Advanced Web Ranking User Guide

Managing URLs

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.

[Important]Important

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:

  • http://www.website.com

    http://www.website.com/

    http://www.website.com/index.html

    http://www.website.com/folder/script.php

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.

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.

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.