Comprehensive Rank Tracker Change List
RankTracker 3.15.5 (Released Sep 2, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- 7 new regional Google versions are now supported by Rank Tracker: Google Dominica (www.google.dm), Google Antigua and Barbuda (www.google.com.ag), Google Jamaica (www.google.com.jm), Google British Virgin Islands (www.google.vg), Google Mozambique (www.google.co.mz), Blog Search in Google UK (blogsearch.google.co.uk) and Google Angola (www.google.it.ao).
- Australian Anzwers.com.au search engine was added to Rank Tracker.
- Swedish Eniro is now available for checking website's positions with Rank Tracker.
- Indian Guruji.com search engine is now among Rank Tracker's supported search engines.
- Moldavian Tot.md search engine was added to Rank Tracker.
- Dutch Kobala.nl search engine is now supported by Rank Tracker.
- One more international search engines is now offered for monitoring your website's rankings with Rank Tracker: Jafose.com.
- Rank Tracker was updated to stay in line with Yahoo! algorithm changes, which are due to Yahoo!'s switching to Bing's technology.
RankTracker 3.15.4 (Released Aug 31, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker got adjusted to new AltaVista, AlltheWeb, Neti, Baidu and Ilse.nl search algorithms.
Localization
- Now all the translations you make in Rank Tracker's localization module are backed up to prevent losing any unsaved data in case of emergency.
Misc.
- Rank Tracker's overall stability and performance were improved.
RankTracker 4.15.3 (Released Aug 19, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker was fine-tuned to work with new Centrum.cz, Yahoo.com, Lemoteur.fr search algos.
Misc.
- Due to a rare problem of Java Runtime Environment some users might have problems launching or reinstalling the software. This has been fixed.
RankTracker 4.15.2 (Released Aug 18, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker was fine-tuned to work with new Rambler, Meta.ua, Ask.com and Lycos Italy, France, UK and Switzerland search algos.
Misc.
- Now you can use Rank Tracker's tooltips to view long table headers and project names.
RankTracker 4.15.1 (Released Aug 11, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker algorithms were updated for working with Google.com Mobile and most regional versions of Google.
Keyword Research
- Rank Tracker was adjusted to work with the changed algorithms of Google's keyword suggestion tool Google Suggest.
RankTracker 4.15 (Released Aug 3, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker's algos for Google Korea (South), Ask.com, Ask Japan and Freenet were updated.
- 4 new search engines - Google Maldives, Google El Salvador, Groups Search in Google.de and Google.de Mobile - were added to Rank Tracker.
Misc.
- Rank Tracker's overall stability and performance were improved.
RankTracker 4.14.1 (Released July 22, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- Naver, Bing and Exalead search algos got updated.
- New search engine was added to Rank Tracker: Blog Search in Google.de.
RankTracker 4.14 (Released July 20, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker was adjusted to work with Yandex, Yahoo! Quebec, Centrum, Google Croatia and Google Israel changed search algos.
Misc.
- Rank Tracker's performance was improved due to SEO PowerSuite core updates which wewe necessary for website structure analysis module implemented in the new version of WebSite Auditor tool.
RankTracker 4.13.12 (Released July 6, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker now supports more new search engines: Google Lebanon (English, French and Arabic versions), Yahoo! Ireland (the Web, pages from Ireland), Yahoo! Colombia.
- Rank Tracker's algorithms for working with Google.co.uk, Google.fr, Google.de and Ask.it were updated.
Reports
- Now Rank Tracker signals when a report has been saved through the Quick Save option (Enterprise version).
Scheduler
- Now Rank Tracker lets you review an unsaved project before scheduling a task for it.
- Now Rank Tracker will show CAPTCHAs when required by Google AdWords Keyword Tool when checking search volume even through a Scheduler. The user has a chance to enter CAPTCHA when he/she is around.
RankTracker 4.13.11 (Released June 23, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker was updated to work with the changed algorithms Google (most of its local versions).
RankTracker 4.13.10 (Released June 22, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for collecting data in Yahoo!, Dogpile and Google Colombia were updated in RankTracker.
Localization
- RankTracker is now available in French language.
Misc.
- RankTracker's stability was largely reinforced.
RankTracker 4.13.9 (Released June 03, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- RankTracker got adjusted to new Yandex, Excite, Rambler and AltaVista Deutschland search algos.
Reports
- Now you can insert page numbers on your report pages when publishing them with RankTracker.
RankTracker 4.13.8 (Released May 25, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- RankTracker's search algorithms for Yahoo! Hong Kong, Google Korea and Rambler were updated.
- New search engines - Google Jordan (the Web), Google Jordan (pages in Arabic), Google Jordan (pages from Jordan) - were added to RankTracker.
Misc.
- RankTracker's stability and performance were further improved.
RankTracker 4.13.7 (Released May 11, 2010)
Localization
- RankTracker's Japanese-language installer for Windows was added.
Workspaces
- A new workspace highlighting all keywords that have lost their positions since the previous check was added to RankTracker.
Search Engines Update
- RankTracker was adjusted to changes in Google, Yandex and Zoeken search algorithms.
