 | Advanced Link Manager User Guide |
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The Advanced Link Manager Preferences allows you to specify settings that apply to the entire application, changing and customizing the behaviour in accordance with your requirements.
 | You can access the Global Preferences from the toolbar button, by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+P or by selecting [Options] -> [Preferences...] from the Main Menu. |
Data Folder.
This tab allows you to change the location of the folder where Advanced Link Manager keeps its data. When you press the [OK] button, the path to the old data folder is renewed by the path of the new data folder.
Reports folder.
This setting allows you to select the application default reports saving folder.
Choose project at startup.
If you want the next time Advanced Link Manager starts to be prompted with the available project from your data folder, check this option.
Display success message on FTP upload.
Check this option if you want to be notified when the reports set to be uploaded on FTP servers finish uploading.
Show Advanced Link Manager Assistant after loading a project.
Check this option if you want to be prompted with the Advanced Link Manager Assistant each time a project is loaded.
Show Advanced Link Manager Assistant after an update is done.
Check this option if you want to be prompted with the Advanced Link Manager Assistant each time a project finishes updating.
Use Java look and feel.
Use the default Metal Java look and feel.
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This option requires Advanced Link Manager restart. |
Display the view description on the view buttons.
Check this option if you want to see the description of the report views next to the view's icon.
Exclude search engines with 0 links count from the charts. This option will cause Advanced Link Manager to ignore the 0 links count search for the search engines chart. This option is useful if a search engine fails due to a parsing error and the link count drops from a high value to 0. After the search engine is fixed the chart will no longer show a drop spike for that search engine if this option is checked.
In this section you can choose the colors you want for the Rank columns all over the application and in the printable reports.
Color foreground. Use this option if you want the text to be colored in the Rank column
Color background. Use this option if you want the background to be colored instead of the text in the Rank column
Here you can select which formula will be used to determine the referrers quality ratio fron the Referrers Report.
Use PR divided by the total number of outbound links. Since the PR is the higher the better, the higher the ratio is, the better the referrer is.
Use Alexa Rank divided by the total number of outbound links. Since the Alexa Rank is the lower the better, the lower the ratio is, the better the referrer is.