Advanced Link Manager User Guide

Advanced Tutorial

The "Advanced Tutorial" will guide you through some more advanced features of Advanced Link Manager and will explain in more detail the ones you've been introduced to in the Getting Started tutorial.

The Backlinks Report

The Backlinks Report is a tabular report that displays the web pages that actually point to your target domain along with a lot of related useful information.

The quality of both your referrers and the links pointing to your website (which are also known as backlinks) are powerful factors that affect the position of your website for relevant keyword searches. The Backlinks report will show you a comprehensive view of your backlinks and how their importance is ranked in the search engines.

[Note]Note

The information contained in this report will only be available after the second step of the update has been completed. This step is the one that checks whether your referrers are actually linking back.

The Backlinks report is tied to a date: the date when the update was made. Thus the report will display (for each selected domain) the backlinks information for the date when the update took place.

When an update is currently running, you can still access the old data by going back to a previous date. The "Date" drop-down list box in the top right corner of the Backlinks report allows you to select the date for which the information is displayed:

The first drop-down selects the date you wish to compare to, referred to from now on as the previous date. The second drop-down selects the current date that the information is displayed for.

1. Checking the quality of your referrers and the number of backlinks

With the Backlinks report you can easily spot out the referrers casting the most valuable "votes" for you. Identifying those important referrers will be a lot easier if you sort the referrers using the available criteria:

The Backlinks report also gives you information about how the number of backlinks change between two updates. This information is presented in the following columns:

Monitoring the changes of the number of backlinks between two given dates allows you to easily figure out whether your efforts to increase the link popularity of your website have proven to be successful.

2. Checking the quality of your backlinks

The Backlinks report can also display detailed information about each of your backlinks. Just select a referrer and see its backlink details displayed in the lower right panel.

For each backlink you have comprehensive information available:

3. Filtering backlinks

Sometimes the number of backlinks to a website can be overwhelming. Filtering the backlinks using a certain criteria will help in most cases.

One of the filters that you can use is the status of a backlink:

Examples:

Additionally you can filter the backlinks by domain name, URL or link text. Just select one of the three criteria available, enter the text you are looking for and Advanced Link Manager will filter out the referrers and links that do not match the given text.

Examples: