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1. ES URL Link Text URL Title No Follow Status Type 1 http www time com time business article 0 8 Best Inventions 2005 Focus a enn com No Normal Text y 2 EJ http fvwww timecanada com Breaking News Analysis Opi emn com No Normal Text 3 E http www time com time Breaking News Analysis Opi H Last rank change The last rank change filter shows only the referrers with their rank changed in the selected period of time Domain information Unverified Referrers 8 Referrers 4 Backlinks Evolution 4 Search Engine Evolution ab Link text O Keyword Analysis View E Referrers By Domain v am O e camper at Pr R Deman rae ED Index Referrer Rank Y AlexaRan Y None 1 dmoz org 8w 1 One month ago 2 4 googleblog blogspot com Bwl Three months ago 3 G amp www aldaily com 8 Six months ago 4 www huffingtonpost com Bal One year ago 5 www usnpl com TAS More than one year ago 6 joi ito com z 7 www searchengineshowdown com 7 130698 0 13 103 Interactive Reports Backlinks Evolution The Advanced Link Manager Backlinks Evolution allows you to track the evolution of your links in time via a chart 9 Search Engine Evolution ab Linktext O Keyword Analysis 4 Email O Brokenlinks 9 Indexed pages Y Domain Information Do Unverified Referrers Bo Referrers 24 Backlin
2. IE Update Multiple Projects Client1 Client2 Client3 Competition1 Competition2 Competition3 4 A y g e Project list You can use any of the Project lists available Time gap between projects You can change the sleep time period used by the process between every project update Manually add referrers When you click on the Manually add referrers item you will be presented with a dialog box This dia log box can be used to manually add referrers for the one more or all target domains 56 Updating Projects IE Manually add referrers WWW msn com WWwW google com Insert URLs case sensitve import from fie _import from webste _ Type Ris ok _ _cancal_ You can add referrers for the desired target URL by selecting it in the lower panel Not selecting any tar get in the lower panel will cause the referrer to be added to all target domains e Add adds the URL from the text box to the referrers list e Remove removes the referrer URL from the list The Update Progress Tab The Update Progress tab is displayed in the main window when an update is started When the Gather links from search engines is in progress it lists the pairs of domains and the search engines used to gather the referrers data When the Verify Link Status update is running the Update Progress tab is showing the current progress of the analyzed referrer links 57 Upda
3. gat Y Assume non web extensions pdf doc exe as linking m 3 2 Os Automatically add new found pages to the project when verifying links Chart Settings Ye A Exclude search engines with 0 link count from charts Referrers quality ratio Use PR divided by the total number of outbound links Use Alexa Rank divided by the total number of outbound links Proxy server g Report Preferences g 5 a d Reporting Ignore URLs with non web extensions when gathering from search engines By selecting this op tion Advanced Link Manager will ignore when gathering the results from search engines any URLs with non web extension This type of URLs will not be present in any report Assume non web extensions as linking This option will make Advanced Link Manager assume that all non web extensions are linking to your website and will see all of them as referrers Automatically add new found pages to the project when verifying links By selecting this option Advanced Link Manager will automatically add to your project any new page of your website found when verifying links from referrers Chart settings Exclude search engines with 0 links count from the charts This option will cause Advanced Link Manager to ignore the 0 links count search for the search engines chart This option is useful if a search engine fails due to a parsing error and the link count dro
4. 8 http www microsoft com windows downloa 9 13 1 12 8 2008 09 22 Updated 2008 09 23 65 55 11 222 9 http www microsoft com 9 13 0 12 72 2008 09 22 Updated 2008 09 23 65 55 11 222 10 http books google com 9 2 0 43 21 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 74 125 43 102 11 http scholar google com 9 2 4 50 2 2008 09 23 Updated 2008 09 23 66 102 1 147 12 http today reuters co uk 8 155335 0 11 70 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 216 35 67 144 13 http www turkishdailynews com tr 8 46107 0 89 9 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 213 243 16 209 14 http www computerworld com 8 9149 0 04 191 2008 09 23 Updated 2008 09 23 65 221 110 98 15 http www mg co za 8 7018 0 11 75 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 196 35 108 186 16 http www newscientist com 8 5581 0 12 69 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 194 203 155 Referrer Information Details URL Title NY Times Advertisement Category High rank Meta Description N A Meta Keywords N A Link category Link categories Link category Link text Priority Description EE NY Times Advertisement O SSS For each referrer the following information is displayed in the corresponding column e Rank This is the rank associated with each web page by the Google search engine It enables you to see which are your most important referrers It can take values from 0 to 10 where 10 is the highest value The N A status means that the referrer is not ranked by Google e Alexa Rank This is the traffic rank associated with each
5. Referrers Report Search Engines Report Unverified Referrers Report e New report starts the report wizard to create new report e Manage reports displays a list of all reports that you created so far and allows you to see a summary description for each of them Report Name When you click on the name of a report the report wizard will open so you can edit its properties Bookmarks Bookmarks Tools Options Help Bookmark this report Ctrl D Manage bookmarks Ctrl Shift B e Bookmarks this report Bookmark a customized report e Manage Bookmarks Manager bookmarked reports Tools 34 The User Interface Options Help Update Progress e Website crawler A Google Maps Webpages Importer 2 Webpage Analyzer r Analyze domains quality Ewent Log Viewer Notes z Generate link pages e Update Progress Displays information about the progress o a current update e Website crawler Opens the Website crawler tool e Google Maps Webpages Importer Opens the Google Maps Webpages Importer tool e Webpage Analyzer Opens the Webpage Analyzer tool e Analyze Domain Quality Opens the Analyze Domain Quality tool e Event Log Viewer Opens the Event Log Viewer e Notes Opens the Notes tool e Generate Link Pages Opens the Generate Link Pages tool Options 35 The User Interface Help ky Preferences Ctrl P g z i Address Book Ctrl Sh
6. Smith Email john smith company com Company Company To Remove a number of contacts first select them then press the Remove button To Modify a contact first select it then press the Modify button FTP Profiles The Advanced Link Manager FTP Profiles is the place where you can store all the profiles of the FTP servers that you want to upload reports to You can access the FTP Address Book from the toolbar button or by selecting Options gt FTP Profiles from the Main Menu ive ctive Remove Modify Test Connection o cal In the FTP Profiles dialog you can add remove or modify profiles To Add a profile press the Add button The Add FTP profile dialog will appear and you can enter the Name of the profile the FTP Server and Port the User the Password the Remote folder and the Con nection mode If your machine connects to the Internet through a proxy server you are allowed to enter the proxy settings in the same dialog by enabling the Use a Proxy Server option 50 Managing Projects Use a Proxy Server Server Proxy Method user host User name Password Connection timeout 7 Use global settings FTP connection timeout fo FTP read timeout 0 In order to Remove a profile first select it and then press the Remove button In order to Modify a profil
7. create your own email templates and use them in future Just click the Email template button and choose one of the available templates or click on Manage email templates in order to create a new one A link exchange discussion can have many stages so in order to know exactly where we stand in our re lation with the wanted link partner we will set a contact status for this possible referrer Just check the and set status to option next to the send button and select one of the predefined statuses or create your own status using the Project menu gt Manage status information dialog 23 Step by Step Tutorials eva Advanced Link Manager 4 6 build 10 Administrator Licensed to Caphyon arr Project Update Scheduler Reports Editreports Tools Options Help gP UO 089 0808 4 94ASuO r pa 19 Search Engine Evolution ab Linktext Keyword Analysis 4 Email O Broken links 9 indexed pages OO Reciprocal inking Y Domain Information Unverified Referrers Ba Referrers pd Backlinks Evolution Ei All items Category Potential link pa Filter A Domain Contains 39 All EA Date All E n oe oe ee 1 research microsoft com 2 www rw designer com 3 blog wittymonkey com 4 www linuxplanet com 5 www masternewmedia org 6 www softpedia com Undecided 7 www snapfiles com 8 pixel image editor en softonic com FA Email composer Fro
8. e Removed Displays only the referrers that contain backlinks with a Removed status e Text links Displays only the referrers containing backlinks with text as the anchor content Image links Displays only the referrers containing backlinks with images as anchor content No follow links Displays only the referrers containing backlinks that have a rel nofollow hyperlink attribute set Removed all links Displays only the referrers that have only removed links Dynamic Filters The dynamic filters can be set to filter by domain name URL or link text Just select one of there three criteria available enter a text in the text box and Advanced Link Manager will filter out the referrers and links that do not match the given text Filter 2 Domain Contains 2 All Re Domain Y Contains _ Backlinks 7 URL path Exact match 0 Link text Begins with 7 a 1 283 Matches regular expression 0 4 329501 30 0 You can also sort the data available by all the information available just by clicking on the column header The context menu The context menu contains the following items e Collapse all nodes collapse the Referrers report to show only the referrer domains 101 Interactive Reports Expand all nodes expands all referrer domains showing all the referrer URLs from all the do mains Open URL in browser opens the selected referrer URL in the system default browser Copy link addres
9. goal14 gt yewjin2000 i cienciamx www global air com www guang org 6162493 www hanifworld com 229343 www humanbodyfilm com N A 21546021 02 domains 3 removed all link 15 41 257930 831868 7236552 220870 Nn Bye e e e ee 115 115 115 372420 PU WAN WR oan vu 4 E jee ee Oe Mn OF KO m L Summary URL Link Text URL Title No Follow Status E cienciamx CienciaMx Tu portal de ciencia en espa ol bbe mundo E fgoa114 Gboyega s Homepage bbc news E fyewjin2000 Our Hopes And Dreams bbe news Note The information contained in this report will only be available after the second step of the update has been completed This step is the one that checks whether your referrers are actually linking back The Referrers report is tied to a date the date when the update was made Thus the report will display for each selected domain the backlinks information for the date when the update took place When an update is currently running you can still access the old data by going back to a previous date The Date drop down list box in the top right corner of the Referrers report allows you to select the date for which the information is displayed Step by Step Tutorials Compare to Feb 24 2006 Date Feb 26 2006 The first drop down selects the date you wish to compare to referred to from now on as the previous date The second drop down
10. ize the dates where the evolution chart starts and or ends Please select a time range to be used in the evolution chart Start on Begin 20 02 2006 Stop at Today 26 02 2006 w AE e Begin If you check it your chart evolution will start with the date when you made your first up date 106 Interactive Reports e Today If you check it your chart evolution will end with today s date e Set Date You can use the calendar to select either the begin or the end date for the evolution chart A context menu is available for the chart with the following options 160 Ln E E i E Save As m 10 a Print B0 Zoom In sn Zoom Out Show All Data In Range 1791 aiai 31321 Save As Saves the chart view into a png or JPEG file Note that the file will contain only the current view of the chart so be sure to save the right section of your chart Print Allows you to print the chart view Zoom In You can magnify the chart view on both axes The area that will be zoomed in has its center in the point where you click with your mouse If you want to magnify only a certain area click with the left button of your mouse to specify the top left point and drag it to select the desired area Zoom Out 107 Interactive Reports You can decrease the chart view on both axes The area that will be zoomed out has its center in the point where you click with your mouse Show All Data
11. main and you can choose from three available options Project Settings This option uses the project default settings from the Preferences tab e Always add This option will always add new found URLs for your selected domain Never add 69 Project Settings This option will never add new found URLs for your selected domain A domain can have one or more pages If you have more than one name that points to the same website then you need to add this name to the domain aliases list e Domain Pages This is the place where you can edit the pages that you wish to track incoming links for If you wish to track a certain web page separately you need to add it to this list The index page of the domain is added by default This is regarded as a special page and will appear as Index Page in the list If you remove the index page you can add it later by adding a new page with the name forward slash e Domain Aliases This is the place where you can add aliases to your website The most well known case is when a website can be refered as its domain name or with the www prefix Example e www domain com e domain com This special case is handled by default in Advanced Link Manager so you don t have to add it your self E Index Aliases Index Aliases default asp default aspx index htm index html index jsp index php Index Aliases This is the place where you can add aliases of your mai
12. or you can download the PDF version of this user guide and follow it from there You can also print the page you are interested in from the PDF document Please visit our website download page for the PDF version of this manual http www advancedlinkmanager com user guide pdf en alm_en pdf Getting Started 1 Creating a New Project Creating a new Advanced Link Manager project involves having a clear image of its utility and func tionality on the part of the user Therefore you first need to know the exact domain of the website you are interested in As an example we have chosen for this tutorial the news service field as the starting point Go to Project gt New Project and the New Project Wizard dialog will pop up displaying the Do main Setup screen Here we ll type in www bbc com as being our site which we ll refer to here as target domain It is its link popularity we want to monitor Step by Step Tutorials Domain Setup This is the domain of your website Please enter the domain of your website Example www domain com www bbc com This is the domain where the links point to You can add more domains to your project later Click the Next gt gt button to proceed to the last screen in New Project Wizard then click on the Finish button to complete New Project Wizard and load the project in Advanced Link Manager Next the application prompts with a dialog asking to enter the name of th
13. Fags htm 10 http www eblogtemplates com wp polaroid blogger 11 http www friedbeef com 7 awesome and free image editors 12 ttp graphicdesignr net blog 2009 04 18 multimedia toolkit 55 sites you 13 http www kokasexton com word 01 top 1000 favorite blogaing links of 14 15 16 ttp www dmoz org computers software graphics image_editing p www cnn com 2009 tech 05 07 pirillo image editing index html sec p www cartridgesave co uk news 21 free paid alternatives to adobe a a ree a IIN N N N N N a w Gd Gd Gd Co Co ES Links To URLs p www picnik com p www online image editor com p www imageeditor net p www pixlr com lt lt Back Add as referrer URLs Cancel Once the update finishes a list with all the backlinks from the pages you selected will be displayed Se lect the Gather additional information button and the Outbound links Onsite links and Page size will be added to the list By selecting an website URL you will see to which pages that URL links Those targets may be your competitors and if that URL link to them it may be possible to link also to you To filter the websites gathered we will first use the number of Links column The links column will tell us what chances we have to get a link from that URL The higher the number of links the more chances we have to get a link You can also decid
14. Header and Footer The Header la Manage Headers and Footers Template name Test Header Footer Company Info Name My Company Address My Company Address Duplicate Web Address www MyCompany com F Logo Browse For HTML reports get logo image from an URL Website URL Client Name www ClientCompany com Browse For HTML reports get client logo image from an Website URL The Default header contains The name of your Company The address of your Company e The web address of your Company 140 Header and Footer e Your Company logo And data about your client The name of your client The web address of your client Manage Headers and Footers Delete lt table class style header width 100 gt lt table gt Rename Duplicate il Assign lt lt nora 00 em The HTML Header may contain an HTML code that will determine the personalized image of the head er in your report The Footer 141 Header and Footer IE Manage Headers and Footers p New Copyright 2008 Delete Rename Duplicate Assign The custom footer may contain any information you want to add to the report e You can add your company s web address by checking the option at the bottom e You can put a default text in your footer by pressing the Default Footer Text butt
15. Note When the update finishes and we have the contact information we can write emails to the webmasters of the new websites added Just select the domain and switch to the email composer tab in the lower sec tion of the report 22 Step by Step Tutorials Advanced Link Manager 4 6 build 10 Administrator Licensed to Caphyon Project Update Scheduler Reports Edit reports Tools Options Help g gt NOOBS BBO814 OFO OG O re me Search Enaine Evolution ab Linktext Keyword Analysis P2 Broken links 9 Indexed pages OO Reciprocal linking Domain Information Unverified Referrers Ba Referrers i Backlinks Evolution Ez All items y Category Potential link pa Filter 42 Domain Contains 2 al E Date all 3 9 CET REESE TT wetter omnis 1 research microsoft com 2 www rw designer com 3 blog wittymonkey com 4 www linuxplanet com 5 www masternewmedia org 6 www softpedia com Undecided 7 www snapfiles com 8 pixel image editor en softonic com FA Email composer RE From Not set Application Email To abo abonet ro EA Subject L Colas 550 Gata Default Manage email templates and set status to Undecided Here you can write the emails by hand or use the predefined email templates available You can also
16. Projects You can choose to restore projects from a different folder than the backup folder by pressing the Browse button This folder will only be remembered while this dialog box is open The backup folder will always be the default restore folder Remove data Create a backup before removing data Bate Range Start on Last update date e Sep 19 2008 Stop at Last update date Sep 19 2008 This dialog allows you to remove data from the current project for the selected time range Click on the Set date buttons to choose the start or end day The Begin checkbox automatically sets the time range to start on the day the project was created The Today checkbox automatically sets the time range to stop on the current day Address Book The Advanced Link Manager Address Book is the place where you can store all the names and email ad dresses of the people you want to send reports to You can use the contacts you enter here when specify ing the destination of a report y You can access the Address Book from the toolbar button or by selecting Options gt 9 Address Book from the Main Menu In the Address Book dialog box you can add remove and modify contacts To Add a contact press the Add button The Add Contact dialog box will appear and you can enter the First Name Last Name Email and Company for a contact 49 Managing Projects john smith company co First Name John Last Name
17. The Insert charts option allows you to include the graphical evolution charts in the report When this option is enabled the Setup button on the right side will allow you to change additional options for the charts 126 Printable Reports Ley Chart Setup Date Range Position Range Full range Show legend Here you can select the date range you wish to see in the charts as well as the range of the links count The Show legend options lets you add a legend at the end of the chart Unckeching the Show all columns option will enable the Select button on it s right side that will allow you to select the columns you wish to appear in the report 127 Printable Reports Lay Select columns 7 Referrer Rank Alexa Rank Quality ratio Outbound Links Backlinks Added Removed Normal Check the Use header footer template option if you want to use a Header and Footer template with this report When the option is checked the header and footer templates drop list will be enabled and you can choose one of the templates available You can press the Setup button on the right side of the list to manage your header and footer templates If the Color URLs in reports option is enabled all the URLs from the report will be colored with their designated colors from the project settings Destination The next step of the wizard allows us to edit the destination of the report 128 Printa
18. The Position Range filter can be used to zoom on a customized position range 104 Interactive Reports e 1 To 10 1 To 50 1 To 100 1 To 500 and 1 To 1000 Displays the selected position range Position Range Fullrange Date Range all Data a 77 Full range Custom Range e Custom Range Displays a dialog window where you can enter the minimum and the maximum position values which will be used by the vertical axis of the chart Minimum value o Maximum value 11000 OK e Date Range It can be used to select the time range used to represent the graphical data You have 7 options to select from 105 Interactive Reports all Data wal 7 Full range x Date Range All Data The horizontal axis of the chart will contain all the available dates Last Week The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the last week s available dates Last Month The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the last month s available dates Last Three Months The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the available dates from the last three months Last Six Months The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the available dates from the last six months Last Year The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the available dates from the last year Custom Range Displays the Date Range dialog box where you have the possibility to custom
19. Top 10 Displays only the first 10 link texts that and groups all others in a single section called Others e Top 15 Displays only the first 15 link texts that and groups all others in a single section called Others 115 Interactive Reports Link Text views Advanced Link Manager allows you to view the Link Text report in different views The Link Text report has the following views available Link Text Tree displays the Referrers grouped by the link text used in the referrers link for a se lected domain e Link Text Overview displays all the link text used by the referrers for a selected domain e Link text Chart displays a pie chart showing the percentage of each link text used by the referrers Last rank change The last rank change filter shows only the referrers with their rank changed in the selected period of time Domain Information Bo Unverified Referrers Ba Referrers Backinks Evolution J Search Engine Evolution ab Link text 9 Keyword Analysis View EZ Link Text Tree X wal y Category All y Filter JQ Link text Contains 2b All 2 None EJ Index Link text URL Rank Y None 1 google news One month ago 2 google Three months ago 3 enews Six months ago 4 the google news homepage One year ago 5 Empty text 6 More than one year ago googlenews The Keyword Analysis Tool The Keyword analysis tool is useful for finding out various keywords rela
20. cs enia ma e Pola o ade ina 47 Duplicating a Project ws css seeseor heres devs sca wae goatee a Son 47 Backup O 47 RESO NO 48 Remove data ia li oe 49 Address Book mt tits A 49 ETP Protile ii E E E E 50 DW pdating A a En ERNE E E A a E oh swan ER ANE a EE 52 Updating a Project erener cita E E oh dota E E tt TEO E bys ete 52 Gather links from Search Engines sissies iisen re esre Taen eaen e Te E Si 52 Gather only number of links from Search Engines cooocccccnncnnccnncconccnnconnccnnccnnconnconncnnncnnncnnncnass 53 Gather indexed pages from Search Engines oocoocccccnnccnnccnnccnnconnconncnnnconnconnconcnnncnnncnnncnnncnnncnnse 54 Import links from file iii nati rata ladies 54 Verify Link Status eenen iaia a n e ia cg EEEO iih 54 Gatherrank aint EEEE EEE S SREE EEEE EEE A E EEKE S EEEE E ni 55 Update reciprocal Inks odia o E E E TEE EEE ati T serene ested 55 Verify Lank Status Forcada E E A EA 55 Update Multiple Projects entr aen ada E a T EAE Gael eee 55 Manually add referrers yeeros aee a nae E 56 The Update Progress Tab arepan dd 57 CurrentUpdates auna E A aS 59 Current Multiple Updates mecioomrecionp oneroso sionista Ae tanda 59 PUIStOBY icono E E EE pr atari is poso 59 Find link partners sonico ere o ccssegeicausaas Golda EEEE plas EEE EEE EEEE EE S es 61 Search Engine and Key words 3 s ccc5s03 ssa ss tessa see poten dee E e Eo rE EEEIEE 61 Refining the results r cc seccccestecececks lt tenias 62 Find link pa
21. data When the Search Engines Overview option is selected shows the comparison data e Hide comparison data When the Search Engines Overview option is selected hides the comparison data e Group by search engines Groups the data from the report by search engines as columns and the URLs as rows e Group by Domains Groups the data from the table by URLs as columns and the search engines as rows Link text quick actions Quick actions K Items QO Show search engine references Items e Show search engines references Displays the search engine references for a selected link text Help quick actions 44 The User Interface Quick actions Link popularity E View my links Analyze links evolution ab Analyze links text Compare link popularity lll View search engine statistics Link campaign Esk Find link partners Send link exchange requests Fey Add referrers Link popularity View my links This view displays the referrers that are linking to your site It will also show you the links that were recently added or removed Analyze links evolution This chart displays a time evolution of the number of links to your website Analyze links text This view displays all the links to your website grouped by the link text Compare link popularity This view displays a comparison between your website and a competitor website You can see the links that you have in common or the links that o
22. dates from the drop down list All displays the updates done in Advanced Link Manager from all dates e Today displays all the updates done today e Yesterday displays all the updates done yesterday e Last Week displays all the updates done last week e Last Month displays all the updates done last month Specific update dates displays the updates done in a selected day Status The Status filter allows you to select different states of an update e All displays all the updates done in Advanced Link Manager for all their statuses e Not Started displays only the updates not started e Complete displays only the updates which are completed e Incomplete displays only the updates which are not completed yet e Manually Stopped displays only the updates which are manually stopped Launched From The Launched From filter allows you to select how the update was started e All displays all the updates done in Advanced Link Manager for all the started types e Manual Update displays single updates manually started e Scheduled Update displays single updates started by the Scheduler e Multiple Manual Update displays multiple updates manually started e Multiple Scheduler Update displays multiple updates started by the Scheduler Name The Name filter allows you to select the updates by Project Name single updates or Project List multiple updates e All displays all the updates even if they were single or m
