# Essentras changelog

What changed on Essentras, week by week. A new entry every Friday. Web: https://essentras.com/changelog. RSS: https://essentras.com/changelog.xml.

## Changelog #0004, 2026-10-19: 53 guides in 8 languages, a named-outlet price list and 17 agent recipes

https://essentras.com/changelog/2026-10-19

New guides for getting press, named outlets, removing personal information, reviews beyond Google, hacked, disabled and banned accounts, verification on every platform, Wikipedia and 8 industries, each checked against the platforms’ own pages and published in all 8 site languages. Also a price list of 66 named outlets, 17 agent recipes, and fixes to agent search and the country pages.

- **New: Getting press: 6 guides.** How to get press coverage, get featured in a magazine or a newspaper, email a press release to journalists, what a PR agency costs, and how press placements build backlinks within Google’s rules. https://essentras.com/guides/how-to-get-press-coverage
- **New: Named outlets: 8 guides.** Reuters, Google News, Apple News, MSN, Forbes contributors, Entrepreneur, Benzinga and Hindustan Times: the routes each outlet documents, what each costs, and our listing where one exists. https://essentras.com/guides/reuters-press-release
- **New: Can you buy coverage in Forbes? 66 named outlets, priced.** Every outlet buyers name, sold or not: the cheapest listing, the price range, turnaround, link policy and label, and the route that works when we do not sell it. https://essentras.com/media-placement-price-index/outlets
- **New: Remove personal information and search results.** Guides for personal information, home addresses, phone numbers, photos and public records, and for removing a search result from Google, with every official route and timeline. https://essentras.com/guides/remove-personal-information-from-the-internet
- **New: Reviews beyond Google.** What 12 platforms remove and how to report, with guides for Glassdoor, Amazon seller feedback, eBay and Yelp business pages. Our paid service covers Google reviews only; every platform decides its own. https://essentras.com/guides/how-to-remove-bad-reviews
- **New: Hacked, disabled, banned or deleted accounts.** Facebook hacked or disabled, a deleted Instagram account, and banned WhatsApp, TikTok and Telegram accounts, each with the platform’s own appeal route and the scams to avoid. https://essentras.com/guides/recover-hacked-facebook-account
- **New: Verification on every platform.** A map of 10 platforms, then guides for Instagram business accounts, Facebook, TikTok, the WhatsApp Business green tick and IMDb, from each platform’s own rules. https://essentras.com/guides/how-to-get-verified
- **New: Wikipedia for companies, and fixing a page about you.** Wikipedia’s company rule source by source, who may write the page, review times, and how to ask for a correction without breaking the conflict of interest rules. https://essentras.com/guides/wikipedia-page-for-your-company
- **New: Playbooks by industry.** SaaS, startups, small businesses, real estate, hotels and restaurants, music, books and nonprofits, each with real budget baskets priced from our catalog and a 90-day plan. https://essentras.com/guides/pr-for-saas
- **New: How to get recommended by ChatGPT.** What OpenAI, Perplexity, Google, Anthropic and Microsoft document about the crawlers and indexes their assistants read, and how to measure it for free. https://essentras.com/guides/how-to-get-recommended-by-chatgpt
- **New: 17 recipes for AI agents.** Real buyer tasks with the real MCP calls and responses, from a press release on Yahoo Finance to local news in Texas, review bombing, a Knowledge Panel and a hacked Instagram account. Each is also an MCP prompt. https://essentras.com/agents/recipes
- **Improved: Local outlets in your language.** The translated press guides now list the leading outlets of each market with their prices: Italy, Spain, Mexico, France, Germany, Brazil, Poland and the UAE. https://essentras.com/guides/how-to-distribute-a-press-release
- **Improved: Search for AI agents.** Outlet search forgives spacing, takes a language code or a US state code, matches a city in the outlet name, finds every outlet within a turnaround, and states each turnaround as a window a buyer can picture. https://essentras.com/agents.md
- **Fixed: Country pages.** The browse buttons and category links on the country pages opened an empty list. They now show that country’s outlets. https://essentras.com/link-building-brazil
- **Fixed: Paid placements say paid.** A few pages called paid placements earned editorial, and the Amazon and Yelp review guides suggested we remove reviews on those platforms. They now say what is true. https://essentras.com/guides/how-to-remove-an-amazon-review

## Changelog #0003, 2026-10-18: AI agents can price every service, live examples on outlet pages, and rebuilt buying guides

https://essentras.com/changelog/2026-10-18

AI agents can now diagnose a case for free and price every service, outlet pages show articles we already published there, every service page answers the questions people ask before paying, and the buying guides were rebuilt around a free tool each.

