AddWeb 4 is a powerful program that helps anyone promote their websites through many free resources on the Internet, including search engines, link directories, classified ad sites and more.
AddWeb 4 acts like a robot on your behalf. It takes the information you tell it about you and your website and it goes out to the hundreds of thousands of resources that accept website submissions and gives them the information they request about your website, so they will index it.
To get a better idea of the power AddWeb 4 gives you, simply use your web browser to visit a search engine like Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com), then manually submit (suggest) your website to it. Once you have done this, look at how much time it took you, then multiply that time by 500,000+ other resources! You will quickly find that if you had a list of all the resources included in AddWeb 4, and you worked 8 hours a day doing nothing but manually submitting, it would take you months to do the job that AddWeb 4 can do in just minutes!
There is no other submission software as powerful as AddWeb 4. AddWeb 4 can perform hundreds of simultaneous submissions in addition to helping you build pages the search engines will like, finding out how well you are doing on the major search engines, sending your pages to your web server, reporting your progress, analyzing visits to your website and automating many of these functions. Note that some features are only available in the more advanced editions of AddWeb 4.
When compared to website submission services, AddWeb 4 shines. Submission services regularly charge you more than the cost of AddWeb 4 to perform a single submission. With AddWeb 4, you can submit as many websites as you like, as often as you like. Furthermore, you get free database and program updates so you can always submit to new engines as we add them, and you are always current. In fact, hundreds of submission services are using AddWeb 4 themselves!
Simply put, if you have a website, you must have AddWeb 4.
The following topics in this chapter of the help file will prepare you for starting a successful search engine promotion campaign. We suggest that you read these in order and go on to the Tutorials from there. Click on the "Next" button below.
.topic 4002
Minimum Requirements to use AddWeb 4?
The minimum requirements to run AddWeb 4 are:
Computer: Pentium 100 or better*
Operating System: Windows 95, 98, NT or 2000.
Memory: 16 megabytes*
Disk Space: 15 megabytes.**
Video: 256 colors***
Internet Connection: The faster, the better.****
* This is in addition to the memory requirements of your operating system. Performance of AddWeb 4 is relative to the speed of your computer and the amount of memory (RAM) you have. These requirements are to be considered minimum, not ideal. With the above memory and speed configuration, you may not be able to perform as many simultaneous submissions, and will have to fine-tune a setting in AddWeb 4, which determines how many simultaneous connections AddWeb 4 uses.
** This is a minimum install size. Creating Profiles, Reports and other saved data can dramatically increase the disk space requirements based on the amount of use AddWeb 4 gets.
*** Note that AddWeb 4 is designed to look and perform best with 16-bit color and normal fonts. If you are running at 256 colors, AddWeb 4 will run considerably slower because your computer spends a great deal of resources adjusting the colors to a 256 color palette. If you are running your computer with 'LARGE FONTS' enabled, AddWeb 4 may not display correctly.
**** The speed and quality of your Internet connection will determine how fast submissions are performed and how many simultaneous submissions can be effectively utilized. With a slow connection, you may not be able to perform as many simultaneous submissions, and will have to fine-tune a setting in AddWeb 4, which determines how many submissions AddWeb 4 should simultaneously perform.
There is no Windows 3.x, Apple Macintosh or Linux version of AddWeb 4 available.
.topic 4005
There are 4 different AddWeb 4 products -- AddWeb 4 Deluxe, Platinum, Pro and Enterprise. The Deluxe and Platinum versions of AddWeb 4 are actually the same program, but your registration number will unlock the enhanced features of the Platinum version. AddWeb 4 Pro and Enterprise are completely separate installations.
* Enterprise price of $1,999 is for the base Enterprise edition, which allows for 10,000 Submission and/or ranking runs. The enterprise edition is a subscription based program which makes use of 'fuel packs' for submission and ranking. Fuel packs are available in quantities between 10,000 and 10,000,000 submission/ranking runs. For more information, please call our sales team.
The Deluxe, Platinum and Professional editions do not use fuel packs like the Enterprise edition. They allow unlimited submissions and ranking, but instead have limits in scheduling and other features.
.topic 4006
When you are running AddWeb 4 in unregistered (demo) mode, we want you to get a good feel for how the software works and what it can do for you. For that reason, we limited the software in quantity, not quality.
In demo mode...
You cannot submit to all engines and directories. We have limited the software so that it will only submit to several major search engines.
You may only use the Ranking, Page Builder Plus and Page Advisor features 15 times.
You may only save one website profile.
You may perform a maximum of 15 submissions.
None of the features reserved for the Platinum, Professional and Enterprise editions of the software are functional.
Once you register AddWeb 4, the limitations listed above will be removed by entering a valid registration number which is confirmed by the Cyberspace HQ registration server.
.topic 4003
AddWeb 4 versus Manual Submission
AddWeb 4 can submit to 500,000+ resources in a matter of minutes. Manually, you would spend months trying to accomplish the same. Monthly submissions would be impossible.
We maintain a database of resources which is constantly updated. We add and remove resources quite often, and you get to updates to our database free and automatically. We have full time employees that are dedicated to nothing but finding these resources. Imagine if you were to do it yourself!
AddWeb 4 versus Submission Services
Each time you want to submit your site with a service, you have to pay. Use AddWeb 4 all you want with as many websites as you like with a one-time purchase. No recurring costs save you money.
With AddWeb 4 you can selectively submit to whichever resources you want.
As we add new resources to our database, you can update your database free and easily take advantage new resources as they become available.
Thousands of submission services are using AddWeb to submit for their clients!
AddWeb 4 versus Positioning Services
Positioning services charge huge fees to help position your page on search engines.
You are at the mercy of most services. They typically host your 'doorway' pages. If you decide to stop using their service, the page they positioned on the engines can be taken offline by them in seconds, your great position can lead to a dead link.
Most positioning services use the same techniques to position your page as AddWeb (In fact, many use AddWeb).
Some positioning services use techniques that search engines consider spamming, and if caught, your site could be banned from some engines.
AddWeb 4 versus other Submission Software
AddWeb 4 is by far the fastest!
AddWeb 4 has the most comprehensive reporting available!
AddWeb 4 uses artificial intelligence to give you the best chances for success.
AddWeb 4 boasts the best maintained engine database in the business.
AddWeb 4 offers by far the most statistics of any submission software.
AddWeb 4 offers the most comprehensive history database.
AddWeb 4 is the most automated, requiring the least amount of user-interaction.
AddWeb 4 is the only submission software that correctly supports Yahoo and Snap.
AddWeb 4 offers you more information on database resources than any other.
AddWeb 4 offers more comprehensive resource filtering options than any other.
AddWeb 4 brings together all of the tools you need for effective search engine promotion into a single package.
and much, much more!
AddWeb 4 versus other Positioning Software
AddWeb 4 offers everything other positioning software does, plus all of the additional features mentioned above.
AddWeb 4 uses our proprietary search engine optimization database, which is compiled by analyzing thousands of top ranking web pages on major search engines.
AddWeb 4's optimization database automatically updates as our search engine spider discovers changes in search engine ranking methods.
AddWeb 4's Page Advisor reports are comprehensive and easy to read.
.topic 4843
AddWeb On-Line Help
The Tutorials provided with AddWeb 4 are designed only to get you to a point where you have created a Profile and used all of the basic functions of AddWeb. Included in this Help File are a number of other methods of learning how to use AddWeb 4 down to detailed information on each of the fields and buttons and how they all interact with each other. Aside from this Help File are other sources of extremely valuable information that will help you create Web Pages and use certain functions of AddWeb to the fullest.
There are several ways to access on-line help:
Complete on-line help file:
When you run AddWeb 4, simply click on the blue "?" in the upper right hand corner of the program window. This opens the complete AddWeb 4 help file. You can easily browse help topics from there. The AddWeb 4 Help Overview conveniently lists the Help headings on individual buttons you can press fro immediate access to certain help areas.
Quick In-Line Help:
AddWeb 4 includes a revolutionary new in-line help system that is always visible in the main program windows should you choose. Simply click on the button that says "Click Here for Help" on the upper left hand side of the program windows in the AddWeb 4 Menu bar.
Context ûSensitive Help:
At any time while using AddWeb, you can press the F1 key on your keyboard for detailed help. If your cursor is in a data entry field, AddWeb 4 intelligently opens the appropriate area of the on-line help system. Otherwise, the main help menu will open.
Pop-Up Hints:
Hover your mouse pointer over any part of AddWeb 4 for a few seconds and a small hint will pop up giving you more information on the section that your mouse is over.
Educational Essays:
AddWeb 4 also includes some informative essays with information and tips to help you get better positioning on search engines. These can be accessed in the help overview section or at the top of the program window in several sections of the program.
Help on the World Wide Web:
This manual and the on-line help file are only as current as the day they were printed or published. For the most current help topics on new features and recently changed information, please visit our web site at http://www.cyberspacehq.com/support/
.topic 4748
Submitting your website to the search engines with AddWeb cannot be the only step taken in promoting your Website. It will educate you and let you know how you can increase your chances for getting the best position possible. However, you will have to actively work with AddWeb to get the best possible results.
If anything can be more important than telling the search engines that you exist, it is telling them who and what you are! Building web pages that are designed to perform well on the search engines is not just tactically important, not doing so can be the death of your website.
There are a number of things to be done in order to perform well in the searches. There are also things that can be done to destroy your listings on many of the search engines. All of these are covered in the AddWeb documentation and the additional resources included with AddWeb.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, READ THE ENTIRE MANUAL BEFORE DOING ANYTHING TO PROMOTE YOUR SITE!!!
The most common question posed to our support staff is "I submitted my site 3 months ago and I can't find it listed anywhere. Why doesn't your software work?". Granted, there are some sites that just can't seem to get listed, but over 90% of the time we examine the pages in question and find exactly why they are not listed.
We have found that education in Web Page Optimization is the key. Be prepared to hear common themes repeated to the Nth degree as you go through the documentation. These themes will include Don't use Frames, Provide readable content, Check your Meta Tags, Use Accurate, HONEST information, Don't Spam and Don't Trick the search engines. There are many more things involved and it WILL seem overwhelming at first.
The question you should ask yourself before going further is "Do I want a good listing for my website". The Pros and Cons should be readily apparent. If they aren't, you may not be ready to have a website. If they are, buckle up, You're in for a ride through the internet like you've never seen.
.topic 4010
Only submit ONE PAGE
Many people believe that they should submit all of the pages (or multiple pages) from their website. DON'T DO IT. You will likely get banned from the search engines.
Only submit your home page, and follow the submission rules.
If you have multiple pages on your site that relate to different subjects, make sure they are in their own directories and make sure they are really on different subjects.
Don't try to spam the engines with multiple pages in the hopes of getting more keyword results. It just won't work, and will likely backfire.
.topic 4749
AddWeb Website Promoter is an extremely powerful tool in website marketing. In fact, if abused, it can be too powerful. Like so many products designed to be used for good, in the wrong hands, abuse of AddWeb features can back fire on you.
We have seen users of previous versions of AddWeb use it in a capacity it was not designed for. These people failed to read our documentation and tutorials. They failed to take our warnings of abuse seriously. In the end, these people found their websites banned by major search engines!
AddWeb 4's developers went to extensive measures to help you avoid abuse by writing anti-spam measures into the software. However, there are ways to get around the anti-spam system. Those that have done so have found themselves at the wrong end of search engine anti-spam policies.
To add insult to injury, these same people have, at times, attempted to blame AddWeb for their problems. Invariably, these people have always failed to read our documentation and take the warnings seriously.
Here is what NOT to do with AddWeb:
DO NOT create multiple profiles for the same website unless the separate profiles are for distinctly different categories of your site. This means that the content and category of separate profiles should be completely different, and should reside in different directories of your web server. If there are links from other sections of your website, you should consider allowing spiders to FIND the different categories.
DO NOT create multiple doorway pages for the same website with keywords that don;t relate to the actual content of your site.
DO NOT create dozens of doorway pages for the same website or category of your site.
DO NOT submit every page of your website.
DO NOT attempt to get around the rules checking system so that you can submit more often than allowed.
DO NOT submit doorway pages to human-reviewed directories like Yahoo and DMOZ
DO NOT create doorway pages that abuse keyword frequency (Page Advisor will let you know if you are abusing)
DO NOT use ghosting techniques to serve doorway pages to engines that humans will not see.
Here is what TO do with AddWeb:
DO read the documentation in full. Our staff has worked to provide extensive documentation, articles and in-line help to turn you into a search engine marketing expert. This information is the result of years in this business, thousands of customer comments, years of research, and much more. If you read all of our articles and documentation, you will know more than many experts.
DO sign up for our newsletter. It is designed to keep you up to date on internet marketing issues that go beyond the scope of AddWeb. It will also let you know when there is critical new information that can play a part in your success.
DO always get every update our program offers. It is true that updates can be frequent, but the internet is constantly changing, and our updates are provide to make sure you always have the most current technology, search engine database, ranking scripts and Page Advisor data.
DO use the product responsibly.
.topic 4007
The entire issue of search engine submission is surrounded by controversy.
On one side are the search engines, who on one hand want to have as many listings as possible because having more listings allows them to advertise themselves as the 'bigger engine', and attract more visitors.... thereby creating more traffic on their site, and ultimately more advertising revenue, which is, in most cases their ultimate goal. However, simply having more listings isn't the whole picture. They need to have more quality listings so that the people that come to their engine feel that, when they do a keyword search, they get good results. If the users get good results, they will be more inclined to use that engine more often, thereby creating more traffic and more advertising revenue. So one can easily see that the engines don't want to index 'junk pages' full of misleading content.
Another issue the engines want to control is that of resources. Every time you submit to an engine, some of their resources are being used. For those that are automated with spiders that look at your site, you are adding overhead to their spider. Sure, your single submission is no problem, but imagine millions of submissions per day, many of which are completely redundant. For those that add manually, your submission will take up actual human resources. Again, imagine the millions. So one can easily see that the engines don't want you to submit your site unnecessarily.
To add one more iron to the fire, many of the search engines automatically surf the web looking for sites to index without ever having been submitted. Naturally, they can't get them all, which is why the whole process of search engine submission exists.
On the other side of the controversy are the webmasters who want to be number one in whatever search applies to them. Naturally they want to do whatever it takes to get a good position in a keyword search that is relative to what they have to offer. After all, so many people use search engines to find content, that getting a high ranking position on a keyword search that one might use when looking for your product is excellent free advertising. So much so, that many webmasters will go to great lengths to get that coveted spot on the first results page of a search. This often makes the webmaster ripe for a scam. They get letters in their e-mail promising that for only $???.?? they will be number one, two or three. They read that the company that is ready to take their money knows the 'secrets of the search engines' as though they belonged to some elite club. Then the webmaster sees a service that promises to 'get you listed on thousands of sites', or software that promises the same.
Wait a second! That is AddWeb 4, isn't it? Software that promises to get you listed on thousands of sites? Software that will make you number one?
No, it isn't. AddWeb 4 cannot promise to get you listed on thousands of sites. No software or service can do that. Only the search engines and link directories can list you. Nor can AddWeb 4 make you number one. Again, that is up to the content of your site and the search engine's criteria for indexing. Beware of anyone that promises otherwise. AddWeb 4 can submit your request to thousands of sites. AddWeb 4 can even help you put Meta tags (text that some search engines look for) and other helpful data in your pages that will help you get a better position in searches.
So why are the makers of AddWeb 4 telling you this? For several reasons, actually. First of all, we are concerned with credibility. Search engines look at submission software as a spamming tool in many cases, and we don't want that image. Other software and services that perform similar functionality are designed to try to trick the search engines, and to spam them. We are here for the long run, and our goal is that AddWeb 4 is separated from the pack and search engines welcome, or even promote the use of AddWeb 4. We have written in quite a bit of code to keep you from over-submitting and trying to trick the engines. There is another reason for telling you this, however. While others may promise you the sun, delivery is an entirely different issue. When someone writes a program that can trick the search engines, their measures are often countered before the program gets anywhere. The people working on the search engine spiders are quite intelligent, and as soon as they see that they are being taken advantage of, they will likely move quickly to remedy the situation. In fact, in many cases, the tricks back fire. We have seen many, many websites get completely banned from a search engine for spamming them. Then there is nothing you can do. Your domain is black listed! So we are telling you this because we know you are after indexing in the engines, and you don't want your website to be banned.
By now you might be asking yourself why you should own AddWeb 4 with all of the issues we have raised. There are many reasons. For starters, time is an issue. Imagine going to thousands of websites and doing manual submissions! AddWeb 4 does it in minutes. After that, when new sites pop up, where do you find them? AddWeb 4 maintains an ever-changing database, and you can always choose to submit to newly added sites. Then there is the issue of responsibility. If you use AddWeb 4 properly, you will never have to worry about spamming the search engines. Our rules checking will always keep you from breaking the rules, and will allow you to know when it is safe to re-submit your website. Of course, there is also the issues of tracking, statistics, submission history and extensive reporting. AddWeb 4 does everything. But it does not spam.
Finally, we get to the big question: How do I get a high ranking on the engines?
You should start by designing a website that is very content-rich. You should have lots of links and lots of text. The text should be very relevant to the subject that you want people to search for. Your text should be very descriptive. If you are going to use product logos, be sure to also have the names in simple text on the pages and place the names in ALT Tags. You should make sure the titles of your pages contain the words that you want people to search for. Make your website very informative. Don't use small text or hidden text. The search engines will catch these things and think you are trying to trick them. Don't use the same keywords over and over. This will be caught as well. Submit to as many sites as possible with AddWeb 4 as some of the engines will give you a better rank if they have lots of other sites in their database with links to your site. Lastly, be patient. It can take months to get on some of the engines.
AddWeb 4 will help you design pages that fit the criteria for each of the major engines and/or a page that looks good all around. Find out more about this in the Page Analysis and Page Builder sections.
.topic 4004
With the release of AddWeb 4, we have expanded the AddWeb 'Rules Checking', which helps you from inadvertently spamming search engines and other resources that AddWeb 4 submits to. Submission Spamming can be defined as the process of submitting too many web pages to a search engine, submitting websites too often and even over use or abuse of keywords.
Cyberspace HQ has taken the initiative to assist search engines in maintaining clean and accurate databases. We will never engage in actions, or cause our users to engage in actions to subvert or otherwise compromise the integrity of search engine databases. Our Rules Checking system help us in this endeavor.
Most of the search engines don't want you to submit more than one web page because they have spiders (or robots) that go to the page you submit and automatically index other web pages on your site. So if you submit more than one, you are only wasting search engine bandwidth and server resources. Most link directories don't want you to submit too frequently because they don't want their pages filled with duplicate links to the same site.
Apply this to the frequency of your submissions. If a search engine requires six weeks to add your link, and you submit 5 times a week, you will have submitted 29 times more than necessary, wasting bandwidth and server resources, not to mention human resources in some cases.Many of these sites have humans adding your link by hand.
Equally important are many of the smaller sites. Many of the sites that give awards to websites, or smaller link directories, actually receive your submission through e-mail. You can imagine that irresponsible use of AddWeb 4 could flood their e-mail boxes, and you would wind up with little other than angry webmasters who will refuse to add your link to show for it.
Because of these issues, we have written a set of controls into AddWeb 4 that keep you from inadvertently breaking the rules. AddWeb 4 is the only submission software that has gone to such great lengths to be search engine friendly. In fact, other submission programs allow submission spamming by design. We are adamantly against this practice. We believe that if AddWeb 4 is a welcome source of submission for the search engines and other resources, that your website will be more welcome as well. Please help us combat Submission Spamming by refraining from using your AddWeb 4 in an abusive or irresponsible manner.
The rule checking controls are as follows:
Submission Frequency
Many sites request that you submit no more than once a month. Others say once a day, or once a week. Each resource in our database has a rule for this. If you submitted your profile to an engine today that wants no more than one submission from you a month, each time you attempt to submit that profile to the same engine for the next month, AddWeb 4 will skip the engine and notify you at the end of the submission that the submission was skipped because you would have broken a frequency rule.
Maximum Submissions
Some sites will want you to submit once, and only once. A good example of this would be many Award Sites. These sites are often run by people who receive your submission in e-mail. If they issue you an award, great. If not, you simply don't. Multiple submissions in this case like this would only serve to anger people.
Domain Level Submissions
Some sites will only allow one single page in a domain to be submitted. In these cases, anything below www.yourdomain.com, for example, would be ignored.
Directory Level Submissions
Some sites will only allow one single page per directory on your web server. This would allow a submission of www.yourdomain.com/yourname1/ and www.yourdomain.com/yourname2/, but would not allow anything other than the index page in those directories.
Content Control
AddWeb 4 asks you if your site is Personal, Commercial, Adult Related, or MLM related. Some sites will restrict submissions for sites with such content. A site may, for example only want adult sites, so if you are not an adult site, AddWeb 4 won't submit you. On the other hand, they may refuse adult sites... or personal sites.
Top Level Domain Control
Some sites will only accept submissions from websites in certain countries. For example, an Italian site may require that your domain be www.yourcompany.it (.it means Italy).
Country and Region Submissions
In the same vein as Top Level Domains, some engines only accept website submissions from specific regions. So, that Italian site may be a .com and thus accepted based on the actual content rather than the Top Level Domain.
In all of the above cases, if your submission breaks a rule, AddWeb 4 will skip the engine. When the complete submission run is complete, AddWeb 4 will display a window which shows you which engines were skipped because of rule violation, and why.
AddWeb 4 will assist you in building pages designed to perform well on the search engines by not overwhelming them with too many keywords and irresponsible keyword repetition. We extensively research search engines and constantly learn what kind of pages are typically performing the best with each of them. Engaging in keyword spamming will harm your positioning.
Again, part of our anti-spam measures rely on your honesty. If you lie to the software, in the end you will only end up hurting yourself as the engines will very likely ban your website from their indices.
.topic 4008
AddWeb 4 submitted to an engine and said it was successful. How does AddWeb 4 know it was a success, and what exactly does successful mean?
AddWeb 4 has a database full of information on the sites it submits to. Here is the honest answer to the question of how submission programs process of a typical submission:
1. Look at the engine's rules and see if you are violating them. If it is a violation, skip this engine. Otherwise, continue.
2. Look up the domain name with your Internet Providers DNS server. If AddWeb 4 finds it, continue, otherwise fail.
3. Connect to the server of the engine you are submitting to. If we can connect, proceed. Otherwise fail.
4. Try to submit your data to the program on the server that accepts submissions. Wait for a response.
5. If the server responds to AddWeb 4, AddWeb 4 reads the response and compares it to good and bad result criteria.
6. If the results show a server failure or a submission failure, Fail the submission.
7. If the submission passes all the above criteria, consider it a success.
Did the submission actually succeed?
Most of the time, yes. However, the possibility exists that the server may have responded to AddWeb 4 with an error that AddWeb 4 could not process.
Why AddWeb 4 doesn't always catch failures and how we address it:
There are ways to fine-tune the error checking so that 99.9% of the errors are caught, and they are built into AddWeb 4. They are as follows:
In order to catch many of the errors, AddWeb 4 would have to read the page that the server returns and scan for words that indicate an error. Doing so would catch more errors, but it would also severely slow down the submission process as AddWeb 4 would have to download the entirety of each response page, scan it, then report. Sometimes, the response pages are pages that redirect to other pages, causing double, and even triple the downloading. Some of the response pages are as large as 2 or 3 megabytes. Imagine if AddWeb 4 had to download a 20K page for each submission. On a submission run of 1,500 engines, this would cause AddWeb 4 to download 30 megabytes of response pages. Even with all of the simultaneous submissions AddWeb 4 does, on a typical dialup connection, this would add 2 hours to the submission process.
Even then, it would only catch errors that were generated by the keyword searches. This could also cause false failures because those words may be on a successful response page. For example, if we scanned for the word 'Error', a false failure would be caused on a response page that said something to the extent of 'No Errors were found. Thank You'. So in order to be more accurate, AddWeb 4 would have to save the responses to your hard disk, where you would scan them manually. This is clearly not an option.
What we do to keep our database as clean and up to date as possible:
Our staff manually checks the forms, servers and response pages. Here is how:
Cyberspace HQ has a sort of 'spider' that routinely goes through our engine database and does the following:
1. Our spider checks to see if the website still exists. If it does not, it places it into a 'To Check' list.
2. If the site exists, our spider looks at the submission page on the site to make sure we have the correct submission information. If we do not, it places it into the 'To Check' list.
3. The spider takes all of the engines that did not get sent to the 'To Check' list and does a submission to them every week. The submission is done with a very high timeout value and saves the response pages.
4. The spider scans all of the response pages for a list of keywords that indicate a possible failure. It places all possible failures into the 'To Check' list, and all of the rest into a 'Success' folder.
5. People on our staff regularly go through the 'To Check' list and manually view the problems. If they can be corrected, they are fixed and placed in the engine database for the next update. If not, they are deleted from the database.
6. Every few weeks, our staff manually view response pages that were deemed to be successful by the spider. If the successes are in error, they are checked for possible correction or deleted from the engine database.
7. While people are checking and fixing current database issues, we also have people adding new resources that we find or are submitted to us.
8. Every few weeks (or less) we release a new engine database with all corrections, deletions and additions.
When we find an error in a major engine, databases are updated immediately with the fix.
.topic 4009
When you do a submission with AddWeb 4, and engines fail, it can mean any one of several things as outlined here:
The engine is down. It may have gone offline temporarily, or may have been take down for good. When we see the same engine continuously fail, we investigate and update our database.
The engine has made a change that AddWeb 4 is not accounting for, so we must change our submission script. As with the above, when we investigate, we update our database with the changes.
The connection timed out. This can be a result of you having the timeout value set too low, or you are running too many threads. You can change both settings on the Options page.
There is a connection problem between you and the server accepting submissions. This can often be an issue that cannot be fixed. Sometime you are just too many hops away from the server and your connection cannot process the submission. This is a very common reason for failure. Luckily, it usually only happens with a small percentage of engines or directories.
You are behind a proxy server, and have incorrect proxy settings. This will cause all engines to fail. Contact your network administrator for the correct proxy server information and enter it in the options page.
Your IP number is not accepted by the engine. Sometimes engines will not allow computers on specific networks to submit. There is nothing you can do about this.
Because all of the above factors can exist in a submission run, it is not uncommon to have a couple hundred failures in a full submission. Failures in many hundreds or many thousands of submissions are typically credited to a failed submission to one of the Server Side Submission engines. Check a submission report to determine the specific engine.
.topic 4720
This chapter contains a slightly expanded version of the Quick Help available in AddWeb by clicking on the Click here for help button in the main menu bar. They provide a very brief "Overview" of the sections they address.
To read the individual sections here, click on the following links. To read the Tutorials, click here.
AddWeb 4 Primer
Website Primer
Prefernces Overview
Page Advisor Overview
Page Builder Overview
Profile Setup Overview
SiteStats LIVE Overview
Submission Overview
Internet Search Overview
Ranking Overview
Scheduling Overview
FTP Upload Overview
Due to the nature of using FrontPage with AddWeb, there is no Overview on this subject. For information on using AddWeb in FrontPage, please read the FrontPage Primer and follow the links there to the appropriate Tutorial.
.topic 4012
AddWeb 4 is an extremely powerful tool for marketing your website to the Internet world. The focus of AddWeb 4 is to build optimized web pages and submit them to the search engines for listing. However there is much more to AddWeb 4 than that.
AddWeb 4 was designed to be easy to use, but due to the advanced nature of its functionality, it can be confusing to the first time user. It can seem overwhelming to someone that is not familiar with the interface.
We have created extensive documentation for AddWeb 4 and provided easy access to it throughout the program.
First is the 'In-Line' Help. From any screen in the main Program, you can click on the 'Click Here For Help' button and it will display a description of the screen you are currently viewing and what you can do there.
Next is the Tutorials. These will take you on a step by step tour of AddWeb 4 for the first time user. You can select individual Tutorials from the Tutorial menu along the top of AddWeb 4.
Context Sensitive Help. By bringing 'Focus' to a field or button and hitting the F1 key on your keyboard, a brief description of the field or button will appear.
Detailed Documentation. Going to the Help menu along the top of AddWeb 4 and selecting Help will Open the HTML Help file. Select the Detailed Documentation here and you can read through the Details of the various sections of AddWeb 4.
Finally, for those of you that prefer to read paper, we have provided the Help file in RTF (Rich Text Format) that can be printed.
Let's get on with it!
.topic 4015
The concepts laid down below will help you get a very basic idea of some of the required elements of an average home page or doorway page. For detailed help on creating superior pages, please consult the online essays, inline help and be sure to use Page Advisor.
Preface
These tips are often used to create 'doorway' or 'hallway' pages. A doorway will lead only to a main or home page. A hallway will usually forward browsers to the home page, and also list links for the major pages contained in the rest of the site. If you are applying these tips to an actual home page, all the better.
Forwarding visitors from a doorway page
There are a couple of ways to redirect visitors to your home page. Some methods of forwarding customers from doorway pages (such as a Meta Refresh) will be seen in a poor light by some engines. Other methods (Java Redirect) are ignored by search engine spiders due to the complexity of translating the Java script into what the actual purpose of it is. This is the preferred method of redirecting, and if you do use a redirect at all, please do so to only one page.
Title
The title of the page should be between 40 and 70 characters. The first word of the title should be the primary keyword, or key phrase you have chosen for your site. Be descriptive and concise.
Keywords
We suggest between 10 and 20 keywords or key phrases with a good focus on your site/service/product. You should order your keywords in a descending order of importance, separated by commas. For in depth help on selecting winning keywords or key phrases please refer to the online essay in the AddWeb 4 program entitled "Keyword Importance."
Description
The description should be between 150 and 250 characters (30 to 50 words). The first word or words of your description should be you primary keyword(s) or key phrase. Be descriptive.
Content/Body
This section should contain a good amount of descriptive text. We suggest around 450 words
(though this is not required), because but the more the engines can read, the better. Use the primary keyword(s) or key phrase 3 to 8 times within the content. Don't repeat them endlessly as over use can be considered keyword spamming. Secondary and tertiary keywords should also be repeated a 3 to 5 times. Where the keywords appear on the page are can also play a role in your ranking. Engines often consider the content at the top of the page to be more valuable than content at the bottom.
Images
Image ALT tags should be present in every image. Make them descriptive of the image or link. Do not flood the ALT tag with too much text. Keep it concise.
In General
Readable text with links that are clearly marked and explained (link text and ALT tags). Also, avoid lengthy comments, Some engines will only spider the first few bits of a page and if it is filled with comments that they ignore, you will not get the listing you deserve.
These tips are to be used as basic guidelines, and not as a firm set of unbreakable rules. Not every tip will be applicable to every page, and in some case you may want to break with these conventions for specific purposes. For more detailed help on creating winning pages please consult the educational essays within the AddWeb 4 program. They cover many topics and can help you to focus your efforts into real results. The essays can be accessed in the help overview section of the program.
.topic 4721
The Options section is the first place to go when setting up AddWeb 4. These settings can and will directly affect AddWeb 4's performance.
So, before going any further into AddWeb 4, go to the File Menu and select Options.
SMTP Settings
Next, AddWeb 4 will need to know how to send mail for you. The SMTP settings tell AddWeb 4 where to send outgoing mail from. If you do not know your SMTP settings, you should contact your connection provider or Network Administrator. You can usually find this information already in your regular E-Mail client if you are comfortable looking through the settings there.
Make sure that the E-Mail address you use is associated with the SMTP server you enter in this section. If the SMTP server does not recognize this address, it is likely that you will not be able to send any mail.
The Mail From Name should be whatever you want to be seen as by the people you will send mail to. These people are the recipients of reports generated by AddWeb 4.
The Default Subject is the Subject line on the mail sent with the reports.
HTTP Settings
These settings relate directly to how AddWeb 4 will perform in regards to other connections through the Internet. Primarily, these connections are for Submissions and Ranking.
Timeout is the number of seconds AddWeb 4 will try to connect to a search engine in order to send or receive information. If AddWeb 4 connects before this time is up, it will continue to the next task. If it does not connect, the connection will be broken when this time limit is reached and go on to the next task. The default setting is 180 seconds (3 minutes) and should be sufficient for most tasks.
The Maximum Simultaneous Submissions is the number of search engines That AddWeb 4 will be in contact with at the same time during submission. Depending on the speed of your internet connection, you will want to adjust this number. The default is 40 and that should be a good number for someone with a 128k upstream connection. If you are using a 56k modem or less, you should lower this number. If you are using a faster connection (Some DSL and Cable connections or better) raise this number to increase the speed of your submissions. If you find that submissions are timing out regularly, you should adjust this back down until you have consistently successful submissions.
The Maximum Simultaneous Rankings falls under the same category as the Simultaneous submissions, but due to the greater amount of information passed during the Rankings, the number should be roughly half of the Simultaneous submissions.
The Delete Engines setting is for consistently failing search engines. You will probably want to leave this at the default number of 50. If you are using AddWeb 4 to submit a large number of websites at a time, you may wish to raise this number to account for bad days at the search engine.
Retry Failed submissions X Times is for giving the search engine a second (or third, etc.) chance at accepting submissions from you if they fail the first time. If your other HTTP settings are optimized for your connection, you should probably leave this setting at 0.
Play WAV Sounds
If you would like Audio reminders of when certain tasks are completed, browse your computer for a WAV file to play at these times.
Other Options
To disable the messages that pop up when AddWeb 4 starts or when a submission is complete, select these options.
Start with Scheduler ON
If you want to run AddWeb 4 in Scheduler ON Mode by default, Select this and AddWeb 4 will start with the Scheduler on when your computer starts. AddWeb 4 will include a link in your Startup menu. Do not remove this link yourself. AddWeb 4 will remove it if you decide you don't want to start in Schedule Mode.
.topic 4022
Before submitting a bad page to the search engines, you should take a look at it in the same way they see it. Search engines want to see informative and useful content. If you tell them that your website is all about custom doors and windows, they want to see information that matches that on your Home Page.
Although graphics and animations have their place on the internet and in your website, and are extremely important for getting your ideas across to people, they can be hindrances on your Home Page if you want a good listing.
AddWeb 4 will look at your pages like the search engines do and provide you with a great deal of information about how well your page should perform in the major search engines.
Page Advisor Setup
The first thing you want to do here is select a web page to analyze. Browse your hard drive for it or enter the full URL to the page. If you want to compare your results to other pages, you can do that too.
The analysis will be compared to statistics gathered from a selected major search engine. Cyberspace HQ has gathered data on thousands of websites that rank in the top of the search engines for hundreds of keywords and continues to gather this data in order to provide the latest information to you.
You will want to decide how and where you want to make the Report and how restrictive you want to make the results. Most often, not selecting the 'Analysis Options' would be advised.
Select the keywords you want to check. Populating a list of keywords from the page you are analyzing is usually the easiest way to go here. You are now ready to run the Analysis.
Page Advisor Results
The list here is advice generated by gathered data from thousands of top results. Double click on any of the items in this list to read a more detailed explanation of the advice.
You can click on the 'View Complete Analysis Report' button to read the 'Report Card' and other available information about your web page and keywords.
.topic 4025
With Page Builder, you can create or modify your web pages for maximum visibility in the search engines. Compare the page you build in the Page Advisor as the information you enter may need some adjusting.
General Information
To build a web page that looks good to the search engines, you should first 'Populate' this form from your existing web page. This will let you see some of the information on your current web page. Anything that the Populate doesn't pull in you should enter yourself.
You should try to create an information based page that has a focus on the keywords and Phrases that are important to you.
The only 'visible' information in this section is the Title, Header and the Body. Both of these will contain information that is visible in web Browsers. The rest of the fields here contain information that is seldom seen by anyone but the Webmaster and the search engine Spiders/Robots.
Image Alt Text
Alt Text is the pop-up text you find on many web pages when you hover over an image. This can be very important for focusing keywords on some search engines.
Your Images and any associated ALT Text will be populated from an existing page if they exist. Fill in the ALT Text fields with relevant content that also focuses on your keywords.
Links
Links, or Hyperlinks, are how you travel from one web page to another. You should always accompany your Links with Link Text.
One reason for this is to allow people to read where they are going without having to figure out what the URL means. This is very helpful in directing customers through your website.
Another reason is the search engines. They will want to read information in order to index you properly and they want a Link to follow.
Enter a URL into the top field and text that matches the Link in the next field. You can add as many links as you like in this way. These links will be inserted into Doorway pages.
Generate a new Doorway page
Doorway pages are designed to allow people with Home pages that for one reason or another will not list well. Typically Frames pages are the reason, but there are other pages that will not list well. If this is the case, and you cannot change the Home Page, a Doorway page is what you need.
Decide where you want to create the page on your hard drive and what you want it to look like. You should also decide what engine you want to build the page for. Different engines will take some pages better than others.
Change an existing page
If you want to modify an existing web page, locate it on your hard drive and select the tags you wish to add or modify. AddWeb 4 will only insert informational tags into existing web pages. You can see them listed here with the Check Boxes.
AddWeb 4 will create a back up of any web pages you modify here. If you need to restore to the previous page, go to the directory it's in and look for the .bak file. Remove the .bak from the end of the file name and you will have your original page again.
The Build button will create or modify the web page
Review Pages
Here you can review your new or modified pages. The top section lists any pages you created and where they are on your hard drive. You will want to upload these pages to your web server later, so don't forget where they are.
Below, you can see the HTML source of the page you just created. Click on the View in browser button to open it in your default web browser.
You should analyze the page in the Page Advisor to see how it should perform in selected search engines. Click on the Analyze button to do that now.
AddWeb 4 can only create pages based on the information you give it. If the page does not score highly in the Page Advisor, you should bring it back to the builder and follow its advice.
.topic 4030
Now that you have a good page ready for submission, it's time to build the Profile that will help you manage your search engine marketing campaign. You will enter a good deal of information here and all of it is important to a successful campaign.
Website Info
Click on the Populate button along the top to automatically gather much of the information you need. If you don't get anything back, check the URL you entered. There may be a typo.
Once the information has been gathered from your web page, select the nationality of focus for your website and a Unique User name and Password. The User name and Password are used for logins to some search engines (Snap. being one) and unique identifiers for other search engines.
Website Content
Next, AddWeb 4 needs information about where your website fits into the search engine Categories.
First, What Type of website do you have? Commercial websites offer Products or Services, while Personal websites do not. MLM stands for Multi-Level Marketing and Adult designates a website that is not suitable for children.
Next, you will want to select a Main Category with a Sub Category. These will be used for most search engines. When you have found the appropriate category, select the Custom Categories Tab.
Custom Categories
Custom Categories are specifically associated with a single search engine. Currently Yahoo, Snap. and AOL/DMOZ. You should select each of them in turn and search through their Categories until you find the one that best fits your website.
Select the Top Level Category for each by clicking the circle next to it. Then double-click on the Sub-Categories to navigate through them.
The Back, Forward and Reset buttons will be quite useful in navigating through the Sub-Categories.
Website Owner
This section defines who owns the website this Profile is being created for. You will want to fill out this information as accurately as possible.
Note that there are two E-mail fields. The submission E-mail will be Submitted to the search engines and is likely to generate a good deal of Spam. The Reports E-mail will be the recipient of any Reports sent by AddWeb 4 through E-mail.
Search Engines
Here you select the search engines that you will be submitting to for this Profile. The Tree View allows you to easily navigate the search engines and select individual engines or entire groups of them.
Once you have selected the search engines, you can select to view only the engines you selected. You may wish to save your list of selected engines for use with other Profiles. You can do so by clicking on the Save List button and giving the list a name.
To the right information about the currently highlighted search engine is available. Much of this information will apply to AddWeb 4's Rules checking.
Ranking Setup
Here you can select your default Ranking options for this Profile. The keywords are pulled in directly from your website Info by default. If you wish to change them, please do. Your Home Page URL is already here also. The Unique Text is pulled in from your Title and can be edited here if you like.
The Title of your website should be fairly unique as it identifies your website to the world through the search engines. A unique Title also allows you to locate your website on search engines by searching for unique text.
You can add as many URLs with Unique text as you like, but keep in mind that the more you add, the harder it will be for your computer to keep up. There is a large amount of data passing through and being processed during Ranking.
You will also want to identify a competitor to compare ranking results against. Select your competitor from the list you just entered. These comparative analyses can be very informative.
The Search Depth is the number of results you wish to check from each search engine. The deeper you go, the more tracking you can get from a long term Ranking campaign. However, the important, traffic generating listings will be in the top 50.
Auto-Reporting
Higher editions of AddWeb 4 give you the ability to generate Reports based on your submissions and Rankings automatically.
First select what kind of report you want to create. Text reports will be read in Notepad or Wordpad. E-mail Reports use the Text Report formats and send them to the address selected in the Website Owner section. HTML Reports are designed to be viewed in a web browser and are formatted to be easy to read and navigate.
You will want to select the Style of the Report Also. AddWeb 4 comes with the 'Default' style, but you can create your own or download additional Styles from the AddWeb 4 website. We welcome new Styles!
Select the exact Report you want to automatically create when your submissions or Rankings are completed.
You will want to select the Directories to output here and you may change the E-mail address here. You can modify the Reports further for customization here also.
If you are sending E-mail Reports, you can add a custom message to the beginning of these Reports.
FTP Settings
In this section, you can tell AddWeb 4 where to upload web pages for this website. Enter the FTP Server and Login information plus the folder where your web pages exist on your hard drive.
If you do not know the FTP information, contact your web Host. FrontPage support, if needed, is already included. Open FrontPage and look for the AddWeb 4 menu along the top in the Menu Bar.
If you are using a Proxy Server to gain access to the Internet, you should consult with your Network Administrator regarding any possible special Proxy settings for FTP.
.topic 4040
Now that you have sent off your information to the search engines, you will want to know what kind of traffic you're getting. AddWeb 4 will help you track your website's activity with SiteStats LIVE. Once you're set up, you can find out all kinds of information about where your visitors are coming from and what they searched for to find you.
Select Account
To set up the Live start by filling out the information here.
Enter a company name to identify this account by, and be sure to use a good E-mail address, as the activation code will be sent there. You will also, as always, want to select a unique password for access to the statistics.
Enter the websites that you wish to track in the lower right. You only want to enter the base URL for your website (i.e. www.cyberspacehq.com). Don't enter a specific page, or you will be restricted to just that page. If you enter multiple websites, they will be tracked as one and any hits to a tracked page will combine with the rest. This is good for tracking a website that has multiple domains pointing to the same pages.
Click on 'Create' then check your E-mail. AddWeb 4 signs you up right away and you should get E-mail very soon with the Activation code. Come back here when you do get it so you can activate your account.
Once you are active, you can get the tracking started for your website by placing the tracking code in your web pages. See Active Account Details to do this.
Active Account Details
This is where you will manage your tracking details. The upper section provides you with your basic account information. Title, Password, Account Number, Click Value and Time Zone.
Set the Time Zone to the local focus Time Zone of your website. This will help you track your hits in Real Time from your own perspective.
The Click Value is very important for tracking the value of your traffic from search engines. If you estimate that every 20 visitors provide you with a $50.00 sale, you might want to set this value 250 ($2.50) to provide you with a quick reference of what your website should be making for you.
The lower half of this screen will help you edit your web pages for tracking. Just find the pages on your hard drive that you want to track, and add them to the list. You can add single files or the entire directory if you like. Once in the list, you can insert the tracking JavaScript. You should Upload any web pages you modify with this script to your web server.
View Statistics
Once your web pages are in place, you can start monitoring your traffic right away.
Select the account you are tracking (if more than one account has been created) and the type of report you want to see, then click the View Report button. What you see below is information about your visitors in an easy to read format.
There are a number of different reports you can view here that will present you with a variety of details about your customers. What country do they come from? What operating systems do the use? Who is sending them your way?
The Search Engine Keywords Report will provide you with a great deal of information as to what keywords people are using to find your site. These are the keywords you should focus on promoting as they are already bringing you some traffic and people often search with the same phrases on different search engines. This Report will also tell you what the value of your traffic is.
.topic 4037
When you Submit, you will send the website information in your Profile to the search engines. Some search engines will start listing you right away while others will take a few weeks.
Select your Profile by clicking on the Add button, select one or more Profiles from the list, then click Load.
Once your Profile(s) is selected, just click on the Submit button along the top.
You can save a group of Profiles for later submission together if you like. Just click on the Save List button once you have selected the Profiles and Load the list later when you are ready to submit them.
Submission Process
The upper right hand section provides an overview of your submission progress and success rate. Time elapsed and estimated completion times are just below that.
The lower right contains the currently active submissions. If you see an engine that you didn't want to submit to seems to be taking too long for your liking, click on the hourglass next to it and it will timeout and be counted as a failed submission.
The lower left groups the completed submissions by Success, Skipped and Failed submissions. Select which you want to view from the options directly above the list.
.topic 4044
With Internet Search, you can see exactly what the search engines are doing. Sometimes a direct perusal of the search engine results can provide you with information not readily available from the Ranking feature.
Internet Search
Both General and URL Searches will launch your default web browser to display your results.
Either type of search can be performed for a Profile as well as a manually entered search Phrase or URL.
A General Search looks for exactly what you enter in the keywords or URL to search for field. This will bring you to the same results that you would get if you entered the phrase into the search field on the search engines main page. If you are familiar with the more advanced searches on these engines (Exact Match searching puts quotes around the phrase), you can perform them here as well.
A URL search will look for the URL you enter using the URL search commands for the search engine you select.
Manual searching means you enter the search Phrase into the keywords or URL to search for field.
A Profile Search means you select a Profile from the Profiles list. The submission URL will automatically populate the keywords or URL field and if you want to select a keyword from the Profiles list instead of the URL, just select it from the Selected Profiles keywords list.
.topic 4046
The Ranking feature is a very powerful tool that tells you where you stand on various search engines.
Ranking Setup
To Perform a Profile Rank, just select it from the list and click on the Rank button up top. All of the settings involved, other than selecting the search engines to rank on, are already decided in the Profile Setup.
Performing a Quick Rank is nearly as easy. Enter a URL with matching unique text from the Title, select relevant keywords and the search engines you want to run the ranking on, then click the Rank button up top.
The Search Depth tells AddWeb 4 how many results you want to scan from each search engine. The higher this number is, the more work your computer will have to do to gather results. AddWeb 4 gathers all of the results for the full Search Depth so it can provide you with greater detail in the Ranking Reports.
Ranking Process
While the Ranking is being performed, you will be able to see what kind of results you are getting for your website. Due to the In-Depth nature of Ranking, there are a number of different results you can view for each keyword. You will not be able to navigate to other sections of AddWeb 4 while Ranking is being performed.
Show Me
When Ranking Position is selected, you can find out what position you are in on the various search engines.
When Ranking Page Number is selected, you can find out what page you first show up in on the various search engines. The first 3 pages are where the most traffic will come from.
When Link Count is selected, you will see how many times a search engine finds your website linked to from another website.
When URL Count is selected, you will see how often your website appears in each search engine.
Current Keyword
Select a keyword in the list and you will see the results for that keyword. AddWeb 4 will continue through the list of keywords until it gets the results for all of them. When it is finished getting results for a keyword on one search engine, it will start gathering results for the next keyword and you will likely see the progress bar moving on more than one keyword at a time.
.topic 4049
With the Scheduler feature, you can automatically run your submissions and Rankings. These Tasks can be created to run one time or repeatedly.
Scheduling: OFF
Once you have some Tasks Scheduled, you can turn the Scheduler on here and let AddWeb 4 take over. You will also see the list of Tasks here and exactly what they will be doing. So, let's get to creating your first Task. Click on the New button.
Editing Existing and creating New Tasks
To create a Task, first you must supply supply a unique name. Something like 'My Website Ranking Task' should do fine. If you find you are using a large number of Tasks, you may want to be more specific.
You will then want to decide When the Task should run. Select a date and time to Start this task on.
If you want to repeat the Task, select how often by a Daily, Weekly or Monthly Schedule. Otherwise, Tasks will run once by default.
Repeating Tasks have a great deal of flexibility in when you want them to run. If the scheduling times are not clear, please read the Detailed Documentation for Scheduling.
You will also want to assign a Profile (or group of Profiles) to the Task and decide what the Task should do. Select the Profile (or group of Profiles) by clicking on the Select button.
It is also suggested that you include all Tasks in the Master Report so you can see the history of your completed Tasks in the Scheduler Log.
Scheduling: ON
When you turn the Scheduler ON, any Task Scheduled prior to the current Date/Time will run automatically when the Scheduler is turned on. You will not be able to navigate to other sections of AddWeb 4 until you turn OFF the Scheduler.
The Active Scheduler will run Tasks as the Scheduled time arrives. The Tasks will always run in Scheduled order until they are up to date.
If a Task is old enough that the next time it should run is still in the past, once it completes, it will be scheduled to the next occurrence in the future.
Two buttons are visible while the Scheduler is ON that are not visible otherwise. These buttons allow you to force a Task to Run Now or Stop the currently active Task from completing.
Also note that you can force a repeating Task to the next scheduled occurrence. For instance, if it is scheduled to run every week on Friday at 3pm and that is today, clicking on Skip to Next Occurrence will reschedule it to next Friday at 3pm.
.topic 4052
Whenever you make changes to your website, you should upload your changed web pages to your web server. This is quite often done with FTP. If you use FrontPage, please read the FrontPage Tutorial or Detailed Documentation in the Help File.
FTP Upload
AddWeb 4 can upload your web pages to your web server for you.
To use the predefined settings from the Profiles section, click on the Populate From Profile button. This will fill in all of the FTP settings required to Upload your web pages.
Click on the Login button to connect to your FTP Server.
Now you can navigate your hard drive to find the files (web pages) that you want to Upload. If you selected a Local Directory in Profile Setup, you will start there in the Select Files to Upload navigation window. You can select specific files or an entire directory to upload if you like.
On the Server side, you can see the current files and directories in a Tree View. Navigate your Server until you find the directory you want to upload to. The currently selected Upload (Remote) Directory will be listed above this window so you can be sure of sending the files to the right place.
You can Create and Delete directories on the web server if you find a need for this by clicking on the appropriate button below the Remote Directory window.
.topic 4011
The tutorials in this section are designed to get you up and running with AddWeb Website Promoter in no time. They will cover all of the major features of the program in enough detail to get you familiar with the software, but by no means do they describe all of the functionality.
For more complete documentation on features and functionality not covered in the tutorials, you can access our contact sensitive help by pressing your F1 key in any field of the software. In addition to the context sensitive help, the AddWeb Help System, which can be found under AddWeb's HELP pulldown menu. The detailed documentation section of the help system is organized just like the software itself, making it easy to navigate.
You should read these in the order presented here. This file is designed to take you through the entire Tutorials section by simply clicking on the Next button found at the top and bottom of each page.
AddWeb Primer
FrontPage Primer
Preferences Tutorial
Profiles Tutorial
Page Advisor Tutorial
Page Builder Tutorial
SiteStats Live! Tutorial
FTP Upload Tutorial
Submission Tutorial
Internet Search Tutorial
Rank Check Tutorial
Scheduler Tutorial
Reporting Tutorial
.topic 4772
AddWeb Primer
AddWeb is a powerful program and can do a great deal for your website. However, we have done our best to incorporate this power into an easy to use interface. This primer will give you a basic grasp of navigating AddWeb and familiarize you with some of the more common aspects you will find throughout it.
First I must let you know, and you may have heard or read this already, that no matter how easy or powerful the tools you use, some websites just will not get listed. Some statistics say that less than 30% of all websites submitted to the search engines ever get listed. There are others that say the percentage is considerably lower than that.
Our opinion on that? The better your page looks to the engines, the better your odds are of getting listed. Just because your submission was accepted successfully does not guarantee listing. All that means is that the submission made it into the hands of the engine.
What can you do to get a good looking page for the search engines? To start with, learn what the engines want to see. Education in this area is a very large part of AddWeb 4. You have probably noticed already that there are numerous resources for using AddWeb and making good pages. If it starts to seem repetitive, good! Give it some more time and you will be educating others on getting their sites listed well. The more you soak in, the better off you will be.
The biggest secret to getting listed well should be obvious but doesn't seem to be. Don't try to trick the engines or lie to them. An amazing history of deception has caused the engines to clamp down on the sites they accept and caused them nothing but grief. They are not your enemy and have the exact same goals as you, they just achieve those goals from the other end. What they want most is a clean database of websites. If you deceive them into believing that you are something else, their database is no longer clean and your target customers will not find you.
Most Search engines will remove dead links if you tell them about them. If your site goes down permanently for one reason or another, Submit it! Even better, if your competitor goes down, Submit them! The engines will find the dead site and remove it. This is one of the best ways to get your site ranked better. Think about it, you are listed 23rd on Alta Vista for your best keyword. You check out all of the sites above you and find that 4, 12, 17 and 21 are dead sites. Dead sites above your live and potentially flourishing site! Do yourself and Alta Vista a favor, and get them removed!
Ok, let's get back to using AddWeb. The first thing to know is what is where and how to get to it. There is a menu bar across the top. When one of these menus are referenced, they will be referred to by their name. i.e. the File Menu, the Features Menu, the Help Menu and sometimes pull down or drop down is included as part of the name. This is in reference to the menus being pulled or dropping down into view.
The next major portion to be familiar with is the Main Menu Bar that occupies the left hand side of the AddWeb window. Most major sections of AddWeb are included in this section. The exceptions are Reports and the Overview section, both of which can be accessed from the Features Menu.
There are a few common buttons that many people may not be familiar with. AddWeb can "Populate" information from web pages and a couple of other sources. When you see a populate button, clicking on it will often save you a good deal of time and effort.
There are a number of areas that you will create lists of data. When you are presented with a list to fill or modify, you will see three buttons. Add, Remove and Clear. As shortcuts for these buttons, you can use the Enter and Delete keys on your keyboard to Add and Remove respectively.
Probably the most important thing to know about AddWeb is where can you find all of the reference material and help? There are a few places. If you can't find help in AddWeb 4, you probably have trouble finding the power button for your computer. However, there is different help in different places. It should all make sense in a moment.
The F1 key on your keyboard will always open a pop-up help related to the field that is currently highlighted.
The question mark in the upper right will always open the Detailed Documentation in the section you are currently viewing.
The Quick Help is accessible from most areas of AddWeb and is located in the main menu bar. You can navigate the major functional portions of AddWeb through the quick help also. Just select the section from the pull down.
The Articles can be accessed from the Article menu or by going to the overview which is accessible from the Help menu, the Features menu and the Quick Help menu.
Automatic hints are visible by default when you hover over a field. You can turn these off in the Help menu by de-selecting the Show Hints option.
The Tutorials are accessible from the Tutorials menu and the AddWeb Overview section. You can also find them in the main Help File. You should start now with the Preferences Tutorial and then move on to Profile Setup.
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FrontPage Primer
Microsoft FrontPageÖ has become a very popular method of maintaining Websites. We have included methods of incorporating specific functions of AddWeb directly into FrontPage. These functions almost completely overlap the same functions for those that do not use FrontPage. The main difference is the ability to launch AddWeb and go directly to the appropriate function from within FrontPage.
To understand the use of these functions, please read the related Tutorials.
The functions are...
Populate a Profile from current page (Read the Profiles Tutorial)
Analyze current page with Page Advisor (Read the Page Advisor Tutorial)
Insert Page Builder Tags into current page (Read the Page Builder Tutorial)
Populate Page Builder from current page (Read the Page Builder Tutorial)
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Preferences Tutorial Introduction
The preferences section of AddWeb is the first place you should go after opening the program. Here, you will fine-tune some of the features for best performance.
Preferences Tutorial - Step by Step
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Preferences Tutorial - Step by Step
Start by running AddWeb on your computer and selecting the preferences option.
You can reach Preferences by Opening up the 'Options' pulldown menu and selecting 'Preferences'.
Once you have opened the preferences screen, you may see a bunch of things that make no sense. Don't worry. It is not likely that you will use all of these settings, but some will be required.
A. HTTP Firewall/Proxy Settings
This section will not apply to most users, but you should check to make sure. It is for people that connect to the internet through a firewall or proxy server. If you are not sure what this means, contact your network administrator or internet provider and ask if you connect through a proxy server or firewall. If they say yes, tell them that you need the server name, port number, username and password to enter into the software. You may not need a username or password, so these may be left blank.
Remember, most home users and users with dial-up accounts do not use a proxy server or firewall.
B. E-mail Settings (Used for E-Mail Reports and E-Mail Submissions)
The e-mail settings allow AddWeb to send e-mail reports automatically and backup e-mail submissions.
The SMTP server setting is the same one that you use when setting up your e-mail program. If you are unfamiliar with this, you should contact your network administrator or internet provider. They will have this information for you.
The Mail From Name field should contain your name. When an e-mail is received, this will display as the sender's name.
The Mail From Address field should contain your e-mail address. When a person gets an e-mail report from you, this is the e-mail address that will be used if they choose to reply.
The Default Subject field should contain whatever text you would like to have in the subject of the e-mail reports. You might enter 'Your AddWeb Submission Report', for example.
Special note to AOL users:
If you connect to the internet through America Online, don't bother with the E-Mail settings. AOL uses a proprietary e-mail system that is not supported by AddWeb. E-Mail submissions and E-Mail reports will not function through an AOL connection. All other AddWeb features will still function.
C. Ranking and Submission Options
This section allows you to fine-tune AddWeb for maximum performance. The settings in this section were automatically determined based on your input in the installation process, however, you may wish to change them.
The Timeout HTTP after how many seconds setting tells AddWeb how long to wait on each search engine when it is submitting or ranking. If AddWeb does not complete the request within the number of seconds set here, it will timeout and go to the next process. By default, we set this to 180 seconds, but if you have a slow internet connection you might wish to raise it. Setting this number too low (less than 180 seconds) can interrupt slower engines, preventing them from completing the submission or ranking, and is not recommended. For now, leave this setting alone.
The Maximum Simultaneous Submission Posts is the number of search engines AddWeb will connect to simultaneously during submission and ranking. This number was set automatically when you installed AddWeb based on your input. This setting plays a large part in AddWeb's performance and speed. This number can increased or decreased based on the speed of your computer, the amount of RAM you have and the speed of your internet connection. If this is set too high for your configuration, you will experience increased failure rates and decreased performance. On the other hand, if it is set lower than necessary, the AddWeb will take longer to complete the submission and ranking processes. For now, leave this setting alone.
The Maximum Simultaneous Ranking Scans is the number of search engines AddWeb will connect to simultaneously during ranking. You should keep the number of simultaneous ranking connections set to at most, half of the number of simultaneous submission connections, due to the increased processing overhead of ranking. A ranking sends and receives data much quicker than a submission, and a fewer number of connections is desired. If this setting is too high for your configuration, the ranking results can become less accurate and system performance can decrease dramatically.
The Delete Engines after how many failures setting allows you to instruct AddWeb to automatically delete search engines from the database that constantly fail. We suggest that you keep this setting high and allow AddWeb's automatic update feature to handle search engine database maintenance for you. For now, leave this setting alone.
The Retry failed submissions X times setting allows you to instruct AddWeb to automatically try again if a submission has failed. This should be kept low. Otherwise, it will slow down submissions if a particular search engine is down (if an engine is down for a day, and you have AddWeb retry a failure 30 times, then it will re-try to post to that search engine 30 times for each profile you submit). For now, leave this setting alone.
D. Play .WAV Sounds
You can tell AddWeb 4 to play a WAV sound file when either a profile is finished submitting, or all profiles have finished. To find a file, click on the 'Select' button and browse your computer for the sound file you want to play.
E. Scheduler
If you want to run AddWeb 4 in Scheduler ON mode by default, select this and AddWeb 4 will start minimized with the Scheduler active when your computer starts. If AddWeb starts in Scheduler Mode, then it will not check for updates. This is an advanced option that should not be used until you are more familiar with the program. For now, leave this setting alone.
F. Other Options
You can tell AddWeb 4 not to display the message of the day or the update window when the program starts. We suggest that you leave this option checked so that you always know about the latest news relating to AddWeb.
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Profile Setup Tutorial Introduction
Profiles are the core of using AddWeb 4. Profiles contain all the information about your Website that AddWeb needs to submit and rank properly for you. There is more to it than that, but you will see what I mean as we go.
There are a number of things you will enter into your Profiles and they are all important to a complete Search Engine promotion campaign. You should read the tutorials as you enter this information and work with AddWeb the first time. If you are reading this now in order to find a specific item, you can access the various sections of the Profile Setup Tutorial from the links below.
Profile Setup Tutorial - Step 1: Website Info
Profile Setup Tutorial - Step 2: Website Content
Profile Setup Tutorial - Step 3: Website Owner
Profile Setup Tutorial - Step 4: Search Engines
Profile Setup Tutorial - Step 5: Ranking
Profile Setup Tutorial - Step 6: Auto-Reporting
Profile Setup Tutorial - Step 7: FTP Settings
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Profile Setup Tutorial - Step 1: Website Info Tab
When you first go to the Profile Setup section, you will see the Website Info tab.
A. Home Page and Populate
The first thing you want to do in the Profile Setup is type in your Home Page. You should type in something like this: http://www.cyberspacehq.com/addweb/ Now you can click on the populate button to gather information directly from your Home Page. The Populate button fills some of your Profile Setup fields with data from a web page or from a file on your Hard Drive.
The Website Title, description and Keywords on your home page will be filled in exactly as you have set them up. If you do not already have these tags, AddWeb will fill in whatever information is available to it. What you see is what the search engines will see when they 'Spider' your Website. If it doesn't look like a very appealing group of keywords or a very descriptive description, you may be tempted to change them now. Don't do it. Come back after going through the Page Advisor and Page Builder Tutorials and Populate it again. For now, let's get on with the Profile Setup.
B. Fill in the information that was not "Populated"
The first field that was not filled in by Populate is the Reciprocal URL field. This is the URL location of your "Links to other Websites" page, if you have one. Some search engines want you to publish a link to them in exchange for them posting a link to you. There are very few of these sites out there and if you do not have a "links" page, you can leave this field blank or have AddWeb create one by clicking on the Create button. You will have to upload this page to your Web Server later. If you do not know how to, please ask your Webmaster or Web Host.
Nationality is next. This is the Nationality of focus for your website. AddWeb sets it to United States of America by default. Adjust this if you focus on a specific nationality other than the USA or Global.
Now you will want to enter a Unique User Name and Password. These are required for logins to some sites (Like Snap./NBCi) that require a login to send your submissions to them.
Note on user Names and Passwords: Try to be VERY unique here and use mixed letters and numbers. Use a letter first and then any combination of characters.
Down in the bottom right-hand corner, you will see Competing URL.
AddWeb allows you to run comparative analyses and you should enter the full URL (Web Address) of your main competitor here. If you don't feel you have an actual competitor, enter the URL of someone you want to compare your listings to.
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Profile Setup Tutorial - Step 2: Website Content
Click on the Website Content Tab.
A. Select Content Type
On this tab, you will define where you feel your Website belongs in the big picture of the internet. The first choice, along the top, is the Type of website you have. Commercial, Personal, MLM or Adult. This is a very generalized selection and is used to tell AddWeb which search engines will be likely to accept your submission. Selecting a Type that does not fit your Website here can cause problems with your submission being accepted.
B. Select Main Category
Below Type, you will see a tab labeled Main Category setup and below that, a list of categories. Click on the category that best matches your site. When you do so, a list of Sub-Categories will appear in the box on the right. Select the most appropriate category there as well.
If you don't find a category that matches your site, don't worry. Find the most relevant category you can. In most cases, the resources we submit to only have a few categories available, and AddWeb 4 will translate your defined category into a more general category that they will accept.
C. Select Custom Categories
Next, select the tab labeled Complex Category Setup. At of the time of this writing, there are only three search engines that use complex categories: Yahoo!, Snap, and AOL/DMOZ. AOL uses DMOZ to supply their search results, so selecting DMOZ categories will work for the AOL search engine as well.
Select an engine and below, you will see a list of Top Level categories for that engine. Select one of them by clicking the circle to the left of it. As with the Main Categories, a new list of categories will appear to the right. Double-click on the category that best describes your website. New sub-categories will appear in this box until there are no more. You do not have to go all the way to the end of a category branch in order to submit, but you should be as detailed as possible. By watching the text above the sub-categories, you will see if you can submit to a selected category.
There are also three navigation buttons above the Sub-Category window. You can use the Forward and Back buttons just like a web browser. Pressing the Reset button will reset the custom categories and allow you to start over again.
This is information about the owner of the website. Some of this information is required by some search engines. Search engines will maintain this information to contact you for their own promotions, but maintain Privacy Policies that generally keep your personal contact information "In House".
A. Fill out the Website Owner info.
You will want to enter your contact information in the appropriate fields here and double check it for accuracy. When filling out the phone numbers, "Country" is the 'area' code for the country which you are in. For the United States, the country code is 001.
B. E-mail fields
There are two fields that stand out in importance in this section. They are Submission E-mail and Personal E-mail.
The Submission E-mail is the address AddWeb sends to the Search Engines that request an E-mail address. The E-mail address you enter here WILL get a lot of 'Spam'. This address MUST be valid for most of the engines to accept your submission.
This presents an interesting problem for most people. We suggest acquiring a Free E-mail account from one of the many Free-mail providers available. Most of the large portal sites provide this.
An important note on these accounts is to NOT allow it to "auto-respond". An auto-responding E-mail address will not be accepted by some of the engines and automatically disqualify your submission. AddWeb submits to any engine that asks that the e-mail address does not auto-respond. If you are not sure if your account auto-responds, send mail to it and watch for a response from it that you did not initiate.
You will want to check this E-mail address right after your submission is complete. Over the first few minutes after submission, some confirmation letters will be sent. You will want to reply to these in order to verify your submissions. After that, you will watch the mail flood in.
The Personal E-mail account is where AddWeb will send E-mail Reports to for this Profile. Higher editions of AddWeb can automate the sending of these reports and this field will be very useful. This address is NEVER sent to the Search Engines for any reason.
C. Save an Owner
If you are using the Platinum edition of AddWeb or higher, you can save Owner information for use later in other Profiles. After you have entered all of the information for a new owner, you can click on the "Save as New Owner" button and that information will be saved into the Owner List. If you want to remove an owner, you can press the 'Delete' button and select which owner you want to delete from the dialog box.
D. Website Notes:
This information is for your use only. It is there for any personal notes or remarks you want to make. The information you put in this box is saved with the profile and is never sent to anyone.
You will see a lot of things here, but we want to look at the left hand side right now. This is where you will make your selections. The right hand side is a display of statistics relating to the selected engine.
By default, all engines are selected. This is probably good for most people. AddWeb's Rules checking will prevent you from submitting to engines that you shouldn't and allow you to submit to those that you should.
For those of you that want to select only specific engines to submit to, look at the 'Tree View' labeled Available Search Engines. A plus sign means you can see more of the list if you click on it, and placing or removing a check mark will select or de-select the search engine or group of search engines associated with it.
Play with this for a little while if you are not familiar with this method of selection. You will see that if you do not select all of the engines in a particular group, the check mark for that group will turn to a gray color. To include all engines again, make sure the top level groups are all selected with a clean black check mark in a white box or by clicking the Select All button below the window.. Remember that selecting a group will select everything under it and you can select all engines this way with just a couple of clicks of your mouse.
You can save a list of engines here also. For now it is enough to select the engines to submit this profile to and move on. You can find out more about the Search Engine Lists in the detailed help.
Let's go on to the Ranking Setup.
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Profile Setup Tutorial - Step 5: Ranking Tab
Now you should click on the Ranking tab.
A. What do I need?
Ranking uses the information on this tab when you check your position on the search engines. If you populated your profile with the Populate button, the Keywords field and the URL and Unique Text fields should already be filled in for you. Depending on the edition of AddWeb you are running, you will be able to rank with a limited number of Keywords. Deluxe allows you to rank with the first three. You may want to modify the list here to just display the keywords you wish to rank with. Use the Add, Remove and Clear buttons to modify your list.
B. How many results to look at?
The next thing you will want to do is set the default Search Depth. This is the number of results you want to check from each search engine when you run the rankings. 50 is probably a good number for you as the results people click on are generally in the first 3 pages from any Search Engine.
C. Who do I look for?
Now you want to enter a list of URLs that do or might show up when your keywords are searched for. Associated with each of these URLs is a Unique Text that is, or should be, only found on that Web Page.
This text is usually part of the website's title. The reason the Unique Text is required is to support some of the advanced search features in AddWeb's Ranking. As different search engines work differently, different methods are required in order to gather certain results like URL counts.
The first URL entered here should be your own website. You can add as many competitors websites as you like. Once you do, we can move on to either Auto-Reporting or FTP Settings.
Note that Auto-Reporting is only available to those with the Platinum edition or higher, however Reports can be generated by anyone by going to the Features Menu and selecting Reports.
Here, we are looking at the Auto-Reporting tab. In the higher editions of AddWeb 4, you can automatically create reports based on your Submissions and Rankings. This is where you will set up the various options for these reports.
Auto-Reporting is not available in the Deluxe Edition of AddWeb Website Promoter.
A. Report Type
The first thing you will want to do on this tab is to select the type of report you want to create. We have designed the HTML reports to integrate with the reports from the Page Advisor and other reports available in AddWeb 4. We suggest these reports for the ease of navigation and easily read information if you are viewing the reports locally or posting them to a Web Server for others to view. If you prefer sending E-mail reports, this option is also quite useful. Make sure that the SMTP settings in the Preferences are in place if you are sending E-mail reports.
B. Report Style
Once you have decided the Type of report you want to create, you will want to select the Style. AddWeb 4 is delivered with the Default Style. If you are interested in other Styles, please read the Detailed Documentation on Reports.
Now, select a report to generate automatically when your Submission or Ranking is completed. Just click on the report and it is selected.
C. Where to put it and what to put in it
Now there are some options for where and how the reports will be created.
The defaults should be fine for now. The Detailed Documentation in the help file will point you in the right direction for making changes to these if you find the need.
Finally, the E-mail reports can be sent with an introduction message at the beginning of the report. If you are sending E-mail reports, and wish to send a message with them, just type the message here and it will be sent with the report.
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Profile Setup Tutorial - Step 7: FTP Settings Tab
Finally, we are at the FTP Settings tab.
If you are not using MS FrontPage to maintain your website, you are likely sending the web pages to the web server via FTP (File Transfer Protocol). If you are using MS FrontPage, check the FrontPage Tutorial for an overview of how AddWeb interfaces with it.
A. Where to connect to
Now, for those of us that use FTP for maintenance, the following settings should be fairly self-explanatory.
You will want to enter the FTP server and login information here. If you do use FTP and are not sure what server you use or what the login information is, contact your Web Host. They will be able to provide you with this information. Port 21 is the default FTP port for most FTP servers.
The Upload Directory Path is the remote path on the FTP server to upload to.
B. Can you get through?
Finally, the Proxy settings here are for those that do use a Proxy Server to access the internet. Please read the Preferences Tutorial if you are not sure.
We have placed the options for Proxy Servers here as some people that use them will have different login information to send through FTP than they do for HTTP. The Preferences Tutorial will guide you through these steps if you need them.
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Page Advisor Tutorial Introduction
The AddWeb Page Advisor is a powerful tool that allows you analyze your web pages from a search engine's perspective. Consider that what is appealing to the human eye is rarely appealing to a search engine spider.
When many search engines index your page, they decide how high to rank them on various keyword searches based mostly on the content of the page and the way it is put together. The search engines guard the criteria they use to analyze the pages, leaving most people to simply guess or follow basic guidelines.
Cyberspace HQ developed a program that is used to reverse analyze search engines in such a way that it is able to get a fairly accurate understanding of how a search engine will view your web page. This has been done by doing thousands of searches on each of the engines, then analyzing the top results. This program builds averages based on the results. For example, if our program finds that 95% of the top ranking web pages have a specific element, that fact is stored in our database. When AddWeb's Page Advisor analyzes your web pages, it will see if your page includes that element.
Our program is constantly running searches, so it is always fine-tuning the criteria used to help you build higher-ranking pages.
The Page Advisor will look at your web pages and produce a report card that outlines many elements of a web page that can help you boost your website's rank.
Page Advisor Tutorial - Step by Step
Page Advisor Tutorial - The Interface
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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.
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
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)
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.
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.
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Page Advisor Tutorial - The Interface
Page Advisor Buttons:
Once you have chosen all of your settings, click this button to analyze the selected webpage.
You can click this button and view an informative article about Search Engine Positioning. We recommend reading this, as well as the other available articles.
Page Advisor Fields:
Profile to Analyze
When you choose the profile you wish to analyze, Page Advisor will automatically fill in any applicable fields with information from your profile. Click on the 'Select Profile' button to load a profile into Page Advisor.
Analyze a Website:
If you load a profile, the homepage URL from the profile will be filled in here. Otherwise, you will have to enter the URL by hand.
Analyze a Local File:
If you want to analyze a file that is on your computer instead of the Internet, then you can type in its directory and filename here.
You can also click on the small folder icon and browse for the file.
Analysis Options
Compare to Competitor's Webpage:
Checking this box will analyze a competitor's webpage and display the results along with your page. Alternatively, you can enter any URL into the field and analyze it, it doesn't have to be your competitor.
