Changelog

Version 1.7 · July 2026

The biggest update since launch: SEOMURAI now also measures your visibility in AI answers, and adds Google Trends, a Sitemap Validator, a greatly expanded context menu and seven new interface languages.

Highlights

• AI Visibility (Beta): a new DataForSEO tab that shows how present your brand or domain is in AI answers (ChatGPT, Google AI): an overview with mentions, AI search volume and source domains, real AI answers with cited sources, and a comparison against up to 9 competitors.
• Ask the LLMs (Beta): send prompts directly to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity, with a web-search toggle, cited sources and a token counter. Answers can be copied or exported as Markdown.
• Google Trends (Beta): compare up to 5 search terms, with an interactive interest-over-time chart, a regions view, top and rising topics and queries, a selectable source (Web Search, News, YouTube, Images, Shopping) and CSV export.
• Sitemap Validator inside Tech SEO: validates XML sitemaps fully against the sitemap protocol, with auto-discovery via robots.txt, sitemap-index support and .gz files. The PRO Sitemap Explorer additionally shows the validation results right in the tree.
• Context menu greatly expanded: open the page or a link in twelve external SEO destinations via right-click (including Google “site:” search, PageSpeed Insights, Rich Results Test, Wayback Machine, Search Console), analyze it with SEOMURAI directly, or send a text selection to the SEOMURAI AI. Two new toggles in the settings.
• Seven new interface languages: Chinese, Russian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Arabic and Hebrew, 15 in total. Arabic and Hebrew ship with full right-to-left rendering.

Improvements

• Cost transparency: all DataForSEO tabs show the real API cost per query plus a session total, your DataForSEO balance appears in the Credentials tab, and OpenRouter queries in the LLM SEO Team report their cost. Can be turned off via the new “Show API costs” setting.
• Backlinks expanded: a selectable result limit (50 to 1000), sortable columns and a domain-rank column. The backlink lists no longer require a DataForSEO monthly commitment.
• Keyword tab: optional AI search volume as an extra column, including CSV export.
• Schema tab: a switchable color grouping by type, with type chips and a legend, makes nested markup far easier to read.
• Credentials tab: provider logos and a test button per AI provider verify the stored key with a tiny live request.
• Backup and restore moved to its own Settings subtab, with a separate reset box.
• Meta description length is now rated as a warning instead of a critical error; only a missing description remains critical.

Fixes

• Search Console links from the context menu, the panel sits flush at the edge again after “Reset position”, readability of link buttons and tab labels, and the language switcher lists all 15 languages.

Version 1.6 · June 2026

Focus of this release: a substantially larger AI-crawler database in the AI Bot Checker, a new filter interface, and more predefined robots quick-select agents.

New features

• AI Bot Checker greatly expanded: the crawler database grows from 32 to 156 known AI bots (mirroring the ai.robots.txt community list, as of June 2026). New entries include DeepSeek, Kimi (Moonshot), Huawei (PetalBot, Pangu), Brave and AI2, agentic fetchers such as OpenAI Operator, ChatGPT Agent, Google NotebookLM, Amazon Nova, Devin and Manus, plus AI search and scraping services such as Exa, Tavily, Firecrawl and Crawl4AI.
• New filter bar in the AI Bots tab: full-text search, filters by vendor, type and access status, a reset button and a live counter. Known (70) and less-known (86) crawlers are shown separately, and the less-known ones can be revealed on demand.
• Robots.txt quick-select expanded: the predefined user-agent list grows from 9 to 16 entries, adding Googlebot-News, AdsBot-Google, Baiduspider, PetalBot, facebookexternalhit, PerplexityBot and DeepSeekBot.

Fixes

• Local AI models: an unreachable local server no longer produces an error entry in the Chrome extensions overview. Instead, a quiet hint appears right next to the model selector.

Version 1.5 · June 2026

Focus of this release: run AI models locally and on-device, without a cloud service and without an API key.

New features

• Local LLM support: a new “Local / Custom” provider (OpenAI-compatible, with your own base URL and an optional key) connects Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM and comparable servers. Available models load automatically, and a “Test connection” button checks reachability.
• Chrome AI (on-device): a second local provider uses the Chrome Prompt API (Gemini Nano) and runs directly in the browser on your device, with no server and no key.

Fixes

• Save button in the credentials area was accidentally hidden and is now visible again, as a fixed bar beneath the API keys.

Version 1.4 · May 2026

New features

• Cross-device settings backup: export and import your complete configuration as a file, so you can back up and transfer your settings across devices.
• Pixel-based title and description validation: the title and meta description are evaluated by their actual pixel width, the way Google truncates them in the search results, rather than by character count alone.

Version 1.3 · May 2026

Focus of this release: two new Tech-SEO tools for AI visibility, a substantially broader webhook starter-template library, three additional interface languages, and a new mechanism that informs you automatically when a major update lands.

New features

• AI Bot Checker inside Tech SEO: checks which of 32 known AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and more) are allowed on your site via robots.txt.
• Robots.txt Validator inside Tech SEO: full RFC 9309 parser with line-by-line analysis, errors and warnings list, and interactive URL testing.
• Three webhook starter templates in the Webhooks area: “Basic Webhook Setup” for connection testing, “SEO Audit to Google Sheet” for 9 SEO fields per page, and “DataForSEO SERP to Notion” for keyword research. Each template ships with a paired n8n JSON workflow hosted on minoka.de.
• DataForSEO market expansion: 22 countries available (previously 10), now including Portugal, Belgium, Sweden, Poland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, India, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Japan.
• ZIP download for images: download whole image selections as a single ZIP archive.
• Three new interface languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Italian and Japanese. Eight languages total.
• Automatic changelog page on major updates: starting with this release, SEOMURAI opens this page in a new tab right after a major update so you can see what is new. Patch updates do not trigger the page.

Improvements

• CJK content analysis: text analysis, readability metrics and keyword detection now work reliably on Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Thai pages.
• Localized webhook template descriptions: the template cards in the webhook modal previously hard-coded their name and description in English. They are now fully translated in all eight interface languages.
• Footer translations completed: a handful of footer strings were untranslated in some locales.

Fixes

• CORS issues with image downloads from S3 and CDN sources have been resolved.
• Minor bugfixes around menu and permission logic.

Version 1.2 · April 2026

• DataForSEO integration (Beta): keyword research, SERP queries, domain data and backlink analysis directly inside the extension. Bring-Your-Own-Key model using your own DataForSEO credentials.
• Three new interface languages: Turkish, Spanish and French (five languages at the time).
• Rating and feedback surface added.
• Single-page-application fixes: issues with loading on SPA sites resolved.

Version 1.1 · January 2026

First major iteration after the initial release with refinements to Tech-SEO validations and content analysis, plus fixes from early user feedback.

Version 1.0 · Initial release

Launched on the Chrome Web Store with dashboard, Tech-SEO validation, content analysis, link analysis, schema-markup checks, AI prompt library, tracker blocker and the first Pro features (Link Heatmap, Sitemap Explorer, SEOMURAI Chatbot, LLM SEO Team, Webhook Workflows, AI Presets, Markdown Export, CSV exports).

Getting updates

The Chrome extension updates itself automatically through the Chrome Web Store. On major updates starting with version 1.3, SEOMURAI opens this page in a new tab once so you can see what is new. Patch updates do not trigger the page.