- **New: Live examples on outlet pages.** Outlet pages now show up to 3 articles Essentras already placed on that outlet, opened on the outlet’s own site. Client names are left out on purpose. https://essentras.com/publishers/ap-news-press-release#live-examples
- **New: How to get published on every outlet.** Every outlet page now has the 3 steps, the price with the volume discount, the turnaround, the link policy, how the article is labeled and whether Google indexes it, in 1 table. https://essentras.com/publishers/business-insider#how-to-get-published
- **New: Before you pay, on every service page.** The free check to run first, what the price covers, a free call, and the options people add or start with instead, on all 29 service pages. https://essentras.com/services/google-knowledge-panel#before-you-pay
- **New: Setup guides for 8 AI clients.** Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and Windsurf each have a page with the exact MCP config, example prompts, workflows and troubleshooting, checked against the vendor’s own documentation. https://essentras.com/agents/claude
- **New: Agents can price every service.** The MCP server and the REST API now list every service with its price, refund terms and who decides, and hand the buyer the page to pay. Search also filters by turnaround, state and city. https://essentras.com/agents.md
- **New: 5 free checkers for AI agents, on MCP and REST.** An agent connected to our MCP server or REST API can check whether a Google review breaks a policy, how ready a name is for a Knowledge Panel, whether a subject meets Wikipedia notability, the lawful route to remove a result from Google, and the official Instagram recovery path. Inputs are fixed choices, never a name, email or link, and each answer quotes the matching service at its current price. https://essentras.com/agents#checkers
- **New: Media placement price index.** Every outlet we sell with its public price, in one explorer with 6 filters and views you can share. https://essentras.com/media-placement-price-index
- **New: Forbes and Business Insider cost guides.** What a Forbes Council seat, a Forbes feature and a Business Insider placement cost, with a free Forbes link checker. https://essentras.com/guides/how-to-get-featured-in-business-insider
- **New: Reputation management cost guide.** An itemized cost estimator with no email gate, the contract terms that change the real price, and separate guides for pushing down negative results and for executives. https://essentras.com/guides/reputation-management-cost
- **Improved: Knowledge Panel guide and Entity Readiness Check.** The guide was rebuilt around an 11-question readiness check that scores a name out of 100 and says what is missing. https://essentras.com/guides/how-to-get-a-google-knowledge-panel
- **Improved: Wikipedia notability checker.** Checks each source on its own, and every verdict cites the Wikipedia rule behind it. https://essentras.com/tools/wikipedia-notability-checker
- **Improved: Google review removal guide and policy checker.** The checker now weighs the evidence you have, so it tells a review that breaks a rule from one that only hurts. https://essentras.com/guides/how-to-remove-a-google-review
- **Improved: Remove your name from Google: route finder.** Finds the lawful removal route for 15 situations, by where you live. https://essentras.com/services/remove-name-google-search
- **Improved: Press release distribution ranking.** 14 services scored on a 100-point rubric with the evidence for each score, shown under 4 different weightings, plus a cost calculator built only from published rates. https://essentras.com/best/press-release-distribution-services
- **New: Username studio.** A username generator that publishes how it scores rarity. https://essentras.com/tools/username-generator
- **Improved: Instagram support channels and Meta Verified routes.** A channel finder for 11 Instagram situations, and a route check between the free badge, Meta Verified and Meta One. https://essentras.com/resources/instagram-support-email

## Changelog #0002, 2026-10-16: Meta AI joins the AI check, a faster ChatGPT, and Essentras in Italian and Polish

https://essentras.com/changelog/2026-10-16

The AI check now asks 7 assistants, answers faster, and the site speaks 8 languages.

- **New: Meta AI is the 7th assistant in the AI check and the AI Visibility Tracker.** The assistant inside WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger now answers next to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek and Grok. https://essentras.com/ai-check
- **Improved: ChatGPT answers about 4 times faster.** ChatGPT answers in the AI check now come from GPT-6 Luna, the model ChatGPT serves on its Free and Go plans. An answer that times out is retried on its own, and every source shows the website it came from. https://essentras.com/ai-check
- **New: Italian and Polish.** The site is now available in Italian and Polish, next to English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French and Arabic.
- **New: AI market share, LLM leaderboard and best AI chatbot.** Which AI assistants people use, by country and by region, an LLM leaderboard, and a best AI chatbot ranking scored by win probability. https://essentras.com/ai-market-share
- **New: AI Visibility Tracker Pro for any domain.** Start Pro from any website without running a check first. Each extra domain on the same account is $29 a month. https://essentras.com/ai-tracker
- **Improved: Lighter publisher pages.** Every publisher page now loads from cache with about 40% less HTML. https://essentras.com/publishers
- **New: AI Match on the marketplace.** Answer 3 questions and get the outlets that fit your niche and budget, ranked, with the full price. https://essentras.com/match

## Changelog #0001, 2026-10-09: AI Visibility Tracker, a free plan, and 155 comparison pages

https://essentras.com/changelog/2026-10-09

Track what AI assistants say about your brand every week, and compare every provider we compete with on one page each.

- **New: AI Visibility Tracker.** Weekly tracking of what the AI assistants answer about your brand, with the full answers and the sources they cite, for $49 a month. https://essentras.com/ai-tracker
- **New: A free tracker plan.** Track 3 questions for free on a public dashboard. Pro tracks 25 and keeps them private. https://essentras.com/ai-tracker
- **New: Comparison library.** 54 alternatives pages, 62 head-to-heads, 27 switching guides, 7 rankings and a placement cost calculator, with a source link next to the competitor facts. https://essentras.com/alternatives
- **New: Listed in the official MCP Registry.** AI agents can find our MCP server in the Model Context Protocol registry and search, price and quote placements through it. https://essentras.com/agents
- **New: Manage or cancel a press plan yourself.** Press Monthly subscribers can change their card, download invoices or cancel at the end of the period from the customer portal.
- **Improved: Faster pages everywhere.** Guides, services, publisher and comparison pages are now served from the edge cache instead of being rebuilt for every visit.
- **Fixed: Booking form.** The call booking form no longer shows raw text labels, and a saved WhatsApp number keeps its country code. https://essentras.com/book