November 2024 Changelog
November 2024 added SERP API as an alternate search engine and continued improving Article Creator source settings. The month also tightened Google PAA behavior, AI template tagging, and task-folder navigation.
This was a smaller but important transition month: SCM became better at routing search-result sourcing through the right provider and showing content generation settings where users need them.
Who this update helps
- Users who need alternate SERP data providers.
- Users tagging and filtering AI templates.
- Users collecting PAA and search-result content.
- Users managing task folders and generated output paths.
SERP API became a source option
SCM added another route for search result collection when direct scraping is not the best fit.
- SERP API was added as an alternative search engine.
- DataForSEO and other source work later expanded this provider direction.
- Search result settings became more central to content generation workflows.
Article Creator settings moved closer to the task
SCM reorganized search-result settings so they appear where users actually make content-generation choices.
- Article Creator search result settings were reworked inside content generation tabs.
- AI template tagging and filtering were added.
- Warnings around scraped article macros became more context-aware.
PAA and translation fixes improved source collection
Several source collectors received small but useful fixes.
- PAA testing accepts keywords again.
- Google PAA scraper no longer exits early when item count stays the same across checks.
- Google Translate errors were fixed.
Folder navigation became more reliable
SCM improved how task-relative paths resolve when users locate output folders.
- Locate in the folder output browser resolves the task project folder correctly.
- Task tooltips and helper text were expanded.
Related SCM guides and product history
Full developer changelog
The summary above is written for users. The original 21-item developer changelog is preserved below for exact release detail.
December 1, 2024
- other: tooltips
November 27, 2024
- feat: SERP API added as alternative search engine
November 26, 2024
- fix: Google translate error
- feat: article creator, ai template tagging and filtering
November 25, 2024
- style: article creator ai writer shortened margins
November 23, 2024
- feat: article creator using %scraped_article% warning not shown if using add local
November 20, 2024
- fix: Test paa unable to enter keyword
- feat: Pressing locate in folder output browser, correctly resolves and navigates to the task %project_folder%
- fix: google paa scraper, not exiting early if the paa item count is the same on multiple checks.
November 19, 2024
- feat: Reworked article creator search result settings to appear where its needed inside content generation tabs
- fix: dynamic scraper error when no results available
- fix: Google gemini error log
November 14, 2024
- fix: Post uploader test site fix
November 13, 2024
- feat: upload poster, select blog can sort on blog url and group
- feat: wp post generate, csv header no longer required.
November 10, 2024
- feat: Article creator, wp generate blogs import feature https://forum.seocontentmachine.com/t/bulk-create-articles-with-category-and-upload-to-a-blog-using-2-tasks-only/529/5
November 7, 2024
- feat: Post uploader, save post/page id seperately to output file
November 5, 2024
- feat: Blog test button added to WP blog manager
- fix: Removed xmlrpc settings, SCM will auto detect which posting method to use, either xml-rpc or wp-json based on blog details.
November 2, 2024
- feat: Add model param for google gemini
- fix: scrape owl proxy string parsing
See all monthly updates in the SCM changelog archive. New users can also try SCM from the trial signup page.