 | Advanced Web Ranking User Guide |
In the Websites tab of the Project Settings dialog box you can add, remove, modify, import and export websites. You can also sort the websites using the order in which they were added or in alphabetical order. 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.
Below are the most common used functions of this dialog, and a short explanation of what they do:
Add.
To add a website to your project, enter it in the edit box and press the [Add] button. If you would like to start from an existing website, just double-click it in the list. The website will appear in the edit box above, where it can be edited before adding it to the project.
Remove.
To remove a website, first select it from the list and then press the [Remove] button.
Rename.
To change the name of an existing website just select it from the list and press the [Rename] button.
Select Color.
You can change the color of a website to find it easier in the reports. 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.
The Websites section from the Project Settings (see the image above) shows a list of all websites that exist in your project. 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 Pages.
This is the place where you can edit the pages of your website that you wish to track. If you wish to track a certain web page separately, you need to add it to this list.
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.
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:
www.domain.com
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
www.domain.com
sub1. domain.com
sub2. domain.com
Note: 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.
The Import and Export buttons are used to import and export the URLs from/to text files. You can also import URLs from a web page:
Export to file.
To export websites to a file, press the [Export] button, then select the text file where you want to export them.
Import from file.
In order to Import websites from a file where they have been previously exported by Advanced Web Ranking, press the Import] button, and choose the [Import from file] option. Then select the text file form where you want to import the websites and click on Open.
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.
