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This list shows only the main program updates. We update IBP much more often.
We continually update the search engine descriptions in IBP so that IBP always works with the latest search engine algorithms. To get a list of recent updates, click the Check For Updates button in the administration panel in IBP 10.
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IBP 11.7 (8 January 2010)
| • | IBP now supports the Google search-based keyword tool instead of the older Google AdWords tool: http://www.google.com/sktool/ |
| • | The biggest advantages to you is that Google's SKTool is much faster and much more reliable. |
| • | Improved and extended the Dutch translation thanks to Ed Bohnen. |
| • | Fixed several minor bugs. |
| • | We highly recommend this update to all IBP users. |
IBP 11.6.5 (14 December 2009)
| • | Fixed some incompatibilities with the Google AdWords keyword tool. IBP now uses new new Google AdWords keyword tool. |
| • | Fixed a timeout problem that could occur with the Google AdWords keyword tool. |
| • | Minor bug fixes and improvements. |
IBP 11.6.2 (28 September 2009)
| • | Improved stability on systems that could cause problems under some circumstances. |
| • | Minor bug fixes and improvements. |
IBP 11.6.1 (14 September 2009)
| • | Finished Spanish translation. Thank you, Victor Perez Acosta! |
| • | Fixed several minor bugs and improved stability. |
IBP 11.6 (8 September 2009)
| • | New, Keyword Manager: The "Get keywords from competitors" feature now supports https websites. |
| • | Improved project management: The Edit Project window now lets you specify really all project settings. |
| • | Improved project management: Some ranking report settings need not be specified in every project individually anymore. They can now be found in the General Settings window. |
| • | Improved project management: In the IBP Business Edition, all references to IBP in the reports are now removed automatically. You don't have to check a checkbox for every project anymore. |
| • | Improved the stability of remote-controlling Internet Explorer. If you're still getting crashes, make sure you use Internet Explorer 8 and remove any unnecessary add-ons and toolbars. |
| • | Improved, Keyword Density Analyzer: The PDF report does not break the pages after every section anymore so you will save a lot of pages. |
| • | Improved: The backup file is now smaller in many cases. |
| • | Improved the visibility of the help texts in the General Settings window. |
| • | Fixed, Keyword Manager: Under certain circumstances, the Export Keywords window would not take over your keywords. |
| • | Fixed, Link Manager: The "Add Site Filters" were not displayed. |
| • | Several improvements and bug fixes in the Keyword Manager, Top 10 Optimizer, Link Manager, Ranking Manager, Submission Manager, and PPC Manager. |
IBP 11.5 (30 July 2009)
| • | New, Keyword Manager: You can now get keywords from the Google AdWords keyword tool - automatically, without entering a captcha. This feature is available for many languages. |
| • | New, Link Manager: The Link Manager now displays the Google PageRank for the web page in the preview browser. |
| • | Improved, Ranking Manager and Submission Manager: If you select the option "Delete Cookies" in the General Settings window, then session cookies will now be deleted, too. |
| • | Improved, Link Manager: When searching for existing back links to your site, the Link Manager does not ignore search engine links anymore (e.g. groups.yahoo.com), and it now reports multiple pages from the same domain. |
| • | Improved, Link Manager: When checking the link partners' web pages if they still link back to your site, the found links will now be prioritized so that the back links to your site will be found faster. |
| • | Fixed, Keyword Manager: IBP could crash when you opened the Export window under certain circumstances. |
| • | Fixed, Link Manager: Fixed some problems when checking for back links. |
| • | Fixed, Submission Manager: You could not submit to some search engines because JavaScript was disabled. |
| • | Fixed, reports: The font name for section headlines was not saved. |
| • | Added many small improvements and fixed minor problems in the Keyword Manager, Link Manager, Ranking Manager, Submission Manager, and when sending a test email message. |
IBP 11.0.2 (11 June 2009)
| • | Improved, Keyword Manager: Improved the speed of updating large keyword lists. |
| • | Improved, Keyword Manager: When updating a keyword list, the progress percentage is now displayed in the window title so that you can see it in the Windows taskbar. |
| • | Fixed, Keyword Manager: Keywords could get lost if you switched to another keyword list while being in the keyword editor. |
IBP Version 11.0.1 (9 June 2009):
| • | New, Keyword Manager: There are now the menu commands "Clear Numbers For Selected Keywords" and "Clear Numbers For All Keywords" in the Table menu to empty the keyword cache. |
| • | Finished Spanish translation. Thank you, Victor Perez Acosta! |
| • | Fixed some problems in the Keyword Manager and other minor problems. |
Version 11.0 (3 June 2009)
New in the keyword manager:
| • | New: The Keyword Manager now exclusively supports the web service KeywordIndex.com. This gives you the estimated monthly Google searches for all of your keywords quickly and easily. KeywordIndex.com provides you with 38 million unique English keywords, and 20 million unique German keywords. |
