Advanced Link Manager 2.1.1 Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Caphyon Ltd. All rights reserved. Email: support@advancedwebranking.com Website: http://www.advancedwebranking.com License ------- You are free to use Advanced Link Manager for 30 days for testing purposes. After this period you must purchase a license. For more details please read the End User License Agreement file (eula.txt) included with the distribution. Advanced Link Manager comes with a free 12 months Maintenance Plan. This entitles you to free application upgrades, free search engine updates andtechnical support for 12 months after your purchase. If you wish to extend the maintenance plan after the initial 12 months please visit our website store: http://www.advancedlinkmanager.com/maintenance.html For more information about our licensing system please see: http://www.advancedlinkmanager.com/licenses.html Running Advanced Link Manager ----------------------------- Mac OS X -------- Advanced Link Manager requires Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or later and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4. If you have a previous JRE version,please make sure you install the latest operating system updates, which contain the JRE 1.4. To run Advanced Link Manager open the the application folder from your desktop and double-click on the "Advanced Link Manager" application. If you encounter any problems running it when you double-click on the awr application, please contact us at support@advancedlinkmanager.com or read theinstallation questions for MAC OS X from our Frequently Asked Questions page: http://www.advancedlinkmanager.com/faq.html Windows ------- Advanced Link Manager requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4. If you have a previous JRE version, please download the latest version from: http://www.java.com/en/ Alternatively, you can download the Advanced Link Manager distribution that comes bundled with JRE 1.4.2_05 from our website: http://www.advancedlinkmanager.com/download.html To run Advanced Link Manager, browse to Program Files->Advanced Link Manager and click on the Advanced Link Manager application. Linux ----- Advanced Link Manager requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4. If you have a previous version, please download the latest version from: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html To run Advanced Link Manager, double-click on the "AdvancedWebRanking.sh" launcher script. IMPORTANT: The launcher and the integrated scheduler within Advanced Link Manager looks for the java binary in /usr/bin. Therefore, if you have javainstalled in a different directory, you need to create a link to it from the /usr/bin directory. Example: cd /usr/bin ln -s /path/to/java_binary java To find out where java is located on your system, use one of the following commands at the shell prompt: which java or locate java Version History --------------- v2.1.1 [Mar 24, 2006] - Added the ability to make secure HTTP connections over SSL when gathering link details - Fixed application and project database upgrade tool to abort if any sqlite module errors occured - Fixed gather link details behaviour when the update was manually stopped - Fixed gather link details behaviour for the referrer pages which were timing out - Fixed sorting on 'Status' column in Referrers report v2.1 [Mar 14, 2006] - Added support for partial updates - Added new interactive and printable report: Link Text - Added the ability to import domains/URLs from search engines - Added the ability to make secure SMTP connections over TLS and SSL when emailing reports - Improved the Referrers report: - Added new column to show the most recent update date (if available) for a referrer - Added ability to remove only the referrers that have been checked and not found to be existent - Improved the Backlinks report: - Show the number of referrers with all links removed in the summary information - Fixed open URL in browser - Improved dynamic filters from all reports with the following search criteria: - Contains - Begins with - Exact match - Matches Regular expression - Fixed time estimate in update progress to ignore the elapsed time since the currently running update had been paused - Fixed exclude on site links when gathering links from search engine to also to ignore domain aliases v2.0 [Jan 24, 2006] - Added ability to gather potential referrers from search engines - Added Printable Reports: - Referrers - Backlinks - Search Engines - Report wizard - Added Header and Footer templates - Added more status options to Referrers - Added ability to rename columns when exporting Backlinks in CSV format - Added ability to select multiple search engines in the SE evolution chart - Added ability to detect the external nofollow attribute - Added Linking back filter in the Referrers report - The timeout values for connecting and receiving data can be customized - Added a custom limit for any referrer page - Fixed time estimate for the update progress - Save last chart position range to preferences - Global Preferences are now remembered when the data folder changes v1.1 [Oct 28, 2005] - Switched to a better version of sqlite database that is smaller, faster and that also supports UTF-8 encoding - Added ability to assign a color to a domain. - Added ability to assign a color to the referers' rank by its value. - Added rank filter to all the reports. - Multiple additions to the Referrers report - Added ability to update only new referrers. - Added ability to update only the currently selected domains. - Added new filter to show only the referrers that contain or begin with a certain text, or the ones that match a regular expression - Multiple additions to the Backlinks report - Improved summary information - Added a flat view to see only the referrer URLs and not their respective domains - Added ability to select more than one domain which will in turn color the referrers with the color of the domain they are linking to v1.0.1 [Sep 16, 2005] - Fixed a problem with the trial license period. v1.0 [Aug 29, 2005] - Initial public release. - Added ability to show rank changes for a referrer. - Added filter by rank in Referrers, Backlinks and Referrer Evolution reports