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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IBP 9.7.1 (25 April 2007)
| • | Fixed problems in ARELIS and in the Web Site Optimization Editor. |
IBP 9.7 (20 April 2007)
| • | IBP & ARELIS is now fully compatible with Windows Vista. |
| • | New, Keyword Manager: In addition to the existing keyword sets, you can now easily combine your keywords with the following new sets: Occupations (English and German), cities (Netherlands, Italy and Spain) and states (Netherlands, Italy and Spain).
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| • | Improved, Keyword Manager: The buttons to insert supplementary keywords are now easier to use in the "Generate Keyword Combinations" window. |
| • | Improved, Keyword Manager: If you export a keyword list, IBP will now take your keyword list name as the default file name. |
| • | Improved, Ranking Checker: Some search engines return only two organic results in their search results (e.g. Excite.co.uk). IBP will not access them endlessly anymore. |
| • | Improved, Top 10 Web Page Optimizer: If you use stop words in your search query, then you can directly edit them from the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer window. |
| • | Improved, manual submission tools: You can now set the submission flag or rate all search engines in a category at once. |
| • | Improved: The General Settings window has been slightly reorganized so that the options "Download images when accessing web pages" and "Disable Internet Explorer's navigation sound" can be found easier. |
| • | Fixed: IBP & ARELIS could have problems accessing URLs with anchors (e.g. "www.domain.com/page.htm#anchor"). |
| • | Fixed, ARELIS: If you changed the "found URL" in ARELIS, then the link page URL and back link URL were removed. |
| • | Fixed, ARELIS: The country domain extension filter did not work. |
| • | Fixed, ARELIS: If you used the keyword search, then the filter reasons were not displayed most of the times. |
| • | Fixed: The zip code will not be checked anymore for countries that don't have zip codes (e.g. Mauritius). |
| • | Added several minor improvements and fixed other minor bugs. |
IBP 9.6 (8 March 2007)
| • | We have added a complete new French translation. In addition, we now provide you with French speaking support.
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| • | New: The Directory Submitter and the Special Interest Site Submitter now display the PageRank for every directory. This allows you to save time by concentrating on the best directories. |
| • | New: The Keyword Manager now provides pre-defined keyword lists that you can use to complement your keywords. This allows you to create many more keyword combinations for your pay per click marketing activities. |
| • | The pre-defined lists are colors, industries and synonyms in English, French and German. In addition, you can select the cities and states from the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. |
| • | New: The Keyword Manager now lets you strip numbers and non-alphanumeric characters from the selected keywords. |
| • | New: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer now offers a new chapter "Body Text In Bold Type Face" (optional). |
| • | New: You can now use new variables in the file names for scheduled reports (%YEAR, %MONTH, %DAY, %HOUR, %MINUTE, %SECOND). This allows you to use file names which can be sorted in the file system. |
| • | New, ARELIS, Create Link Pages: You can now use the rel="nofollow" attribute when linking to web sites that do not link back to your site. This means that search engines will ignore those links to your link partners. |
| • | New: The Web Site Optimization Editor now supports Yahoo's new Meta Robots NOYDIR tag. |
| • | Changed: Wordtracker does not provide an API key anymore. The corresponding parts in the Keyword Manager have been changed.
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| • | Improved, ARELIS: There are new up/down buttons that you can keep pressed to set the height of the upper part and the lower part of the ARELIS main window in real-time. |
| • | Improved: The Keyword Manager now displays the KEI value with four decimal places. |
| • | Improved: If you have many keywords in the Keyword Manager, IBP & ARELIS will now start much faster. |
| • | Improved: The installer now lets you specify an installation directory. |
| • | Improved: The "Keep IBP & ARELIS Up-To-Date" window now closes automatically after 60 seconds so that scheduled tasks can run. |
| • | Improved: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer will now warn you if stop words are removed. |
| • | Improved: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer and the Search Engine Spider Simulator now recognize the <?xml> tag. |
| • | Improved: The Keyword Density Analyzer now recognizes the <strong> tag. |
| • | Fixed, ARELIS, Create Link Pages: If you selected the option "show links in random order", then the option "show links that link back first" did not work.