- Google's algos crucial for KEI calculation in RankTracker were updated.
- New search engines - Google Kuwait (google.com.kw), Google Mobile (www.google.com/xhtml) and Google Italia Cellulare (www.google.it/xhtml)- are now supported by RankTracker.
RankTracker 4.13.6 (Released May 5, 2010)
Rank checking
- Now to check rankings for a number of URLs having certain identical elements in them, you can use the wildcard symbol * that substitutes any other elements in these URLs.
Reports
- Now you can see more ample report templates' previews when editing or creating report templates in RankTracker.
Search Engines Update
- RankTracker now works with new search algos of Yahoo! (with all regional versions), Bing, Web.de and Onet.pl search engines.
RankTracker 4.13.5 (Released Apr 28, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- RankTracker was updated to work with new AltaVista, Alexa, AOL, Exalead, Excite, Yandex, Lycos Austria, Yahoo! Austria and Google (with all regional versions) search algorithms.
- Now RankTracker supports new search engine Google Paraguay (www.google.com.py) in its 3 versions and the international search engine Entireweb.com.
Misc.
- Overall stability of RankTracker was improved.
RankTracker 4.13.4 (Released Apr 16, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- Search algorithms for AltaVista United Kingdom and Yahoo! were updated.
- RankTracker works with 8 new search engines: Tiscali.it, Abacho.it, Jyxo.cz, Track.nl, Google Ukraine in Russian (www.google.com.ua), Google Mauritius (www.google.mu), Google Moldova (www.google.md), and Google Thailand in English (www.google.co.th).
Misc.
- RankTracker's stability was largely reinforced.
RankTracker 4.13.3 (Released Apr 6, 2010)
Keyword Research
- Now RankTracker provides you with keyword suggestions from SEMRush keyword research service.
Search Engines Update
- RankTracker's algorithms for work with Google's regional versions were updated.
- RankTracker now retrieves info from Web.de - a popular German search engine
Misc.
- Visibility and Visibility Difference are now calculated for every keyword in your RankTracker project to let you evaluate your SEO progress even more thoroughly.
- Saving RankTracker projects became even more convenient.
- Overall performance of Rank Tracker was improved.
RankTracker 4.13.2 (Released Mar 23, 2010)
Keyword Research
- Now you can disable the calculation of competition and the number of searches in RankTracker, which makes keyword research even more convenient.
Rank checking
- Now you can choose whether other search methods are to be used to refine the results you get with 100 results per page search method.
Search Engines Update
- RankTracker now supports new AlltheWeb, AltaVista France and Onet algos.
- Atlas.cz was added RankTracker's supported search engines.
Misc.
- RankTracker's stability was improved.
RankTracker 4.13.1 (Released Mar 17, 2010)
Keyword Research
- A new mechanism of keyword suggestion - Yandex Search Suggestions - was added to RankTracker. It lets you pull keyword ideas from the Russian most popular search engine Yandex.
- The mechanism for getting keywords from Google's Related Searches section was further improved.
- Now you have an option to run KEI calculation in Rank Tracker separately from the keyword suggestion process, which makes keyword research more convenient.
- A filter was added to sort keywords in Get Keyword Suggestions window.
Workspaces
- Now your working area becomes even more convenient, with the Sort Projects Alphabetically option.
Search Engines Update
- RankTracker has been updated to work with the new algos of Aeiou, Alexa.com, Baidu, Centrum, Najdi, Sapo, Wp, Bing and Yahoo! UK search engines.
- RankTracker now works with 5 new search engines: Google Dominican Republic (www.google.com.do), Google Switzerland in English (www.google.ch), Google in Farsi (www.google.com/intl/fa/), Yahoo! Korea (kr.yahoo.com) and Altavista Netherlands (nl.altavista.com).
Miscellaneous
- A special column was added for you to analyse your website's visibility - a basic SEO factor that illustrates SEO campaign's success.
- RankTracker's overall performance was further improved.
RankTracker 4.13 (Released Mar 02, 2010)
Localization
- RankTracker is available in Russian, German and Japanese languages.
Search Engines Update
- RankTracker was updated to work with Google.com and Kvazir.no algorithms.
- Google Panama (www.google.com.pa), Google Nicaragua (www.google.com.ni), Google Guatemala (www.google.com.gt), Google Armenia (www.google.am), Google Pakistan (www.google.com.pk) and Yahoo! Venezuela (ve.yahoo.com) search engines were added to RankTracker.
Misc.
- RankTracker's performance and stability was enhanced.
RankTracker 4.12.2 (Released Jan 27, 2010)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for the major search engine Yahoo!, as well as AltaVista and Excite.de were updated.
- RankTracker now collects ranking information in Google Libya (google.com.ly), Yahoo! Quebec (http://qc.search.yahoo.com/), Yahoo! Philippines (http://m.ph.yahoo.com/) and Google Morocco (http://www.google.co.ma) search engines.
Misc.
- Performance and stability of RankTracker were largely improved.
RankTracker 4.12.1 (Released Jan 13, 2010)
Keyword Research
- Now Rank Tracker calculates KEI for keywords quicker and uses less traffic for that.
