Changes in IBP 8.0 beta 10

• Fixed some minor bugs.

Changes in IBP 8.0 beta 9

• The Cancel button did not work in some windows.
• Really fixed the typing problem in web browsers.
• Fixed other minor problems.

Changes in IBP 8.0 beta 8

• Fixed problems typing certain characters in visible web browser windows.
• IBP now recognizes if it has been started automatically when Windows starts, or if you clicked the application icon. In the latter case, it will not minimize to the Systray anymore.
• The "Keep IBP Up-To-Date" window did not appear if the option "When IBP starts automatically, start it minimized to the Windows Systray" was checked.
• The "Exit" menu command in the Systray popup menu was sometimes not enabled.
• When choosing the "Exit" menu command from the main window and other windows were opened, IBP could crash.

Changes in IBP 8.0 beta 7

• Several fixes in the Top 10 Optimizer and in the Search Engine Ranking Checker.
  
• Several smaller bug fixes.

Changes in IBP 8.0 beta 6

• Fixed all known bugs of beta 5.

Changes in IBP 8.0 beta 5

• Writing the ranking report is now much, much faster. The report of a big project that took 75 seconds to write in Beta 4, now takes only 10 seconds.

• The Link Popularity Improver tool could crash when searching for new directories and link pages.
• Improved the progress bar in the Link Popularity Improver and fixed calculating wrong values for the progress bar.
• The Search Engine Spider Simulator now converts HTML entities when displaying the contents of the Meta tags.
• The semi-automatic submission to Yahoo! Local and Aardvark Travel did not work.
• When translating IBP into another language, new English texts wouldn't get included in the translation.
• When restoring from an IBP backup file, the search engine descriptions could not be loaded. - Speeded up saving project information.
• Speeded up several features in the Web Site Optimization Editor.
• Fixed several problems with the German translation.
• Prepared the Dutch and Italian language versions.
• If you minimize IBP to the Systray, a small message will now be displayed (only the first five times).
• Many additional small bug fixes and improvements.

Changes in IBP 8.0 Beta 4

• The Search Engine Ranking Checker now distinguishes between "not listed" for a keyword, and "not tested" (when comparing the rankings of two dates).
• In the Keyword Generator, extracting keywords is now much faster.
• Improved filling out submission forms: IBP now recognizes more fields on submission forms.
• Corrupted databases of the Search Engine Ranking Checker and the Link Popularity Improver will now be repaired.
• In the Edit Project window, you can now enter the URL of your link directory page. IBP will use this URL when filling out submission forms in the Link Popularity Improver, Search Engine Submitter (semi-automatically), Directory Submitter, and Special Interest Site Submitter.
• In the submission panel of the Link Popularity Improver tool, there's now a button that lets you open the displayed web page in an external web browser application.
• When using the German translation, the Top 10 Optimizer could not finish.
• You could not enter any renewal code without getting an error message.
• The description in the Link Popularity Improver report was wrong, depending on the report contents you have chosen.
• The Link Popularity Improver now warns you if you try to enter a URL as a keyword.
• After having restored a backup file, the scheduled tasks did not work anymore.
• Fixed an Access Violation error message when restoring a backup.
• If restoring a backup file failed, IBP did not clean up properly.
• Some URLs were not completely underlined in the reports.
• Web Site Optimization Editor, HTML editor: The shortcut Ctrl+A to select the whole text didn't work.
• Web Site Optimization Editor, HTML editor: When you cut the whole text, you couldn't paste it.
• In the Web Site Optimization Editor, some texts overlapped.
• In the Web Site Optimization Editor, you can now enter an IMG ALT attribute if there was none before.
• In the Web Site Optimization Editor, when you had a long keyword list, the text entry was very slow.
• In the Web Site Optimization Editor, some HTML documents could not be loaded.
• Due to popular demand, you can now maximize the main window.
• The Top 10 Optimizer could become very slow.
• You could not view or save PDF reports.
• When you tried to quit IBP, and the Web Site Optimization Editor asked you if you wanted to save a file, and you clicked the "No" button, IBP crashed.
• When you minimize an IBP window now, it will be minimized to the Windows taskbar instead of the bottom left corner of the screen.
• The "Duplicate Project" feature now works as expected.
• You couldn't cancel a scheduled task that should be executed only once.
• Fixed several problems with the Scheduler.
• When you switch the user interface language, a window is now displayed that tells you who provided the translation. This is an incentive to translate IBP.
• If you want to translate IBP, you don't have to translate all texts anymore before you can use the translation.
• In the Search Engine Ranking Report, the word "dropped" was written over two lines.
• When you saved the Search Engine Ranking Report as a PDF document, it didn't contain any images.
• When you tried to shut down Windows, IBP did not quit.

