Advanced Link Manager User Guide

Chapter 7. Interactive Reports

Advanced Link Manager presents the information gathered from search engines in a set of interactive, easy to use reports. Each report can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding tab in the upper side panel of the main frame.

There are four types of tabular reports: Referrers, Backlinks, Referrer Evolution, Search Engine Evolution. The last two interactive reports (Referrer Evolution and Search Engine Evolution) are shown as graphical evolution charts.

In the tabular reports, you can sort the table rows by clicking on the column headers and you can reorder the columns by grabbing and dragging them by their headers.

An empty report usually means that there is no data available for the selected target domain(s).

The Referrers report

This is a tabular report presenting referrers related information for the targets you are interested in. For each URL, the following information is available in the corresponding column:

  • Status. 

    Enables you to see whether that specific referrers URL was analyzed or not and it can save you a lot of time and energy. The "Status" can take two forms: Previously Updated or Never Updated.

  • Rank. 

    Enables you to select your most important referrers by viewing each and everyone's website rank. The rank status can even be used to reorder your reports as you see fit and it can take values from 0 to 10. The N/A status means that the referrer is not ranked by Google.

The "Display" drop-down list box in the top left corner of the Referrers Report allows you to filter the data by using the criteria you are interested in.

Filters

The following filters are available:

  • All items. 

    Displays everything, every URL and change available.

  • Never Updated. 

    Only displays the URLs that have not been checked.

  • Previously Updated. 

    Displays only URLs that have been already analyzed. The ones that are not found will be omitted.

  • Not Found. 

    It displays all the URLs that have been checked and not found to be existent.

  • Automatically added. 

    Displays only the URLs that have been automatically found by the search engines you selected for your current project

  • Manually added. 

    Displays only the URLs that have been manually added by the user using the Manually add referrers... from the "Update" menu item or the "Add" context menu item from the "Referrers" tab.

  • Removed. 

    Displays a list containing the manually removed URLs. These URLs are kept within the project's data to exclude them from future search results. They can be restored by right-clicking on them and choose the "Restore" menu item

There is also a "Filter by" filter which can be used to filter your referrers list.

Type one of the active URLs of your project in the filter box and the chart will display only the line for the specified URL.

For speed purposes, you can use the context menu to have access to the important actions of the "Referrers" page.

The context menu contains the following features:

  • Add. Opens the Manually add referrers... dialog.

  • Remove. Removes the selected referrer from the referrers list.

  • Update Selected URLs. It analyzes the selected referrers.

  • Update Visible URLs . It analyzes all the referrers.

  • Gather Site Rank. It collects the Site Rank values for all the selected referrers.

  • Copy link address. It copies the selected referrer address into your clipboard.

  • Whois. It opens up a web browser page with URL information, collected from the WHOIS database.

  • Whois DMOZ. It opens up a web browser page with URL information, collected from the DMOZ database.

  • Whois Yahoo Directory.  It opens up a web browser page with specific URL information, collected from the Yahoo Directory.

  • Web Archive. It opens up a web browser page with the visual history of the selected website.

  • Google Cache. It open us a web browser page and displays the selected URL directly from the Google cache system.

  • Google Cache (no images). It open us a web browser page and displays the text version of the selected URL directly from the Google cache system.

  • Detailed WHOIS. It opens up a web browser page and displays detailed information about the selected URL. This information is collected from the WHOIS database.

[Note]Note

The referrers that will appear in the "Referrers Report" may not link to the target referrer they were gathered for. You can know if they do link after a Gather links details update in the Backlinks Report