Release Notes for ASEOPS

11.0.4 (Released August 1, 2022)

• ASEOPS is now available as freeware

11.0.3 (Released September 14, 2020)

• A large number of bug fixes and updates have been made.

11.0.1 (Released March 3, 2020)

• A large number of bug fixes and updates have been made.

11.0.0 (Released June 11, 2018)

• User interface was updated.
• Obsolete tools were removed or updated.
• A few new tools were implemented.
• Integrated web browsers were extended to the new standards.
• Handling of search engines responses was improved and updated.
• Number of other minor improvements and error corrections.

10.0.3 (Released May 23, 2018)

• Number of other improvements and corrections.

10.0.2 (Released October 4, 2016)

• Correction of a problem with the HTML Validator.

10.0.1 (Released August 24, 2016)

• Improvement of the installation routine, which now also installs required DLLs.

10.0.0 (Released May 25, 2016)

• The program's general performance and speed were significantly enhanced.
• Improved user interface and usability corresponding to the latest Windows 10 guidelines.
• Integrated support of Page Speed Insights tools.
• Extended support of HTML5 and other language extensions.
• Validation of using hreflang attributes for language and regional pages was introduced.
  
• Website Analyses functions were updated and optimized.
• Number of other improvements and corrections.

9.0.7 (Released April 5, 2016)

• An error of opening the keyword tools dialog box was fixed.

9.0.6 (Released March 24, 2016)

• SEO Analysis functions were corrected and updated.
• Functions for retrieving backlinks were updated.

9.0.4 (Released November 19, 2014)

• SEO Analysis functions were corrected and updated.
• Memory management was optimized to improve scanning of large websites.
• Functions for retrieving backlinks were updated.

9.0.3 (Released July 22, 2014)

• Fixed errors of synchronization between multiple running instances of the program in scheduled mode.
• Wrong status of HTML validation results was corrected in Analysis report.

9.0.2 (Released July 8, 2014)

• Correction of a problem with retrieving backlinks from Google Webmaster Tools.

9.0.1 (Released February 19, 2014)

• Task Planner: The external task planner can run analyses, submissions and ranking queries automatically by a fixed schedule.
• SEO Analysis: An error regarding the keyword analysis in the title was fixed.
• A few other small errors were fixed.

9 (Released December 11, 2013)

• Improved HTML Validator: Now supports HTML 5 as well as other numerous HTML extensions.
• Working in a team: Users can use projects and templates via a local network, cloud or another shared folder in a team.
• Improved project management: Users can create folders and subfolders where they can organize their projects.
• Proxy server for search engine queries: As far as search engine queries are concerned, users can define as many proxy servers as they like whereby the query will speed up considerably and possible blocks by the search engines will be avoided.
• Website Analysis: Users can determine and save a number of individual analysis settings. These settings can be in turn imported whenever they are needed.
• Report settings: The options available for the analysis report have been further enhanced and as a consequence the user can now determine what kind of information is to be presented and how the graphical displays should be presented in terms of color.
• SEO-Wiki: After performing the website analysis, the user will receive additional links to the SEO-Wiki. The Wiki is continually being updated and contains some useful SEO articles. The user gets some general l information about the topic and recommendations according to the analysis result.
• Advanced settings for ranking query: In the Options window, it is possible to customize the settings for ranking queries via search engines in further detail.
• Social websites: A revised mechanism allows users to setup and manage accounts within social networks a lot more quickly.
• New user interface: The user interface was revised and equipped with new icons, arranging the program in a clearer manner and highlighting important information better.
• Five color themes: The user can now choose from five different color themes for the user interface.
• Templates: Templates can now be imported and exported.
• Rating Process: A new area included in the analysis report demonstrates the rating process through the use of icons.
• Faster loading times: Projects now load up more quickly.

8.5.5 (Released September 23, 2013)

• Fixed the error when accessing the internal HTML editor.

8.5.4 (Released July 12, 2013)

• All the program's areas were further optimized for better performance and stability.
  
• Website Analysis and Rating functions were updated to reflect recent changes (Alexa, Website Age, seoMOZ, and others).
• Number of other minor problems were resolved.

8.5.3 (Released January 25, 2013)

• Improved support of multiple successive redirections by all the site scanners and analyzers.
• Fixed the problem of false detection of new version of database on update server.
• Added possibility to regenerate ranking reports for old queries stored in history.
• Rating functions were updated.
• Several user interface improvements and minor error corrections.

