SE Optimization: WebPosition Release v2.0 and Reject Reporting Issues

WebPosition Release v2.0 and Reject Reporting Issues

Written by Kalena Jordan

As you would have heard, FirstPlace Software, creators of repparttar

hugely popular WebPosition Gold search engine marketing software, recently announced repparttar 128034

forthcoming release of repparttar 128035

long-awaited version 2 of their product. WPG v2.0 is already available in Beta format (see link below) and boasts an impressive number of new features to help web masters ensure their web sites are spider friendly, ranking highly and submitted to repparttar 128036

most appropriate search engines and directories worldwide. I recently took repparttar 128037

opportunity to interview President of FirstPlace Software, Brent Winters, about their new product and also about his views on repparttar 128038

increasing crackdown on automatic reporting tools by some of repparttar 128039

major search engines.

Below is a transcript of repparttar 128040 interview: --------------------------- (WR) = Web Rank, (BW) = Brent Winters

Question 1 (WR) - Why has it taken so long for FirstPlace Software to release a new (BETA) version of WebPosition Gold? (BW) A couple of factors contributed to repparttar 128041 delay. We under-estimated repparttar 128042 amount of work to keep repparttar 128043 current version up to date with repparttar 128044 continuous changes at repparttar 128045 search engines, while still contributing resources to version 2. We ended up spending time adding and removing engines in repparttar 128046 existing product, adding new features, etc. so we were not standing still since version 1.0. In fact, we are on version 1.60.5 now. We eventually added new developers to accelerate work on version 2. In addition, version 2 includes a tremendous number of new features and engines. In retrospect, we should have scaled back repparttar 128047 number of features for version 2 and saved more for version 3. Fortunately, our customers will benefit from getting a lot of bang for their buck when they upgrade. Question 2 (WR) - In your opinion, what is repparttar 128048 most important or significant feature of repparttar 128049 new version? (BW) There are so many important features it is difficult to boil it down to a single most important feature. Every customer will have their favorite depending on how they tend to use repparttar 128050 product. Certainly repparttar 128051 support for new country specific engines is a big one. Unlike other products, this support extends beyond just submission and reporting. The Page Critic also provides valuable advice for how to improve your rankings in over 75 major engines. A current (although not exhaustive) list of new features can be found at: http://www.webposition.com/wpg2upgrade.htm Question 3 (WR) - The BETA version of WPG v2 includes regional search engines - something your customers have been asking about for years. Why did it take so long to include these? (BW) See above Question 4 (WR) - Only a handful of countries were included in repparttar 128052 regional engines. Do you plan to include other country search engines (e.g. New Zealand and more Asian countries) in future releases? (BW) Please keep in mind that you are looking at a beta version right now. We are working hard to add new engines to fill any significant gaps and are listening to customer feedback. For example, you mentioned Asian countries. We already have support for some Japanese and Chinese engines and are working on adding more. We support a dozen different regions currently: Global/US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Spain/Latin America, Russia, Italy, Japan, China, Scandinavia and repparttar 128053 Netherlands. Some countries like repparttar 128054 UK have support for eight or more engines already (or will very shortly). Others have only a few. How many they have depends on how many popular engines we are able to locate for that region, and how far along we are in repparttar 128055 development of that region. Even after we release repparttar 128056 product we will continue to add more engines (or remove engines) as things change and we receive feedback from customers. We may add support for entirely new regions depending upon demand. Question 5 (WR) - The major search engines, most noticeably Google, have recently been taking a stand against repparttar 128057 use of rank reporting software and even banning repparttar 128058 IP addresses of persons using it. How has this impacted WPG sales and how will it affect future releases? Can you confidently say it is safe for customers to use WPG right now to check their ranks? (BW) A very small percentage of customers had their IP blocked by Google in early 2001. I've heard of no one having their IP blocked for using WebPosition on any search engines for over six months since we released updates to more precisely emulate a browser. Version 2 includes an additional safety feature to slow down searches to a user-definable amount. That way you can be more courteous to repparttar 128059 search engines while maintaining a lower profile. We continue to encourage customers to keep their queries to a minimum with repparttar 128060 search engines (For example, there's generally no reason to run reports every single day or for hundreds of keywords). You should also run reports at night whenever possible.

The New Edition of WebPosition Gold 2 is Finally Here!

Written by Robin Nobles

The NEW Edition of WebPosition Gold is Finally Here . . . And its new features make it better than ever!

By Robin Nobles

Typical of repparttar professionalism of FirstPlace Software, they've waited to release WebPosition Gold 2 (http://www.webposition.com) until all possible bugs could be found and corrected, so it seems like forever that we've been waiting for this release. However, for those of us "die hard" Gold fans, repparttar 128033 wait has been well worth it.

Let's take a quick walk through of repparttar 128034 program and discuss my favorite features as well as changes made in each area.

Reporter

By far my favorite feature of Gold, Reporter will now report your rankings across an impressive 85 world-wide search engines and directories.

Some other new and exciting features include:

* You can now easily mail copies of repparttar 128035 report to your clients, even going so far as to ZIP repparttar 128036 file.

* You can automatically upload reports to your Web site.

* You can conserve disk space by checking an option to delete repparttar 128037 actual downloaded page after repparttar 128038 reports are generated.

* You can even filter out non-ranking keywords from repparttar 128039 report, so that repparttar 128040 report you send to your clients will be even more impressive!

* "Visibility Statistics" are now included at repparttar 128041 top of repparttar 128042 Concise Summary Report that will let you know how many top ranking pages you have as well as other valuable statistics. ? Under Options, you're given repparttar 128043 choice of being courteous to each engine by waiting a certain period of time between searches.

Page Generator

While reviewing this program, I created a few pages using Page Generator, which is a feature of Gold 2 that helps you build pages.

This portion of Gold has gotten criticism in repparttar 128044 past because repparttar 128045 engines don't want to see "machine-generated" pages. However, Gold 2's Page Generator doesn't produce anything remotely "machine generated." You have to create repparttar 128046 content, design repparttar 128047 page, and choose repparttar 128048 keywords. You simply create repparttar 128049 page from within a form, rather than on a blank HTML page.

After creating one of repparttar 128050 pages, I ran it through Page Critic, then submitted it through Inktomi's pay inclusion program. Within a couple of days, I was already seeing top 10 results across many of repparttar 128051 engines.

Is repparttar 128052 page a "doorway page"? Any page on your entire site is virtually a doorway into your site. Does repparttar 128053 page provide value to repparttar 128054 Internet, and would it be interesting and valuable to Net users? Yes. Page Generator just made it easier for me to create repparttar 128055 page.

Page Critic

Page Critic is designed to look at your pages and offer suggestions in a variety of areas, such as word count, keyword prominence, keyword frequency, and keyword weight. Critic then offers specific suggestions that will help you create a page that is close to repparttar 128056 statistical averages of other top ranking pages for that particular search engine. Under General Suggestions, you'll find a running list of news, tips, and suggestions related to repparttar 128057 engine.

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