Use https://plugin.squirrly.co/cloud/ the cloud app (included with ALL pricing plans of Squirrly SEO).
If you have a shop on Shopify or BigCommerce, just use https://plugin.squirrly.co/cloud/ to research keywords, build a portfolio, track search engine visibility, see exact ranking changes, run multiple types of audits, SEO optimize pages AND MORE.
From now on, the app on Shopify is no longer available. However, the app has never done anything than just take people to our cloud app. In the past, it was harder to see https://plugin.squirrly.co/cloud/ and get access to it. That is no longer the case, and we could break free from the practices of Shopify and how they treat their developers.
Let's share some of the latest news around AISQbusiness as a whole, and then the new updates we've released today to the Marketing Engine you have inside (Next Level Marketing AI)
Discord Channel.
Not everyone has received the Discord Channel access or invite. I hope that this email will get more of our clients from AISQbusiness to jon the discord channel.
link is hidden. Was sent to clients.
It's a really good communications channel to use, in case emails get blocked on our end or on your end. There have been few cases, but I'd still be a lot happier knowing we can communicate properly.
Irina, Peter, Florin and Alex check the channel. emergency channel - use only when there is a real emergency. Other posts will get deleted and won't be replied.
Elementor AI has been purchased for all of you.
The good news is: you don't have anything extra to pay us for this new expensive plan we've included inside your already amazing package.
With Elementor AI, our clients have already changed layouts, texts and images with lightning speeds. It was a really good addition.
Cristina shows you how to login with the root admin user. Please remember to log in with that one.
Elementor AI will only work with the root user. (the main account).
You have the info for it and for everything inside the Secret Page on your sites. Please make sure you either keep it hidden on your site, or that you copy the information in a safe place. The information inside is for the email account, the cPanel, the Next Level Marketing AI tool, the WordPress site, the Squirrly Social account. Updates to the lessons inside.
the "Job Done" report has been updates with all of the following!
very important.
includes new videos that helps everyone make the edits with lightning speed.
READ BELOW:
You will find usernames and passwords there, along with links to the marketing tools. Please make sure you will use the username from that file to login to the new WordPress site from now on.
Below, you will find a report with everything we've done for you:
- hosting (cPanel account)
- installing WordPress
- installing a premium version of WP Ghost (aka Hide My WP Ghost), leader in Hack Prevention for WordPress – the settings are already done-for-you. No need to do antyhing in it.
- Server-Side Security
- installing WP Cerber (just as an activity log, but can also block bad actors) + configured
- SSL certificate activated and configured
- Elementor PRO setup and connected for license
- Premium Elementor Theme created, that you can begin to customize with your texts and graphics
- a Starter Plan for Squirrly SEO installed and setup for you
- email address created: webm@ and used for setting up marketing tools
- a Starter Plan for Squirrly Social, that will help you schedule posts to your social profiles
- LiteSpeed Caching installed and set up for you
- An account on AISQ’s Next Level Marketing solution created for you and 350 credits added to it
- a domain name
- connecting the domain name
- configuring Squirrly SEO
- configuring WP Ghost
- configuring the cache
- configuring Elementor PRO and Elementor AI
- setting the connections between WordPress and Next Level Marketing AI
- setting the connections between Squirrly Social and Next Level Marketing AI
- videos on how to customize the new site and how to use the AI Marketing engine that will create your content and publish your new content to the site, to search engines and to social media profiles
- created a secure draft inside your WordPress, where we sent login details, to avoid sending plain text over email communication.
And now, to the updates related to the Web App of Next Level Marketing:New Content Focus types inside NLM!
8 New Content Focus types. There were 3 before. Now you get 11.
What the content focus does is it helps the AI personalize the content with items that you want highlighted within.Each content focus comes with its own set of fields you need to complete, to get the most out of it. The things to complete are different from CF to CF.
The best part (in my opinion) is that we give you ideas with how you could complete each field. This helps you format the text properly to make the most out of it.
When completing the fields, short and sweet is the best strategy! Services Personal Brand Asset to Promote Company Event Content Hub Offer Ecommerce Store
The best part about giving all you the Early Access and the early bird prices ($9.99 USD for 50 credits) is that you and my team could already have conversations around the product.
We've learned about the things you wanted to see inside the most.
These 8 new Content Focus types (can I call them Content Focuses, or does that sound weird?) are a reflection of those conversations.
These are the biggest needs we could identify, so now it's really great that you can get content that's made around the things you need to get in the spotlight and this fits many different strategies.
For example, with the Content Hub CF, people can now use the AI site, or the site with AI marketing to bring in traffic, and then through the plugs created by the Content Hub CF, move those visitors over to the money site, where there is more bottom of the funnel content and ways to move users to paid services. (this use case comes directly from our users, and this new Content Hub CF makes it possible).
The admin approval time and editing time used to take more, because our clients had to manually insert the text about an ecommerce store, or a product, or a service they wanted highlighted, or an event they promote this time of year.
We will keep using AISQ as the main site for all our AI projects and it will keep being the gateway to NLM and to the AISQbusiness package. (mainly because, people like writing it and talking about it, because it's just AISQ and it's very easy to say and to type)
Tone Of Voice Updates!
These were very important to make and I hope you will experiment with them to find your favorite.
1st: we've changed the existing ones, to make them better. 2nd: we've added new ones inside the app.
Many tests took place in Nov and Dec 2024, to make this happen, and ensure the change was good.
17 Total Styles are now available to choose from (which are not user adaptive).
The User Adaptive style is linked to the Flavor Wheel, which is a feature we will only bring back in January, and probably in a different way. We noticed that in some cases (few and isolated) it brought confusion to GPT 4o and GPT 4. While it performed awesomely most of the times, this is something we cannot ignore.Many bug fixes and platform improvements.
We have a cluster of servers for NLM and many different internal services we've created for all the software products invented by the Squirrly Company.
The Notifications System, that is also connected to the Move Things Forward section of the Next Level Marketing web app, is handled by workers running from different computers. We found a solution to stop the duplication of notifications.
