Advanced Link Manager User Guide

Chapter 3. The User Interface

Main Menu

The main menu provides access to all the functions of Advanced Link Manager.

Project menu

  • New Project - pops up the New Project Wizard which allows you to easily create a new Advanced Link Manager project.

  • Project Settings - pops up the Project Settings dialog where you can set your domains, search engines, and the preferences related to the link gathering process.

  • Rename project - allows you to rename the current project.

  • Delete Project - allows you to delete the current project.

  • Duplicate Project - saves the current project and all the data associated with it under a different name.

Update menu

  • Start - displays the Update dialog where you can choose how you want to update your project.

  • Pause/Resume - pauses/resumes the currently running update.

  • Stop - terminates the current update.

  • Gather links from Search Engines - starts to gather the referrers from the search engines for you target domains.

  • Gather only number of links from Search Engines - starts to gather only the estimated backlink count from the search engines.

  • Gather links details - starts to check the previously gathered referrer URLs for backlinks to your target domains, but only for those referrers that were not already updated on the current date.

  • Gather link details (Forced) - starts to check the previously gathered referrer URLs for backlinks to your target domains, ignoring whether they were updated or not on the current date.

  • Manually add referrers - pops up the Manually add referrers dialog.

Options

  • Preferences - allows you to set the global preferences of the project. See the Global Preferences page for more details.

Help

  • Help Index - displays the help index window.

  • Report error - allows you to send an error report to the Advanced Link Manager team so we can help you with troubleshooting and improve our product.

  • Register - allows you to register this product. You will be prompted for the registration ID you received by email after purchasing.

  • About - displays a message box containing information about the product version, the search engines update versions, and your registration information.