IBP is always up-to-date: IBP always keeps itself up-to-date by installing the latest search engine descriptions within the program. This means that IBP always reflects the latest search engine algorithm changes.
This page lists only program updates, not the search engine description updates. To view the list of search engine description updates, click the "Keep IBP Up-To-Date" button in IBP's main window.
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Version 4.1.5 (21 July 2004)
| • | New: The new option "Maximum number of concurrent connections to the same search engine" allows IBP to even better emulate human search engine behavior. In addition, you can use this option to accelerate or slow down the ranking check. |
| • | Improved: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer now warns you if you try to enter more than one search term at once. |
| • | Improved: You can now keep the Feedback/Bug report window in the background. |
| • | Fixed: The Search Engine Spider Simulator now ignores "javascript:" links. |
Version 4.1 (6 July 2004)
| • | New: You can now select to show only listings in the Ranking report. This means that only those search engine results are included where the given web sites are listed in the search engines. This is ideal for reports that you give to your clients. |
| • | New: In the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer, there is a new option that lets IBP only analyze the web pages that have the keyword in the HTML source. This filters out web pages that use cloaking or that have been changed after they received the high search engine. This gives you more accurate advice in the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer report. |
| • | New: In the manual submission windows, you can now use the command "Open URL In Web Browser Application" in the context menu that you can open with the right mouse button. |
| • | Improved: In the Options window, there are no limits anymore to the number of seconds you can specify that IBP should wait before contacting the same search engine again. |
| • | Improved: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer now downloads the necessary web pages faster. |
| • | Improved: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer report now lists the analyzed words of same site link URLs and outbound link URLs. |
| • | Improved: The tips in the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer report have been improved for special cases. |
| • | Improved: In the Ranking Check window, you can now click the search engine list with the right mouse button to open a context menu that lets you check or uncheck all search engines of the current category. |
| • | Fixed: In the Keyword Density Analyzer window, the Customize Report feature did not work. |
| • | Fixed: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer could abort with the message "Integer Overflow Error" or "Access Violation Error" when the own web site was not accessible. |
| • | Fixed: In the Search Engine Ranking window, the option "Wait how many seconds before accessing the same search engine again" was not correctly considered. |
| • | Fixed: In the Update window, IBP could get in an endless loop if there was no Internet connection ready. |
| • | Fixed: If you switched off the cover sheet in the Business edition, the PDF report could include an empty page. |
| • | Fixed: Under certain circumstances, the cover sheet was not on a single page in the Standard edition. |
| • | Fixed: In the German version, the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer could erraneously advise to use at most 0 words in a web page element. |
| • | Fixed problems with some Brasilian domain names. |
| • | Fixes several other minor bugs. |
Version 4.0.3 (11 May 2004)
| • | Improved: When you change the cover sheet in the Customize Report window, the changes are now applied immediately. |
| • | Improved: If you make the Keyword Generator window wider, the keyword list becomes wider as well. |
| • | Fixed: The Keyword Generator mistakenly extracted the bid column of the keyword suggestion on 7Search. |
| • | Fixed: The Keyword Generator could remove spaces in key phrases. |
| • | Fixed some other minor bugs. |
Version 4.0.2 (7 May 2004)
| • | Fixed: In the Ranking Checker window, you couldn't select reports from the last year. |
| • | Fixed: In the Ranking Checker window, the context menu did not work for the web page field and the keywords field. |
| • | Fixed: Under certain circumstances, IBP could report an "invalid floating point operation" while accessing the Internet. |
| • | Fixed some other minor bugs. |
Version 4.0.1 (3 May 2004)
| • | New: Added the button "Get keywords from META Keywords tags" to the Ranking Checker window. |
| • | Fixed: The File > Edit menu command did not work. |
| • | Fixed: Some icons weren't displayed correctly under Windows 98. |
| • | Fixed some other minor bugs. |
Version 4.0 (1 May 2004)
General new features and improvements
| • | New tool: The Keyword Generator tool suggest new keywords for you, using the popular suggestion tools from 7Search®, Google®, Overture® and Espotting®. You can export the generated keywords in several formats (Microsoft Excel®, comma-separated, plain text) and use them to optimize your web pages or as a starting point for your pay per click search engine activities. |
| • | New tool: The Search Engine Spider Simulator tool shows you how your web site looks like in the eyes of a search engine spider/crawler program. |
| • | New: You can now customize the report headers and footers for all IBP reports in greater detail. Not only can you specify the texts for the left side and for the right side, but now you can specify the text for the middle of the header or footer. In addition, you can now use two additional variables, "PAGENR" and "PAGECOUNT", to design your footer (for example, "page PAGENR of PAGECOUNT" becomes "page three of 17"). |