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker algos for working with Google, Exalead and Lycos were updated.
- Rank Tracker now works with Dutch search engines Vinden.nl and Zoeken.nl, as well as Google Malta (www.google.com.mt).
RankTracker 4.12 (Released Jan 05, 2010)
Keyword Research
- Bing Search Suggestions keyword research method was added to Rank Tracker. It lets you tap into the most popular search terms on Bing. The data is based on the real searches made by Bing users.
Keyword Research
- Yandex Keyword Statistics keyword tool was added to Rank Tracker. With it you can discover the most popular keywords on the #1 search engine in Russia - Yandex. All keyword suggestions are based on the real searches made by Yandex users.
Search Engines Update
- Search algos of Yahoo!, Baidu and Dogpile were updated.
Miscellaneous
- In case of a system crash or some other emergency Rank Tracker will backup all your data. Next time you launch it, the tool will let you choose whether you want to use the original or the restored version of your project.
Misc.
- Overall stability of Rank Tracker was improved.
RankTracker 4.11.4 (Released Dec 17, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Search algos of Alexa, Excite and Lycos were updated.
Keyword Research
- A new option has become available in the keyword research method powered by Google Adwords Keyword Tool. You can now choose to check local or global search volume for your keywords.
Misc.
- Overall performance and stability of Rank Tracker was improved.
RankTracker 4.11.3 (Released Dec 09, 2009)
Keyword Research
- Now when you use Google AdWords Keyword Tool in Rank Tracker for keyword research, you get results within seconds!
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker search algorithms for all versions of Google search engine were updated.
Miscellaneous
- The software was adjusted to deliver projects and logs to Customer Support more conveniently.
- Now users have an option to save all open Rank Tracker projects in one step.
Proxy rotation
- Rank Tracker is now using several new sources for finding free proxy lists.
RankTracker 4.11.2 (Released Dec 07, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker's search algorithms for Russian and Ukrainian Yandex and for Yahoo.com search engines were updated.
RankTracker 4.11.1 (Released Dec 01, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Now Rank Tracker supports the Estonian search engine Neti (www.neti.ee)
- Rank Tracker's algorithms were updated to work with the changed regional versions of Yahoo! and Bing search engines.
Miscellaneous
- Now when copying Rank Tracker data you can now choose to copy only keywords - or all recorded info on each selected keyword.
- There have been several minor usability enhancements to the AutoUpdate function.
- Now Rank Tracker has a better ability to identify external reasons causing problems for software use (ex. lost Internet connection, firewall restrictions etc.)
Localization
- It is now possible to send translated *.properties files to the developers.
RankTracker 3.4.7 (Released Nov 13, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- The search algorithms of Yahoo! (with regional versions) and AOL were updated.
Proxy Rotation
- Issues with getting free proxies were fixed and the process of searching for free proxy lists was enhanced.
RankTracker 4.11 (Released Nov 25, 2009)
Localization
- A special built-in translator's interface was added to Rank Tracker. That module lets you to translate the software into your or your clients' native tongue. Learn more..."
Search Engines Update
- The search algorithms for Google.fr and Exalead were updated.
Miscellaneous
- The stability of Rank Tracker was backed by an auto-recovery feature. Now you can have peace of mind working with your projects - even if you have a power outage Rank Tracker will back up all your unsaved data.
Miscellaneous
- You don't need to restart Rank Tracker to get a fresh version any more. The software will notify you about a new update as soon as it's available...
Miscellaneous
- A special column was added to Rank Tracker where you can put your notes about keywords, rankings, etc.
RankTracker 4.10.7 (Released Nov 13, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- The search algorithms of Yahoo! (with regional versions) and AOL were updated.
Proxy Rotation
- Issues with getting free proxies were fixed and the process of searching for free proxy lists was enhanced.
RankTracker 4.10.6 (Released Nov 11, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Google closed down the developers' preview of their new search architechture (known as Google Caffeine). The testing is over and Caffeine will be rolled out as the default Google algorithm after the holidays.
- The algorithms of Google (a number of regional versions), Ask, Search.ch, Yahoo.hk and Yahoo.cn were updated.
- The Dogpile.com search engine was added to the supported engines list.
- The support of search engines' API keys was improved.
Keyword Research
- There could be some issues when calculating KEI based on the data harvested from certain regional versions of Google. It's fixed now.
Miscellaneous
- Stability and performance of Rank Tracker was further improved.
RankTracker 4.10.5 (Released Nov 3, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Two new search engine added into Rank Tracker: Google Caffeine and Norwegian search engine Kvasir.
- Algorithms of AltaVista (including all its regional versions), AlltheWeb and Google (French versions) were updated.
Reports
- Some sections of Rank Tracker's reports were revised, making them easier to read and giving more concrete information.
Miscellaneous
- Now in many cases Rank Tracker requires to make fewer queries to Google and other search engines, thus working faster and using less bandwidth.
- Rank Tracker stability was improved - especially when it comes to sending out E-Mail Reports and Data Export module.
RankTracker 4.10.4 (Released Oct 26, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms of Bing (including all its regional versions) and Seznam were updated.
