Page Advisor Tutorial - Step by Step
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Page Advisor Tutorial - Step by Step


In this tutorial we will show you how to analyze your home page for a keyword.

You can reach Page Advisor either by:

·Clicking on the 'Page Advisor' icon in the menu bar on the left side of the screen  
·Opening up the Features menu and selecting 'Page Advisor'  
·Selecting 'Page Advisor Help from the Inline Help box  


The first step is to decide if you wish to analyze a page on your hard disk, or one on the internet. For this tutorial, we will analyze a page on the internet. You must select a profile as a basis for the analysis report.

A. Web page to analyze

Enter the URL of your home page in the Analyze a website field. For example: http://www.yourdomain.com/home.htm

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Notice the option to analyze from a local file under this field. If you want to analyze a page on your hard drive, simply select this option and browse for the file. For now, let's just analyze the page on the internet.

Underneath this section is another section titled 'Analysis Options'. Here you can enter a competing website to analyze alongside your own. If you have the Platinum, Professional or Enterprise editions of AddWeb, you will also be able to target a specific search engine, allowing you to analyze your page from a specific search engine's perspective instead of a general 'all-around' analysis. For this tutorial, we will leave this entire section alone.


B. Keyword(s)

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Toward the top-right is a section for keywords. Here you will enter the keywords you would like Page Advisor to consider when scoring your page. When Page Advisor generates a report card, it will base it on the keywords you enter here. In other words, it will show you what you need to do to help that page rank highly when users search with whichever keywords you enter here.

For the sake of this tutorial, enter a single keyword and click the add button. The word you entered should now move from the one-line edit field into the list box below.

Below the keyword list is another section titled 'Searching Options'. This is another area that allows you to fin-tune the analysis for some search engines. For this tutorial, we will leave it set to Unrestricted.

C. Run Page Advisor

You are ready to analyze the page.

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Click on the Run Page Advisor button toward the top-left of the screen. When the analysis is complete, your web browser will open up with a full report and score card. Notice the question marks in the report. They are links to a complete help system that shows you how to read the report.

The report gives you valuable information that will help you optimize your pages, as well as create excellent doorway pages for your site (in AddWeb Page Builder
) that can help boost your position on many major search engines.

The data used to score your page changes from time to time since search engines change their algorithms. AddWeb's automated update system will refresh this information for you whenever we find changes. Because of this, the Page Advisor report card may change your pages grade when an update is issued. You should run Page Advisor on your pages every month or two to assure that you are always serving the most optimized pages possible.