Advanced Web Ranking User Guide

Chapter 3. The User Interface

Main Menu

The main menu provides access to all the functions of Advanced Web Ranking.

Project menu

  • New Project - creates a new project.

  • Project Settings - provides access to the current project settings.

  • Rename project - allows you to rename the current project.

  • Duplicate Project - saves the current project and all the data associated with it under a different name.

  • Reset Project - resets the data from the current project. This action will remove any data gathered so far, but it will keep all the search engines and queries that exist in your project.

  • Delete Project - deletes the current project.

  • Import Projects - Imports historical data from Web Position Gold projects.

  • Backup - creates a backup copy for the active project. See the Backup page for more details.

  • Restore - replaces the current project with an existing backup copy. See the Restore page for more details.

  • Remove Data - removes data from the current project for the selected time range.

Update menu

  • Start - starts the update only for those URLs, search engines and keywords for which there is no current data in the project.

  • Pause - pauses the update.

  • Stop - terminates the update.

  • Update everything (force update) - starts the update of the current project. Unlike the Start action, this will gather all the data, even if the current day's data has previously been updated.

  • Update selected Search Engine and Keywords - starts the data gathering for the selected search engine and the selected keywords, even though the current day's data has already been updated.

  • Update selected Search Engine and all the Keywords - starts the data gathering for the selected search engine and all the active keywords, even though the current day's data has already been updated.

  • Update selected Keywords and all Search Engines - starts the data gathering process for the selected keywords and all search engines, even though the current day's data is already up-to-date.

Schedule

  • Updates - allows you to schedule an update for the current project.

  • Backup - allows you to schedule the backup process of the current project.

  • Multiple Projects - allows you to schedule updates for multiple projects.

Reports

When you select one of the four combinations of this menu (see below), a list with all the available report templates is displayed. This list is the same as the one displayed at the bottom of the Reports menu.

  • Selected Search Engine and Selected Keywords - you can generate reports containing information about the rank position of all the active URLs in your project, in the selected search engines when searching with the selected keywords.

  • Selected Search Engine and All Keywords - generates reports containing information about the rank position of all your active URLs in the project, in the selected search engines when searching with all the keywords.

  • Selected Keywords and All Search Engines - allows you to generate reports with the rank position of all the active URLs of your project, in all the search engines, when searching with the selected keywords.

  • All Keywords and All Search Engines - you can generate reports containing information about the rank position of all your active URLs, in all the search engines of your project when searching with all the active keywords.

At the bottom of this menu, you can see a list of report templates. By default, only the three default templates provided by the application (Current Rank report, Overview Report and Top Sites report) are displayed. Later on, all the customized report templates that you create will also appear here.

All these templates can be customized to fit your requirements. See Custom Reports for details.

Edit Reports

At the bottom of the Edit Reports menu there is a list with all the available report templates. The Current Rank, Overview and Top Sites reports are provided by default.

Options

  • Preferences - allows you to set the global preferences of the project. See the Global Preferences page for more details.

  • Address Book - allows you to add and edit the email addresses in your address book. See the Address Book page for more details.

  • FTP Profiles - allows you to add, remove and edit your FTP profiles. See the FTP Profiles page for more details.

  • Header and Footer - allows you to add customized headers and footers to your reports.

Tools

  • Submitter - opens the Advanced Web Ranking submission tab.

Help

  • Help Index - displays the help index window.

  • Tip of the Day - opens a new dialog box with tips about getting the most of Advanced Web Ranking.

  • Support Website - opens in your default browser the Advanced Web Ranking support page.

  • Purchase Now - opens in your default browser the purchase page of the Advanced Web Ranking Website.

  • Register - allows you to register this product. You will be prompted for the registration ID you received by email after purchasing.

  • About - displays a message box containing information about the product version, the search engines update versions, and your registration information.