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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:
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Waiting.
No page has been retrieved yet.
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Receiving data...(NN% complete).
Shows the percentage of received pages.
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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.
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Checking for links.
The application is analyzing the referrer to extract the links information needed to update the Referrers report.
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Done.
The analysis of the page has been completed.
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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.
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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.
The [Current Updates] tab displays real time update information about manual or scheduled updates.
The [Current Multiple Updates] tab displays real time update information about multiple updates.
The [History] tab displays information about all the updates done in Advanced Link Manager for all projects.
To make the browsing easier through the history, Advanced Link Manager allows you to use a couple of useful filters:
Date. The [Date] filter allows you to select different update dates from the drop-down list:
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All - displays the updates done in Advanced Link Manager from all dates
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Today - displays all the updates done today
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Yesterday - displays all the updates done yesterday
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Last Week - displays all the updates done last week
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Last Month - displays all the updates done last month
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Specific update dates - displays the updates done in a selected day
Status. The [Status] filter allows you to select different states of an update:
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All - displays all the updates done in Advanced Link Manager for all their statuses
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Not Started - displays only the updates not started
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Complete - displays only the updates which are completed
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Incomplete - displays only the updates which are not completed yet
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Manually Stopped - displays only the updates which are manually stopped
Launched From. The [Launched From] filter allows you to select how the update was started:
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All - displays all the updates done in Advanced Link Manager for all the started types
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Manual Update - displays single updates manually started
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Scheduled Update - displays single updates started by the Scheduler
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Multiple Manual Update - displays multiple updates manually started
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Multiple Scheduler Update - displays multiple updates started by the Scheduler
Name. The [Name] filter allows you to select the updates by Project Name (single updates) or Project List (multiple updates):
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All - displays all the updates, even if they were single or multiple.
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Project Name - displays a list with single updates
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Project List - displays a list with multiple updates
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To display all the updates done in Advanced Link Manager on all periods, please make sure that you have for all filters the [All] option selected. |
Resume incomplete updates
In the [History] tab you can resume Multiple Updates with the status [Incomplete]. To do this, just right click on the name of the Project list and select the [Update remaining projects] option.
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The projects updated on the day you resume the update will appear in the Update History with the date when the resume is selected. |
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This option is available only for Multiple Update which have the status [Incomplete]. |