For users who publish on Non-WP environments:
We have create a new kind of notification inside Move Things Forward to remind you to bring back the page's exact URL back to our NLM platform, so that the other AI Specialists (AI Agents) can begin their work. They need to know what URL to include and what to write about.
Also useful for those who forget to follow the prompt on the screen and go inside WordPress to make the final meta data checks (and choose the post type and category within WP) and click on "Approve" -- once that happens, our plugin sends the URL to the web app, so the AI Specialists can begin their work. Improvements to the writing process to make the text sound better and more natural.
This has been important, and paired with the NEW styles inside the Web App, the outputs will be really good.
Options to Regenerate text using a different Content Focus.
This can be very helpful in certain cases, as we've seen with the new clients who came in.
Now, as a user, you can choose to make NLM regenerate the content it produced using a different content focus.
Maybe you have new content that turned out awesomely, and you just realize you could have it mention an event or an offer that you have. You can now do that, using the free re-generation that doesn't cost credits. Changes to the WP Plugin - mentioning it here, for those who didn't see the update earlier this month.
updates to the way in which our team sends out the website details, to make sure we improve the security of our communications
we've added a Discord channel, to make sure NOTHING gets lost due to faulty email communications. We're using Google WorkSpaces, so our emails should be received by any inbox, but we've seen it's not the case. Two of our clients had problems with this, so we decided to provide an alternative means of communication, where Florin and Peter can always be reached.
added Elementor AI (which is paid separately from Elementor PRO) into the AISQbusiness package. Us, at Squirrly, pay more for our clients, but we don't charge our customers extra for this part. It's a cost we've taken upon ourselves.
Re-designed the crons and the systems that help trigger out the social media posts inside Squirrly Social
There were a few cases, in which the automations weren't doing the proper triggers when using the Post Groups. Since it depended on many aspects related to the connection tokens of different social media profiles, we went ahead and we've re-written the entire system to make it work better.
Squirrly SEO Finishes the Many Updates to Keyword Research Algorithms and Infrastructure
TODAY:
We've increased our server capacity for the services that run checks for search volume and for the websites listed in TOP 10 search results for every single keyword that gets checked against your 20, or 50 keywords (depending on the normal, or deep keyword research that you ran).
Below, is a recap of the other updates related to this massive undertaking:
Even More Fixes Made to the Search Volume Calculations in Squirrly SEO
Even more upgrades for Keyword Research in Squirrly SEO
The basic 20 researches / keyword - just got upgraded when it comes to the data it displays for Competitive Clarity Index. It is now similar to what we have for the Deep Keyword Research, which does 50 researches / keyword.
These updates have affected many of our systems and we're working on upgrading the capacity, as this has now become more resource-intensive.
Changing parts of our system (internal services we created that run algorithms for us) - to Laravel 11
Changes made to MarketIntelligence in SquirrlySEO, to provide better RANKING potential data
Changes still being made to Search Volumes and Search Competition data and some new algorithms
More Changes to the Competitive Clarity Index
Finished testing and a new round of updates to APIs for internal services in Squirrly SEO, and externals that we send to tools like Next Level Marketing by AISQ
Updates Targeting Search Volumes and info we send to all our Apps regarding search volume
Updates targeting new algorithms inside Squirrly SEO for better defining the Competitive Clarity Index used in our Keyword Research Tool
New Updates to Keyword Research inside Squirrly SEO and Next Level Marketing are still being checked and tested.
The new system for competitive clarity index has caused issues inside Next Level Marketing.
We're also working on new search volume data in Squirrly SEO.
Changes made to MarketIntelligence in SquirrlySEO, to provide better RANKING potential data
We should now be able to provide much better data for
"low competition"
or
"high competition"
in Squirrly SEO.
We've made other tweaks to keyword research to make it faster.
But now, the keyword competitiveness (made for SEO; we're one of the few in the world who show this) gives much closer-to-reality details now. It's still not as advanced as the system inside Next Level Marketing AI by Squirrly, but it now became very close to that.
New Logo and Name for Hide My WP Ghost by Squirrly
We are leaders in Hack Prevention Software for WordPress, and we want to make sure everyone know that our security product has moved away A LOT from just hiding WordPress.
Therefore, the name Hide My WP Ghost, can't really paint a good enough picture for what we offer in 2024.
WP Ghost is the name that almost of all our clients prefer anyway (especially when they talk about it to other people they know).
WP Ghost will be the new name, and for about 1 year moving forward we'll keep writing things like:
WP Ghost (aka Hide My WP Ghost) or WP Ghost, previously known as Hide My WP Ghost.
Pricing Plans are called the Ghost Plan, so no worries there, because everything will remain the same for any type of premium client we have.
AISQ (AI Squirrly) is an AI-powered platform designed to help small businesses, entrepreneurs, and startups automate their online presence and marketing efforts.
AISQ’s Next Level Marketing is the world’s First (first ones to ever make such a marketing solution) Fully Automated End-to-End Marketing Solution. It can easily be used by anyone on any kind of website, or CMS platform.
AISQ NOW offers an all-in-one service that includes website hosting, domain management, cybersecurity, and automated marketing solutions, all powered by artificial intelligence. This is now called AISQbusiness, because it gives fast business websites to those who want to try our new AI tools on a completely new website.
The AISQbusiness package is especially suited for non-tech-savvy business owners who need a hassle-free way to build and manage a website and digital marketing. It includes features like WordPress setup, SEO tools, security measures, and a fully automated marketing system that handles content creation, social media posts, email campaigns, and more. This system is aimed at streamlining the entire digital marketing process, allowing business owners to focus on running their business while AISQ manages their online growth.
One of the standout features of AISQbusiness is its ability to deliver a fully functional, AI-managed website and marketing system in just two days, making it a convenient option for businesses that need to get online quickly without dealing with technical complexities
Business owners who want to build a complete digital presence, no longer have to navigate complex terminologies and endless tech speech on different offers presented to them by hosting companies.
In just 2 business days, you’ll have everything you need to launch and grow your online presence, including a beautiful website, ironclad security, and AI-powered marketing that runs 24/7.