23. gines with a check box next to them indicating their selection status Only the selected engines will be available in the main frame for data gathering or viewing You can temporarily deactivate search engines from a project The data for the inactive search engines is not removed but rather hidden from the reports Also when updating the project the inactive search en gines are skipped from the update Reactivating a search engine simply makes it visible and updatable again In order to deactivate or activate a search engine go to the Search Engines tab of the Project Set tings dialog box and left click on a Search Engine Press OK when you have finished Keywords In the Keywords tab of the Project Settings window you can select the keywords you are targeting and look to improve rankings in search engines The keywords you are selecting here are used to filter your referrers in the Referrers report and link texts in the Link text report 73 Project Settings Project Settings E Domains 9 search Engines Keywords Preferences L Proxy settings F4 Email Address Client emails Keywords for cnn Contains Inews Exact match e Add Adds the keyword you enter in the Keywords input e Edit Let s you change the color of the keyword and the filter method by choosing Contains or Exact match e Import Let s you import a list of keyw
24. gt Preferences gt Email panel the project settings available via Project menu gt Project settings gt Email panel and the contact details settings available via the Options menu gt Edit contact details gt Email panel Pressing the Retrieve emails button will start retrieving the emails from your configured email ac counts To stop retrieving the emails just press the Stop button next to the Retrieve emails button Email Folders FA Email BO Ges GNi KX me The Folders panel contains a folder for each incoming email settings one for the Sent emails and a Trash folder This panel will also show which folder contains unread emails and how many they are 119 Interactive Reports gt A KK y The sent contains the email messages you sent from within Advanced Link Manager via the Domain in formation report Email composer or via the Email client Write email dialog Note that all messages can be moved from one folder to another or deleted except the messages that were sent from the Domain in formation report Email composer The Toolbar contains buttons for the following action Retrieve emails Retrieves the emails from the configured POP3 or IMAP accounts Stop Stops the email retrieving Compose Opens the email composer allowing the user to compose and send an email Reply Opens a reply message for the currently selected email message Forward Opens a forward message for the curr
25. keywords below one per line image editor download image editor review Search Depth 50 F Get all available results Advanced search Search using AN of the words w an anywhere in the ences appear einthe page w Daterange start Daterange stop Select nivi get pages from domain Language Web search Search in country American Samoa gt Search in language Chinese y After pressing the Next button Advanced Link Manager starts gathering results from search engines 15 Step by Step Tutorials Find link partners Find link partners This is the list of potential partners retrieved from the search engine Finding link partners from Google For image editor download Ee Retrieved 19 results from 50 Completed 19 lt lt Back Jl Finish When the update finishes retrieving the results from search engines we need to see which of the sites gathered from we can contact to propose them to add a link on their website 16 Step by Step Tutorials Find link partners This is the list of potential partners retrieved from the search engine Filter 2 Contains Index Websters Rak ca E 2httpi www photoscape ora rl ina tecate JB 4 http graphicssoft about com odjpixelbasedwin tp advphot 4 A hit fn masternewmedia orginens 2005 02 07ifree_dg 4 sft programe comima
26. keywords in link text It s pretty easy just e select your website s domain in the left panel e choose the Link Text value in the Filter by list box and e type in the latest news in the Filter by text box Now you can see who is linking to you using these keywords in links text However you may also want to find out who s linking to your competitors using the latest news keywords in link text Just change the selection in the left panel to the competitor s websites you are interested in Some of the websites that are linking now just to your competitors could also be linking to you In this regard you may consider contacting such prospective referrer and suggest the text you want in the link and also which page you want the link from e Filter your Text links from a referrer domain Let s say you want to see only the Text as opposed to Image links from a certain referrer do main It s pretty easy just e select your website s domain in the left panel e choose the Domains value in the Filter by list box 13 Step by Step Tutorials e type in the domain of your choice in the Filter by text box and e choose the Text value in the display filter Now you can see the Text links pointing to you from the matching domain Find new link partners This tutorial will guide you though the steps that will help you promote your website by getting more link partners As an example w
27. mean a faster update while a smaller number a slower one You should set this option carefully based on the bandwidth and performance of your computer We 150 Global Preferences strongly recommend a conservative setting A higher setting may easily consume all the bandwidth of your Internet connection and or your CPU cycles Maximum connections per domain Increase this option if your projects include referrer domains with large numbers of referrers Search depth This preference controls the number of referrers downloaded by Advanced Link Manager for each of the project URLs Note that higher settings may significantly slow down your updates Indexed pages search depth This preference controls the number of search results downloaded by Advanced Link Manager from the list of indexed pages for each project domain in selected search engines Note that higher settings may significantly slow down your updates Number of retries if a connection fails This preference controls the number of times the application tries to connect to a search engine in the event of a connection failure or timeout Limit page size when gathering link details This preference controls the maximum size a single web page is allowed to have If the page exceeds this size the download will stop and only the data downloaded so far will be taken into account The links will only be searched for in the part that is downloaded the rest of the page will
28. more about the reports in the next tutorial 3 Monitoring our competition Now let s say we also want to monitor some of our competitors Let s go to Project gt Project Set tings The Project Settings dialog will pop up with the Domains tab selected by default Let s add two more websites to the list Www cnn com and news google com What we need to do is simply write the domain names and click Add Project Settings A Proxy settings FA Email Address gt lt Client emails Sy Client FTPS 3 Contact details Domains Search Engines ih al Automatic URL addition Y Ignore URL parameters Ignore non web extensions news google com awww bbc com H www cnn com Domain Settings Domain Aliases Index aliases Choose color lt lt Back Next gt gt Ok Cance Click on the OK button to save the new changes We have just added the competition s domains in our Step by Step Tutorials project but there is currently no data gathered for these new domains So we need to update the project using the Start update icon from the toolbar This second update will only update the data for the two new domains we just added When the update is complete we can monitor the referrers of both our site and our competitors sites on the chart views and reports Next check out the Basic Reporting tutorial
29. news google com 4 Optimize ara bbc com G www cnn com Export Domain Settings Domain Aliases Index aliases Choose color a w 25 22 lt lt Back Next gt gt ok cancel When you add a new domain the Index page is added by default But you can add more pages later by clicking on the Domain Pages button 68 Project Settings Project Settings Domains 9 Search Engines P Keywords Preferences 2 Proxy settings F4 Email Address 4 Client emails Sort by website v o ARA f www bbc com www cnn com Domain Settings Automatically add new found URLs method 9 Project Settings Always add Never add Domain Pages Filter l URL Index page Each page has two attributes that you can set from this list e Link Page Tf this attribute is set the application treats this page as a link page and parses it for external links to your partners This counts when calculating the reciprocal link status Exclude Tf this attribute is set the application will no longer search for links to this page in the search engines This is useful in case you have a link page that does not have incoming links and you do not wish to look for referrers that point to this page Additionally you can set Advanced Link Manager to automatically add new found URLs for each do
30. of the chart will contain only the available dates from the last three months Last Six Months The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the available dates from the last six months Last Year The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the available dates from the last year Custom Range Displays the Date Range dialog box where you have the possibility to custom ize the dates where the evolution chart starts and or ends Please select a time range to be used in the evolution chart Start on Begin 20 02 2006 Stop at Today 26 02 2006 w AE e Begin If you check it your chart evolution will start with the date when you made your first up date 111 Interactive Reports e Today If you check it your chart evolution will end with today s date e Set Date You can use the calendar to select either the begin or the end date for the evolution chart EO 2 E is Save As Fe ave E Print 80 Zoom In Zoom Out Show All Data In Range an v o i 1791 aali 331321 A context menu is available for the chart with the following options Save As Saves the chart view into a png or JPEG file Note that the file will contain only the current view of the chart so be sure to save the right section of your chart Print Allows you to print the chart view Zoom In You can magnify the chart view on both axes The area that will be zoomed in has its cente
31. text along with the time they occurred in the text anchors and their densities D gt Fitter O Date 22 09 2008 y Display Keyword Analysis General information URL www cnn comy Parent domain www cnn com IP address 64 236 91 21 Words 1354 Global no follow No Page rank 9 Alexa traffic rank 55 Page size KB 200 KB URL title CNN com Breaking News U S World Weather Entertainment amp Y Date 09 06 2007 y General information URL www cnn comy Parent domain www cnn com IP address N A Words 66 Global no follow No Page rank N A Alexa traffic rank N A m Page size KB 8 KB URL title Internet Archive Wayback Machine v Legend Background color Changed E Removed _ Added m Word Phrase Y Occurrences Density Prominence Word Phrase Y Occurrences Density Prominence 182 s barker severely 2 0 59 66 a connect to 1 3 03 50 19 1 0 07 57 connect to our 1 4 55 51 19 368 75 1 0 15 57 connect to our servers a 6 06 50 19 368 75 3 35 1 0 22 57 D connection i 1 1 52 50 19 368 75 3 35 dow 1 0 30 57 contact 1 1 52 19 D 1999 2 0 15 68 contact us 1 3 03 19 1999 10 1 0 15 90 difficulties 1 1 52 62 1999 10 Foot 1 0 22 90 difficulties and 1 3 03 62 1999 10 foot boa 1 0 30 90 difficulties and suggest 1 4 55 62 1999 me
32. the links from your perspective or from the perspective of your referrer by switching betwen the two tabs Unverified Referrers The Unverified Referrers report displays the web pages that have been reported by the search engines to have a link to your website These referrers come straight from the search engine index And since the search engines do not always have their index up to date these links may no longer exist To see the real verified referrers look at the Referrers report instead 92 Interactive Reports PD search Engine Evolution ab Linktext Keyword Analysis FA Email _O Brokeniinks J Indexedpages P gt Update Progress 34 Domain Information Unverified Referrers Ba Referrers 9 Backlinks Evolution oo se All items y Category al Tag an y Filter a Contains Q 1 http www iht com 9 s 2006 02 26 2008 09 23 199 239 138 a 2 http www washingtonpost com 9 313 0 08 112 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 12 129 147 65 E Bl 3 http today reuters com 9 278 0 05 178 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 216 35 57 143 4 http www nytimes com 9 Updated 3 5 5 http news bbc co uk 9 45 0 15 61 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 212 58 225 29 6 http www microsoft com windows products 9 13 0 47 19 2008 09 22 Updated 2008 09 23 65 55 11 222 7 http www microsoft com windows products 9 13 1 00 9 2008 09 22 Updated 2008 09 23 65 55 11 222
33. then Outbound links Onsite links and Page size will be added to the list If you select an website URL you will see to which pages that URL links Those targets may be your competitors and if that URL link to them it may be possible to link also to you From the list you can open the URL in browser copy link address delete selected URLs or assign URLs to a referrer category When you decided which of those URLs can be potential link partners assign them to a referrer category to help you later when trying to contact them 66 Updating Projects Find link partners by backlinks Find link partners Here you have the backlinks for all the pages of the previous step and their relation IC ht a 6 _ http www tech exclusive com 2009 02 21 25 free online image editors 3 7 http speckyboy com 2008 04 21 top 15 online image editors who need 3 I EE A 13 http www kokasexton com word 01 top 1000 favorite blogging links of 2 14 tp www dmoz org computers software graphics image_editina aa pS p www picnik com ttp www online image editor com p www imageeditor net vwoww pixlr com After you assign URLs to a specific referrers category and finish analyzing them select the Finish but ton and all the URLs will be added to the Unverified referrers interactive report If you have added some of the URLs to a specific referrer category then you can
34. ticular search engine target URL combination Checking for links The application is analyzing the referrer to extract the links information needed to update the Refer rers report Done The analysis of the page has been completed Failed to gather results The search engine did not respond with the requested data Advanced Link Manager will retry to in terrogate it as many times as you entered in the Number of retries if a connection fails text box loc ated in the Preferences gt Performance tab 58 Updating Projects Sleeping between pages Advanced Link Manager is sleeping between the searches performing a search engine friendly request to the search engines 1057 Advanced Link Manager 4 3 Administrator Licensed to Caphyon news updated 3 Project Update Scheduler Reports Editreports Tools Options Help gP USDEBSRBBAlA FAHA Project nens w Domains E E Domain Information Bb Unverified Referrers Do Referrers bf Backlinks Evolution 9 Search Engine Evolution ab Linktext 2 Keyword Analysis lt Email 2 Broken links J Indexed pages D gt Update Progress 3 www bbc com www cnn com Estimated stop 100 13 25 45 13 28 42 11 0 0 71 Administrator Manual update Updating 100 13 27 07 14 17 19 11 0 0 71 Administrator Manual update Updating Website URL Verify link status http www wkyt com wymtnews Verify li
35. to learn how to read the data from the reports Basic Tutorial 1 Checking the quality of our referrers Almost all major search engines that exist today rank a web page based on the number and the quality of links that point to that web page The quality of the links directly affects the position of our website for relevant keyword searches It is thus very important to keep track of the quality links we already have while trying to get more quality links in the meantime The Unverified Referrers report gives us a comprehensive view of our referrers as they are reported by the search engines It is very important to understand that the referrers listed in this report may not have a link to our web site The referrers displayed here are reported by the search engines to have a link to our website The search engines crawled the page at some point in time and found a link to our website but that link may have since been removed or more links may have been added meanwhile That is the reason why they are called Unverified Referrers In the next tutorial we will talk about the Referrers report which will provide us with accurate information about our existing links 9 Search Engine Evolution ab Linktext keyword Analysis F4 Emai 42 Broken links 43 Indexed pages gt Update Progress 34 9 Domain Information Unverified Referrers Bo Referrers 9 Backlinks Evolution 00 fr A
36. update task you have the option of generating reports immediately after the update is complete But since you are updating multiple projects you are now able to specify the reports that should be generated for each of the projects in the list In the tree that appears the parent items are the projects and the reports are their children You also have the option to generate all the reports that you specified to be generated after each update This list can be edited for each of the projects separately in the Preferences tab of the Project Settings Scheduling report generation The scheduler can help you automate the generation of the reports at a specified interval When you choose to create a generate report task in the scheduler wizard you have three options e generate reports for the current project e generate reports for a specified project e generate reports for multiple projects The wizard will take you through the same steps as when updating a project The only difference is that there is will be no update Only the reports that you select will be generated This is useful in case you wish to update your project every day but generate the reports only once a week Scheduling backups The scheduler can also backup your projects for you automatically so you can rest assured that you al ways have a backup copy in case of emergency When you choose to create an backup task in the scheduler wizard you have three options e b
37. users The lower the better e Quality ratio This is the referrer quality ratio computed using the formula selected by you in the Application prefer ences 98 Interactive Reports Outbound links This is this is the overall number of off site links for the referrer URL domain e Backlinks This is the number of links from the referrer URL page pointing to one of your target URLs e Added This is the number of links from the referrer URL page pointing to one of your target URLs in this up date but not in the previous one Removed This is the number of links from the referrer URL page pointing to one of your target URLs in the previous update but not in this one e Normal This is the number of links from the referrer URL page pointing to one of your target URLs for both this update and the previous one Detailed information on the referrers pointing to your target domain is shown in the lower right panel in Referrers Report This panel displays information concerning the selected referrer domain URL in the upper right panel Details Summary Index URL Link Text URL Title No Follow 1 5 nellie b whos an activist judge Michelle Pilecki Who s an Activist Judge n No Added Text cnn com No Added Text For each link you have the following information available e Link Text This is the text contained in the anchor tag of the link e URL Title This is the title of the referr
38. went fine or whether that report you scheduled was sent to the client successfully It can even send you an email automatically when certain event types occur Backups The Backups section displays all the backups for the currently selected project It will tell you the date the backup was created the starting date and the end date for the data contained in the backup Creating a New Project When working with Advanced Link Manager you are concerned with various entities like Search En gines Target Domains Referrers and backlinks Within the application these are grouped together un 46 Managing Projects der a Project You can create a new project using the Project gt New Project menu This will start the New Project Wizard Project Settings The Project Settings menu enables you to edit the list of domains modify the list of the search engines used for your project and setup other data gathering related options Renaming a Project 3 You can rename a project by using the Project gt Rename Project menu After you finished entering the name please use the OK button and the project will be immedi ately renamed and its new name will take the place of the old one in Project drop down Deleting a Project You can delete a project by using the Project gt Delete Project menu or by clicking on the associated toolbar button After the project is removed the next available project is loaded If no o
39. with the configured proxy servers Report preferences 155 Global Preferences Global preferences Report Preferences csv Application Separator Character 9 Tabulator 5 Comma Semicolon Other CSV file extension csv Performance E Trim spaces from report file name Y Proxy server Report Preferences word analysis CSV separator This separator will be used to separate the values in rows in a CSV report The most commonly used separator for the CSV format is the Tabulator CSV extension This option is useful if you want to import the CSV reports in a spreadsheet office application Some of these applications will display a separator selection wizard only if the file that will be imported is con sidered a text file so you will need to change the extension from the default csv extension to txt ex tension Trim spaces from the file names By default the reports are saved in files that contain spaces in their names i e Search Engine Evolu tion Since many users want to upload their reports on web servers this option gives a better compatibil ity with the file naming convetions Keyword Analysis 156 Global Preferences Global preferences e p Keyword Analysis Keyword analysis data storage Data Folder C Users User My Documents KeywordAnalysis Application Word Phrase Maximum words in phrase 3 Minimum density perc
40. www caphyon com site map aphyon Site Map N A p www caphyon com support html EA aphyon Support NjA Selected URLs URL Y Rank HTTP response Tite lhttp www caphyon com 5 200 http www caphyon com about caphyon a 4 200 aphyon Ltd http www caphyon com careers html 4 200 aphyon Ltd p www caphyon com contact html 4 200 Caphyon Ltd Once retrieved and analyzed the results they can be exported as Google Sitemap XML or Yahoo Sitemap TXT Additionally you can add selected crawled URLs to a list from where you can add as project URLs re ferrer URLs or export to a file You can do this by selecting one of the buttons from the bottom of Web site Crawler 161 Cha pter 17 Google Maps Webpages Importer Google Maps Webpages Importer Note Google Maps Webpages Importer helps you get the web pages displayed in Google Maps when looking for additional information about a local business Web Pages are citations of that listing from other websites and represent an important ranking factor in local search By getting and having a good idea about your competitor s web pages you can then try ob taining listings from the same websites as your competitors Google Maps Webpages Importer Keywords pizza place new york Web pages search depth 10 a Found URLs URL Rank HTTP response Title Outbound Li
41. your web pages are linking to e Link from Displays only the domains having having at least one web page linking to your website e Reciprocal linking Displays only the domains that you ve exchanged links with by placing a link to each other on each site e Not linking Displays only the domains that have no links to your website and that you do not link to Has draft Displays the domains for which you have started composing an email message but it was never sent The Filter by dynamic filters can be set to filter by domain name contact email or contact name Just select one of there three criteria available enter a text in the text box and Advanced Link Manager will filter out the domains that do not match the given criteria Last rank change The last rank change filter shows only the domains with their rank changed in the selected period of time Domain Information Bo Unverified Referrers Referrers J Backinks Evolution 9 Search Engine Evolution ab Link text O Keyword Analysis lt Email r All items Category All y Filter Q Domain Contains E All 3 None EE Date All E a O 1 www columbia edu 8w1l 3194 N A One month ago 2 dmoz org 8 w 1 838 Link from Three months ago 3 googleblog blogspot com Bwl 6061 Link from Six months ago 4 www huffingtonpost com gal 448 Link from One year ago 5 www aldaily com 8 46852 Link from More than one year ago 6 refuges fws gov
42. 15 http www developer com java java about com 17 http www download com 2001 2213 0 html 18 http developer apple com java 19 20 http gcc gnu org java Now we have the results we asked for but it may not be exactly what we need So we need to eliminate any unwanted results before we add the good ones into our project To help us with this task the applic ation lets us order the referrers by rank if the SiteRank plugin is installed If we re not interested in pages that have a very low rank we can select these websites and click the Delete selected button to remove them from the list Alternatively we can exclude the sites that have a low rank using the Filter by rank filter and selecting above 4 to select all the pages with the rank higher than 4 There is also a text filter available This can be used when you choose to gather many referrers from the search engine Let s say you choose a search depth of 500 After all the results are retrieved you may want to exclude your competitors You just type a part of their name in the filter textbox and only the re ferrers matching the criteria will be shown Now you can select all of them and remove them from the list by pressing Delete selected You can also exclude referrers that you have filtered out using the Delete filtered items button Once you are satisfied with the results all you need to do is press Finis
43. 2 26 Updated 2008 09 23 196 35 108 186 16 http www newscientist com 8 5581 0 12 69 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 194 203 155 Referrer Information Details URL Title NY Times Advertisement Meta Description N A Meta Keywords N A Link categories Link category Link text Priority Description Tag 2 NY Times Advertisement 10 The Unverified Referrers report allows you to sort the referrers which will make identifying them an easy task e Sort referrers by importance Using the Rank column we can sort the referrers by their rank We can now easily see the most im portant referrers Referrers with high rankings will cast a more powerful vote to our pages increas 6 Step by Step Tutorials ing their relevance in search engine results Click on the Rank column header to sort referrers by their Rank Sort referrers by IP Click on the IP Address table column header to sort referrers by their IP address You now can eas ily see the referrer domains with the same IP address This is a valuable indicator of the quality of your referrers If one of your pages is linked from multiple websites or webpages with the same IP ad dress it will not rank as well as if it were linked from multiple IP addresses 2 Filtering referrers Sometimes the number of web pages reported by the search engines as linking to your website can be overwhelming Filtering these web pages using a certain criteria will help in most ca
44. 2252 fixed a problem with floating ta red caphyon net svn web caphyon net 17 09 2008 05 26 37 SKB Web 2253 replaced images robert caphyon net svn web caphyon net 17 09 2008 06 11 08 61KB The message panel displays brief information about the email message like from to subject date and size Clicking the columns of this list will sort the message accordingly The message selected in this list will be displayed in the message panel below The filter panel from the left side of the toolbar helps you filter the available messages by all fields 120 Interactive Reports Subject Web 2261 se update From stefan caphyon net To svn web caphyon net Ce BCC z Advanced Web Ranking Search Engine Update version and date SKAURSEVersion 370 SKAWRSEDate Sep 15 2008 KAWRSEVersion 371 KAURSEDate Sep 18 2008 om wv Advanced Link Manager application version kALMVersion 4 3 The message panel displays the content of the email message along with the all header information available from to subject cc bcc and date Note The integrated email client reads only the plain text from within your messages To see or download the at tachments of your emails you must use another email client To setup periodical checks for new mail use the global email settings The Broken Links report The Broken Links report helps you if your pages contain broken or i
45. 4103 8087904 w 754103 20900 1500000 news google com 5631618 w 365857 5139518 w 366857 11100 481000 1000 www bbc com 318980 a 431 281180 a 331 11100 26700 a 100 Referrers by Search Engine This view displays the referrers for the selected domain grouped by the search engine that reported them You can select all the search engines in which case you will see all the links to your website or you can select one or more search engines to restrict the referrers to those that were reported by the selected search engines By default you will see all unique referrers from all the selected search engines If you wish to see the common referrers that were reported by two or more search engines just change the display mode to show only the common referres This can be done from the first button above the Search Engine input panel Search Engines Evolution Chart This chart displays a time evolution of the estimated number of referrers reported by the selected search engines In the Chart view the number of search engine results is represented on the vertical axis while time is represented on the horizontal one The Legend at the bottom of the chart allows you to better understand the information depicted in the chart The Legend displays a color for every selected search engine used in your project This color is used to draw the graphical evolution lines or dots of that specific search engine Note that in the Search Engine Evolu
