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Internet Business Promoter (IBP) Changelog

What's new in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 12.2.1

May 19, 2015
  • Updated the Keyword Suggestion Tool.
  • Updated the Top 10 Optimizer.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 12.2 (May 19, 2015)

  • Added new languages and countries to the keyword suggestion tool: Romanian - Romania, Spanish - Chile, French - Switzerland, French - Canada, French - Belgium, Dutch - Belgium, Italian - Switzerland, English - Switzerland
  • Added 2,140 new top level domains. IBP now supports 6,632 top level domains in every tool.
  • Fixed a display bug in the Top 10 Optimizer report.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 12.1 (Dec 19, 2014)

  • IBP now supports all new top level domains such as .expert, .mobile or .shop. IBP now supports 4,492 top level domains in total (previously, 1,048 top level domains). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#New_top-level_domains for more information.
  • Keyword Manager: The keyword suggestion tool now delivers the CPC (cost per click) and competition per keyword (instead of global searches, number of search results and the outdated KEI). You have now much more relevant and up-to-date keyword data. Please note that the CPC value is always displayed in US dollar.
  • Keyword Manager: The keyword export now supports CPC and competition values.
  • Added various small improvements and bug fixes.
  • Internal adjustments to make sure that IBP works with Google's latest algorithm changes.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 12.0.4 (Dec 19, 2014)

  • Improved compatibility with Windows 8.1
  • Internal adjustments to make sure that IBP works with Google's Hummingbird algorithm

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 12.0 (Aug 2, 2012)

  • General:
  • The new version is fully compatible with your IBP 11 projects.
  • Updated and improved the user interface.
  • New system requirements: the minimum Windows version is Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Windows 98 and Windows Me are not supported anymore. Of course, IBP also runs on Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
  • New tool:
  • New tool: the "Competitor Spy" shows you the backlinks, the Google rankings and the Google AdWords ads of your competitors (or any website you enter).
  • Main window:
  • Main window: the "Checklist" is now called "Step by step instructions". These instructions have been completely overhauled.
  • Main window: The Help panel and the manual have been completely revised.
  • Link Manager:
  • Link Manager: The default order of the columns has been changed.
  • Link Manager: The preview browser now always enables JavaScript.
  • Link Manager: The user agent names for the "Check links" feature have been updated.
  • Link Manager: 332 additional top level domains are now recognized.
  • Top 10 Optimizer:
  • Top 10 Optimizer: Creating the report is now much much faster, although the data has become more accurate. An example report that used to take 6:30 minutes now takes only 0:55 minutes.
  • Top 10 Optimizer: The report now analyzes more backlink anchor texts than before.
  • Top 10 Optimizer: The report now lists the 20 most popular anchor texts used in linking to your website.
  • Top 10 Optimizer: You don't have to specify "link popularity search engines" anymore. The link popularity is now always provided by Alexa.com and SEOprofiler.com. This is much more accurate because search engines such as Google or Bing don't give reliable link popularity numbers anymore.
  • Top 10 Optimizer: The ages of web site domains can now almost always be determined. The data is now provided by Alexa.com and SEOprofiler.com and does not rely on estimations by Archive.org anymore.
  • Top 10 Optimizer: The character set of web pages can now be determined in much more cases. In other words, there are less problems with umlauts now.
  • Top 10 Optimizer: The link popularity count can now be determined in much more cases.
  • Top 10 Optimizer: Some terms have been changed to industry-standard terms, for example "link text" is now called "anchor text", "inbound links" are now called "backlinks".
  • Top 10 Optimizer: The report advice has been updated, for example, outdated chapters have been removed (keyword use in HTML comments, keyword use in meta keywords tag).
  • Top 10 Optimizer: To get meaningful results, you must now enter at least three top 10 ranked competitors.
  • Top 10 Optimizer: In the Top 10 Optimizer window, there's now a convenient "Settings" button in the top blue bar.
  • Top 10 Optimizer, fixed: The peak link popularity value of the top 10 competitors could be calculated wrong under certain circumstances.
  • Top 10 Optimizer, fixed: When opening the Scheduler, you could only start a Ranking Checker task.
  • Submission Manager:
  • Submission Manager: The submission categories have been updated, for example "CD Manufacturing" has been removed and "Mobile App" has been added.
  • Semi-Automatic Submitter: The Semi-Automatic Submitter now features more than 500 submission sites to help you get more quality backlinks! The sites are chosen by quality. You can submit your website or any other content (articles, ebook, infographic, job offer, etc.) to the following 22 categories:
  • 1. affiliate program directories
  • 2. articles sites
  • 3. award sites
  • 4. blog directories
  • 5. content sites
  • 6. Internet directories
  • 7. download sites
  • 8. ebook directories
  • 9. free resources sites
  • 10. infographic sites
  • 11. job offer sites
  • 12. podcast directories
  • 13. press release sites
  • 14. question & answer sites
  • 15. shopping sites
  • 16. slide directories
  • 17. social media sites
  • 18. social news sites
  • 19. tutorial sites
  • 20. video sites
  • 21. white paper sites
  • 22. yellow page directories
  • Keyword Manager:
  • Keyword Manager: For every keyword, you will now get the number of global searches, the number of local searches and the number of local search results.
  • Keyword Manager: Now you can get keyword suggestions from 25 countries, including USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey.
  • Keyword Manager: Getting keyword suggestions is now much faster.
  • Keyword Manager: The Trends icon now opens the Google Trends web page for the currently selected country.
  • Keyword Manager: The left side of the Keyword Manager window, where you'll the keyword suggestions, is now wider than before so that the keywords are not truncated anymore.
  • Keyword Manager: There are no prompts anymore that ask you for the default search engine.
  • Keyword Manager, fixed: When adding keywords to the keyword editor, double lines were inserted.
  • Ranking Manager:
  • Several performance improvements.
  • Ranking Manager, fixed: In some situations you could not choose the option "Show only changes".
  • Smaller tools:
  • Tools: The "Website Optimization Editor" is now called "Static Web Page Editor" to make it more clear that it only works with static HTML pages.
  • Tools: Obsolete tools have been removed.
  • Search Engine Spider Simulator: The user agent names have been updated.
  • Reports:
  • Reports: The default colors and styles have been changed.
  • Miscellanous:
  • Many smaller improvements, bug fixes and performance optimizations.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.9.1 (Nov 18, 2011)

