 | Advanced Link Manager User Guide |
This report allows you to track the estimated number of referrers (the number of pages reported by a search engine to have a link to your website). There are three views available in this report:
Search Engines Overview.
Referrers by Search Engine.
Search Engines Evolution Chart.
Switching between the views is done from the toolbar at the top-left corner of the tab.
The Search Engines Overview has two views:
Order by Search Engines
Order by URLs
These views can be switched from the drop-down combo from underneath the tab toolbar. These views are not like the chart view. Instead they compare two selected dates and show the changes, if any.
On both views you will have the display filter with the following items available:
All - this is the default filter which will show all items
Moved up - shows only the items that have moved up.
Moved down - shows only the items that have moved down.
Changed - shows only the items that have moved up or down.
In this view, the data will be organized with the search engines as columns and the URLs as rows.
For this view there is some extra information available. This information is used for comparison only, it does not concern the current project. This information can be found in the Advanced Link Manager data folder, the "data" folder, in the "comparedata.xml". You can customize this file at your will..
In this view, the data will be organized with the URLs as columns and the search engines as rows.
This view displays the referrers for the selected domain grouped by the search engine that reported them.
You can select all the search engines, in which case you will see all the links to your website, or you can select one or more search engines to restrict the referrers to those that were reported by the selected search engines.
By default, you will see all unique referrers from all the selected search engines. If you wish to see the common referrers that were reported by two or more search engines, just change the display mode to show only the common referres. This can be done from the first button above the Search Engine input panel.
This chart displays a time evolution of the estimated number of referrers reported by the selected search engines.
In the Chart view, the number of search engine results is represented on the vertical axis, while time is represented on the horizontal one.
The Legend at the bottom of the chart allows you to better understand the information depicted in the chart. The Legend displays a color for every selected search engine used in your project. This color is used to draw the graphical evolution (lines or dots) of that specific search engine.
Note that in the "Search Engine Evolution" Chart view there is a line for each one of your project's search engines. Each search engine will be represented by a unique color, automatically assigned by the Advanced Link Manager.
The "Search Engine Evolution" report contains two filters which can be used to better understand the progress of your estimated number of results:
Position Range. The "Position Range" filter can be used to zoom on a customized position range:
"1 To 500","1 To 1000", "1 To 5000", "1 To 10000", "1 To 50000" and "1 To 100000". Displays the selected position range
Custom Range. Displays a dialog window where you can enter the minimum and the maximum position values which will be used by the vertical axis of the chart.
Date Range. It can be used to select the time range used to represent the graphical data. You have 7 options to select from:
All Data. The horizontal axis of the chart will contain all the available dates.
Last Week. The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the last week's available dates.
Last Month. The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the last month's available dates.
Last Three Months. The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the available dates from the last three months.
Last Six Months. The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the available dates from the last six months.
Last Year. The horizontal axis of the chart will contain only the available dates from the last year.
Custom Range. Displays the "Date Range" dialog box where you have the possibility to customize the dates where the evolution chart starts and/or ends:
Begin. If you check it, your chart evolution will start with the date when you made your first update.
Today. If you check it, your chart evolution will end with today's date.
Set Date. You can use the calendar to select either the begin or the end date for the evolution chart.
A context menu is available for the chart, with the following options:
Save As.
Saves the chart view into a .png file. Note that the png will contain only the current view of the chart (so be sure to save the right section of your chart).
Print.
Allows you to print the chart view.
Zoom In .
You can magnify the chart view on both axes. The area that will be zoomed in has its center in the point where you click with your mouse.
If you want to magnify only a certain area, click with the left button of your mouse to specify the top left point and drag it to select the desired area.
Zoom Out .
You can decrease the chart view on both axes. The area that will be zoomed out has its center in the point where you click with your mouse.
Show All Data In Range.
Redraws the chart so it fits all the data into the view. The same effect can be achieved by double-clicking on the chart, or by drag and dropping with your mouse from a lower position to a higher one.