46. 7 32401 N A rare 7 blogs sun com 7wil 506 Link from N A Interactive Reports Domain Details The Domain Details panel displays the following information for the selected link partner website Last updated The most recent date when you have updated the domain information for this particular partner web site Last contacted The most recent date when you have contacted this website as part of your link exchange campaign Status The status describes the current progress of your link exchange campaign You can use the Status drop down list to change it whenever you see fit For example after you send your first link request email to a potential link partner you may set the status to Waiting for answer to link request mail If you wish to change add delete a status message use the Project gt Manage contact statuses menu Description The description of your link partner website as provided by Alexa Link from DMOZ directory Shows the categories in which the link partner website is included in the DMOZ directory Link from Yahoo directory Shows the categories in which the link partner website is included in the Yahoo directory Registered The date when the link partner domain was registered Updated The most recent date when the link partner domain was updated Expires The date when the link partner domain expires Most whois servers provide information about the Registered Updated Expi
47. Advanced Link Manager User Guide Advanced Link Manager User Guide Copyright 2005 2012 Caphyon Ltd All Rights Reserved While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document Caphyon Ltd assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein Table of Contents T TITO OC N csi litis 1 Frequently Asked Questions sraa omei vcs sone rre ne rra VEEE EPESA ERO ER Pas 1 2 Step by Step Tutorials atodos a E E EE trials 2 Getting Started viaria il ia 2 A OO 6 Advanced Tuto ts 8 Emd new link partera ci 14 Find new link partners by backlinks o oooccoococononocononocononoconococonorocononoronorocononoconarorononoronacos 24 3 The User Interface voir reses E E EAS rro dida UPES omiso 29 Main Ment ira dai diri a 29 Main Toolbar msi ssdescs ss celia e aan dete sah batted aran pnd Sede a arta aes 38 Left Side Panels erresen eer ose cooled tees A aia 39 Quick actions panel suso sr linia POSE SEERE S PLEA OSSE sob ageeetanes gah 40 4 Managing Projects esens nico ia derrotan de aliens 46 Project MADAS ia do 46 A O 46 Reports vin A Ii ey ety Al a A rete soos eee tees 46 scheduled TaskS tirate indie inte nivel say ds ANS 46 EVE ia RA o is 46 Backups NN 46 Creating a New Project serotonina london occ E tone EEEE S OEEO ess Seven nt inn da DE ETE N ES 46 Project Set miss rios hdr 47 Renaming a Projecte 47 Deleting a Project ices
48. Domain Quality Analyze Domain Quality Analyze Domain Quality lets you analyze the quality of one or multiple domains you owe or domains of your potential link partners It helps you discover which domains are worth getting links from and which are not Columns like Page Rank Links count average or Ranking average can help you see the differences between the domains you are analyzing Domain quality analysis Add domains Add domains from file y Add domains by parsing an URL 13 analyze domains qualty URLs Domain Rank Title Indexed pag Links count avg Ranking avg Search engine Keywor z Compete rank Compete visits Compete visitors bing com 9 Bing 3769467 2440220 N A INA 14 279965375 51840705 google com 10 Google 83983301 25940504 N A INJA 1 2619790645 146027962 yahoo com 9 Wahoo 929880502 93864117 2 96 32 hits out of 33 2 2524177766 135113468 Hep L2 Add as project domains Add as referrer domains D Export to file To access the Analyze Domain Quality tool go to the Tools menu and select Analyze Domain Qual ity A new window will open which will let you add one or multiple domains to be analyzed You can add domains manually import them from a file or by parsing an URL When you finish entering your domains just press the Analyze domains quality button and Advanced Link Manager will start gathe
49. Engines Additional Parameters ocoooccnccnnocnncnnncnnncnnccnnconnconnccnncnnnconncrnncnnncnnnrnnnnnaronoss 167 21 xAnalyze Domain QUAY tias 168 Analyze Domain Quality siss eenn deis ler a E dret denne at 168 22 Referrer Categories it A eee eee aie 169 Referrer Categories nran oean r oe o uae E SE E haves nsspgen gees swede ssh terrena 169 Referrer SUbcate noreste iii 171 23 Install Server Edition Guide oroioconsoiess ponle crono ses sence dsauatiaass E E pes Peeve seseasoas 173 Wind Ows iio it ti 173 MacOS Xsara sales pr rca A 173 IU ai iii ds 173 Red Hat Distributions sies sossen ea aches ae prior yeaa ds RIA pee acia reia de isos 173 Debian Distributions seiersen alocado idea ii 174 Server Coni our tati Ai da eben veg E E a N Uy weeks EE NS 175 Connect Advanced Link Manager client to server ce cece cece cece eee ca cece cece cena eens eeneeeneeeeneeee es 177 vi Chapter 1 Introduction Welcome to the Advanced Link Manager User Manual This chapter provides an overview of the fea tures and benefits of Advanced Link Manager as well as the organization of this book Advanced Link Manager is a tool that will help you check your web site link popularity on all major search engines It saves you long hours of tedious work while tracking down web pages linking to your site Advanced Link Manager generates tabular and graphical reports that will help you to quickly check where you stand in terms of link popularity
50. First we will need to use our targeted keywords and check the backlinks of our competitors In our ex ample we will use the following keywords e Image editor Now that we have everything we need let s start find some potential link partners by analyzing competit or s backlinks Go to the Update menu and select Find link partners by backlinks and the Find link partners back links wizard will open in a new window The first step is to choose the search engine used to gather po tential link partners that match the selected keywords Then enter the keywords in the Search section Note Some of the search engines available in the list will allow you to set advanced settings like Advanced Search and Language Find link partners by backlinks Search Engine and Keywords Select a Search Engine and enter your keywords A Search Engine Gl Google m Search Enter your keywords below one per line image editor Search Depth 5 Get all available results Advanced search Search using Allof the words w D pr m z z ccurences appear ere in the page Daterange start Dat stop Only y get pages from domain a Language 9 Web search Search in country American Samoa Search in language Chinese After pressing the Next button Advanced Link Manager starts gathering results from search engines When the update finishes retrieving the result
51. Foran Copy link address http www q E 2 Gather additonal information 26 http blog a Display outbound URLs Assign to referrer category Important Paid Links Link Exchange Default Now click on the Finish button and the wizard will add all the URLs found in the projects as Unveri fied Referrers and their domains will be visible in the Domain Information report 19 Step by Step Tutorials e Advanced Link Manager 4 6 build 10 Administrator Licensed to Caphyon Project Update Scheduler Reports Edit reports Tools Options Help 1 en wikipedia orc 66 103 254 216 34 181 96 209 61 240 72 32 40 232 207 58 164 66 193 208 66 216 34 181 96 216 34 181 96 132 77 150 54 216 34 181 96 65 254 250 3 gqview sourceforge net 4 www xfig org 5 portableapps com 6 www designsbydarren com 7 www sunfreeware com 8 gimp win sourceforge net 9 gimp print sourceforge net 10 plasma gate weizmann ac il 11 osswin sourceforge net 12 www bloodshed net ona nant NNN NN NS Last updated Aug 20 2009 Last contacted Never Status Undecided Description DNS information No meta description was found for this website Registered Jan 13 2001 Link From DMOZ Directory Arts Music Styles JE ne Link from Yahoo Directory Health gt Diseases and Conditions gt AIDS HIV gt E Expires Jan 13 2015 Note At th
52. In Range Redraws the chart so it fits all the data into the view The same effect can be achieved by double clicking on the chart or by drag and dropping with your mouse from a lower position to a higher one Search Engine Evolution This report allows you to track the estimated number of referrers the number of pages reported by a search engine to have a link to your website There are three views available in this report e Search Engines Overview e Referrers by Search Engine e Search Engines Evolution Chart Switching between the views is done from the toolbar at the top left corner of the tab Search Engines Overview The Search Engines Overview has two views e Order by Search Engines e Order by URLs These views can be switched from the drop down combo from underneath the tab toolbar These views are not like the chart view Instead they compare two selected dates and show the changes if any On both views you will have the display filter with the following items available e All this is the default filter which will show all items e Moved up shows only the items that have moved up e Moved down shows only the items that have moved down e Changed shows only the items that have moved up or down Order by Search Engines In this view the data will be organized with the search engines as columns and the URLs as rows 108 Interactive Reports ab Link text DP Keyword Analys
53. Java look and Feel Proxy Server Report Preferences O Keyword analysis teo Y Display the view description on the view buttons Each new user that will need to connect to the Server data base needs to do the same steps go to Op tions gt Preferences menu Application tab and select the Remote connection option 177 Install Server Edition Guide Note Each additional user will require an additional license 178
54. Profiles Advanced Link Manager allows you to have a custom profile for each user Along with the added secur ity coming from the authentication window you also have the ability to manage what rights the users have to the stored data Each user is assigned to an Access Group and inherits the rights defined in the access group The most important feature that comes with the addition of user profiles is the ability to store each user s preferences separately such as proxy and email server API keys and all other global settings that are available within the application You can access the user profiles manager from the Options menu Access groups The access groups allow the Administrator to define groups of users that have the same rights The users can be restricted from updating projects changing the project preferences and many other op erations A full list with the restrictions allowed by Advanced Link Manager is available within the New Access Group dialog You can access the manager from the Options menu Note Upon an Access Group removal all the users belonging to that group must be moved to another access group Advanced Link Manager will prompt the Administrator for the new access group 139 Chapter 13 Header and Footer The Header and Footer template allows you to add custom headers and footers to your reports To create a header and footer template select Options gt Headers and Footers gt New
55. RLs button and the wizard will add all the URLs found in the projects as Unverified Referrers and their domains will be visible in the Domain Information report From here you can check the added URLs to see if they have a submit page or contact the website own ers to get a link by filtering the URLs in the Found directories category 28 Chapter 3 The User Interface Main Menu The main menu provides access to all the functions of Advanced Link Manager Project menu Update Scheduler Reports Edit reports a A O be w Ed EN Mew Project Ctrl M Project Settings Ctrl 5 Manage project lists Manage referrer categories Manage status information Manage trigger templates Project manager Rename project Delete project Duplicate project Export project settings to AML Create projects from AML export Backup Restore Remove data Exit Ctrl Q e New Project pops up the New Project Wizard which allows you to easily create a new Advanced Link Manager project e Project Settings pops up the Project Settings dialog where you can set your domains search engines and the preferences related to the link gathering process e Manage project lists allows you to group project under a single name and then use this list of 29 The User Interface projects when you update or backup projects e Manage referrer categories allows you to group the referrers by your
56. Receiving Email Sender Email SMTP Server SMTP Port 25 Use SMTP Authentication User name Password Password Use secure connection No OTS OSL V Show Domain Information history emails in the Email Sent Folder Report Preferences The following fields have to be filled in if you wish to receive emails with the reports SMTP settings Email Address Enter your email address here e SMTP Server Enter your SMTP server either using its name or its IP address SMTP Port Enter the SMTP port The default value is 25 for no secure connection and 465 for SSL connection SMTP Authentication If your SMTP server requires authentication you need to enter your user name and password here Advanced Link Manager can use a secure connection when sending emails through the SMTP server For this you can use either the TLS or SSL encryption depending on what your SMTP server requires 147 Global Preferences Global preferences Application Sending Receiving Email POP3 or IMAP 9 POP3 IMAP Mail server Username Password Confirm password i Use secure connection Check For new mail every 5 minutes Check mail on application startup Proxy server Report Preferences D analysis POP3 and IMAP Here you can setup your global POP3 or IMAP incoming emai
57. The FTP connection timeout will be respected on each retry 149 Global Preferences e Delay between retries seconds Wait for the specified number of seconds before retrying on a busy server This is useful to prevent hammering the FTP server FTP connection timeout Consider the connection to a FTP server has timed out after the specified number of seconds FTP connection read timeout Consider the connection to a FTP server has timed out after not being able to read from the connected FTP server for the specified number of seconds Performance Global preferences Performance Application Performance Settings Browser Emulation Search Engine APIs Maximum number of simultaneous connections 20 Maximum connections per domain Email Search Depth number of results Get all available results T Indexed pages search depth 20 Get all available results Number of retries if a connection fails 3 FTP settings q Limit page size when gathering link details kB 1024 Performance Connection timeout 60 s Readtimeout 30 s Restore defaults F Get rank only For newly Found URLs Retrieve rank on sequenced connections Report Preferences yword analysis Maximum number of simultaneous connections This preference controls how many HTTP connections to search engines will be made simultaneously A higher number will
58. a local folder just check the Save to folder option To create separate folders for report type year and month check the Create separate folders for report type year and month option The text field above this option will show you the report save folder path This path is used by all the report templates from this project If you want to change this path just press the Select but ton which will take you to the Project settings dialog where you can choose the desired folder Email To send the report to a list of emails select the Send by email option When you press the Next but 129 Printable Reports ton the wizard will take you to an additional step where you can choose the contacts you wish to send this report to e FTP Server To upload the report to a list of FTP servers select the Upload report to FTP server option When you press the Next button the wizard will take you to an additional step where you can choose the FTP profiles you wish to upload this report to Summary The final step of the Report wizard is where you can see an overview of the report data before you save any changes you made to the report template 130 Printable Reports Report Summary Verify the options used to create the report Generate the report when the wizard finishes Preview report after it is generated Report Summary Report name New Template_news_2006 02 26 Report Type Referrers Report Repo
59. a secure connection check this option and SSL will be used to connect to the server Client emails 80 Project Settings e Project Settings L_ os John Doe lt john doe mnemail com gt Add client email lt lt Back ne gt gt 555 The client emails settings help you to keep track and manage all your clients email addresses used to send printable reports for the project To use these email addresses you need to add the Client emails item to the to list when selecting to send a report by email In this way you will not need to manually enter the email addresses of the clients that you want to receive specific reports Note A report will be sent to all email addresses added in the Client emails list When adding emails to the Client emails list you have three options available e Manually add the name and email address for each client e Automatically import the contacts from your Address Book e Import the contacts from a file 81 Chapter 7 Scheduler The scheduler wizard Once you ve updated your project a few times and generated a few reports you may wish to do this automatically at specified intervals That s when the scheduler comes to help It helps you automate the update of your projects and the generation of the reports It can also backup your projects periodically so you don t have to worry about loosing your data You can create a new scheduled task f
60. ackup the current project e backup a specified project e backup multiple projects The wizard will take you through the same steps as when updating a project The only difference is that instead of an update your project will be archived to take less space and then stored in a special folder called backup inside the data folder View Scheduled Tasks You can view all the scheduled tasks by clicking on this toolbar button or by selecting the Scheduler gt View Scheduled Tasks menu 84 Scheduler Gi Scheduled Tasks Filter R Scheduler Type Contains Projects v Status Type Kind Start Date Time l Repeat Next run date Modify news Enabled Update Simple Sep 19 2008 02 52PM Daily Sep 19 2008 Remove Enable This dialog allows you to see all the scheduled tasks generated by Advanced Link Manager If you want to modify a scheduled task just double click on it or select it and press the Modify button If you want to remove one or more tasks from the scheduler select them and press the Remove button If you want to schedule a new task just press the New button and select the type of the task A filter is available for the Scheduled Tasks dialog which allows you to sort the sched uled tasks by three criteria e Scheduled Name e Scheduled Type e Project Name Calendar The Calendar allows you to see all the scheduled tasks for a selected month The daily tasks will be
61. act phrase so we don t get results from news or sport and we are looking for the pages that have the keyphrase in the title of the page so we set the option Oc curences appear to In the title of the page Refining the results The second step of the Find link partners wizard is preceded by an intermediary stage in which Ad vanced Link Manager connects to the search engine and retrieves the results we asked for 62 Updating Projects E Find link partners Find link partners This is the list of potential partners retrieved From the search engine Finding link partners from Yahoo for java re Retrieved 10 results from 20 Completed 50 lt lt Back Finish After the urls have been retrieved the wizard will show us the top 20 results found on the search engine The URLs are shown in the order the search engine displayed the results 63 Updating Projects E Find link partners Find link partners This is the list of potential partners retrieved From the search engine Filter 9 Contains Website URL Rank ttp en wikipedia org wilki Java_ programming_language 7 6 http en wikipedia org wiki Java_ Sun 7 Ihttp www java net 8 http www sun com java 9 http java oreilly com 10 http www ibm com Java ttp sun comfopensource java Etp www javaworld com 13 http www microsoft com mscorp java deFault mspx 14 http javaboutique internet com
62. age Chinese Refining the results The second step of the Find link partners by backlinks wizard is preceded by an intermediary stage in which Advanced Link Manager connects to the search engine and retrieves the results we asked for After the URLs have been retrieved the wizard will show us the number of results found in the search engine set from the Search Depth option The URLs are shown in the order the search engine displayed the results 65 Updating Projects Find link partners by backlinks Find link partners This is the list of top websites retrieved from the search engine Filter A Contains o Website URL 1 http www gimp org 2 http www picnik com 3 http www pixlr com 4 http www imageeditor net 5 http www online image editor com Bet ecaa tock ensa coe By selecting Gather additional information Advanced Link Manager will display additional information about the links gathered from search engines like Outbound links Onsite links and Page size When you finish analyzing and press the Next button the Find link partners by backlinks wizard will gather the backlinks from the pages you selected on the previous step and the relation with them Competitive Analysis Once the update finishes you will see a list with all the backlinks from the pages you selected If you se lect the Gather additional information button
63. ain e Update Selected URLs It analyzes the selected referrers e Update Visible URLs It analyzes all the referrers e Remove Removes the selected referrer from the referrers list e Assign to referrer category Assigns the selected referrer to one of the categories you have e Whois It opens up a web browser page with URL information collected from the WHOIS database e Whois DMOZ It opens up a web browser page with URL information collected from the DMOZ database e Whois Yahoo Directory It opens up a web browser page with specific URL information collected from the Yahoo Directory e Web Archive It opens up a web browser page with the visual history of the selected website e Google Cache It open us a web browser page and displays the selected URL directly from the Google cache system e Google Cache no images It open us a web browser page and displays the text version of the selec ted URL directly from the Google cache system 96 Interactive Reports e Detailed WHOIS It opens up a web browser page and displays detailed information about the selec ted URL This information is collected from the WHOIS database Note The referrers that will appear in the Unverified Referrers Report may not link to the target referrer they were gathered for You can know if they do link after a Verify Link Status update in the Referrers Report Last rank change The last rank change filter shows only the unverified refe
64. alled too It will be automatically registered as a service and started by the installation package There is no action required from you to start the service Once you finnish setting up the server use the following instructions to connect your client license to the server Connect Advanced Link Manager client to server Mac OS X The Advanced Link Manager installation package contains three options the Advanced Link Manager client the Advanced Link Manager server and Advanced Link Manager To install the server make sure that option is checked in the installation wizard If the Advanced Link Manager server is installed it will be automatically registered as a service and started by the installation package There is no action required from you to start the service Once you finish setting up the server use the following instructions to connect your client license to the server Connect Advanced Link Manager client to server Linux The Advanced Link Manager linux distribution contains three options the Advanced Link Manager cli ent the Advanced Link Manager server and Advanced Link Manager All of them will be installed auto matically but the server is not started automatically after the installation is complete However the linux distribution comes with a script that will allow you to easily start the server The script is called almserv er sh and is located in the folder where Advanced Link Manager is installed If you wish to
65. appened and needs your immediate attention e Warning This may be a possible problem or a setting that has been set incorrectly Information This is used for notification of an action that has been done Detailed Event Information If you double click on an event in the Event Log Viewer a dialog will pop up with details about that particular event You can copy this information to the clipboard by pressing the Copy button 133 The Event Logger e Event Log Viewer Event Description Date Sep 15 2008 Time 14 55 12 Type Information Source Multiple scheduler update Project Name Direct Groupediagonal Description The project Direct Groupediagonal started by the multiple update list All Projects has been updated sucessfully 134 Chapter 11 Generate Link Pages Advanced Link Manager gives you the ability to generate web pages with links to your partners and up load them automatically to your website Generating link pages in Advanced Link Manager is easy All you need to do is assign links to a cat egory and then go to the Tools gt Generate link pages menu to access the wizard To assign a link to a category just right click on a link in the Unverified Referrers report and choose As sign to link category If no category is created or if you want to create a new category choose New in the above menu It is important to understand that there are two types of categories in A
66. arent and the referrers as chilidren 113 Interactive Reports Domain Information Unverified Referrers referers Backlinks Evolution J search Engine Evolution E Linktext JO Keyword Analysis F3 Email O Broken inks 9 Indexed pages View E Link Text Tree Date 26 02 2006 eal y Category Al y Filter Q Link text Contains imdex ikee Totallinks bbc Empty text bbc com bbc news bbc world www bbc com bbc map http waww bbc com multimedia video online in english bbc news woonontr WN E www emu edu wemc Eastern Mennonite University s WEMC FM bbc ES www pretty sexy com Sexy girls and pretty models From russia po bbc www ssinformer com MEER E www krg org articles article_detKRG Kurdistan Regional Government bbc E subamangalam com Sri lanka Tamil Sinhala Muslim Matrimonials fantasticsynaptics com FanSyn bbc E www mti gov bt Ministry of Trade and Industry www subamangalam com Sri lanka Tamil Sinhala Muslim Matrimonials bbe The lower panel of this view shows detailed information about the links such as the link type the pos ition of the link in page and whether or not it has the no follow attribute set There is also information about the referrer contained such as the page title and the number of outbound links in that page The following display filters are availa
67. ather information about a domain trough the context menu Update domain information menu item e Compete rank This is the rank gathered from Compete com for a selected domain It can help you see how valuable are your existing referrers or potential link partners The lower the rank is the more valuable the referrer potential link partner is e Compete visits Represents the total number of visits returned by Compete com for a specific do main e Compete visitors Represents the total number of visitors returned by Compete com for a specific domain The Display drop down list box in the top left corner of the Domains view allows you to filter the data by using the criteria you are interested in Filters The following filters are available to help you find the domains you are interested in e All items Displays everything every potential link partner website and status available Contact available 88 Interactive Reports Displays only the domains for which contact information is available e Contact not available Displays only the domains for which contact information is not available e Contacted Displays the domains for which contact information is available and have been contacted as part of your link exchange campaign at least once e Not contacted Displays the domains for which contact information is available but have never been contacted e Link to Displays only the domains that one or more of
68. ay the note was set you will be presented with a dialog that will show you the contents of the note 166 Chapter 20 Search Engines Additional Parameters Search Engines Additional Parameters Search Engines Additional Parameters allows you to improve the search engines queries by adding addi tional parameters which will tailor the search engine results Search engines additional paramaters Search Engine Additional parameters El Deli Dogpile Google Additional parameters gt Eniro Finland Additional parameters Stestparam true Sf Euroseek Google Default query Q Exalead http www google com search q link www domain com YX Excite sie utf Bsoe utf 8 E Fireball A Fresheye 888 Gazeta E Globo Custom amp testparam true Google Blog Default Google Local Business Results Default CO Gooru Default tte To add new search engine parameters go to the Options menu and select Setup search engines para meters A new window will appear which contains a list with all the search engines available in Ad vanced Link Manager To add new parameters select the specific search engine and edit the parameters from the Additional parameters column Important Please use this feature carefully because entering wrong parameters for search engines may affect the res ults returned by search engines 167 Chapter 21 Analyze
