Advanced Web Ranking User Guide

Performance

Maximum number of simultaneous connections

This preference controls how many HTTP connections to search engines will be made simultaneously. A higher number will mean a faster update, while a smaller number a slower one.

You should set this option carefully, based on the bandwidth and performance of your computer. We strongly recommend a conservative setting. A higher setting may easily consume all the bandwidth of your Internet connection and/or your CPU cycles.

Search depth

This preference controls the number of search results downloaded by Advanced Web Ranking for each of the keywords. Note that higher settings may significantly slow down your updates .

Set number of results per page for all SEs

You can manually set the number of results per page for each search engine in your project, but this could become a time consuming task in case you have a long list of search engines. So, this preference enables you to set the Minimum or the Maximum Value for all the search engines in your project that allow such settings. Note that maximum values are not the same for all search engines.

Number of retries if a connection fails

This preference controls the number of times the application tries to connect to a search engine in the event of a connection failure or timeout.

Be nice to Search Engines

When this preference is on, Advanced Web Ranking will exercise the lightest possible load on the search engines resources by mimicking a human action as close as possible. For that, it will avoid simultaneously sending two different queries to the same search engine and it will make pauses between downloading two pages from an engine.

It is very important to keep this preference checked. Because automated querying can impose a very high load on the search engines, some of them may take action against users abusing their services.

Random delay between queries

If the "Be nice to Search Engines" option is selected, you can specify here the upper and the lower limits of a random time interval that Advanced Web Ranking will wait in between two consecutive queries.

Sleep after a number of searches

If the "Sleep [number] minutes after [number] searches" option is selected the application will stop gathering data from the search engines for the specified number of minutes after the specified number of searches. A search means a keyword looked up on a search engine, with the specified number of results retrived.

Sleep after a number of failed connections

If the "Sleep [number] minutes if a search engine fails [number] times" option is selected, the application will stop gathering data from the search engines for the specified number of minutes after the specified number of failed connections. Note that each failed connection is made up of the above mentioned number of retries. Only the querying of the the search engines that fail to retrieve data will sleep for the desired number of minutes.

Google API

Select the "Use Google API" option and then enter the key you received from Google. As long as this option is enabled, all searches made on the Google search engine will use the Google API.

[Important]Important

The Google API is restricted to 1000 searches per day. Once this limit is reached, Advanced Web Ranking will display a message and the search will continue without using Google API.

[Note]Note

Google API can only return 10 pages per search, so choosing a different number of results in the search engine properties will not work as long as the Google API option is enabled.

Yahoo API

Select the "Use Yahoo API" option and then enter the key you received from Yahoo. As long as this option is enabled, all searches made on the Yahoo search engine will use the Yahoo API.

[Important]Important

The Google API is restricted to 5000 searches per day. Once this limit is reached, Advanced Web Ranking will display a message and the search will continue without using Yahoo API.

[Note]Note

The Yahoo API offers access to several different Yahoo services - Image, Local, News, and Video search - not just Web search. Unlike Google API, Yahoo API provides 50 results per search, except for Yahoo Local, which only provides 20.