Your website will do its own marketing. As a business owner, you’ll only make approvals. Everything else, will be fully automated end-to-end, across all digital channels.
Domain Name – free for your first year with us
Hosting (specialized in WordPress and WooCommerce sites)
cPanel
1 WordPress Website with the BEST CyberSecurity Package, Daily Backups AND an AI that fully automates your marketing end-to-end across all digital channels
1 GB Space (extra can be purchased for $1 USD /month / additional GB; billed separately)
Setting up EVERYTHING for you — you will just login to WordPress and start using it
3x email addresses, branded on your domain name
SSL Certificate for secure connections
Server-Side Security
Premium Software: Leading Hack Prevention Software for WordPress (Premium Installation of WP Ghost by Squirrly)
Premium Software: AISQ’s Next Level Marketing AI — 350 Credits, that will help you get one new (1,500 Words) page published every week, plus indexing in 48 hours on Google and Bing + creating promo posts and sending them to your social media accounts
Premium Software: A Starter Plan for Squirrly SEO (the Most Awarded SEO Software for WordPress)
Premium Software: A Starter Plan for Squirrly Social, that will help you schedule posts to your social profiles
Daily Backup + Free Restore
LiteSpeed Caching (server-side + plugin for cache, setup for you) — giving you great loading speeds!
Premium Software: Elementor PRO
Basic Premium Template in Elementor, that you can customize with your details — a Complete WordPress Theme.
Conversion Optimization Elements, to turn visitors into Clients
Premium Course: Getting Started With AISQbusiness and customizing your premium template
Connecting all the software products between them and running pre-configurations! This saves you entire days of work.
CyberSecurity Monitor
99.99% Uptime Service Level Agreement
Excellent Customer Service
All future upgrades
All the more reasons to go to our AISQbusiness website today!
However, there’s more…
How much would it cost to get everything we offer — if you were to buy every single piece from different providers?
Nobody would get the domain name for you and also connect it to your hosting account. Most people have to do this action on their own, because only high-end agencies do this for clients. Hosting companies generally don’t.
Domain Name – $15 USD / year
Hosting – $120 USD / year
Premium WordPress Theme – $50 USD / year
Elementor PRO – $79 USD / year (at the level we give you inside AISQbusiness)
SSL Certificate – $48 USD / year (as reported by Kinsta)
Backups – $148.8 USD / year (as reported by Kinsta)
Advanced Cache-ing – $58.8 USD / year (as reported by Kinsta)
Squirrly SEO: Starter Plan – $84 USD / year
Squirrly Social: Starter Plan – $84 USD / year
AISQ’s Next Level Marketing 350 Credits – $120 USD / year
Redirects Manager – $96 USD / year (as reported by Kinsta)
$903.6 USD / year. Or: $75.3 USD / month – when you don’t use our solutions.
And this doesn’t include having experts who set everything up for you.
NOW: How can AISQ offer all these incredible things for just $7.99 USD / month – $95.88 USD / year (because it’s paid annually)
It’s easy.
Something called: Disruption!
We’ve been innovating at the Squirrly Company (now called AISQ.com ) since 2012 !!!
We have an incredible tech infrastructure that we kept iterating and constantly testing… and we’ve spent over $4 Million USD building everything we have today.
Because of our entire family of products for Entrepreneurs and the way we’ve built our products and technologies, we are now in a unique position that allows us to bring this to all of you. With an un-precedented deal.
AI Talks AI - New Updates to help you make the most out of your favorite AI Prompts from our AI Group
Hey everyone! 👋
We’ve made some updates to the AI Talks AI website to make your experience even better, and I wanted to give you a quick rundown of what’s new:
· Better organization – Everything is now easier to navigate, so you can quickly find what you need. 🗂️
· More videos – We’ve added new content to help you get the most out of using AI for business. 🎥
· Updated banners – Fresh new banners that actually make exploring the site more fun. 😎
· Clearer free plan info – It’s now super clear what the free plan offers (ONLY the FREE plan exists) and what it helps you do. 🆓
· New scroll pop-up – Added a handy pop-up that shows up as you scroll to help you build your custom playlists. 🎶
We also made the "Continue Watching" section more obvious on the main page.
If you haven’t checked out the site in a while, now’s a great time to see what’s new and start building your playlists with the most popular AI prompts shared in the group.
👉 Head over to https://aitalksai.com/ and take a look around! Would love to hear what you think!
Changes made to MarketIntelligence in SquirrlySEO, to provide better RANKING potential data
We should now be able to provide much better data for
"low competition"
or
"high competition"
in Squirrly SEO.
We've made other tweaks to keyword research to make it faster.
But now, the keyword competitiveness (made for SEO; we're one of the few in the world who show this) gives much closer-to-reality details now. It's still not as advanced as the system inside Next Level Marketing AI by Squirrly, but it now became very close to that.
2 New AI Courses for Using Generative AI in Business
Education Cloud PLUS gets two new premium AI courses, available on Premium Pass:
- AI Pop Culture Marketing
Explore How Incorporating Pop Culture References Can Help You Connect With Your Audience On A Personal Level. Use AI In Innovative Ways To Make A Difference.
- The Silent Seller: AI For Author Bios
Make The Authors And Thought Leaders In Your Organization Shine Like Stars. Use AI And Clever Marketing To Turn Author Bios Into Sales Channels
Now: we also have a member of our community who built an amazing Custom GPT that I want all of you to know about, because it will help you boost SEO results with E-E-A-T.
We did a special community Custom GPT Spotlight event. See it here. Browse and see the benefits of using it and what other members had to say.
There's now something for everyone in the AI Group.
Custom GPT Spotlight EventsAI Show and Tell Events - where you can present what you're working on with AI, or tell people how you can help them implement AI for their business
AI Talks AI Playlists - save your favorite prompts from the group and build custom playlists according to different business use cases you have in mind
Prompt of the Week - where we select some of the best prompts posted by our members. Like this one.
Videos on AI Talks AI from the KeepList that members make inside the community. An AI generated human avatar, using an ai generated voice does a demo of the best AI prompts in the group, using background music generated with AI. See an example here. This one was voted by the community.