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| • | Fixed, ARELIS, Export: Exporting the found email address did not always work. |
| • | Fixed, Ranking Checker: The human emulation delay did not work correctly if you selected only one Internet connection at once. |
| • | Fixed, Ranking Checker: The option "Show only the top result" did not always work. |
| • | Fixed, Keyword Manager: Extracting keywords from Google AdWords did not work correctly. |
| • | Fixed, Keyword Manager: Sorting the KEI column did not always work correctly. |
| • | Fixed: The Search Engine Spider Simulator didn't show the last HTML tag ("</HTML>") in the report. |
| • | Added several speed improvements and fixed other minor bugs. |
IBP 9.5.1 (12 December 2006)
| • | Fixed, Keyword Manager: Google has stopped Google SOAP Search API support. For this reason, we changed the Keyword Manager to not rely on the Google API. |
IBP 9.5 (1 December 2006)
Keyword Manager
The new Keyword Manager combines both the Keyword Generator and the Keyword Editor tools.
| • | New: IBP now displays a variety of information for every keyword in your keyword list: the number of searches, the number of competitors for the keyword, the KEI (keyword effectiveness index), the top ranked URL and the PageRank for the top ranked URL. |
| • | New: IBP now supports the commercial Wordtracker service. |
| • | New: You can now manage multiple keyword lists. |
| • | New: You can now enter some competitor URLs and IBP finds out the keywords they use, sorted by frequency. |
| • | New: You can now generate new keywords by combining keyword lists. IBP offers two keyword lists with 100 common keyword supplements. |
| • | New: You can now use your keyword lists in the Pay Per Click Manager. |
| • | New: The Keyword Manager uses the Google Search API service. This lets you use the Google search functionality without stressing Google's servers. |
| • | New: You can now add text to the beginning of the selected keywords, and you can now add text to the end of the selected keywords. |
| • | Improved: The "Generate Misspelled Keywords" feature does not have a limit on the number of keywords anymore, and it now generates more probable keywords. |
| • | The Keyword Manager automatically imports your current keyword list. |
Ranking Checker
| • | New: You can now choose to only include the top ranked URL for a keyword on a search engine in the ranking report. |
| • | Improved: While checking rankings, you can now see the remaining time. |
| • | Improved: While checking rankings, the progress percentage is now displayed in the window title so that you know the progress even when the ranking check window is minimized. |
| • | Improved: When you run a ranking report against a previous date, there is now a "New!" graphic in the report if a keyword was not tested before. |
| • | Fixed: You couldn't enter URLs that only differed in case. |
| • | Fixed: If you compared the rankings for two dates and if the URL was not tested anymore on the newer date, then the old listings were not included in the ranking report. |
| • | Fixed: If you included up/down pictures in the ranking report, the wrong picture was displayed in certain cases. |
ARELIS
| • | New: You can sort the links on your link pages by "date added" ("oldest first" or "newest first"). |
| • | New: You can now import and export the category file name. |
| • | Improved: You can now directly open any "Add Sites Assistant" methods from the ARELIS main window. |
| • | Improved: You can now check more than 64 pages of a web site for a back link (up to 500 pages). |
| • | Improved: When searching for potential link partners, certain web sites such as wikipedia.org or shopping search engines will not be found anymore. |
| • | Fixed, Check Links: The selected categories were not remembered. |
| • | Fixed, Check Links: If the back link URL was not found, it was deleted from the "Edit Selected Site" panel in the ARELIS main window. |
| • | Fixed, Check Links: Links with an extended rel="nofollow" attribute, for example rel="external nofollow", are now recognized. |
| • | Fixed: When importing from another project, not all web sites were imported under certain circumstances. |
| • | Fixed: If you added a new status in the "Edit Email Message Template" window, then it was not remembered after closing the window. |
| • | Fixed: The filter settings for "URLs must contain" and "URLs must not contain" were not saved. |
| • | Fixed: The status after sending an email message was not changed if the Status popup menu was selected while sending the email message. |
| • | Fixed several other minor bugs. |
Miscellaneous
| • | Improved: If you have many projects, IBP now starts faster. |
| • | Improved: Every project file is now about 25% smaller. |
