Advanced Link Manager User Guide

Basic Tutorial

The "Basic 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.

1. Checking the quality of your referrers

The quality of your referrers is a powerful factor that affects the position of your website for relevant keyword searches. For a comprehensive view of your referrers and how their importance is ranked in the search engines select the Referrers report.

With the Referrers report you can easily identify the referrers casting the most valuable "votes" for your web pages. Sorting referrers will make this an easy task.

Referrers report can also show the referrers reported by the search engines as linking to your competitors (namely all target domains in the left panel other the selected one).

[Show gathered links]/[Show gathered links for other domains] toggle buttons located in the right top panel, allow you to easily switch between your referrers and the ones of your competitors:

By default the [Show gathered links] toggle button is selected and the referrer web pages reported by the search engines as linking to you are displayed.
Click the [Show gathered links for other domains] toggle button to switch. Now you'll be able to easily find out ways to improve your online visibility by spotting referrer with high rankings linking to your competitor(s) that are not currently linking to you. In this regard, you may consider contacting such prospective referrers.

2. Filtering referrers

Sometimes the number of web pages reported by the search engines as linking to your website can be overwhelming. Filtering the these web pages using a certain criteria will help in most cases.

Examples:

Now that you completed the "Basic Tutorial" you can go to the Advanced Tutorial.