RankTracker 4.10.3 (Released Oct 19, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Search engine algorithms of Google including all regional versions and AlltheWeb were updated.
RankTracker 4.10.2 (Released Oct 14, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- The following search engines updated their algos and were adjusted: Google's regional versions Google.dk, Google.co, Google.cn, Google.de, Google.co.id, Google.ke; Yahoo! and AltaVista.
Misc.
- Performance and stability improved.
RankTracker 4.10.1 (Released Oct 6, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for Google (including its regional versions) and Yandex search engines were updated.
Misc.
- Improved system responsiveness and stability in high load situations.
RankTracker 4.10 (Released Sep 29, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Some major search engines' algos were updated (including Yahoo!, Bing, AlltheWeb, Exalead and AltaVista, plus their regional versions.)
Keyword Suggestors
- Google Suggest and Yahoo! Search Assist suggestors can now show suggestions in any (other than English) languages correctly.
- Now you can send reports to multiple email adresses at once using the CC/BCC option.
Misc.
- Many minor bugs were fixed, improving Rank Tracker's stability even further.
RankTracker 4.9.3 (Released Sep 22, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker's algos for Google (including regional versions), Exalead, Voila and Najdi have been updated.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard Support
- Rank Tracker is now fully compatible with Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Keyword Research
- Google Suggest may have failed to generate keywords under certain language options. This issue has been resolved. Now you can make use of this powerful keyword suggestion method to the fullest.
Misc.
- Rank Tracker's stability has been improved.
RankTracker 4.9.2 (Released Sep 08, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker algos for Bing, Yahoo and Ask search engines have been updated.
Keyword Research
- There have been some minor internal changes to the use of Google AdWords Keyword Tool for search volume checks.
User Interface
- Now Rank Tracker lets you view task progress more conveniently.
- It is now easier to detect connection breaks or other problems when software auto-updates.
Misc.
- Stability on Linux has been improved.
- CC, BCC problem when emailing reports fixed (sometimes CC and BCC addresses didn't show up).
- Some users had problems sending project to support from the software, which has been solved.
Proxy Rotation
- The software now better detects the country of the proxy server.
RankTracker 4.9.1 (Released Aug 25, 2009)
Search Engines API
- Google disables its SOAP API Key so following Google recommendations Rank Tracker now supports their AJAX API key for secure searches.
Keyword Research
- Now you can use Google's standard feature - language choice - when estimating search volume for keywords with the help of Google AdWords Keyword Tool.
Scheduler
- Now Rank Tracker lets you schedule tasks for projects stored on another computer in your local network.
Misc.
- There have been stability improvements in the backlink search and scheduler modules.
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker algos for processing results in from Google.com and most regional versions of Google search engine have been updated.
RankTracker 4.9b (Released Aug 19, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithm for Yahoo! search engine was updated.
RankTracker 4.9 (Released Aug 18, 2009)
Keyword Research
- Now you can apply different keyword matching options when looking for keyword search volume in Google AdWords.
Export
- Rank Tracker's data export feature was improved.
Search Engines Update
- Algorithm for Exalead search engine has been updated.
- Local versions of Google search engine were added for Peru, Uruguay, Kenya, Catalonia, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Kazakhstan, Bolivia.
- New Hungarian search engine Pogodak (www.pogodak.hr) was added.
- New search engines for Portugal were added: Sapo (www.sapo.pt), Aeiou (www.aeiou.pt).
- New search engines for France were added: Voila (www.voila.fr), Le Moteur (www.lemoteur.fr), Exalead (www.exalead.fr).
- Excite search engine was added, including versions in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.
- New German search engine Freenet (www.freenet.de) was added.
- New South African search engine (www.ananzi.co.za) was added.
- New search engines for Poland were added: Onet (www.onet.pl), Szukacz (www.szukacz.pl), Wirtualna Polska (www.wp.pl).
- New search engine Yahoo! Taiwan (tw.yahoo.com) was added.
Misc.
- Processing Google captchas in case of interrupted search has been improved.
RankTracker 4.8.4 (Released Aug 10, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithm for Google search engine has been updated.
RankTracker 4.8.3 (Released Aug 7, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithm for Yahoo! search engine has been updated.
RankTracker 4.8.2 (Released Jul 30, 2009)
Scheduler
- There have meen minor improvements to Rank Tracker's task Scheduler.
Keyword Research
- Search volume now can be checked in the most precise and powerful source - Google AdWords Keyword Tool. A new mechanism for keyword suggestion saves you hours building combinations from keywords that you type in.
- The obsolete Overture tool has been totally removed from the keyword research module.
Proxy Rotation
- The proxy rotation module has been modernized.
RankTracker 4.8.1 (Released Jul 21, 2009)
Scheduler
- Rank Tracker now comes with the Scheduler in the stable version, which has been further improved.
- Mac beta testers reported issues closing Rank Tracker with scheduled tasks. This has been fixed.
Search Engines Update
- The Vietnamese Google was added in three versions: Google.com.vn (web), Google.com.vn (những trang viết bằng tiếng Việt) and Google.com.vn (những trang từ Việt Nam).
- Algorithms for Bing and several regional versions of Google SEs were updated.