| • | New: KeywordIndex.com is not the only keyword provider. You can get keyword suggestions from Google, Yahoo, Live, Amazon, Ask and YouTube. The supported languages are: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Dansk, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, and Turkish, including American English, British English, and Australian English. |
| • | New: Now you have two views of your keywords. One view displays the monthly Google searches and the number of Google results in tabular form, the other view is a very sophisticated and dedicated keyword editor! This means that you can now see the keyword list in a column list, or switch to a built-in editor to quickly edit the keywords. |
| • | New: You can now export your keyword list to your Google AdWords account. You can also export your keyword list to Microsoft Excel, to a comma-separated file for databases or to a plain text file. |
| • | New: There's now a link to the specific Google Trends web page for every keyword in your keyword list. |
| • | New: You can now refine your keyword search by clicking a keyword name to find less-competitive, undiscovered keywords and key phrases. |
| • | New: There is now an Ad Group Focus display that tells you how focused your keyword list is to a single theme. This helps you to create a more targeted keyword list in order to pay less for your Google AdWords keywords. |
| • | New: You can now see a "history" of your last keyword searches. |
| • | New, Keyword Editor: The new feature "Reverse Words" reverses the order of the words in key phrases, for example "vacation discount" becomes "discount vacation". |
| • | New, Keyword Editor: The new feature "Remove Keywords That Don't Contain The Word" removes all keywords that don't contain a certain word. This helps you to create a more targeted keyword list. |
| • | New, Keyword Editor: The new feature "Remove Duplicates" removes duplicate keywords from the keyword list. |
| • | New, Keyword Editor: The new feature "Strip double spaces" removes double spaces within the keywords. |
| • | New, Keyword Editor: The new feature "Trim Lines" removes spaces around the keywords. |
| • | New, Keyword Editor: The new feature "Convert To Lowercase" converts the selected keywords to lower case. |
| • | Improved: The "Get competitor keywords" feature is now much faster. |
| • | Improved: The keyword cache now remembers the number of searches and number of results for multiple search engines, not only for the current search engine. |
| • | Improved: The Expand Keywords window opens with the keywords filled in the middle list so that you can quickly add further keywords to the left or right side. |
| • | Improved: The project keyword files are now smaller and take less space on your hard disk and in backup files. |
| • | Fixed: Inserting Polish cities and regions did not work. |
New in the top 10 optimizer:
| • | New: https web pages will now be analyzed. |
| • | Improved: There's now a chart in the Top 10 Report to visualize the Top 10 Ranking Requirements Score. In addition, the score is explained better. |
| • | Improved: The summary keyword chapters now only appear in the Top 10 Report if any keyword chapter is selected. Likewise, the Ranking Factors Digest chapter only lists the ranking factors that have been analyzed in the report. |
| • | Improved: The search engine list now omits search engines that cannot be optimized, for example Google AdWords or Live.com Sponsored Listings. |
| • | Improved the analysis of several search engine ranking factors. |
New in the link manager:
| • | Improved: Searching for potential link partner now recognizes more web sites and links that are not suitable. |
| • | Improved: The "Check Links" feature now better recognizes rel="nofollow" attributes. |
| • | Improved: The "Check Links" feature now works correctly with malformed web pages that forget to close an anchor tag in the HTML source. |
New in the ranking manager:
| • | New: The Ranking Manager can now read rankings that search engines create dynamically using AJAX/JavaScript. |
| • | New: The ranking report now contains short explanations for every chapter. |
New in the search engine spider simulator:
| • | New: https web pages will now be analyzed. |
| • | New: The report now contains a screenshot of the web page (when analyzing the project URL). |
New in PDF reports:
| • | New: In the header and footer, you can now use 10 new variables to specify the project name, date and time. |
| • | Improved: Improved support of non-roman languages such as Hebrew, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, etc. in PDF reports. |
| • | Improved: The report file name does not contain the word "IBP" anymore so that you can immediately send the PDF report to your clients. |
Additional features and fixes:
| • | Improved: The blue bar at the top of many IBP windows is now much smaller. |
| • | Improved: Damaged search engine description files will now be automatically repaired when clicking "Check for updates" or when restarting IBP. |
| • | New, Submission Manager: The report now contains a screenshot of the web page when analyzing the project URL. |
| • | New, Scheduler: The Scheduler window now shows the duration of the task's last run so that you can plan your tasks accordingly. |
| • | Added "Serbia" and "Montenegro" to the project's country list. |
| • | Added several minor improvements and bug fixes to the Top 10 Optimizer, Link Manager, Ranking Manager, Submission Manager, Website Optimization Editor and Keyword Density Analyzer. |
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