0.5.0

RustySEO 0.5.0 — "McCircle"

Released Oct 10, 2026

The biggest release yet: a brand-new Site Lab module, nine new Deep Crawler audit tools, full MCP integration, a Bing Webmaster connector sitting right alongside Search Console, and OpenAI and Claude joining Gemini and your local Ollama model as AI providers.

Free. Local-first. No crawl limits.

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🧪 New module: Site Lab (Experimental)

A real-user-monitoring and no-code A/B testing module, deployed to your own site through Cloudflare — the newest addition to RustySEO's toolkit, and still finding its feet.

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🌐 Platform-wide

• Full MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration — bring RustySEO's crawl, log and Search Console data into any MCP-compatible AI client.
• Improved AI chat context.
• Crawlers and the Log Analyser are now first-class Modules in their own right.
• The Search Console tab is now GSC, with Bing alongside it.
• Improved onboarding.

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🕷️ Deep Crawler

• Save & Import crawls — freeze a crawl as a labelled snapshot and bring it back later.
• Improved sitemap detection across sub/domains.
• Bing Webmaster connector — its own tab, connection and database.
• Improved filters on GSC/Bing.
• AI Search Readiness checks.
• GSC Indexation tab.
• Dynamic Tables.
• Improved Planner.
• Performance improvements.
• Image Compressor integration — send crawled images straight to the compression queue.
• PPC Simulator integration — send a crawled page straight to the Ad Generator.
• Page weight calculation (HTML + assets).
• Image queue rows now carry provenance — which crawl and page an image came from.
• Improved Core Web Vitals tab and report.
• Image compression: rename single images individually.
• Generative tab — run your own LLM prompt against a crawl.
• Stop now actually cancels in-flight work and restores the Crawl button.

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📣 PPC Simulator

• Improved layout.
• LLM integration for ad-copy generation.

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🧰 Tools

• SEO Checklists.
• Compare Crawls — page-level diffs across saved snapshots.
• Stale Internal Links.
• Anchor Text Audit — generic, empty, diluted and off-topic anchors.
• Click Depth — real clicks from the homepage, and the link that would pull each page closer.
• Link Equity Leaks — the internal links that take a share of a page's authority and deliver nothing.
• Cluster Wiring Check — whether each pillar page links to its supporting pages, and they link back.
• Internal Link Backlog — Link Score joined against Search Console impressions, ranked by upside.
• Sitemap & Indexation Drift.
• Redirect Priority.
• Launch Safety Gate.

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📦 Bulk operations

• Bulk screenshots.
• Bulk download website schema.
• Bulk validate redirect maps.
• "Generate with AI" — runs your Settings prompt over the whole crawl.
• Check AI Visibility, on demand or on a schedule.

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🔌 Connectors

• Bing Webmaster Tools — its own tab, connection and database, beside Search Console.
• OpenAI and Claude (Anthropic) added as AI/LLM providers, alongside Gemini and your local Ollama model.

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📈 Tracking

• AI Visibility — mention rate, rank and competitors across AI assistants.

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Upgrading

RustySEO stores everything locally in SQLite — your crawl data, history and settings carry straight over. No migration needed.

Windows and macOS will flag the installer as from an "Unknown/Unregistered Developer" the first time — see the README for how to open it anyway.

Full history: see the in-app changelog or components/ui/changelog/ChangelogData.ts in the repo.

0.4.1

🚀 v0.4.1 — Time Machine

🕷️ Deep Crawler

New crawling & scoping capabilities

• Domain, Subdomain & Subfolder Scopes — Precisely control how much of a website you want to crawl.
• Robots.txt Support — Optionally respect robots.txt rules during crawling.
• Improved File Detection — Better identification and handling of different file types.
• Segments — Analyse and organise crawl data using custom segments.
• Crawl Restore — Resume your crawl after the application has been shut down.
• Website Tree JSON Export — Download the complete website tree as JSON.
• Sidebar Shortcuts — Faster access to commonly used crawler functionality.

New SEO analysis

• Keyword Cannibalisation — Identify pages competing for the same search terms.

• HTML Table Filters — More powerful filtering directly within crawl data tables.

• Google Search Console Insights

  • Striking Distance
  • Query Conflicts
  • Query Fan-Out
  • Term Gaps

• N-grams & Visualisation ⚠️ Experimental — Explore recurring terms and phrases across your content.

• Content Duplication Detection ⚠️ Experimental — Detect potentially duplicated content across crawled pages.

Reporting

• White Label PDF Reports — Generate branded reports without product branding.

Reliability & UX

• Context Preservation — Fixed an issue where crawler context could be lost when swapping between tabs.

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🛠️ Tools

URL / Page Screenshot

Capture screenshots of URLs and pages directly from the application.

Redirect Mapper

Map and analyse redirects to make redirect chains and destination paths easier to understand.

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🌎 Global Improvements

• Improved Task Manager — Spawn tasks directly from URLs selected in tables.
• Multiple Google Search Console Accounts & Properties — Work with multiple GSC accounts and properties without constantly switching configurations.
• Quit Confirmation — The app now prompts before quitting to help prevent accidental shutdowns.
• OS-Native Menus — Improved desktop integration with native operating system menus.

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⚠️ Experimental Features

Two features in this release are marked Experimental:

• N-grams & N-gram Visualisation
• Content Duplication Detection

These features are still under active development and may change in future releases.

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