RankTracker 4.8 (Released Jul 16, 2009)
Scheduler
- After 2 weeks in beta, task scheduler was added to Rank Tracker and is available under Preferences -> Scheduler.
Misc.
- Copying and pasting options were improved or added to numerous modules of Rank Tracker: report templates, publishing profiles, export templates, scheduled tasks, etc.
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker was updated to work with the changed algorithms of Google.com and Exalead search engines.
RankTracker 4.7.9 (Released Jul 10, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker was updated to work with the changed algorithms of Ilse.nl, Ask and Lycos search engines.
RankTracker 4.7.8 (Released Jun 30, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithm for the Bing search engine was updated.
RankTracker 4.7.7 (Released Jun 24, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Work of Yahoo! and Google API has been improved.
Misc.
- Some users might have had problems checking rankings of inner pages (e.g. www.mysite.com/page-1.html). This has been fixed.
RankTracker 4.7.6 (Released Jun 22, 2009)
Misc.
- Auto-update problems on Windows Vista and Mac OS X have been fixed.
Software now runs on PowerPC (PPC) Mac computers
- Now all PPC-based Mac users can download the latest version and enjoy all the new SEO PowerSuite features and fixes.
RankTracker 4.7.5 (Released Jun 17, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithm for the recently added Altavista search engine was updated.
RankTracker 4.7.4 (Released Jun 16, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- 38 new search engines added into SEO SpyGlass including Google Croatia (Google hrvatski), many regional Bing versions for Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Estonia, Korea (South), Lithuania, Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, plus Spanish versions of Bing for USA.
- Algorithms for Bing and Ask search engines were updated.
- Rank Tracker now supports new Bing API (a.k.a. MSN/Live API 2.0) to stay the most search-engines-friendly SEO tool. All users are encouraged to get new Bing API Keys at Bing Developer Center - instructions here.
Bult-in Browser Improved
- Rank Tracker could have minor problems when running on computers with Middle East locales (especially, with a Turkish locale), which are now fully fixed.
RankTracker 4.7.3 (Released Jun 11, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithm for the recently added Bing search engine was updated.
RankTracker 4.7.2 (Released Jun 03, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker became the fist SEO software that supports the new Microsoft search engine Bing (http://www.bing.com) (in all regional verions!). Note: starting from May 28th Bing officially replaces Microsoft's old Live and MSN.
- AOL search engine (http://search.aol.com) was added together with its regional versions for United Kingdom (http://search.aol.co.uk), France (http://recherchet.aol.fr), Germany (http://suche.aol.de), Italy (http://cerca.aol.it) and Spain (http://busqueda.aol.es)
- 3 new Liechtenstein versions of Google search engine were added: Google.li (Das Web), Google.li (Seiten auf Deutsch), Google.li (Seiten aus Liechtenstein).
- Now Rank Tracker supports 4 more regional AltaVista versions: AltaVista United Kingdom (http://uk.altavista.com/), Germany (Deutschland) (http://de.altavista.com/), France (http://fr.altavista.com/) and Switzerland (Schweiz) (http://ch.altavista.com/).
- Support for 4 new regional versions of Lycos search engine was added: Lycos for United Kingdom (http://www.lycos.co.uk), France (http://www.lycos.fr), Austria (Österreich) (http://www.lycos.at) and Switzerland (Schweiz.) (http://www.lycos.ch)
Misc.
- Numerous small features were added to Rank Tracker together with minor problem fixes.
RankTracker 4.7.1 (Released May 28, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for Live (MSN), Google and Baidu SEs were updated.
RankTracker 4.7 (Released May 26, 2009)
User Interface
- Program icons, installer, splashes etc. were redesigned.
Search Engines Update
- The Israeli search engine Walla.co.il as well as Algerian Google (Pages : Algérie), Google.dz (Pages francophones) and Google.dz (Web) were added.
- Algorithms for Yahoo! and Google SEs were updated.
Miscellaneous
- Rank Tracker functionality for exporting data was largely reorganized and improved.
- Quick Filter in Rank Tracker main view was improved.
RankTracker 4.6.5 (Released May 13, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for Google and Alexa search engines were updated.
Misc.
- Software stability was vastly advanced (over 20 features and fixes)
RankTracker 4.6.4 (Released May 06, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithm for Google search engine was updated.
Misc.
- In the recent release of Rank Tracker in some rare cases there could be a problem with a built-in browser, which is now totally gone. So, all our Mac-based users can enjoy the fully working version of the software now.
RankTracker 4.6.3 (Released May 05, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithm for MSN search engine was updated.
RankTracker 4.6.2 (Released Apr 15, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- 30 search engines' algos were updated: Alexa (Alexa.com), Google's regional versions for Switzerland (Google.ch), Hong Kong (Google.com.hk), Japan (Google.co.jp), South Korea (Google.kr) and Taiwan (Google.com.tw), Japanese versions of the Ask and Yahoo! search engines (Ask.jp and Yahoo.co.jp respectively), Indian version of Yahoo! (in.Yahoo.com), Norwegian version of MSN (MSN.no), as well as German Fireball and Russian Rambler.