Categorizing the posts with different hashtags - so that members can easily search according to the use cases they care about the most. We will soon give an official list of hashtags, to make it even easier.
Turbo Tips: some of the best PRO Tips on using AI for business.
Throwback Posts - shining a light, once more, on some of the best posts our members made (so that new members can also find them)We're planning some new big things soon, so I'm super excited to have you with us inside the group.
PS: Squirrly Limited is proudly registered in the United Kingdom and it's run by our expert king makers who dwell in Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany and Transylvania (Romania). Over 23,000 paid clients (business sector) have been served to date.
PSS: we've spent well over 4 Million USD creating our technology stack, so what you use today is already very refined. Our mailing address is:
Squirrly Limited 20-22 Wenlock Road London, N1 7GU England
And you can also read them on our LinkedIN profile, where we publicly communicate updates to products. The hashtags will help you quickly find the posts, and see when they were officially announced.
If you want to start using End-to-End Automated Marketing that's done for you by AIs and you just have to spend little time in approvals + then have all work performed by AIs, go ahead:
1. Tell me you want to start using it.
2. Make a commitment that you will provide as much feedback as humanly possible starting DAY 1.
3. Don't feel too bugged out by .. well.. bugs and unpolished design. It's just the Alpha version 2 at the moment.
We've recently launched 4x Update Packs in 30 days.
For those of you who only joined us recently, let's make a big recap with everything that changed:
License and User System
Two different APIs. 1st for Users Check. 2nd for License Check. Improved security and better licenses.
* Fixed - Increased plugins speed on compatibility check
* Update - Compatibility with Siteground
New login Path Visible inside the Cloud
Option to see the new login URL inside the Cloud.
* Fixed - Reduce resource usage on 404 pages
* Update - Compatibility with other plugins
* Fixed - User roles names display on Tweaks
* Fixed - Remove the rewrites from WordPress section when the plugin is deactivated
* Update - Add the option to select the server type if it's not detected by the server
* Update - Add compatibility for Cloud Panel servers
* Update - Compatibility with Avada when cache plguins are enabled
* Update - File processing when the rules are not set correctly
* Fixed - Common paths extensions check in settings
* Update - Security headers default values
* Update - UI & UX to guide the user into the recommended settings
Whitelist Paths: If you have a PHP app that needs to run from a very specific path, then you can add its path to the whitelist for paths, in order to ensure that it will not get added to the rewrite layers.
Option to disable all HMWP features SOLELY for the users with IPs from the list of whitelisted IPs (example: people from your office)
Whitelist IPs to provide your office space, for example, with the ability of working on your WP site with the usual admin paths.
Update - Added the 8G Firewall filter
Update - Added the required header security for Apache and Nginx
Update - Added the option to block theme detectors crawlers by IP & agent
Fixed - Load Firewall on all server types only in frontend to avoid functionality issues in backend
Fixed - Avoid loading recaptcha on Password reset link
Fix folder and file permissions (quick/complete) ... - quick = fix permissions for main directories/files - complete = fix permissions for WP directories, all themes, all plugins, uploads
Change username "admin" to custom username
Change database prefix -- directly from the PLUGIN!
Change Salt security keys in config file
Divi Theme compatibility - fixed on backend
Add the option to block comments that may lead to spam
Update - Translate the plugin in more languages
Arabic German Spanish Finnish French Italian Japanese Dutch Portuguese-Brasil Portuguese-Portugal Romanian Russian Chinese
ability to choose which common files to block from bots
On the 6th of May 2024, we've announced many new updates: including a powerful new firewall, 2 Factor Authentication, more updates to Brute Force, changing security items from our security audit directly from the plugin, instead of working with a ftp.
^^ this is already very cool! Because you can now perform the:
Security Tests !!! Make the security tests inside Hide My WP Ghost, and then use the new action buttons we've added to "Fix It" on the spot, without having to rely on others for help.
After that, a really big update for those who have the special 3 Codes Plans for Hide My WP Ghost by Squirrly:
Today, I have something exciting to show users who have purchased the 3 Codes Plans for Hide My WP Ghost by Squirrly.
It's a feature that was requested via our support channels in many different ways, and we've decided to build it to resemble the Web Dev Kit we have inside Squirrly SEO.
You can now customize a zip file for your clients directly from the cloud app of Hide My WP Ghost.
This will help you install a zip, and already have the most important aspects pre-configured. This update should make it super easy for you to install HMWP just the way you like on all the client sites managed by your agency.
There are many options you can pre-configure for all the next installs you plan to make.
My only word of advice to those who are new to Hide My WP Ghost is:
Try to get familiar with the plugin and the many security options first. Find your perfect kind of setup. One that you like a lot and wish to apply to all your clients.
And then go and configure a new plugin to use for all the next installations.
Available on the 3 Codes plan only.
Coming up next:
- Announce Magic Links - Announce Geo Blocking
Then, we kept pushing more updates:
More Udates to Hide My WP Ghost by Squirrly will be announced soon.
Magic Links Logins have been announced today, to follow up the updates you can see in our feed. Directly on our LinkedIN Page: just scroll to 31st May 2024 and 6th May 2024 to check them out at your own pace.
Coming back with the 4th updates pack for Hide My WP Ghost, from the last 30 days.
We've worked very hard to bring you these update packs and I hope you enjoy them. It took us many months to finish all these, so now we're happy we could release so many for you.
There are also many fixes that never reach the light of day (meaning I never get to promote them via RoadMap, Social Media and email), because working on more compatibilities and integrations is constant work for a security plugin focused on prevention.
I've placed the messages I've been sending out to those who already expressed interest and joined the waitlist (640 people).
AI Hub became a part of Next Level Marketing AI after testing made by our teams and also the initial batch of Alpha users that we've let in during Q4 2023 and Q1 2024.
But let's talk about 2024 here. Squirrly SEO is a very complex and dual SaaS+plugin Software, making it the only SEO tool on the market capable of helping you with HolisticSEO, navBoost and all the other important Google Ranking factors uncovered, thanks to the big Google algorithm leak.
