What's new in IBP 8?

•	New: To get more accurate search engine ranking results, and to prevent search engines from identifying you, IBP can now delete search engine cookies. This feature is optional and can be turned on in the "General Settings" window.

•	New: The ranking report now tells you how many listings you have on the first search engine result page, the second page and the third page. The listings are displayed individually for your URLs, keywords and search engines.

•	New: The Web Site Optimization Editor now displays the last Top 10 Web Page Optimizer report. This allows you to quickly adjust your web page to the suggestions of the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer.

•	New: You can now copy the links of the Link Popularity Improver to the clipboard. This allows you to import these links into ARELIS.

•	Improved: If you select Dutch, French, German, Italian or Spanish in the "Edit Project" window, then the Link Popularity Improver will now find link pages and directories in that language.

•	Improved: The translation system has been changed so that the texts you translated in the past can also be used in newer IBP versions. Visit http://www.Axandra.com/ibp/translation.htm for details.

•	Improved: Due to popular requests, the Search Engine Ranking Checker report now includes a summarized list of the checked URLs.

•	Improved: Starting the Link Popularity Improver is now much faster if you collected a lot of web sites.

•	Improved the processing speed of the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer, of the Web Site Optimization Editor and of the Search Engine Spider Simulator.

•	Fixed a program crash when printing a report from the print preview window to a network printer.

•	Fixed: When switching applications and returning to IBP, the input expecting IBP window could be under another IBP window.

•	Fixed: The ranking report could display URLs, keywords or search engines in the overview chapter that were not listed in the report.

•	Fixed: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer and the Search Engine Spider Simulator did not set the user agent correctly in all cases.

•	Fixed: The Top 10 Web Page Optimizer calculated sometimes slightly wrong keyword density values for the body text.

•	Fixed problems when checking rankings on some search engines when the keyword contained spaces, umlauts or quotes.

•	Fixed: When using the Link Popularity Improver, Internet Explorer's File Download dialogs could pop up.

•	Fixed: If you analyzed a web page with much text in the Search Engine Spider Simulator, the text was cut off in the PDF report.

•	Fixed: In the German version of the Link Popularity Improver, you could not delete all web sites from the list.

•	Improved: In the Search Engine Ranking Checker and in the Pay Per Click Manager, added better support for search engines that require JavaScript.

•	Fixed: In the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer, when determining the position of a search term, the Keyword Density settings in the General Settings window were not taken into account.

•	Fixed: In the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer, the end of the first sentence of the body text was not recognized in some rare cases.

•	Fixed some problems in the Web Site Optimization Editor, in the Search Engine Ranking Checker and in the Keyword Density Analyzer.

Thanks to all beta testers, including Vamsi Gangavalli, Peter, Mike, Philippe, David and Greg.

•	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.

•	Improved: IBP now works flawlessly if you don't have administration rights on your computer.

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Improved: All IBP tools (Top 10 Web Page 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.

•	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 their search engine rankings.

•	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.

•	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 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.

•	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.

•	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".

•	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".

•	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.

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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.

•	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.

•	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: 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: 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.

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New: You can also work with multiple tool windows for the same project at once. For example, you can have the Top 10 Web Page 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.

•	New: You can now choose which web page elements should be analyzed by the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer.

•	New: You can now select which sections should be included in the Top 10 Web Page 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 Web Page Optimizer report.

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New: You can now customize the Top 10 Web Page Optimizer reports in greater detail. In addition to the report title, the report description, headers and footers, you can now set your own fonts, 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: You can now choose the search engine source for the link popularity numbers in the Top 10 Web Page 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 Web Page Optimizer now warns you if the analyzed web page doesn't contain enough words.

•	Improved: If the Top 10 Web Page 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 Web Page Optimizer did not finish.

•	Fixed: When creating a Top 10 Web Page Optimizer report, IBP could crash under certain circumstances.

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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.

•	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.

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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.

•	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.

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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.

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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: The "Supported Search Engines" window now lists the search engines that are supported by the new PPC Search Engine Manager.