What's new in PicTranslate

Three new content surfaces shipped together: side-by-side comparison pages against Google Translate / DeepL / Microsoft Translator, a help center with the first batch of articles, and this changelog. All bilingual, all schema-marked, all in the sitemap.

• New/compare with 3 honest side-by-side pages (PicTranslate vs Google Translate / DeepL / Microsoft Translator)
• New/help center launched with initial articles covering supported formats, translation modes, batch workflow, custom AI prompts, billing and privacy
• New/changelog page added — each release has its own indexable URL
• InfraSitemap rewritten to include all new surfaces; bilingual hreflang on every entry

Programmatic SEO: 10 core languages → 90 directional pairs × 2 site locales = 180 statically prerendered pages, each with a tailored title, FAQ, breadcrumb and HowTo schema. Blog post authors also upgraded from Organization to Person for E-E-A-T weighting.

• New/image-translator/<from>-to-<to> route for 10 languages — EN, ZH, JA, KO, ES, FR, DE, PT, RU, AR
• NewPer-pair schema: SoftwareApplication + HowTo (3 steps) + FAQPage (4 Q&As) + BreadcrumbList
• New"Translate by language" directory section on /translate — one-hop crawl access to every pair
• ImprovedReverse-pair CTA + 17 sibling-pair chips with hreflang on every pair page
• NewBlog authors now emit Person JSON-LD with jobTitle, description, worksFor — stronger E-E-A-T signal

The full on-page SEO checklist landed in one batch: per-route JSON-LD (Breadcrumb / HowTo / SoftwareApplication / CollectionPage / BlogPosting / FAQPage), og:locale:alternate sitewide, custom bilingual 404 with noindex, 4 use-case landing pages, PWA manifest with theme-color, and a dedicated image sitemap.

• NewStructured data on every public route — Organization, WebSite, SoftwareApplication, FAQPage, BlogPosting, BreadcrumbList, HowTo, CollectionPage
• New4 new use-case landing pages (screenshot / menu / document / e-commerce) with HowTo + FAQ schema
• NewBlog tag aggregation pages /blog/tag/<slug> for 7 tags
• NewImage sitemap at /image-sitemap.xml + /llms.txt for AI-crawler discoverability
• ImprovedMigrated Hero + blog covers + manga page + scenarios tabs to next/image — improved LCP
• ImprovedPWA manifest with #3525cd theme color, expanded icons, viewport API
• InfraGSC + Bing verification scaffolded via env vars (set GOOGLE_SITE_VERIFICATION / BING_SITE_VERIFICATION in prod)
• InfraPreconnect + dns-prefetch hints for images.unsplash.com — shaves 100-300ms off blog cover LCP