Version 8.0 Beta 3 (8 March 2004)

• IBP could crash with "access violation" messages when using the Ranking Checker or the Search Engine Submitter.
• In the General Settings window, you couldn't enter the path to the AdWords manual.
• Fixed a problem when importing IBP 4 projects from the Edit Project window.
• Fixed several display problems in the reports.
• Fixed several problems with the Backup&Restore feature. Backups from older IBP 8 beta versions are not compatible to this beta version.
• Added some recommendations for web site traffic analyzers (Result Tracking > Web Site Traffic Analyzers...).
• In the HTML Validator window, you can now save the results.
• In the Ranking Checker window and in the Link Popularity Improver window, you couldn't select certain report dates.
• In the Ranking Checker window, the width of the search engine column can now be changed.
• In the Ranking Checker window, there's now a help text that explains how to speed up the ranking check process.
• In the Spider Simulator window, the display of the HTML source in the report is now optional.
• In the main window, the right dates for the last/next ranking check and submission are now displayed.
• The Keyword Editor sometimes forgot to ask if you wanted to save changes.
• The Scheduler window is now easier to comprehend.
• The main window could show strange characters in the project description.
• Canceling Internet connections is now much faster.
• In the Link Popularity Improver, you could get "out of memory" error messages.

Version 8.0 Beta 2 (1 March 2004)

• In the Welcome window, you couldn't get past the keywords screen if you didn't have IBP 4 on your computer.

Version 8.0 Beta 1 (1 March 2004)

General new features and improvements

• Version 8: twice as powerful as IBP 4!
• New: IBP 8 has a complete new user interface to support powerful features.
  
• New: The new task panes in IBP's main window become your "command center", putting relevant features just a click away and making it easy to locate tools and use them.
  
• New: There is now an extensive, printable help manual in PDF format.
  
• Improved: IBP now works flawlessly if you don't have administration rights on your computer.
  
• Improved: All IBP tools (Top 10 Optimizer, Search Engine Ranking Checker, Web Site Optimization Editor, Keyword Density Analyzer, etc.) now recognize web pages that are encoded in ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. Other encodings, such as ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, etc., are supported when the operating system's language natively supports it.
• Added many minor improvements, too numerous to mention, and fixed several minor bugs.

New tool: Link Popularity Improver

• The unique "Link Popularity Improver" automatically finds directories and link pages to which you can submit your web page. It improves the link popularity of your web pages so that it is much more likely that your web pages will improve its search engine rankings.
  
• The found directories and link pages are relevant to your keywords.
• The Link Popularity Improver fills out the submission forms of the "Add URL" pages of the directories and link pages as much as possible. Often, you only have to click the Submit button.
• The Link Popularity Improver highlights important links of the found web pages, for example "Add URL" links.
• You can create a fully customizable report for you or for your clients, as a web page, as a PDF document, in plain text, or as a MS Word document. Show your clients how hard you worked to improve the link popularity of their web pages.
• You can export the URLs of all found directories and link pages.

New tool: Web Site Optimization Editor

• The Web Site Optimization Editor (WSOE) prepares your web pages to make them search-engine-ready.
• The WSOE lets you edit the web page title, all important Meta tags, IMG ALT attributes and even the link texts.
• The WSOE supports the Meta Googlebot and the Meta MSNbot tag.
  
• The WSOE offers a fast, full-fledged text HTML editor with Search&Replace, syntax-highlighting, auto-indenting, line numbers, showing of invisible characters and undo/redo capabilities.
• While editing the title, the Meta tags, the IMG ALT attributes or the link texts, you can see the changes in the keyword density of all your keywords in real-time.
• All changes of the title, the Meta tags, the IMG ALT attributes and the link texts are instantly reflected in the HTML source code, and vice versa.
• The WSOE offers basic file-editing operations, such as copying files, renaming files, etc.
• The WSOE alters the HTML source of your web pages as little as possible, preserving your HTML source code style.
• You can quickly switch between different web pages of your web site.
• You can quickly compare a competitor web page with your web pages.
• As a unique feature, the Web Site Optimization Editor allows you to add geographical Meta tags to your web pages making your pages ready for the Local Search feature of future search engines.
• If your web pages use XHTML, the WSOE automatically generates XHTML-compatible code.