69. bal Preferences i prne na eaa A dy septs steel see tae toes REESE AS 143 Application cc sic sitety cote sk Ligeliere E ama dlcsedelsb ngs bel ade T EEE Gao NNA 143 Email Settings sespe perea EE esp sti sico Sed aire menue oss ns eo ileso ste ptr een ES S 146 FTP SQtum G8 atorado iii airis 149 Performance 55 mee ie bes Masa rosa vas pitt is datas pd o rd danes 150 Proxy Seung catre tte ss 154 Report preferentes escort oi a pices ind sae sashes prendio qPehsasd ESSEE EEEa EPES San 155 Keyword Analysis esene eo bli diay aah wane 156 15 Proxy Servers MANA ger miriti airean re E a E EEEE EE e E REES 159 Advanced Link Manager User Guide Proxy servers MAN ASEH evie mran edie ee tl AI 159 16 Website Crawler tatiana tae iia tii 160 WebSite Crawler cita E A eee RAT TS eR a is Le daa ST ts ng 160 17 Google Maps Webpages Importer cece cece cee ceeeceeece ceca cece cena eens een eeneeeeneeeees 162 Google Maps Webpages Importer oooccoccnnccnnccnnccnnconnconnconncnnncnnnnnnronronnrnnccnnccnnccnnccnnconncnnncos 162 18 Webpage Analy Zen cueste roto costra esr E ved EEE oe she ici bes PEETS 164 Webpage Analyzer i isis csccivsgiedecks li Gece ohsiee gesds EEEE 164 19 NOES sci oss does ig Sloe s ise sei eE ag Sacdne as vis ota a gs ROSEE E EOS deta maces voteagy PIERE EPSE SORES ES 166 INGLES ortiga ii tt ins 166 20 Search Engines Additional Parameters coooconccnnccnnncnncnnncnnocnnccnnconnccnnccnnconnconncnnncnnnos 167 Search
70. be ignored Connection timeout This preferences controls the timeout of a connection attempt to either a search engine or an URL Read timeout This preferences controls the timeout of a read attempt to either a search engine or an URL Get rank only for newly found URLs This option tells Advanced Link Manager to gather the Page Rank only for new Unverified Referrers found in the search engines Retrieve rank on sequenced connections This option is strongly recommended if you have selected more that 5 maximum simultaneous connec tions or if you are updating the rank for multiple URLs by selecting them in the Unverified Referrers re port 151 Global Preferences Global preferences Performance Application Performance Settings Browser Emulation Search Engine APIs B si Random delay between search queries seconds 15 to 20 S m 3 2 Sleep 5 minutes every 100 searches e F Sleep 15 minutes if a search engine fails 3 times 3 gt 13 Proxy server D D o a e Preferences Be nice to Search Engines When this preference is on Advanced Link Manager will exercise the lightest possible load on the search engines resources by mimicking a human action as close as possible For that 1t will avoid simul taneously sending two different queries to the same search engine and it will make pauses between downloading t
71. ble All links Displays all the links regardless of their nature e Text links Displays only the links with text as the anchor content Image links Displays only the links with images as anchor content e No follow links Displays only the links that have a rel nofollow hyperlink attribute set The dynamic text filters can also be used for additional filtering of the URLs and the Link Text 114 Interactive Reports The Chart This is a pie chart that shows the link text that is used more often when linking to your page It shows the share of the pie for each link text from the total number of links that point to your website E Domain Information Unverified Referrers Do Referrers 4 Backlinks Evolution J Search Engine Evolution 2 Linktext JO Keyword Analysis 4 Email 42 Broken links 9 indexed pages View pa Link Text Chart ssw Date 26 02 2006 y Y Top5 Category Al y Filter Q Link text Contains 3p al bbe world 43485 bbe mews 4 1176 Empty text 143556 bbc others Empty text In the lower panel there is a legend of the above pie chart Selecting an item in the legend will cause the slice that belongs to that item to detach from the chart for more visibility The following display filters are available e Top 5 Displays only the first 5 link texts that and groups all others in a single section called Others
72. ble Reports w New template Report destination Select the destination of your report Report description Report title Advanced Link Manager Report Report name Template name _ Project name _ Date 4 Use default name V Append date Destination settings Y Save report to Folder C Users Monica My Documents Link Manager User Data Reports news Template name Y Use default location project settings Y Create separate folders for report type year and month Send report by email Upload report to FTP server Create separate folders for report type year and month Setup Gi 8 Preview lt lt Back Next gt gt Cancel Report Description In the Report Description section you can choose the title of the report and the report name The report will be saved to your hard disk using this name and it can be set to a certain name or it can be a templet ized name formed of the name of the template the name of the project and the date it was created If you wish to set a custom name for the report just uncheck the Use default name checkbox Unchecking the Append date checkbox will also exclude the date from the name of the report Destination Settings In this section you can choose the destination of the generated report You can select one or more destin ations from the three available destinations Local folder To save the report to
73. body copy Title The title tag is extracted from the web page and it s content is displayed as keywords and phrases Links The anchor tags are extracted from the web page and their contents is displayed as keywords and phrases Img ALTs The ALTs attributes are extracted from the img tags and their contents is displayed as keywords and phrases Meta keywords description The content attribute of the meta tag with the attribute name equal to keywords description is extracted and it s content is displayed as keywords and phrases Headings The H tags are extracted from the web page and their contents are displayed as keywords and phrases Overview View This view displays an overview of the changes made to specific pages of your website or your competit ors websites View jp Overview gt Filter O Display Keyword Analysis Words p All 9 Display Entire text X Project URL Y Added Removed Changed Not changed www cnn com 41 2454 52 3077 5 331 0 4 The Keyword Analysis Overview lets you select what changes you want to be displayed in the report being them for the entire text changes made for the title link Img ALTs meta information or headings The Email Client The email client provides POP3 and IMAP email retrieving connectivity and SMTP email sending for your configured accounts There are three incoming POP3 or IMAP configurations available the glob al settings available via Options menu
74. bound links the least powerful the vote casted to your page is This is because having many outbound links decreases the power of the vote casted by a web page Sort referrers by the number of backlinks Click on the Backlinks table column header to sort referrers by the number of their backlinks these are the links pointing to your website You can now easily see referrer domains with high number of links pointing to your website The Referrers report also gives you information about how the number of backlinks change between two updates This information is presented in the following columns e Added The Added column contains the number of links pointing to your domain from a web page that have not been detected in the currently selected previous update e Removed The Removed column contains the number of links pointing to your domain from a web page that have been detected in the currently selected previous update but not in the currently selected date Normal The Normal column contains the number of links pointing to your domain from a web page that were detected in both the currently selected date and the previous one Monitoring the changes of the number of backlinks between two given dates allows you to easily figure out whether your efforts to increase the link popularity of your website have proven to be successful 2 Checking the quality of your backlinks The Referrers report can also display
75. choose only some of them uncheck the Include all domains op tion for example and use the Select button that appears on the right side to select only the domains you are interested in Output The next step of the wizard allows us to edit the output settings of the report 125 Printable Reports lA New template Dutput Options Select the output options needed to generate the report File Format Format HTML w Filters and sorting Layout Order by Rank Select columns and order Order Descending X Status ty All Rank change r Al Category Al Rank All Use Header and Footer template none Setup Color URLs in report Exclude empty sections Here we can set the the format the report will be generated On the right side of the format drop down list we have a Preview button that allows us to see exactly how the report will look like Try changing any option or a filter and press the Preview button to see how Advanced Link Manager will display the report Filters and Sorting In this section you can choose the column the report will be ordered by as well as the order ascending or descending You can also filter out the referrers you don t need using the rank status or any other fil ter available The Exclude empty sections option will prevent the report to display sections that are empty because the filter excluded all data from them Layout
76. d domains e Ignore links from this domain Deletes all the links from the selected domain e Do not ignore links from this domain Keeps the links from a selected domain Items e Show all items Displays every potential link partner website and status available e Show contacted Displays the domains that have been contacted before as part of your link exchange campaign e Show contact available Displays only the domains for which contact information is available e Show drafts Displays the domains that have an email composed but not sent e Show reciprocal linking Displays the domains that you ve exchanged links with 41 The User Interface e Select all Select all the domains available in the Domain Information report Unverified Referrers quick actions Quick actions vw Domains 8 Ignore links from this domain 2 Do not ignore links from this domain Update gt Update selected referrers gt Update new referrers w Items T view contact details ia Show all items Domains e Ignore links from this domain Deletes all the links from the selected domain Do not ignore links from this domain Keeps the links from a selected domain for future updates Updates e Update selected referrers Manually updates the selected referrers e Update new referrers Updates only the new referrers Items e View contact details Display the Domain details from the Domain Information
77. date rc d command to activate and deactivate services To register the almserver service with your system so that it starts up every time your computer starts use only the following sequence of commands You only need to do this once e Create Symbolic Link in etc init d In s path to Advanced Link Manager almserver sh etc init d almserver e Register the service update rc d almserver defaults 174 Install Server Edition Guide e Start the service etc init d almserver start To stop restart or unregister almserver use the respective command from the list below e Stop the almserver service stop the service temporarily etc init d almserver stop e Restart the almserver service etc init d almserver restart e Unregister the service remove the service from your system update rc d f almserver remove Once you finnish setting up the server use the following instructions to connect your client license to the server Connect Advanced Link Manager client to server Server Configuration There are two ways to configure the Advanced Link Manager Server one using the ALM Server inter face and the second one by editing the server xml file The server xml file can be found under the ALM User Data directory By default server xml looks like this lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt CONFIG gt lt HOST gt Host IP address lt HOST gt lt PORT gt 7777 lt PORT gt l
78. dates the selected URLs not the entire domain e Update multiple projects allows you to select multiple projects to update Scheduler Reports Edit reports Scheduler ee New scheduled task View scheduled tasks e New scheduled task allows you to schedule a new task See the Scheduler chapter for more details e View scheduled tasks displays a dialog with all the scheduled tasks created so far Here you can add or edit an existing task You can also change the authentication for the Windows scheduler Reports 32 The User Interface Reports Edit reports Bookmarks Generate Multiple Reports Domain Information Link Text Overview Report Link Text Report Referrers by Search Engines Referrers Information Report Referrers MLB Global Referrers Overview Report Referrers Report Search Engines Report Unverified Referrers Report e Generate multiple reports allows you to specify one or more reports to be generated immediately e Report Name When you click on the name of a report the application will generate that report im mediately Edit reports 33 The User Interface reports Bookmarks Tools Options New Report Ctrl R Manage reports Domain Information Link Text Overview Report Link Text Report Referrers by Search Engines Referrers Information Report Referrers NLB Global Referrers Overview Report
79. detailed information about each of your backlinks Just select a re ferrer and see its backlink details displayed in the lower right panel Index URL Link Text URL Title No Follow Status Type 1 nellie b whos an activist judge Michelle Pilecki Who s an Activist Judge cnn No Added Text cnn com No Added Text For each backlink you have comprehensive information available Link Text 10 Step by Step Tutorials This is the text contained in the hyperlink This is a valuable indicator of the quality of your back links This is because search engines consider the text contained in a backlink very important If this text contains keywords you are trying to compete for your relevance in search engine results will def initely improve e URL Title This is the title of the referring page This is a valuable indicator of the quality of your backlinks This 1s because the title of the page is very important for search engines Having a link from a web page that has a title which contains keywords you are trying to compete for may bring you more traffic from people searching for these keywords No follow A Yes value indicates that the link to your website is not going to be considered by search engines in rank calculations although traffic is not prevented to be referred to you The value Yes appears only if e a given backlink from a referrer page has a rel nofollow hyperlink attribute set or
80. displays a dialog that allows you to see and manage all the scheduled tasks that you have created Global Preferences pops up the Global Preferences dialog Address Book here s where you can add edit or remove the contacts that you need to send emails to FTP Profiles here s where you can add remove or modify the FTP profiles that you up load reports to Help clicking on this icon will bring up this Help window Project here s where you can choose your active project in the workspace You can also search for a project by clicking on the name of the project and typing the text that should be contained in the project name that you are looking for Left Side Panels The Panels placed on the left side of the screen allow you to interact with the currently selected interact ive report and customize them in real time You can edit the information contained in each panel by clicking on the button in the up per right corner of the panel You can select all the items contained in a panel by clicking on the icon 39 The User Interface The Domains panel This panel allows you to select which target domain you want to be used for the current report It is available for all interactive reports The Referrers panel This panel allows you to select which referrers you want to be used for the current Backlinks Evolution chart It is available only in the Referrers Evolution report In the Referrers panel you ca
81. dvanced Link Manager There fore you need to assign the link to a link category and not to a referrer category which is used for other purposes Once you have assigned the links to your categories you can begin generating your link pages Access the link page generator wizard by going to the Tools gt Generate link pages menu The first step of the wizard allows you to select an existing template or create a new one if none exists E Generate link pages Link page template Select an existing template or create a new one Description Click next to define this template If you need to create a new template select New Template and click on Next The following step al lows you to define the layout of the link page Once you define a template you can use it later to gener ate your link pages Defining a link page layout consists of selecting how the categories will be shown all in one page or each category in its own page how many links you want to show on each page and how the HTML page should look when generated 135 Generate Link Pages lA Generate link pages Link page layout Create a layout For your link page Select the link page HTML layout Default All In One Page 7 All link categories in one page Create a single page that includes all links and all categories Create section for each link category 5 Each link category within its own page Crea
82. e first select it and then press the Modify button 51 Chapter 5 Updating Projects Updating a Project Advanced Link Manager gathers and stores link data every time a project is updated You can initiate an update either from the Update menu or by clicking on the Update toolbar button Update an x e Update project Please choose how you wish to update your project Y Y Gather links from Search Engines Select Search for referrers that link to the domains defined in your project F Gather only number of links from Search Engines Y Gather indexed pages from search engines gt Import referrers from a local File Select Import referrers from one or more files from your computer Y Verify link status Verify that my referrers are still linking back Y Gather Google PageRank Alexa Traffic Rank and mozRank Y Check reciprocal status Setup link pages Check to see if you have a link to your referrers and if they are linking back e The Update dialog allows you to tell the application what type of data you wish to update The following options are available e Gather links from Search Engines e Gather only number of links from Search Engines e Import referrers from a local file e Verify Link Status e Gather rank e Update reciprocal links Gather links from Search Engines The Gather links from Search Engines option tells the application to look fo
83. e a given referrer page has the content nofollow META tag attribute set in the header e Status This is the status of the backlink It can be one of the following values Added Removed or Nor mal allowing you to monitor the dynamics of the backlink e Type This is the type of the link It can be either Text or Image 3 Filtering backlinks Sometimes the number of backlinks to a website can be overwhelming Filtering the backlinks using a certain criteria will help in most cases One of the filters that you can use is the status of a backlink 11 Step by Step Tutorials View B Referrers By URL l xr All 7 Category al Y Al SO Normal New e Added A Removed Removed all links Changed ab Text links Image links isquartersblog cam mt jtonpast com nellie b eavenue com new_yo 7 com news html ph com newsfeeds htm org page php page l om page OnnokKluyt e com paper html itonpost com paul kras No Follow links uk philasophy links in oliticallyincorrect 207 http www ms k12 nm us portal html 208 http www palestinecampaign org press Examples e Filter your No follow links Let s say you want to spot the websites having no follow links to you It s easy just e select your website s domain in the left panel and e choose the No follow links value in the display filter Now you can see who is l
84. e already present in the project as referrers you will be able to see them in the Un verified Referrers report by means of filters They will be now shown when applying the Manually added filter event it they were previously after applying the Manually added filter Verify Link Status The Verify Link Status option enables the application to collect the following information The number of backlinks This is the number of incoming links from each referrer page 54 Updating Projects The type of each backlink A backlink can be either a text link or an image link Total number of outbound links links leading offsite for each referrer page The number of outbound links can be useful to show the link relevance Let s say that you have one referrer with 3 outbound links of which one of them links to you and some another referrer that has 100 outbound links and one of them links to you The relevance of the first backlink is much higher than the second one due to the high number of links leading offsite from the second referrer The No Follow status of every backlink This is a very important piece of information The links that have this status set to Yes are ignored by the search engines when they crawl that referrer web page hence it will not be taken into account in search engine ranking calculations Gather rank The Gather rank option instructs the application to collect the rank of the referr
85. e estimated number of backlinks If you click on the Search Engine Evolution tab you can see a graphical representation of the evolution of the estimated number of backlinks over time This type of update will not gather any referrers from the search engines It is only useful for tracking the estimated number of backlinks as reported by the search engines without having to go through the exhaustive search for the referrers as reported by the search engines 53 Updating Projects Gather indexed pages from Search Engines The Gather indexed pages from Search Engines can be used whenever you want to check the indexed pages from search engines If you click on the Indexed Pages tab you can see the pages from your project websites that have been found in the search engine s index for the search engines that support this feature This type of update will gather any referrers from the search engines When you select this option the Gather only number of links from Search Engines one is disabled Import links from file If you have a text file with referrers this option will help you import them into your project Just press the Select button and the Import links from files dialog will pop up w Import referrers from a local file Here you can select the files you want to import links from Note The imported URLs are added to your project as referrers for all the target domains in your project If the imported URLs ar
86. e number of characters contained in a meta tag is too big or a meta tag is missing Enabling this option will show you our advice regarding this issues Note This is only our opinion on these subjects and should be regarded as such e Display only words with more than X characters Do not display the words that contain less than the specified number of characters Note Even if these words are not shown they are still take into consideration when the density and proeminence percents are computed Diff settings Select which of these criteria should be considered as a phrase change e Occurences Consider that a phrase has changed if the number of occurences in the page has changed e Density Consider that a phrase has changed if it s density in the page has changed e Proeminence Consider that a phrase has changed if it s proeminence in the page has changed Note These settings can be locally overridden from the Keyword analysis tool 158 Chapter 15 Proxy servers manager Proxy servers manager The proxy servers manager allows you to define one or more proxy servers that will be used by Ad vanced Link Manager when retrieving results from the search engines oy Proxy manager IE Proxy settings Address 83 22 598 2 Port 358 Y Use Proxy Authentication User name user Password eeeeeee Integrated Windows Authentication NTLM
87. e project The default project name is the domain of the website but it can be manually changed New Project Your project is now complete EA Your new project is now comple project will start updating www bbc com Step by Step Tutorials After clicking OK our project has been successfully created and the application will ask whether we want to start a project update By default the search engines added to the project are Bing and Google and the update will run for these two search engines and our website www bbc com The next time we want to update our project we need to bring up the Update dialog 2 Updating a project To update the current project go to Update gt Start menu item The Update dialog will pop up e Update Update project Please choose how you wish to update your project Y Gather links from Search Engines Search for referrers that link to the domains defined in your project Gather only number of links from Search Engines Y Gather indexed pages from search engines Import referrers from a local File Import referrers from one or more files from your computer Y Verify link status Verify that my referrers are still linking back Gather Google PageRank Alexa Traffic Rank and mozRank Check reciprocal status Setup link pages Check to see if you have a link to your referrers and if the
88. e projects Start displays the Update dialog where you can choose how you want to update your project Pause Resume pauses resumes the currently running update Stop terminates the current update Manually add referrers pops up the Manually add referrers dialog to allow you to enter referrers manually import them from a file or from a website Find link partners allows you to find potential partners on search engines results using their most advanced search criteria Gather links from Search Engines starts to gather the referrers from the search engines for you target domains Gather only number of links from Search Engines starts to gather only the estimated backlink count 31 The User Interface from the search engines e Verify Link Status starts to check the previously gathered referrer URLs for backlinks to your target domains but only for those referrers that were not already updated on the current date e Verify Link Status Forced starts to check the previously gathered referrer URLs for backlinks to your target domains ignoring whether they were updated or not on the current date e Update selected domains updates only the currently selected domains the information for the other domains that have not been updated is taked from the last update The domain selection is on the left side panel e Update selected URLs it works just like the one above the only difference is that only up
89. e which website is relevant to you by retrieving additional information like the num ber of outbound links onsite links or page size From the list you can open the URL in browser copy link address delete selected URLs or assign URLs to a referrer category In order to keep these websites separated from the other websites from our project we will assign them to a referrer category for example Important You can also create a new referrer category for this task from the Project menu gt Manage referrer categories dialog We will create for our example a new category called Found directories 27 Step by Step Tutorials Find link partners by backlinks Find link partners Here you have the backlinks For all the pages of the previous step and their relation with them SS ee eee ee http centurienne blog m j http tip toe april blog mj http www user shentel net rbowman files htquides htm j ESE alternativ http actofrag a http www all Open URL in browser http www tec Copy link address http speckybd editors who need Delete selected en source and fre QU aa y O WN Assign to referrer category gt Found directories A a gt Default tp www kokasexton com word 01 top 1000 Favorite blogging links of tp a a a a a ae a E editing www picnik com www online image editor com www imageeditor net Now click on the Add as referer U
90. e will presume for this tutorial that we have a software product let s say an image edit or First we need to have an idea where we can get links from Because we have a software product we can get new links from e Download websites e Software review websites Having the places from where we can get links in mind now we need to brainstorm some keywords to use when searching for new link partners These keywords will help us retrieve a list from search engines with potential link partners We will use the Find link partners wizard to retrieve a list of URLs from search engines When looking to find download and software review websites as potential link partners we can start with these two keywords e image editor download e image editor review Now that we have everything that we need let s start find some potential link partners Go to the Update menu and select Find link partners and the Find link partners wizard will open in a new window The first step is to choose the search engine used to gather potential link partners that match the selected keywords Then enter the keywords in the Search section Note Some of the search engines available in the list will allow you to set advanced settings like Advanced Search and Language 14 Step by Step Tutorials Find link partners e pa Search Engine and Keywords Select a Search Engine and enter your keywords Seach enge IG Googe Search Enter your
