User Guide

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.

Manage referrer categories - allows you to group the referrers by your own categories.

Manage status information - allows you to create your own status information about the answers you receive from webmasters.

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.

Project Manager - allows you to see an overview of all the 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.

Backup - creates a backup copy for the active project. See the Backup page for more details.

Restore - replaces the current project with an existing backup copy. See the Restore page for more details.

Remove Data - removes data from the current project for the selected time range.

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 from the search engines.

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 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.

Update multiple projects - allows you to select multiple projects to update.

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.

Bookmarks this report - Bookmark a customized report.

Manage Bookmarks - Manager bookmarked reports.

Update Progress - Displays information about the progress o a current update.

Website crawler - Opens the Website crawler tool

Google Maps Webpages Importer - Opens the Google Maps Webpages Importer tool.

Webpage Analyzer - Opens the Webpage Analyzer tool.

Analyze Domain Quality - Opens the Analyze Domain Quality tool.

Event Log Viewer - Opens the Event Log Viewer.

Notes - Opens the Notes tool.

Generate Link Pages - Opens the Generate Link Pages tool.

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 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

Edit contact details - allows you to edit your contact details.

Advanced Link Manager Assistant - displays the Advanced Link Manager Assistant.

Help Index - displays the help index window.

Context help - displays the context help.

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.

System properties - displays your system properties.

Purchase - opens in your default browser the purchase page of the Advanced Web Ranking Website.

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.