IBP review

[Xx Legacy xX]

f you've ever worked on web sites doing everything by hand you know what a huge time-sink it is. Long ago I used to write all my sites with notepad and everything else was done manually. With the increased complexity of sites now this method is no longer feasible.

 

If you've been going link exchanges by hand you know for sure the hassles of dealing with this. I'd estimate that for every 10 link exchange emails or forms I submit, I might end up gaining 1 link back to my site. Considering the amount of time it takes to do this manually, I no longer bother. The only way I can imagine it being worthwhile is to pay someone in India or China to do this stuff for you at a cheap hourly rate. Unfortunately since I don't have enough faith to let someone else work on my sites and do things correctly, I opt to do it myself. One thing that I do have faith in however is Axandra's IBP software. IBP stands for Internet Business Promoter. This program does so many things I haven't even come close to trying all the features, and I've been using it for a long time.

 

The business version of IBP allows you to setup many sites, each with their own information. It uses this information to fill in forms, submit to search engines and directories, etc. Each of these site profiles keeps their own data so you can easily switch between projects and not lose any information. This version also has the ability to create custom reports for customers with your company name on them so that SEO firms can use it for their businesses.

 

Since I haven't used all the features I will touch on my favorites and just mention some of the others. I will mention these in descending order starting with my favorite.

 

Link Popularity Improver

This feature is by far my favorite. It is a semi-automated link exchange program. You simply tell it the page you want to work on getting links to, the keywords you're targeting, and what search engines to look on. It fires up a bunch of threads (up to 16), which search the selected search engines for link directories on sites relating to your keywords. It sorts the results by relevance and you can quckly go down the list and it will auto-fill the forms for you with the data you provide in the site profile. It also keeps all the results in a big list and checks off the box when you submit for form. This way you can keep track of ones you've already done, which my mind isn't capable of doing alone. My only complaint about this feature is that it always seems to find the same sites over and over (mixed in with results you care about) every time I run it, no matter which site I'm working on, what keywords it searches for, or which search engines I pick. I end up spending time wading through the results looking for ones that are actually relevant to your site. Despite this issue it is still much much better than doing this by hand! I really enjoy letting this run overnight with 16 threads, waking up in the morning to see that it visited 10,000+ web sites while I was asleep and has a fresh list of pages for me to exchange links with.

 

Top 10 Optimizer

This is my second favorite feature. It will analyze the top 10 sites on the search engine you choose and compare it to your site. It then generates a large report that gives lots of information on ways to improve your site. It analyzes things such as keyword density in the title, meta description, meta keywords, H1/H2 tags, body text, same site links, keywords in urls, keyword positions, and many many other factors. It also checks your page for a large list of common mistakes. This optimizer is better than others I've used. It actually shows you the sections in question on your page shown alongside the other page's content, and what it offers a suggestion it actually gives you specific suggestions, such as "you should mention XYZ keyword more than once in the title tag" if it finds that all the other top10 pages have that in the title.

 

Search Engine Submitter

This feature isn't terribly exciting since there are probably hundreds of other things out there now that do this exac thing.. It is just an automated search engine submitter. It uses the information you gave in the site profile and submits to a ton of engines. It also has a semi-automatic search engine submission tool, which I have not tried. After reading news of at least one engine giving penalties to sites that use the submit form I stopped using engine tools like this. Submitting to hundreds of engines is pointless when most of the world uses Google, Yahoo, and MSN. All it takes to get those 3 to spider your site is to have some incoming links. For the last few sites I've created I skipped the engine submission step completely and had no problems.

 

Directory Submitter

There is also a semi-automated directory submitter. It takes you to the (auto filled) submit form almost identical to the way the link exchange tool does. This also contains some specialized directories if your site is in certain categories/locations.A I wish this feature had more directories listed. There are literally thousands of them out there and I wish IBP's internal list was bigger. I still end up doing most of my directory submissions by hand.

 

Other Tools

IBP also has a handy link to the w3c HTML validator and will automatically submit the url from your current project to perform the validation.

A handy optimization html editor is also present. It allows you to easily modify/add meta tags, and many other aspects of the page. It will also show you the latest top10 optimizer report so you can easily refer to it to make changes. The editor also has a simple HTML view so you can edit the code directly, which has syntax highlighting but lacks features like autocomplete and color picker that you'd find in Dreamweaver. One additional cool feature of the editor is it allows you to open and view a competitor's HTML. My favorite part of the editor is that it will show you the keyword densities for the various aspects of the page while you're working on it, so once you have your goal figured out (from the top10 report) you can know when you get there without having to recreate the report.

 

There are additional features for managing pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns, various keyword generators which load the web site in question in the IBP application frame (such as the Overture inventory tool). Since many of the things it features are web sites loaded inside the application it makes it handy to get to a lot of the tools that I find myself using on a daily basis.

 

In conclusion, I can't recommend IBP highly enough. It offers features that blow away the other products I've used. If you have more than one web site this software is easily worth the price. I'm no salesman, and I could probably talk someone out of buying something they came to me looking to purchase. For that reason I highly suggest checking out the IBP website and let them properly explain what their software is capable of.

 

*artical not made by legacy*

[iBotPeaches]

Its IPB. Not IBP. Otherwise great tutorial, makes me forget about that good ole IPB. phpbb3 is free though, and its cool too.

[Xx Legacy xX]

Its IPB. Not IBP. Otherwise great tutorial, makes me forget about that good ole IPB. phpbb3 is free though, and its cool too.

lol oh yeah

when i was reading it i was like wtf

 

Oh i am kinda back but still gone

i am at my bro's for awhile