91. ed the Referrers report grouped by domain Referrers by URL displays for each domain selected the Referrers report sorted by the exact URL that has a link to your website Referrers Overview displays for a selected domain the Referrers and checks if another domain from your project has a link from the same referrer 102 Interactive Reports e Referrers by category and rank displays for a selected domain the Referrers grouped by category and page rank e Referrers by IP address displays for a selected domain the Referrers grouped by the IP address block e Advanced Link Manager 4 5 Administrator Licensed to Caphyon news updated 6 Project Update Scheduler Reports Editreports Tools Options Help gip JEEP M 19 E A aaoo Project nens w Keyword Analysis F4 Email O Broken links f Indexed pages OO Reciprocal linking gt Update 6 Domain Information Bo unverified Referrers Bo Referrers j Backlinks Evolution J Search Engine Evolution 2b Link text pa View E Referrers By IP Address eal amp http www time com time http www time com time t i http www time com time c gt http www time com time c i ihttp www time com EJ 64 236 29 http fweather con com we 3 45 0 50 6 i E 64 236 22 o 389 referrers 66 diversity 55261 Details Summary
92. ee Image E download cnet com Irfanview 300 7 pixel image editor en softonic com Bl softpedia Isoftware informer com getfree pc tp software informer com getfree ja 17 http lightbox free image editor en soft 16 http I graphicssoft about comfod pxetb 6 50 19 fut lJgraphicssoft about comfod pixeb 4 49 20 http ww downloadatoz comimultimedi NJA 41 http www macworld com article 13496 http download cnet com Free Image E ttp www gimp org downloads http soFtware informer com getfree ja http lightbox free image editor en soft In order to keep these websites separated from the other websites from our project we will assign them to a referrer category for example Important You can also create a new referrer category for this task from the Project menu gt Manage referrer categories dialog We will create for our example a new category called Potential link partners 18 Step by Step Tutorials Find link partners Find link partners This is the list of potential partners retrieved From the search engine la Je ea aee e 13 http www butterscotch TT A E A E E E a A N 16 http www snapfiles com get photofiltre 5 me tp EE vicman net vewphoto index 5 8 http www DIT Delete filtered items 20 http resez Delete selected E 2 http www Open URL in browser aa http
93. ent 5 Maximum density percent 10 Options Show suggestions Display only words with more than 1 characters Import from WayBack Machine since All available dates w Diff settings Consider that a word phrase has changed when any of the following has changed Proxy server V Occurrences Y Density Y Prominence Report Preferences yyword analysis teo 8 Keyword analysis data storage Select the folder where Advanced Link Manager will store the keyword analysis data Note The keyword analysis data is compatible with Advanced Link Manager so you can share this folder if you have Advanced Link Manager installed on your computer Word Phrase e Maximum words in phrase Set the maximum length of a phrase Phrases with lengths larger than the specified number except when in Original content mode will not be displayed Maximum density percent Set the maximum percent of optimal density e Minimum density percent Set the minimum percent of optimal density Note The phrases that have densities contained within the maximum and minimum density percents will be colored in green the phrases that go below the minimum density percent will not be colored and the ones 157 Global Preferences that exceed the maximum density percent considered spam will be shown colored in red Options e Show suggestions Sometimes the size of a page is too large th
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95. er page e No follow This indicates by means of a Yes value whether either e a given backlink from a referrer page has a rel nofollow hyperlink attribute set or e a given referrer page has content nofollow META tag attribute set in header This means that the search engines are instructed not to consider such a backlink in rank calculations and to ignore backlinks from such a referrer page 99 Interactive Reports e Status This is the status of the backlink It can be one of the following values Added Removed or Nor mal e Type This is the type of the link It can be either text or image Filters The filters in the Referrers Report can be e Display filters e Dynamic filters Display Filters View Ez Referrers By Domain E All Category Al aa Filter Dom Referrer Rank 09 Normal works com 7wil New Ful com 7 d Added 8 e Removed 7al l Removed all links 4 Changed Iwi ab Text links A gspot com 0 Image links gspot com 0 B No Follow links Epot com 0 59 Fallow links com 0 12 E free music downloads x blogspot com D 339 domains 13 removed all links 58 The display filters can be All Displays everything all the referrer URLs and backlinks e Normal 100 Interactive Reports Displays only the referrers that contain backlinks with a Normal status e Added Displays only the referrers that contain backlinks with an Added status
96. er page from the search engines that support this feature This option is available only if you have the Site Rank plugin installed on your computer If you do not have the plugin installed and try to enable this option Advanced Link Manager will prompt you to download the plugin Enabling the plugin requires an application restart Update reciprocal links This option tells the application to determine whether the links between your website and a partner web site are reciprocal After the update is complete the Domain Information report will display the actual re ciprocal link status This option also instructs the application to parse the link pages from your domain looking for outbound links to your partners You only need to enable this option if you add or remove links from your link pages and you would like the application to parse them again Verify Link Status Forced Normally Advanced Link Manager verifies only the links from the referrers that were not already up dated for the current date However with this update you can force Advanced Link Manager to verify all the referrer links regardless if they have been updated or not in the current day Update Multiple Projects Using this feature you can select multiple projects to automatically update one after another You can either use a Project list or just select the projects you want to update from a list containing all your available projects 55 Updating Projects
97. filter them in the Unverified referrers report Following this step you can start now contacting potential new link partners 67 Chapter 6 Project Settings You can change the settings of a project from the Project gt Project Settings menu Here you can edit the list of domains search engines and other settings that are associated with the current project Managing Domains In the Domains tab of the Project Settings dialog box you can add remove and import domains Domains can be sorted by website or by position While the Sort by website option displays the do mains alphabetically Sort by position displays the domains in the order they are added You can change this order by moving a domain up or down in the list To do this select the Sort by position op tion then the domain and use the arrows from the bottom of the window to move them In order to Add a domain first input it in the edit box then press the Add button To remove a domain just select it from the list and click on the Remove button Project Settings x A Proxy settings Email Address gt lt Client emails Client FTPs gt lt Contact details 4 Domains Search Engines T Keywords A Preferences Automatic URL addition pki ets i af Sort by position Remove 4 Ignore URL parameters Y Ignore non web extensions Y Add index page Dy detaul gt
98. gdoc blog restyo blogspot Collapse all nodes e dina Expand all nodes E To create a category first select from the Project menu the Manage referrer categories option A new window will appear which allows you to add edit or remove categories The referrer categories manager also allows you to import or export categories This option is useful when you create categories for a project and later want to import them to another project 170 Referrer Categories dl Categories Edit Remove Click on the Add button to add a new category and tailor it for your needs Parent category Use this option when you want to create a subcategory e Name Select a name for your category e Color Assign to your category a color so it can be easily identifiable e Priority Select the priority of your category from 0 to 10 O having the highest priority in the referrer categories manager When you finish just press the OK button to save your settings and create a new category Referrer Subcategories When you add a category just select as a parent category an existing one and the new category will be created as a subcategory of the existing one 171 Referrer Categories 172 Chapter 23 Install Server Edition Guide Windows When you install Advanced Link Manager you need to do a Custom install and select the ALM Serv er option This way the Advanced Link Manager server will be inst
99. ge_edtor hed 3 7 http jalbum net Forum thread jspa threadID 214838tstar 4 AI A io http Jfreviens cnet comjmage ediing adobe photoshop ele 4 11 http www brothersoft comfimage editor 21674 html 3 12 http download cnet com PhotoScape 3000 2192_4 10703 7 13 http www softpedia com reviews windows Free Image Edi 2 14 http www shareup com SPX_Graphic_Editor download 259 2 AS http fwww ifanvien comf 8 16 http www macworld com article 134962 2009 06 sumopain 0 17 http soFtware informer com getfree pc image editor review NJA A AI CI 19 http www supershareware com download free image edit 2 20 fret fwwww dornloadatoz comjmulimedia design_drectory NA In order to filter the potential link partners we will first use the Visibility column The visibility column will tell us how much exposure these websites get The higher the visibility score the more ex posure they get You can also decide which website is relevant to you by retrieving additional information like the num ber of outbound links onsite links or page size 17 Step by Step Tutorials Find link partners Find link partners This is the list of potential partners retrieved from the search engine A ht llpcimage edtor program pc gareh NIA 18 download cnet com PhotoScape 3 7 tp www macworld com article 13496 tp download cnet com Fr
100. gine where that specific page is indexed for a selected domain e Indexed Pages Overview displays the total number of indexed pages and the number of indexed pages for each search engine for a selected domain Indexed Pages Evolution displays a chart with the evolution of indexed pages over a selected peri od of time Reciprocal linking The Reciprocal linking report evaluates multiple way link exchange between you and your link ex change partners This helps you keep track of your link exchange campaigns when having three way four way link ex change or more Let s say that you own two domains domainA com and domainD com and one of your link exchange partners owns domainB com and domainC com A three way link exchange would look like this e domainA com links to domainB com domainB com links to domainD com A four way link exchange would look like this e domainA com links to domainB com domainC com links to domainD com The reciprocal linking report displays the status of this kind of link exchange if the link exchange chain 1s OK or if it is broken somewhere In this way you can see at any time if one of you partners removed the link from their website 123 Chapter 9 Printable Reports Advanced Link Manager can also present the information gathered from search engines as printable re ports in the following formats HTML PDF CSV and XML There following reports are created by de fault in any new pro
101. h and the new potential link partners will be added to the project You can always see these new potential referrers in the Unverified Referrers report by selecting the Potential option in the Display drop down 64 Updating Projects Find link partners by backlinks The Find link partners by backlinks wizard helps you gather potential link partners using advanced search and backlinks check The wizard is available from the Update menu Find link partners by backlinks By analyzing your competitor s backlinks you can find new potential resources of links so this is why you can use Find link partners by backlinks to conduct competitive analysis Search Engine and Keywords The first step in getting new link partners is similar with Find link partners and requires you to select the search engine that will be used to gather results and the keywords for which you are looking to find new link partners Find link partners by backlinks Search Engine and Keywords Select a Search Engine and enter your keywords Search Engine Google y Search Enter your keywords below one per line image edi tor Search Depth 5 T Get all available results Advanced search Search using All of the words w Occurences appear Anywhere in the page w Daterange start Daterange stop Only get pages from domain Language 9 Web search Search in country American Samoa Search in langu
102. h category in its own page When you create a new template you can begin with one of these tem plates and then customize them to your needs To customize the HTML code click on the section you wish to change An HTML editor will open where you can edit your changes Click OK to save the changes and then Preview to see if everything looks as it should There are two HTML sections that you can customize Index page and Category page These are two separate entities when you create the link pages with one category per page However when you choose to display all categories in the same page these two entities combine to give you the same result in one page 137 Generate Link Pages Link Categories To generate link pages you need to assign the links to a category first If that category is not already cre ated you can create it from the categories manager Go to the Options menu and then click on Manage link categories to access it 5 Manage link categories Select template Websites Name Websites Title Websites Description Websites Link Category File name websites html Priority 10 The link categories manager shows detailed information about the selected category in the main view Here you can create a new category edit or remove the selected one To assign links to a category use the context menu from the Unverified Referrers report 138 Chapter 12 User Profiles and Access Groups User
103. h to update this project You then have the option of generating reports im mediately after the update is complete For this you can either select the reports you wish to generate from a list or instruct the application to generate all the reports that you specified to be generated after each update This list can be edited in the Preferences tab of the Project Settings The final step of the Scheduler wizard presents you with a summary of all the options that will be used to create the scheduled task Just verify that everything is correct and press the Finish button to create the task You can view and edit the task later using the Scheduler gt View scheduled tasks menu Updating multiple projects The updating of multiple projects automatically using the scheduler is one of the most powerful features of Advanced Link Manager It allows you to specify a list of projects to be updated one after another and generate reports for each of them as needed When you update multiple projects you are asked to choose which project list you wish to update This is the list of projects that you wish to update By default there is only one predefined list called All Projects but you can create your own list of projects using the Manage project lists button Note 83 Scheduler The All projects list is a virtual list that cannot be edited or removed It will always contain all your exist ing projects Just like in a simple
104. hange the location of the folder where Advanced Link Manager keeps its data When you press the OK button the path to the old data folder is renewed by the path of the new data folder 143 Global Preferences Reports folder This setting allows you to select the application default reports saving folder e Choose project at startup If you want the next time Advanced Link Manager starts to be prompted with the available project from your data folder check this option e Display success message on FTP upload Check this option if you want to be notified when the reports set to be uploaded on FTP servers finish uploading e Show Advanced Link Manager Assistant after loading a project Check this option if you want to be prompted with the Advanced Link Manager Assistant each time a project is loaded e Show Advanced Link Manager Assistant after an update is done Check this option if you want to be prompted with the Advanced Link Manager Assistant each time a project finishes updating e Use Java look and feel Use the default Metal Java look and feel Note This option requires Advanced Link Manager restart e Display the view description on the view buttons Check this option if you want to see the description of the report views next to the view s icon 144 Global Preferences Global preferences Application Settings Application icati ings Reporting Rank color
105. his report shows the referrers verified by the Verify link status update and the Search Engines that reported them Referrers Information Report This report displays detailed information about the referrers from you project such as IP URL title Page Rank Referrer Category Tag and Meta information 124 Printable Reports Input The second step of the report wizard allows you to set the input data needed to generate the report la New template Report Input Select the input data needed to generate the report Date Select the date for which you wish to generate the report Date Last update w Show changes compared to Previous update Input Make report available in all projects global template Include all domains First of all we need to select a date as the report current date Here we can choose an exact date when an update was made For convenience a Last update date is also available so you can generate the report for the day the last update was made If we want to compare the curent day data with the data from an earlier date all we need to do is check the Show changes compared to option and select a date from the drop down list Here too you can choose Previous update and the report will always consider the previous update date as the comparis on date There are two types of input data Domains and Search Engines By default all the domains and search engines are included in the report To
106. ich are your most important referrers It can take values from 0 to 10 where 10 is the highest value The N A status means that the referrer is not ranked by Google e Alexa Rank This is the traffic rank associated with each web page by the Alexa search engine It enables you to see which are your most important referrers It can take any value from but is the highest value The N A status means that the referrer is not ranked by Alexa 87 Interactive Reports e Reciprocal status Displays the reciprocal status between the selected website domain and the referrer domain that is dis played in the current line The status may have one of the following values e Not Linking There is no link from you to your partner website and the partner web site does not link to your website e Link to One or more of your web pages are pointing to the partner website e Link from One or more of the partner web pages are pointing to your website e Reciprocal There is a link from one or more of your web pages to your partner website and there is also a link from one or more of the partner web pages to your website e Contact status Displays the status that is currently assigned to describe the current progress of your link exchange campaign e Domain age This is the age of the domain computed from the date the domain was registered until today N A means that the domain information was not gathered for this domain You can g
107. ift A T FTP Profiles Ctrl Shift F Broken links Headers and Footers Manage link page HTML layout E Manage link categories tags IP Manage access groups Undecided 1 Manage proxy servers N A 1 N A Browser manager N A Reports layout Manage layouts User Profiles V Default Edit contact details N A N A Setup search engines additional paramaters Preferences allows you to set the global preferences of the project See the Global Preferences page for more details Address Book allows you to add and edit the email addresses in your address book See the Address Book page for more details FTP Profiles allows you to add remove and edit your FTP profiles See the FTP Profiles page for more details Headers and Footers allows you to add customized headers and footers to your reports Manage link page HTML layout allows you to customize the HTML layout for yourlink pages Manage link categories allows you create link categoriesfor your referrers Manage access groups allows you to add remove or edit Access Groups Manage proxy servers allows you to add remove or edit the Proxy servers Browser manager allows you set the default browser that will open the HTML reports Reports layout allows you to choose a restricted set of UI reports that will be displayed Layout Default The Default layout cannot be deleted and it contains all the reports available in Adva
108. in comparison to your competitors as well as other major on line players Advanced Link Manager is the tool of choice for SEOs webmasters and site owners that demand high quality reports measuring the volume and quality of web pages linking to them Frequently Asked Questions We have compiled a list of Frequently Asked Questions on our website http www advancedlinkmanager com faqs html If you encounter a problem with Advanced Link Manager it is recommended that you first consult this list before adding a ticket on our support center http www advancedlinkmanager com support center html Chapter 2 Step by Step Tutorials When launching Advanced Link Manager for the first time its features settings and capabilities may seem a little overwhelming That is why we have created this tutorial an intuitive concise but neverthe less comprehensive manual which is intended to ease you in to help you quickly get started on monitor ing web pages that link to you in one or multiple search engines according to your preferences As a user you will be given a wide range of possibilities as Advanced Link Manager can easily be adjusted to your particular needs without its precision and transparency being affected The tutorial requires some interaction between you and the application However this may not be al ways possible at the same time you are reading the tutorial You can either switch between the Help tab and the application
109. inking to you using No follow attribute in links You may be interested to get in touch with those websites about that This is because when a search engine sees a no follow attribute in a hyperlink it will not follow it nor consider the destination page in page rank calculations Filter your Removed links Let s say you want to find out which of your referrers has removed links to you since the currently se lected previous update It s easy just make sure your website is selected the left panel and choose the Removed value in the display filter Now you if you see any such websites you may be interested to get in touch with those websites about that 12 Step by Step Tutorials Additionally you can filter the backlinks by domain name URL or link text Just select one of the three criteria available enter the text you are looking for and Advanced Link Manager will filter out the refer rers and links that do not match the given text Filter y Domain Contains Rank Domain Quality ratio QutboundL Backlinks 4 URL path 0 03 148 1 E Link text Contains i 5 67123 Exact match i gt 212050 Begins with 1 2 N A 1 3 19941 Matches regular expression i 13892 0 07 38 1 Examples e Filter your links by text Let s say that one of your most important keywords are latest news Since the link text affects your search engine rankings you may be interested in finding who s linking to you using those
110. is FA Email 42 Broken links _ 9 Indexed pages P gt Update Progress 98 9 Domain Information Bo Unverified Referrers Bs Referrers Pd Backlinks Evolution J Search Engine Evolution View Search Engine Overview Compare to 20 02 2006 Date 23 09 2008 Group by Search Engines Display Targets yf All Filter A Contains Search Engines Y www cnn com www bbc com news google com Google 20900 a 17650 11100 a 8200 11100 a 7600 MSN 1500000 1498000 26700 a 24575 481000 a 478500 Yahoo 8087904 a 8086154 281180 a 279057 5139518 5138018 For this view there is some extra information available This information is used for comparison only it does not concern the current project This information can be found in the Advanced Link Manager data folder the data folder in the comparedata xml You can customize this file at your will Order by URLs In this view the data will be organized with the URLs as columns and the search engines as rows ab Link text P Keyword Analysis _ 4 Email Pp Broken links _ 9 Indexed pages b gt Update Progress 98 E Domain information Be Unverified Referrers BoReferrers 4 Backinks Evolution J Search Engine Evolution View lil Search Engine Overview X Compare to 22 09 2008 y Date 23 09 2008 w Q Group by f URLs w Display Targets yy All Filter A Contains E URLs Total Y Yahoo Google MSN www cnn com 9608804 w 75
111. is moment we can apply the category filter to the Domain Information report in order to see the do mains that we just added So select the Potential link partners category from the category filter 20 Step by Step Tutorials e Advanced Link Manager 4 6 build 10 Administrator Licensed to Caphyon Project Update Scheduler Reports Edit reports Tools Options Help gb 100820508 4 194H0g80 rie Pore f Search Enaine Evolution ab Linktext J Keyword Analysis E 9 indexed pages 00 Reciprocal linking D Domain Information Bb Unverified Referrers Ba Referrers 2 Backlinks Evolution E al Eate al xa Rank Reciprocal st Contactstatus 1P Address Domain Age 19 www lightboxeditor com N A N A N A 20 www askedfiles com id Li N A N A N A 21 Fedit image editor en softonic com Lil N A N A N A 22 research micrc com 23 digital photography school com 24 www photopos com 25 www codango com 26 www kanzelsberger com 27 www miracletutorials com 28 www sofotex com 29 www trap17 com 30 free image editor smartcode com There is currently no information available for this domain Now that we have the list of domains the next step is contact them In this way we will get in touch and let them know our intentions But to do that we need contact information To get contact information all we need to do is to select the domains that we wa
112. istration information Main Toolbar The Main Toolbar located below the Main Menu provides easy access to common and frequently used functions Each icon is a button that acts as a shortcut to a related function Hold the cursor over an icon to display a context label that will give you a hint as to its function Click on an icon to use its function FOOVAADADA MITE e elb ielan Start Update pops up the Update dialog By clicking on the arrow to the right of this icon the Update popup will show with all the options that you can also find in Update Menu Pause Update pauses the update in progress 38 The User Interface D D D Es D NI Ly Stop Update stops the update in progress Add referrers manually allows you to add referrers manually Find link partners allows you to add referrers using the full power of advanced search from the search engines New Project creates a new project Delete Project deletes the current project Duplicate Project duplicates the current project Project Settings changes the settings for the current project New Report brings up the report wizard that will allow you to specify exactly which data you want to appear in the report as well as the report type data range and destina tion of the report By clicking on the arrow to the right a list with all available reports is displayed See the report wizard for more details Scheduler
113. items y Category All y Filter Q Domain Contains E Al E None E Date all E3 O Referrer domain os Alexa Rank Reciprocal status Contact status IP Address Domain Age Compete rank 1 www filehungry com Swi N A Link From Undecided 64 27 31 78 N A 407259 Undecided 67 225 212 152 1829y 11m 112015 Undecided 74 55 200 218 36677 33979 4 www top4download 5 N A Link From Undecided 92 240 237 91 7y 6m 44252 49373 44020 5 www softpedia com 7 NJA Link from Undecided 64 225 158 192 6y 5m 748 2940494 2260324 6 www ahmetbutun net NJA NJA NJA Undecided 89 19 13 244 N A N A N A N A Compete visits Compete visitors 3541 3319 a eX Link from 3 www softpile com Link from E Domain details EA Email composer B Message History Last updated Nov 23 2009 Status Undecided Never changed Last contacted Never Description DNS information No meta description was found for this website Registered Mar 10 0181 Updated Mar 10 0181 Link from Yahoo Directory No Expires Jul 10 0181 Link from DMOZ Directory Computers Software Shareware Directories X Note E This report displays contact and reciprocal link information for all potential partner websites available in your project For each domain the following information is available Rank This is the rank associated with each web page by the Google search engine It enables you to see wh
