT and Perplexity results

Traditional search rankings are just the beginning—now you need to know how your brand appears in AI-generated answers. Track your visibility across AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity to understand how, where, and why your brand gets mentioned:

• Multi-engine tracking: Monitor your brand visibility on key AI search engines in real-time
• Beyond rankings: See brand mentions, website citations, and sentiment in AI responses
• Competitive benchmarking: Compare your AI search presence against competitors for target topics
• Persona-driven insights: Understand how different audiences encounter your brand through AI search

Configure tracking based on your target personas and topics, then review your dashboard to see trends in brand mentions, website citations, and market share over time. Drill down into specific responses to analyze competitive visibility.

Master your presence in the new era of AI-driven search before your competitors do. Learn more!

AI Search Performance is being released into an alpha program and will soon be available only to Conductor Intelligence customers. 

June 3, 2025

Create AI content in your authentic voice

New Feature: Personalized AI Content Generation
Available in Conductor Creator

Finally—AI content that doesn't sound like AI. Generate high-quality content that sounds like your brand, not generic output that could come from anywhere. This feature combines powerful AI generation with your brand guidelines to create content that's efficient and authentic.

• Brand-aware generation: Creates content that matches your unique voice, tone, and style
• Topic-driven creation: Generates content based on your strategic topic clusters and SEO insights
• Quality assurance built-in: Integrates with AI Content Score to ensure generated content meets your standards
• Seamless workflow: Works directly with Content Profiles and Writing Assistant for end-to-end content creation

Pick a topic, choose your brand profile, and generate content that sounds like it came from your team. The AI understands your voice so well that the output feels genuinely on-brand, then AI Content Score helps polish it to perfection. 

Scale content creation without sacrificing your brand voice. Learn more!

Personalized AI Content Generation is currently available to all Conductor customers and will soon be available only to Conductor Creator customers. 

June 3, 2025

Instantly score your content's AI potential

New Feature: AI Content Score
Available in alpha testing in Conductor Creator

Writing great content is one thing—knowing it's actually great is another. AI Content Score gives you instant, objective feedback on your content quality using the same factors that search engines and AI systems prioritize. You can now:

• Get real-time quality scores: See how your content performs as you write, with immediate feedback on readability, structure, and intent alignment
• Understand what needs improvement: Drill into specific categories like topical coverage and search intent to see exactly where to focus
• Follow actionable recommendations: Get AI-generated suggestions to strengthen your content, from adding examples to addressing unanswered questions
• Ensure brand consistency: Verify your content matches your defined voice and style guidelines

No more endless revisions or second-guessing. Watch your score improve in real-time, follow the recommendations to hit your target, and reduce your time from draft to publish. Stop wondering if your content will perform well—know it will. Learn more! 

AI Content Score is being released into an alpha program and will soon be available only to Conductor Creator customers. 

June 3, 2025

Keep AI content synced to your brand and voice

New Feature: Content Profiles
Available in Conductor Creator

Content Profiles serve as your brand's DNA, defining voice, tone, audience characteristics, and style guidelines that ensure every piece of content reinforces your brand identity, whether created by humans or AI.

• Centralized brand guidelines: Define voice, tone, style, and compliance rules in one place
• AI integration: Guides AI content generation to match your brand perfectly
• Quality control: Gives you a clear standard for evaluating whether content feels authentically, consistently, yours
• Team alignment: Everyone creates content that sounds like your brand, no matter who's writing

Create a Content Profile for your "thought leadership" content defining your expert, approachable tone. Use this profile when generating AI content or evaluating existing content to ensure consistency across all your communications. Think of it as quality control for your brand voice at every touchpoint. Learn more!

Content Profiles is being released into a beta program available to all Conductor customers and will soon be available only to Conductor Creator customers. 

June 3, 2025

Get internal link suggestions as you type

New Feature: Automated Internal Link Suggestions
Available in Conductor Creator

Stop manually hunting for internal linking opportunities. Now you can receive intelligent link suggestions as you type, with Conductor analyzing your content to recommend the most relevant and strategically valuable internal links. You can now:

• Get contextual suggestions: Our platform understands content meaning to suggest highly relevant links
• Build topical authority: Prioritizes links that strengthen your expertise on key topics
• Optimize placement: Identifies optimal anchor text and link placement for maximum impact
• Work seamlessly: Suggestions appear directly in Writing Assistant while you write

While writing a blog post about "SEO best practices," Conductor automatically suggests linking to your existing content on "keyword research," "technical SEO," and "content optimization," with optimal anchor text and placement recommendations.

Build a powerful internal linking structure that boosts your search rankings while improving user experience–without the manual work.

Internal Link Suggestions is being released into an alpha program and will soon be available only to Conductor Creator customers. 

June 3, 2025

Track AI bot activity across your website

New Feature: AI Crawler Activity
Available in Conductor Monitoring

With AI-powered search becoming dominant, you need to know which AI crawlers are accessing your site and what they're seeing. Now you can track AI bot activity to help you optimize for AI search visibility:

• Monitor AI bot activity: See which AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity are crawling your content
• Identify access gaps: Discover what content AI crawlers are finding and what they're missing
• Fix technical issues: Spot crawlability problems that could hurt your AI search visibility
• Optimize for inclusion: Understand how to prime your content for AI search results

When you notice AI bots missing key content, you can quickly identify the technical issues and fix them before it impacts your visibility. Don't let crawlability problems keep your content out of AI search results–keep your brand visible as search continues to evolve. Learn more!

AI Crawler Activity is available to Conductor Monitoring customers on select plans.

June 3, 2025

Navigation built for how you actually work 

New Feature: Navigation
Available in Conductor Intelligence & Conductor Creator

We've completely redesigned Conductor's navigation to be more intuitive and aligned with how different marketing roles actually use the platform. The new structure makes it easier to find AI solutions and insights essential for your work.

• Role-based organization: Navigation aligned with how different marketing roles actually work
• Clear product structure: Easy access to Creator, Intelligence, and Monitoring
• AI tool prominence: Quick access to the new AI-powered features
• Streamlined workflow: Spend less time searching for features, more time doing using them

Log in and immediately see the clear separation between Content (Creator), Performance (Intelligence), and Monitoring features. Navigate directly to AI Topic Map from the Content section, then seamlessly move to Writing Assistant to act on your insights.

Conductor now works the way you do, whether you're a content creator, SEO specialist, or marketing executive. Learn more!

This refreshed navigation is being released into an alpha program and will soon be available to all Conductor customers.

June 3, 2025

Access every insight from one central home

New Feature: Homepage
Available in Conductor Intelligence & Conductor Creator

The new Home provides a comprehensive view of all Conductor products and their key capabilities, making it easy to understand how different products work together to support your marketing goals:

• Product overview: Clear presentation of Creator, Intelligence, and Monitoring capabilities
• Quick access: Jump directly to the platform areas you use most
• Workflow guidance: Understand how different features connect to support your goals
• Progress tracking: See your recent activity and key metrics at a glance

Start your day at Portfolio Home to see your recent topic authority gaps and opportunities, check your latest content quality scores, and quickly navigate to the solutions you need for today's priorities.

Make the most of Conductor's comprehensive platform by understanding how all the pieces fit together to drive your marketing success.

The new Home is being released into an alpha program and will soon be available to all Conductor Creator and Intelligence customers.

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 Keywords activity in Settings 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 anyn 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 tutorial 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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