| • | New: The new "Supported Search Engines" window now tells you the currently supported search engines for checking rankings, optimizing web pages and submitting web sites. You can print the supported search engines report, or save it in several formats to hand it out to your clients. |
| • | New: The new Webmaster Resources window gives you a lot of optimization and submission tips, as well as recommendations for other webmaster tools. |
| • | New: IBP is now also available in German. |
| • | Improved: The main window has been re-designed to make it even easier to use. |
| • | Improved: Now you may use five projects in the Standard edition. |
| • | Improved: The HTML reports now use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and they are compatible to the HTML 4.01 Transitional standard (including the DOCTYPE tag). |
| • | Improved: If you're a web agency with a lot of customers, then it's now easier for you to select the client's project because IBP four now uses scrollable lists for the project names instead of popup menus. You can also quickly select a project name by selecting the project list and typing in the first few letters of the project name. |
| • | Improved: The new "Help & Support" window gives you all support possibilities in one place. |
| • | Improved: The Search Engine Update window is now easier to comprehend. |
| • | Improved: IBP is now more robust if the download of the search engine update fails. |
| • | Added many, many minor improvements and fixed several other minor bugs. |
New features and improvements to the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer
| • | New: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer now allows you to check the top 10 ranked web pages for any search term on any search engine. Now you can also analyze the top five pages, or the top three pages, or any top ranked web pages you want. |
| • | New: You can now exclude web pages from the analysis. |
| • | New: The report is now immediately displayed in the window. |
| • | New: You can now analyze the keyword density for whole words only (optional) and you can analyze the keyword density case-sensitively (optional). |
| • | New: When analyzing the keyword density, words with hyphen are now also analyzed as compound words, e.g. the word "family-tree" is now analyzed for "family", "tree" and "family-tree". |
| • | New: You can now view the HTML source of the top ranked web page before analyzing. This allows you to decide which web pages should be excluded from the analysis because they use cloacking and falsify the results. |
| • | New: IBP can now automatically follow META Refresh links if you want. This gives you better results because the actual web page will be examined. |
| • | Improved: The report has been very much improved. It now shows results for keyword density, the number of keywords, keyword prominence, etc. in a clear tabular format. In addition, it now gives you more specific advice. |
| • | Improved: Analyzing your web page for a top ranking is now much easier because the optimizer window now guides you step-by-step. |
| • | Improved: The search engine list is now sorted by language so that you can easily find any search engine in the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer. |
| • | Improved: The tool now checks if each keyword of the META Keywords tag is mentioned in the body text. |
| • | Fixed: If the search term was quoted, analyzing the top ranked web pages could fail. |
| • | Fixed: External CSS files that were referenced by the @import command were not recognized. |
New features and improvements to the Search Engine Ranking Checker
| • | New: The report is now immediately displayed in the window. |
| • | New: You can now use several new report options that influence the contents and the structure of the ranking report. For example, you can now create a ranking report that contains only the ranking changes so that your report is smaller. |
| • | New: You can now save the ranking results as comma-separated, or tab-delimited or as a Microsoft Excel file. This allows you to import the ranking results in other applications. |
| • | New: You can now check the search engines as you have checked them on another day. This allows you to easily compare the rankings of two days. |
| • | New: There's now a random delay before IBP clicks the Search button on a search engine so that IBP behaves like human surfers do. You can fine-tune the delay in the Options window. |
| • | Improved: Checking your rankings is now even easier because you'll be guided step-by-step. |
| • | Improved: The search engine list is now sorted by language so that you can easily find any search engine in the Ranking Checker. |
| • | Improved: Due to popular demand, the ranking reports now include only the currently selected search engines and the currently entered keywords. |
| • | Improved: IBP now automatically detects if the ranking database files are corrupted and repairs them automatically. |
| • | Improved: If you're checking rankings until the next day, then IBP now creates a report only for the start date. |
| • | Fixed: Checking the ranking for keywords in quotes caused some problems. |
New features and improvements to the Search Engine Submitter
| • | New: You can now get the description for a web site from its META Description tag. |
| • | New: The submission report is now immediately displayed in the Create Submission Report window. |
| • | New: When submitting manually to search engines, directories or special interest sites, you can now insert your keywords in the submission form with the context menu. |
| • | New: There's now a random delay before IBP clicks the Submit button on a search engine submission page so that IBP behaves like human surfers do. You can fine-tune the delay in the Options window. |
| • | Improved: The Create Submission Report window now guides you step-by-step through the options. |
