Advanced Link Manager User Guide

Search Engine Evolution

The Advanced Link Manager "Search Engine Evolution" allows you to track the estimated number of backlinks of the targeted domains in two ways.

Switching between the two views is done from the toolbar present on the top-left corner of the tab.

The Graphical evolution chart

This chart will contain information about the estimated number of results of the selected for all the active search engines of your project and for a specific date range.

In the Chart view, the number of search engine results is represented on the vertical axis, while time is represented on the horizontal one.

The Legend at the bottom of the chart allows you to better understand the information depicted in the chart. The Legend displays a color for every selected search engine used in your project. This color is used to draw the graphical evolution (lines or dots) of that specific search engine.

Note that in the "Search Engine Evolution" Chart view there is a line for each one of your project's search engines. Each search engine will be represented by a unique color, automatically assigned by the Advanced Link Manager.

The "Search Engine Evolution" report contains two filters which can be used to better understand the progress of your estimated number of results:

A context menu is available for the chart, with the following options:

The tabular representation

The tabular representation also has two kind of views:

These views can be switched from the drop-down combo from underneath the tab toolbar. These views are not like the chart view. Instead they compare two selected dates and show the changes, if any.

On both views you will have the display filter with the following items available:

Order by Search Engines

In this view, the data will be organized with the search engines as columns and the URLs as rows.

For this view there is some extra information available. This information is used for comparison only, it does not concern the current project. This information can be found in the Advanced Link Manager data folder, the "data" folder, in the "comparedata.xml". You can customize this file at your will..

Order by URLs

In this view, the data will be organized with the URLs as columns and the search engines as rows.