114. ject Domain Information Report Unverified Referrers Report Referrers Report Referrers Overview Report Link Text Report Link Text Overview Report Referrers Information Re port Referrers by Search Engine Report and Search Engines Report To create a new report you can use the Report wizard which will help you create printable reports customized to your own needs The first step of the wizard allows you to choose one of the three types of reports available Domain Information Report This report shows only the referrer domains from your project and various information about them such as IP Rank Alexa Rank Domain age Unverified Referrers Report This report shows the referrers as they were gathered from the search engines These referrers may not link back to your website Referrers Report This report shows only the referrers that link back to your website with detailed information about them Referrers Overview Report This report shows only the referrers that link back to your website with a side by side comparison of your competititon Search Engines Report This report shows the evolution of the number of links to your targets as provided by the search en gines Link Text Report This report shows the top link texts and the referrers they come from Link Text Overview Report This report shows an overview of the links count for each link text and each website in your project Referrers by Search Engine Report T
115. ks Evolution Category All Position Range Full range y Date Range All Data Q Backlinks 330 asi 39 3908 3344 33925 113 Date as known vali 185 185 185 6 59 A news google com E www bbc com 115 115 115 7 36 www cnn com 254 254 254 5 72 This chart will contain information about the number of referrers of the selected URL collected from all the active search engines of your project for the selected period of time In the Chart view the number of referrers is represented on the vertical axis while time is represented on the horizontal one The Legend at the bottom of the chart allows you to better understand the information depicted in the chart The Legend displays a color for every selected domain This color is used to draw the graphical evolution lines or dots of that specific domain Note that in the Backlinks Evolution chart there is a line for each one of the selected domains You can select as many domains as you want to compare their progress over time Each selected domain will be represented by a unique color automatically assigned by the Advanced Link Manager If you select more than one referrer URL each line of the chart will represent the sum of links from the referrer URLs selected for each of the selected target domains URLs The Backlinks Evolution report contains two filters which can be used to better understand the pro gress of your targeted domains e Position Range
116. l account This account will be available in the Email Client report where you can receive email using it POP3 Selecting this option will make this account use the POP3 protocol to retrieve emails IMAP Selecting this option will make this account use the IMAP protocol to retrieve emails e Mail server Specify the mail server this account connects to retrieve emails e Username Specify the user name used to connect to the mail server e Password Specify the password needed to authenticate the selected user on the mail server 148 Global Preferences Use secure connection If your server requires a secure connection check this option and SSL will be used to connect to the server e Check for mail every X minutes Set Advanced Link Manager to automatically check for new mails every X minutes e Check for mail on application startup Set Advanced Link Manager to automatically check for new mails each time it starts FTP settings Global preferences FTP Application 10 Number of times to retry if FTP server busy 5 Delay between retries seconds Email 30 FTP connection timeout 15 FTP read timeout FTP settings Use passive mode by default Report Preferences D analysis Here you can setup some of the FTP connection parameters Number of times to retry if FTP server busy If the FTP server is busy try to reconnect for the specified number of times
117. leased Proxy Settings Global preferences Use a Proxy Server Application Performance Proxy server Report Preferences Do not use direct connection If proxy fails use direct connection Add direct connection to the proxy list Some organizations require their users to use a proxy server to access the Internet If this is your case 154 Global Preferences then you need to fill in the fields below e Use a Proxy Server Check this box if you want to use a proxy server e Manage proxy servers This button will display the Proxy servers manager where you can add remove or edit your applica tion proxy servers Advanced Link Manager can connect to the search engines using multiple proxy servers This way the speed of the update process increases by the number of diffent proxy servers specified without interfering with the search engine friendly policy When connecting via a proxy server you have three additional options available e Do not use direct connection If this option is selected Advanced Link Manager will use only the proxy servers for all connections e If proxy fails use direct connection When Selecting this option Advanced Link Manager will use direct connection only if the configured proxies fail Add direct connection to the proxy list This option adds direct connection to the proxy list and Advanced Link Manager uses it simultan eously along
118. ll items y Category All gt Tag Al y Fiter Q Contains Q index retenes Jr Aea Rank Quatyrato Outboundlnks Date added Sus Last updated 1P adress 1 http www iht com 9 1346 0 21 4 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 199 239 138 a 2 http www washingtonpost com 9 313 0 08 112 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 12 129 147 65 3 http today reuters com 9 278 0 05 178 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 216 35 67 143 y 4 http www nytimes com 9 101 9 00 1 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 199 239 136 5 http news bbc co uk 9 45 0 15 61 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 212 58 226 29 6 http www microsoft com windows products 9 13 0 47 19 2008 09 22 Updated 2008 09 23 65 55 11 222 7 http www microsoft com windows products 9 13 1 00 9 2008 09 22 Updated 2008 09 23 65 55 11 222 8 http www microsoft com windows downloa 9 13 1 12 8 2008 09 22 Updated 2008 09 23 65 55 11 222 9 http www microsoft com 9 13 0 12 72 2008 09 22 Updated 2008 09 23 65 55 11 222 10 http books google com 9 2 0 43 21 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 74 125 43 102 11 http scholar google com 9 2 4 50 2 2008 09 23 Updated 2008 09 23 66 102 1 147 12 http today reuters co uk 8 155335 0 11 70 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 216 35 67 144 13 http www turkishdailynews com tr 8 46107 0 89 9 2006 02 26 Updated 2008 09 23 213 243 116 209 14 http www computerworld com 8 9149 0 04 191 2008 09 23 Updated 2008 09 23 65 221 110 98 15 http www mg co za 8 7018 0 11 75 2006 0
119. ls iero oere oE E EEE EEE ays E E EEE ENE EE E S cd 92 Unverified Referrers ieii ain en e a a dete ast E E e a ETTE 92 Referrers cias ia ee 97 Backlinks Evolution sore en din a E sed EE E ai env ONS 104 Search Engine Eyolution siian e e bes dob sagen E A E Oued ot aot cated REEE ES 108 EI KED AE E A E eo 113 The Keyword Analysis TOOL osssecss svtassceteeeae yh snes oh rena iiss wetoes cu tft fe 116 Compare View clado tane ERE eects a KE a bia Beta baa roads 117 OVERVIEW VIEW distri dile dai 119 The Emal Clear la a 119 The Broken Links TEport yema loci errada ED NAS AUREAS 121 The Indexed Pages Tepito as 122 Reciprocal kin amp vistes pira prieta ita Paved ceases 123 9 Printable Reports 2 sssicessseceeecstveceeeseg eed osvans cedsiayecnestiwecessrieeceesteecesespueevesasveeresseeny 124 O 125 O 125 Destinia ir li debe Ge ay 128 NN 130 10 The Event Logger a a AS 132 The Event L p Ger anal a pin 132 Detailed Event Information Sessor i E E EEE E E EE E E E e ens 133 11 Generate Link Pages matricial Op A n E REPERA ETRE E EPE pens 135 Link Page HTML Layouts cionis eroa r e O EE E E EEEa 136 Link Categories cess rnor en eE EE E E EE E EE O REE sea EGER ESTES 138 12 User Profiles and Access Groups ocoooccnnoconoconccnnocnncnnnnoncnnccnnconnconncnnconncnnnccnnccnncnnnoos 139 User Profiles icons iria adri n 139 ACCESS BLOUPS ii is 139 13 Header and Fo0terias APIS 140 The Header cote aA lts it ito lts 140 E 141 14 Glo
120. m Not set Application Email To abo abonet ro Subject www mywebsite com now links to you Message _ Email Template Quicktext Insert variable Dear Webmaster I have visited your site and I think that the My Category content could be of interest to our web site visitors harna alee ander laned gt linl ta Y and set status to Undecided Undecided Waiting for answer to 2nd link request email Waiting For answer to 3rd link request email Web site plans to link back Web site doesn t want to link back Web site s reciprocal link doesn t work anymore Click the Send button in order to send your email and continue to the next domain By switching to the Message history you can see all the messages sent to the webmaster of the selected domain At this moment you should be able to successfully search for new link partners retrieve contact inform ation and build relationships with your potential link partners new link partners by backlinks This tutorial will guide you though the steps that will help you promote your website by getting more link partners by analyzing the backlinks of your competitors As an example we will presume for this tutorial that we have a software product let s say an image edit or We will use our targeted keywords to find our competitors and then get information about their back links 24 Step by Step Tutorials
121. morable 1 0 15 47 difficulties and suggest that 1 6 06 62 1999 memorable moments 1 0 22 47 enter 1 1 52 100 1999 memorable moments at 1 0 30 47 enter web 1 3 03 100 200 1 0 15 29 Y dios 1 455 inne Body text Title I Links Img ALTs Meta keywords Meta description Body text Title Links Img ALTs I Meta keywords I Meta description Foreground color Keyword density is too high E Keyword density is optimal ME Keyword density is too low The Keyword Analysis tool has two ways of displaying the analysis data The first is a side by side com parison of two different web pages To do that select two different web pages in the left side input pan els The second way is to compare two different analysis dates of the same domain In this mode the Keyword Analysis tool will display the differences between the two selected days The Keyword Analysis tool allows you to set up various parsing parameters You can set these paramet ers by pressing the Options button 117 Interactive Reports Word Phrase Maximum words in phrase Minimum density percent Maximum density percent Options Show suggestions Display only words with more than 1 characters Import from WayBack Machine since All available dates Diff settings Consider that a word phrase has changed when any of the Following has changed Y Occurrences Density Y Prominence In the Options panel you ca
122. n index page of your website The Index Ali ases list contains all the possible names of the Index Page so if any of these pages will be found in 70 Project Settings the link URL they will treated as Index Page If your index page has a name that is not part of the Index Aliases list just add it to the list and the next update will show it correctly Note The Index Aliases features can be exclusively used for the project domains The Import button is used to import web pages into an existing domain There are two ways to import these pages Import from a web page Enables you to import all the pages that are linked from a certain web page The wizard spiders the web page you provide and finds all the links to other web pages http www cnn com feedback http ac360 blogs cnn com http rss cnn com services podcasting 1k1 rss xml http ww cnn com privacy html http ww cnn com US http www cnn com 2009 HEALTH 06 17 menstrual problem fix inde http ww cnn com javascript cnnHideMoPo http edition cnn com http www cnn com SHOWBIZ http money cnn com 2009 06 17 news companies ford index htm http i cdn turner com cnn apple touch icon png http www cnn com mostpopular 4 m 7 Exdude internal links from within your website Ignore URL parameters os cms e Import from a search engine Enables you to import all the pages from your domain that a search engine is awa
123. n select one or more URLs by clicking on them while pressing the Control or the Shift key If you want to select all the referrers just click on the small button from the top right of the panel The Search Engines panel This panel allows you to select which Search Engines you want to be graphically represented in the Search Engine Evolution report In the Search Engines panel you can select one or more search engines by clicking on them while pressing the Control or the Shift key If you want to select all the search engines just click on the small button from the top right of the panel Quick actions panel The Quick actions panel provides quick access to important functions of Advanced Link Manager Domain Information quick action 40 The User Interface Quick actions i Domains hr Update domain information d Show reciprocal details d Check reciprocal status amp Ignore links from this domain E Do not ignore links from this domain Items Show all items Show contacted La Show contact available Show drafts e Show reciprocal linking ip Select All Domains e Update domain information Updates the information for a domain selected from the referrer domain list in order to display additional information in the Domain details panel e Show reciprocal details Displays reciprocal details for two selected domains e Check reciprocal status Checks the reciprocal status for two selecte
124. n specify the maximum number of words in a phrase You can also specify the maximum and minimum density percent that will determine the coloring of the density column Definitions Occurrences Represents the number of times a keyword is present in the selected page Density The density represents the appearance percent of a keyword or phrase compared with the total number of words present on that web page So if a word appears 10 times in the page and the page con tains 100 words the density is 10 The same goes for phrases groups of words If a phrase appears 10 times and contains 3 words the words appear 30 times and if the page contains 100 words the density of the 3 words phrase is 30 Prominence The prominence represents how well a keyword or phrase is placed in a sentence If a keyword is the first word in a sentence it has 100 prominence If the keyword is in the middle of the sentence then it has 50 prominence and if it is the last it has 0 prominence In the case a keyword ap pears two times in the same sentence then the prominence is the average of those two occurrences For example if the keyword appears first and last in the sentence then the prominence is 100 0 2 50 What text is considered for Keyword Analysis 118 Interactive Reports Entire text The Entire text view displays as keywords and phrases the content of title tag meta de scription and keywords tags anchor tags ALT tags H tags and
125. n will insert a previously saved text that you often use when writing emails To manage the quick texts select the Manage quick text item instead e Insert variable This button will allow you to insert the value of a commonly used term like Name or Address into the email composer These variables have default values that you need to change the first time you use them To edit these variables later just go to Options gt Edit contact details Send and set status to When you send an email you can also change the status to a new value using this option 91 Interactive Reports Message History The message history tab shows all the emails you sent as part of your link exchange campaign Reciprocal Details If you click on the reciprocal status column for the selected referrer a dialog will pop up with detailed information about the links between you and the selected referrer Ey Reciprocal details Group by domains Group by referrers Eww bbc com al members tripod com Alihusein A green arrow shows a link from the referrer page to your page and a red arrow shows a link from your page to the referrer page When both arrows appear the link is reciprocal between the same pages First of all this will help you understand why Advanced Link Manager has assigned that reciprocal status Secondly you will see all the links from you to your referrer or the other way around You also have the ability to see
126. name and password here Advanced Link Manager can use a secure connection when sending emails through the SMTP server For this you can use either the TLS or SSL encryption depending on what your SMTP server requires Email aliases Lay Email aliases Enter each name on a new line on doe Jim denver If you have more than one contact person for this email address you need to enter their names here each on a new line Use global email settings for sending reports This option inherits the settings for sending reports from Global Preferences If you want to configure different email accounts for different projects uncheck this option Note Advanced Link Manager will use the same settings for sending reports as for sending link requests POP3 and IMAP Here you can setup your project POP3 or IMAP incoming email account This account will be available in the Email Client report where you can receive email using it e POP3 Selecting this option will make this account use the POP3 protocol to retrieve emails IMAP 79 Project Settings Selecting this option will make this account use the IMAP protocol to retrieve emails e Mail server Specify the mail server this account connects to retrieve emails e Username Specify the user name used to connect to the mail server e Password Specify the password needed to authenticate the selected user on the mail server e Use secure connection If your server requires
127. nced Link Manager 36 The User Interface e Layout Manage layouts Opens the layout manager where you can add remove and edit your lay outs E Manage layouts Manage layo Domain Information Unverified Referrers Referrers Backlinks Evolution Search Engine Evolution Link text Keyword Analysis Email Broken links Remove e User profiles allows you to select and manage the user profiles e Edit contact details allows you to edit your contact details Help 37 The User Interface Help Advanced Link Manager Assistant F1 Help Index Shift Fl a Context help Report Error System properties Register Search Engines Update About e Advanced Link Manager Assistant displays the Advanced Link Manager Assistant e Help Index displays the help index window Context help displays the context help e Report error allows you to send an error report to the Advanced Link Manager team so we can help you with troubleshooting and improve our product e System properties displays your system properties e Purchase opens in your default browser the purchase page of the Advanced Web Ranking Website e Register allows you to register this product You will be prompted for the registration ID you re ceived by email after purchasing e About displays a message box containing information about the product version the search engines update versions and your reg
128. nformation about your competitor s citations enter the keywords and select the search depth of web pages Additionally you can select to retrieve the page rank for the web pages found Then simply select the Start button Once the update starts you can display the results by selecting Show Google ten pack 162 Google Maps Webpages Importer Show Google ten pack will display the same results you see in Google Maps after you click Local busi ness results for in Google Web Search When the update finishes Google Maps Webpages Importer can display additional information about the retrieved URLs if the Gather additional information button is selected e Page Rank e HTTP Response e Page Title Outbound links which represent the number of external links e Onsite links which represent the total number of internal links Size of the page e Meta Description e Meta Robots e Meta Keywords e Meta author Once analyzed the URLs gathered from Google Maps you can select the ones you consider valuable and worth trying to get a listing from and then add them to the Selected URLs list From here you can add as project URLs referrer URLs or export to a file Just select one of the buttons from the bottom of Google Maps Webpages Importer 163 Chapter 18 Webpage Analyzer Webpage Analyzer The Webpage Analyzer let s you analyze pages of your website or potential link partner s websites It can be also used
129. ngine APIs Use Google AJAX API Visit the Google AJAX API website F Use Yahoo API Visit the Yahoo API site Yahoo API Keys ap soma Performance Proxy server Report Preferences D analysis Google AJAX API Click on the Use Google AJAX API option and then enter the one or more keys that you received from Google As long as this option is enabled all searches made on the Google search engine will use the Google AJAX API Important You have the possibility to use more than one Google AJAX API key After you finish entering your first Google AJAX API key just press on the button and enter another one Don t forget to press on the every time you want to insert a key Use the to remove the selected key from the combo box Yahoo API Click on the Use Yahoo API option and then enter one or more keys that you received from Yahoo As long as this option is enabled all searches made on the Yahoo search engine will use the Yahoo API 153 Global Preferences Important You have the possibility to use more than one Yahoo API key After you finish entering your first Yahoo API key just press on the button and enter another one Don t forget to press on the every time you want to insert a key Use the to remove the selected key from the combo box The Yahoo API is still in Beta stage so its parameters could change over time until a stable version is re
130. nk status http www thaindian com newsp Verify link status http www 2news tv news natio Verify link status http www businessweek com b Verify link status http thecaucus blogs nytimes c Progress Information Started 13 33 35 Estimated stop 13 38 35 Time remaining 00 04 48 Currently 3 complete 4 out of 123 Gathering data from referrers During the update progress information is displayed containing the start time the estimated stop the time remaining and the percentage of completed searches At the end there is displayed the total time the number of retrieved pages and the number bytes retrieved When the update is complete Advanced Link Manager checks again all the searches and retries those that have not been completed successfully The number of retries is specified in the Performance tab of the Preferences Current Updates The Current Updates tab displays real time update information about manual or scheduled updates Current Multiple Updates The Current Multiple Updates tab displays real time update information about multiple updates History The History tab displays information about all the updates done in Advanced Link Manager for all projects 59 Updating Projects Note To make the browsing easier through the history Advanced Link Manager allows you to use a couple of useful filters Date The Date filter allows you to select different update
131. nks Onsite links Size Meta description Mel p d d 0 d dD 9 B A A p p 0 O E P http www luzzomania com 4 200 www luzzomani 0 0 1KB NJA NJA http www nycgo com event view ve 4 200 nycgo otto 12 63 34 KB Perhaps the mo N A http www patsyspizzeriany com 4 200 Welcome to Pat 2 0 3KB NJA NJA http www artichokepizza com 3 200 Artichoke Pizza 1 6 7KB NJA N A http www Famousjoespizza com directi 3 200 Famous Joes P 0 3 4KB Famous Joes Pi NJA http www famousjoespizza com Fipbon 3 200 Famous Joes P 0 4 4KB Famous Joes Pi N A http www menupages com restaurants 3 200 John s Pizzeria 19 82 47KB NJA INOOI ibttn waw menunanes com restaurants 3 200 Pete s A Place 18 73 46 KA NIA 2 Gather additonal information show Google ten pack Selected URLs URL gt Rank HTTP response Title Outbound Links Onsite links Size Meta description http www delivery com uhauid 646 amp v 5 200 Order Food Deli 1 39 14KB NJA NJA http www joespizza com 4 200 2 14 32 KB JOE S PIZZA of NJi http www johnspizzerianyc com 4 200 John s Pizzeria 0 0 OKB N A NJ http www ottopizzeria com 5 200 Welcome to OTTO 4 19 7KB Otto Enoteca Pi N A Y Hep Add as project URLs 22 Add as referrer URLs D Export to file To start getting i
132. nly your competitor has View search engine statistics This view displays all the links to your website grouped by the search engine that reported them The chart allows you to see how many links are reported by each search engine in time Link campaign Find link partners This wizard allows you to easily find new link partners using data from the major search engines It displays the highest ranking websites for the keywords you are targeting allowing you to add them to your project as potential partners Send link exchange requests This view allows you to send link exchange requests using the integ rated email composer Add referrers This dialog allows you to add new referrers You can add them manually import them from a file or import them from a website These mew referrers will be added to the Unverified Refer rers list and you can see them using the Manually Added filter 45 Chapter 4 Managing Projects Project Manager The Project Manager can show you an overview of all the projects that you created so far allowing you to assign them to categories It will also give you important information about your projects such as the creation date last backup date last update date and project size You can also see at a glance whether the project you are interested in has been updated and when If it hasn t been updated you can look in the Events section and see whether something went wrong or whether the update was neve
133. nt to retrieve the do main information for right click over one of the domains and select the Update domain information In the status bar of the application you will see the progress of the domain information retrieval 21 Step by Step Tutorials e Advanced Link Manager 4 6 build 10 Administrator Licensed to Caphyon Project Update Scheduler Reports Editreports Tools Options Help gib 10 08 2808 4 1994Mgua re roer search Enaine Evolution ab Linktext JO Keyword Analysis aes P Broken links 9 Indexed pages 0 Reciprocal linking Domain Information Unverified Referrers Bo Referrers pd Backlinks Evolution Ye All tems y Category Potential link pa Filter Q Domain Contains Za EE Date al EH oate al E O E E EAS 1 research microsoft com 2 www rw designer com 3 blog wittymonkey com 4 www linuxplanet com 5 www masternewmedia org 6 www softpedia com 7 www snapfiles com 8 pixel image editor en softonic com Last updated Aug 20 2009 Last contacted Never Status Undecided Description DNS information No meta description was found For this website Registered Jun 19 2003 Link from DMOZ Directory Computers Software Shareware Directories X Es Updated Jun 19 2003 Link from Yahoo Directory Computers and Internet gt News and Media gt Computers and Technology Blogs gt X Es Expires Jun 19 2016
134. nvalid links This retrieves the links from your project pages and checks if the URLs they point to still exists If it does not exist it will con sider it a broken link E Domain Information Do Unverified Referrers Ba Referrers Backlinks Evolution J Search Engine Evolution ab Link text P Keyword Analysis 52 Email P Broken links J Indexed pages D gt Check for broken links He All y Filter O Index Project URL Y External link Status 1 www msn com http encarta msn com encnet features onthisday aspx Normal a 2 www msn com http www windowslive com explore photogallery ocid Normal El 3 WWW msn com http rss msn com Normal E 4 www msn com http search msn com results aspx FORM MSNH amp amp Normal 5 www msn com http search live com results aspx scope msn amp amp F Normal 6 www msn com http search msn comfimages results aspx FORM MSN Normal 7 wWW msn com http search msn com video results aspx FORM MSNH Normal 8 www msn com http search msn com news results aspx FORM MSNH Normal 9 www msn com http maps live com 7FORM MSNH amp amp mkt en US amp a Normal 10 www msn com http a list msn com Normal 11 www msn com http search msn com news results aspx q Annie Pro Normal 12 www msn com http search msn com news results aspx q Wachovia Normal 13 www msn com http search msn com news results aspx q Carrie Br Normal 14 www msn com htt
135. ok cerca The following actions are available e Add Shows the new proxy settings dialog where you can add a new proxy server to the application e Edit Shows the edit proxy server dialog where you can change the settings of the currently selected proxy server e Remove Removes the selected proxy server from the application e Set default Sets the currently selected proxy server as the default application proxy server Note The default proxy settings are used to download new search engine updates and any other connections be sides the connections to the search engines 159 Chapter 16 Website Crawler Website Crawler The Website Crawler tool allows you crawl your entire website or pages until reaching a specific level and provide information about each crawled page e Page Rank e HTTP Response e Page Title Outbound links which represent the number of external links e Onsite links which represent the total number of internal links e Size of the page e Meta Description e Meta Robots e Meta Keywords e Meta author e Robots no follow 160 Website Crawler Website crawler Website URL www caphyon com Levels 18 E Crawl entire Found URLs URL gt Title it i Meta description Meta r http www caphyon com 5 Caphyon Ltd 8 NJA http www caphyon com partners p www caphyon com press html hwww caphyon com products p