8.5.2 (Released October 9, 2012)

• Context menus to HTML source editors were added.
• Enhanced support of excluding URLs from scanning and analysis.
• Possibility to define several session ids to delete from analyzed URLs was implemented.
• Number of optimizations to improve speed and stability of scanning large websites were implemented.
• Several other minor error corrections and user interface improvements.

8.5.1 (Released September 4, 2012)

• An error with activation and deactivation of unlock keys was corrected.
• A number of minor errors and text issues were corrected.

8.5 (Released August 9, 2012)

• Automated gathering of backlinks from blekko webservice was introduced.
• Wizard for importing backlinks from User's Google Webmaster Tools was implemented.
• Several new SEO analysis elements were introduced.
• Recommendations for SEO analysis were updated to reflect recent SEO researches.
• Advanced filters for Backlinks section were added.
• More options for customization of Backlinks view were implemented.
• Multiple user interface improvements were done.
  
• Support of customizable sounds for different program actions was introduced.
• Context menus for quick operations on found URLs were added in all program sections.
• A number of minor errors and text issues were corrected.

8.1.6 (Released May 25, 2012)

• Commands for opening URLs in external programs were implemented.
• A problem with incorrectly decoded URLs under certain conditions was corrected.
• The context menus for found URLs were extended with additional commands.
• The Submission and Ranking functions were updated.
• Several other user interface improvements and minor error corrections were made.
  

8.1.5 (Released May 12, 2012)

• The problem with using wrong webmaster's e-mail address during automatic submission was fixed.
• The problem with not recognizing non-ascii domain names (Punycode) in search results was resolved.
• Rating functions were updated.
• A number of minor errors and text issues were corrected.

8.1.4 (Released March 17, 2012)

• Support of the Secure FTP protocol (FTP via SSH) was imlemented.
• Possibility to define competitors manually was introduced.
• Improved support of large (> 125%) fonts on Windows Vista and 7.
• Import of data from existing Sitemap XML index files was implemented.
• A number of other minor error fixes and improvements.

8.1.3 (Released January 28, 2012)

• Export of ranking results to CSV format was improved.
• Export of reports into PDF and HTML formats was improved.
• Number of other minor errors and user interface issues were corrected.

8.1.2 (Released January 13, 2012)

• New Wizard for creating multiple projects from list of URLs was implemented.
• Speed of analysis and HTML code validation was significantly increased.
• Sitemap Generator was extended and improved.
  
• Several user interface issues on screens with big fonts were corrected.
• Number of other user interface improvements and error corrections.

8.1.1 (Released January 9, 2012)

• Several other minor errors were fixed.

8.1.0 (Released January 7, 2012)

• New 'Summary' dashboard with most important information about a project.
• Improved PDF, XLS and RTF reports with custom logo, headers and footers.
• Additional options for Sitemap Generator.
• Export of general report in PDF format.
• Improved and corrected site scanners and validators.
• Many other user interface improvements and errors fixes.

8.0.3 (Released December 20, 2011)

• Export of general reports to PDF format was implemented.
• Improved and updated Site Rating functions.
• An error after updating the search engines database, when no project was loaded, was corrected.
• An error which occurred on Windows XP after starting the application was fixed.
• Several other minor errors were fixed.

8.0.2 (Released December 16, 2011)

• Improved Import function with support of project files from ASEOPS 7 and Hello Engines! 7, 6 and 5.
• Improved HTML Editor with auto-selection of found errors.
• A number of user interface improvements and minor error fixes.

8.0.1 (Released December 14, 2011)

• Updated and improved functions in the Website Analysis and SEO Analyzer.
• A number of user interface improvements were added.
  
• Several minor errors and text issues were corrected.

8 (Released December 12, 2011)

• Radically revised user interface, improved useability and easier handling.
• SEO Analysis of single documents with a separate keyword set: Thus, you can optimize every document of your website for specific keywords.
• Analysis of local projects: Apart from websites which ar available online you can now also analyze and optimize websites on your local disk.
• Improved backlinks management and display of further useful information like Domain Authority and mozRank.
• New elements in the SEO optimization analysis as for example the length of the title tag, occurences of keywords in the title tag and many more.
• New functionality to compare the SEO optimization of two websites fast and easily.
• Comparison of the top 10 websites for a keyword in regard to their search engine optimization.
• Improved search for duplicated contents: All documents of a website are now compared to each other to detect duplicate content.
• Improved ranking report: The results are now shown in a results table.
• Reports can now be exported into Word, Excel, PDF, HTML or CSV.
• Results tables can now be exported into Word, Excel, PDF or CSV.
• Numerous new reports & improved existing reports for the different program modules.
• The importance and weight of a website analysis element can now be customized.
• Numerous other improvements and optimization of the existing functionality.

