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Chapter 3. The User Interface

Main Menu

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

Project menu

  • 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.

Update menu

  • 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.

Scheduler

  • 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.

Reports

  • 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.

Edit reports

  • 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

  • Bookmarks this report - Bookmark a customized report.

  • Manage Bookmarks - Manager bookmarked reports.

Tools

  • 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.

Options

  • 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.

Help

  • 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.