Copyright (c) Caphyon Software 2002-2006. All rights reserved.
Email: support@advancedwebranking.com
Website: http://www.advancedwebranking.com
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1. License Information
2. Running Advanced Web Ranking
- Windows
- Mac OS X
- Linux
3. Version History
1. License Information
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You are free to use Advanced Web Ranking for 30 days for testing purposes. After this period you must purchase a license. For more details please read the End User License Agreement file (eula.txt) included with the distribution.
Advanced Web Ranking comes with a free 12 months Maintenance Plan. This entitles you to free application upgrades, free search engine updates and technical support for 12 months after your purchase. If you wish to extend the maintenance plan after the initial 12 months please visit our website store:
For more information about our licensing system please see:
http://www.advancedwebranking.com/licenses.html
2. Running Advanced Web Ranking
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Windows
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Advanced Web Ranking requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4. If you have a previous JRE version, please download the latest version from:
http://www.java.com/en/
Alternatively, you can download the Advanced Web Ranking distribution that comes bundled with JRE 1.4.2_05 from our website:
http://www.advancedwebranking.com/download.html
To run Advanced Web Ranking, browse to Program Files->Advanced Web Ranking and click on the Advanced Web Ranking application.
Mac OS X
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Advanced Web Ranking requires Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or later and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4. If you have a previous JRE version, please make sure you install the latest operating system updates, which contain the JRE 1.4.
To run Advanced Web Ranking open the the application folder from your desktop and double-click on the "Advanced Web Ranking" application.
If you encounter any problems running it when you double-click on the awr application, please contact us at support@advancedwebranking.com or read the installation questions for MAC OS X from our Frequently Asked Questions page:
http://www.advancedwebranking.com/faq.html
Linux
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Advanced Web Ranking requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4. If you have a previous version, please download the latest version from:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
To run Advanced Web Ranking, double-click on the "AdvancedWebRanking.sh" launcher script.
IMPORTANT: The launcher and the integrated scheduler within Advanced Web Ranking looks for the java binary in /usr/bin. Therefore, if you have java installed in a different directory, you need to create a link to it from the /usr/bin directory.
Example:
cd /usr/bin
ln -s /path/to/java_binary java
To find out where java is located on your system, use one of the following commands at the shell prompt:
which java
or
locate java
3. Version History
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v4.7.1 [Aug 18, 2006]
- Added the Gain/Loss column in the Visibility report
- Added ability to disable document outline in PDF printable reports
- Updated Italian language help
- Fixed Search Engine Rank PDF printable report
- Fixed removing emails from the report template
- In Overview interractive report "Show Position in Search Engine Results" was opening the wrong page
- In Overview printable report the visibility for websites was not computed well
- The "generate after update" setting in edit report templates was not remembered
- Scheduled tasks monthly did not display the correct months in the summary section
- Reports failed to generate if "Save to folder" option was not set
v4.7 [July 24, 2006]
- Added new Visibility report with table data and chart view
- Improved Overview report to show data grouped by Websites, Search Engines or Keywords
- Made printable report location folder more flexible
- Added search filters for all input panels
- Added keyword priority from Google Suggest
- Fixed import keywords from website
- Removed spaces from the report type name when generating reports
- The Overview report now scrolls only through data columns
- Changed open in browser action to double-click instead of single click
v4.6 [May 9, 2006]
- Added a new wizard for report generation
- Added report manager and report summary information
- Added scheduler wizard with the following features:
- update one or multiple projects
- generate one or multiple reports
- backup one or multiple projects
- Added gain/loss stats for each search engine/keyword in Overview
- Added the ability to specify website aliases using wild cards
- Added the ability to display the legend on each page in PDF reports
- Updated the column names and format of the CSV report
- Updated backup and restore
- Improved speed for all reports
- Fixed a problem with the legend in PDF report which was cut at the end of page
- Fixed sleep x minutes if search engine failes y times
v4.5.3 [Mar 17, 2006]
- Added project and progress information in the application title
- Fixed the search engine update
- Fixed sorting in Overview report when "overview selected column" was the sort criteria
- Fixed scheduler on Mac OS X
- Memory optimization for data gatherer
v4.5.2 [Mar 13, 2006]
- Switched to .dmg distribution for Mac OS X
- Added support for Intel powered Macs
- Added protection on shutdown/restart to save the data already gathered by the current update
- Added hourglass mouse cursors when loading data from the database for all reports
- Email addresses from report templates were deleted on changes to the AddressBook
- FTP profiles from report templates were deleted on changes to the FtpBook
- Insert table of contents in html reports could not be disabled
- Fixed search engines that use the deflate algorithm: Dmoz, Excite, Webcrawler, Dogpile
- Fixed the backup all projects operation
- Fixed a problem with the progress which reported complete but was not displaying 100% done
- Fixed show position in browser from the Keywords Rank report
- Fixed sorting in Keyword Rank and Overview (both interactive and printable reports)
- Fixed the update of email and FTP profiles
- Fixed the input settings when importing report templates
- Fixed the Multiple Project Update
- Fixed the displaying of changed icons if show comparison was OFF in printable reports
- Fixed the report template global status
- Fixed the search in the Domains panel
- Fixed SMTP with SSL
v4.5.1 [Mar 3, 2006]
- Fixed rank display in Overview report
- Fixed Overview HTML report email sending
- Fixed report templates when duplicating a project
- Fixed the importing of the company logo in the Header
- Fixed XSLT transformations on Mac OS X
- Fixed the importing of multiple project updates