| • | Improved: The submission report now displays correctly in the web browsers Mozilla, FireBird and FireFox. |
| • | Improved: After having submitted, you can now click the Back button to submit to other or failed search engines. |
| • | Improved: Before submitting to the search engines, your project information will now be saved in case of a browser error. In addition, while submitting to the search engines, your submission state will be periodically saved. |
| • | Fixed: Normally, IBP blocks popup windows when submitting to the search engines. However, the search engine Jayde.com uses a popup window to let you specify the category so IBP now allows Jayde to open the popup window for this purpose. |
New features and improvements to the Keyword Density Analyzer
| • | New: You can now specify the keywords for which the keyword density should be calculated. This means that not all keywords have to be calculated anymore. |
| • | New: You can now analyze the keyword density for whole words only (optional) and you can analyze the keyword density case-sensitively (optional). |
| • | New: When analyzing the keyword density, words with hyphen are now also analyzed as compound words, e.g. the word "family-tree" is now analyzed for "family", "tree" and "family-tree". |
| • | New: You can now analyze H1 headlines, as well as H2 headlines, H3 headlines and H4 headlines. |
| • | New: The report is now immediately displayed in the window. |
| • | Improved: The Keyword Density Analyzer window now guides you step-by-step through the options. |
| • | Improved: When a local file is open in another application, you'll now get an error message. |
| • | Fixed: The Keyword Density Analyzer could not analyze words that contained numbers. |
Version 3.0.3 (13 October 2003)
| • | Improved: If you have "Large Fonts" enabled in Windows, IBP will now work much better for you. |
| • | Improved: When submitting or checking ranking, you can now see the remaining time for individual search engines. |
| • | Fixed: The submission could crash under certain circumstances. |
| • | Added minor improvements and minor bug fixes. |
Version 3.0.2 (9 October 2003)
| • | Fixed: The Ranking Check window doesn't try to come to the foreground anymore. |
| • | Fixed: When checking rankings, "Invalid variant types" messages could pop up. |
| • | Fixed: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer tool could report the wrong link popularity number. |
| • | Fixed: The ranking script wasn't updated in certain rare circumstances. |
| • | Added some minor improvements and fixed some other minor bugs. |
Version 3.0.1 (8 October 2003)
| • | Fixed: On some computers, the submit feature could open dozens of Internet Explorer windows at once. |
| • | Fixed some other minor bugs. |
Version 3.0 (8 October 2003)
| • | New: You can now submit your web site to search engines - automatically and semi-automatically. |
| • | New: IBP's automatic submission feature submits your web site URL exactly like a human person. Unlike other submission tools and services, IBP does not call submission scripts directly. IBP uses an invisible copy of MS Internet Explorer® to open the search engine submission page. Then it fills in the submission form, waits a little and then IBP clicks the Submit button. That's a huge advantage for you because search engines will treat your submissions with IBP like submissions from real human people. Submitting your web site URL with IBP is exactly the same as submitting your web site URL manually. |
| • | New: If you do want to submit your web site manually to the search engines (or to search engines whose submission process cannot be automated), IBP will help you tremendously. It tries to fill out submission forms automatically with the right texts, chooses the right category, etc. In most cases, you only have to click the Submit button! |
| • | New: You can now submit your web site to directories. |
| • | New: You can now submit your web site to special interest sites, for example webmaster resource sites. This also improves the link popularity of your web site. |
| • | New: You can create submission reports for you or for your clients - in Acrobat Reader (.pdf), Microsoft Word (.doc), web page (.htm) or plain text (.txt) format. The reports can be customized with your company information, including the headers, footers, background picture, background color and much more. |
| • | New: In the Customize Report window, you can now easily copy the report information from another project so that you don't have to enter any information twice. |
| • | New: You can now enter your company name and your company URL which will be inserted in the document summary section of PDF, HTML and Word documents. |
| • | Improved: The Standard edition now allows two projects instead of only one. |
| • | Improved: If you check the ranking for many keywords and/or on many search engines, then you'll notice that IBP is much faster and much more responsive than before. |
| • | Improved: The database files for the ranking checks are now much smaller, for example if you check 10 keywords on 40 search engines, then the database files are now 40 KB instead of seven MB! |
| • | Improved: The file size of the PDF reports is now much smaller (about 30 KB instead of 900 KB). |
| • | Improved: Downloading an updated ranking script is now faster. |
| • | Improved: The Search Engine Update window and the Enter Unlock Code windows have been improved. |
| • | Improved: When previewing a report, you can now jump to a specific page. |
| • | Improved the help file considerably. |
| • | Fixed a bug where IBP could crash under certain circumstances when creating a report. |
| • | Improved many other things and fixed several minor bugs. |
Version 2.3 (16 June 2003)
| • | New: IBP now has more the look and feel of the Windows XP interface. |
| • | Improved: You don't have to enter any proxy information anymore, IBP now finds it by itself. |
| • | Improved: Simplified the First Start assistant window and the Options window. |
