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Live Sales The Find link partners wizard will help you gather more referrers using the most advanced search from each of the available search engines. The wizard is available via the [Update] -> [Find link partners...] menu item.
Nowadays, only a few search engines still tell you who your referrers are. And even those that do, they can't give you the entire list of your referrers. That's where the Find link partners wizard comes to help. It allows you to search any of the available search engines, using their most advanced search criteria, to look for additional referrers that may already link to you, or for future partners that you may want to exchange links with.
But the best way to understand how the Find link partners can help is probably to see an actual example:
The first step of the Find link partners wizard gathers information about what you wish to find. It will ask you for the search engine and the keywords you are looking for and the details of the search:
For this example, let's choose Google as the search engine. We are looking to find websites that could link to us. Therefore we will search Google for "sport news". Let's set the search depth to 20 as we are only interested in the top 20 search engine results.
Then we tell Google to search using "The exact phrase" so we don't get results from "news" or "sport", and we are looking for the pages that have the keyphrase in the title of the page so we set the option "Occurences appear:" to "In the title of the page".
The second step of the Find link partners wizard is preceded by an intermediary stage in which Advanced Link Manager connects to the search engine and retrieves the results we asked for.
After the urls have been retrieved, the wizard will show us the top 20 results found on the search engine. The URLs are shown in the order the search engine displayed the results.
Now we have the results we asked for, but it may not be exactly what we need. So we need to eliminate any unwanted results before we add the good ones into our project. To help us with this task, the application lets us order the referrers by rank (if the SiteRank plugin is installed). If we're not interested in pages that have a very low rank, we can select these websites and click the "Delete selected" button to remove them from the list. Alternatively, we can exclude the sites that have a low rank using the "Filter by rank" filter and selecting "above 4" to select all the pages with the rank higher than 4.
There is also a text filter available. This can be used when you choose to gather many referrers from the search engine. Let's say you choose a search depth of 500. After all the results are retrieved, you may want to exclude your competitors. You just type a part of their name in the filter textbox and only the referrers matching the criteria will be shown. Now you can select all of them and remove them from the list by pressing "Delete selected".
You can also exclude referrers that you have filtered out using the "Delete filtered items" button.
Once you are satisfied with the results, all you need to do is press "Finish" and the new potential link partners will be added to the project. You can always see these new potential referrers in the Unverified Referrers report by selecting the "Potential" option in the "Display" drop down.