General Analysis:
In the text box below the caption, you can read about the differences between a general analysis and an advanced analysis. To switch between either of the two settings, simply click on their respective radio buttons.
Advanced Analysis:
If you run an advanced analysis, you will also have to select a search engine. Click on the radio button in front of the search engine you want to analyze with and you will select the engine.
You also have the choice of comparing with the Top 3 Results. Similar to comparing to a competitor's website, you can view the scores of the Top 3 Results for each keyword on whichever search engine you select.
Run Analysis for These Keywords
Populate from Website/Local File:
By clicking this button, Page Advisor will read the meta keywords from either the URL or the local file that you chosen to analyze. It will populate the keyword list with each of those words.
You can add keywords to the list by entering them in the edit field and clicking the 'Add' button. To remove keywords, you can click on each keyword and then click the remove button. To remove multiple keywords, you can hold down the Ctrl or Shift key and click on each keyword you want to remove. To clear the entire list, you can click the 'Clear' button.
Searching Options
Unrestricted:
An unrestricted search disregards case sensitivity, and it also searches for partial matches. This type of search is the most commonly performed on engines.
A partial match is finding the word "fish" in "fishing", "fisherman", and "swordfish". If the search is unrestricted, then searching for fish will return results with the word fish in them.
Restricted: Case-Sensitive:
When a search is case sensitive, then capital letters have importance. For example, a case sensitive search for the keyword "AddWeb" will only return a match for "AddWeb" and not for "addweb", "Addweb", or "ADDWEB".
Restricted: Exact-Match:
When an exact match search is conducted, the word has to match exactly. For example, if you're searching for the keyword "internet software", finding either the words "internet", "software", or "internet marketing software" doesn't satisfy the match.
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Page Builder Plus Tutorial Introduction
Now that you know what you need to do to your web pages to give them the best chance of getting listed, we can step into Page Builder and take care of it. Click on the Page Builder Plus icon in the main menu bar on the left and you will see the Page Builder section.
Some people will want to modify their existing home page while others will want to create a doorway/hallway (I'll refer to it as doorway from now on.) page that will be submitted to the search engines in place of the home page.
The common reasons for creating a doorway are Frames on the home page, extensive scripting and or Flash on the home page or the home page may be dynamically created. A dynamic page is generated by pulling information in from a database and can usually be identified by the extensive and often cryptic parameters found in the URL or address field while browsing the website.
Search engines will quite often skip these pages due to the lack of reliable data they can retrieve. The page is either lacking in information almost completely and cannot be reliably read, full of meaningless (to the Spiders) scripting or potentially changing for each visitor.
If this describes your page, you will want to pay special attention to the Generate a new Doorway page portions of this Tutorial. If not, you will want to pay special attention to the Change an existing page portions.
Let's get on with it.
Page Builder Plus Tutorial Step 1: General Information
Page Builder Plus Tutorial Step 2: Image ALT Tags
Page Builder Plus Tutorial Step 3: Hyperlinks
Page Builder Plus Tutorial Step 4: Build Pages
Page Builder Plus Tutorial Step 5: Edit Existing Page
Page Builder Plus Tutorial Step 6: Build and Review
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Page Builder Plus Tutorial Step 1: General Information
The first place to look in the Page Builder is the Page Details / General Information tab.
A. Gather the information
This section contains most of the information that you can edit or add to your web page. You will find a few fields that are not filled in automatically when you populate from an existing page. You should enter your home page URL and populate from the Web now.
You will find information is automatically pulled into the associated fields. If any of the fields are left blank, you will want to enter meaningful information about your website into them. Do your best to follow the advice from the Page Advisor.
B. A few important things
The Clear button along the top will clear all information you have entered or populated.
The Home Page Link Text is not populated automatically. It is only used as the visible text for a link to your Home Page if you are creating a doorway page. If you are editing your home page, you can leave this field blank.
The Page Text or Body contains the entire visible portion of your Home Page. If you are editing your home page, this is fine as Page Builder will not change the bulk of your body. If you are creating a doorway, you will likely want to replace the contents of this field with simple readable information about your website. A few paragraphs should be inserted here.
The Comments field is not populated even if there are comments on your page. This field creates AddWeb Comments and unless you are populating from a page already built in Page Builder that had comments added to it, it will be blank.
Most importantly, be sure you are as descriptive and informative as possible in all fields. This will help your position more than anything else.
Let's move on.
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Page Builder Plus Tutorial Step 2: Image ALT Tags
Click on the Image ALT Text tab. If you are building a doorway page, you can skip to the Links tab as the ALT tags and images will not be inserted into doorways.
Editing ALT Tags
Here, you will enter text associated with each of your images. If there are no images on the page you populated from, you will not find any here. If you do find images, you will see any ALT tags that are already associated with existing images.
If you find that some are not descriptive or are blank, you should select the image in the list and double click on it to add the ALT tag.
It is important to use your Keywords in the tags where they make sense and are actually applicable. Do not flood the ALT tags with lists of keywords. Doing so could get you listed poorly or banned from some search engines.
Lets go on to Links now.
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Page Builder Plus Tutorial Step 3: Hyperlinks
Click on the Links tab. If you are editing a page rather than creating a doorway, you can skip on to Building your page.
Adding Links
Here you can enter a list of links to round out your doorway page. Just type in a URL and the text that should be associated with it and hit Enter or click on the Add button.
You will see a list of links starting to grow here. You should probably include a link to each of the major sections of your Website.
Doing this will make it easier for the engines to spider your entire website. Be sure to check those pages with the Page Advisor to see if you should make any changes there. For now, let's get on with building the page.
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Page Builder Plus Tutorial Step 4: Build Pages
Click on the Build Pages tab.
You will be presented with two choices. If you are Generating a Doorway, keep reading. If you are Changing an existing page, go on to the next step.
A. Where to put the doorway page
You will first want to select a directory to save the new page to and what you want to name it.
B. What the doorway will look like
Click on the folder icon to browse your hard drive for the specific location if you do not want to save it to the default location. Next, you should select the Page Style.
AddWeb comes with the Default style and there is not much to select here. If you are interested in creating, editing or downloading other styles, please read the Detailed Documentation on Page Builder Styles.
C. What to include in the doorway
It is usually suggested that you set your doorway up to automatically forward to your home page. You can choose either the Java or the Meta option for this. We suggest the Java option as the Meta option can be seen by some engines as a sign of a Search Engine Spammer and they will not list you.
If you find the need, you can modify what portions of the page to or not to build.
We suggest that you leave these options as they are for now. This will allow you to build the most complete doorway page.
We are now ready to build your doorway page. Skip the next step and we'll do just that.
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Page Builder Plus Tutorial Step 5: Edit Existing Page
Select the Change an existing page option.
Find your page and insert the data
The first thing to do here is locate the page you want to modify. Click on the Browse button to find it.
We suggest that you leave the options for backup and creating/replacing alone for now. If you did not modify one of the options, it's OK. Page Builder will replace it with exactly what was there before and if the field is blank, Page Builder will not insert anything.
It's now time to modify your page and see the results.
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Page Builder Plus Tutorial Step 6: Build and Review
A. Build It
Click on the Run Page Builder Plus button found along the top of this section. You will see the progress bar across the bottom move as it does it's job.
B. Review It!
You will also see that you are now looking at the Review Page tab. Your web page, whether created or edited, will be seen below in raw HTML code. You can modify the page here if you see that something was not created to your satisfaction. Simply click in the display field and type away. You can save the changes or cancel and it will revert to the page that Page Builder just built. We don't suggest you do this now though. This is a much better time to take a look at the visible results of your work.
Click on the View in Browser button to see what the page looks like to anyone coming to it. If you created the page as a doorway, you will likely be forwarded directly to your home page and will at most see a flicker of this page. If you use MS FrontPageÖ, click on the Export to MS FrontPage button to examine and edit this page with FrontPage.
C. Verify It!
Before you save your page to your website, no matter how you do it, you should check out what you just built with the Page Advisor. Click the Analyze button to do just that. You will be launched into the Page Advisor section and it will analyze what you just built.
Remember that the keywords and descriptions Page Builder inserts for you are only as good as the information you give it and if you don't give it good information the first time, you should go back and make the changes suggested. Most people will run through this process a few times before getting their page to an ideal state.
When you have a good page, you should upload it to your Web Server either through FTP or FrontPage. After that, it will be time to Submit!
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SiteStats Tutorial Introduction
The SiteStats LIVE feature of AddWeb Website Promoter is an extremely powerful analysis tool that allows you monitor your success on the search engines. Beside giving you general statistics that show who is visiting your site and when they are visiting, it shows you which pages are most popular.
The most powerful feature of SiteStats Live is the search engine keyword tracking. This reports shows you which search engines are driving traffic to your site, and exactly what keywords and phrases people are finding you with. This will not only show you which of your keywords are effective, but also will help you determine other keywords and phrases that you might wish to concentrate on or drop from your campaign.
SiteStats Tutorial - Step 1: Creating a SiteStats Account
SiteStats Tutorial - Step 2: Setting up an Active Account
SiteStats Tutorial - Step 3: Viewing your Statstics
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SiteStats Tutorial - Step 1: Creating a SiteStats Account
First enter the SiteStats Live section of AddWeb by either clicking on the icon on the button bar or selecting it from the Features pulldown. Then make sure you are on the Setup Account For SiteStats main tab. Below you will see two sub-tabs. Select the Select Account tab.
In order for SiteStats LIVE to keep statistics without the use of log files, your web pages will need to communicate with our SiteStats server. You will need to create a free account on our server before you can do anything.
A. Enter Account data in the Create New Account section
Title of Website or Company Name
Enter your company name or a title for your website. This will show on all of your SiteStats reports and will be used in the program to identify your website.
Your E-Mail Address
Enter your e-mail address. For security purposes, we require your valid e-mail address. When you have created your account, an e-mail will be sent to you with a confirmation number that must be used to activate your account. We never sell e-mail addresses, so your information will be kept private.
Domains to generate statistics for
SiteStats must know the domain name(s) for your website for security purposes. If you use multiple domain names for the same website, you can use all of them for your account. Keep in mind, however, that if you use multiple domain names for an account, all of the statistics will be treated as one. In other words, if you have two domain names and get one visitor each, your sitestats account will say that your site got 2 hits, and will not separate the domains. In order to separate statistics, you will need to create a separate account for each.
Depending on the edition of AddWeb you have, you are limited to the total number of SiteStats accounts, but not the number of domains that a single account can track.
To add domains, type the domain into the Domains to generate statistics for field and click the Add button. Your domain will be moved to the listbox below the Add button.
B. Create your account
When you are finished, click on the Create Button to add your account to the SiteStats database.
Note that a domain can not be duplicated in the SiteStats database. This means that if you are already tracking a domain with a SiteStats account, you cannot add it to another account. If you wish to change a domain to a different account, you will need to modify the account to not include the domain.
C. Activate your account
Once you have created an account, an e-mail will be sent to you with an account activation code. When you have your activation code, open AddWeb and click the Activate Button on the SiteStats Select Account page. You can now enter the code, activating your account. You can now select your account from the Select an Account list and set it up to gather statistics.
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SiteStats Tutorial - Step 2: Setting up an active account
Once your account is activated, go to the Active Account Details tab. Now you will set up your site to generate statistics.
A. Set your time zone
Toward the middle of the screen is a dropdown menu that allows you to select your time zone. This will cause all of the dates and times in the SiteStats reports to sync with your local time instead of the time on the SiteStats server.
B. Assign a keyword click value
Above the Time zone field is your e-mail address. Right above that is a field called Keyword Click Value. It should show a default value of 100. The click value setting allows you to assign a perceived value to traffic you receive from search engines. On the SiteStats keyword reports, every entry will carry this value. The bottom of the report will show a total perceived value for all of the traffic. This feature allows you to get an idea of how much your search engine traffic is worth to you.
The value you enter here is in cents. So a value of 100 will indicate a value of $1.00 for each hit directed from a search engine. A value of 250 would cause the reports to show a value of $2.50 per search engine hit.
C. Add JavaScript to your web pages
In order for SiteStats to accumulate data to generate statistics, you must add a small amount of javascript code to the web pages you wish to include in the statistics. The Web Pages to Track section allows you to add this code to your pages very easily.
Simply use the built in explorer to browse to the directories on your hard disk that contain your web pages and add them to the list on the right for processing. This is done by selecting them in the directory window on the left, then clicking on the Add Selected Files button. If you click on the Add All Files button, it will add all files that are in the currently selected directory.
Once you have selected your files, click on the Add JavaScript button. AddWeb will add the necessary code to your pages for you.
D. Upload your edited web Pages
Now that your web pages have SiteStats javascript code, you should upload them to your website. You can use AddWeb's built-in FTP feature or any other method you normally use to upload your pages to your web server.
As soon as the modified web pages are on your web server, SiteStats will begin generating statistics for you.
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SiteStats Tutorial - Step 3: Viewing your statistics
Assuming you have an active account and your web pages have the SiteStats javascript code, you are ready to actually view statistics for your web site!
A. Get some traffic
If you don't have much traffic yet, go to your site in your web browser and view one of the pages that has the SiteStats javascript code on it. This will generate a hit for you. Note that if you go to many pages, the hit count will not always increase. This is because many of the statistics you will see represent unique visitors, so your repeated visits are not counted until SiteStats senses a new user session from you.
B. Analyze in SiteStats.
Go to the View statistics Tab in the SiteStats section. Make sure your account is selected. Next select a Report to View and click the View Report button. AddWeb will contact the SiteStats server and get LIVE statistics for your site. You will immediately see the visit that you just made to your own site... WITHOUT THE HASSLE OF DOWNLOADING HUGE LOG FILES!
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FTP Upload Tutorial Introduction
FTP or File Transfer Protocol is the standard method of sending and receiving files on the internet. Even if you are not sure what it is, you have probably used it a number of times. AddWeb uses FTP to send you updates and if you got AddWeb through the internet, you used FTP to get it.
Currently, the only other popular method of sending your website to a remote location is to use MS FrontPageÖ. If you are using FrontPage to update your website, then you should be reading the Front Page Primer. For those of you that are using FTP, let's jump right in.
FTP Upload Tutorial Step 1: Login
FTP Upload Tutorial Step 2: Upload
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FTP Upload Tutorial Step 1: Login
To get to the FTP Upload section, click on the FTP Upload icon in the main menu bar on the left.
A. Getting Login Information
The first thing you should do in this section is populate the login information from your Profile.
This will fill in any FTP login information you set up in the Profile Setup section. If nothing happens here, you should go back to Profile Setup and make sure you entered the Login information to your FTP Server there. If you did fill out the FTP section of Profile Setup, then you will probably see something like this.
B. Connect to the FTP Server
You can modify your settings here if you need to, but if you entered the settings correctly in the Profile Setup, there should be no need to change anything. Click on the Login button.
You will be connected to the FTP Server in a moment and be able to send files to it. The scope of AddWeb was not to provide a full FTP client and you will not be able to download through it. We are now ready to upload your web pages.
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FTP Upload Tutorial Step 1: Upload
A. Selecting Files to Upload
You will see on the lower half of the screen that you have the local directories and files on your hard drive listed in the left hand window.
You should click on the pull down to start the search for your files if you did not start in the local directory that contains your website to begin with.
B. Where do the files go?
When you locate your web pages to upload, you will want to make sure you are sending them to the correct location. You can navigate the remote files and directories on the FTP Server by clicking on the plus signs next to the directories you will see listed there. You will see your current pages here also, but they will not have a plus sign next to them.
C. Send the Files up!
The top field will show you the directory you are currently in on the FTP server. make sure the directory selected is where you want to send your files to and select the file(s) you want to send, then click on the Upload Selected button to send only the files you select or Upload All button to send up the entire current local directory.
AddWeb will then send the files (Web Pages) to the FTP Server and they will be able to be viewed by your visitors. When the upload is complete, you will want to log out of the FTP Server. Just click on the same button you clicked on to Log In. You will see it has changed to LogOut.
Now that your files are in place, let's get on with Promoting your Website! Go to the Submission Tutorial now.
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Submission Tutorial Introduction
This is what it all comes down to. You have built a beautiful website, tested it, rebuilt it, tested some more, spell checked it, fixed that link you broke when you spell checked it, found where that missing image got to and replaced it, checked out your meta tags, fixed them, checked them again, modified them again, checked them again and finally uploaded them to your Web Server.
Build it and they will come, right? Wrong. They have to be able to find it if they are going to visit it.
How are they going to find it? More traffic to websites is generated by Search Engines than by anything else.
It is time to send your website information to the search engines. Fortunately, Submission is about as easy as can be. All of the prep work is going to start paying off. Let's go.
Submission Tutorial - Step by Step
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Submission Tutorial - Step by Step
We start by clicking on the Submission icon in the main menu bar to the left.
A. Select a Profile
You will be presented with a screen divided into three sections. Profiles, Selected Profile and Submission Details. The only section we're going to do anything with right now is Profiles.
Click on the Add button and a list of your saved Profiles will appear. At this point, we are probably only looking at one Profile. Select it and click on the Load button. You will see it appear in the Profiles to Submit field and the number to the right will display how many Profiles are in the list to submit. The Remove button will take the selected Profile from the list. For more information on the other buttons in this area, you should read the Detailed Documentation on Submission.
B. Start Submission
Now it is time to submit. Along the top of this screen is a button labeled Submit. Click it.
C. What's happening?
This will get everything moving. On the lower right, you will see the large field labeled Submission Processes start to fill up with the engines you selected in the Profile Setup. AddWeb is now trying to contact each of these. When it does, it will send your information to them. You can see the progress they are making as they submit.
Above this window, you will notice the progress of the submission as a whole. If multiple Profiles were loaded in the list for submission, you would see the progress of the entire list and the Profile currently highlighted in the Profiles section.
D. How are my Submissions doing?
To the left, in the Selected Profile section, you will see the Successful, Failed and Skipped engines for a quick reference of the results of your submission. As the engines finish in the Submission Processes section, they will be listed here under the result of their submission.
Selecting any of the three result types will change the view in this section to the selected type. For more information on the submission process or any of the fields, please read the Detailed Documentation or select the field and press the F1 key.
When your submission is complete, you should move on to the Internet Search Tutorial.
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Internet Search Tutorial Introduction
The Internet Search feature does not appear to be a very strong or powerful feature at first glance. After all, what does it do? It opens your Web Browser and runs a search for a keyword or URL. Pretty simple, right? Yes. However, there are a number of reasons we included this feature.
The design makes it much more powerful than you would think. It automatically inserts the correct search terms to locate your website on any of the engines included. It allows you to search all of those engines for the exact same keyword (a typo or different capitalization could change your results on some engines) and it saves time and effort by including all of these engines in one easy to use location.
You should come here before checking your Rank as the results will always be not found until your website is listed. Listing with some engines can take weeks or even months. Internet Search will probably become something of a ritual with most people.
Let's see how this works.
Internet Search Tutorial - Step by Step
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Internet Search Tutorial - Step by Step
The first thing to do is get there. Click on the Internet Search icon in the main menu bar on the left.
A. Populate the Search
Find the Profiles list in the middle of the screen and select your Profile by clicking the little circle next to it.
This will automatically insert your URL into the Search For field and set the Search Type to URL Search.
B. Start the Search
Now select an engine to search on and click the Run Internet Search button.
Your Web Browser will open and automatically perform the URL search for you. You should perform this kind of a search until you start seeing your URL showing up in the engines. After that, you will probably want to search for your Keywords and run Rankings.
C. Keyword Searching
To search for your Keywords, follow the same steps in selecting your Profile, but also select one of your keywords from the list that appears on the right.
It will automatically be placed in the Search For field and the Search Type will change to General (Keyword) Search.
D. Search without Profile data
You can also run searches for URLs and Keywords that are not part of a saved Profile by typing the search phrase into the Search For field and selecting the Search Type. AddWeb will still include the URL search text with the search if you select that type.
Pretty simple, right? Let's get on with this and look into Ranking.
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Ranking Tutorial Introduction
Ranking is probably the most exciting part of AddWeb for most people. It is definitely the most active visually and provides a wealth of information that would otherwise take hours or even days to gather in just a few minutes.
Ranking tells you four things about each URL or Keyword involved. First is the position of your URL based on a search for the keyword in question and the engine it applies to.
Next is the page that the position is located on. This is important as some engines display a different number of results per page. common statistics say that most people will look at the first three pages and stop. You may be number 35 on Yahoo, but that is still on the second result page, not the fourth.
Ranking also looks for both the URL count for each of the URLs being ranked. This is a search for the number of times your website appears in that search engine. For some engines, the more times you are listed, the better your chances of showing well. Other engines only want you listed once.
Finally, the last thing that Ranking looks for is the Link Count for each URL. When other websites list a link to you, some engines find that to mean your site is more valuable and increase the possibility of you showing well. For those engines that provide this information, the higher the number the better. This is a large part of including FFA and Link directory sites in the AddWeb Engines.
Anyway, let's dig into the Ranking. It is pretty simple if you use the information already in your Profile. If you want to check information that is not included in a Profile, please check with the Detailed Documentation for Ranking.
Ranking Tutorial - Step 1: Start Ranking
Ranking Tutorial - Step 2: What's Happening?
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Ranking Tutorial - Step 1: Start Ranking
You've probably seen it already and anticipated this, but click on the Rank Check icon in the main menu bar on the left.
Run a Profile Ranking for the first time
You will see two choices right along the top. We are not going to go into Quick Ranking right now. For more on that, read the Detailed Documentation on Ranking.
Select the Perform a Profile Rank option. This will give you a very simple and sparse screen. In fact, the only selection here is for the Profile you want to run the Ranking Check on.
Your Profile was set up with the information AddWeb needs to perform this task and all you have to do when the Profile is selected is click the Rank button.
Let's see what happens.
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Ranking Tutorial - Step 1: What's Happening?
You should be watching a good deal of activity going on here. Let's take a quick look at what it all means.
What are we seeing here?
In the top left of the screen is a list of four choices. We went through these choices a few moments ago at the beginning of this Tutorial. Select what you are interested in seeing and the information to the right will change to reflect that.
Just below the Show Me section you will see the Keyword that you are currently viewing results for.
Below that is the list of Keywords saved in your Profile for Ranking. Select one by clicking on it to see the Ranking results for it.
Depending on your Preferences, you will see more than one keyword actively Ranking. Now, let's take a quick look at the results we are gathering.
Here we can see that we are currently viewing the Ranking Position for three Websites. As we saw above, the keyword is 'Power Macintosh' and Microsoft and Sun are not doing too well while Apple is showing some fairly impressive positions. The numbers indicate how many results you would see when performing this keyword search until you found the URL in question. For the purposes of this example, a Search for the phrase 'Power Macintosh' on Google www.apple.com would be the third result.
You should note the red minus sign and the green plus signs. These indicate movement in your position since the last time you checked your Ranking. Also note that a result of 0 indicates that the URL was not found in this search depth. If you see an N/A in the results, that indicates that the engine does not support the selected search type (this applies to URL and Link counts).
Well, when your first Rank Check is done, we can see how to set your Profile to run Submissions and Rankings automatically.
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Scheduler Tutorial Introduction
Now that you are going to make millions with your Website (cough cough), you are going to have better things to do with your time than sit at your computer and submit it to the engines. The Scheduler can free you up from the tedium of submitting, ranking, submitting, ranking...
You can even start AddWeb in Scheduler On mode when your computer starts as you saw in the Preferences Tutorial.
The most important thing to remember where the Scheduler is concerned is that it can't do anything if you are not connected to the internet.
Scheduler Tutorial - Step 1: Setting it up
Scheduler Tutorial - Step 2: Finish Setup and Start Running it
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Scheduler Tutorial - Step 1: Setting it up
Once again, we go to the main menu bar and click on the Scheduler icon this time.
This will bring you to a screen that is dominated by a large window that will contain a list of Scheduled Tasks. Note that the Deluxe edition only allows for 2 Tasks to be scheduled at a time.
A. Make a New Task
Above this window, you will find the button to turn the scheduler on manually, sorting options and a handful of buttons. Click on the button labeled new and we will create your first Task.
This opens a new screen that has a number of options for scheduling your tasks. We should start at the top just below the save and cancel buttons. This first thing to do is name your task.
Just type a name into the Task Name field and we will go on to set the first run date and time.
B. When?
For the purposes of this tutorial, I have selected a date that is fairly distant in the future. Go ahead and let the defaults for the start date remain, but you may wish to look into the date settings. By default, the scheduler will try to set it to run within the next 30 minutes. Click on the down arrows to select the Month, Day, Year and Time of day that this task will run first.
