Through the [Websites] option from the Project menu, you can add, remove, modify and export websites. You can also sort the websites from your project by the order in which they were added, alphabetical order, by page rank or by color. To change the order in which they are added, just move the websites using the [Up], [Down], [Send to top] and [Send to bottom] buttons when the websites are ordered by their index number.
Add a website
To add a website to your project, you need to click on the [Add] button and choose one of the four options available:
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Type URLs. Just type each URL you wish to add to your project in this window, one by line, and click on the [Add to project] button.
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Suggest Competitors. Advanced Web Ranking generates a list of your top competitors for the keywords you have in your current project, selected by their visibility in the search results. You can easily select from this list the competitors you wish to also monitor and add to your project.
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Import from file. In order to import websites from a file where they have been previously exported by Advanced Web Ranking, just choose the [Import from file] option from the [Add Website] menu. Then select the text file form where you want to import the websites and click on Open.
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Import from URL. This feature spiders a web page and finds all the links to other web pages. All you need to do is specify a URL and then press the [Import] button. You will then be presented with a list of all the links found in that web page so that you can edit them before importing them into your project.
Remove websites
To remove a website, click on the [Remove] button from the top Menu Bar, select from the list the websites you wish to remove from your project and [Confirm removal]. If you changed your mind about removing any of the websites, just click on the [Cancel] button.
Website pages
This is the place where you can edit (add/remove) the pages of your added websites. If you wish to track a certain web page separately, you need to add it to this list.
Select from the list of websites the one you wish to edit and click the [Website Pages] button.
To add the index page of a website to the list, just add a new page with the name "/" (forward slash). This is regarded as a special page, and will appear as [Index Page] in the list.
You can remove the [All Pages] entry if it's not the only entry left in the list. This will allow you to match only a certain page instead of all the pages of your website. If you later want to add the [All Pages] entry back, just click on the [Add] button without entering any page name in the Website Pages dialog.
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When you add a website to your project, any web page belonging to that website will be automatically matched by the update process. You can see this by expanding the tree item of that website, which will show [All pages] by default. |
Website Aliases
A website can have aliases and this is the place you can add them. The most known case is when a website can be referred as its domain name or with the www prefix. Example:
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www.domain.com
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domain.com
This special case is handled by default in Advanced Web Ranking so you don't have to add it yourself.
If your website has more than one subdomain (like in the example below) then you can enter a special alias that contains the wildcard character (*) to substitute the part that is different in each entry. Example: *.domain.com
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www.domain.com
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sub1. domain.com
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sub2. domain.com
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The wildcard character can be inserted in any place in the website name and as many times you wish. |
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 update process, they will be shown 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.
Export to file
To export websites to a file, press the [Export...] button, then select the text file where you want to export them.
Analytics
You can set up Advanced Web Ranking to connect with multiple Google Analytics accounts and import traffic data for all your websites. This menu allows you to assign your synchronized Google Analytics accounts to your project's websites.
SEOmoz Links
For each selected website, you must specify the number of links to be retrieved and the number of anchor texts, according to your available link credits. To do that, you must uncheck the default [Top links to be retrieved for each site] and [Top anchor texts to be retrieved for each site] settings, and set your own.
While adjusting your settings you are able to view the estimate consume of link credits and compare with the number of available link credits. If for your settings, the available number of credits is exceeded, you will get a warning but still be able to save your settings for further use. At update, to retrieve link data for the full list of websites you have set, you must purchase more credits. Otherwise, Advanced Web Ranking will run the update in sequence until your link credits run out.
You can purchase more link credits straight from this window by pressing the [Get more credits] button or check the [History] of your previously used link credits.
Select Color
You can change the color of a website to find it easier in the reports. Click on the color column and select the color you like and see as fit for that website. When you change the color of a website, all the pages that belong to that website will be shown with this color.
Stop the update if this website is found
When a project update is running, Advanced Web Ranking will look for this particular website and stop gathering data from the search engine if it is found. If more than one website has this option enabled, or multiple pages from a website have this option enabled then Advanced Web Ranking will stop the search only when all of the checked items have been found.
Get Google Analytics
For every website in your project you are able to add its own Google Analytics account and visualize traffic data within Advanced Web Ranking reports. When this option is enabled, Advanced Web Ranking will automatically connect at each update, to its Google Analytics account and extract data.
Get SEOmoz Links
When this option is enabled, Advanced Web Ranking will retrieve link data from SEOmoz for that website, according to the specific settings you made for each website.
Get Links for Root Domain
When the Root Domain option is checked, Advanced Web Ranking will retrieve from SEOmoz, backlinks for the entire domain ( for example, for your added website www.cnn.com, will also get the links pointing to edition.cnn.com, news.cnn.com, money.cnn.com, etc.). Otherwise, it will gather only the links pointing to your added subdomain (such as www.cnn.com).