v4.5 [Mar 1, 2006]
- Changed database format to SQL
- The search engine updates are now installed before the application starts
- Emails can now be sent using a SMTP server that requires TLS or SSL
- The information retrieved from the search engines is now compressed where possible
- The URL is now known as a website which contains a domain, domain aliases and web pages
- Added Notes
- Added the Top Sites in Time report
- Added ability to search through the projects list
- Added ability to create global report templates
- Added option to stop when all websites are found
- Added ability to query all three types of searches of a local search engine within the same project
- Added ability to change authentication for all the scbeduled tasks at the same time
- Added ability to select an Asian font for PDF even if the system does not have the Asian locale installed
- Added ability to ask for confirmation before a report is sent by email
v4.1 [Aug 25, 2005]
- Added the Application Event Logger
- Added integration with Overture and WordTracker for keyword suggestions
- Added Overture and WordTracker keyword popularity
- Added alternate row background colors for interactive and printable reports
- Added ability to send carbon copy emails to other recipients
- Added email notification to notify that a report has been uploaded by FTP
- Added the ability to send a report by email only once per day
- Added the ability to change page margins in PDF reports
- Added the ability to not display empty charts in reports
- Added expand/collapse tree context menu on the Extended Current Rank report
- Added the ability to get the header logo picture from a website
- Added the ability to change the font and font size for Excel reports
- Added the ability to show each URL on a separate page for the Overview Excel reports
v4.0 [July 8, 2005]
- Added customizable HTML reports using XSLT
- Added ability to compare two URLs in the Overview report
- Added filters to the Top Sites report
- Added a new sorting criteria in the Overview report
- Added option for displaying each URL on a new page in the Overview PDF report
- Added ability to choose a custom font for PDF reports
- Added ability to set a custom subject to emails sent with reports
- Added better URL matching by using the / character at the end of the URL
v3.9.2 [June 2, 2005]
- Updated data gathering progress
- Improved speed of preferences dialog
v3.9.1 [May 30, 2005]
- Improved speed for charts
- Improved speed for the Overview report
- Improved update progress
- Updated icon images within reports
- Updated Overview excel printable report
- The Visibility report is now calculated regardless of any filters
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements
v3.9 [Apr 4, 2005]
- Added support for Yahoo API
- Added ability to submit your website to search engines
- Added ability to update a single keyword across all search engines
- Added filter selection for Search Engine and Keyword in the Overview visibility report
- Added an option in Report Preferences to highlight changes in the Overview report
- Added option to show only the charts and no table data in reports
- The URL column can now be removed from the Search Engine Rank and Keyword Rank printable reports
- The actual position in the search engine results is now shown when opening an URL from Top Sites and Overview
v3.8 [Mar 15, 2005]
- Added summary information to the Overview report
- Added ability to sort by Search Engines or Keywords to the Overview report
- Added ability to save the chart image and legend (JPEG and PNG)
- Fixed Google API through an authenticated proxy connection
- Fixed several problems within the Overview report
v3.7 [Mar 7, 2005]
- Added two new reports: Search Engine Rank and Keyword Rank (data and charts)
- Grouped report data and charts together
- Added search capabilities for Keywords, Search Engines and URLs panels
- Added filters for all charts
- Added filter to the Overview interactive report
- Added ability to specify the area the legend occupies in the charts
- Switched from number of pages to number of results
- Set number of results per page for all search engines
- Added ability to upload reports to an FTP server
- Added ability to sleep n minutes when a search engine fails m times
- Added ability to specify a URL where the HTML reports will get the images from
v3.6 [Jan 31, 2005]
- Added two new printable reports: Search Engine Rank and Keyword Rank
- Added keyword builder
- Added keyword import from Google Suggest
- Added search functionality in the keywords panel
- Added ability to save the reports in a templetized folder
- Added a splitter between the Rank Evolution chart and its legend
- Added Page Marker preferences for Rank Evolution charts
- Added position range for Rank Evolution charts
- Added more options to the data range for Rank Evolution charts
- Added ability to choose which project to load when the application starts
- Added a legend with all the icons that appear in the PDF and HTML reports
- Added a shortcut to the Rank Evolution chart from the Extended Current Rank report
- Added ability to enter HTML code in the email sent with the reports
- Improved Header and Footer templates to support HTML code
- Improved URL Importer to correctly find relative links
- Improved keyword suggestion to look in both Google Suggest and project keywords
- Fixed the keyword import to corectly recognize characters from different charsets
v3.5 [Dec 23, 2004]
- Added a new dialog that shows all the active scheduled tasks
- Added a keyword suggestion feature in Project Settings that uses Google Suggest
- Added page markers in the Rank Evolution chart
- Added the ability to zoom in and out in the Rank Evolution chart
- Added the ability to stop update if an URL is found
- Added the ability to save the report with a custom file name
- Added the ability to import URLs from a web page
- Added the ability to select the location of the backup/restore folder
- Added the ability to customize the date format
- New filter for the Top Sites interactive report
- New filters for Search Engines, Keywords and URLs in Report Preferences
- New error reporting dialog to help debug any problems that may appear
v3.4.1 [Nov 9, 2004]
- Fixed Google API on Windows platforms
- Fixed a problem sending HTML reports zipped by email
v3.4 [Nov 8, 2004]
- Use Google API to search on Google
- Export Rank Evolution data to CSV
- Import historical data from Web Position Gold projects
- Import keywords from the META tag of a website
- Generate multiple report templates after each update
- Select which columns to be displayed in Current Rank printable report
- Check for unfinished searches after the update is complete
- Update multiple keywords
- Remove data from database
- Overview report without comparison
v3.3 [Oct 5, 2004]
New Application Features
- added ability to schedule multiple projects
- added option to sleep n minutes every m searches