| • | New, Settings > Keyword Filter: You can now enter stop words which should not be considered keywords when extracting words from web pages, for example common words such as "the" and "have". The filter list already comprehends more than 2000 words in four languages (English, German, French, Spanish) and is used by the Keyword Manager, the Keyword Density Analyzer and the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer. |
| • | Improved: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer now ignores stop words in the search query as search engines do it. This gives you more accurate analysis results. You can edit the list of stop words in the General Settings window (panel "Keyword Filter"). |
| • | Improved, Top 10 Web Page Optimizer and Keyword Density Analyzer: There's now a button that lets you quickly open the "Keyword Density settings" panel of the General Settings window. |
| • | Improved, Search Engine Submitter (automatically): Submitting is now a little bit faster. |
| • | Improved, Search Engine Submitter (automatically): While submitting your web site, you can now see the remaining time. |
| • | Improved, Search Engine Submitter (automatically): While submitting your web site, the progress percentage is now displayed in the window title so that you know the progress even when the ranking check window is minimized. |
| • | Improved, Edit Project: You can now copy the topic list to the clipboard. |
| • | Improved, Search Engine Spider Simulator: It will now show the HTTP response code even if your web site cannot be accessed. |
| • | Improved, Search Engine Spider Simulator: It now supports links with the rel="nofollow" attribute when reporting which links search engines can see and which not. |
| • | Improved: The Keyword Density Analyzer now analyzes much faster. |
| • | Improved: The Web Site Optimization Editor now displays the current character set in the HTML editor. |
| • | Improved: The Web Site Optimization Editor has been updated to reflect the fact that Yahoo now supports the Meta Robots NOODP option as well. |
| • | New, PPC Manager: To simplify your PPC management, you can now paste keywords from any keyword lists that you created with the Keyword Manager. |
| • | Improved, PPC Manager: The interface has been streamlined. In addition, there is now more space for your notes. |
| • | Fixed some minor bugs in the Web Site Optimization Editor, in the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer, in the Top 10 Inbound Link Optimizer and in the Search Engine Spider Simulator. |
IBP 9.2 (1 August 2006)
| • | New, ARELIS: ARELIS will now upload only the link pages and thumbnails that are new or that have been changed since the last upload (optional). This will save you a lot of time. |
| • | New, ARELIS: The "Create Link Pages" button in the ARELIS main window now automatically creates the link pages and uploads them. You don't have to press the "Next" button anymore. This allows you to quickly upload any changes. |
| • | New, Web Site Optimization Editor: You can now add the Meta Robots "noodp" tag. This forces Google and MSN not to use the descriptions from the ODP directory (www.dmoz.org) for your web page in their search results. |
| • | New, General Settings window: You can now disable the "open link" sound of Internet Explorer with the new option "Disable Internet Explorer's navigation sound". This works only with Internet Explorer 7.0 or above. |
| • | Improved, ARELIS: You can now specify arbitrary thumbnail widths and heights. |
| • | Improved, ARELIS: You can now check or uncheck the "Submitted" column for all or selected link partners using the "List > Edit Selected Web Sites" menu command. |
| • | Fixed, Backup&Restore: Files that didn't have the "Archive" flag set were not archived. |
| • | Fixed, ARELIS: Exporting the last used email address did not always work. |
| • | Fixed, ARELIS: Importing a file that has been exported by ARELIS 9.1 did not work if it contained the "Submitted" column. |
| • | Fixed, ARELIS: Using an external web browser did not work. |
| • | Added additional minor improvements and fixed other minor problems. |
IBP 9.1 (18 July 2006)
| • | New: The Custom Directory Submitter allows you to add your own list of search engines and directories to IBP. You can submit to these search engines and directories semi-automatically. You can also include them in the submission report (optional). |
| • | New: The Scheduler now allows you to specify the file name of the report or the export file using five variables (date, time, project name). |
| • | New, ARELIS: There is now a new column called "Submitted" that is automatically checked if you submit a web site form. |
| • | New, ARELIS: There is now a new column called "Link Check Date" that tells you the date of the last link check for every web site. |