New tool: Scheduler

• IBP's Scheduler allows you to automate tasks such as checking search engine rankings and submitting to the search engines. You can make the Scheduler run these tasks after hours, saving you valuable time without being in front of your computer.
  
• The Scheduler is very flexible. Tasks can be executed once, daily, weekly or monthly. You can create complex schedules, for example "every first Friday of each month" or "on the 15th of every month, except for June und July".
  
• You can create an unlimited number of tasks - even for the same project.
  
• The Scheduler window lists all scheduled tasks. You can sort the list by name, by status (running, scheduled, past-due), by "last run" and by "next run".
  
• You can immediately run a scheduled task if you want.
  
• You can always cancel the currently running task.
  
• You can temporarily switch off all scheduled tasks.
  
• Every task has its own log text so that you can see when a task has run, how long it has run and if the task has run successfully.
  
• The "Sneak a Peek" feature allows you watch how the tool window is automated - live in miniature format (optionally).
  
• You can make IBP start when Windows starts. The IBP window can be optionally minimized to the Systray.

New tool: Keyword Editor

• The "Keyword Editor" is a specialized text editor for keyword lists.
  
• It can generate hundreds of new keyword combinations from your existing keywords, and it can add common misspellings of your keywords. Frequently, these new targeted phrases haven''t been bid on by your competitors so they are still available for the minimum bid price. That way, IBP helps you to get targeted web site traffic for the lowest possible price.
  
• The Keyword Editor has special support for Google AdWords' keyword options, such as Phrase Match or Exact Match. You can quickly convert selected keywords to Phrase Match keywords, to Exact Match keywords, or to negative keywords.
  
• The Keyword Editor is a full-fledged text editor that supports Undo/Redo, Search&Replace, regular expressions, line numbers, and the display of invisible characters.
  
• You can have as many Keyword Editor windows open as there is memory available so that you can edit multiple keyword lists at once, or copy keywords from one list to another.
  
• With the click on a button, the Keyword Editor can remove all duplicate keywords.
  
• You can quickly unquote selected keywords.
  
• You can import keywords from a file, you can save the keyword list to disk, you can sort the keyword list and you can print it.

Many more new tools

• New tool: The "PPC Search Engine Manager" lets you easily manage your pay per click (PPC) accounts, supporting more than 70 PPC search engines in 23 countries. It also provides assistant tools that lets you edit your keyword list, generate new keywords and perform ROI calculations.
  
• New tool: The "Manual Web Search" tool lets you test all supported search engines in IBP. In addition, you can use it to quickly search for the same query in multiple search engines.
  
• New tool: The "ROI Calculator" window provides several calculators and converters that help you to calculate the effectiveness of your pay per click and banner campaigns.
  
• New: The Marketing Tips window provides valuable articles that help you to obtain higher search engine rankings.
  
• New: There's now a "Backup & Restore" feature that lets you easily make a backup of your IBP data. This feature also allows you to easily transfer your IBP files from one computer to another.
  
• New: If you have installed ARELIS, you can launch it now directly from IBP.
  
• New: IBP can now play sounds when a report is ready. IBP comes with several sounds to choose from, but of course, you can choose any sound you want.

New features and improvements in the project management feature

• New: You can now work on multiple projects at once! For example, you can check the rankings for one project or client, generate keywords for a second project/client and submit the web site of a third project or client.
  
• New: You can also work with multiple tool windows for the same project at once. For example, you can have the Top 10 Optimizer window open and directly apply the tips in the Website Optimization Editor. In addition, you can open multiple windows of the same tool, for example you can open 4-5 Keyword Editor windows at once to edit multiple keyword lists. There is now a "Windows" menu in the main window that helps you to keep track of all open windows.
  
• New: IBP 8 sports a new project management window. You can now manage your projects and clients in one simple window.
  
• New: There is now one project for all IBP tools so that you can quickly add, duplicate, edit, rename and remove projects in one place.
  
• New: Now you can easily take over settings from one project to another, for example contact information or report settings.
  
• New: You don't have to select a project in every IBP tool anymore. This means that every IBP tool has one step less to follow - they are now easier to use and save you more time.
  
• Improved: You can now restore all report settings to their default settings.

New features and improvements in the Top 10 Optimizer

• New: You can now choose which web page elements should be analyzed by the Top 10 Optimizer.
  
