What’s New in Version 5.6.4 – Released May 11, 2011
· Updated search algorithms to reflect recent Google changes on the Keyword Tool web site
· Updated parsing engine to properly parse Ad Cost for all search types
· You must use the AdWords Login integration in Micro Niche Finder in order to retrieve Ad Cost information. Google has dropped the Ad Cost column from results for searches which are performed when logged-out of AdWords. This is beyond our control.
· PDF version of Help File included with install
· Some users are reporting issues with “Micro Niche Finder cannot find the search button on the Keyword Tool Site” — Google is redirecting some users to the AdWords Campaign Management page instead of the Keyword Tool page. This update should attempt to re-load the Keyword Tool page in the event the search button cannot be found.
· Re-added ability to add MOB to queue, even if phrase counts have not yet been retrieved.
· Added – Link on Home Page to prevent Important Announcements from launching automatically when Micro Niche Finder starts
· Fixed – Project result columns do not sort when clicking the column header
· Fixed – Print results functionality
· Fatal Error Fixed – Micro Niche Finder crashes when exporting Project results to XLS
· Fatal Error Fixed – Micro Niche Finder crashes if status bar panels can’t be accessed when checking internet connectivity
What’s New in Version 5.6.0 – Released April 20, 2011
· A new look, with a modern feel and larger fonts
· Addition of the Majestic SEO API for backlink counts (to use Majestic SEO instead of Yahoo, you must select Majestic SEO on the Options window)Majestic SEO is a new option for backlink counts
· Faster searches, faster results parsing, faster display of results
· New Micro Niche Finder web browser: for Important Announcements, Updates, Google Searches and AdWords Login problems
· One-click access to Micro Niche Finder Options from the Home Page
· Phrase counts on search results pages are now hyperlinks. See what Micro Niche Finder sees from Google with one click!
· Warning indicators appear when the OCI provider web site is offline
· Enhanced Results Cleanup Wizard
· Local Search Trends Column has been removed from the results pages
· Better alignment of search results column headers
What’s New in Version 5.5.7 – Released April 12, 2011
· Fixed an issue with not being able to Login to AdWords when searching
What’s New in Version 5.5.6 – Released March 29, 2011
· Fixed an issue with Keyword Tool not loading during searches
What’s New in Version 5.5.5 – Released March 24, 2011
· Updates base on changes Google made to AdWords site (causing 0 local search count and 0.00 ad cost)
· Widened CAPTCHA placeholder (for longer CAPTCHA’s sent by Google)
What’s New in Version 5.5.4 – Released March 17, 2011
· Fixed: Error on Options window if regexp.fll is not loaded
· Fixed: Error on searches when CAPTCHA requested by Google
What’s New in Version 5.5.3 – Released March 15, 2011
· Fixed: Google modified result structures for some counts (Phrase Count, SOC, inanchor, intitle, inurl), causing the counts to be parsed incorrectly by Micro Niche Finder
· Fixed: Filtering issues on Project Results page
What’s New in Version 5.5.2 – Released March 13, 2011
· Fixed: Ad Cost appears as 0.00 on Project Results page
· Fixed: Close All Tabs bounces back and forth amongst opened tabs
· Additional error handling
· Re-enabled Quick Add on Search Results pages
What’s New in Version 5.5.1 – Released March 12, 2011
· Fixed a bug in the Hide Checked functionality (In some instances, “Hide checked” would allow all results for a search to become hidden. This resulted in a “No results found for this search” error when attempting to load the affected search.)
· Added a Reset Hidden button to the Data Settings tab of the Micro Niche Finder Options window. Clicking the Reset Hidden button will reset all previously hidden result to “not hidden”. Use this function if you have a search which was affected by the Hide Checked bug mentioned above.