| • | New, ARELIS: If you edit the category list, you can now add the categories of another project. |
| • | Improved, ARELIS: The "Edit Site" panel and the "Send Email" panel have been re-organized to make them easier to use. |
| • | Improved, ARELIS: You can now change the "found URL" as displayed in the web site list. |
| • | Improved, ARELIS: If you change the category, link text, link description or notes of a web site, then the email message is updated correspondingly. |
| • | Improved, ARELIS: If you use the menu command "Copy/Move Selected Web Sites", then the ARELIS window of the destination project need not be closed anymore. This allows you to work comfortably with two ARELIS windows at the same time. |
| • | Improved, ARELIS: All projects now share the same column widths and column positions so you don't have to specify them for every project. |
| • | Improved, ARELIS: If you click the Search edit field, then the complete search text is now selected. Same with the URL edit field. |
| • | Improved, ARELIS: When you use the Search feature, then the first found web site is selected so that you can immediately continue working. |
| • | Improved, ARELIS: You can now click the URLs in the column "Back Link URL" to open them in the preview browser. |
| • | Improved, Ranking Checker: Creating the report is now a little bit faster, especially for large reports. |
| • | Added several minor improvements to the handling of search engine cookies, and in the Add Project window, in the Enter Unlock Code window, in the Welcome window and in some ARELIS windows. |
Version 9.0 (14 June 2006)
ARELIS and IBP are now integrated
| • | ARELIS and IBP now share the same user interface. This makes it much easier to work with both toolsets on the same web site. |
| • | The combination of both ARELIS and IBP means that it is the ultimate software tool suite to get higher search engine rankings for you. |
| • | Both ARELIS and IBP now share the same projects. This means that you can now manage your web sites and your clients in one place. You save a lot of time and maintenance because you don't have to enter any web site data twice. |
| • | New: The new "Import Project Information" window allows you to import project data from IBP 4, IBP 8 and ARELIS 4. In addition, you can exchange project data from other IBP 9 projects and you can specify if existing web sites should be overwritten. |
| • | Note: The installation of IBP 9 does not interfere with any installations of IBP 4, IBP 8 or ARELIS 4. However, you cannot use more than one IBP program at the same time. |
IBP improvements
| • | New: The IBP main window now features four panels: General, IBP, ARELIS and News. The General panel comprehends all features that relate to both IBP and ARELIS. The News panel displays the headlines of our weekly Search Engine Ranking Facts newsletter. |
| • | New: The IBP panel in the main window now features a new group called "Find the right keywords". |
| • | Improved: The "Backup & Restore" feature now saves both your IBP and ARELIS data. |
| • | Improved: The manual search engine submitter, directory submitter and special interest site submitter now block popup windows if you use Windows XP service pack 2 or later. |
| • | Improved: The Feedback window now remembers your name, email address and Internet settings. |
| • | Improved: The "Keep IBP Up-To-Date" window now displays the version number and the edition name. In addition, it can tell you which features are limited in the edition you're using. |
| • | Improved: The Edit Project window can now display the categories and language names in German. |
| • | Improved: Many IBP and ARELIS texts have been translated to French (thanks to François d'Argence and Frank Fossaert), Dutch (thanks to Ed Bohnen) and Brasilian Portuguese (thanks to José Carlos Rodrigues). |
| • | Improved: The HTML editor in the Web Site Optimization Editor window now displays the current character position. This helps you when changing your web page according to the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer report. |
| • | Improved: The Web Site Optimization Editor now supports shortcuts to files and directories. |
| • | Improved: The Search Engine Spider Simulator now supports the user agent of the Ask.com search engine. |
| • | Improved: The "Import from another project" feature can now import the web page language. |
| • | Improved: The ROI Calculatur now offers a generic currency symbol. |
| • | Improved: In the IBP main window there is now a context menu for the groups at the right side that lets you collapse or expand all groups. |
| • | Improved: The About window is now round. :-) |
| • | Changed: You can now export reports to the Microsoft Word format in the IBP Standard Edition. In addition, the Keyword Density Analyzer tool and the Search Engine Spider Simulator tool are not limited anymore in the IBP demo version. |