136. on If you want to preview your Header and Footer template in HTML format press the Preview button The HTML footer may contain an HTML code that will determine the personalized image of the footer in your report 142 Chapter 14 Global Preferences The Advanced Link Manager Preferences allows you to specify settings that apply to the entire applica tion changing and customizing the behaviour in accordance with your requirements You can access the Global Preferences from the toolbar button by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl P or by selecting Options gt Preferences from the Main Menu Application e Global preferences Application Settings Application Settings Reporting Rank color Application Settings Change the folder where Link Manager stores its data Data Folder D ALM User Data Reports folder Users vossy_user Documents Link Manager User Data Reports Y Choose project at startup Update new project after it was created Display success message on FTP upload Show the Advanced Link Manager Assistant after loading a project F Show the Advanced Link Manager Assistant after an update is done T Use Java look and Feel 4 Display the view description on the view buttons Proxy server Report Preferences D analysis ee 8 Application Settings Data Folder This tab allows you to c
137. ords from a file e Remove Removes the selected keywords To filter the referrers which contain or have the exact match of your keywords select the Keywords fil ter previous to the Category selection in the Referrers and Link text reports Preferences 74 Project Settings Domains 9 Search Engines Preferences i Proxy settings 74 Email Address 74 Client emails Search Depth Search Depth number of results 50 Get all available results Indexed pages search depth 50 Get all available results Reports Location 4 Use default location global reports path Save report to Folder C Documents and Settings RingCube My Documents Link Manager User Data R This is the folder where all the reports from this project will be saved Update Settings Select the report templates to be generated after each update To create or modify a custom report template use the Edit Reports menu Advanced Preferences Exclude internal links From within your website Y Use global settings Maximum workers per domain 15 Reporting V Use global reporting settings Ignore URLs with non web extensions pdf doc exe when gathering from search engines Assume non web extensions pdf doc exe as linking Automatically add new found pages to the project when verifying links 5s ek heat 22 Lo Cancel The Preferences tab of the P
138. our web site Next check out the Referrers Tutorial to learn how you can manage the real referrers of your website Step by Step Tutorials Advanced Tutorial This tutorial will guide you through some more advanced features of Advanced Link Manager and will explain in more detail the ones you ve been introduced to so far in the Basic Reporting tutorial The Referrers Report The Referrers Report is a tabular report that displays the web pages that actually point to your target do main along with a lot of related useful information The quality of both your referrers and the links pointing to your website which are also known as back links are powerful factors that affect the position of your website for relevant keyword searches The Referrers report will show you a comprehensive view of your backlinks and how their importance is ranked in the search engines ab Link text DP Keyword Analysis FA Email Broken links Indexed pages D gt Update Progress 34 Domain Information Bo Unverified Referrers Bo Referrers 4 Backlinks Evolution 9 Search Engine Evolution E PEPEO m Compare to 24 02 2006 y Date 26 02 2006 Y tr all y Category all Filter 42 Domain Contains 36 al zea BS COI ET ostmeine onde _adied ema www drigs blogspot com 4 www eduardpunset es fwww emu edu www enewsreference com WWW europacs org www fms k12 nm us E www geocities com
139. own categories e Manage status information allows you to create your own status information about the answers you receive from webmasters e Manage trigger templates allows you to define an action template which will execute an action on the referrer URL that match the selected filters after each project update e Project Manager allows you to see an overview of all the projects e Rename project allows you to rename the current project e Delete Project allows you to delete the current project e Duplicate Project saves the current project and all the data associated with it under a different name e Backup creates a backup copy for the active project See the Backup page for more details e Restore replaces the current project with an existing backup copy See the Restore page for more de tails e Remove Data removes data from the current project for the selected time range Update menu 30 The User Interface Update Scheduler Reports Editreports Bookmarks Start F4 Pause F5 e Stop 8 ES Manually add referrers ey Find link partners Import referrers from Arelis Export Gather links from Search Engines Gather links from Search Engines Forced Gather only number of links from Search Engines Verify link status Verify link status Forced Update selected domains Update selected URLs Check reciprocal status Update multipl
140. p flogin live com login srf wa wsignin1 O amp amp rpsn Broken 15 www msn com http specials msn com IEIncreaseFont aspx cp docum Normal 16 www msn com http mail live com Normal 17 www msn com http im live com messenger im home source MSNTDL Normal 18 www msn com http my msn com Normal The report presents the following columns e The Project URL This is the URL contained in your project that was checked for links validity The External link This is the URL that one of the links from your Project URL links to The status The status can be broken or normal 121 Interactive Reports The check for broken links is done on demand by pressing the green button Check for broken links You also have the ability to filter the links by three criteria e All All links will be displayed regardless of their status e Normal This filter will show only the links that have been found valid e Broken This filter will show only the links that have been found broken or invalid The dynamic text filter will show the links who have at least one of their URLs project URL or external link matching the text filter The Indexed Pages report This report presents the pages from your project websites that have been found in the search engine s in dex for the search engines that support this feature Basically this is a site www domain com search on the search engines that support this command and it retu
141. per domain option allows you to set the maximum number of simultaneous connections when verifying the incoming links from a domain Note Our Be friendly policy recommends only one worker per domain 76 Project Settings Reporting The Reporting settings allows you to use the global settings or tailor them for individual projects From here you can set Advance Link Manager to e Ignore URLs with non web extensions when gathering from search engines e Assume non web extensions as linking e Automatically add new found pages to the project when verifying links Proxy settings BR Project Settings E Domains SD Search Engines A Preferences DJ Proxy settings FA Email Address FA Client emails Use application settings gt Do not use proxy servers gt Use selected proxy servers proxyl 8080 proxy2 8080 proxy3 3128 The Proxy settings tab of the Project Settings dialog box allows you to select a list of proxy servers from the global Advanced Link Manager proxy settings list to be used in your current project These set tings are by default inherited from the global preferences e Use application settings Check this box if you wish to use the global Advanced Link Manager proxy settings in your current project Do not use proxy servers Check this box if you do not want to use proxy server The connection to the internet will be done dir ectly e Use
142. pol The following filters are available Linking back Not linking back Never Updated Displays everything every URL and change available Displays the referrers found with the Find link partners wizard Displays the referrers that link back to the selected domain or URL Displays the referrers that do not link back to the selected domain or URL 94 Interactive Reports Only displays the URLs that have not been checked Previously Updated Displays only URLs that have been already analyzed The ones that are not found will be omitted Not Found It displays all the URLs that have been checked and not found to be existent Automatically added Displays only the URLs that have been automatically found by the search engines you selected for your current project Manually added Displays only the URLs that have been manually added by the user using the Manually add referrers from the Update menu item or the Add context menu item from the Referrers tab Removed Displays a list containing the manually removed URLs These URLs are kept within the project s data to exclude them from future search results They can be restored by right clicking on them and choose the Restore menu item There is also a Filter by filter which can be used to filter your referrers list Type one of the active URLs of your project in the filter box and the chart will display only the line for the specified URL The Un
143. ps from a high value to 0 After the search en gine is fixed the chart will no longer show a drop spike for that search engine if this option is checked Referrers quality ratio Here you can select which formula will be used to determine the referrers quality ratio from the Refer rers Report 145 Global Preferences Use PR divided by the total number of outbound links Since the PR is the higher the better the higher the ratio is the better the referrer is Use Alexa Rank divided by the total number of outbound links Since the Alexa Rank is the lower the better the lower the ratio is the better the referrer is e Global preferences oie Application Settings Application Settings Reporting Rank color Rank color Color for 9 10 range W Color for 5 6range W as Color for 7 8 range Mi ua Color for 0 4range Mi ua 9 Color foreground Color background Proxy server Report Preferences D analysis tp Rank color In this section you can choose the colors you want for the Rank columns all over the application and in the printable reports Color foreground Use this option if you want the text to be colored in the Rank column Color background Use this option if you want the background to be colored instead of the text in the Rank column Email Settings 146 Global Preferences Global preferences Application Sending
144. r in the point where you click with your mouse If you want to magnify only a certain area click with the left button of your mouse to specify the top left point and drag it to select the desired area Zoom Out You can decrease the chart view on both axes The area that will be zoomed out has its center in the 112 Interactive Reports point where you click with your mouse Show All Data In Range Redraws the chart so it fits all the data into the view The same effect can be achieved by double clicking on the chart or by drag and dropping with your mouse from a lower position to a higher one Search Engine Evolution views The application allows you to view the Search Engine Evolution report in three different ways The Search Engine Evolution report has the following views available e Search Engines Overview displays an overview of the number of incoming links for each search engine and the total number of incoming links summed up for all search engines for a selected peri od of time e Referrers by Search Engine displays the referrers for a selected domain and search engine e Search Engine Evolution Chart displays a chart with the evolution of incoming links over a se lected period of time Link Text The Link Text Report shows an overview of the text contained in the anchor tag of a backlink This re port has two views The Tree View This is a hierarchical view that shows the link text as p
145. r information about the domains you entered It lets you see important in formation about a domain including page rank meta information indexed pages average the average of total links ranking average search engine keywords hits and Compete rank visits and visitors Once you finish analyzing the domains you entered you can add them as project URLs as referrer do mains or export them to a file 168 Chapter 22 Referrer Categories Referrer Categories Referrers categories allow you to assign domains unverified referrers or referrers to a specific category This can later help you filter and see in your reports only domains and referrers from a specific category For each category you can set up colors and priorities e Categories Categories To assign a domain referrer to a category simply right click on the domain referrer select the Assign to referrer category option and finally select the respective category 169 Referrer Categories info s com international cer lt i View contact details iragataglance blk OO Create reciprocal relation 13377475 iragikurdistan b Assign to referrer category High rank jeremyc weblog Paid Links eis Open URL in browser Et joi to com Link Exchange a i Copy link address leukemialetters t opy Default yi Export to CSV markmaynard cq 1560468 Export links to CSV E michaelmedved Export summary information to CSV Es nhsblo
146. r referrers That s where the Find link partners wizard comes to help It allows you to search any of the available search engines using their most advanced search criteria to look for additional referrers that may already link to you or for future partners that you may want to ex change links with But the best way to understand how the Find link partners can help is probably to see an actual example Search Engine and Keywords The first step of the Find link partners wizard gathers information about what you wish to find It will ask you for the search engine and the keywords you are looking for and the details of the search 61 Updating Projects Find link partners Search Engine and Keywords Select a Search Engine and enter your keywords Search Engine Y Yahoo Search Enter your keywords below one per line java Search Depth 20 F Get all available results Advanced search Occurences appear Anywhere inthe page wv Not linking to this domain With links to this domain Language Web search Search in country Argentina gt Search in language Chinese Simplified For this example let s choose Google as the search engine We are looking to find websites that could link to us Therefore we will search Google for sport news Let s set the search depth to 20 as we are only interested in the top 20 search engine results Then we tell Google to search using The ex
147. r started at all The Project Manager is only available in the Enterprise version You can access it from the Project menu while in the application or you can have it start before the application by unchecking the Choose project at startup option in the Application section of the global preferences Project Details The Details panel shows you all the details about your project such as keywords search engines and websites It also tells you the current project preferences such as the search depth the location of the re ports or whether or not you use a proxy for this project Reports The Reports section of the Project Manager displays all the reports created within this project along with detailed information about each of them such as input data search engines keywords websites output data format chart legend filters sorting columns etc destination folder emails and FTP servers and deployment information Scheduled Tasks The Scheduled Tasks section displays all the tasks created within this project along with detailed in formation about each of them such as status type kind start date time repeat and next run date Events The Events section displays all the events created within this project It will tell you the event type the source of the event and the date and time it appeared The events help you stay on top of everything that happens within Advanced Link Manager It will tell you whether the update
148. r web pages that may be pointing to your domain pages After the update is complete the Unverified Referrers report will show 52 Updating Projects the pages that the search engines report as linking to you All the search engines that are checked in the Project Settings are selected by default If you want to change that just press the Select button and select only the desired search engines Deselecting all search engines will automatically select all of them Deselect all Invert selection Google MSN Yahoo The referrers that are found in this update stage are the ones that are reported by the search engines to link to you These referrers come straight from the search engine index And since the search engines do not always have their index up to date these referrers may no longer link to you You can see the list of referrers gathered at this stage in the Unverified Referrers report Advanced Link Manager also verifies each and every referrer to see if they actually link to you This is done in the Verify Link Status update stage To see the real verified referrers look at the Referrers re port instead Note The referrers added to your project by the Gather links from Search Engines update method have their status set to Automatically added Gather only number of links from Search En gines The Gather number of links from Search Engines can be used whenever you want to check only the search engin
149. re of 71 Project Settings Search Engine CG Google Search term y latest news Search Depth 20 Get all available results V Ignore URL parameters ttp www cnn com http www foxnews com Ihttp news bbc co uk Ihttp fwww zeenews com Ihttp www ndtv com http www vzit net http www reuters com news Ihttp www irs gov newsroom index html Ihttp www hri org news latest http news sky com http www eetimes com news latest http www msnbc msn com When you are presented with the result as a list of pages you can edit them before importing them into your project by removing the ones that you don t need Adding an already existing page to a domain will not cause the page to be duplicated Selecting Search Engines 72 Project Settings GR Project Settings J Search Engines R Preferences 3 Proxy settings 4 Email Address FA Client emails Alltheweb Altavista AOL T Baidu 7 Dogpile Euroseek Excite Goo Google Google Blog Hotbot Jo r Ixquick Kanoodle Mamma Metacrawler 3 In the Search Engines tab of the Project dialog box you can select which search engines you are inter ested in This panel is similar to the one in the New Project wizard It will display all the available en
150. report e Show all items Displays every potential link partner website and status available Referrers quick actions 42 The User Interface Items Compare link popularity T View contact details E Create reciprocal relation Export to CSV Copy link address Items e Compare link popularity This view displays a comparison between your website and a competitor website You can see the links that you have in common or the links that only your competitor has Export to CSV Exports the current report into a CSV file that can be opened later with a CSV com patible software Copy link address Copies the selected link address to clipboard Backlinks Evolution quick actions Quick actions ka Chart Show All Data In Range Save As Chart e Show All Data in Range Displays all the data in the selected range e Save as Saves the chart view into a png or JPEG file Note that the files will contain only the cur rent view of the chart so be sure to save the right section of your chart Search Engine Evolution quick actions 43 The User Interface Quick actions K w Items D Show search engine references j Show comparison data Hide comparison data 1 Group by search engines f Group by domains Items e Show search engine references When the Referrers by Search Engine option is selected displays the search engine references for a selected link text e Show comparison
151. res dates If this is the case then the dates are retrieved automatically by Advanced Link Manager If this information is not avail able from the whois server the word Never appears and you can set this date yourself by clicking on it You can only edit these dates manually if they haven t already been fetched automatically from a 90 Interactive Reports whois server To refresh the whois information for a potential link partner domain just right click the domain in the Domain Information table and select the Update domain information option Email Composer The Email Composer allows you to send link request emails to the webmaster of the selected referrer domain E j x To admin contact digitalink com 4 Subject Message Email Template l Quick text l Insert variable E and set status to Undecided You can choose the recipient email from the To list which is automatically populated from the whois server You can edit the contact information anytime by clicking on the Address Book icon on the right side The Email Composer was designed to save you precious time when editing the link exchange emails Here are some of the features that will help you with this task e Email template This button will open a popup menu that will allow you to select an email template To manage the email templates select the Manage email templates item instead e Quick text This butto
152. rns the pages that the search engines indexed from your website Advanced Link Manager 4 5 Administrator Licensed to Caphyon news Project Update Scheduler Reports Edit reports Tools Options Help vi 1008S 11 0048 24 94B8udo0e Project nens y EJEA 9 Domain information Bo Unverified Referrers Ba Referrers 4 Backinks Evolution f Search Engine Evolution 2b Link text P Keyword Analysis F Emai Qbrokeninks J indexed pages 00 Reciprocal linking gt Update Progress View Indexed Pages Overview Compare to Feb 26 2006 y Date Jun 16 2009 Y www cnn com J Group by g URLs w Display Targets yy All URLs news google com 27838454 5692954 22100000 45500 www cnn com 16996813 14283813 273000 244 www bbc com 321420 320194 116 1110 y Filter A Contains The columns presented by the report are The URL The page found in the search engine index 122 Interactive Reports e The Search engine The search engine that returned that page A dynamic text filter is available that will remove from the display the URLs that do not contain the fil ter text Indexed pages views Advanced Link Manager allows you to view the Indexed pages report in different views The Indexed pages report has the following views available e Indexed Pages displays the URL of the indexed page and the search en
153. roject Settings dialog box allows you to locally override some of the global Advanced Link Manager settings in your current project These settings are by default inherited from the global preferences Search Depth Using the Search depth category you can uncheck the Use global search depth check box and the Indexed pages search depth to specify your custom preference in the Search Depth number of res ults text box These settings will be used only for this project e Report Location The Report Location is the folder where all the reports from this project will be saved 75 Project Settings Update settings Here you can also specify a list of reports to be generated after each update by clicking on the Select templates ly Select templates Select the report templates to be generated after each update E Domain Information E export E Link Text Overview Report E Link Text Report Referrers by Search Engines F Referrers Information Report E Referrers Overview Report Referrers Report E Search Engines Report E Unverified Referrers Report You can do the same thing from the Output section of a report by checking the Generate report after each update option e Advanced Preferences To exclude your internal links from being seen as referrers by Advanced Link Manager select Ex clude internal links from within your website The Use global settings Maximum workers
154. rom the Scheduler gt New scheduled task menu To see all the existing scheduled tasks use the Scheduler gt View scheduled tasks menu or click on the scheduler icon in the toolbar Scheduler Please select what you wish to do Schedule update Update one or multiple projects automatically and generate reports that can be sent by email or uploaded using FTP Schedule report generation Generate reports for one or multiple projects and send them by email or uploaded using FTP Schedule backup Backup one or multiple projects automatically at a specified date and time x The scheduler wizard helps you automate the following tasks e Update projects e Generate reports e Backup projects Scheduling a project update 82 Scheduler The scheduler can help you automate the update of your project at a specified interval When you choose to create an update task in the scheduler wizard you have three options w Scheduler Scheduler Please select the project you wish to use Update current project Only the currently opened project will be affected 5 Update the following project Client1 Update multiple projects The Following pane will allow you to choose the projects From a list np lt lt Back Next gt gt Cancel Updating a single project Updating a single project is pretty straight forward You select the type of the update the date and time and how frequently you wis
155. rrers with their rank changed in the selected period of time J Search Engine Evolution Domain Information Unverified Referrers Ba Referrers 4 Backlinks Evolution ab Link text 2 Keyword Analysis 2 Email P Bri 00 ow All items y Category All Tag All Filter 2 Contains a One month ago 191 http www setel com 5 5 192 http malektips com 5 58872 193 http www i4s com 4 841055 5 6 6 Three months ago Six months ago 194 http www velocity net 321899 One year ago 195 http www keithboykin com 741670 More than one year ago 196 http www spartacus schoolnet co uk 31611 0 04 Referrers The Referrers Report The Referrers Report displays the web pages that have been verified and are definitely linking to your website This information is only available after you ve ran an update that had the Verify Link Status option enabled 97 Interactive Reports ab Linktext Keyword Analysis F4 Email Broken links J Indexed pages D gt Update Progress 34 9 Domain Information Bo Unverified Referrers B3Referrers Backlinks Evolution J Search Engine Evolution View E ae Compare to 24 02 2006 Date 26 02 2006 E Al uz Category all y Filter Domain Contains ial bal ES w www drigs blogspot com www eduardpunset es www emu edu www enewsreference com WWW europacs org www fms k12 nm us www geaci
156. rt title Advanced Link Manager Report Report data for 26 02 2006 compared to Previous update Input Domains news google com www bbc com www cnn com www msn com Output Format HTML Chart Yes Date Range All Data Position Range Full range Show legend Yes If you wish to generate the report after creation make sure the Generate the report when the wizard fin ishes option is checked before you press the Finish button 131 Chapter 10 The Event Logger If you happen to use Advanced Link Manager every day and you have many projects that are updated regularly using the scheduler you may lose track of what s happening behind the scene That s where the Event Logger comes to help It will tell you exactly what happened at what time and whether everything went fine or not It can even send you an email automatically when certain event types occur The Event Logger There are many events that are logged by the Event Logger Here s a list of actions that can add an entry to the list e Scheduled Updates e Multiple Scheduled Updates e Sending Emails e FTP Uploads e Generating Reports e Application Errors All the events are presented to you in the Event Log Viewer Event Log Viewer Send log events by email Edit Multiple scheduler update VAR 89 Integraldiagnostics 15 11 54 Sep 15 Multiple scheduler update VAR 89 Integraldiagnostics 14 55 17 Sep 15 2008 Multiple scheduler
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158. s copies in the system clipboard the address of the selected referrer URL Export to CSV exports the Backlinks data to CSV format Referrer operations One of the most powerful features of the Referrers Report is the referrers operations In the Operation drop down we have the following operations available Union The union operation will display a set of referrers which contains the referrers that link to the domains selected in the Primary domains and the referrers that link to the domains selected in the Secondary domains Difference The difference operation will display a set of referrers which contains the referrers that link only to the domains selected in the Primary domains and do not link to the domains selected in the Second ary domains This operation is useful when you want to see which referrers you have to your domains and your competitors do not Intersection The intersection operation will display a set of referrers which contains the referrers that link to both the domains selected in the Primary domains and the domains selected in the Secondary domains at the same time This is useful when you want to see which referrers link to you and your competitors i e web direct ories Referrers views Advanced Link Manager allows you to view the Referrers report in different ways The Referrers report has the following views available Referrers by domain displays for each domain select