Keyword Suggestors
- One of the Rank Tracker's keyword suggestors (namely, Google Suggest) goes international and starts offering keyword suggestions in 37 languages including German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Italian, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish and many more languages.
RankTracker 4.6.1 (Released Apr 03, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for Google, Exalead and Alexa search engines were updated.
- The french versions of Google Canada were added: Google.ca (Pages: Canada), Google.ca (Pages francophones), Google.ca (Web).
Proxy rotation
- The proxy rotation mechanism was further improved and now allows faster work even with proxies from free proxy lists.
Miscellaneous
- Now you can set the number of simultaneously running tasks to control time and bandwidth used by the software.
RankTracker 4.6 (Released Mar 18, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for Google, Yahoo! and Yandex search engines were updated.
- New local (Ukrainian) search engine has been added to Rank Tracker: Yandex.ua.
Proxy rotation
- The unique proxy rotation mechanism was added to ensure secure anonymous work with all search engines.
Miscellaneous
- Projects stability was improved to avoid any data-related problems caused by incorrect software use.
- Now you can configure your FTP server settings on all types of servers, including servers with limited access.
RankTracker 4.5.12 (Released Feb 5, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for Yahoo! and Alexa search engine were updated.
RankTracker 4.5.12 (Released Feb 5, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for Yahoo! and Alexa search engine were updated.
RankTracker 4.5.11 (Released Jan 6, 2009)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for Google and Altavista search engine were updated.
- Support for twelve new search engines added, including Google Groups, as well as many Italian and Malaysian search engines
RankTracker 4.5.10 (Released Dec 18, 2008)
EMail Client
- In the previous version there could be a problem when sending emails using Gmail and other SSL/TLS-based email servers. This patch fixes this problem fully letting you send emails and reports from your Gmail account again.
RankTracker 4.5.9 (Released Dec 16, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithm for Yahoo! search engine was updated.
RankTracker 4.5.8 (Released Dec 15, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for Yahoo! and Alexa search engine were updated.
- The major Swiss search engine [www.search.ch] is now supported by SEO SpyGlass.
RankTracker 4.5.7 (Released Nov 21, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithm for Baidu search engine was updated.
RankTracker 4.5.6 (Released Nov 11, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for Ask, Fireball, MSN and Rambler search engines were updated.
- New search engine has been added to Rank Tracker: Najdi.si.
RankTracker 4.5.5 (Released Nov 09, 2008)
Performance
- Overall performance of Rank Tracker was improved, making possible to check more keywords at once on older computers.
RankTracker 4.5.4 (Released Oct 31, 2008)
Stability
- The recent problem with saving KEI and Competition has been solved.
RankTracker 4.5.3 (Released Oct 27, 2008)
Stability
- Untill now Rank Tracker could occasionally freeze - this update totally fixes this problem.
RankTracker 4.5.2 (Released Oct 20, 2008)
Stability and performance
- Rank Tracker's stability was improved. Earlier Rank Tracker could sometimes freeze when checking rankings - now the problem's fixed, so that you can check rankings for as many keywords at once as you need.
RankTracker 4.5.1 (Released Oct 15, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Algorithms for Google, Yahoo! and Rambler search engines were updated.
- Four new search engines have been added into Rank Tracker: AllTheWeb, Exalead.com, Ilse.nl and Meta.ua.
Performance
- Rank Tracker performance has been improved. Projects now load faster, and overall responsiveness is improved, particularly when looking for information in search engines.
Export
- Based on our users' feedback, Rank Tracker's Export Templates have been improved.
RankTracker 4.5 (Released Oct 08, 2008)
Export
- A totally new export module was added into Rank Tracker. Now you can export all your data into CSV, TXT, HTML, XML, SQL and many other formats with just a couple of mouse-clicks.
Performance
- Rank Tracker's performance was vastly improved. Now Rank Tracker will use less CPU and memory resourses of your computer, letting you run other CPU-consuming applications and tasks along with Rank Tracker.
RankTracker 4.4.5 (Released Oct 06, 2008)
Registration
- Recently some users could experience problems with program registration. This update fixes this bug.
RankTracker 4.4.4 (Released Oct 03, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Yahoo! and Google search engines algos have been updated.
- In some rare cases there could be a problem when selecting Preferred Search Engines. This update fixes it.
RankTracker 4.4.3 (Released Sep 30, 2008)
General
- A problem with disappering context menus was fixed, so all Mac OS X users can enjoy all the latest capabilities of new versions.
- Rank Tracker performance was improved. Now the application should use less CPU and memory resources of your computer.
RankTracker 4.4.2 (Released Sep 25, 2008)
Keyword Suggestors
- Keyword Discovery suggestion method was fixed so that now you can get keywords suggestions with 9 different keyword suggestions methods.
RankTracker 4.4.1 (Released Sep 25, 2008)
Autoupdate
- Automatic software update fixed - now the program will download and install all its new versions automatically.
RankTracker 4.4 (Released Sep 24, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Our users form Belarus, Egypt, Lithuania, Malaysia, Thailand and Ukraine can now promote webistes in their regional Googles: sixteen new versions of this search engine was added into the current release of RankTracker.