| • | Fixed: The Ranking Check reports now don't cut long keywords and long URLs. |
| • | Fixed: Long keywords in the Keyword Density Analyzer report will not be cut anymore. |
| • | Fixed: When checking search engine rankings, some results could be missing under rare circumstances. |
| • | Fixed: If "Large Fonts" was activated, some windows wouldn't be displayed correctly. |
| • | Fixed: IBP could take into account some JavaScript code when analyzing the first sentence of the body text in the top 10 ranking report. |
| • | Fixed: Removed several memory leaks. |
Version 2.2 (25 April 2003)
| • | New: You can now check the search engine rankings for up to 500 results (or up to 50 result pages). |
| • | Improved: There are now better error messages when the Internet connection settings are not correct. |
| • | Fixed some bugs when checking rankings. |
Version 2.1 (8 April 2003)
| • | New: You can now save the ranking check results in three additional formats (.csv, .tab and .txt files) that can be easily imported in other applications or printed without using many pages. |
| • | New: All web site addresses in the HTML and PDF reports are now real web links. |
| • | New: You can now easily backup the IBP directory by selecting the "Tools > Backup IBP" menu command. |
| • | New for Professional and Business editions: You can now export all reports as Microsoft® Word® documents. |
| • | New for Professional and Business editions: You can now customize all reports in greater detail. You can now set the report title, the left header, the right header, the left footer, the right footer, the background color, the background picture and you can choose whether page numbers should be displayed or not. |
| • | Improved: Optimizing your web pages for top 10 rankings and checking search engine rankings are now much faster (because you can turn off loading images when accessing web pages in the Options window). |
| • | Fixed: In the Professional and Business editions, viewing reports didn't work if the report description field was empty. |
| • | Fixed: The ranking check could return wrong results for some two-word domain extensions, for example ".co.uk". |
| • | Fixed: The Keyword Density Analyzer didn't analyze user-added words if the word wasn't mentioned in the analyzed web page part. |
| • | Fixed: If "Large Fonts" was activated, some windows wouldn't be displayed correctly. |
Version 2.0 (19 February 2003)
| • | New: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer tells you in plain English how you must change your web page to be able to achieve a top 10 ranking for a keyword your choose on a search engine you choose. It does that by telling you what the top 10 ranked web pages have in common and where there are differences to your web page. |
The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer:
| • | it's the most comprehensive web page optimizer currently available |
| • | you can check your web page as often as you want |
| • | you can check as many web pages as you want (one after another) |
| • | you can choose any keyword or key phrase you want |
| • | you can select between more than 200 search engines, including the major search engines |
| • | checks more than 77 web page elements |
| • | tells you in plain English what you must change |
| • | creates reports that can be printed (with print preview), that can be viewed and saved as PDF documents, and that can be viewed and saved as web pages and plain text files |
| • | creates personalized reports for your clients, with your company name, your company URL, your company colors and even your company logo picture. |
Version 1.6 (23 December 2002)
| • | Improved: The ranking check is now much faster. |
| • | Fixed a crash when checking ranking on certain computers. |
Version 1.5 (5 December 2002)
| • | New: The Keyword Density Analyzer allows you to analyze the keyword density of your web page. |
The Keyword Density Analyzer:
| • | checks an online web page or a local web page on your hard disk |
| • | compares your web page with any other web page (for example, your competitor web page or any other web page that ranks better in the search engines) |
| • | allows you to make quick changes to your local web pages |
| • | lets you analyze 14 different parts of your web pages, for example the document title, the body text, the complete web page, the link texts, etc. |
| • | automatically recognizes the keywords, even key phrases with two, three or four words. |
| • | analyzes the keyword density case-sensitive (optional) |
| • | includes more than 1,500 common words in English, Spanish, German and French that shouldn't be considered as keywords (optional). |
| • | creates reports that can be printed (with print preview), that can be viewed and saved as PDF documents, that can be viewed and saved as web pages and plain text files |
| • | creates personalized reports for your clients, with your company name, your company URL, your company colors and even your company logo picture. |
Version 1.1 (19 November 2002)
| • | Improved: IBP will now check your search engine ranking faster and it will create reports much faster. |
| • | Improved: The database files will be much smaller now (you save about two MB per project). |
| • | Improved: Changed the help file from the old WinHelp format to the HTML Help format. |
| • | Improved: Added several minor improvements. |
| • | Fixed: In the Ranking window, if you switched to the panels "Step 3" or "Step 4", the application could crash on some Windows XP computers (Thank you, Mark!). |
| • | Fixed some crashing bugs when checking ranking. |
| • | Fixed some minor issues. |
Version 1.0.2 (22 October 2002)
| • | Improved: Search engine script updates are now smaller and faster to download. |
| • | Fixed some crashing bugs when checking ranking. |
Version 1.0.1 (17 October 2002)
| • | Added minor improvements and bug fixes. |
Version 1.0 (15 October 2002)