We have many services, APIs and servers that keep every major component alive:
admin
cloud app
keyword research - the AI side
keyword research assistant - with AI
keyword research - the analysis parts of the algorithm, that work with Competitive Clarity Index, our algorithms for defining search volumes, back-up routines for when we can't properly identify keyword search volumes the first time, Market Intelligence
briefcase and history
focus pages overview and focus pages details (these things check, measure and operate on over 113 ranking factors proven by the Google leak to be valid)
next SEO goals and the AI Consultant
Ranking Vision AI
Audit by Squirrly (Blogging Audit, Traffic Audit, Social Media Audit, Website Authority Audit, Backlinks Audit) + the compare and history features
Web Dev Kit by Squirrly
SERP Checker cloud by Squirrly
the basic serp checker when users don't have credits for SERP Checker Cloud by Squirrly (the one that is free)
the performance analytics features inside the SERP Checker area
SEO Live Assistant on Cloud App and Plugin
inner links automated suggestions and tracking
and a few others
Even though you see many updates to the WordPress plugin itself, there are many updates made to all the services which power all the components I've listed above.
Squirrly SEO was first built in 2012.
To prepare ourselves for the next 12 years, we've focused mostly on:
- Making Squirrly SEO ready to work awesomely together with Next Level Marketing AI by Squirrly - Increasing the number of Focus Pages (and making sure the system will keep being reliable and able to process data in a sustainable way) - Spending tons of money on developer hours internally and also getting outside help to speed the process :: solely for getting:
servers
worker systems
php versions
frameworks for php
react and node js components
server operating systems
database systems (we use mixes of SQL based dbs and Mongo dbs)
Many older processes, systems, frameworks, OS'es, etc. were getting either deprecated, we could no longer get support ourselves as a Company from those developers/providers.
The amount of pain, time, trial and error, bugs, etc. would not have been worth it, if we didn't plan for the next 12 years and for the future developments.
Those who know me from my personal brand website and from the lessons I teach via Education Cloud PLUS by Squirrly and Startup Espresso Podcast already know I love software, and that I've been in love with software from an incredibly young age.
But when doing these sorts of menial tasks, I can only say: I hate software. To have to go through the pains of migrating huge amounts of data, re-writing so much code and more: it's just painful.
Why? - because nobody cares that you do all these enormous tasks. Users don't get any perceived value out of it.
And for me personally: I also can't get excited about them, because they don't bring improvements to the output quality of each of these services.
There are too many things that change from year to year when building software products, especially a product that's on such a large scale, and with so many connected services.
Starbox PRO, Hide My WP and Squirrly Social don't even compare, for example. I love those products, but none of them will reach this level of complexity.
However, before we do a public release and an official milestone of launching the best version of Squirrly SEO: Newton, all these things had to be taken care of.
We can't invite people in for joining the Holistic SEO Revolution and then leaving them hanging because our services stop working one by one.
As we've grown past the $4 Million USD mark, it was the perfect time to take care of all this.
Can't expect much from the future, if you don't spend money where your mouth is.
I'm happy we could do this and prepare everything for the next 12 years.
This is not to say that we haven't made other updates come to life as well.
It's just that we've spent over 5 months on these aspects. Most of our developers were engaged in that and also the outside help.
A normal startup wouldn't have made it.
Now, for the other updates:
= 12.3.16 = Compatible with WP 6.42 Update - Add the option to select the label for the Keyword Research Update - Add the option to select the label for the Research > History Update - Add the option to select the label for the Research > Suggestion Update - GA properties to show only the domain mathing domains Update - SLA for Divi not to take the header and footer in LP optimization Fixed - SLA loading issue for Oxygen Builder Fixed - Stop loading any resource from Squirrly when Page builder in preview Fixed - Keyword Sync on Rankings Fixed - Bulk keyword deletion in Briefcase Fixed - Bulk label deletion in Briefcase
= 12.3.17 = Compatible with WP 6.4.3 Update - Sitemap compatibility for JetEngine Update - SLA compatibility with Avada, add support for Fusion Builder Update - Notification message in Focus Pages and Audits when a crawling error is received Update - Added the option to select multiple pages as inner link source Update - Inner linking order to show the recent added links Update - Show all WP hidden patterns in the list when "sq_show_hidden_patterns" is active Update - Innerlinks API query in posts to find relevant links Fixed - Sitemap Custom Posts loading issue Fixed - IndexNow submit from Bulk SEO Fixed - Inner link add button in popup when accessing multiple pages Fixed - Keywords import in Briefcase
= 12.3.18 = Update - Compatible with PHP 8.3 & WP 6.5 Update - Search by URL in Focus Pages and Audit Update - Search term by URL in Focus Pages and Audit Update - Added more compatibility with WooCommerce variation products Update - Add specific notification in Ranking Sync page when GSC token expires Update - Language in Dublin Core for more compatibility with WeGlot plugin Update - Compatibility with SEO Generator plugin from AppSumo Update - Keyword load in SLA when added in wp_postmeta with meta_key sq_keywords Update - Advanced SEO Pack to work better with Polylang for WooCommerce when No Category path is activated
Advanced SEO Pack
= 2.3.14 = Update - Compatible with PHP 8.3 & WP 6.5 Update - Compatibility Polylang for WooCommerce when No Category path is activated Update - Timezone for date patterns in Schemas Update - Compatibility with event plugins Update - Increased security on special characters
= 12.3.19 = Update - Compatible with WP 6.5.3 Update - SLA compatibility for Chinese chars Update - SLA compatibility with last version of Elementor Update - Compatibility with WPML when post type is not translatable. Fixed - Focus Page > Platform Health tasks to not create confusion about the current URL Fixed - Location coordinates kml in sitemap Fixed - Prevent loading the sitemap.xml on subcategories Fixed - Adjust settings layout on scale resolution Fixed - Sitemap to use the /wp-content/cache as the default directory Fixed - Favicon size in config to load on all mobile devices
And while all these were taking place:
improvements to the emails sent out with the SEO Audit by Squirrly
Progress and Achievements updates
Focus Pages details improvements
improvements to SERP Checker Cloud by Squirrly
improvements to the Keyword Research Assistant and the way it uses data from the OpenAI API and the briefcase + SEO Live Assistant history for your content.
