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The Advanced Web Ranking Preferences allows you to specify the preferences that will apply to the entire application, change and customize the behavior in accordance with your requirements.
You can access the Global Settings of the application from the [Settings] menu on the left side bar.

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Database location.
Advanced Web Ranking can store the projects locally or remotely. Locally Advanced Web Ranking uses a folder located on the local machine. In the remote mode, Advanced Web Ranking connects to an Advanced Web Ranking Server located on another machine.
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My Computer. This option allows you to change the location of the folder where Advanced Web Ranking keeps its data locally. When you press the [OK] button, Advanced Web Ranking will use the newly selected folder as the data folder.
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Remote Computer. This option allows you to change the remote connection server address and port.
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Regional and Language Settings.
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Choose project at startup.
This options allows you to choose a project other than the last project loaded when Advanced Web Ranking starts. Advanced Web Ranking will show you the Project manager(in Enterprise Edition) or the Project chooser(in Standard and Professional editions).
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Chart Settings.
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Show continuous lines in the Rank Evolution chart. By default, when a URL is not found in the results gathered from the search engine, it is said to be dropped. In the Rank Evolution chart this is shown as a gap in the graph line associated with that URL. If you do not want to see a gap when an URL is dropped, just make sure this preference is checked.
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Show only best position in charts. Selecting this option enables you to see in your charts only the best position your website has for a certain keyword from all the pages of your website that have rankings for it.
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Interactive graph lines color intensity. Using this setting you may adjust the intensity of the colors used for graphics in interactive reports.
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Legend height in printable report. You may set the dimensions of legends in all printable reports.
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Show position slider on right side of the chart. Check this option to display the position slider on the right side of the charts in the interactive reports.
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Chart shape size. This setting allows you to adjust the points size on your graphs shown in both interactive and printable reports.
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Chart line thickness. You may also adjust the graph lines and set their thickness on a scale from 1 to 6.
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Application Settings.
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Update new project after it was created. Check this option if you want to automatically start the update after a new project is created.
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Get page rank for new project. Check this option to enable the page rank update for the new created projects.
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Automatically add competitors. When this option is checked, the application automatically ads to new created projects, some of your websites top competitors.
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Automatically import from top sites in time when adding a website. With this option, you can automatically import in your project for the newly added websites, ranking data available from previous Top Sites reports.
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Display help balloons in user interface. Check this option if you need hints to be displayed when using the application.
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User interface. You have three displaying modes available for the application (small, large and autodetect) to adjust the size of the application window to fit your preferences.
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Use default window decoration. Check this option to see the blue default margins of the application. To enable it, the application must be restarted.
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Use java look and feel. With this option selected, you can use the default Metal Java look and feel. To enable it, the application must be restarted.
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Show Websites, Keywords, and Search engine inputs on top of the report. Check this option to see the inputs section in the interactive reports on the top side of the screen. When unchecked, inputs are displayed vertically, on the left side of the interactive reports. To enable the change, the application must be restarted.
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Color automatically new keywords added. With this option checked, the application automatically assigns colors to new keywords you add to projects.
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Color automatically new websites added. Check this option for the application to automatically assign colors for new websites you add to projects.
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In case there is a new search engine update available, and the application is launched (either from the user interface or in the background by the scheduler), the update is downloaded and installed first and then the application is launched. Thus you will always have the search engines up to date before you run the update. |