Most people will want to set their scheduler to submit and rank them on a regular basis, so we are going to set this task to repeat. To schedule a one time task, you will not have to select the Repeat Every... options.
First click on the radio selection next to Repeat this task and select between Daily, Weekly or Monthly. For now, let's use Weekly. You can find out more about the choices in the Detailed Documentation. You will also want to select the time of day to run it. By default you can select in 30 minute increments.
Now we are going to get more detailed on when it should repeat. I didn't want it to repeat EVERY week (I don't know why...) so I selected to repeat every 3 weeks on Monday and Thursday. Let's see, From July 25th, 2001 the next time the task should run is on Thursday August 16th, 2001 and after that on Monday August 20th. It will then skip to the third week after that. You will probably want this to run once a week or even more often than that.
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Scheduler Tutorial - Step 2: Finish Setup and Start Running it
A. What will we do?
Ok, now that we have the timing down. Let's decide what we're going to schedule here. You should know this before scheduling any task really.
In the Deluxe edition, scheduling a Profile List is not available. Click on the Select Profile button and pick your Profile from the list. We will set this first task to run a Ranking on your Profile.
All that's left to do here is click on the Save button up top. Do so now.
B. First Run
You will see that your first task is in the pending task list. You can turn the scheduler on now and wait for it to run.
Click on the Turn Scheduler On button and wait for your task to activate. If the time you set your task to run first at has passed, it will run automatically. You will see a small change in the pending task list as your task queues up and starts to run. Along the very bottom of the screen, you will see the progress of the task as it runs and you will see which task is currently being run.
When the Scheduler is turned on, you will see two new buttons across the top. Run Task Now will do just that (go for it!). Stop will cancel the currently running task.
This is probably a good time to set up the schedule for your Profile. You should make one to Submit and another to Rank. You should probably schedule them both to run once a week or more. Don't worry about over-submitting as the Rules Checking in AddWeb will prevent your Profile from submitting to an engine too often.
Once you are done with this, you may wish to look into the Reporting Tutorial or browse the FAQs.
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Reporting Tutorial Introduction
AddWeb includes automated reporting for those with the Platinum edition and higher, but the Deluxe edition can still generate the same reports manually.
The various reports available can provide you with a wealth of information regarding your Profile's history with both Submission and Ranking. The HTML reports will also integrate with reports from the Page Advisor. This can be a very useful tool for getting an overall view of your website and it's progress through the search engines.
Please read on to see how to manually generate these reports.
Reporting Tutorial - Step by Step
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Reporting Tutorial - Step by Step
A. Getting There
Reports can be accessed from a number of locations within AddWeb but the easiest is by going to the Features Menu along the top and selecting Reports from there.
When you select Reports, you will be presented with a window that asks you to select a Profile. Do so and click on the Load button along the bottom of this window. The Generate Reports window will now open.
B. Picking Your Report
You should first select the Report Type. HTML, Text or E-mail. It is suggested that you select HTML as a first choice in reports. This is because they look better than the others (Both E-mail and Text are simple ASCII Text based and not exactly pretty) and the HTML reports will integrate with other reports in AddWeb in order to bring everything together.
Next, you will want to select the Style of the report. Unless you have made your own style or downloaded one from our website (Read the Detailed Documentation for more on this), you will have one choice, Default. The image below the selection window displays the look of the HTML reports for the style selected.
There are 7 reports to choose from in the default style. Below the selection window is a description of what each report contains. For now, let's stick with the default report.
The only choice left here is where you want the report saved. To help keep everything together, you should save it to the AddWeb4\Reports\Output\ directory which is selected by default. If you wish to save the report to a different directory, the button to the left of the output selection field will allow you to browse your computer for the location you desire.
C. Make the Report
You can send E-mail reports from here also. You will want to make sure that the SMTP Settings in the Preferences are filled in with all of the proper information if you do. We are not sending mail now, so click on the Generate button at the bottom of the window.
You will notice some activity in the progress bar at the bottom of the window and some messages about the information that is being gathered or generated and your Web Browser will open after a short while. Go through the report and learn what AddWeb can tell you about your Website and Profile. If you had selected the TEXT report, Notepad or Wordpad (your default text editor) would have opened. E-mail reports just get sent, and you would only see them if you sent them to yourself.
You will want to close the Generate Reports Window in order to get back into AddWeb and access the other features.
This is the last Tutorial and if you are not clear on something, you should take a look at one of the other references available.
The Articles on various aspects of Website Promotion and the use of certain advanced features of AddWeb are a "Must Read".
The "Inline Help" is available throughout the major sections of AddWeb and contain handy references for most areas.
The FAQs are quite informative and cover a number of topics not easily addressed in the normal documentation.
The Detailed Documentation covers every field in AddWeb and can answer a number of questions quite easily.
The Support Web Page offers a number of avenues and access to current issues.
You can also contact our support staff through the Website if your issue is not addressed or resolved by one of the previous avenues. Please do not call our sales lines for support.
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This section contains detailed documentation on the AddWeb 4 program. If you need in depth information on any of AddWeb 4's features, select a chapter listed below.
Profile Setup
Page Advisor
Page Builder Plus
Submission
SiteStats Live!
RankCheck
Internet Search
Scheduling
FTP Upload
Options
Menu Items
Reports
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The information in this section is required for use of most parts of the AddWeb 4 program.
Common Buttons
These buttons are used throughout the Profile Setup section.
Website Info
This information relates to the website you wish to promote with AddWeb 4.
Website Content
This information relates to the type and category of the website you wish to promote with AddWeb 4.
Website Owner
This information relates to the person that owns the website you wish to promote with AddWeb 4.
Engines
This is where you will select the default list of search engines you wish to submit this Profile to.
Ranking Setup
These are the default settings AddWeb 4 will use to check your Ranking on the search engines.
Auto-Reporting
Higher Editions of AddWeb 4 will generate reports Automatically.
FTP Settings
These settings will help you maintain your website if you are not using FrontPage.
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These buttons, located along the top of the Profile Setup section, are available throughout Profile Setup.
Populate
This button will allow you to automatically gather information about a website, whether it is on your local drive or the internet. Clicking this button will automatically insert the website's information into the Profile form. When you press this button, a new window pops up that lets you enter the web page from which to gather the data.
Load
This button will open a dialog to select previously saved Profiles from for viewing or editing.
Save
This button will save the currently active Profile. You will be prompted for a name to save the Profile as. A suggested name is automatically generated from the website title for your convenience, but you may change it to any name you like.
Clear
This button will remove any information in the currently edited Profile, and completely clear all of the profile fields..
History
This button will provide information on previous submissions and rankings associated with the current Profile (if any).
Delete Profiles
This button will open a dialog from which you can select profiles to permanently delete.
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Website Details
Home Page
The full URL for the website you wish to promote should be entered here. Include the HTTP:// or HTTPS:// and the entire URL with the full page name (i.e. /index.html). For example, "http://www.cyberspacehq.com/home.html"
Website Title
The Title located on the Home Page should be entered here and will be inserted if the Populate option is used. It should be fairly unique and descriptive. If you look at the html source of the page, you will find your Title in the <title>This is the Title and will be visible in the title bar of most Web Browsers</title> Tag.
Basic Description
If your Home Page does not already contain a Meta Description, it should. This information, although contained in the HTML content of a page, is not normally visible to a web browser. This information is read by Spiders/Robots when they are gathering information about your page.
A Meta Description should, as it implies, be descriptive. Use a short paragraph that describes the website (if on your Home Page) or web page (if on an individual page in your webSite).
The Populate button will pull this information directly from your web page if it is available.
A Meta Description looks like this: <meta name="description" content="This is the information that the Spiders Robots will read">
Reciprocal URL
This is, simply put, your 'Links to other Website's page. Some of the link directories that AddWeb 4 submits to will not accept submissions without one. If you have one of these already, enter the exact URL for this page here. If you do not already have one of these, AddWeb 4 will create one for you. Clicking on the button to the right of this field will open a location dialog so you can select a location to save this new page folder to. Once created, you can upload it to your website and enter the exact URL location of the uploaded page into the Reciprocal URL field.
Nationality
This is the nationality your website is oriented toward. AddWeb 4 checks this nationality and will prevent some submissions based on many search engines requests for localized listings only.
Unique Name
Some search engines (such as Snap.) request a login or some form of unique identifier. This is the Login User Name for such logins. Without this field, you may not be able to submit to some search engines.
Unique Password
Some search engines (such as Snap.) request a login or some form of Unique identifier. Along with this they require a unique password. You can supply it here.
Submission Details
Number of Search Engines to Submit to
This is the number of search engines selected in the search engines section of Profile Setup. Depending on how you select during setup, this number may change.
Last Date Submitted
This is the date of the last submission performed with the selected Profile. It is a good idea to submit about once a month.
Sites Submitted on the Last Submission
This is the total number of sites that were submitted to the last time a submission was performed for this Profile. This number includes a record of all Successful, Failed and Skipped submissions.
Total Attempted Posts
This is the total number of individual search engines AddWeb 4 has attempted to submit to with this Profile.
Successful Submissions
This is the total number of successful posts AddWeb 4 has completed with this Profile.
Failed Submissions
This is the total number of search engines AddWeb 4 did not successfully submit to throughout the history of the selected Profile.
Total Submission Runs
This is the total number of times this Profile has been submitted in general.
Keywords
Keywords are important information provided to search engines in the form of the "Meta Keywords Tag." Your keywords tell the search engines what words you consider important to you for listing and categorizing your site in their indices. You should be accurate and descriptive in your keywords. In selecting keywords, you should consider what terms or phrases people might enter in search engine queries to find you. Know your market and focus on it. Do not senselessly over-duplicate keywords or create an overly extensive list of keywords. A tightly focused group of keywords between 10 and 20 in number is suggested for best results.
The Populate button will pull this information directly from your web page if it is available.
A Meta Keyword Tag looks like this: <meta name="keywords" content="This is the information that the Spiders Robots will read">
Add
Click this button or hit Enter to add the keyword entered in the field above to the keyword list below.
Remove
Click this button or press Delete on your keyboard to remove a keyword from the list below.
Clear
Click this button to remove the entire list of keywords below.
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Website Content
Website content is crucial for successful submissions. You define what your website is about and where it belongs in the search engine categories.
Content Type
Commercial
If your site is intended to provide a service or product, select Commercial.
Personal
If your site is only intended to provide personal information, select Personal.
MLM
If your site deals with Multi-Level Marketing in any way, you should select MLM.
Adult
If your site deals with Adult or Mature content, select Adult.
Main Category Setup
Selecting a Category for your website is an essential part of submitting your website.
Default Categories
These are the broad, top-level categories used for defining your website. Select one of these and the sub-categories will appear to the right.
Sub-Categories
To more specifically define your website for the search engines, the sub-categories supply a more specific category for your website.
Complex Category Setup
Some search engines contain extensive and often changing categories. The engines that currently do this are listed here and AddWeb 4 will contact these sites for up-to-the-minute category selection. It is suggested that you re-select your complex categories from time to time for verification that you are still belong to a valid category.
Select a Search Engine
This is a list of search engines that require Complex Category selection. You should select a category for each of these search engines in turn. Each one must be done individually.
Complex Categories
These are the broad top-level categories for the selected search engine. Select one and AddWeb 4 will display available sub-categories to the right.
Select a Category
This section allows you to navigate through the sub-categories of the selected search engine. Double-Click on the Sub-Category in the list to select it.
Reset
This button clears all Sub-Categories.
Forward
This button brings you to the next level into the sub categories if you have already been there.
Back
This button will bring you to the previous level of sub-categories.
Category
This non-editable field displays the currently selected Category as the search engine lists it.
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Website Owners
The Website Owner is either you or the person that has commissioned you to submit a website on their behalf. This area describes the owner of the website the Profile is created for.
Owner List
New
Create a new list of website owners.
Delete
Delete a list of website owner from AddWeb 4.
Selected Owner
Enter your Owner info into the following fields if you are adding a new Owner. If you are simply modifying information on an Owner, you may edit these fields.
First Name
Owner's first name
Last Name
Owner's last name
Title
Owner's title. e.g. Mr., Mrs, CEO, Webmaster, etc...
Company
Owner's company name.
Address
Owner's street address. Usually the company address
City
Owner's city of residence or business
State
Owner's state of residence or business
Postal
Owner's postal or zip code
Country
Owner's Nationality
Submission E-mail
This E-mail address will be sent to search engines and is likely to attract a great deal of unsolicited e-mail, "Spam." We suggest establishing a free e-mail account that can be checked from time to time for this purpose only.
Reports E-mail
This is the e-mail address that AddWeb 4 will send reports to. This should be the Owner's current e-mail address.
Phones
Owner's telephone number
Website Notes
These notes can only be viewed within the AddWeb 4 program. They are never sent or submitted anywhere. They are provided as a means of storing information about a Profile for your future reference.
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AddWeb 4 is designed to make submission as fast and easy as possible. In this light, You may select a default list of search engines that this profile will submit to.
Select Search Engines
Only Show Selected Engines
This option filters from view any engines you have not selected, displaying only the engines you have selected for submission
Find Engine
If there is a particular search engine or directory you wish to locate in the engines database, enter the name or partial name here. i.e. If you are looking for Yahoo!, you can enter Yah and all search engines that include 'yah' in their names will be displayed.
Available Search Engines
This is a 'Tree View' of all search engines in the available list. If you have opted to view only selected engines then you will not see any unselected search engines in this view.
Total
This is the total number of search engines available for submission.
This is the total number of search engines currently selected for next submission session.
Engines in Selected List
This is the total number of search engines within the currently highlighted search engine Group. For example, there are currently 17 engines within the group called "Major Search Engines" (This number will likely change as engines are added or deleted).
Select All
This will select all of the search engines and directories in the current engine database.
Select New
This will select all search engines and directories that have been added to the list during the last Automatic Search Engine Update.
History Filter
This will give you options for advanced filtering. Such as, selecting All Failed engines from this Profile's last submission.
Save as a List
This will allow you to save your selected search engines as a List that can be applied to other Profiles as well as the Profile you are currently working on.
Delete Selected List
This will permanently remove a saved list of search engine selections. The engines themselves will not be deleted from the database, but the reference to that list will be deleted.
Clear Selection
This will de-select all search engines.
Currently Highlighted Search Engine Details
Each search engine has its' own rules or limits that directly affect your submissions. Some can only be submitted to once, others may only accept submissions from certain countries or regions. These rules are considered for every submission AddWeb 4 makes and will directly affect your individual results.
Search Engine
This is the name of the search engine you are currently viewing data for.
Total Number of Submissions
This is the number of submissions you have made to this search engine using AddWeb 4. This is not limited to submissions for a specific Profile, rather total submissions to the search engine using your current install of AddWeb 4.
Successful Submissions
This is the number of successful submissions you have made to this search engine using AddWeb 4. This is not limited to submissions for a specific Profile, rather total successful submissions to the search engine using your current install of AddWeb 4.
Failed Submissions
This is the number of failed submissions you have made to this search engine using AddWeb 4. This is not limited to submissions for a specific Profile, rather total failed submissions to the search engine using your current install of AddWeb 4.
Delete From Database After
This search engine will automatically be deleted from the search engine list in AddWeb 4 if consecutive Failures to it reach this number.
Maximum Submissions
Some search engines request that you limit submissions to them to one time only. They have their own means of monitoring your website and do not want submissions for websites they already list. a 0 in this field means this limit does not apply to this search engine.
Can Submit Every
This is the frequency that the search engine in question will accept submissions for a single website. Most major search engines accept submissions every 30 days, but this number can vary greatly throughout the search engine list.
Characters
Some search engines only allow for limited length of keywords, Description and/or Title. The limit in characters (if applicable) is listed here.
Words
Some search engines only allow for limited number of words in your keywords, Description and/or Title. The word limit is listed here.
Content Allowed
Each website has a different focus.
A Commercial website offers a product or service either for pay or free.
A Personal website offers information typically relating to a person. Personal sites may include resumes.
MLM websites are any website relating to Multi-Level Marketing. Some search engines are focused in this area while others restrict listings from these sites.
Adult websites are any website that contains information that may not be suitable for younger viewers.
Submissions Are Posted
This is the amount of time you can expect to wait before seeing your website listed with this search engine.
Nationalities Allowed
This displays the Countries that this search engine will accept submissions from. Some search engines prefer localized listings.
Search Engine Description
This is a brief description of this search engine. This is only used if there is something particular to this search engine that may not be listed above.
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In order to automatically track your websites progress in the search engines, you need to tell AddWeb 4 the keywords and URLs that are important to you.
Keywords to Rank With
This list tells AddWeb 4 which keywords are important to you with regards to checking how well you rank on a specific search engine with them. These keywords will be used in Profile Ranking options and scheduled rankings. These words are imported directly from your keywords listed in the Website Info section.
Standard Add/Remove/Clear buttons are included here in order to easily manage this list.
URL To Search For
This is the exact URL to search for when a Ranking is performed. It is suggested that you do not use the HTTP:// in this field as it will restrict results for your URL and possibly exclude results for some search engines. Including the sub-directories (../products/goodstuff/index.html) of your website will also restrict listings, but may be preferred if you wish to narrow your Ranking results.
Unique Text
Unique Text is a portion of your title or text that appears early in your description that is unique to your website or web page. This is tied in directly to the URL to search for and is required for some of the Ranking operations. Some search engines do not allow for some of the advanced methods of searching and substitute more specific word searches for these options.
Primary Website
This is the primary website you wish to Rank for. By default, the Profile URL is used here and some additional websites will be used for comparison in some reports.
Competitors Website
This URL allows you to specify a specific competitor for your website. This URL will be used for direct comparison to your website in the Ranking Reports.
Search Depth
How many results do you want to see from each search engine when running a Ranking? This is that number. Keep in mind that the deeper you go, the more resources will be used on your computer. However, deeper results will allow some people to better track their website's position in the search engines indices over time.
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Advanced versions of AddWeb 4 allow you to automatically generate reports based on your submission and ranking sessions.
Select Report Types to Automate
ASCII Text
ASCII Text is the standard method of viewing raw text on most computers. This type of report will be viewed in WIndows Notepad if possible. If a report is too large for your computer to view through Notepad, it is likely that you will be asked to view the report in Windows Wordpad or MS Word.
E-Mail
E-mailing reports to your website owners can save a lot of time and effort. E-mail Reports are created as ASCII text and sent automatically to the Reports E-mail Address associated with the Profile. You may add a custom message to these reports.
HTML
HTML reports are designed to be viewed in a web browser such as MS Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. They are designed to be pleasing to the eye and easy to read and navigate.
Report Style to Automate
This is the look and feel of the reports AddWeb 4 generates for you. AddWeb 4 comes with a single report style (Default). Some people will create a new style of reports and submit them to Cyberspace HQ for download by others. To send us a report styles, upload it to ftp://ftp.cyberhq.com/newstyles/ (anonymous login). Include a readme.txt file with your name and URL (E-mail address if you wish to be contacted by those that download it). To download new report styles, go to ftp://ftp.cyberhq.com/getstyles/.
To make new styles, please click here.
Available Reports in Selected Style
This is a list of various reports available in the selected style. Choose the report style you wish your reports to appear in.
Automated Report Options
These are settings associated with the report type selected.
Text Report Directory
This is the folder on your hard drive that ASCII text reports will be saved in. You may browse your hard drive for a different folder to store these reports if you like.
HTML Report Directory
This is the folder on your hard drive that HTML reports will be saved in. You may browse your hard drive for a different folder to store these reports if you like.
Path to Images
This is the folder on your hard drive that additional images included in HTML reports are stored. When an HTML report is created, these images will be stored in the same directory that the HTML report is located.
Logo Image
This is your Company Logo image folder. If you are changing the image in the Default HTML Reports, tell AddWeb 4 to look on your hard drive in this folder. Be sure to check the HTML source for the image to be sure yours will display properly. Some people have trouble with different sized images displaying properly.
URL on Reports
This is the URL to your company as it will link on reports. By default it will link to http://www.cyberspacehq.com/.
Name on Reports
This is your Company Name as it appears on reports. By default, it reads Cyberspace HQ, LLC.
E-Mail Reports To
This is the e-mail address any e-mail reports will be sent to. It is the same e-mail address that is included in the Website Owner section of Profile Setup.
Custom Message for E-Mail Reports
You may wish to preface your AddWeb 4 E-mail reports with a custom message to the recipient, enter your message here. When the E-mail report recipient receives their reports, they will also be able to read the message you enter here.
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In order to get your web pages to your web server, and FTP upload is typically used. If you are using FrontPage to create your website, you will not likely need to fill this information out.
FTP Login Info
Server Name
This is the FTP server that uploads for this Profile will be sent to. i.e. ftp.cyberhq.com
User Name
This is the login name for the FTP server above. This is typically required for uploads to web servers.
Password
This is the login password for the FTP server above. This is typically required for uploads to web servers.
Port Number
This is the Port number associated with the FTP server you will upload to. Typically this number is 21.
Add Directory Path
This is the remote directory on the FTP server that you wish to upload to by default. This will look like: /mywebsite/ and would appear in conjunction with the full FTP path like: ftp://ftp.cyberhq.com/mywebsite/
FTP Proxy Options
If you are using a Proxy Server for connections to the Internet, you will need the following settings and should contact your Network Administrator if you have problems with proxy connections.
I Do Not Need a Proxy
In most cases, you will not need a Proxy server. This will, most likely, be true if you are connecting from home through a single computer connection (Dialup, DSL, Cable...).
I Need a Passive Connection
Some Proxy Servers allow connection out through them for uploads without a strict Login. If this is the case with your connection, select this.
I Need to Connect Through a Proxy Server
Some Proxy Servers require logins for any activity with the internet. Select this if such is the case with your connection.
Proxy Server
This is location of the Proxy Server you connect to the Internet through. Either IP address or Named address. Your Network Administrator will tell you this if you do not know.
Proxy Port
This is the port your Proxy Server uses to allow connections through it. Please ask your Network Administrator for this information as it required for FTP uploads.
I Need to Login to the Proxy Server
If you need to login to your Proxy server for uploading through FTP, check this option. Some Proxy Servers allow you to perform actions through the internet just so you go through them for monitoring. If you are not sure about what to enter, please ask your Network Administrator for more information
Proxy User Name
If login to your Proxy Server is required for FTP uploads, enter your login name here. If you are not sure about what to enter, please ask your Network Administrator for more information
Proxy Password
If login to your Proxy Server is required for FTP uploads, enter your login password here. If you are not sure about what to enter, please ask your Network Administrator for more information
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In order to learn how well your website is likely to perform in the search engine listings, AddWeb 4 includes Page Advisor. Page Advisor will analyze your web pages and report back to you with key guidelines and tips on improving your page for better positioning on search engines with the keywords you select.
Setup
Information required to run Page Advisor
Advisor Results
The Page Advisor Report
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Page To Analyze
Locate the folder containing the web page you wish to analyze. The page can reside in a folder on your hard drive, or it can be any page on the internet. Specify it here to make that page the focus of Page Advisor's analysis.
Web Page
If this is selected, enter the full URL of the page in question below. i.e. http://www.AddWeb 4.com/AddWeb 4/home.htm. Browse the web if you are not certain.
Local File
If this is selected, enter the full local path on your hard drive to the page in question below. i.e. C:\My Documents\Webs\index.html. Browse your hard drive if you are not certain.
Browse
This button will launch your web browser or a Locate File dialog to assist you in locating the web page you wish to Analyze
Analysis Options
Page Advisor allows you to compare your page to that of a specific competitor or against the top three pages on the selected search engine. The top three pages that are used are based on the keywords you select. You can compare your page to both the top three and a specific competitor by selecting both of these boxes and specifying your competitor's s URL.
If you wish to compare your web page to other web pages, select one or more of these Options. Otherwise, leave them unchecked to run Analysis against AddWeb 4's gathered data.
Compare to Competitors Web Page
This comparison pits you against a selected competitor (enter the full URL below). This allows you to see the strong and weak points of each of your websites and gives you a competitive edge.
Compare to Top 3 Web Pages
This comparison will rate your website against the First 3 results on the selected search engine for the keywords you choose.
General Analysis
AddWeb 4 Website Promoter Deluxe Edition comes with this type of analysis. The General Analysis is designed to score your pages against general information gathered on search engine listings. All data is gathered at the moment of analysis and the data can be used help you create a custom doorway page in Page Builder Plus.
Advanced Analysis
Advanced version of AddWeb 4 can perform analysis on specific search engines rather than using general analysis. The advanced analysis is useful for targeting specific engines to improve your position one. However, for most users, the General Analysis is sufficient.
