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In the URLs tab of the Project dialog box you can add, remove, modify, import and export URLs. You can also change the color used to display a specific URL.
In order to Add a URL, first input it in the edit box, then press the [Add] button. If you would like to start from an existing URL, just double-click on it in the URLs list. The URL will appear in another dialog box, where it can be edited.
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By default this URL has the "begins with" option enabled. This means that the application will recognize all URLs that start with your URL in the search engine results. You can change that option to "contains" using the Modify button. In this case, the application uses a more advanced mechanism, based on regular expressions. It will recognize all URLs that contain your URL. Example: Let's suppose your URL is: www.website.com If you add this URL with the "begins with" option enabled, it will match any of the following URLs:
But if a search engine lists your URL as: website.com, you will not be able to find it in the results. So a more general approach would be to have the "contains" option enabled instead. This will also require a change of the URL to the form: website.com Now all the URLs that contain the "website.com" string will be recognized. Of course you will need to do an update for the new changes to have an effect. |
In order to remove a URL, first select it by clicking on it, then press the [Remove] button.
In order to modify a URL just double click on it or select the URL and press the "Modify button". A dialog box will appear where you can edit all the properties of the URL.
Begins With.
In this case, the application will match any URL that starts with this URL in the search engine results.
Contains.
In this case, the application uses a more advanced mechanism, based on regular expressions. It will match any result that contains the URL you wish to add.
Color.
Press the "Color" button and choose the desired color.
Stop the update if this URL is found.
When a project update is running AWR will look for this particular URL and stop gathering data from the search engine if it is found. If more than one URLs has this option, then AWR will stop the search only if all of the them have been found.
You can sort your URLs by the original order of the entries or in alphabetical order. You can change the original order by moving URLs up, down, send them to the top, or bottom of the list.
The Import and Export buttons are used to import and export the URLs from/to text files. You can also import URLs from a web page.
Import from file.
In order to Import URLs from a file, press the Import] button, [Import from file] option, then select the text file form where you want to import URLs, from a file chooser dialog box. The format of the text file is one URL per line.
Import from URL.
This feature spiders a web page and finds all the links to other web pages. All you need to do is specify a URL and then press the "Import" button. You will then be presented with a list of all the links found in that URL so that you can edit them before importing them into your project.
To Export URLs, press the [Export] button, then select the text file where you want to export the URLs.
Duplicate (identical) URLs are not allowed.