Keyword Suggestors
- Free version of the popular Keyword Discovery service was incorporated into Rank Tracker, letting its users get up to 100 new keyword suggestions for each term.
Enhanced Keyword Management
- A new source to get searche volume (number of searches) was added - Keyword Discovery (free). Now you can choose between two different mechanisms (Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery) to calculate search volume and KEI (Keyword Efficiency Index).
Human Emulation
- Human Emulation was improved with a new feature. Now the software closer imitates human behavior, going to the homepage of a search engine before making a check.
Misc.
- Now you can always verify your Rank Tracker results: view your rankings saved in the software cache during the last check.
- Now while working with the software users can see progress bars. You clearly see what task the software is working at, and how much of each task is done and left.
- The 'Help' menu has a new item 'Send Project To Support', letting you easily send your project to Support Team if needed, right from the software.
RankTracker 4.3.7 (Released Aug 23, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Five new Latvian search engines added: Google Latvia (visā internetā), Google Latvia (lapās latviešu valodā), Google Latvia (Latvijas lapās), MSN Latvia (Tikai Latviešu) and MSN Latvia (Tikai no Latvija).
RankTracker 4.3.6 (Released Aug 21, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Rambler and Google search engines algos have been updated.
RankTracker 4.3.5 (Released Aug 14, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Yahoo! and Google search engines algos have been updated.
RankTracker 4.3.4 (Released Aug 08, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Google search engine algo have been updated.
RankTracker 4.3.3 (Released Aug 05, 2008)
Wordtracker KEI Data
- A problem with case-sensitive keyword research in Wordtracker has been fixed.
RankTracker 4.3.2 (Released Aug 04, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Google search engine algo have been updated.
RankTracker 4.3.1 (Released Jul 30, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- MSN and Google search engines algos have been updated.
RankTracker 4.3 (Released Jun 17, 2008)
Wordtracker KEI Data
- You will now quickly and safely collect data for search volume (aka number of searches) and KEI (Keyword Efficiency Index) for all your keywords and thus easily single out the most valuable keywords with the help of Wordtracker Keyword Suggestion Tool.
Keyword Suggestors
- A new keyword suggestion mechanism Wordtracker was added, and this gives you numbers of new keyword ideas. Rank Tracker supports Wordtracker API key that gives you access to full data from Wordtracker's database.
Search Engines Update
- People from 8 more countries can enjoy tracking results in their regional Google versions with Rank Tracker, since it now supports 24 new local Google versions for Egypt, Venezuela, Taiwan, Bulgaria, Iceland, Ecuador, Colombia and Estonia.
- Our Middle East users can now get Yahoo! and MSN results in local Arabic versions of these search engines for United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia (KSA).
Enhanced rank checking
- Three different rank checking methods are introduced in Rank Tracker so you can fine-tune your rank monitoring routine. Selecting proper method lets you minimize the number of queries made to search engines thus saving you time and Internet traffic required to check all keyword rankings. What is more important, properly selected rank checking method can make your rank checks much more search engines-friendly.
- If you've got a website with subdomains, now you can easily track subdomains' rankings as well. You don't have to create multiple projects for each separate domain now - just use the "Include subdomains" option to check all rankings in one project.
Misc.
- Now you can work with websites that have internationalized domains like www.probestück.org or www.café.com.
RankTracker 4.2.10 (Released Jun 06, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- 8 new search engines added: regional version of Google Saudi Arabia, Google UAE (United Arab Emirates) and Google South Korea.
- Rank Tracker starts supporting MSN API for even better search-engines-friendliness.
Misc.
- On some Mac computers built using the PowerPC technology Rank Tracker could crash when trying to switch to the Reports tab. The problem has been fixed.
RankTracker 4.2.9 (Released May 29, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Many regional versions of Yahoo! search engine have been updated.
- A problem causing incorrect work of Reports on some versions of Mac OS X has been fixed
RankTracker 4.2.8 (Released May 28, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Rank Tracker now supports the most popular South Korean search portal Naver (Naver.com).
- Yahoo! and Baidu search engine algos have been updated.
RankTracker 4.2.7 (Released May 20, 2008)
East Asian languages support
- Improved support of East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean).
RankTracker 4.2.6 (Released May 08, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Google and MSN search engines algos have been updated.
- Work of Yahoo! API in regional search engines (including Yahoo.co.uk) has been improved.
RankTracker 4.2.5 (Released May 01, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Google and Yahoo! search engines algos have been updated.
Besides, now Google algorithm correctly works with links pointing to YouTube videos, Google Maps, Google Images, Google Blog Search, etc.
RankTracker 4.2.4 (Released Apr 28, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Search engine algos have been updated for Ask.com (all countries), Google (China and Hong Kong), MSN (France, Norway, Greece, Poland, Slovenia and Romania) and Seznam.
- If you're using Yahoo! API, this update is HIGHLY recommended. A new version of Yahoo! API comes with this Rank Tracker update, so now you'll be getting the most precise results.
RankTracker 4.2.3 (Released Apr 21, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Yahoo! and MSN search engine algos have been updated.
