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Advanced Link Manager can also present the information gathered from search engines as printable reports in the following formats: HTML, PDF, CSV and XML . There following reports are created by default in any new project: Domain Information Report, Unverified Referrers Report, Referrers Report, Referrers Overview Report, Link Text Report, Link Text Overview Report, Referrers Information Report, Referrers by Search Engine Report and Search Engines Report. To create a new report, you can use the Report wizard which will help you create printable reports customized to your own needs.
The first step of the wizard allows you to choose one of the three types of reports available:
Domain Information Report.
This report shows only the referrer domains from your project and various information about them such as: IP, Rank, Alexa Rank, Domain age
Unverified Referrers Report.
This report shows the referrers as they were gathered from the search engines. These referrers may not link back to your website.
Referrers Report.
This report shows only the referrers that link back to your website, with detailed information about them.
Referrers Overview Report.
This report shows only the referrers that link back to your website, with a side-by-side comparison of your competititon.
Search Engines Report.
This report shows the evolution of the number of links to your targets as provided by the search engines.
Link Text Report.
This report shows the top link texts and the referrers they come from.
Link Text Overview Report.
This report shows an overview of the links count for each link text and each website in your project
Referrers by Search Engine Report.
This report shows the referrers verified by the Verify link status update and the Search Engines that reported them
Referrers Information Report.
This report displays detailed information about the referrers from you project such as: IP, URL title, Page Rank, Referrer Category, Tag and Meta information
The second step of the report wizard allows you to set the input data needed to generate the report.
First of all we need to select a date as the report current date. Here we can choose an exact date when an update was made. For convenience, a "Last update" date is also available so you can generate the report for the day the last update was made.
If we want to compare the curent day data with the data from an earlier date, all we need to do is check the "Show changes compared to" option and select a date from the drop down list. Here too you can choose "Previous update" and the report will always consider the previous update date as the comparison date.
There are two types of input data: Domains and Search Engines. By default all the domains and search engines are included in the report. To choose only some of them, uncheck the "Include all domains" option for example and use the "Select..." button that appears on the right side to select only the domains you are interested in.