  • Updated the backlink check algorithms to get more detailed backlink data

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.9 (Oct 7, 2011)

  • The ranking checker is now much faster with search engines that use JavaScript on the result pages

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.8.3 (Oct 7, 2011)

  • Improved handling of local searches

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.8.2 (Oct 7, 2011)

  • Improved the ranking checker performance for some computer configurations

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.8.1 (May 13, 2011)

  • Some people could not finish Top 10 Optimizer reports in version 11.8. This has been fixed with IBP 11.8.1.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.8 (May 13, 2011)

  • The ranking checker is now faster when a search engine requires JavaScript (you might have to adjust the settings in the human emulation settings in IBP).
  • Further improvements for Google's JavaScript result pages.
  • Minor bugs have been fixed.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.7.9 (Mar 28, 2011)

  • Adjusted the ranking checker for another change in Google Instant.
  • Minor bugs have been fixed.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.7.8 (Dec 13, 2010)

  • Fixed problems with mentions on social networks.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.7.7 (Dec 10, 2010)

  • Improved:
  • an additional fix for getting the link popularity numbers from Google through the new Google Instant interface

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.7.6 (Sep 23, 2010)

  • Fixed: The Top 10 Optimizer could not retrieve the link popularity number for some sites.
  • Important: To correct the link popularity number in your Top 10 Optimizer report, select the menu command "Re-Analyze Your Page & Top 10 Pages" from the "Create Report" button menu in the Top 10 Optimizer window. You only have to do this once.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.7.5 (Jul 26, 2010)

  • Keyword Manager: fixed getting the number of search results and calculating the KEI.
  • Ranking Manager: fixed sorting the "Change" column in the Today panel.
  • Changed MSNBot to BingBot.
  • Dutch translation completed.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.7.4 (May 12, 2010)

  • Fixed getting the link popularity numbers in the Top 10 Optimizer.
  • Fixed a problem with the ranking export and MS Excel.
  • Improved the Dutch translation.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.7.3 (May 8, 2010)

  • The new version ensures compatibility with the new Google interface.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.7.2 (Mar 10, 2010)

  • Updated the top 10 optimizer to reflect the latest search engine changes.
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements.
  • We highly recommend this update to all IBP users.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.7.1 (Feb 25, 2010)

  • Fixed a display bug in the keyword manager.
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements.
  • We highly recommend this update to all IBP users.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.7 (Feb 25, 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.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.6.5 (Dec 14, 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.
  • We highly recommend this update to all IBP users.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.6.4 (Dec 9, 2009)

  • Fixed some incompatibilities with the Google AdWords keyword tool.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.6.3 (Nov 9, 2009)

  • Fixed a timeout problem that could occur with the Google AdWords keyword tool.
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements.
  • We highly recommend this update to all IBP users.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.6.2 (Nov 6, 2009)