What’s New in Version 5.5.0a – Released March 11, 2011
· Fixed an issue with the Easy Filter causing the We’re Sorry window to appear
· Updated Rebuild Indexes to handle errors better
What’s New in Version 5.5.0 – Released March 11, 2011
· Updates to Rebuild Indexes, Optimize Data Files and Cleanup Wizard
· Fixed an issue with “We’re Sorry” screen appearing while rebuilding indexes
· Fixed an issue with “We’re Sorry” screen appearing when selecting Get Checked Phrase Counts
· Fixed an issue with “We’re Sorry” screen appearing when selecting Get Checked OCI
· Fixed an issue with “We’re Sorry” screen appearing when running a Quick Add search
· Added an error check to loading of regexp.fll – if the load fails, the program should ignore the library
· Fixed “We’re Sorry” error when adding checked results to Phrase Count queue
· Added a CloseLog() function – Every line of code in program shutdown is logged in a file named CloseLog.txt in the LogFiles folder. If the program abends during shutdown with a “Microsoft Visual FoxPro error”, please email the CloseLog.txt file to micronichefinder@gmail.com
· Fixed the “Member GETELEMENTBYID does not evaluate to an object” error when selecting previously “checked” results
· Fixed the “Member GETELEMENTBYID does not evaluate to an object” error when retrieving the project results grid
· Several bug fixes (errors reported via the “We’re Sorry” window)
· Added error checking around CURSORTOXML() when writing out the SearchTabs.xml file
· Added a “rebuild indexes” (Optimize Files) during program startup. Will automatically run once at startup every 8 days.
What’s New in Version 5.4.8 – Released March 7, 2011
· Re-enabled Importing Keywords, Quick Add, LSI Searches and Buying Keywords searches
· Fixed an issue with API Error occurring when AdWords Login information cannot be decrypted at startup
What’s New in Version 5.4.7b – Released March 4, 2011
· Corrected a problem with the “We’re Sorry” (Error Report) window, to ensure error reports are properly sent
· Updated Brainstorm & Hot Trends
· Added warning messages for Brainstorm & Hot Trends searches (to notify of changes from 5.4.7a)
What’s New in Version 5.4.7a – Released March 2, 2011
· Updated Brainstorm and Hot Trends logic to retrieve all Brainstorm and Hot Trends keyword phrases. This results in up to 2 searches occurring, which will likely double the amount of time it takes to search (if your searches usually take 1 minute to complete, the Brainstorm and Hot Trend searches will take 2 minutes)
What’s New in Version 5.4.7 – Released March 1, 2011
· Corrected an issue with umlaut characters being rendered incorrectly on results pages and the Manage Searches and Manage Projects pages. (The ribbon tab still display a question mark (?) in place of the umlaut — we are working on a fix for that)
· Fixed an issue with Hot Trends only keeping one-word phrase results
· Updated the Cleanup Wizard to dramatically improve performance
· Added an Existing Search page. If you type a phrase in the search box and there is an existing search (with the same parameters and search type), and the existing search is more than 30 days old, you will be prompted to load the existing search again or run the search as a new search (to refresh the Search Count, Search Trend, Ad Cost and keyword suggestions)
What’s New in Version 5.4.6 – Released February 28, 2011
· Updated the KW Tool parsing engine to reflect proper Local and Global Search Counts when results data contains commas (we are now downloading Tab-Separated data instead of comma-separated) – this typically affected European customers
· Fixed a problem with phrases which contain umlaut characters (you will need to delete affected
· searches from the Manage Searches page, then run the searches again if you were affected by this issue)
· Added a new diagnostic window which appears if Micro Niche Finder is unable to download search results from Google.
· Micro Niche Finder will no longer parse the “error” results from Google as if they are actual search results
· Disabled Quick Add and Importing Keywords (this functionality will return in a future update)
· Re-enabled Brainstorm and Hot Trends (note: Brainstorm now performs a search with 10 “seed” keyword phrases instead of the previous 25. It also keeps all results sent from Google that contain the seed phrases. Hot Trends now returns the top 10 Hot Trend results from Google, instead of the Top 20)
· Corrected an issue with selecting results on Project Results pages and adding them to the queues
· Added a confirmation dialog when removing results from a Project
· Added a Cleanup Wizard to remove old results (on the Data Settings page of the Options window)
What’s New in Version 5.4.5 – Released February 25, 2011
Brainstorm, Hot Trends, LSI and Buying Keywords searches are temporarily disabled in this version!!!
· Corrected a problem with “Cannot find the ‘Columns’ button”, which prevented Micro Niche Finder from completing searches.
