Material corrections, new datasets, methodology changes, and significant page updates are recorded here. Quiet typo fixes may not receive a separate entry.
Electrolyte authority system release
• Published exact product profiles for every current dataset record, with a separately noindexed historical Nuun reference.
• Published a side-by-side comparison builder, high-sodium Canada guide, and exact LMNT versus PH 1000 and Liquid I.V. versus Nuun comparisons.
• Connected products, comparisons, tools, guides, and the open dataset through stronger internal navigation and entity markup.
• Changed commerce lookup to fail closed when no curated market-specific offer exists and corrected the BioSteel and GU Roctane Canadian records.
• Released dataset version 2026-08-28 with explicit record-level evidence dates and an immutable snapshot integrity check.
Commerce accuracy and disclosure release
• Removed LMNT and Nuun Amazon destinations whose flavours or packages did not match the visible product presentation.
• Made Amazon affiliate activation require an explicit owner-approved switch and tracking ID, with no hard-coded fallback.
• Added an exact-destination commerce registry, dated offer cards, stable offer analytics, and visible link-level disclosures.
• Added commerce modules to the highest-intent Canadian guides, comparison, capsule guide, and label database.
• Expanded the revenue audit to inspect every sitemap page, reject unregistered Amazon destinations, and verify paid-link attributes and disclosures.
SEO quality and high-intent comparison expansion
• Published a powder-only Canadian guide built from exact variants, label-directed concentration, sweetener, sugar, and dated CAD price data.
• Published an exact-variant LMNT versus Liquid I.V. comparison for Canadian search intent.
• Expanded the zero-sugar and capsule guides with dataset-driven tables, explicit exclusions, primary sources, and evidence limitations.
• Separated Canadian listing evidence from checked stock status, added sourced LMNT mixing ranges and Vitassium directions, and preserved versioned dataset snapshots.
• Expanded automated SEO checks for crawl directives, sitemap dates, social metadata, structured data, redirects, orphan warnings, and social images.
• Marked the social link hub noindex, improved global discovery links, and aligned the document language with Canadian English metadata.
• Added a Search Console export analyzer and an owner workflow for prioritizing query and page improvements from real performance data.
Discovery, metadata, and evidence launch
• Configured IndexNow and submitted the canonical sitemap.
• Added unique social metadata, visible editorial details, sitewide navigation, and corrected author entities.
• Published the open electrolyte label comparison and CSV download.
• Corrected the regular SaltStick source and removed Nuun Sport from zero-sugar qualifying picks.
• Published the Health Canada electrolyte-classification explainer and sodium/cost calculator.
• Expanded the open label database from 4 to 24 exact variants with Canadian price, stock, import, formula-conflict, and historical-status fields.
• Added interactive format, sugar, availability, stevia, concentration, and cost filters plus live CSV and JSON downloads.
• Published Canadian, LMNT-alternative, stevia-free, three-way comparison, format, and electrolyte topic guides.
• Published the 2026 Canadian Electrolyte Index, owner verification runbook, product-test protocol, and ethical outreach pack.