  • Improved stability on systems that could cause problems under some circumstances.
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements.
  • We highly recommend this update to all IBP users.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.6.1 (Sep 17, 2009)

  • Finished Spanish translation. Thank you, Victor Perez Acosta!
  • Fixed several minor bugs and improved stability.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.6 (Sep 9, 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

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.5 (Aug 13, 2009)

  • offers a much improved keyword suggestion tool
  • many improvements in the top 10 ranking optimizer the link manager and the ranking and submission tools.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.0.2 (Jun 23, 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.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.0.1 (Jun 23, 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.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 11.0 (Jun 23, 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.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 10.4.1 (Jun 23, 2009)

  • Fixed, Top 10 Optimizer: The link popularity numbers for Yahoo could not be retrieved anymore.
  • Improved: Added the new Google favicon.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 10.4 (Dec 17, 2008)

  • New, Top 10 Optimizer: There is now a "Peak value" column in the Global Link Popularity chapter so that you can see the maximum number of inbound links for each web site.
  • New, Top 10 Optimizer: There is now a "Total" column in the Social Networks chapter.
  • New, Scheduler: Each task now displays a status icon so that you can quickly identify the tasks that failed the last run or that do not have an email account assigned.
  • New, Scheduler: There's now a context menu for every task.
  • New, Scheduler: You can now use "Check All Tasks" to activate all tasks, and "Uncheck All Tasks" to deactivate all tasks.
  • Improved, Scheduler: The Scheduler window has been redesigned to make it easier to use.
  • Improved, Web Site Optimization Editor: Now you can use this tool to edit local ASP files (Active Server Pages).
  • Improved: The Keyword Density Analyzer is now much faster.
  • Improved: IBP now recognizes better if the search engine description files are damaged and repairs them if needed.
  • Fixed, Top 10 Optimizer: The conclusion in the Global Link Popularity chapter was not always right.
  • Fixed, Top 10 Optimizer: Social network del.icio.us returned "n/a" instead of "no links".
  • Fixed, Top 10 Optimizer: While checking inbound link texts, the report creation could abort leaving just an error message.
  • Fixed, Keyword Manager and Top 10 Optimizer: The number of search results (i.e. the link popularity number) could not be determined for Google.es.
  • Fixed, Keyword Density Analyzer: Key phrases were not recognized in URLs that use hyphens or underscores.
  • Fixed: IBP does not crash anymore if you try to print without having selected a default printer.
  • Includes several additional minor improvements and bug fixes in various tools.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 10.3 (Sep 24, 2008)

  • New, Ranking Manager: IBP can now stop checking the ranking results for any keyword as soon as one of your URLs has been found for that keyword. This means that no unneccesary search result pages are retrieved. Checking search results is faster now and search engine servers will be accessed less often.
  • New, Ranking Manager: You can now choose not to show competitor websites in the ranking report. This is especially useful if you choose the option "Show only top result" in the ranking reports.
  • Improved, Top 10 Optimizer: Refined the Top 10 Ranking Requirements Score (tm) according to the latest search engine trends.
  • Improved, Top 10 Optimizer: Exzessive web page content is now abbreviated in the report. That means that the report has less pages and can be created much faster.
  • Improved, Keyword Manager: Search numbers are now also displayed for Google AdWords keywords, such as [cars], "cars", -cars or cars ** 0.50.
  • Fixed, Keyword Manager: When using Wordtracker's keyword suggestion tool, some search terms that contained numbers were not extracted correctly.
  • Fixed, ARELIS: File names for thumbnails could contain characters that were not usable with certain servers.
  • Several additional minor improvements, performance improvements and fixes in the Keyword Manager, Top 10 Optimizer, Link Manager, Submission Manager and Ranking Manager.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 10.2 (Jul 24, 2008)