Run Analysis for these Keywords
Populate from "Page to Analyze"
Clicking this button will attempt to fill in the keywords from the URL entered in "Page to Analyze."
Run Analysis on This Search Engine
Select a search engine here. Page Advisor's detailed report will score your pages and return to you a detailed report that estimates how your web page will perform on that search engine. This option is not available in the Deluxe version.
Advisor Report Settings
Page Advisor's report will be saved to the folder on your hard drive that you specify here. You can also select a report template here to give your Page Advisor Report a look and feel of your choosing.
Analysis Options
These controls allow you to specify how Page Advisor will conduct the report. We recommend that you choose unrestricted searching. Choosing the other options severely narrows the scope of Page Advisor's results. However, if you need to specifically analyze a page with exact match or case-sensitive terms select those options here.
Run Analysis For These Keywords
Much of the Page Advisor Report is focused on how your page rates with the keywords you have chosen for your site. You can click on "Populate From Page To Analyze" to automatically draw keyword in from the selected if they exist. Otherwise, you can specify any keywords here that you would like to experiment with. Enter the keyword you would like to and click on the "add" button. To remove a keyword from the list, highlight it and click on "Remove." To clear the entire list click on the "Clear" button.
Analysis Options
If you wish to compare your web page to other web pages, select one or more of these Options. Otherwise, leave them unchecked to run Analysis against AddWeb 4's gathered data.
Compare to Top 3 Web Pages
This comparison will rate your website against the First 3 results on the selected search engine for the keywords you choose.
Compare to Competitors Web Page
This comparison pits you against a selected competitor (enter the full URL below). This allows you to see the strong and weak points of each of your websites and gives you a competitive edge.
Run an Advanced Analysis On This Search Engine
This is the search engine your analysis reports will be based on. You will likely want to compare your website to all of the listed search engines to build the best pages for each.
Advisor Report Settings
Output Directory
This is the folder on your hard drive where AddWeb 4 will place your Analysis Reports for viewing and analysis.
Report Index Template
Report Content Template
This is the base Template that AddWeb 4 will use for displaying your Analysis reports. For information on creating your own Templates, click here. To send us your own Templates, Upload them to ftp://ftp.cyberhq.com/newpa/ (anonymous login). Include a readme.txt file with your name and URL (E-mail if you wish to be contacted by those that download it). You may download additional Templates at ftp://ftp.cyberhq.com/getpa/
Advisor Report Settings
Unrestricted (Recommended)
In most cases, this is the method you will be using for analysis. Unrestricted analysis will look for any instances of the keywords you choose. They do not have to be exact matches in terms of case and word length. For example, if your keyword is "Position," the analysis will also include words longer words such as "Positioning," and non-capitalized instances such as "position" and "positioning."
Restricted
Case-Sensitive
If this option is selected, Page Advisor will only analyze your keywords based on information that matches the capitalization in your keywords.
For example, if one of your keywords is "Position," Page Advisor will not include for analysis words such as "position" or "positioning." It will however recognize longer words containing the your keyword if the case matches, for example, "Positioning."
Exact Match
Selecting this option will filter out of the analysis, any keyword references that are not of the exact same word length. For example, if your keyword is "Position," the analysis will not recognize the word "Position" in the word "Positioning." It would however ignore case; it would still recognize the word "position."
Selecting Both Restricted Options
This is the narrowest type of analysis that can be performed. By selecting both of the Restricted Analysis Options, keywords will only be analyzed when both word length and capitalization matches exactly. For example, if your keyword is "Position," the analysis will not include any of the following; "position," "positioning," "Positioning."
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Page Advisor's report opens by default to the general advice page. You can double click on any of the items listed here for detailed information. You can also view the report in it's entirety by clicking on the "View Complete Analysis Report" at the bottom.
The List
This list provides quick reference to the results of your Analysis. Double-Click one of the results to view more details about it.
View Complete Analysis Results
This button will launch the main page of the Analysis Report in your web browser.
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AddWeb 4's Page Builder Plus is designed to help you automatically create new doorway pages or modify existing web pages for better performance on the search engines.
Common Buttons
Page Details
Build Pages
Review Pages
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Populate
Clicking this button will attempt to fill in the needed information into Page Builder Plus automatically, from the URL you type in.
Clear
Clicking this button will clear the Page Builder Plus fields. Make sure that you want to do this, as this operation is not reversible.
Run Page Builder Plus
Clicking on this button will create the new Doorway Page, or make changes to the existing page you specify.
Keyword Importance Essay
We recommend reading this important essay on the importance of smart keyword selection. Using AddWeb with this knowledge will greatly enhance your ability to bring more new traffic to your site.
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Information about your web page is required for AddWeb 4 to make any changes or create a new web page.
General Information
Basic information about the content of your web page.
Image ALT Text
Information about your Images (if you are editing an existing web page).
Links
Information about your hyperlinks (if you are creating a new web page).
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Page Information
These fields contain information about your web page. Much of this information is only normally seen by search engine Spiders/Robots.
Home Page URL
This is the location of your web page and is required for AddWeb 4 to create a Doorway page.
Home Page Link Text
If you wish to create a Doorway page, this text will appear as the link to your Home Page.
Page Title
This is the Title Tag in your Home Page. It is defined by <title></title> in the HTML source. The Title appears in the Title Bar of most modern Web Browsers when the page is viewed.
Header
Headers are usually used as page or section Titles for the visible content of a web page. You can identify Headers by the <H#></H#> in the HTML source. The # is typically 1 through 6 and identifies decreasing size in that order.
Keywords
Keywords are not normally visible to your visitors but are read by search engine Spiders/Robots to assist them in listing your web page properly. They should be descriptive and concise. The Meta Tag for keywords looks like this: <meta name="keywords" content="Keyword one, keyword two, keyword three">
We suggest a concentration of 10 to 20 non repeating keywords.
Page Descriptions
Page Descriptions are often compared by search engine Spiders/Robots in order to verify the information provided to them with the information presented to actual website visitors.
Short Description
This is the Meta Description and is not normally visible to your website visitors. This should be a simple paragraph describing your website. Do not make this a list of products or services available on your website as some search engine Spiders will see that as Keyword Spamming. A Meta Description looks like this: <meta name="description" content="This is what my website is all about.">
Page Text
This is the visible content of your web page. This information is included inside the <body></body> Tag and may include standard HTML tags.
Comments
These are comments about what is on your page. They usually relate to JavaScript or special functions included in your web page. Comments look like this: <!-- anything in here will not be seen by visitors but may be read by search engine Spiders/Robots. These comments can span multiple lines.-->
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Image ALT Text is what you often see when you hover over an image on a web page with your cursor. It should be descriptive of the image or the web page that clicking on the image will take you to. AddWeb 4 will only reference ALT Text if editing an existing web page. AddWeb 4 does not use images in Doorway pages, making them load quickly.
Image
This is the URL link to the image as it appears in the HTML source of your Home Page. Image source links are typically 'Relative Links' which means they only point to a folder containing the image file located on your web server. i.e. ../images/mypic.jpg
Alt Text
Each image should have ALT text associated with it. The reasons behind this are fairly simple. First, it helps visitors understand what the image or image link is. Second, it allows search engine Spiders/Robots to comprehend the content in your web page. The easier it is for the search engines to understand the content, the less likely it is that they will index you at an unfavorable position.
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Links or Hyperlinks are references to other web pages or sections of a web page that, when clicked, send a visitor somewhere. Most links should include descriptive text that allows visitors to know what to expect when they click on them. AddWeb 4 only references these Links when creating a Doorway page. AddWeb 4 will not add Links to an edited Home Page.
Link URL
The Link URL is a reference to another web page and defines where the visitor will go when it is clicked. Many internal links are relative. This means they do not include the full URL of the new page. Rather the link looks like this: ../products/index.html. In order to allow search engine Spiders/Robots to reference the link better and possibly follow the link, use of the full URL is suggested in your Links.
Link Text
Link Text is the descriptive words used to mask the Link and make it understandable to your visitors. Concise, Descriptive text is advised here.
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AddWeb 4 will build a Doorway Page for you according to the information you provide.
Generate a New Doorway Page
Create a new page to be Submitted for placement to the search engines.
Change an Existing Page
Modify your Existing web page for better placement in the search engines.
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Doorway Page Options
Save Page(s) To This Directory
This is the folder on your hard drive where AddWeb 4 will create any pages built in Page Builder.
Save Doorway Page With This Name
Name your new Doorway Page here.
Page Style (HTML Template)
This is a selection of different looks you can apply to the Doorway pages.
Create New Page Style
This button opens the Page Builder Style editor so you can create your own Doorway Style.
Edit Page Style
This button opens the Page Builder Style editor so you can edit the selected Doorway Style.
Add HTML Forwarding (Not Recommended)
If you want your Doorway Page to automatically send visitors to your Home Page, select this option.
Use JavaScript
The Java Redirect is the preferred method of forwarding visitors to your Home Page. A small Java Script will be inserted into the page that immediately sends your visitors to your Home Page.
Use Meta Refresh
This method of redirecting visitors is not suggested by Cyberspace HQ due to easy detection by Spiders/Robots. Some search engines will look on this in a poor light. It does however offer the ability to insert a delay into the redirection.
Meta Refresh Delay
This is the number of seconds you want the Doorway page to be visible before forwarding the visitor to your Home Page.
Search Engine Optimization
Under this heading, the first button you will find is one that will display the our essay on Search Engine Positioning. We recommend that you read this information to get the most out of AddWeb 4.
This section allows you to exclude elements of the Doorway Page if you desire. However, we do not at this time advise you to exclude any of these elements at this time, as they might adversely affect your positioning. If and when we recommend any exclusions, we will let our user know through program updates.
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Page Style Editor
Creating and Editing Page Builder Templates should only be performed by someone with basic understanding of HTML in its raw format or code. This is NOT a graphical interface and implements direct HTML code.
If you do create new templates and wish to allow others to use them, please upload them. You can do so at ftp://ftp.cyberhq.com/newpb/ (anonymous login).
Include a readme.txt file with your name and URL (E-mail if you wish to be contacted by those that download it). Download new Styles at ftp://ftp.cyberhq.com/getpb/
Save Page Style
This button will save an HTML template in the AddWeb 4\PB Templates\ directory for use with other Profiles.
Page Style Name
This should be a fairly unique name. It will be the name Page Builder saves the Template as and the
name you will find this template as when you select a Style to build your Doorway pages in.
Page Style Bitmap
This is a sample image of the Doorway page for this Template. It is not required, but if you wish to include it, it will make selecting a Template easier. Take a screen shot of the page when built and trim it to 260 pixels wide by 85 pixels high. It is suggested that you save it to the AddWeb 4\Graphics\ directory.
Page Style HTML Source
This is the actual HTML source of the template page. From <html> to </html>, this page should include all aspects of the Template you wish to create or edit. The Variables can be inserted and will automatically be converted to the content of the associated Fields in Page Builder.
Available Variables
These Variables will automatically be converted to the content of the associated Fields in Page Builder. The Variables and associated Fields are listed below.
If No content is available for the associated field when the Doorway page is built, AddWeb 4 will remove reference to the Variable.
Variables
%AddWeb 4_TITLE% - Page Title
%AddWeb 4_META_FORWARDING% - Meta Refresh
%AddWeb 4_META_DESC% - Short Description (Meta Description)
These options are designed to modify your existing Home Page for better visibility to and in the search engines. If you edit your own website on your own computer and upload it to your web server, then you may use these options to enhance your website. If your pages do not exist on your hard drive and are only edited remotely or by someone else, you should contact the person that controls them in regards to any changes you want made.
Page to Edit
This is the folder on your hard drive of the web page you wish to edit.
Backup File Before Editing
Suggested option. This will make a copy of the current page before editing. You can identify this page by the .bak extension added to the end of the file name.
Create/Replace ALT Tags
If this is selected, Page Builder will add/edit any ALT tags on the page you are editing.
Create/Replace Meta Description
If this is selected, Page Builder will add/edit the Meta Description tag on the page you are editing.
Create/Replace Meta Keywords
If this is selected, Page Builder will add/edit Meta keywords tag on the page you are editing.
Create/Replace Title
If this is selected, Page Builder will add/edit the Title on the page you are editing.
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Take a look at the pages you have created or modified using Page Builder Plus.
Pages To Review
Selected Page
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Pages To Review
This is a list of the pages you have created or modified. You can see the folder they are stored in on your hard drive here as well. Select one with your cursor to view.
You can also select any of the pages to perform to view in your browser. To do so simply select the page you would like to view, and then click on the "View In Browser" button.
Page Advisor is also available here. Simply select the page you would like to Analyze and score, then click on the "Analyze" button. This is a truly important part of the process of creating winning Doorway Pages. Once Page Advisor's report show you changes you need to make your page, implement those changes in Page Builder Plus, then re-run the analysis.
Exporting your new Doorway Page to FrontPage(tm) is simple. Simply select the page you would like to export then click on the "Export to FrontPage" button.
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Selected Page
HTML To Review
You can view the HTML source for the pages you have edited here.
Save
If you make any changes to the page you are viewing, you can save these changes by clicking this button.
Cancel
This button will revert any changes you have made to the source in the current view to the page that was just built by Page Builder.
Analyze
This button will open the page you are currently viewing in Page Advisor and allow you to run an analysis on it.
View in browser
This button will open your default web browser to view the page you just made.
Export to FrontPage
Clicking on this button will start Microsoft FrontPage and directly export the doorway page into the program.
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Submission is a major aspect of the AddWeb 4 program. This is where you finally tell the world (or at least the search engines) about your website. Make sure that your Profile is set up properly and be sure you have uploaded any new or modified doorway pages to your web server.
Submission Common Buttons
These buttons are always visible during submission.
Submission Preparation
Who, what and where are you going to submit?
Submission Process
What is all this activity?
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These buttons are visible in the submission section. Some will be active or available either during preparation or active submission.
Submit
This button starts the process. Click it when you have your profiles selected for submission.
Reset
This will clear changes made on this screen. Primarily, the Profiles you have selected and any display of prior submission.
Cancel
This will stop a submission and bring the program back to a state where you can select Profiles to submit.
Pause
This will temporarily halt a submission.
Report
This button will bring you to a screen that will allow you to generate Reports on a selected Profile.
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Profiles
Profiles To Submit
To the right is a count of the number of Profiles queued for submission. Below is a list of those Profiles by name. Highlighting one of the profiles during the submission process will allow you to view the active statistics for that Profile.
Add
This button will open a dialog that allows you to select one or more Profile for submission.
Remove
This button will remove the selected Profile(s) from the Queue.
Load List
This button will allow you to select a saved List (or group) of Profiles for simple batch type submission.
Save List
This button will allow you to save the currently queued list of Profiles into a List for future batch type submissions.
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Selected Profile
View Results
These 3 options allow you to see the results of your submissions as they are happening. Select the profile you are interested in finding out about and these options will allow you to shift between the result types.
Successful
Selecting this allows you to view all successful submissions completed for the currently selected Profile.
Skipped
Selecting this allows you to view all submissions skipped due to a Broken Rule. AddWeb 4 automatically Skips any search engine that you attempt to submit to that should not be for some reason. The list of reasons are found Here.
Failed
Selecting this will show you all Submissions that Failed. Failures can be caused by the search engine having temporary or permanent problems, or by changing the submission requirements. Failures can also be caused by poor connections to the Internet. If you receive a high number of Failures, try reducing the Maximum Simultaneous submissions setting in Options.
Submission Details
These fields will only contain data during and just after submissions. Only the Timeout field can produce any effect during the submission.
Submission Progress
This status bar tells you at a glance what kind of progress you are making for the entire submission. When it reaches 100%, your entire submission process is complete.
Overall Success Rate
This status bar represents your percentage of success for All Profiles being submitted in the current submission run. i.e. If you submit 2 profiles and one gets 50% of the engines it submits to successful and the second gets 80% successful, the Overall Success rate will be 65%.
Profile Success Rate
This status bar tells you the success rate for the Profile currently selected in the Profiles to Submit section.
Profiles Completed
This field tells you the number of completed Profiles out of the Total number of Profiles currently in the submission queue
Elapsed Time
This is the total amount of time spent in the current submission run.
Time To Completion
This is the estimated time till the submission process is completed.
Submission Processes
This is a display of currently active individual submissions.
Process Number
This is a numeric representation of the individual submission processes.
Engine Name
This is the name of the search engine you are currently submitting to.
Bytes
This is the number of bytes sent to the search engine
Timeout
This will allow you to select an engine and cancel submission to it. A timeout will be considered a Failed submission.
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SiteStats LIVE(tm) allows you to easily analyze the traffic visiting your website. Once your account is set up, you will have easy access to information about your visitors like which search engine they came from, which keywords they used to find you, which country they are from, which site sends you the most traffic and much more!
Select Account
SiteStats LIVE account maintenance
Active Accounts
Options for each active account
View Statistics
View SiteStats LIVE Reports
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Each AddWeb 4 License includes a predetermined number SIteStats Live!(tm) accounts. Depending on the version of AddWeb 4 you purchased, you may have anywhere from one to ten available accounts. Each account gathers statistics on for one profile. Select the an account from this list to view information associated with it.
Select an Account
When accounts have been created, they will appear in this list. Select the Active Account you are interested in and you can then view or edit the settings and files associated with it.
Activate
When you receive your account ID, you can Activate your account by clicking on this button and entering the ID.
Delete
If you should decide the account is no longer of value to you, this button will allow you to delete it. Don't forget to remove the JavaScript in your pages first.
Find
If you lose information about your SiteStats account, click here and you will be prompted to restore it from the information stored on the SiteStats servers.
Create New Account
Title of Website or Company Name
This should be a fairly unique name that distinguishes this account from others may be tracking.
Your E-Mail Address
This E-mail address MUST be valid. Double check it for accuracy. Your SiteStats account ID will be mailed here and you will not be able to activate your account without this.
Password
As always, use a unique password here for access to your SiteStats account.
Domains to Generate Statistics for
Select the domains to track here. You do not need the full URL to specific pages, but any and all domains that SiteStats tracks for a single account will be treated as the same site for statistics purposes.
Create
This button will start the process of getting your website tracked. When all the account information above is filled out, click here. Then you can check your E-mail for your Account ID so you can activate it.
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Active Accounts
This area allows you to make changes to a SiteStats Live! account. You can also change vital information such as e-mail address and password associated with the account.
Account Information
These are the basic settings for your SiteStats Live! account.
Title
This is the name of the account. Usually the company name of the account you are tracking.
Password
This is the password for this SiteStats account.
Account Number
This is the account number of the account you are tracking.
Keyword Click Value
This is the value in cents (pennies) that you wish to apply to each hit your tracked pages receive from a search engine query. This is quite useful in tracking the value of advertising with search engines on targeted keyword advertising.
"Click Value" is crucial for tracking the value of your traffic. If you estimate that every 20 visitors to your site provides you with $50.00 in total sales, you might want to set this value 250 ($2.50) per visitor referred to your site by a keyword search on a search engine This provides you with a quick estimate of what your website traffic is worth in terms of dollars.
You can also reset any saved statistics on Keyword Click Value by clicking on the "Reset Statistics" button. Once statistics have been cleared, they cannot be restored again, so make sure that this is what you want to do.
E-Mail
This is the E-mail account associated with the SiteStats LIVE account.
Time Zone
This will help you localize times to your location rather than the SiteStats servers.
Domains
These are the domains that this SiteStats account is able to track for you. Hits to any tracked page in these domains will be combined for tracking statistics totals.
Modify Account
This allows you to change the Name, Password or E-mail address for this SiteStats account.
Reset Statistics
This will clear ALL previously gathered statistics for this account. Use this option with care.
Web Pages to Track
This section allows you to manage the pages you are tracking.
Backup
With this option selected, your pages will be backed up before modification. To restore the page outside of the SiteStats LIVE interface, locate the file and remove the '.bak' from the end of the file name.
View SiteStats JavaScript
This displays the JavaScript to be inserted into your web pages. You may not edit the script here. It is suggested that you not modify the script other than to relate the exact URL location of the page itself.
Select Web Pages
Browse your computer for your web pages with this interface. Then select the files you wish to insert the SiteStats JavaScript into. Double clicking on a file will open it in your web browser (if it is a web page) so you can find out if you are modifying the correct page.
Web Pages to Track
In order for SiteStats Live! to function properly, you must insert the SiteStats Live! JavaScript into each page you would like to gather statistics on. Simply inserting the code into your home page will only gather stats for the home page. Each page need the code to make it live.
To insert the SiteStats Live! code, simply select the web pages you want to track on the left side of the display and click on "Add Selected Files" You can add all the pages in a folder by clicking on "Add All FIles." By default, the "Backup each Web Page before adding SiteStats Javascript" is enabled. We highly recommend that you leave this box checked so that you can restore a backed-page in case of error.
To insert the code into your selected pages, simply click on the "Add Javascript" button below the file display on the right. You can also remove the SiteStats Live! JavaScript from any of your pages by clicking on the "Remove JavaScript" button at the bottom right.
Show
enter the file types you wish to have the ability to edit here. By default, SiteStats will edit .html and .htm files. Separate the file types by a semicolon (;) and do not use spaces.
Add Selected Files
The Select Files button will allow you to insert or remove the SiteStats JavaScript to or from the selected file(s).
Add All Files
The Select All button will allow you to insert or remove the SiteStats JavaScript to or from all pages in the currently selected directory on your hard drive.
Files to Process
This is a list of the chosen web pages to insert or remove the SiteStats JavaScript to or from.
Remove Selected Files
This button will remove the SiteStats JavaScript from the files listed in the Files to Process list.
Clear
This will remove all files from the Files to Process list.
Add JavaScript
This button will insert the SiteStats JavaScript into all pages selected in the Files to Process list.
Remove JavaScript
This button will remove the SiteStats JavaScript from all pages selected in the Files to Process list.
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Selected Account
This list will allow you to select the SiteStats account you wish to view statistics for.
Report to View
This list allows you to select the report type you wish to view.
View Report
This button displays the Report selected for the selected SiteStats account.
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When your page gets listed, you are going to know how well it is performing in the search engines according to your selected keywords and phrases. AddWeb 4's RankCheck feature allows you to find out easily. You will also find out how many times your website appears in selected search engines and how many people are linking to you. Both of which are valuable positioning statistics for some search engines.
Ranking Common Buttons
These buttons help you use the ranking process throughout.
Profile Ranking
Ranking for your Profile will allow you to save the information gathered for later reporting and comparative analysis.
Quick Ranking
Quickly check out a website's ranking without creating an entire Profile for it.
The Ranking Process
What's happening and what can I learn here?
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Rank
This button starts the Ranking process when the information has been entered.
Reset
This button clears all information entered or selected to allow a fresh start.
Cancel
This button will stop the Ranking process.
Pause
This button will temporarily halt the Ranking process.
Report
This button will open a dialog that allows you to generate Reports on selected Profiles.
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Perform a Profile Ranking
Select a saved Profile by clicking on the "Select Profile" button. A list of saved profiles will appear. Select one from this list and start the ranking process by clicking on the "Rank" button. As the ranking options and keywords have already been selected in the Profile Setup, there is no need to add any information here.
During the ranking process you can change the information that is displayed to you by clicking on one of the four radio buttons in the display under "Show Me:" You can change the display to show the following choices:
Ranking Position
This is the where you pages is positioned within a search engine index in terms of absolute rank from top, being number 1, to bottom. This is the number you typically think of your ranking as.
Ranking Page Number
Ranking page number displays the page number your listing is found on. Since some pages have more or less than ten listings per results page, this can be a good thing to know.
Link Count
Commonly referred to as 'Link Popularity', this is a display of the number of times the search engine has a reference of other websites linking to yours. This can have an impact on your position in some search engines.
URL Count
This is the number of times the search engine finds a listing for the URL in question within its indices.
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Perform a Quick Ranking
Quick rank is different than a Profile Ranking in that you must enter information to perform ranking with. A Profile rank simply performs a ranking based on saved information in a profile.
Engines to Rank On
Here you can select specific search engines to check your ranking on. Select individual search engines or all of them depending on your needs.
Website to Rank
This is the exact URL to search for when a ranking is performed. It is suggested that you do not use the HTTP:// in this field as it will restrict results for your URL and possibly exclude results for some search engines. Including the Sub-Directories (../products/goodstuff/index.html) of your website will also restrict listings, but may be preferred if you wish to narrow your ranking results.
Matching Unique Text
Unique Text is a portion of your title or early words in your description that is unique to your website or web page. This is tied in directly to the URL to search for and is required for some of the ranking results. Some search engines do not allow for some of the advanced methods of searching and substitute more specific word searches for these options.