· Added Google AdWords Login integration (use the Search Settings tab on the Options window to enter the login information)
· Updated parsing engines for more than 100 results
· Added ability to retrieve up to 800 results (if using login integration)
· Several minor fixes and enhancements
· Search trends display the month and year for Organic, Narrow Dig and Broad Dig searches
What’s New in Version 5.4.3 – Released January 28, 2011
· Updated Keyword Tool parsing engine to correctly parse Ad Cost
Previously in Version 5.4.2 – Released January 19, 2011
· Updated SOC parsing handler to check for new results structure from Google (SOC’s which should be zero were reverting to “Get SOC”)
Previously Updated in Version 5.4.1 – Released January 13, 2011
· Fixed an issue with OLE Error message appearing while retrieving Exact Phrase Counts
· Added new sort capability fixes for Project Results page
Previously Updated in Version 5.4.0 – Released January 11, 2011
· Updated MOB retrieval for new results pages from Yahoo
· Updated HTML resources (move Quick Filter to the left by 5 pixels)
Previously Updated in Version 5.3.9 – Released January 10, 2011
· LSI Searches have been re-enabled
· Fixed an issue with some SOC, Phrase Count, inAnchor, inTitle, inURL results coming back as zero (0), when there is actually a positive count (changes from Google Search Results)
· Added a Quick Filter box to the results grid
· You can now select a secondary ‘sort’ (hold down the Shift key on the keyboard while clicking the secondary sort column header
· Results in the grid are updated on-the fly. No need to “leave the page” to re-sort the results
· Fixed a problem with Project result selection and counts
Previously Updated in Version 5.3.8 – Released December 16, 2010
· Updated screens for Projects, Rename Projects, Quick Add
· Updated help file
· Updated Manage Searches and Manage Projects pages for easier reading
· Quick Add has been re-enabled
· Fixed an issue with Manage Searches page showing “No Searches Found”
· Updates for program activation, updates and testimonials
· Fixed Copy Phrases and Export functionality for Project Results
Previously Updated in Version 5.3.3 – Released November 30, 2010
· Corrected an issue with AdCost of $0.00 for project results
· Updated search screen to prevent “Internet Explorer Script Error” when searching
· Removed/shortened self-imposed delays on Search screen to improve search speed
· Corrected an issue on the Filter screen when filtering based on Result Phrase “contains the exact phrase [value]”
Previously Updated in Version 5.3.1 – Released November 23, 2010
· Search screen improvements, including:
o Enhanced error detection
o Improved process logging
o Improved detection of new results tables
o No longer “resets” keyword tool
· Updated MNFParsers.dll to parse all columns
· Additional checks for updated Google results pages when retrieving Exact Phrase Counts
· Fixed “Create Tags” functionality
· Fixed “Buying Keywords” search functionality
Previously Updated in Version 5.2.9b – Released November 18, 2010
· Coded new Google changes, which prevented Keyword Tool from loading
Previously Updated in Version 5.2.9 – Released November 17, 2010
· Import Keywords has been re-enabled
· Additional timing tweaks for searches
· Added “Cancel Search” button to the search window
· Added Version # on Micro Niche Finder “home page”
Previously Updated in Version 5.2.8 – Released November 13, 2010
· Removed error window for “Could not click Save button”
· Updated MNFParsers.dll to strip from search counts
· Updated MicroNicheFinder5.dll for proper retrieval of CAPTCHA images (SOC)
· Updated MNFResources.dll for cleaner search trends
· Updated project results to use new search trends
· Fixed Exact and Broad phrase counts when no results are found at Google (non-English)
· Updated all count handlers to update appropriate cursors
Previously Updated in Version 5.2.7- Released November 8, 2010
· Timer enhancements for Search screen
· Export Results functionality re-enabled
· Additional checks to prevent OLEErrors on Search screen
Previously Updated in Version 5.2.6- Released November 4, 2010
· Updated search functionality for new changes in Google’s Keyword Tool
· Improved detection of result tables
· Fixed an issue with “digging” from non-organic searches
Previously Updated in Version 5.2.5- Released November 2, 2010
· Re-enabled Brainstorm, Hot Trends, Narrow Dig, Broad Dig, Buying Keywords
· Added detection of failed “clicks” for Exact counts on new External Tool site
Previously in Version 5.2.4- Released November 1, 2010
· Faster search speed
· Improved detection of completed results from KW Tool
· Faster parsing of results
· Improved detection of non-US Ad Cost results
Previously Updated in Version 5.2.0- Released October 28, 2010
· Updated search functionality to access the New Google Keyword Tool
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