Research and pricing changelog

The publication-wide indexing and affiliate gates are active. Source-complete editorial, methodology, guide, and data records may enter the sitemap; reviews, comparisons, roundups, stacks, pricing, changelog, interactive utilities, and commercial redirect surfaces retain page-level noindex where evidence or utility policy requires it.

The homepage now links directly to the published 50-keyword Divergence Report and renders only dataset-derived teaser values. Four approved /go/ routes preserve their centrally registered tracking parameters; unapproved commercial routes remain inactive and noindexed. Analytics and email capture remain disabled.

All current eRank, EverBee, and Sale Samurai records were confirmed; eRank Free now includes the captured AI Listing Helper limit, annual eRank plans include the stated money-back terms, and Sale Samurai paid plans include the stated trial terms.

Clarified Alura annual vs monthly billing rates. Book Bolt and EtsyHunt gaps were replaced with owner-verified plan records, and Publisher Rocket now preserves the vendor’s promotional framing. At this July 14 pricing checkpoint, independent product testing was incomplete, affiliate activation was still off, and sitewide publication approval had not yet been granted. The July 16 launch entry above supersedes those gate states.

Alura, Sale Samurai, Book Bolt, and Publisher Rocket records now include dated official pricing and feature sources where publicly accessible. Their review pages remain explicitly unscored because independent task testing has not been completed.

The same records now feed the eRank-versus-Alura and Book-Bolt-versus-Publisher-Rocket structural comparisons; no performance winner was added.

At this Phase 4 checkpoint, four owner-approved affiliate destinations were present in the central register while the affiliate switch remained off. Approved review calls to action already used sponsored, nofollow /go/ routes, but those routes did not redirect.

At that checkpoint, the publication-wide noindex policy, disabled analytics, and non-submitting email form remained in place. The 2026-07-16 launch entry above supersedes the indexing and referral states; analytics and email capture remain disabled.

Shared review, comparison, data, utility, and schema presentation now uses testing-in-progress, not-yet-tested, and not-enough-evidence language. Internal null and evidence gates remain unchanged.

The methodology and About surfaces were expanded to document source capture, screenshot handling, correction policy, evidence hierarchy, and the Research Desk byline.

A changelog record stores the effective date, recorded date, entity, field, previous verified value, new verified value, source, affected routes, and editorial note.

Incomplete internal records cannot produce public change rows and remain excluded from feeds and the sitemap.