  • New, ARELIS Link Manager: You can now find theme-related blogs that could link to your site.
  • New, ARELIS Link Manager: There is now a Link Management Report panel. In addition, you can now easily change the Link Management Report settings.
  • New, ARELIS Link Manager: You can now edit and save email templates that are written in HTML. This allows you to quickly send HTML email messages.
  • New, ARELIS Link Manager: You can now export the thumbnail file name.
  • New, Submission Manager: You can now update the PR values of the directories you added yourself (switch to "Manual Submission" and select "Update PR column" from the "List" menu in the toolbar).
  • New, Web Site Optimization Editor: The Web Site Optimization Editor now supports the new Meta Robots directives "noimageindex" and "notranslate" which are recognized by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live. In addition, the editor now knows that "nosnippet" is recognized by Yahoo and Live as well.
  • Improved, ARELIS Link Manager: The Link Management Report now shows the links added in the last 30 days instead of "this month".
  • Improved, Keyword Manager: The Keyword Suggestion Tools window has been completely revamped to make it more powerful and easier to use.
  • Improved, Keyword Manager: In the Keyword Suggestion Tools window you can now extract the Google search volume numbers from the Google AdWords tool.
  • Improved, Keyword Manager: In the Keyword Suggestion Tools window you can now extract the keywords from the Google AdWords tool without selecting the keywords first.
  • Improved, Top 10 Optimizer: Keywords with hyphen ("well-known author") are now found in texts that contain the keyword without hyphen ("well known author").
  • Improved, Top 10 Optimizer: If the web page language is not English, then a low readability score will not be taken into account when calculating the Top 10 Ranking Requirements Score.
  • Improved: Several user interface improvements.
  • Fixed, Ranking Manager: The option "Show only the top result" did not work correctly in some cases.
  • Fixed, Ranking Manager: You could not cancel creating the ranking report.
  • Fixed, Ranking Manager: When exporting ranking data, the ranking result page was always "0" if the ranking position was "1".
  • Fixed: General settings were not loaded when restoring from a backup file. In addition, IBP could crash when restoring from a backup file when the Scheduler was activated.
  • Removed, ARELIS Link Manager: The "Import from Zeus directory" feature has been removed because it was obsolete. If you really need this feature, you can use IBP version 10.1.2.
  • Additional improvements and bug fixes in the Keyword Manager, Top 10 Optimizer, ARELIS Link Manager, Ranking Manager, Tools window, Backup & Restore, General Settings window, and when using large fonts.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 10.1 (Apr 8, 2008)

  • New, Keyword Manager: You can now edit the keyword name, the number of searches and the number of results directly in the keyword list.
  • New, Top 10 Optimizer: While the Top 10 Optimization report is being created, you can now continue working with other parts of IBP.
  • New, Top 10 Optimizer: There is now a menu that lets you jump directly to a chapter.
  • New, Top 10 Optimizer: You can now pause creating the Top 10 Optimization report.
  • New, Scheduler: You can now specify if all ranking results should be exported or only the ranking results since the last scheduling.
  • New, Scheduler: If you create a ranking comparison report, the scheduler will automatically set the comparison date to the date of the last scheduling.
  • New, Scheduler: When adding a new scheduled task, you can now quickly use the file name of another scheduled task.
  • New, Scheduler: When sending PDF reports to your clients, you can now get a copy of the email messages (optional).
  • New, Scheduler: You can now open the General Settings window from the Scheduler window.
  • New, Submission Manager: There is now an "Add" button in the toolbar of the semi-automatic submission tool so that you can quickly add your own directories. The own directories are now listed first.
  • New: IBP now warns you if the memory of your computer becomes too fragmented to avoid crashes.
  • Improved: Loading and saving keyword lists is now much faster. In addition, keywords now use less memory than before, and the keyword files now use 10% less space on your hard disk.
  • Improved, Keyword Manager: IBP now recognizes 4,730 new stop words which greatly improves the "Get keywords from competitors" feature.
  • In addition to English, German, Spanish and French stop words, IBP now recognizes stop words in Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Turkish. In total, IBP now recognizes nearly 7,000 stop words in 16 languages.
  • Improved, Ranking Manager: You can now create reports for dates on which there are no rankings (for example, to show your clients that their web site does not have any rankings at the start of the contract).
  • Improved: Writing reports is now much faster.
  • Several improvements and bug fixes in the Keyword Manager, Top 10 Optimizer, Link Manager, Ranking Manager, Submission Manager, Web Site Optimization Editor, scheduler, window "Supported Search Engines", window "More Tools", when restoring backup files and when updating from IBP

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 10.0.3 (Apr 3, 2008)

  • Ranking Manager: You can now select which parts of the report overview should be displayed in the ranking report. This also allows you to remove all pictures from the report.
  • Ranking Manager: You can now specify the ranking report settings for all projects at once.
  • Improved, Scheduler: Scheduled tasks now run much faster.
  • Improvements and bug fixes in the Keyword Manager, Top 10 Optimizer, Link Manager, Submission Manager and in the scheduler.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 9.7.1 (Jul 24, 2007)

  • updated 18 search engines

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 9.6 (Mar 13, 2007)

  • IBP 9.0 is the result of merging and improving the two marketing software programs IBP (on-page optimization) and ARELIS (off-page optimization).
  • Both programs now share the same user interface and projects.

New in Internet Business Promoter (IBP) 9.2 (Aug 1, 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.