| • | Changed: The Top 10 Optimizer is now called the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer because there is now also the Top 10 Inbound Link Optimizer. |
| • | Changed: When exporting search engine ranking results in the Search Engine Ranking Checker and a keyword was not tested before, a blank field is now exported instead of "-1". |
| • | Fixed: The Search Engine Ranking Checker report did not display all checked search engines in the overview chapter under certain circumstances. |
| • | Fixed: The Search Engine Ranking Checker could not finish the ranking check when the keywords contained tab characters. |
| • | Fixed: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer could hang if the web page redirected to itself. |
| • | Fixed: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer could calculate the keyword density of multi-word search terms incorrectly in some cases. |
| • | Fixed: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer could calculate the number of words in the outbound link texts incorrectly if you used sub-domains. |
| • | Fixed: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer could cancel the analysis if the web page was saved under Linux or Mac. |
| • | Fixed: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer tried to analyze .pdf files. |
| • | Fixed: In the Keyword Editor, undoing changing the keywords did not work. |
| • | Fixed: If you changed the keyword in the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer, the top results were not downloaded automatically. |
| • | Fixed: If you created a new project and immediately scheduled a new task, IBP could crash. |
| • | Fixed: In the manual search engine submitter, directory submitter and special interest site submitter some search engine submissions did not work if the search engines used JavaScript. |
| • | Fixed: In the manual submission tools and in the PPC manager, notes that span multiple lines were not saved completely. |
| • | Fixed: In the Web Site Optimization Editor, return characters and spaces are not filtered anymore in <script> tags, <style> tags, HTML comment tags, PHP tags and ASP tags. |
Top 10 Inbound Link Optimizer
| • | The new Top 10 Inbound Link Optimizer tool helps you to get better search engine rankings by analyzing the inbound links of your competitors' web sites and by giving you advice based on that analysis. It's a unique tool that lets you optimize your web site by analyzing off-site ranking factors. |
| • | The Top 10 Inbound Link Optimizer analyzes the keywords in the URLs of the back links, as well as the keywords in the document title, the link texts and the body texts. |
| • | The Top 10 Inbound Link Optimizer finds out the number of inbound links for your web site and for the competitor web sites, the number of links from .edu domains and the number of links from .gov domains. |
| • | The Top 10 Inbound Link Optimizer lists the web pages that link to your site and to your competitors' sites, along with the document title, link URL, link text and the number of keywords in the body text. |
| • | The Top 10 Inbound Link Optimizer generates a list of the most used search terms when linking to your competitors' sites. |
| • | You can choose among more than 300 search engines from more than 40 countries, including all major ones. |
| • | You can combine up to 5 search engines when searching for back links to your site and to the sites of your competitors. This allows you to circumvent the protection of the search engines that do not list all back links to a site. |
| • | You can check if your site or the web sites of your competitors are linked from two directories of your choice. |
ARELIS, general new features
| • | New: You can now work on multiple projects at once. For example, you can now check the links for one project and add link partners to another projects at the same time. |
| • | New: All ARELIS windows now feature context-sensitive help. These are small help buttons that popup a small window that explains the current button, edit field or task. |
| • | New: ARELIS can now play sounds when a task has been finished, for example after having checked the web site links. ARELIS comes with several default sounds. |
| • | Improved: You can now export more ARELIS information than ever, for example the links page file name, the links back link text, the PageRank value, the Traffic Rank value and the IP address of every link partner web site. |
| • | Improved: When exporting, you can now specify in which formats dates and email addresses should be exported. |