7.1.5 (Released February 13, 2012)

• The Submission and Ranking functions were updated.
• Several other user interface improvements and minor error corrections were made.

7.1.3 (Released February 13, 2012)

• The Website Rating functions were updated.
• The Backlinks module was updated and corrected.
• The Website Analysis functions were updated and corrected.
• A number of other minor errors were fixed.

7.1.1 (Released October 7, 2011)

• Correction of a problem, which was introduced in version 7.1.0, regarding creating and opening projects

7.1.0 (Released September 28, 2011)

• The Back Links module was redesigned and improved.
• The algorithm for determining the PageRank was improved.
• The ranking determining functions were updated.
• A problem with incorrect loading of several web sites in the Web Robot Simulator was corrected.
• The Keywords section was improved.
• The Web Rating functions were updated.
• An option 'Pause' was added to stop the analysis process temporarily.
• A number of other minor errors and user interface issues were corrected.

7.0.7 (Released June 1, 2011)

• A problem with incorrect displaying of several submission reply pages was fixed.
• The algorithm of the load page time calculation was improved.
• The Automatic submission method was improved.
• A few problems with the scanning of large sites and with the analysis were corrected.
• The keywords density analysis was improved.
• The rating functions were updated.
  
• Several other minor problems were fixed.

7.0.6 (Released March 10, 2011)

• Revision of the Spanish and French user interface translations.

7.0.5 (Released March 4, 2011)

• An option for defining the maximum delay between subsequent ranking queries manually was implemented.
  
• The functions for retrieving ranking results were updated.
• The display of the Website Analysis results was improved.
• A problem where not all broken links were displayed in the HTML Editor was solved.
• The automatic submission method was improved.
• A number of other minor errors and cosmetic issues were corrected.

7.0.4 (Released January 27, 2011)

• An option to select a local file for analysis was implemented in the Custom Analysis dialog box.
• A problem with incorrect combination of found links in a HTML page in the case of a wrong base URL was corrected.
• The algorithm for the images area calculation was improved.
• The possibility to scan web sites correctly without a default document was implemented.
• The DMOZ.ORG results analysis was updated.
• Improved Sitemap Generator.
• A number of other minor errors were fixed.

7.0.3 (Released December 16, 2010)

• The Website Rating functions were updated.
• Support of a Backlinks report was implemented.
• A problem of incorrect displaying of the ROBOTS.TXT Editor in the 'Fix Errors' mode was solved.
• The maximum possible number of scanned web pages was increased to 10,000.
• A number of other minor errors and user interface issues were corrected.

7.0.2 (Released December 8, 2010)

• The Website Rating functions were updated.
• Several improvements were implemented for a better usability of the program.
• A number of minor errors and text/cosmetic issues were corrected.

7.0.1 (Released November 22, 2010)

• Several user interface improvements and corrections were implemented.
• Number of minor errors and text issues were corrected.

7 (Released November 17, 2010)

• Completely redesigned and project-based user interface.
• The powerful New Project Wizard allows creating a new project very easily and fast.
• Support of many templates types (Website data, Access data, Customers, Reports) for an easy reuse of common data.
• Sophisticated Website Analysis for a complete one-click complete analysis of a website including reporting.
• The possibility to fix found problems directly on a website via the FTP protocol was added.
• The new Ranking section allows to use the traditional method of queries as well as the very fast and reliable technology of search engines API.
• Enhanced Backlinks Checker with natural backlinks pyramid.
• The revised Web Robot Simulator allows deep view on any web page like search engines robots.
• The revised robots.txt Generator allows quick and easy creation of robots.txt files.
• New Duplicate content Finder for searching pages with similar content.
• New Social Bookmarks Manager for easy maintaining different accounts used for link building.
• New General Report which allows to combine the reports of different sections.
  
• The Rating section now allows to compare three websites.
  
• A number of other new or improved tools for SEO was added.