 | Advanced Link Manager User Guide |
You can change the settings of a project from the Project -> Project Settings menu. Here you can edit the list of domains, search engines and other settings that are associated with the current project.
In the Domains tab of the Project Settings dialog box you can add, remove and import domains.
In order to Add a domain, first input it in the edit box, then press the [Add] button. To remove a domain, just select it from the list and click on the "Remove" button.
When you add a new domain, the [Index] page is added by default. But you can add more pages later by clicking on the "Domain Pages..." button.
Each page has two attributes that you can set from this list:
If this attribute is set, the application treats this page as a link page and parses it for external links to your partners. This counts when calculating the reciprocal link status.
Exclude.
If this attribute is set, the application will no longer search for links to this page in the search engines. This is useful in case you have a link page that does not have incoming links and you do not wish to look for referrers that point to this page.
A domain can have one or more pages. If you have more than one name that points to the same website, then you need to add this name to the domain aliases list.
Domain Pages.
This is the place where you can edit the pages that you wish to track incoming links for. If you wish to track a certain web page separately, you need to add it to this list.
The index page of the domain is added by default. This is regarded as a special page, and will appear as [Index Page] in the list. If you remove the index page, you can add it later by adding a new page with the name "/" (forward slash).
Domain Aliases.
This is the place where you can add aliases to your website. The most well known case is when a website can be refered as its domain name or with the www prefix. Example:
www.domain.com
domain.com
This special case is handled by default in Advanced Link Manager so you don't have to add it yourself.
Index Aliases.
This is the place where you can add aliases of your main index page of your website. The Index Aliases list contains all the possible names of the [Index Page], so if any of these pages will be found in the link URL, they will treated as [Index Page]. If your index page has a name that is not part of the [Index Aliases] list, just add it to the list and the next update will show it correctly.
The Import button is used to import web pages into an existing domain. There are two ways to import these pages:
Import from a web page.
Enables you to import all the pages that are linked from a certain web page. The wizard spiders the web page you provide and finds all the links to other web pages.
Import from a search engine.
Enables you to import all the pages from your domain that a search engine is aware of.
When you are presented with the result as a list of pages, you can edit them before importing them into your project by removing the ones that you don't need. Adding an already existing page to a domain will not cause the page to be duplicated.