| • | Improved: The plain text statistics report is now a full-fledged link management report that lists all link partner web sites by PageRank, Alexa Traffic Rank, status and/or category. You can save the report as a web page, as a PDF document, as a MS Word document or in plain text. |
| • | Improved: Now you can easily take over settings from one project to another, for example contact information or report settings. |
| • | Improved: The help manual has been extended to explain link management and link popularity improvement in greater detail. It also tells you how ARELIS can help you to improve the link popularity and search engine rankings of your web site. |
| • | Fixed: ARELIS now works flawlessly if you don't have administration rights on your computer. |
ARELIS, adding link partners
| • | New: ARELIS can now automatically find directories and link pages to which you can submit your web page. This feature is an improved version of the Link Popularity Improver tool of IBP 8 because besides several new options, the found link pages are more relevant now. |
| • | New: ARELIS now deletes search engine cookies to prevent search engines from identifying your queries (optional). |
| • | New: You can now specify if the newly found web sites should overwrite existing web sites. |
| • | New: When adding a single web site, you can now specify if the web site should be added to your link directory. |
| • | Improved: When finding links by keyword search, you can now enter multiple keywords and key phrases at once. |
| • | Improved: When finding links by competitor search, you can now enter multiple competitor URLs at once. |
| • | Improved: You can now filter adding new link partner web sites by several new filtering methods, for example you can filter by URLs that contain or do not contain certain words. |
| • | Improved, ARELIS now emulates human behavior when accessing search engine web pages (like IBP). |
| • | Improved: All methods to add link partners are now integrated in one window combining both the "Find New Link Partners" window and the "Import Links" window. |
| • | Improved: All methods to add link partners now share the same filter settings and allow you to specify if existing web sites should be overwritten. |
| • | Improved: When adding sites, their link text and link description are now "beautified", i.e. special characters or texts like "untitled document" are removed. This makes your link directory look better. |
| • | Improved: The "Import links from web page" feature is now able to import from multiple web pages at once. |
| • | Improved: When importing links from another project, you can now specify to import only web sites with certain status texts or categories. |
| • | Improved: When searching for potential link partners, you can now easily see why some web sites are filtered. |
| • | Improved: When importing Zeus directories, the original category link page URLs will now be kept. |
| • | Improved: When adding web sites, you can now specify the default contact name for newly found link partners, for example the domain name without extension ("Axandra" for www.Axandra.com). |
| • | Changed: ARELIS does not query whois servers anymore because almost all whois servers have added a query limit or do not show the email address in plain text anymore. |
ARELIS, link directories
| • | New: You can now limit the number of links on every link page. |
| • | New: You can now display page numbers on your link pages. You can choose between 9 preset layouts but you are free to use any HTML code you want to customize the page number layout. In addition, you can specify how many page numbers are displayed in parallel. |
| • | New: You can now create link pages that don't look like link pages because you can now use individual HTML code in the link text and in the description for every link partner. In addition, this allows you to use the exact linking code from any link partner. |
| • | New: You can now display thumbnails (miniature pictures of web pages) for every link partner on the link pages. You can specify the width and the height for the thumbnails. |
| • | New: You can now specify the file name of every category web page individually. |
| • | New: You can now specify the order of the category pages. |
| • | New: Every category page can now have its own web page title, Meta Description tag, Meta Keywords tag and its own description in the body text. |
| • | New: You can now upload the link pages directly within ARELIS with the New: built-in and fast FTP client. The FTP client supports passive mode, secure connections (SSL/TLS) and various proxy servers. Each web site project can have its own FTP settings. |
| • | New: You can now edit link directory templates with the built-in, full-fledged HTML editor. The HTML editor offers undo/redo, find/replace, regular expressions, insert/overwrite modus and HTML syntax coloring. You can also preview your changes immediately. In addition, the description of all template commands are only a mouse click away. |
