What's New

A running record of what we change on MintShovels — new tools, fixes, and SEO improvements. We publish it because a tool that quietly edits itself is hard to trust.

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August 2026

• August 8 — Published this changelog and expanded our About page with the story of why we built MintShovels.
• August 6 — Unified the navigation and footer across all subpages to a single consistent msnav/msfooter template.
• August 4 — Fixed the root cause of zero Google indexing: soft-404s, 364 dead links, 4 broken canonicals, bidirectional hreflang, and added 24 Chinese pages to the sitemap.
• August 3 — Added 6 proper Chinese tool pages and recovered 12 live Chinese blog stubs. Fixed the index-zh canonical conflict. Launched Chinese localization with hreflang, FAQ JSON-LD and a new analytics property.
• July 24 — Added real social links (X, GitHub) to the footer.
• July 21 — Established the editing baseline: Logo variant B and 9 Lucide SVG icons.