Table of Contents
The main menu provides access to all the functions of Advanced Link Manager.

New Project - pops up the New Project Wizard which allows you to easily create a new Advanced Link Manager project.
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.
Manage project lists - allows you to group project under a single name and then use this list of projects when you update or backup projects.
Rename project - allows you to rename the current project.
Delete Project - allows you to delete the current project.
Duplicate Project - saves the current project and all the data associated with it under a different name.

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.
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 from the search engines.
Manually add referrers - pops up the Manually add referrers dialog to allow you to enter referrers manually.
Gather potential referrers - gives you all the power of the advanced search for each search engine so you can add potential referrers using your own criteria.
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.
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.
Update multiple projects - allows you to select multiple projects to update.
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.
Update selected URLs - it works just like the one above, the only difference is that only updates the selected URLs not the entire domain.

New scheduled task - allows you to schedule a new task. See the Scheduler chapter for more details.
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.

Generate multiple reports - allows you to specify one or more reports to be generated immediately.
Report Name - When you click on the name of a report, the application will generate that report immediately.

New report - starts the report wizard to create new report.
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.

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.
Header and Footer - allows you to add customized headers and footers to your reports.
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
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 Advanced Link Manager
Layout - Manage layouts. Opens the layout manager where you can add, remove and edit your layouts

User profiles - allows you to select and manage the user profiles

Help Index - displays the help index window.
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.
Register - allows you to register this product. You will be prompted for the registration ID you received by email after purchasing.
About - displays a message box containing information about the product version, the search engines update versions, and your registration information.