CitationDesk

Changelog

Every update, dated.

What's shipped, what's queued. Subscribe via RSS to get notified when each release lands.

v0.42026-08-11

Truth pass — every page now describes what the site actually does

  • Contact address changed site-wide to [email protected] (the publisher's address). The address used before it had no MX record, so every email sent to it bounced silently — if you wrote to us and never heard back, that is why. Please resend.
  • Publisher named consistently on /privacy, /terms and /contact: Caslon Media, registered in the Netherlands, KvK 64708101 — replacing the outdated "sole proprietor" wording.
  • Privacy policy corrected: it named Plausible, which the site no longer uses (analytics are Microsoft Clarity + GA4), and claimed no cookies were set. It now describes the real cookies and the region-scoped Consent Mode v2 behaviour.
  • Privacy policy corrected the other way too: it claimed we record submitted URLs and scores. We do not — the tools run against a stateless edge proxy with no database, so there is nothing stored and nothing to delete.
  • Removed leftover descriptions of a product that does not exist: the polling engine, dashboards, Slack alerts, CSV export, API tiers, and "Phase 1B ships soon" promises across /terms, /methodology, /api/docs, two case studies, two guides, and all seven solutions pages.
  • /welcome/ was still a post-payment "thank you for upgrading" page. There are no payments — it is now a plain welcome page.
  • Outbound tool links now run through one component so a future affiliate partnership is a single config change, and outbound clicks are measured from today. Every link on the site remains plain and untagged: no affiliate programs are approved and the site earns nothing from them.
v0.32026-08-10

CitationDesk is free, full stop — no paid tiers, no waitlist

  • Repositioned: the free AI Visibility Score + fix generators ARE the product. All paid-tier plans (Pro/Team), waitlists, and "early access" tracking promises removed site-wide.
  • The full Fix Kit is now un-gated — every fix in the ranked list is free (previously top-3 with a "coming soon" paid gate).
  • /pricing/ rewritten: CitationDesk is free; for continuous citation monitoring we recommend dedicated tools (Otterly.AI, Rankscale, Semrush, SE Ranking) with plain, untagged links.
  • New /partners/ media-kit page and /disclosure/ FTC affiliate-disclosure page, both linked from the footer.
  • Publisher named site-wide: CitationDesk is published by Caslon Media (sister site: sourcescore.org).
  • Comparison pages updated to reflect the free positioning honestly — CitationDesk is a point-in-time readiness audit, not a monitoring subscription.
v0.12026-05-19

Launch — front-end + free Citation Readiness Score live

  • CitationDesk is publicly accessible at citationdesk.com.
  • Free Citation Readiness Score audit (5-dimension, client-side): SEO Foundation, GEO Readiness, Dual Fit, Entity Coherence, Bot-Crawl Health.
  • 9 knowledge-base guides shipped covering the Aleyda 10-characteristic checklist, the scoring rubric, the four-LLM polling architecture, llms.txt setup, AI bot allowlist, Citation Oracle archetypes, the Dual Fit pattern, Entity Coherence + Schema chain, and Answer Engine Optimization.
  • 2 case studies live: HoldLens (0 → 10% ChatGPT inbound in 14 days), SourceScore (480:1 bot-to-human ratio framing).
  • 3 competitive comparisons live: vs Otterly, vs Profound, vs AthenaHQ.
  • Pricing transparent: Free (3 sites × 5 queries × weekly), Pro €49/mo (25 sites × daily × 50 queries × alerts), Team €149/mo (unlimited + 4h × API), Enterprise custom.
  • Schema.org saturation: Organization + Person + WebSite + SoftwareApplication + WebPage + Article + FAQPage globally.
  • AI-bot allowlist in /robots.txt (9 crawlers: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, Amazonbot, Bytespider, Meta-ExternalAgent).
  • /llms.txt at site root with site summary + priority URLs + license.
  • Cloudflare DNS-proxied + AI Crawl Control set to allow.
  • Plausible analytics wired (privacy-first, no cookies).
v0.1.12026-05-19

Same-day polish — guides 5→9, changelog, RSS, per-page OG, IndexNow

  • Knowledge base expanded from 5 to 9 pillar pages (added Citation Oracle archetypes, Dual Fit pattern, Entity Coherence schema chain, Answer Engine Optimization).
  • This /changelog page — visible freshness signal + transparency.
  • /feed.xml RSS feed for Feedly / Inoreader discovery.
  • Per-page OG images generated programmatically for each route.
  • IndexNow ping submitted for all 28 URLs to api.indexnow.org → Bing + Yandex + Seznam + Naver index acceleration.
  • sitemap.xml + llms.txt updated to reflect new routes.

Coming next

CitationDesk stays a free tool — the roadmap is polish, not paid tiers.

Next — free-tool polish

  • Keep the scoring rubric current as AI crawler behavior and schema guidance evolve.
  • More scored public sites in the /scores/ index.
  • Guide refreshes as the AI-visibility tool landscape changes.
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