We've also finsihed closing other tasks and roadmap items that received many votes.
And we've displayed the current roadmap for Planned and In Progress. You can filter for those here in Feedbear.
Planned: https://squirrly.feedbear.com/boards/squirrly-seo?filter=Planned In Progress: https://squirrly.feedbear.com/boards/squirrly-seo?filter=In+progress
We've also released more videos on:
https://getgrowth.tv/hseo-tv-season-2/ education content about Inner Links and all features inside Squirrly SEO that help with inner link building https://hseo.tv/
Firewall and GeoBlocking Features in Hide My WP Ghost
Coming back with the 4th updates pack for Hide My WP Ghost, from the last 30 days.
We've worked very hard to bring you these update packs and I hope you enjoy them. It took us many months to finish all these, so now we're happy we could release so many for you.
There are also many fixes that never reach the light of day (meaning I never get to promote them via RoadMap, Social Media and email), because working on more compatibilities and integrations is constant work for a security plugin focused on prevention.
Web Dev Kit Level Customization Update made for Hide My WP Ghost by Squirrly.
You can now customize a zip file for your clients directly from the cloud app of Hide My WP Ghost.
This will help you install a zip, and already have the most important aspects pre-configured. This update should make it super easy for you to install HMWP just the way you like on all the client sites managed by your agency.
Starbox PRO v2 - Official Videos from our Launch Event are now available for the public to see
Big thanks to those of you who got your tickets for the event and joined us live. We sure gave a lot more prizes and gifts during the event than we thought we would.
Now, we are releasing the event videos for everyone to see.
27 updates and releases can be viewed here. This will help you see what you can already use inside. The rest, are soon to be released and you have the info in the roadmap. (only read until LinkedIN v2.0 - that's the lowest you should go when scrolling down to see them)
Keep a fast social tempo, Florin Muresan, CEO, Squirrly Makers of Squirrly Social
Hide My WP Ghost: Updates to the Updates Message from last week. Platform change.
Since 2012, the Squirrly Company, makers of your WordPress Security Plugin, Hide My WP Ghost, have announced product updates using the Twitter Platform.
Thanks to feedback from those of you in our community, I see now that Twitter/X no longer allows people to read content from X, unless they register an account. This is completely against what the old Twitter stood for, and we will start announcing updates to all our products (includin Hide My WP Ghost) on LinkedIN, moving forward.
LinkedIN allows users to read without having to be logged in. Scroll down to the Updates section of our Squirrly page, and you will find the updates.
We've copied the latest batch of update to the LinkedIN feed.
And you can also have a look at the entire changelog. (this is from the Official Roadmap). We've also released two update packs in March that we didn't announce via email yet.
The only thing with the Roadmap is: you can sort by "Done" and choose to see latest DONE updates first, but we've now fixed for Hide My WP issues that have been signaled to us many months ago (new features, added security, etc. which took more time to develop). Those updates will show below other older updates, even though they are completely new items added to the plugin.
There are 50 Courses right now inside Education Cloud PLUS, available under one single subscription (or one time fee plan).
Here's the catch:
Existing subscribers will keep their current prices for their current plans. We don't increase the prices paid by on-going clients.
New subscribers will have to get their Premium Pass for:
$15.99 | $159.99 | $399
USD (monthly, yearly, lifetime).
We started Education Cloud PLUS in 2020, and it was an EdTech platform created by the Squirrly Company. This one came to provide an upgrade to our users who were on the older Education Cloud platform we've had since 2014.
When Education Cloud PLUS was announced there were only 6 courses inside at $9.99 USD / month.
The clients who got that early bird price now still pay us only $9.99 USD / month, but they get 50 courses instead of just 6.
And they also received the brand new AI courses that help our students upskill and reskill to generative AI technologies.
Our disruptive AI tool presents a compelling value proposition centered around transforming digital marketing through automation and artificial intelligence, specifically tailored for entrepreneurs, freelancers, agencies, small to medium-sized businesses, bloggers, and personal brands. Here’s a breakdown of its core value propositions:
1. End-to-End Digital Marketing Automation:
Next Level Marketing automates the entire digital marketing process, from keyword research to content creation, distribution, and performance analysis. This comprehensive automation saves users significant time and effort, allowing them to focus on their core business activities while ensuring their digital marketing strategy is executed flawlessly.
2. AI-Driven Insights and Strategy:
Leveraging proprietary AI technology, Next Level Marketing provides users with data-driven insights and strategic recommendations. It identifies optimal keywords and crafts personalized content plans based on market trends and the user’s specific goals, ensuring marketing efforts are both efficient and effective.
3. Seamless Multi-Channel Marketing:
The platform automates content distribution across various channels, including blogs, search engines, social media, and email newsletters. This ensures a consistent and wide-reaching online presence, helping users to engage their audience wherever they are.
4. Customized Content Creation:
With AI specialists dedicated to creating high-quality, targeted content, users receive materials that resonate with their audience and adhere to their brand’s voice and style preferences. This level of customization is unparalleled, making each piece of content unique and engaging.
5. Minimal Time Investment with Maximum Control:
Next Level Marketing is designed to require minimal user input while providing maximum control over marketing strategies and content. Users can approve or adjust AI-generated content and strategies, ensuring that the final output aligns with their vision and objectives.
6. Cost-Effective Solution:
Offering a powerful suite of digital marketing tools in a single platform eliminates the need for multiple subscriptions and services, significantly reducing costs. Its pricing model is designed to be affordable and scalable, catering to the budget constraints of its target users.
7. Continuous Optimization:
The AI continually learns from campaign data and user feedback, enabling it to optimize future marketing efforts for better performance. This ensures that users’ digital marketing strategies evolve and improve over time, staying ahead of market trends and competition.
8. Accessible to All Skill Levels:
Next Level Marketing by Squirrly democratizes digital marketing, making advanced strategies and tools accessible to users with varying levels of expertise. Its user-friendly interface and guided processes ensure that even those new to digital marketing can achieve professional-level results.