RankTracker 4.2.2 (Released Apr 17, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Yahoo! search engine algo has been updated.
Misc.
- Quick filter possibilities enhanced.
RankTracker 4.2.1 (Released Apr 17, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Google search engine algo has been updated.
RankTracker 4.2 (Released Apr 16, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Regional versions of Google and MSN for Finland, Belgium, Costa Rica, Slovakia and Serbia added into Rank Tracker - a total of 21 new search engines: Google.fi (kaikkialta internetistä), Google.fi (suomenkielisiltä sivuilta), Google.fi (sivuja maasta: Suomi), Google.fi (webben), Google.fi (sidor på svenska), Google.fi (sidor från Finland), Google.be (Das Web), Google.be (Seiten auf Deutsch), Google.be (Seiten aus Belgien), Google.sk (web), Google.sk (stránky písané po slovensky), Google.sk (stránky zo Slovenska), MSN.sk (Iba slovenčina), MSN.sk (Iba z: Slovensko), Google.co.cr (la Web), Google.co.cr (páginas en español), Google.co.cr (páginas de Costa Rica), cr.MSN.com (Sólo Español), cr.MSN.com (Sólo de Latinoamérica), Google.co.yu (Веб), Google.co.yu (Вебстранице на српском), Google.co.yu (Вебстранице из земље: Србија)
Search Safety
- Search safety was tremendously enhanced by letting you use thousands of random User Agents when querying Google and other SEs. Now your rank checks are particularly search-engine-friendly.
Keyword Research
- A new mechanism for keyword suggestion saves you hours building combinations from keywords that you type in.
Import
- You can import keywords from LinkAssistant into Rank Tracker - now your keywords with all their ranking data easily migrate to Rank Tracker for further research.
RankTracker 4.1.1 (Released Apr 03, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Google and MSN search engines algos have been updated.
RankTracker 4.1 (Released Mar 21, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- 24 new search engines added into Rank Tracker including Google, Yahoo! and MSN for Japan, South Africa, Romania, Greece, Hong Kong and Russia.
Now Rank Tracker supports 306 different search engines! - Now you can see whether you rank differently for the same words using upper-case and lower-case letters.
Enhanced Keyword Management
- When you're looking at difference between present-day and previously-checked ranking, now Rank Tracker signals when you entered top results pages - or dropped from them. And, if you weren't in the top results for your keyword at the time of previous check - and aren't there today - Rank Tracker lets you know with a "Not applicable" sign.
- Now you can choose to compare latest keyword rankings and results you got and a week, a month, 2 months ago etc, making it easier to analyze trends.
- You can put color markers for keyword categories,so now it's much easier to find your keywords.
- Now you can delete numerous history records within a timeframe that you set - and for the keywords you specify - at once!
Workspaces
- Two new Workspaces added for all new projects created with Rank Tracker: "Keywords That Entered Top Results" and "Keywords That Dropped From Top Results".
RankTracker 4.0.8 (Released Mar 13, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Googlesearch engines algo has been updated.
RankTracker 4.0.7 (Released Mar 03, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Google and Yahoo! search engines algo has been updated.
RankTracker 4.0.6 (Released Feb 14, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- 19 new search engines added, including regional Google, Yahoo!, and MSN versions for Hong Kong, Mexico, Chile and Switzerland.
- Yahoo! (including all its regional versions) search engine's algo has been updated.
RankTracker 4.0.5 (Released Jan 25, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Altavista search engines algo has been updated.
RankTracker 4.0.4 (Released Jan 23, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- Some major search engines' (including Google and Yahoo!) algos have been updated.
RankTracker 4.0.2 (Released Jan 15, 2008)
Human Emulation
- Human Emulation was improved, and thus your chances to have problems with Google minimized.
Reports
- Visibility progress graph was revised.
RankTracker 4.0.1 (Released Jan 14, 2008)
Search Engines Update
- 8 new search engines added: Seznam.cz, Google.fi (the web), Google.fi (pages from Suomi), fi.Yahoo.com (webissä), fi.Yahoo.com (Suomi), MSN.fi, MSN.fi (Vain suomi), MSN.fi (Vain kohteesta Suomi).
- Yahoo! search engine (including all its regional versions) algo updated.
Misc.
- Mac version of Rank Tracker now supports closable project tabs.
- SFTP support improved has been improved in the built-in FTP client.
RankTracker 4.0 (Released Dec 26, 2007)
Search Engines Update
- 73 new search engines added into Rank Tracker including Google Blog Search, as well as regional versions of Google, Yahoo! and MSN for Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Portugal, Slovenia, Sri Lanka.
Now Rank Tracker supports 249 different search engines!
Autoupdate
- Autoupdate function added - now the program will download and install updates automatically.
Enhanced Project Management
- A new Check All Projects function allows to check rankings simultaneously for ALL projects that are open.
Enhanced Keyword Management
- Check and/or Update KEI function to update data for selected records, records in the current workspace or all records in the project within just one click.
Misc.
- Quick filter possibilities enhanced, so necessary records can be easily found in the project.
- Sorting our search engines by country/by search engine.
- Now you can preview all your historical data automatically.





