Industry Benchmarks, account security, and agency fixes
A mixed release: private benchmarking on your SEO dashboard, stronger protection for your connected accounts, clearer data-use consent, and a batch of agency and billing fixes.
New
- Compare your performance with private Industry Benchmarks — Your SEO dashboard can now compare your Search Console and Analytics results against the 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile for similar businesses. Participation is opt-in, other businesses' individual results are never shown, and every published metric is built from at least 10 distinct contributors. Eligible agency-managed clients can take part too.
Improved
- Strategy Hub draws on richer competitor and social context — Agency-run analyses now fold in the selected client's competitor SEO context alongside the same social-intelligence signals direct accounts use. If one competitor-data source or an optional social source is unavailable, Strategy Hub keeps the remaining evidence instead of throwing away the whole analysis.
- Stronger protection for your connected Google and Bing accounts — Authorization tokens for Google, Google Business Profile, and Bing are now encrypted at rest, Google Analytics access is requested with narrower read-only permissions, and disconnecting Google removes the cached and derived data tied to that connection.
- Clearer consent for AI processing and cross-customer analytics — Consent and legal screens now spell out how your connected data is processed by the AI behind RankGood's insights. General business-intelligence aggregation no longer draws on Google connector data, and the separate Industry Benchmarks program only uses your data when you explicitly opt in — while the Google-powered features you rely on keep working as before.
Fixed
- Agency calendars show real errors instead of an empty schedule — Calendar date filters are validated before we look anything up, and a failure to load scheduled content or blog posts now shows a clear error instead of a calendar that just looks empty.
- Agency client schedules and reports stay in the right workspace — Client lists and scheduled posts are de-duplicated, incomplete invited clients are kept out of queries that need a linked user, and client lookups are scoped to the active agency. You can also delete an unclaimed client workspace, while accepted clients and their data stay protected.
- Google Business Profile category data is checked before saving — Linking or syncing a location now rejects malformed additional-category data up front, instead of saving a value that could break a later read or update.
- Plan changes fail safely when billing data is incomplete — Direct plan changes now validate the requested price and your subscription's primary item before attempting an upgrade or downgrade, returning a clear error rather than proceeding on partial billing data.
- Scans, reports, and scheduled publishing are more resilient — AI Visibility, Content Studio, Local reports, opportunity alerts, and scheduled LinkedIn/blog publishing now handle missing or outdated saved records more safely, skipping or flagging bad records instead of crashing a wider workflow or producing misleading output.