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We intend to use the software for all of our clients, but we need to ensure that ALM definitely does not have any negative effects on our client's sites? (Can you confirm that it is not possible trace back to the client when querying the search engines?)For a search engine, Advanced Link Manager looks just like a regular web browser. We send the EXACT request a web browser sends. There is no way for a search engine to find out you are using anything else but a browser. Furthermore, when Advanced Link Manager sends a request to a search engine, the request contains only the query, not the website. The application looks for the links in the results the search engine sent back. This means a search engine has no way of making a connection between the IP address of your computer, where Advanced Link Manager is running and the website of your client. If this was possible, anyone could send a fake request to a search engine with their competitor website in order to get them banned. Would our IP address be protected when using the software?The only thing that a search engine sees is a search request coming from an IP address (the address of the computer Advanced Link Manager runs on or the IP address of the proxy server that you use). This IP address, combined with the frequency of searches coming from it can be used by a search engine to stop the results from being returned for a certain period of time. Almost all search engines have a protection mechanism that blocks the request if it detects that the number of searches coming from an IP address exceeds a certain amount. Therefore, even if Advanced Link Manager allows you to, you would not be able to send thousands of search requests per minute, because this is something that no normal human being can do. That is why we built a "be nice to search engines" option in Advanced Link Manager, which is enabled by default. This option emulates a human that is normally browsing and searching on the net. If you use this option you will never have to worry about any of the problems discussed above. You can see more information about being friendly to search engines here: http://www.advancedlinkemanager.com/feats-sefriend.html Does the software support/provide proxy querying?Yes, Advanced Link Manager allows you to use multiple proxy servers in the application. This will decrease the time an update needs to complete by the number of proxy servers you have because the application sends a search request for each proxy server in parallel. Search engines will treat the search request as coming from different IP addresses. What is the difference between Unverified Referrers and Referrers?The Unverified Referrers report displays all the results(links) gathered from search engines, which might be inaccurate. Gathering the links from search engines, thus Unverified Referrers the first step of the update. The Referrers report (which is available after running the step two update) displays the actual links after verifying each results gathered from search engines and displayed in the Unverified Referrers report. What is the maximum number of clients you would recommend using the software for? (Is the software scalable with the growth of our business? Is there a maximum you'd recommend?)There is no limitation in the number of clients. You can create as many projects as you need, depending on the hard drive space of your server. Advanced Link Manager has been designed to accommodate heavy usage. If you have many clients, the best solution is to have more than one computer running Advanced Link Manager, each computer should have a different IP address. This will divide the update time by the number of computers because the requests are sent from different IP addresses. Do you have any other SEO company's using ALM? (Any success stories, case studies, etc...)There are many SEO companies that use our application. You can find testimonials from a small part of them on our website, here: http://www.advancedlinkmanager.com/testimonials.html How reliable is the product and it's data, and is it possible to backup the software and it's information?Advanced Link Manager stores its data in a relational database which employs transactions for each action. If a transaction fails, the database will restore itself to avoid being corrupted. To be safe, the application allows you to backup all the projects whenever you need. You can also create a scheduled task that will backup all your projects as often as you want: daily, weekly, monthly. How easy is it to import/export data between different versions of the software?Importing the data from previous versions of the applications is done automatically. There is nothing you need to do about this, because the application will automatically take care of it for you. If you wish to move a project from one computer to another, all you need to do is backup the project and then restore it on the other computer. What level of support can we expect once we purchase the software?Customer satisfaction is our number one priority. We have 24/7 email support and we also have a support forum, which is frequently visited by our engineers along with our entire community of users. Also, our software comes with a full year of maintenance free of charge. So you can enjoy full support, search engine updates and application updates for a full year since the day of purchase. Do you provide any other additional services/products that you would recommend?We have another great product called Advanced Web Ranking. This is a search engine ranking tool that helps check your web site position on all major search engines: |
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