Enter Keywords
This list tells AddWeb 4 what words are important to you in regards to checking how well you rank on a specific search engine. Enter one or more keywords here.
Depth
How many results do you want to see from each search engine when running a Ranking? This is that number. Keep in mind that the deeper you go, the more resources will be used on your computer.
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Show Me
These options allow you to see different information according to the selected keyword for the ranking currently being performed.
Ranking Position
This is the first position found for the website according to the selected keyword.
Ranking Page Number
As search engines display different amounts of results when a search is performed, AddWeb 4 displays the page number that the first result is found on.
Link Count
Commonly referred to as 'Link Popularity', this is a display of the number of times the search engine has a reference of other websites linking to yours. This can have an impact on your position in some search engines.
URL Count
This is the number of times the search engine finds a listing for URL in question within its indices.
Current Keyword
Results displayed are for a single keyword shown here.
Select a Keyword
To change the view to the results for a different keyword, click on the keyword you want information on in this list.
Currently Viewing
This displays the current type of information you are viewing. Select a different type of result in the Show Me section.
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Internet Search provides a simple method of viewing search results on the search engine through your default web browser. You can select a keyword or URL from a Profile or enter the information to search for manually.
Internet Searching
Quickly search for anything on the Internet
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General Search
The General Search allows you to search for a word or phrase as if you were typing the words into the search engine query directly. All normal search options are allowed.
URL Search
This option is designed to search specifically for the URL entered. Some search engines employ different methods of gathering this information.
Perform Search
This button launches your web browser and performs the requested search.
Search On This Engine
Select the search engine you wish to search.
Keywords or URL to Search For
Enter the search phrase you wish to search for here. Either words or URL.
Profiles
Select a Profile here to search for either the URL or one of the Profile's keywords which will be displayed to the right.
Selected Profile's Keyword
When a Profile is selected, you can choose from the saved keywords here.
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You can fully automate the submission and ranking process with AddWeb 4's built in Scheduler. You can set up your normal tasks here and let AddWeb 4 take care of the rest.
Default View
This allows you to see the details of your Scheduled Tasks.
Adding and Editing
Create and modify your Tasks here.
Running in Schedule Mode
What is required to let the Scheduler run?
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New
Click this button to create a new Scheduled Task.
Edit
Click this button to edit the currently selected Task.
Delete
Click here to delete the currently selected Task.
Disable
Click here to disable the currently selected Task. The Task will not run until it is Enabled again
Skip To Next Occurrence
Click this button to reschedule the selected repeating Task to the next scheduled occurrence.
Run Now
Force the Scheduled Task to run now.
Stop
Stop the currently active Scheduled Task.
Scheduler ON/OFF
Activate the Scheduler to run unattended or deactivate it to regain access to editing information in AddWeb 4.
Sort Tasks by Name
Arrange the list of Scheduled Tasks alphabetically.
Sort Tasks by Time
Arrange the list of Scheduled Tasks in order of next occurrence.
Delete Tasks when complete
Select this option to remove completed non-repeating Tasks from the list.
Task Name
This is the unique name of the Scheduled Task.
Action
This is the process the Scheduled Task is to perform.
Status
This tells you if the Scheduled Task is currently Scheduled, Running or Disabled.
Repeating
This displays, if applicable, how often the Scheduled Task will repeat.
Scheduled Time
This is the Date and Time the Scheduled Task is due to run next. If the time has passed, the Task will run when the Scheduler is turned on next.
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Save
Save changes to the Task currently being created or edited.
Cancel
Discard any changes to the Task currently being created or edited.
Task Name
The Unique name of the Task should be entered here.
Task Schedule
These settings define exactly when the Task should run.
Start this Task on
Select the Date and Time the Task should first run here. You may schedule the time to each half hour.
Run this Task one time only
Select this option if the task should not be repeated and will only run one time.
Repeat this Task
Select this option if the task should be run more than once. Select the Time of day here as well as the frequency.
Daily
Daily offers you variants on how many days between running the Task.
Repeat Days
Select a number of days between running the Task. A 1 in this field will repeat the Task every day.
Repeat Week days
Select this option to run the Task once per day every Monday through Friday.
Weekly
Weekly offers you variants on how many days between running the Task according to a weekly schedule.
Repeat Weeks
This number is how many Weeks between running the Task. 1 week will repeat the Task every week on the selected day.
On these days
Select the day(s) of the week to run the Task on.
Monthly
Monthly offers you variants on how many days between running the Task according to a Monthly Schedule.
Repeat on Day of Month
There are two choices here. You can either schedule for a specific date in each month. Such as the 6th on alternating months (Jan. 6th, March 6th, May 6th...). Or you can schedule Monthly by weeks. This would be Every 3rd Friday of the month or something along those lines.
Task Actions
This section defines what the Task should do.
Single Profile
This option will allow you to Schedule a Task for a single saved Profile.
Profile List
This option will allow you to Schedule a Task for a group of saved Profiles.
Task Details
Select Profile Name
Select your saved Profile from this list.
Rank the selected Profile
This defines the Task as a Ranking process and will use the Ranking settings in the saved Profile to automatically Rank the Profile on all Ranking engines.
Submit the selected Profile
This defines the Task as a submission process and will use the submission settings in the saved Profile to automatically Submit the Profile to all preselected search engines.
Generate a Master Report
Selecting this will record the Tasks activities to the Scheduler Log file.
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While the Scheduler is active (ON), you will not be able to access any other section of AddWeb 4. This is to help prevent corruption in the various databases that the active Tasks may be accessing. Changes to any of these databases during an active Task could destroy the Profile, Ranking database or submission database.
Start in Scheduled Mode
You can run the Scheduler automatically. The only requirement for this is an active Internet connection. Select, in the Options section, to Start AddWeb 4 in Scheduled mode and it will start with your computer an run minimized.
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Because most website owner do not host their own sites, it is usually necessary to upload the pages that comprise your website to your web hosting provider. When you upload files, it is the exact opposite as a download. Instead of transferring a file from a remote computer to yours, you are transferring a file from your computer to another. The web hosting provider usually has folder on their computer that is assigned to your website. Be sure to upload your files to your specific folder(s).
AddWeb 4 offers you the ability to send your web pages to your web server through File Transfer Protocol (FTP). If you are using Microsoft FrontPage, You will not be using AddWeb 4's FTP feature for uploads. Use the uploading feature built into FrontPage.
If you have filled in the FTP settings fields in AddWeb 4 in the Profiles section, you can easily fill in the required information information for FTP by clicking on the "Populate from Profile" button.
Login and Proxy
Information required for Login and Proxy options
Uploading
Upload your pages to your web server
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FTP Login Information
Populate
This button will automatically fill out the fields with the FTP Server information directly from a saved Profile.
Login
This button will tell AddWeb 4 to establish a connection with the FTP server selected.
Logout
This button will disconnect you from the FTP Server you are currently connected to.
FTP Server
This is the URL name of the FTP server. i.e. ftp.cyberhq.com
Port
Different types of connections use different 'Ports'. The default port for a normal web server is 80 and the default port for an FTP Server is 21
User Name
Logins to FTP Servers require a name and password. This is the name field for login.
Password
Logins to FTP Servers require a name and password. This is the password field for login.
Proxy
No Proxy
In most cases, you will not need a Proxy server. This will, most likely, be true if you are connecting from home through a single computer connection (Dialup, DSL, Cable...).
Passive
Some Proxy Servers allow connection out through them for uploads without a strict Login. If this is the case with your connection, select this.
Proxy
Some Proxy Servers require logins for any activity with the internet. Select this if this is the case with your connection.
Proxy Server
This is location of the Proxy Server you connect to the Internet through. Either IP address or named address. Your Network Administrator will tell you this information if you do not know.
Proxy Port
This is the Port your Proxy Server uses to allow connections through it. If you do not know your proxy port number, please contact your LAN or Network Administrator.
Login Required
If you need to Login to your proxy server for uploading with FTP, check this option. Some proxy servers allow you to perform actions through the internet just so you go through them for monitoring. Please ask your Network Administrator form more information.
Proxy User Name
If Login to your proxy server is required for FTP Uploads, enter your Login Name here. If you are sure what your Proxy User Name is, ask your Network Administrator.
Proxy Password
If Login to your Proxy Server is required for FTP Uploads, enter your Login Password here. If you are not sure what your Proxy Password is, please ask your Network Administrator.
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Upload Using FTP
Now that your connection settings are in place, you can upload any new or modified web pages.
Prompt Before Over-Writing Existing Files
Select this to display a warning message before replacing a web page that is already on your web server. (Suggested)
Select Files To Upload
Browse your computer with this interface to locate the web pages or folder you wish to upload to your web server. Double clicking on a file in this view will run it.
Remote Directory
This is the FTP Server's directories for your website. The Tree View will allow you to easily navigate your site and place your web pages in the correct folder.
Upload Selected
This button will start the upload to the FTP server for any/all files selected above.
Upload All
This button will start the Upload to the FTP Server for all files in the current Directory above.
Create Directory
This button will allow you to create a new directory on your FTP Server (if this option is available to you from your web Host).
Delete
This button will allow you to delete the selected directory or file on your FTP Server (if this option is available to you from your web Host). Use this option with extreme care!
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The Options Screen is where you enter general AddWeb 4 settings that relate to your connection, the look and feel, and the overall operation of AddWeb 4. You will see that these settings are crucial to proper operation of many program functions later.
Proxy/Firewall options
E-mail Options
HTTP Settings
WAV Sounds
Scheduling Options
Other Options
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Use Proxy Server
If you don't know what a proxy server is, don't worry. You don't need to know what it is to run AddWeb 4. You simply need to know if you connect through one. If you are unsure, simply call your internet provider or network administrator and ask if you are connecting through a proxy server to access the internet. They will know. If you are, ask them what the Server Name is, What the Server Port is, and if a Username and Password are used to connect to it.
If you are connecting through a Proxy server, simply click on the checkbox next to the words Proxy Server and enter the information. You may not need a user name and password for the proxy server, so don't worry if you are only given a Server Name and Port Number.
Server Name
This is the URL location of your Proxy Server as seen from your computer.
Port
This is the Port number for your Proxy Server.
Proxy User Name
This is your Proxy Server login name.
Proxy Password
This is your Proxy Server login password.
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AddWeb 4 has the ability to create reports based on the work it does. One of the features is to send these reports via e-mail. In order to send E-Mail, AddWeb 4 will need to know how to send through your computer. AddWeb 4 also uses E-Mail for some of the submissions it makes. If you are not sure what to enter here, your internet provider or network administrator will be able to help. You may also be able to look in the settings of your normal e-mail program for this information.
SMTP Server
This is the computer that your e-mail goes through after it leaves your computer. Think of it as a post office. Your normal e-mail program is configured to use the SMTP server that your network or internet provider provides. AddWeb 4 needs to be configured with this as well. If you are unsure, ask your internet provider or network administrator.
Mail From Address
This should be your e-mail address. This way, when you send a report or submission through e-mail, the recipient can reply to you.
Mail From Name
You may have noticed in your normal e-mail program that where it says your incoming mail is from isn't always an e-mail address, but it shows a real name. That information exists to make it easier to identify who is sending you mail. When you send an AddWeb 4 Report or submission via E-Mail, you should decide what name it says the report is from. Enter that here.
Default Subject
This is the subject that will show in the e-mail containing reports. You will be able to override this at times in AddWeb 4, but in most cases, this is what will appear in the subject line.
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Timeout HTTP after how many seconds
The value in this field will tell AddWeb 4 how many seconds it will wait for a connection to each engine it submits to. The default is 120 seconds, but if you get many failed submissions, you will want to increase the value. Since AddWeb 4 can do many submissions at the same time, your internet connection speed is shared between all of the open connections. Imagine you have AddWeb 4 set to do 60 simultaneous submissions (threads), and you have a 33.6K internet connection. That would mean that each submission get's 1/60th of it... or about 0.5K. At that rate, each submission is running at only 500 bytes per second maximum speed.
For the above reason, some individual submissions may take a long time to complete, and the 120 second timeout may not be sufficient if you are running many simultaneous submissions (threads).
If you find many failures, you may try increasing this value.
Maximum Simultaneous Submissions
While this was explained a bit in the timeout section, we will explain more here. Each thread AddWeb 4 uses allows it to do another simultaneous submission. So if you are submitting to 10 engines, and you set the threads to 5, AddWeb 4 will start by submitting to 5 engines at the same time. As AddWeb 4 completes the first 5, it will do the next 5. Imagine you had 5 web browsers open and wanted to go to 10 web pages. You could have the browsers get the first 5 at the same time, and as each browser completes, it takes another one of the remaining 5.
This makes AddWeb 4 very fast. However, there are limitations based on your internet connection speed and your computer configuration. Each thread takes more of your computer's resources and more of your internet bandwidth. So if you have a slow connection, a slow computer, or little memory, you will have to lower this value. If you are using more threads (and too low a timeout value from the section above) than your connection or computer can handle, you will end up with alot of failed submissions.
Following is a general guideline for this setting. It may or may not be sufficient for you, but it is a good place to start. In all examples we assume 32 megabytes of memory. If you have less memory, use a lower value:
Connection Computer Threads to Use
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28.8 Pentium 166 5 - 10
33.6 Pentium II 10 - 20
56K Pentium 166 10 - 20
56K Pentium II 20 - 30
ISDN Pentium 166 30 - 40
ISDN Pentium II 40 - 60
DSL/Cable/T1+ Pentium 166+ 60
Remember that the timeout value is very relative to the value you enter here.
Maximum Simultaneous Rankings
This is the number of search engines will run Ranking with simultaneously. When one search engine has been completed, another one will fill its place until all search engines have completed the Ranking process.
Delete Failures
If a search engine fails to accept submissions this many times in succession, it will automatically be removed from the search engine list.
Retry Failed Submissions
If a search engine fails during submission, AddWeb 4 will automatically retry it this many times before concluding a failure.
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You may wish to have AddWeb 4 play a sound when a submission is finished. If so, simply enter the path (or click the browse button to the right of the field) to a wav sound you would like to have AddWeb 4 play. The wav sound you put in the 'After Each Site Run' field will be played as soon as a website submission has completed. The wav sound you put in the 'After All Submissions Complete' field will play when AddWeb 4 has finished all website submissions you have queued. The later is convenient if you plan on submitting multiple websites at the same time.
After Each Site Run
This selected WAV sound will play after each Profile has completed a submission.
After All Submissions Complete
This selected WAV sound will play after all Profiles queued have completed submission.
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Start in Scheduler Mode
Selecting this option will create a link in your Programs / StartUp folder and allow AddWeb 4 to launch minimized with Windows. The Scheduler will automatically be turned on and any Scheduled Tasks will run at their programmed times. Deselecting this option will remove the link from your StartUp.
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Show Update Status
Selecting this option will prevent the AddWeb 4 Startup notice from displaying when updates are not available. Updates will still be checked for and if available, this notice will appear.
Suppress Notification
Selecting this option will prevent the "Broken Rules Notification" message from appearing after each submission. Not recommended.
.topic 4112
These are the Menu Items displayed across the top of AddWeb 4 just below the Title bar.
File
When you click on the "File" menu, a menu will drop down that allows you to exit the program. Another important selection here is the "Check for Updates" selection. By selecting this menu choice, AddWeb 4 4 checks for any updates to the program as well as any other program related information that can be updated. Items that can be updated include: The AddWeb 4 program code, engine database, RankCheck scripts, Page Advisor tips, Page Advisor scripts. AddWeb 4 automatically checks for updates every time you start it. However, if you would like to force an update check, please use this menu selection
Features
The "Features" drop down menu presents you with the same icons you can find on the vertical AddWeb 4 Menu Bar, with one important difference. The "AddWeb 4 Overview" selection is found here where it is not presented on the AddWeb 4 Menu Bar. Another way that you can get to "AddWeb 4 Overview" is by clicking on the "Click Here For Help" button at the top of the AddWeb 4 Menu Bar. The "AddWeb 4 Quick Help" menu will appear. At the top of "AddWeb 4 Quick Help," you will find a control that allows you to navigate to other parts of the program within the "Quick Help" area. You will find a selection here for "AddWeb 4 Overview" as well.
Scheduling
The Scheduler drop-down menu allows you to enable and disable scheduling mode. When Scheduler is enabled to run queued task, you will not be able to navigate to other sections of the AddWeb 4 program until you disable scheduling. You can also view Scheduler's logs by selecting "View Scheduler Log."
Options
From the Options drop-down menu you can quickly access the "Preferences" area of AddWeb 4. There is also a selection that allows you to enter your registration ID and registration #.
Tutorials
Each of the AddWeb 4 Tutorials are available from this menu. You can quickly access tutorials from any part of the program by selecting a tutorial here.
Help
The first selection in this drop-down menu is the "AddWeb 4 Overview." Go to this area of the program first to quickly get oriented with all of AddWeb 4's new features. You can also access the detailed AddWeb 4 help file by selecting "Help."
Non-registered users of AddWeb 4 can purchase the program via our secure servers by clicking on "Order AddWeb 4 via Secure Online Server." If you have recently purchased the program and would like to enter your Registration ID and Registration #, you can do so by selecting "Enter Registration Number."
Other menu selections in the Help drop-down menu allow you to quickly go to the CyberspaceHQ website ( www.cyberspacehq.com ), and most importantly send technical support questions via email to the "AddWeb 4 Support Staff."
.topic 4113
When you click on the "File" menu, a menu will drop down that allows you to exit the program. Another important selection here is the "Check for Updates" selection. By selecting this menu choice, AddWeb 4 4 checks for any updates to the program as well as any other program related information that can be updated.
Items that can be automatically updated include: The AddWeb 4 program code, engine database, RankCheck scripts, Page Advisor tips, Page Advisor scripts. AddWeb 4 automatically checks for updates every time you start it. However, if you would like to force an update check, please use this menu selection
Check For Updates
This tells AddWeb 4 to connect to the Update Server to ensure that you are using the latest version of AddWeb 4 with the latest databases and scripts.
Exit
This will close AddWeb 4.
.topic 4712
The "Features" drop down menu presents you with the same icons you can find on the vertical AddWeb 4 Menu Bar, with one important difference. The "AddWeb 4 Overview" selection is found here where it is not presented on the AddWeb 4 Menu Bar. Another way that you can get to "AddWeb 4 Overview" is by clicking on the "Click Here For Help" button at the top of the AddWeb 4 Menu Bar. The "AddWeb 4 Quick Help" menu will appear. At the top of "AddWeb 4 Quick Help," you will find a control that allows you to navigate to other parts of the program within the "Quick Help" area. You will find a selection here for "AddWeb 4 Overview" as well.
AddWeb 4 Overview
This will display the help overview for the entire program.
Profile Setup
Complete information about your website(s) will be entered and edited here.
Page Advisor
This will tell you how your website will look to the search engines and what to do about it.
Page Builder
Create and modify pages for better search engine visibility.
Submission
Let the search engines know about you.
SiteStats LIVE
Monitor your traffic to help you focus on better presence.
Ranking
Find out where you are in the search engines according to the keywords that are important to you.
Internet Search
Perform special searches on selected search engines.
Scheduling
Run AddWeb 4 unattended.
FTP Upload
Send your web Pages up to your web server.
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ON
Activate the Scheduler to run hands free.
OFF
De-activate the Scheduler to add or modify information in AddWeb 4.
View Scheduler Log
This displays the events (Scheduled Tasks performed) in the Master Schedule Report.
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Preferences
Opens the AddWeb 4 preferences where you can edit your e-mail info and fine tune AddWeb for best performance.
Order AddWeb 4 Via Secure Online Server
Takes you to the AddWeb order website.
Enter Registration Number
Once you purchase AddWeb, this is where you enter your registration number.
.topic 4739
This section includes articles written by Cyberspace HQ and search engine positioning professionals to help you maximize your experience with AddWeb.
.topic 4115
This section is a Walk-Through and a must read for all new users of AddWeb 4.
Profile Setup Tutorial
Compile all of my website's information into a Profile for submission.
Page Advisor Tutorial
Learn how to easily determine my sites potential in the search engines.
Page Builder Tutorial
Modify My existing page or create a Doorway to perform well in the search engines.
Submission Tutorial
Now it is time to send my website information to the search engines.
SiteStats LIVE Tutorial
Where is my traffic coming from? Where are people finding me?
Ranking Tutorial
Where do I stand with my keywords and compared to my competition?
Internet Search Tutorial
Check major search engines for your website and perform keyword searches.
Scheduling Tutorial
Can I keep submitting regularly?
FTP Upload Tutorial
How do I get my pages to my web server?
Preferences Tutorial
These settings are required to operate AddWeb 4 properly.
Reporting Tutorial
Time to see what AddWeb 4 has done for me. (advanced reporting features in premium versions)
Extras
AddWeb 4 Primer
What is AddWeb 4 about and how do I use it?
Options Tutorial
How do I set all of this up?
Menu Items Tutorial
What do these words at the top of the program mean?
Website Primer
What should be done to or with my website to prepare it for the search engines?
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AddWeb 4 Overview
This will open the AddWeb 4 Help Overview screen.
Help
This opens this Help file.
About AddWeb 4
This will open the About Window and contains Copyright and other information
Show AddWeb 4 Hints
If this is selected, Popup hints will automatically be displayed when your mouse hovers over different parts of AddWeb 4.
Order AddWeb 4 via Secure Online Server
This opens your default web browser and takes you to the AddWeb 4 Order Page.
Enter Registration Number
Once you have purchased AddWeb 4 and have your Registration information, Select this to enter it into AddWeb 4 and take advantage of fully registered use.
AddWeb 4 Home Page
This opens your default web browser and takes you to the AddWeb 4 Home Page.
Cyberspace HQ Home Page
This opens your default web browser and takes you to the Cyberspace HQ Home Page.
AddWeb 4 Technical Support Options
This opens your default web browser and takes you to the AddWeb 4 Technical Support Home Page.
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One of AddWeb 4's strengths lie in it's ability to generate detailed reports on all of the promotion activities you have undertaken using the program. There are several types of reports for each area that offers reporting. Take the time to view all of these reports as they can be very helpful in planning your website promotion strategy. Advanced version of AddWeb 4 including Platinum, Pro and Enterprise can automatically generate reports upon completion of several promotion tasks. Using Scheduler to run unattended tasks such as submission and RankCheck sessions, along with automatic reporting offers you a total solution to effortlessly perform third-party submissions. Simply queue a submission or RankCheck session in Scheduler and select e-mail reporting. A submission or RankCheck report will be mailed to the third-party at the conclusion of the scheduled task, automatically.
Description of Report Fields
Submission Reports
Page Advisor(tm) Reports
Ranking Reports
SiteStats Reports
.topic 4730
Auto-Reporting settings can be accessed by first clicking on the Profile Setup Icon in the AddWeb 4 Menu Bar, and then clicking on the tab "Auto-Reporting." Please note that Auto Reporting is only available in the Platinum, Pro and Enterprise versions of AddWeb 4.
Select Report Type to Automate
This allows you to select the type of report you wish to generate. Text will generate ASCII text reports, HTML will generate reports formatted for a web browser, and E-Mail will generate reports that AddWeb 4 can E-Mail.
ASCII Text
ASCII Text is the standard method of viewing raw text in most computers. This type of report will be viewed in Notepad if possible. If a report is too large for your computer to view through Notepad, it is likely that you will be asked to view the Report in Wordpad or Word.
E-Mail
E-mailing Reports to your website Owners can save a lot of time and effort. E-mail Reports are created as ASCII Text and sent automatically to the Reports E-mail address associated with the Profile.
HTML
HTML reports are designed to be viewed in a web browser such as MS Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. They are designed to be pleasing to the eye and easy to read and navigate.
Report Style to Automate
This is the look and feel of the Reports AddWeb 4 generates for you. AddWeb 4 comes with a single Report Style (Default). Some people will create a new Style of reports and submit them to Cyberspace HQ for download by others. To send us Report Styles, upload it to ftp://ftp.cyberhq.com/newstyles/ (anonymous login). Include a readme.txt file with your name and URL (E-mail address if you wish to be contacted by those that download it). To download new Styles, go to ftp://ftp.cyberhq.com/getstyles/.
To make new Styles, please click here.
Custom Reporting
In the Platinum, Pro and Enterprise versions, you can write your own report styles and scripts. We give you access to our reporting engine through the use of variables that you can use in your own HTML pages! All you have to do is place the HTML page (or text) in the proper directory and let it go! There is a learning process involved in using this feature because of the power behind it.
