 | Advanced Link Manager User Guide |
The "Update Progress" tab is displayed in the main window when an update is started. When the "Gather links from search engines" is in progress, it lists the pairs of domains and the search engines used to gather the referrers data. When the "Verify Link Status" update is running, the " Update Progress" tab is showing the current progress of the analyzed referrer links.
Either the "Gather links from search engines" or "Check Links" is running, the following items may appear in the "Update Progress" tab:
Waiting.
No page has been retrieved yet.
Receiving data...(NN% complete).
Shows the percentage of received pages.
Received NN of NN (100% complete).
Reached end of results" -shows the total number of results retrieved at the end of the search for a particular search engine-target URL combination.
Checking for links.
The application is analyzing the referrer to extract the links information needed to update the Referrers report.
Done.
The analysis of the page has been completed.
Failed to gather results.
The search engine did not respond with the requested data. Advanced Link Manager will retry to interrogate it as many times as you entered in the "Number of retries if a connection fails" text box located in the [Preferences]->[Performance] tab.
Sleeping between pages.
Advanced Link Manager is sleeping between the searches performing a search engine friendly request to the search engines.
During the update, progress information is displayed containing: the start time, the estimated stop, the time remaining and the percentage of completed searches. At the end there is displayed: the total time, the number of retrieved pages and the number bytes retrieved.
When the update is complete Advanced Link Manager checks again all the searches and retries those that have not been completed successfully. The number of retries is specified in the Performance tab of the Preferences.