By combining automation, AI-driven insights, and a user-centric approach, Next Level Marketing by Squirrly delivers a unique value proposition: empowering users to execute sophisticated digital marketing strategies effortlessly, achieving growth and engagement without the high costs and complexity traditionally associated with digital marketing.
This marks a brand new addition to the Family of Products for Entrepreneurs by the Squirrly Company
It's been a long time coming... ever since the moment when we created an AI content writer inside the Blogging Assistant of Squirrly SEO last year (we didn't officially release it).
After testing and thinking, we saw a real need for making fully automated End-to-End marketing available for everyone.
With your help, your feedback and your experience, we've realized that fully automated sounds good, but isn't, so we now have a "Move Things Forward" section, where our users will make approvals and decide how things will move forward.
So you will not have any unwanted "surprises" from the AI.
AI Hub will become a sub-section of Next Level Marketing by Squirrly, where users will start building custom tools that make our AI Specialists create more "on-brand" materials.
We ran a very limited Alpha with few members of our audience, but there's good news:
- our v2 of the Web App is ready and we will begin a larger Alpha version soon. We hope it will be April 2024, but might only be in May 2024. - our WordPress Plugin (you will NOT need WP to use Next Level Marketing, but this is a good extra for those who DO use WP) is also ready now. - Squirrly Social and Email Hero had parts of them re-written to allow us to connect our AI Specialists from within NL to these other tools we've built.
You give a topic (or a keyword).
You will get: - a content plan - that content plan will be fully executed by our AI Specialists - everything you approve will be published to the site - for each approved piece, our AI Specialists can create social media messages and emails to promote the new piece. - you approve those as well - the AIs then go on to promote the new content piece via Search Engines, Social Media Profiles, Email Inboxes, Google My Business feeds.
In the near future (somewhere in 2024 as well) we will also have the option to create and publish Ads for Facebook and Instagram from Next Level.
These are some very exciting times, and I can't wait to let you know more about our progress on this.
This updates pack includes changes that make Squirrly SEO compatible with Next Level Marketing AI by Squirrly (with the WordPress plugin part of Next Level)
Starbox PRO v2 is now Officially Out of Beta. Stable version ready and emails sent to everyone who is elligible to receive it as a gift from us. v1 still remains.
Starbox PRO v2 has officially moved out of beta.
We’re offering Starbox PRO v2 to you (paid users of Starbox PRO v1) as an extra gift, at no additional cost. This isn’t about replacing anything – it’s about adding MORE value to what you already have.
Starbox PRO v1 will still remain in your accounts and you'll be able to keep using it.
🔐 Exciting Update! Two-Factor Authentication is now available for all WordPress sites using Hide My WP Ghost by Squirrly. Enhance your site's security today! 🛡️🚀
🎉 Exciting News for our valued users! We're thrilled to announce the implementation of Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for all WordPress sites using Hide My WP Ghost by Squirrly.
This feature was one of the most requested by you, and we've listened! By integrating 2FA, we're fortifying your site's defenses even further, ensuring an added layer of security against hacking attempts.
Our commitment is to offer you the best protection, and with this update, we're taking a significant step forward in that direction. Thank you for your continuous feedback and trust! Stay secure! 🛡️🔐
I have great news today, too: Reusable Schemas + Custom Patterns + Reusable in SEO Automation is now released and stable!!!
This should come as amazing news to all of you who have themes, or plugins which help you with custom fields for your posts, pages or custom post types.
Create a reusable schema type. Squirrly SEO will look at all the fields you've completed for a certain custom post type and then grab all those fields and automatically create new Patterns for them!
Once you complete a reusable schema with all the details and all the new patterns, you can save it for later usage.
You can even add it to the SEO Automation feature of Squirrly SEO, which makes it extremely powerful.
Your editors or authors will just have to complete the details, and then Squirrly SEO will automatically take all the inputs they've given and create the proper schemas on its own.
Any author will add to your schema, without actually adding to the schema themselves.
You can customize and personalize any schema and save it as reusable, so you can cut your time at least in half.
Hope you'll enjoy this brand new feature inside your Squirrly SEO: Newton.
And don't forget to nominate us for AI Plugins on the link for TemplateMonster. We now have 2x different AIs : one 100% proprietary and built by Squirrly Company, and one that uses our implementation on OpenAI for keyword research and research assistant.
More Info:
The Reusable Schema feature from Squirrly SEO is a tool that simplifies the process of adding structured data, specifically JSON-LD schema markup, to your website's content. JSON-LD schema markup is used to provide search engines with additional information about your content, which can enhance the appearance of your search results in the form of rich snippets.
Here's a breakdown of how the Reusable Schema feature works:
Creating a Schema Template: With Reusable Schema, you can create a template for a JSON-LD schema markup. This template defines the structured data you want to add to your content. This is particularly useful for customizing how your content appears in search results.
Matching Custom Fields: Reusable Schema allows you to match custom fields, such as those from plugins like Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), to your schema template. This matching process involves using placeholders like {{customfield(field_name)}} in your schema template. These placeholders are replaced with the actual values from your custom fields when the schema is generated.
Customizing Post Types: You can use Reusable Schema to customize various post types on your website, even if you don't use specific plugins like WooCommerce. For example, you can create a schema template for products or other content types and match the relevant custom fields to it.
How-To and FAQ Schema: Reusable Schema also allows you to create templates for How-To or FAQ content types. You can match the fields from these post types into the appropriate schema templates. This way, you can ensure that all your How-To or FAQ content follows the same structured data format.
Automation: Once you've created and saved your schema templates with all the necessary field mappings, you can use them in Squirrly SEO Automation. This means that Squirrly will automatically apply the customized schema to different post types or content that match the schema template criteria.
Reusable Schema simplifies the process of adding structured data to your website's content by allowing you to create templates, match custom fields, and automate the application of schema markup. This can enhance your content's appearance in search results and improve its search engine optimization (SEO) performance without requiring you to manually add schema markup to each individual post or page.
- Sending new keywords found (using 0 ... yes, zero credits) by Keyword Research Assistant via email inside the weekly reports.
So, yes! These brand new features just landed.
