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- Recent Changes & Fixes
-
- November 14, 2000 Version 1.50.4
- Enhancement:
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- 1. When using the Select button in the Submitter to add URLs to the list of URLs available
- for submission, you can now hold the shift can down and highlight multiple files at once in
- the selection dialog box. This makes it much more efficient to in adding multiple files to
- the selection list.
-
- Fixes:
- 1. This version restores the submitter selection method to the way it worked in 1.50.1 and
- earlier. Most people find the old method of selecting URLs easier.
- 2. An intermittent bug in the Page Critic using the Top XX calculation caused the body
- text words and frequency statistics to be reported higher than they actually were. This
- has been corrected. If you frequently make use of the TOP XX averages for optimizing your
- pages, you may want to re-analyze your pages to make sure they are within recommended limits.
- 3. A problem where the program would randomly unlo
-
- October 27, 2000 Version 1.50.3
- Enhancements:
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- 1. Reporter searches are up to TWICE as fast as prior versions when using high speed connections
- (i.e., 128Kps or greater). Performance is about the same for 56Kps or slower connections.
- Connections may also be more reliable in general, resulting in fewer failed searches.
- You may also find Submitter mission performance to be better on high speed connections.
- 2. The Submitter now has a new checkbox to allow you to limit submissions to only 1 URL per
- day per engine regardless of the limits of each search engine. Some search engine consultants
- believe that limiting submissions to one URL per day is safer and will actually get you listed
- faster than submitting the maximum recommended limits. You may check this box and then schedule
- a mission to run daily so that one URL will be submitted per day automatically. If you've had
- any trouble getting your site listed in the expected amount of time, try this feature!
- 3. Socks 4 and Socks 5 proxy protocols are now supported on the Connections window. Select
- one of these if you are unable to connect using WebPosition and your network uses a Socks proxy.
- 4. The log report now lists Reporter mission times in hours, minutes, and seconds rather than
- just in seconds for easier readability.
- 5. The Upload Manager now has a checkbox to remove archived report links from the menu page
- which is useful for consultants who post results for viewing by their clients. Therefore,
- you can now automatically remove archived report links from the menu page before uploading
- them to your Web site for viewing by clients.
-
- Upgrade Note: We still continue to focus the bulk of our development efforts on version 2
- of WebPosition Gold. Therefore, most of the enhancements we've been working on you've not
- yet seen. This much anticipated upgrade will include support for dozens, if not hundreds
- of new requested features. We'll post additional news as it becomes available!
-
- Fixes:
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- 1. Netscape compatibility in the Reporter has been restored.
- 2. Nearly every reported bug over the last several months has been corrected in this version.
- There are too many items to list here. Suffice it to stay, accuracy and reliability in all
- modules of the program have been improved. Most fixes were infrequent or obscure in nature.
- If you find a bug that has not been fixed, please e-mail us and let us know! We are very
- serious about maintaining a reliable and bug-free product.
-
- July 12, 2000 Version 1.50.1
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- 1. URL Verification report now display Unknown for Snap submission dates since Snap is submitted
- manually and not by the software.
- 2. Some minor accuracy issues in the Page Critic have been fixed including where the word count
- for the title or meta tags was sometimes off a little.
- 3. Rare date related bug with the scheduler is fixed.
- 4. Various other reported bugs have been fixed. Most of them are very rare scenarios.
-
- June 20, 2000 Version 1.49.9-1.50.0
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- 1. A bug with certain date formats caused reports to be archived in June with an invalid year
- like 1905. This occurred on the links at the bottom of the menu.htm page of the Reporter
- results if you have archiving turned on. The results were accurately archived, but the report
- dates displayed on this page were sometimes incorrect. This should now be fixed.
- 2. Version 1.40.8 had a bad template file for the Page Generator causing all default pages to
- be generated with a black background and magenta text. This has been corrected.
- 3. The Alert report now has a new table to show positions that you had that later dropped
- completely out of the top 30 or top XX matches. In the past, the Alert report showed positions
- that dropped, but only if they remained in the top XX matches that were scanned.
- 4. Various other rare problems corrected.
-
- June 9, 2000 Version 1.40.8
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- 1. A bug with certain date formats caused reports to be archived in June with an invalid
- year like 1905. This occurred on the links at the bottom of the menu.htm page of the
- Reporter results if you have archiving turned on. The results were accurately archived,
- but the report dates displayed on this page were sometimes incorrect. This should now be fixed.
- 2. The Alert report now has a new table to show positions that you had that later
- dropped completely out of the top 30 or top XX matches. In the past, the Alert report
- showed positions that dropped, but only if they remained in the top XX matches that were
- scanned.
- 3. Various other rare problems corrected.
-
- June 1, 2000 Version 1.40.7
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- 1. Occasional discrepancy between the Concise report and the Page & Keyword Report in regard
- to the Position Change column has been corrected in 1.40.7.
