Copyright (c) Caphyon Software 2002-2005. All rights reserved.
Email: support@advancedwebranking.com
Website: http://www.advancedwebranking.com
License
-------
You are free to use Advanced Web Ranking for 15 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 Web Ranking comes with a free 12 months Maintenance Plan. This entitles you to free application upgrades, free search engine updates and technical 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:
For more information about our licensing system please see:
http://www.advancedwebranking.com/licenses.html
Running Advanced Web Ranking
----------------------------
Mac OS X
--------
Advanced Web Ranking 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 Web Ranking open the the application folder from your desktop and double-click on the "Advanced Web Ranking" application.
If you encounter any problems running it when you double-click on the awr application, please contact us at support@advancedwebranking.com or read the installation questions for MAC OS X from our Frequently Asked Questions page:
http://www.advancedwebranking.com/faq.html
Windows
-------
Advanced Web Ranking requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4. If you have a previous JRE version, please download the latest version from:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
Alternatively, you can download the Advanced Web Ranking distribution that comes bundled with JRE 1.4.2_05 from our website:
http://www.advancedwebranking.com/download.html
To run Advanced Web Ranking, browse to Program Files->Advanced Web Ranking and click on the Advanced Web Ranking application.
Linux and Solaris
-----------------
Advanced Web Ranking 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 Web Ranking, double-click on the "AdvancedWebRanking.sh" launcher script.
IMPORTANT: The launcher and the integrated scheduler within Advanced Web Ranking looks for the java binary in /usr/bin. Therefore, if you have java installed 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
---------------
v3.9.1 [May 30, 2005]
- Improved speed for charts
- Improved speed for the Overview report
- Improved update progress
- Updated icon images within reports
- Updated Overview excel printable report
- The Visibility report is now calculated regardless of any filters
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements
v3.9 [Apr 4, 2005]
- Added support for Yahoo API
- Added ability to submit your website to search engines
- Added ability to update a single keyword across all search engines
- Added filter selection for Search Engine and Keyword in the Overview visibility report
- Added an option in Report Preferences to highlight changes in the Overview report
- Added option to show only the charts and no table data in reports
- The URL column can now be removed from the Search Engine Rank and Keyword Rank printable reports
- The actual position in the search engine results is now shown when opening an URL from Top Sites and Overview
v3.8 [Mar 15, 2005]
- Added summary information to the Overview report
- Added ability to sort by Search Engines or Keywords to the Overview report
- Added ability to save the chart image and legend (JPEG and PNG)
- Fixed Google API through an authenticated proxy connection
- Fixed several problems within the Overview report
v3.7 [Mar 7, 2005]
- Added two new reports: Search Engine Rank and Keyword Rank (data and charts)
- Grouped report data and charts together
- Added search capabilities for Keywords, Search Engines and URLs panels
- Added filters for all charts
- Added filter to the Overview interactive report
- Added ability to specify the area the legend occupies in the charts
- Switched from number of pages to number of results
- Set number of results per page for all search engines
- Added ability to upload reports to an FTP server
- Added ability to sleep n minutes when a search engine fails m times
- Added ability to specify a URL where the HTML reports will get the images from
v3.6 [Jan 31, 2005]
- Added two new printable reports: Search Engine Rank and Keyword Rank
- Added keyword builder
- Added keyword import from Google Suggest
- Added search functionality in the keywords panel
- Added ability to save the reports in a templetized folder
- Added a splitter between the Rank Evolution chart and its legend
- Added Page Marker preferences for Rank Evolution charts
- Added position range for Rank Evolution charts
- Added more options to the data range for Rank Evolution charts
- Added ability to choose which project to load when the application starts
- Added a legend with all the icons that appear in the PDF and HTML reports
- Added a shortcut to the Rank Evolution chart from the Extended Current Rank report
- Added ability to enter HTML code in the email sent with the reports
- Improved Header and Footer templates to support HTML code
- Improved URL Importer to correctly find relative links
- Improved keyword suggestion to look in both Google Suggest and project keywords
- Fixed the keyword import to corectly recognize characters from different charsets
v3.5 [Dec 23, 2004]
- Added a new dialog that shows all the active scheduled tasks
- Added a keyword suggestion feature in Project Settings that uses Google Suggest
- Added page markers in the Rank Evolution chart
- Added the ability to zoom in and out in the Rank Evolution chart
- Added the ability to stop update if an URL is found
- Added the ability to save the report with a custom file name
- Added the ability to import URLs from a web page
- Added the ability to select the location of the backup/restore folder
- Added the ability to customize the date format
- New filter for the Top Sites interactive report
- New filters for Search Engines, Keywords and URLs in Report Preferences
- New error reporting dialog to help debug any problems that may appear
v3.4.1 [Nov 9, 2004]
- Fixed Google API on Windows platforms
- Fixed a problem sending HTML reports zipped by email
v3.4 [Nov 8, 2004]
- Use Google API to search on Google
- Export Rank Evolution data to CSV
- Import historical data from Web Position Gold projects
- Import keywords from the META tag of a website
- Generate multiple report templates after each update
- Select which columns to be displayed in Current Rank printable report
- Check for unfinished searches after the update is complete
- Update multiple keywords
- Remove data from database
- Overview report without comparison
v3.3 [Oct 5, 2004]
New Application Features
- added ability to schedule multiple projects
- added option to sleep n minutes every m searches