The focus pages method and the Ranking Vision AI (which is proprietary tech built by us) rely on amazing keywords. The problem?
- some of our users usually have a hard time coming up with keywords to input inside our research tool and we're sorry to see them stuck.
We've promised you we wouldn't be sitting on new technology, and we're serious about it. We've made a major stride in our Next Level Marketing AI by Squirrly, and because it's been so helpful, we decided to implement it in Keyword Research by Squirrly SEO as well.
You can now start a keyword research process from bad keywords like "travel", "therapist", "jewelry". If you don't know why these keywords are bad for SEO, take the 14 Days Journey ASAP! You will find it in the Overview section of Squirrly SEO.
From those keywords, we suggest extras you can try in step 2 of the KR process and then we will compile the final list with data in step 3 (driven by our Competitive Clarity Index). You will get keywords with already-done-for-you research data... and this time around we also follow the paths from the clusters we build with OpenAI for keywords, not just the ordinary Google search paths.
This helps us provide much better results AND the best part is that it will help you get unstuck. It will open your mind for brand new possibilities of what you can start searching for using the Keyword Research tool from Squirrly SEO.
Competitive Clarity Index was already better than any Competition Score for keywords, that you find in other SEO tools like Moz and SEMrush.
With this brand new addition, you'll find keywords that:
- are impossible for newbies to find on their own
- take SEO experts hours of work to find, sometimes days
All within one keyword research session inside Squirrly SEO, on the cloud app, or inside WP.
What do you think?
Ready to try it out and offer us feedback? - we'd love it!
Oh, and I know many will ask if you have to pay extra:
We want to bring you the Full Force of SEO.
That's why we gave Squirrly SEO: Newton to all our clients without any extra costs.
P.S. We did it again! Squirrly SEO just earned six shiny new awards in G2’s Summer 2023 reports. Thanks to your awesome reviews and ongoing support, our winning streak continues.
There is a New Squirrly SEO. Welcome, Squirrly SEO: Newton
It's time to grow your business with the Full Force of SEO: Squirrly SEO Newton is here.
Update today. Start using it.
Get:
Inner Links Assistant (two components: one that helps you find opportunities for all previous content, and one that helps you build new inner links)
Inner Links Helper inside the Research Assistant from Keyword Research (to help you build more content for growing inner links)
Complete Schema Builder with all the schemas for Rich Results
Redirects Management
404 Monitor
Import Settings From Other WP Plugins
Web Dev Kit Plans - to setup multiple plans for your clients (set custom limits / client, set customer features / client, etc.)
Instant Indexing (with IndexNow and Indexing API by Google)
Copyright-Free Images inside the Media Library
Remove Category Base (incl. for WooCommerce)
Add No-Follow or Sponsored on a link by link basis, directly as you're editing a post
Can Add Keywords Via Import, to bypass keyword research
SEO Live Assistant works in the Front-End of many WP Builders
One-of-a-kind support for video schemas across entire WP site
Our own spin on the idea of FAQ Blocks (very soon), where you won't lose content when you deactivate our plugin, unlike Yoast and RM. Also, that will work from all Builders, not just Gutenberg.
Complete SEO Funnel.
THE ONLY Software in Holistic SEO. You can take care of everything and all ranking factors with Squirrly SEO, not just On Page, and not just research.
Take care of everything and rank higher than ever before!
Your valuable feedback lit a bulb over our heads (again!) - you helped us realize that there was still something missing in order for Squirrly SEO to provide the complete SEO funnel.
With these brand-new features (and many others which you'll find on the Features list), Squirrly SEO is the all-in-one SEO solution you've been waiting for.
We are working on the Advanced SEO Pack, the first extention for Squirrly SEO (will be free for ALL active paid clients)
We've also (almost) released our new AI Digital Assistant for SEO Content based on ChatGPT. However, we've found tons of ways to make it better and more useful. It will be far more complete and far more advanced than just SEO Content.
To see our latest major updates across all products.
Remember: on #SQROAD on Twitter you will always get to see each update we make. On Squirrly.co/news we bundle updates together and present them later + we don't always show all of them.
Alternatively, you can filter inside our Roadmap for each product, using the DONE label.
To see our latest major updates across all products.
Remember: on #SQROAD on Twitter you will always get to see each update we make. On Squirrly.co/news we bundle updates together and present them later + we don't always show all of them.
Alternatively, you can filter inside our Roadmap for each product, using the DONE label.
Thank you for joining us in 2022 and being with us after so many years.
The 3rd of October 2012 marked the birth of the Squirrly Company, which has gone on to invest $2 Million USD in our technology stack that we use to deliver 17 SaaS, plugins and services to over 20,000 business clients around the world. More about us here.
You've all helped us reach our Goal of $1 Million USD in Annual Recurring Revenue in 2021 much faster than we could have ever anticipated.
I want to thank you for your trust and for being with us.
We're growing like squirrly and we keep delivering insanely great products.
You'll definitely see a big 10 Years event from us this year.
With your support we could reach new heights and we have exciting things planned for 2022:
🚀 Education Cloud PLUS - new release in Q1 2022 🚀 Customers.DigitalPack.Com - brand new experience for those who buy over 17 SaaS and products from us 🚀 The Store for Entrepreneurs Updates in Q2 2022 🚀 Squirrly Social 2022 in Q2 🚀 Squirrly SEO 2022 in Q2 💌 Brand New UI and UX in Squirrly SEO 2022 💌 Starbox PRO changes 💌 More Games and Prizes 💌 Brand new Squirrly SPY experience and Credits system 💌 Awesome Fulfillment for all products purchased through the Squirrly Store 💌 Email Hero App development being done 💌 Better Experience for Squirrly Digital (digitalpackglobal.com) coming soon 💌 Squirrly France and Squirrly Brazil - local partners to help you out in these countries 💌 In-Store Credits 💌 Many new Squirrly SEO Add-ONS 💌 Instructors for Education Cloud PLUS in 2022 Going forward, you will be able to see more in our #SQROAD feed on Twitter.
Many updates and new developments get seen there ^^ as soon as we make them available.
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