- 2. Accuracy of the TOP XX analysis in Page Critic has been improved.
- 3. Fixed a lock up running certain missions from the scheduler.
- 4. Rare accuracy problems in the Page Critic have been fixed including calculating prominence
- in the body area.
- 5. URL verification compatibility with new Lycos format is fixed.
- 6. Rare problem with the Trend Report is fixed.
- 7. Rare problem with Page Generator and generating meta tags is fixed.
- 8. Other miscellaneous problems have been corrected.
-
-
- May 18, 2000 Version 1.40.6
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- 1. Accuracy of the TOP XX analysis in Page Critic has been improved.
-
- 2. Fixed a lock up running certain missions from the scheduler.
-
- 3. Rare accuracy problems in the Page Critic have been fixed including calculating
- prominence in the body area.
-
- 4. URL verification compatibility with new Lycos format is fixed.
-
- 5. Rare problem with the Trend Report is fixed.
-
- 6. Rare problem with Page Generator and generating meta tags is fixed.
-
- 7. Other miscellaneous problems have been corrected.
-
- April 27th Version 1.40.1 - 1.40.5
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- 1. Fixes a scheduler, submitter, and trend report bug introduced in 1.40.0.
-
- 2. Enhances competitive analysis report to work properly regardless of whether the compared
- domains include the "www." or not.
-
- 3. Correct submitter verification error occuring on a small percentage of servers.
-
- 4. The Reporter no longer reports errors on adult keywords on Goto.com.
-
- 5. Fixes an error when the output directory in Reporter is changed.
-
- 6. Fixes an occasional problem of truncating portions of keywords when generating meta tags
- in the Page Generator.
-
- April 9th, 2000 Version 1.40.0
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- 1. Open Directory compatibility has been restored in the Reporter.
-
- 2. Over 30 reported issues have been addressed in this version. Most items were to fix errors
- that occurred under obscure conditions. A few enhancements were made to make the program more
- user-friendly. For example, if you listed duplicate keywords in the Reporter in previous
- versions, a message would appear asking you to remove the duplications. This new version
- will automatically remove the duplicates for you.
-
- 3. Issues with the scheduler have been addressed to avoid problems with foreign date formats
- and to support longer path names.
-
- 4. Accuracy of the last position column in the Reporter has been improved.
-
- 5. The Page Generator default template has been revised to no longer generate pages with
- 'boiler-plate' phrases that are the same for all pages. This has been done to avoid possible
- discrimination on AltaVista and potentially other engines. It's recommended any existing
- pages you have that contain phrases on the following URL be revised:
- http://www.webpositiongold.com/critichelp/avdoorway.htm
-
- The Page Critic will also warn you for any pages it analyzes containing those phrases.
-
- 6. The last submission date column in the URL verification report is now accurate for engines
- that "share" the same submission date such as Inktomi based engines like HotBot, AOL, and
- Goto.com.
-
- 7. Support for longer URLs in all modules of the program has been added.
-
- 8. Support for the creation of network paths like \\server\c\mydirectory\ has been added to all
- modules.
-
- 9. Page Critic advice has been fine-tuned to work better in certain scenarios. In addition,
- prominence for the body area should now be calculated correctly in all cases.
-
- As always, we're open to your feedback on how to improve the product. Our goal is to
- continually improve WebPosition Gold to meet your needs.
-
- December 29, 1999 Version 1.30.9
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- 1. Reporter now multi-tasks more effectively so that it does not demand full use of the
- computer when entering the generating reports phase of a mission. In the past for very large
- missions, some people thought that the Reporter may have locked up when in fact it had not.
-
- 2. Reporter speed has been improved substantially so that it is now comparable to version 1.30.7
- and earlier.
-
- December 21st, 1999 Version 1.30.8
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- 1. The search engines are being a real pain in the backside this month. This update corrects a
- compatibility issue with HotBot's latest format where they are outputting technically invalid
- HTML. Also fixes some compatibility issues on other engines. We apologize for the frequent
- updates in the last couple weeks.
-
- December 14th, 1999 Version 1.30.7
-
- 1. Fixed intermittent "printsearchmatches" error in Reporter.
-
- December 10th, 1999 Version 1.30.6
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- 1. Fixed compatibility issue with Netscape search engine.
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- 2. Fixed display problem on submitter where last submit date did not display for HotBot.
-
- 3. Support for NorthernLight.com has replaced PlanetSearch (now dead search engine).
-
- 4. Fixed advice in Page Critic where the total frequency and word count range recommendation
- sometimes did not correspond to the sum of the individual areas.
-
- 5. Many other minor issues addressed to improve reliability.
-
- November 5, 1999 Version 1.30.5
-
- Fixed:
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- 1. Several problems that escaped notice for quite some time with customizing reports on the 2nd
- tab of the Upload Manager have been fixed.
-
- 2. Problems with certain customers being unable to access the new engines in version 1.30 in
- the Page Generator and Page Critic has been corrected.