• New: You can now select which sections should be included in the Top 10 Optimizer report. You can choose between the sections "Their Contents", "Your Contents", "Advice" and "Detailed Analysis". Optionally, you can choose to include only the improvement suggestions.
  
• New: You can now choose the order of the web page elements in the Top 10 Optimizer report.
  
• New: You can now customize the Top 10 Optimizer reports in greater detail. In addition to the report title, the report description, headers and footers, you can now set your own font name, font size, font styles, foreground color and the background color for the chapter headline, the section headline, the body header and the body text.
  
• Improved: The tips in the Top 10 Optimizer report have been improved.
  
• Improved: You can now choose the search engine source for the link popularity numbers in the Top 10 Optimizer report.
  
• Improved: The HTML source viewer has been improved very much. It now supports line numbers and syntax coloring.
  
• Improved: Since search engines need text to index your web site, the Top 10 Optimizer now warns you if the analyzed web page doesn't contain enough words.
  
• Improved: If the Top 10 Optimizer discovers two <title> tags in your web page, it now tells you the text of the two title tags.
  
• Fixed: If a web page redirected to the same web page URL, then the Top 10 Optimizer did not finish.
  
• Fixed: When creating a Top 10 Optimizer report, IBP could crash under certain circumstances.

New features and improvements in the Search Engine Ranking Checker

• New: You can now customize the Search Engine Ranking Checker reports in greater detail. In addition to the report title, the report description, headers and footers, you can now set your own font name, font size, font styles, foreground color and the background color for the chapter headline, the section headline, the body header and the body text.
  
• Improved: In previous IBP versions, if you had multiple listings for the same keyword on a search engine, IBP only displayed the best ranking in the report. Now it will display all listings.
  
• Improved: IBP is now much more intelligent when deciding which search engine/keyword combination it should check next. It tries to relieve search engine servers as much as possible, and it optimizes the ranking process so that it takes as little time as possible.
  
• Improved: You can now check for URLs with the https protocol in the Search Engine Ranking Checker.
  
• Improved: You can now easily select the report date from a month calendar.
  
• Fixed some problems.

New features and improvements in the submission tools

• New: The semi-automatic submission tools are now much easier to use. You don't have to follow any steps anymore. Everything you need is in one window now.
  
• New: You can now customize the submission reports in greater detail. In addition to the report title, the report description, headers and footers, you can now set your own font name, font size, font styles, foreground color and the background color for the chapter headline, the section headline, the body header and the body text.
  
• Improved: In the semi-automatic submission tools, you can now write personal notes for each search engine that go over multiple lines.
  
• Fixed: When you submitted twice in the "Search Engine Submitter (automatically)" window without closing the window between the two submissions, then the submission list was not cleared before the second submission.
  
• Fixed: When you duplicated a web site project, the duplicated project remembered the submissions of the first project.
  
• Fixed: The semi-automatic submission to AllesKlar.de was not possible.

New features and improvements in the Keyword Generator

• New: You can now specify the keyword list width with the mouse.
  
• New: You can quickly access the Keyword Editor tool to edit the keyword list.
  
• Improved: Often used commands are now available in a toolbar.

New features and improvements in the Search Engine Spider Simulator

• New: The Search Engine Spider Simulator report now displays the HTML source of the analyzed web page so that you can see which HTML source the search engine spiders see.
  
• New: The Search Engine Spider Simulator now supports different user agents so that you can emulate any search engine spider.
  
• New: The Search Engine Spider Simulator report now recognizes image map links.
  
• New: You can now customize the Search Engine Spider Simulator reports in greater detail. In addition to the report title, the report description, headers and footers, you can now set your own font name, font size, font styles, foreground color and the background color for the chapter headline, the section headline, the body header and the body text.

New features and improvements in the Keyword Density Analyzer

• New: You can now customize the Keyword Density Analyzer reports in greater detail. In addition to the report title, the report description, headers and footers, you can now set your own font name, font size, font styles, foreground color and the background color for the chapter headline, the section headline, the body header and the body text.
  
• New: You can now quickly edit the keyword density of the analyzed web pages. Just click the "Edit Web Page" button to open the Web Site Optimization Editor with the web page.

New features and improvements in the Supported Search Engines window

• New: The "Supported Search Engines" window now lists the search engines that are supported by the new PPC Search Engine Manager.
  
• Improved: You can now sort the search engine list by clicking the list column header.

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