The "Gather links from Search Engines" option tells the application to look for web pages that may be pointing to your domain pages. After the update is complete the Unverified Referrers report will show 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.

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 report instead.

	Note
	The referrers added to your project by the "Gather links from Search Engines" update method have their status set to "Automatically added".