159. s from search engines we need to see which of the sites gathered we can use to analyze their backlinks Delete the one you consider not to be relevant 25 Step by Step Tutorials Find link partners by backlinks Find link partners This is the list of top websites retrieved from the search engine Filter e Bente Website URL tp www gimp org tp www picnik com ee 4 http www imag tor net 5 http www onlin age editor com To gather backlinks only for some URLs select the ones you do not need and then use the Delete selec ted button to delete them Select the Next button and the Find link partners by backlinks wizard will gather the backlinks from the pages you selected on the previous step and the relation with them 26 Step by Step Tutorials Find link partners by backlinks Find link partners Here you have the backlinks for all the pages of the previous step and their relation with them p tip toe april blogspot com http www user shentel net rbowman files htguides htm p actofrage com 2009 03 5 Ffreeware photoshop alternatives and w http www allwebdesignresources com webdesignblogs graphics free ima http www tech exclusive com 2009 02 21 25 free online image editors p speckyboy com 2008 04 21 top 15 online image editors who need ittp sixrevisions com graphics design 10 excellent open source and fre http www omniglot com
160. script to launch the Server Configuration application 176 Install Server Edition Guide You need to restart the almserver service in order for the changes to take effect etc init d almserver restart Important Once you finish setting up the server use the following instructions to connect your client license to the server Connect Advanced Link Manager client to server Connect Advanced Link Manager client to serv er To connect the Advanced Link Manager client to the server open the client application and go to Op tions gt Preferences and select the Application tab Here select Remote Connection and enter the server name or IP address of the server and click on OK to connect If this is the first time you connect to this server use Administrator with no password when prompted to log in e Global preferences y Application Settings peep Application Settings Reporting Rank color Application Settings Local Email Change the folder where Link Manager stores its data Server localhost de Reports folder D Work Link Manager User Data Reports 7 e FTP Settings Choose project at startup Port 17778 Update new project after it was created o P Display success message on FTP upload Performance F Show the Advanced Link Manager Assistant after loading a project is Show the Advanced Link Manager Assistant after an update is done Use
161. selected proxy servers Use only the selected proxy servers 77 Project Settings Email Settings Project Settings Domains 9 search Engines y Keywords 33 Preferences TJ Proxy settings 2A Email Address 5 4 Client emails Email SMTP This email address will be used to send link request to your potential link partners and to send reports to your clients Sender Email sender server com SMTP Server mail server com SMTP Port 465 Use SMTP Authentication User name sender Password eee Confirm password eee Use secure connection No OTS OSL vV Use global email settings for sending reports Email POP3 or IMAP 9 POP3 IMAP Mail server pop3 server com Username sender Password eee Confirm password eee y Use secure connection These settings can be used to send and receive link exchange emails and send reports to your clients This email account is available in both Domain information report and the integrated Email client SMTP settings Email Address Enter your email address here e SMTP Server Enter your SMTP server either using its name or its IP address SMTP Port Enter the SMTP port The default value is 25 for no secure connection and 465 for SSL connection 78 Project Settings SMTP Authentication If your SMTP server requires authentication you need to enter your user
162. selects the current date that the information is displayed for 1 Checking the quality of your referrers and the number of backlinks With the Referrers report you can easily spot out the referrers casting the most valuable votes for you Identifying those important referrers will be a lot easier if you sort the referrers using the available cri teria View s Referrers By URL Compare to Feb 24 2006 w Date Feb 26 2006 y 2 wal Category All y Fiter R Index Referrer Rank Alexa Rank Quality ratio Outbound L Backinks Added Removed Normal No Follow 14 http www somethingawful com 6 w 1 1023 0 20 30 1 la 15 http www time com 1 1 16 http www timecanada com 8 N A 0 25 32 1 1 17 http www kgtv com 6 N A 0 08 77 1 1 18 http www kmgh com 6 17656 0 11 56 1 1 19 http www wisn com 6 52018 0 10 59 1 1 20 http www mti gov bt bal 2152170 0 20 30 1 1 z 21 http www htcomp net 4 535801 0 12 33 1 1 22 http www pcdi co uk 2w1 1144870 0 67 3 1 1 238 referrers 2 removed all links 42636 254 239 4 15 0 ae Details Summary Statistics Rank Total backlinks from unique domains 212 PR 10 N A Total backlinks From unique IPs 183 PR 9 N A Total backlinks from unique C blocks 179 PR 8 8 Referrers per backdinks ratio 92 PR 7 20 Unique IPs per referrers ratio 77 PR 6 65 Unique IPs per domains ratio 86 PR 5 59 No Follo
163. ses Here are some of the filters that can help you with this task Filter referrers by rank Using the Rank filter we can filter out the referrers that have a lower rank We can thus limit ourselves to monitoring only the important referrers If you are not interested in monitoring referrers that have a low rank you can safely delete them Just filter them by rank below 3 for example and then right click on the report and choose Remove gt Selected Filter invalid referrers The referrer information in the search engines can sometimes be outdated As a result we will have a lot of referrers that are invalid the referrer web page no longer exists The NotFound filter from the Display drop down will help us with this task Once we select this filter we are presented with the list of invalid referrers If you see a website that is supposed to be linking to yours in this list you may want to get in touch with the webmaster and tell him about that Otherwise we can safely delete these referrers to unclutter the list Filter referrers by domain Let s say you want to see only the links linking to you from a certain referrer domain It s pretty easy just e 1 select your website s domain in the left panel e 2 choose the Domains value in the Filter by list box e 3 type in the domain of your choice in the Filter by text box Now you can see all web pages with matching domain names that were reported as linking to y
164. shown in red weekly in green monthly in blue and on time tasks in black 85 Scheduler 4 5 10 24 news 10 24 news 10 24 news 16 24 news 10 24 news 16 24 news 10 24 news 16 24 news 10 24 news 16 24 news Legend 10 24 news 11 12 10 24 news 10 24 news 18 19 10 24 news 10 24news 25 26 10 24news 10 24 news W Daily Weekly pH Monthly gy One Time 7 10 24 news 10 24 news 10 24 news Y 14 v 10 24news 21 10 24 news 10 24 news 10 24news 10 24 news A 10 24 news gt 10 24 news 86 Chapter 8 Interactive Reports Advanced Link Manager presents the information gathered from search engines in a set of interactive easy to use reports Each report can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding tab in the upper side panel of the main frame There are six tabular reports Domain Information Unverified Referrers Referrers Backlinks Evolution Search Engine Evolution and Link Text For three of them Backlinks Evolution Search En gine Evolution and Link Text a graphical rank evolution chart is also available In the tabular reports you can sort the table rows by clicking on the column headers and you can reorder the columns by grabbing and dragging them by their headers An empty report usually means that there is no data available for the selected domain s Domain Information r All
165. start the server at the system startup you need to add this script to the startup sequence in initd This is accomplished differently on different Linux distribution so we have included two ex amples below Important The following commands are examples of how you can register start stop unregister the almserver service with your system You need to be logged in as root for these commands to work Red Hat Distributions The Red Hat distributions use the chkconfig command to activate and deactivate services To register the almserver service with your system so that it starts up every time your computer starts use only the following sequence of commands You only need to do this once e Create Symbolic Link in etc init d In s path to Advanced Link Manager almserver sh etc init d almserver 173 Install Server Edition Guide e Register the service chkconfig add almserver e Start the service etc init d almserver start To stop restart turn off or unregister almserver use the respective command from the list below e Stop the almserver service stop the service temporarily etc init d almserver stop e Restart the almserver service etc init d almserver restart Turn the service off do not start the service at computer start up chkconfig almserver off e Unregister the service remove the service from your system chkconfig del almserver Debian Distributions The Debian distribution uses the up
166. t LOG_FILE_LEVEL gt INFO lt LOG_FILE_LEVEL gt lt PERMISSIONS gt lt CONFIG gt From this file you can set the IP address of your server as the host the listen port and the log file level If you later need to start stop the service manually or change any of its configuration properties here is what you need to do 175 Install Server Edition Guide e Advanced Link Manager Server Setup Data folder location C Link Manager User Data Port 7778 Log level INFO Server messages Automatically start Windows service save cose Windows Go to Program Files gt Caphyon gt Advanced Link Manager and click on the Server Configuration shortcut From the same shortcut you can configure the Server port and the location of the Server data folder Important The service will automatically restart when you change any of the configuration parameters Mac OS X Go to Applications gt Advanced Link Manager Server Management and click on the Server Configura tion application Important You need to run the restart command every time you change the server settings using the Server Config uration The uninstall command is used to remove the Advanced Link Manager server from your services list so that it will no longer start when the system starts up Linux Go to the folder where you installed Advanced Link Manager and run the ALMServerConfig sh shell
167. te one page for each of link category Create link categories index page Limit the number of links per page to 30 For the HTML page layout you also have the ability to define templates A default template exists that can help you get started right away but you can always create a new one to customize the look and feel of your link pages The next step of the wizard allows you to specify how the links and their respective categories will be sorted The final step of the wizard allows you to define the location of your link page s By default they are saved in a folder but you can upload them to your website using a predefined FTP template When the wizard finishes the link pages are generated You are then presented with a dialog that allows you to generate the link pages again in case you wish to change something or edit the HTML template to match the same look and feel as your website Link Page HTML Layout The link pages HTML layout can be customized and the changes can be saved in a template for later use To access the link page HTML layout manager go to Options and click on the Manage link page HTML layout menu 136 Generate Link Pages Index page Category page Page header Index page header 1 Category 1 2 Category 2 3 Category 3 4 Category 4 Index page footer Page footer There are two templates created by default one for each type of layout all categories in one page and eac
168. ted information like keyword density occurrences in the page occurrences in the anchor text and the word count of each phrase found Before seeing any results you should analyze your websites To do that you need to press the Analyze websites button from the upper region of the report Pressing the down arrow button next to the Analyze websites button will show an update context menu with the following options e Analyze all websites This will start an update of the current day for all the websites in the project e Import history for all websites from WayBackInTimeMachine This will start an update for all the websites in the project that will import from WayBackInTimeMachine all the available change dates e Analyze selected websites This will start an update of the current day for the websites selected in both left side input panels 116 Interactive Reports Import history for the selected websites from WayBackInTimeMachine This will start an update for the selected websites from both left side input panels that will import from WayBackInTimeMa chine all the available change dates Compare View This panel contains two sections for each selected URL In the upper section you will see an analysis of the general URL information The information presented here contains the URL title IP address parent domain page size and a meta information analysis The lower section displays the words and phrases found in the page
169. ther project exists the New Project Wizard is started automatically Duplicating a Project You can duplicate a project by using the Project gt Duplicate Project menu This fea ture allows you to quickly create a project that is similar to a different project that you have already created Note If a project with the same name as your chosen name already exists you will be asked 1f you wish to over write Overwriting a project will cause the loss of all the data within it Backup You can access the Backup dialog box by selecting Project gt Backup from the Main Menu 47 Managing Projects news Sep 19 2008 A Genz ep 19 2008 Chentl E The Backup dialog box allows you to backup the current project or all projects You can select which folder to save backups to by pressing the Browse button This folder will be re membered and all the scheduled backups will be saved there This will also be the default folder where the backups are restored from Restore You can access the Restore Backups dialog box by selecting Project gt Restore from the Main Menu E Restore Backups Restore Remove nens Sep 19 2008 begin ep 19 2008 C Users MonicalMy Documents Link Manager User Data backup The Restore Backups dialog box allows you to manage your backups by either restoring them or remov ing them completely from your computer 48 Managing
170. ties com fgoa114 fyewjin2000 cienciamx www global air com E www guang org 6162493 www hanifworld com 229343 www humanbodyfilm com N A 21546021 102 domains 3 removed all link 41 257930 831868 7236552 220870 ee 115 115 115 372420 or Mn or oO FU WAN WR ma yu alee e o URL Link Text URL Title amp cienciamx CienciaMx Tu portal de ciencia en espa ol i bbc mundo E g0a114 Gboyega s Homepage bbc news E yewjin2000 Our Hopes And Dreams bbe news The Referrers Report is tied to a date the date when a Verify Link Status update was run for the project That means that the report will display the related information for the date when the update took place When a new Verify Link Status update is executed you can still access the old data by going back to a previous date when the update was done The Date drop down list box in the top right corner of the Referrers Report allows you to select the date for which the information is displayed Compare to Feb 24 2006 Date Feb 26 2006 For each referrer domain URL you have the following information available Rank This is the rank of the referrer domain URL and can take values between O and 10 The higher the bet ter e Alexa Rank This is the Alexa Traffic Rank that Alexa is collecting through the Alexa Toolbar from the
171. ting Projects la Advanced Link Manager 4 3 Administrator Licensed to Caphyon news updated 36 Project Update Scheduler Reports Editreports Tools Options Help Si 190085AA80B8 21 FAA Project namnam EE Domain information unverified Referrers Referrers Backinks Evolution f9 Search Engine Evolution ab Linktext 2 Keyword Analysis 4 Emai P Broken links A Indexed pages gt Update Progress 36 100 13 25 45 13 28 42 11 0 0 71 Administrator Manual update Updating 31 13 27 07 13 30 23 11 0 0 71 Administrator Manual update Updating Google Retrieving referrers news google com Received 40 of 50 80 complet MSN Retrieving indexed pages www cnn com Received 40 of 50 80 complet Yahoo Retrieving referrers www cnn com Received 0 of 50 0 complete Progress Information Started 13 27 07 Estimated stop 13 29 06 Time remaining 00 01 15 Currently 36 complete 5 out of 18 Gathering data from search engines Either the Gather links from search engines or Check Links is running the following items may ap pear in the Update Progress tab Waiting No page has been retrieved yet Receiving data NN complete Shows the percentage of received pages Received NN of NN 100 complete Reached end of results shows the total number of results retrieved at the end of the search for a par
172. tion Chart view there is a line for each one of your project s search engines Each search engine will be represented by a unique color automatically assigned by the Advanced Link Manager 109 Interactive Reports The Search Engine Evolution report contains two filters which can be used to better understand the progress of your estimated number of results e Position Range The Position Range filter can be used to zoom on a customized position range Position Range Fullrange e Date Range All Data aa P i To 500 1 To 1000 1 To 5000 1 To 10000 1 To 50000 1 To 100000 Custom Range e 1 To 500 1 To 1000 1 To 5000 1 To 10000 1 To 50000 and 1 To 100000 Dis plays the selected position range e Custom Range Displays a dialog window where you can enter the minimum and the maximum position values which will be used by the vertical axis of the chart Maximum value 1000 e Date Range It can be used to select the time range used to represent the graphical data You have 7 options to select from 110 Interactive Reports all Data wal 7 Full range x Date Range All Data The horizontal axis of the chart will contain all the available dates Last Week The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the last week s available dates Last Month The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the last month s available dates Last Three Months The horizontal axis
173. tion e Meta Robots e Meta Keywords e Meta author e Robots no follow 164 Webpage Analyzer Once you finish analyzing and refining the URLs you can add them as project URLs as referrer URLs or export to a file by selecting one of the buttons at the bottom of Webpage Analyzer 165 Chapter 19 Notes Notes You can add notes to your project to remind you for some actions you took in the past or that you wish to take in the future These notes appear in the charts as vertical lines on the date they are set Jan 16 2006 Note for sport news and espn go com Jan 17 2006 Important Note for all Jan 18 2006 Jan 19 2006 Important note for sport news and espn go com TO DO Note for sport news and espn go com Jan 20 2006 lequeqweqw qweqweqwe eqege Jan 24 2006 TO DO note for all project s inputs Sep 15 2008 To add a note go to the Tools gt Notes dialog menu and add a new note Alternatively you can add a Enter your message here note by right clicking on any chart Notes can also have a priority such as Normal To Do and Important Normal Notes Normal notes show up as a black vertical lines in charts e Important Notes Important notes show up as a red vertical lines in charts To Do Notes To Do Notes show up as blue vertical lines in chart The difference between To Do notes and the oth er notes is that if you launch the application on the d
174. to analyze your competitor s websites Webpage Analyzer ayy Add URLs Add URLs from file Add URLs by parsing URL 5 Gather additonal information URLs URL Y Rank HTTP respo Title Outbound Onsite links Size Meta descr Meta robots Meta keyw http www advancedinstaller com 6 200 Free Windo 4 30 22 KB Free Windo N A N A lca ihttp WWW advancedinkmanager com 5 200 Link Popular m 5 18 9KB Link Popula N A N A g Ihttp www advancedwebranking com 5 200 Search Engi 7 19 11 KB Search Engi N A N A IA Y Hep Add as project URLs Add as referrer URLs D Export to file re Cane To analyze the pages you can manually enter their URLs import them from a file or by parsing an URL The last option will import all the existing links in the page from the specified URL Once the URLs are added to the list press the Gather additional information button and Webpage Ana lyzer will automatically start to gather information about your URLs which you can analyze When the update finishes Webpage Analyzer will display the additional information gathered from search engines Page Rank HTTP Response Page Title Outbound links which represent the number of external links e Onsite links which represent the total number of internal links Size of the page e Meta Descrip
175. ultiple e Project Name displays a list with single updates e Project List displays a list with multiple updates 60 Updating Projects To display all the updates done in Advanced Link Manager on all periods please make sure that you have for all filters the AlI option selected Resume incomplete updates In the History tab you can resume Multiple Updates with the status Incomplete To do this just right click on the name of the Project list and select the Update remaining projects option Note The projects updated on the day you resume the update will appear in the Update History with the date when the resume is selected Current Updates Current Multiple Updates History Date Today y Status All w Launched from All w Name All y o Started i 10 29 29 Dec 7 2 10 29 34 Dec 7 2009 Progress Stopped NEWS View multiple update logs 10 29 32 Dec 7 10 29 34 Dec 7 2009 0 0 1 Update remaining projects Note This option is available only for Multiple Update which have the status Incomplete Find link partners The Find link partners wizard will help you gather more referrers using the most advanced search from each of the available search engines The wizard is available via the Update gt Find link partners menu item Nowadays only a few search engines still tell you who your referrers are And even those that do they can t give you the entire list of you
176. update News1 14 55 16 Sep 15 2008 Multiple scheduler update News1 14 55 15 Sep 15 Multiple scheduler update news 14 55 14 Sep 15 Multiple scheduler update news 14 55 13 Sep 15 Information Multiple scheduler update Direct Groupediagonal 14 55 12 Sep 15 2 K Information Multiple scheduler update Direct Groupediagonal 14 37 50 Sep 15 2008 Event Description The project Direct Groupediagonal started by the multiple update list All Projects has been updated sucessfully WW cese Knowing what happens is especially useful when running updates from the scheduler because the update is done in the background so you have no way of knowing what actually happened As you can see from the picture above you have the option to display all the logged events or you can 132 The Event Logger filter them by selecting a specific year and month You can also have certain events sent to you by email Just click on the Edit button to select which event types you wish to receive If your email preferences are not set you will be prompted and a new dialog will appear that will allow you to set them Send log events by email Send email to john dowbyahoo com Send email for the following event types C Information Warning Error The events have been broken down in three separate categories depending on their status e Error This usually means something wrong has h
177. verified Referrers report was also designed to be a manager for referrers If you right click on any referrer a context menu will appear that will give you access to all the actions required for managing the referrers 95 Interactive Reports Index Referrer Rank Alexa R Quali 836 http www cruzio com 7 86875 837 http baylink pitas com 15439 838 http www h 6 4 2448150 839 http archiv Gi View contact details 9 45 840 http www 5 322897 841 http www Add referrer 5 14 5 0 5 842 http www 1499078 843 http www 153503 844 http stepn Ignore links from this domain 5306298 Copy link address 845 http www N A 496219 846 http jaded Update gt visible referrers 5 840274 847 http hamet Remove new referrers 6 2425 848 http www di 849 http Jrestye Assign to referrer category gt selected gt referrers 850 http www Tag gt referrers rank 851 http inside 5 608398 852 http jogalc Tools gt 4 14 853 http www E 2 3380592 854 http www 4 4685125 855 http www Select All 0 14 Siri A 5 N A 857 http floquent blogspot com 4 14 The context menu contains the following features e View contact details Opens the Domain Information report e Add referrer Adds the referrer for all domains Copy link address It copies the selected referrer address into your clipboard Ignore links from this domain Ignores all the links from the selected dom
178. w links 0 PR 4 44 Total links to homepage 254 PR 3 20 Total links to internal pages 0 PR 2 16 Percent of links to homepage 100 PR 1 3 Percent of links to internal pages 0 PR O 1 e Sort referrers by rank Click on the Rank table column header to sort referrers by their Rank You now can easily see refer rer domains with high rankings This is a valuable indicator of the quality of your referrers because referrers with high rankings will cast a more powerful vote to your pages thus increasing their relevance in search engine results e Sort referrers by Alexa rank Click on the Alexa Rank table column header to sort referrers by their Alexa traffic rank value This information is collected through the Alexa Toolbar from the users The lower the Alexa traffic rank the more powerful the vote casted to your page is This is because a lower Alexa traffic rank for a referrer indicating a greater number of visitors and page views for that website will increase the chance of getting more traffic to your web pages e Sort referrers by the number of outbound links Step by Step Tutorials This is the overall number of links to other websites from the referrer URL domain Click on the Outbound Links table column header to sort referrers by their outbound links number You now can easily spot referrer domains with fairly big outbound links number The greater the overall numbers of out
179. web page by the Alexa search engine It enables you to see which are your most important referrers It can take any value from but 1 is the highest value The N A status means that the referrer is not ranked by Alexa e Quality ratio This is the referrer quality ratio computed using the formula selected by you in the Application prefer ences e Outbound links This is the number of outgoing links found in the referrer URL e Date Added This is the date that the referrer was added to your project Status Enables you to see the update status of each referrer It can have the following values Updated or Never Updated Redirect Exceeded Size Unauthorised Timed Out and Not Found 93 Interactive Reports e Last Updated IP Address The Display drop down list box in the top left corner of the Unverified Referrers Report allows you to This is the date that the referrer was last updated and the status has been changed This is the IP address associated with the referrer website filter the data by using the criteria you are interested in Filters D Domain Information E Unverified Referrers OO Hr Allitems Category Al All items Referrer gt 0 Potential link partners s blogspot corr 4 Linking back gspot com 4 Not Linking Back ogspot com Never Updated blogspot com Updated Not Found n z Automatically added pee ha mology story Manually added rs 9 Deleted ations blogs
180. wo pages from an engine It is very important to keep this preference checked Because automated querying can impose a very high load on the search engines some of them may take action against users abusing their services Random delay between queries If the Be nice to Search Engines option is selected you can specify here the upper and the lower limits of a random time interval that Advanced Link Manager will wait in between two consecutive queries Sleep after a number of searches If the Sleep number minutes after number searches option is selected the application will stop gath ering data from the search engines for the specified number of minutes after the specified number of searches A search means a keyword looked up on a search engine with the specified number of results retrieved Sleep after a number of failed connections 152 Global Preferences If the Sleep number minutes if a search engine fails number times option is selected the applica tion will stop gathering data from the search engines for the specified number of minutes after the spe cified number of failed connections Note that each failed connection is made up of the above mentioned number of retries Only the querying of the search engines that fail to retrieve data will sleep for the de sired number of minutes Global preferences Performance Application Performance Settings Browser Emulation Search Engine APIs Search E
181. y are linking back Y Cia Cera We ll get into more details about what this dialog does later For now just click the Start button to start the update The update consists of two steps e First it will look for pages in each of the search engines from our project that contain a link to our website excluding our own website A Progress tab will show up where we can follow the update s progress Step by Step Tutorials Domain information 23 Unverified Referrers 2 Referrers A Backlinks Evolution Search Engine Evolution ab Link text 2 Keyword Analysis lt lt Email Broken links Indexed pages Reciprocal linking A Referrer Categories gt Update Progress 12 Current Updates Current Multiple Updates History Administrator Manual update Updating 0 0 52 11 0 0 215 9 16 15 48 Jan 16 16 41 Jan Website URL 1 Google Retrieving referrers news google com Received 40 of 50 80 complete 2 Yahoo Retrieving indexed pages www cnn com Received 38 of 50 76 complete 3 Bing Retrieving indexed pages www cnn com Received 38 of 50 76 complete e Next it will check whether the web pages found are actually linking to our website Once the update is complete you will be able to see all the information gathered in the Interactive Reports We will dis cuss

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