| • | New: There are 20 (twenty!) new link directory template commands that allow you to further customize your link pages. For example, you can display the PageRank or Alexa Traffic for every link partner, you can show the date when the link pages are created, you can show the date when a link partner web site has been added and much more. Overall, there are now more than 60 template commands that allow you to customize the link pages to your liking. |
| • | New: There are now conditional template commands that allow you to specify HTML code that should only be executed if certain conditions are met ([A-If-Link-Back], [A-If-Link-Back-Picture], [A-If-Link-Picture], [A-If-Link-Thumbnail]). |
| • | New: You can now specify if the links of link partner web sites that do not link back to your site are hyperlinked or not. In addition, you can link those link partner web sites to a specific web page (on which you explain why they are not hyperlinked and what they can do to earn a link from your site). |
| • | Changed: You can now have real sub categories on your link pages. This means that a sub category is not shared anymore with all other categories. A sub category now belongs to a single parent category. |
| • | Improved: Creating link directory templates is now much easier. Instead of using dummy pages you can now graphically create link directory templates. Your link pages now instantly match the design of your other web pages. Absolute URLs guarantee that there are no broken links. |
| • | Improved: In the "Create Link Directory Template" window, you can now choose if categories and links should be numbered, including a preview. |
| • | Improved: The created link directory templates are now compatible to your CSS settings (no more <FONT> tags). |
| • | Improved: In addition to various sorting methods, you can now arrange the link on your link pages in random order (optional). This allows you to rotate the link partner web sites on your link pages. |
| • | Improved: You can now easily change the file name of the start page of your link directory. |
| • | Improved: If the link directory template uses XHTML code, the result link pages use XHTML as well. |
| • | Fixed: The [A-Category-Table] command does not specify the width of the table rows anymore so that CSS code works with the resulting table. |
ARELIS, web site list management
| • | New, ARELIS now displays the PageRank and the Alexa Traffic Rank for every link partner web site (optional). |
| • | New, ARELIS now displays the date when the link partner web site has been found in the web site list. |
| • | New, ARELIS now displays for every link partner the date when the last email message has been sent. |
| • | New, ARELIS now shows the link check result for every link partner in the web site list. The link check result is accompanied by a color icon so that you can quickly see the link check results. |
| • | New: If the link partner web site links back to your site, you can now see the link back URL and the link text in the web site list. |
| • | New, ARELIS now displays the number of outbounds links and the number of total links for every link partner web site. |
| • | New, ARELIS now displays the IP address of every link partner web site. This allows you to see if some link partner web sites share the same C block. |
| • | New: There are now buttons at the right side of the link partner list that allows you to jump to the top or bottom of the list. In addition, two new buttons allow you to browse page by page through the list. |
| • | New: You can now hide any columns you don't want to see permanently. |
| • | New: You can now update/refresh the information in the web site list, for example the PageRank, the Traffic Rank, the number of outbound links, the number of total links, the IP address and the thumbnails. |
| • | New: You can now remove all categories that are not assigned to any web site in the web site list. |
| • | New: You can now merge two categories into one. |
| • | New: You can now change a category to a sub category, and vice versa. |
| • | New: When removing a web site, you can now choose to add the exact URL or the domain name to the filter list. |
| • | Improved: You can now specify the font name and the font size for the web site list. |
| • | Improved: The ARELIS main window now uses tool bars and is much better organized. |
| • | Improved: You can now search the web site list by URL, link text, email address, back link text and everything at all. |
| • | Improved: You can now easier recognize if an email address could be found for a link partner. |
| • | Improved: When removing a certain set of web sites, you can now remove all web sites that do not link back. |