Available Reports in Selected Style
Once you have selected a report style, all reports available in the style will appear in this list. Simply click on the report you wish to generate. Note that when you click on the report, the description appears below in the Report Description section.
Send E-Mail Reports to:
If you have selected to generate E-Mail reports, you should enter the E-Mail address you wish to send the reports to in this field.
Automated Report Options
These are settings associated with the Report Type selected.
Text Report Dir:
If you have selected to generate a ASCII Text Report , this field specifies the folder it will be saved in. The browse button allows you to find a directory on your hard drive.
HTML Reports Dir:
This is the folder on your hard drive that HTML reports will be saved to. You may browse your hard drive for a different folder to store these reports if you like.
Path to Images:
This tells AddWeb 4 where to find any custom graphic that will be used in reports.
Logo Image:
URL on Reports:
Name on Reports:
Send E-Mail Reports To:
This is the E-mail address any E-mail Reports will be sent to. It is the same e-mail address that is included in the website Owner section of Profile Setup.
Custom Message for E-Mail Reports
You can enter a custom message here for E-Mail report recipients. This can be any message you like. Simply enter your personalized message in the available space.
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Submission Reports settings are specified in during Profile setup. You can generate Submission Reports by clicking on the "Report" button at the top of the AddWeb 4 display.
Submission Reports
Submission reports reveal a wealth of information about your submission sessions for each of your profiles. You will find in the report, the following information: Number of times submitted in total, number times successfully submitted to each specific resource, number of times a resource has been unsuccessfully submitted to, total submissions and much more. You can also view the entire engine database list by viewing these reports.
.topic 4735
To generate a RankCheck Report, simply click on the "Report" button at the top of
AddWeb 4's display. Platinum, Pro and Enterprise versions of AddWeb 4 can generate RankCheck Reports automatically.
Ranking Reports
One aspect of managing your website promotion is to make sure that your website gets to the top of the list, using the Search Engine Positioning advice Page Advisor's report gives you. It is however, just as important to maintain that position over time. RankCheck reports, used with the RankCheck feature allows you to see your website's position over time on several major search engines at once. The reports will show you in graphs and charts as well as text, the ranking trends for your site.
You can also view in RankCheck reports, something called "Link Count." Link Count can affect your positioning on some engines and you can use RankCheck to display you link counts on supported engines. Usually the higher the link count to you, the better. If a particular search engine you submit to is appearing as an engine where you are not indexed, check to see that you have filled in all of the information fields in the "Profile" areas of AddWeb 4. In certain engines, AddWeb 4 must use "Unique Text" to find your website's ranking. If the Unique Text area in Profiles is blank, RankCheck may not be able to find you.
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When you run the PageAdvisor, you will notice small icons with question marks. These icons will take you to detailed documentation on the Page Advisor.
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SiteStats Live! Reports
The SiteStats Live! report present you with complete and detailed information about the visitor browsing your website. This information can be used to determine what strategies you need to take to increase traffic to your website. There are a variety of reports SiteStats Live! generates. Each report is tailored to present you with specific statistics. View each report type to get a full understanding of the traffic visiting your site.
Types of SiteStats Live! Reports
Page View Statistics
Last 20 Visitors
Page View Detail
Search Engine Keywords
Top Remote Domain Visits
Top Remote Address Visits
Top Browser Visits
Top Country Visits
Top Operating System Visits
.topic 4731
Page View Statistics show the number of Users Session stored in your database. A User Session Is an estimate of unique visits to your web pages. If a person goes to one of your pages, then immediately visits several other pages on your site, the User Session numbers will only increment once. However, if the leaves your site then comes back several minutes later, the count will be incremented again.
These statistics can be far more valuable than simply "Hit Counts," which make it very difficult o know how many actual visitors are viewing your page.
Note that these numbers only represent the number of visitors that have visited at least one web page that has the AddWeb 4 SiteStats LIVE code on it.
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This report displays the last twenty unique visitors who have visited a web page with SiteStats LIVE code embedded into it.
Each item is explained in detail below.
Time:
The time of their visit according to the time zone you have selected in your Profile.
Country:
If there is a host name associated with their Internet IP address, the country represents the extension in the name. For example, if their address is associated with a .COM name, their country statistic will say "US Commercial." If their address is associated with a .UK name, their country statistic will show "United Kingdom." Sometimes there is no host name to gather this data from. In such cases this field will be blank.
Remote IP:
This is the Internet IP address of the computer a visitor used to browse your site. Some computers will have a dedicated address, and others will change every time they log onto the internet.
Remote Host:
This is the host name associated with the IP address. Sometimes there is no associated name, so this will not always have data.
Browser:
This is the web browser used by this visitor to visit your site. This information can help you gauge which web browsers you should support.
Referred By:
This is one of the most important pieces of information in the SiteStats LIVE Report. It tells you where the visitor was immediately before they visited your site. If the visitor typed your address into the browser instead of clicking on a link, this will simply show the address they typed in. If they went to a page on your site that didn't have SIteStats LIVE code, it will also display your site.
You can view the actual page they were on just before visiting you by clicking on the URL under "Referred By."
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The Page View Detail Report displays the total number of page views on each of your pages tracked by SiteStats LIVE. The "page Views" column shows how many times someone actually viewed the page. The "Unique Visitors" column shows how many times that page was the first page the visitor viewed on your website. Note that this can only count pages that have the SiteStats LIVE code on it first. the first page that has the code will be the first page they viewed.
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The Search Engine Keyword Report displays a list of search engines and keywords that were used to visit your pages. If the user goes to a search engine which is contained in the SiteStats LIVE database, and goes to one of the pages with SiteStats LIVE code on it as a result of their search, the keyword/keyphrase used, as well as the search engine code will be listed.
The value column allows you to calculate your perceived value of search engine generated traffic. You can change the value used in this report in the SiteStats LIVE settings. This helps you gauge return on investment you are getting from your search engine listings. Compare this to the ROI on paid advertising.
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This report displays the remote domain of the last 250 unique visitors to your site. It shows which ISP's your most frequent users arrive from.
Click on any of the ISP names to display a list from that ISP. You can click again on the URL for each user to view the actual page they were viewing before they visited your site.
.topic 4741
This report displays the Internet IP address of the computer used by a visitor to your site. Some computers have a dedicated (fixed) IP address while others can change every time a user logs onto a new Internet session.
Click on an IP address to view details on that address.
.topic 4742
When a user visits your site, the browser they use generally identifies itself with something called the "User Agent" header. This generally tells your web server which browser the user has, which version, what operating system, etc. While the User Agent doesn't always reveal the browser type, most of the time it does. This report shows you known web browsers used by your visitors. If the browser was not identified, it will fall under the "Unknown" category.
Note that MSIE refers to Microsoft Internet Explorer(tm) and Mozilla refers to the Netscape/AOL(tm) browser.
.topic 4743
If there is a host name associated with their Internet IP address, the country represents the extension in the name. For example, if their address is associated with a .COM name, their country statistic will say "US Commercial." If their address is associated with a .UK name, their country statistic will show "United Kingdom." Sometimes there is no host name to gather this data from. In such cases this field will be blank
.topic 4744
When a user visits your site, the browser they use generally identifies itself with something called the "User Agent" header. This generally tells your web server which browser the user has, which version, what operating system, etc. While the User Agent doesn't always reveal the browser type, most of the time it does. This report shows you known web browsers used by your visitors. If the operating system was not identified, it will fall under the "Unknown" category.
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Starting off in Engine Builder, you will find that the left hand portion of the program is a list of engines, and a few options. This section is accessible throughout the program.
At the top you will see general statistics on your engines.
Submits To:
This tells you the number of submissions your engine list accounts for. This is inclusive to any Server Side Submissions you have created.
Engine Records:
This tells you the total number of engines included in your list. Each entry counts for 1 here.
Current Engine:
This tells you where you are in your list. If you are currently viewing the 5th entry in your engine list, this field will display the number five.
The next field you will see is a list of the names of the engines in you list. Use this field to select the engine you wish to edit. You will also see the name of the currently selected engine at the bottom of this field.
Posted:
This is the number of times that the selected engine has been submitted to in total through AddWeb 4.
Succeeded:
This is the number of times that the selected engine has been Successfully submitted to.
Failed:
This is the number of times that the selected engine has returned a failed submission result.
Flush to Disk on Exit
This check box allows you to automatically save any changes you make when you close Engine Builder.
Add Engine
This button starts the process of adding an engine to your engine list.
Delete Engine
This button will remove the selected engine from your list permanently.
Flush changes to Disk
This button will save any changes you have made to your engine list when clicked.
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When you find a Web Form in a search engine or link directory, etc... that you wish to include in your AddWeb submissions, you will first want to note the Name of the site, the Home Page URL and the Web Form URL.
Click on the Add Engine button and enter The engine name in the Engine Name field. Also, insert the Home Page URL and Form URL into the appropriate fields.
Then you will want to provide a brief description and define the length of time the engine is expected to post submissions. This is probably a good time to determine where you want to categorize this engine.
NOTE: Engine Group and Engine Category will NOT allow for duplicate names. Creating duplicate names can cause unwanted results.
Go to the form page and open the HTML source of that page.
You will first want to search for the word 'action'. This is a common method of locating the Form Action URL or a portion of it. If the form action is not a complete URL, combine it with the current URL in the address bar of your browser. Adjust placement of relative URL with the current URL according to how the relative URL is inserted.
Enter the complete URL into Engine BNuiolders Action URL field. You will also see the action method as either a GET or a POST. Select the action method accordingly.
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Now that you have the locations set up, you will want to determine what information is requested by the web form.
Form Fields
You will see the Form Fields area in the lower section of the Engine Submission Data tab. Look in the source of the web form you just got the action URL from. Between Form Action and </form> in the page, you will find all of the form fields associated with the action. These include <options> and Hidden inputs.
Variables
Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to locate each and every input field within the form. Copy/paste the input name into the Name field in the Form Fields section, place the cursor into the Values field and select the appropriate value from the Variables List.
You may double-click on the variable or click the Add Variable button below. Some inputs may require multiple variables and Engine Builder allows you to place these as needed.
Referrer
You will find the Referrer field below the Form Fields section. This should contain the referring URL for the Action. This is most commonly the Form URL.
Cookies
The Cookies field will be right next to that. You will want to include the direct cookies request for the submission. If you are not conversant in cookies and tracking them, you may wish to submit the engine to us for standard inclusion in the AddWeb Engines database.
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The second tab in Engine Builder contains various filters and limitations that should apply to the engine you are currently adding.
Thresholds
First are the various thresholds that many engines will place on their submissions.
These limits should be quite apparent and you will find which limits apply to this engine by reading thier submission rules.
Allow Site Types
Most engines will readily inform you if they accept submissions from Adult sites or MLM sites. Select the type of sites allowed in the engine in the Allowed Sites section.
Allowed Domains
Some engines restrict submissions to only a specific group of domain types. You may find a search engine that only accepts submissions from charitable organizations. You could probably restrict submissions to .org domains for this.
Server Side Submission Count
In the upper right hand section, you are presented with a field asking you how many engines a submission to this engine will affect. You may find some FFA engines that distribute their submissions to multiple sites. Enter the number of sites the distribution affects here.
Fail Words
Just below that, you will find the option to fail submissions based on responses from the submission. Select this check box and enter words found on the failure page for the submission. You can usually find these words by trying to submit without a URL entered into the form on the website. Be sure the words you select are NOT on the success page!
Submit Type
Next, you will see the Multi-Submit Handling section. Although most submissions are made through HTTP Posts and Gets, some are made through E-mail. Enter the address to send the submission to, the subject of the submission letter and the body of the message. You can use the Variable List to help you compose the letter.
Allowed Countries
Finally, you may also restrict submissions by the country of focus for the website. You will find that some search engines will only accept submissions from a limited number of countries or regions. By default this setting is 'All', but you can select as many countries as required by the search engine and web sites focused in other countries will not be able to submit there.
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AddWeb allows you to define your website by category. Most searh engines have a VERY limited category selection compared to what AddWeb offers. Other engines may have a more extensive listing also. The Category translation tab allows you to enter the values that the engine you are working in relation to AddWeb's selection options.
You will find a list of AddWeb's categories on the left hand portion of this tab and empty fields on the right. The empty fields are for the values of the engines categories.
Look at the category for AddWeb and determine the engines category that most closely fits there.
If you find that you are entering the same category over and over into the list, copy the category name into your clipboard (highlight and depress CTRL-C) and when you go down the list, hit the F11 key to insert that name into the selected field.
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We have spent a great deal of time and effort in developing a product that performs well and runs error free. No matter how well a product is developed, problems do arise from time to time and not all situations can be accounted for. As you will see in the following pages, Cyberspace HQ has developed a method of supplying technical support in a simple straight forward manner. These methods have been employed for quite some time and they work. Please read on to understand more about these methods.
Our Techical Support Philosophy
Free Technical Support
Fee Based Technical Support
About our Technical Support Request Form
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At Cyberspace HQ, we are committed to offering multiple levels of technical support to our customers.
The available avenues of help are as follows:
Help and Support Documentation
In order to increase efficiency, we have invested a great deal of resources into providing very comprehensive documentation, tutorials, online help resources, etc. Before seeking live support, please check our frequently asked questions, knowledge base and help documentation. 99% of all issues can be resolved more quickly this way.
Form-Based Support
For users that have expired the above options and still need help, they may fill out our Technical Support Request Form. This form will open a support case in our database, which will be addressed by a tech support representative. Your request will be answered in order of assigned priority and receipt. Priority levels are described below.
Telephone Support
We offer 30 days free telephone support for all customers. In order to make your technical support experience go as smoothly as possible, we request that you initiate it by filling out the Technical Support Request Form. If your free support period is over, we also offer fee based telephone support.
Telephone support does not include training.
Technical Support Priority Levels
When you initiate a support request, we will assign your case a priority level as soon as a representative sees it. The priority levels are as follows:
High Priority
Registered users with mission critical issues.
Medium Priority
Registered users with issues that are not mission critical.
Low Priority
Unregistered users.
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Free mail-based technical support is available through our web-based technical support form on our website. We ask that you seek answers by alternative means before contacting our support department so that we can better help those that cannot find answers elsewhere. Please see Our Technical Support Philosophy before reading on.
First be sure you have read the documentation completely. It would be conservative to say that more than 99% of our technical support requests are based on questions found in this help file.
Second, please consult our online documentation, Frequently Asked Questions and Knowledge Base at:
http://www.cyberspacehq.com/support/addweb
When we run across a question or issue that is not covered in this help file, we typically put it there.
Lastly, if you really looked at the documentation and the online help sources, return to our website and fill out the technical support request form. If there are ever any known major issues, we will also list them there.
Before calling for technical support, please use our technical support request form. This form gives us information that we will need to help you. In most cases, we will have your answer as soon as we see it. It also allows us to bypass the standard line of questioning that can take as much as a half hour on the phone before we can start helping you. This includes things like your computer setup, operating system, etc.
Please do not e-mail any company contacts as they will point you to the technical support request form.
Please understand that we do wish to help you, however it is very important that we are able to help you in a structured way so that we can do so effectively. The reason it is so important to initiate a support request through the form is that the form asks some important questions and opens up a 'support case' for you in our database, which allows anyone at our company to help you in the future. More information on how this works can be found in the section titled 'About our technical support request form'.
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Cyberspace HQ offers fee-based priority help for customers that do not wish to use our forms based/e-mail support options at a rate of US$60.00 per hour, with a one hour minimum. Fee based support also covers basic issues like training.
In order to receive this level of support, please call our sales department at 818-593-4900 and tell the operator that you are seeking fee-based technical support. Be sure to have your credit card ready. One of our staff will issue you a technical support ticket number and transfer you directly to our technical support department.
Please note that our sales people cannot provide support, nor can they transfer you to the support department without a ticket number. The only way a ticket number can be generated is directly by technical support through the support form, or through an order for fee-based support.
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Some customers has asked why they should have to fill out some form when they should be able to simply call or e-mail us. But when you see how this simple form allows us to better help you, you may wonder why such a policy isn't commonplace.
It doesn't just make our life easier... It saves you time.
The Technical Support Request form is located at
http://www.cyberspacehq.com/support/addweb
The problems with E-Mail Support
Asking for help via E-Mail seems easy at first. You toss your problem in a message to support@whereever.com and wait for a response. But what happens at the other side? Someone gets your message and likely has to ask you a series of other questions to better understand your problem. Now you respond, but the person that asked the questions has probably dealt with a few hundred other people and won't remember your problem without digging through old mail to find you. Or even worse, the company may have several people dealing with technical support e-mail, so your response may go to an entirely different person, who must then contact the first support rep. to figure out what it is all about. How much time passes? How much energy is spent? And still you haven't even received a suggestion. By the time you get a suggestion, that may or may not work, you are going back and forth in e-mail with who knows who, and a lot of confusion. Then 2 months later you may have a similar message, and the tech support reps have no memory or record of your past problems, so they treat you like a first time caller and start from square one.
The Problems with Telephone Support
The primary problem is that of information gathering. You call for support, and find a rep at the other end of the phone asking you what kind of computer you have, how much ram, etc. . They have to ask you this. These things can very seriously affect the operation of the software, and we may know of some issues that relate to certain configurations. But you did just waste a half hour or so. The second problem is tracking. It is much like the same issue in e-mail. Who said what and when.
How our technical support form fixes this:
The questions on that form represent the questions that a support rep. is likely to ask you when he/she gets the first contact from you. You get that out of the way right away. Furthermore, your request goes into a database where a support case is created for you. Now, in future dealings we can quickly and easily find your case and look at your history... no matter who you are dealing with on our end. It allows us to be efficient, and it allows us to spend less time figuring out what your problem is and more time giving you results.
It also allows us to give higher priority to those who need it most. Furthermore, we can help more people with greater precision.
Lastly, Use of this technical support database allows us to track our own abilities and shortcomings internally. It tells us where we have to work on our software to make it easier to use.
The Technical Support Request form is located at
http://www.cyberspacehq.com/support/addweb
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This section covers all of the detail involved in ordering or upgrading AddWeb.
AddWeb Pricing
Order via secure online server
Order by phone
Order by mail
Order by fax
Purchase Orders
Site Licensing
Private Label Licensing
Retail Sales
Bundling opportunities
OEM opportunities
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Pricing for AddWeb purchased via electronic distribution*:
Edition Price
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Deluxe $69.00
Platinum $149.00
Professional $299.00
Enterprise TBA Q4, 2000**
*Electronic Distribution means that when you purchase AddWeb, you will receive a registration number which unlocks the demo version. No Box, CD or hardcopy manuals will be shipped. If you would like a boxed version of the product, our deluxe edition is available in most major computer stores in the U.S. and Canada.
** The enterprise edition is our most automated edition available, enabling large-scale submission services and corporate sites with very complex websites to automate tasks on a large scale. However, the Enterprise edition is subscription-based with a maximum number of 20,000 total submissions in the base purchase price. Additional 'fuel packs' are available for the enterprise edition. The other editions do not have the submission limits imposed on Enterprise, but lack the ability to automate on a large scale. For serious inquiries about Enterprise, please contact our sales staff at enterprise@cyberspacehq.com
To order online now, please go to
https://secure.cyberhq.com/orders
Secure and Encrypted Online Ordering
Ordering by Phone
Mail Order Form
Fax Order Form
Purchase Orders
Site Licensing
The difference between AddWeb Versions
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Online Orders:
Online registration is available for AddWeb via secure and encrypted online ordering at:
https://secure.cyberhq.com/orders
Online orders are processed the same day the order is placed during business days (Monday through Friday) before 3:00 P.M. Pacific time. All orders after 3:00 P.M. will be processed the following morning. Orders placed during the weekend or holidays will be processed the following business day. All orders are processed in the order they are received.
If your order has incomplete information, or contains questionable information, it may be delayed until we can contact you.
Cyberspace HQ's online order form is a secure web site. Look for the 'lock' icon on your screen when you visit the site. If you double click on the icon, you will see our Verisign secure certificate information.
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To order by phone, please call 818-593-4900 and have the following information ready
Your Full Name (First, Last)
Company Name
Your Title
Your E-Mail Address (Registration information will be sent here)
Street Address
City
State
Postal/Zip Code
Home Phone
Work Phone
Fax
Web Page
Credit Card Number
Expiration Date
Cardholder's Name
(We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover)
License Information (What edition do you wish to purchase)*
Deluxe Edition @ $ 69.00 ea.
Platinum Edition @ $149.00 ea.
Professional Edition @ $299.00 ea.
Upgrade Deluxe to Platinum @ $ 90.00 ea.**
Upgrade Deluxe to Professional @ $240.00 ea.**
Upgrade Platinum to Professional @ $160.00 ea.**
* For Enterprise Edition, please contact our sales staff at enterprise@cyberspacehq.com
** Certain restrictions may apply to upgrade orders including, but not limited to, confirmation of current ownership of the base edition you are upgrading from.
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To order by mail, please print this form, fill it out and mail it along with a
check drawn on a U.S. Bank to:
Cyberspace HQ
Order Processing
22048 Sherman Way, Suite 106
Canoga Park, CA 91303 - USA
AddWeb 4 ORDER (Mail)
Your Name: __________________________ Company:__________________________
Purchase orders are accepted from Fortune 1000 companies and U.S. Government agencies with terms of not more than NET 15 Days. To purchase by purchase order, please follow these steps:
Call 818-593-4900 to inform us that you wish to use a P.O.
Print out the FAX Order Form.
Issue the Purchase order
Fax the order form and Purchase Order to 818-593-4917
Upon receipt and approval of your purchase order, you will be given a registration number for the software, and an invoice will be generated and mailed to you.
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The standard AddWeb license grants you a license to use AddWeb on a single computer. If you wish to run multiple copies of AddWeb, a site license is required.
The discount for up to 10 copies is 15% of the standard purchase price. For Site licensing for more than 10 copies, or OEM plans, please call us or write to oem@cyberspacehq.com
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We have had many companies contact us, having noticed that the Website Traffic Builder product found in retail stores is an older version of AddWeb. Cyberspace HQ has chosen not to offer any other private label versions of AddWeb. However, we do offer co-branded OEM versions of the product.
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In addition to online ordering, AddWeb Website Promoter Deluxe Edition is available through many retail stores in the United States and Canada. As of August, 2000, AddWeb can be purchased at the following stores:
Current Availability:
United States & Canada
Comp USA
Best Buy
Staples
Fry's
MicroCenter
FutureShop
Business Depot
AFEES
Planned retail availability for the year 2001:
United States & Canada
Office Depot
OfficeMax
Hastings
London Drugs
International
In early 2001 we will launch our retail versions into Europe, concentrating on UK, Germany, Benelux, Italy and Spain. The French retail version is available through ABSoft.
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Cyberspace HQ actively seeks new partnerships with companies that compliment our product line. If your company is a software developer/publisher, ISP, ICP or other Internet-related company that could benefit from a bundling agreement, we may be interested in working with you.
Possible mutual benefits:
cross-promotion of products
cross-bundling of demo versions on CD
cross-promotion through newsletters (note that we do not release our e-mail lists, but may include a blurb in our newsletters)
cross-promotion in targeted areas of websites
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AddWeb Website Promoter offers an excellent opportunity for companies with a target audience that consists of webmasters.
Some OEM examples are:
AddWeb Special Edition
A version of AddWeb that is more than our demo, but less than the full product. All time restrictions are removed, but engine counts and updates are limited. We have provided this edition to magazines for covermount CDs, Internet Providers for added value, etc. The special edition is co-branded. It features your company name alongside the AddWeb logo. We also offer special discounts to your users for upgrades to the full product.
The special edition is limited to large scale distribution.
AddWeb Back-Rev
Another OEM opportunity is that of our last major revision before the current. In such a case, we offer the full product (less database updates) with all of the co-branding mentioned above.
Pricing
OEM pricing is based on quantity and promotional value. For example, a magazine that offers the special edition on a covermount, and includes a 3 page spread on the product, promoting an upgrade to the full (or current) version would dictate more favorable pricing. Please call us for details or write to oem@cyberspacehq.com
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AddWeb Product License
AddWeb Registration Verification Info
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CYBERSPACE HEADQUARTERS LLC
LICENSE AGREEMENT
READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE. BY CLICKING THE "I agree" BUTTON DURING INSTALLATION, OR BY USING THIS SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT DOWNLOAD, INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING OR USE OF THE SOFTWARE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS LICENSE, UNDERSTAND IT, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
This is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or an entity) and Cyberspace Headquarters, LLC and its suppliers and licensors (collectively "CyberspaceHQ"). This Agreement states the terms and conditions upon which CyberspaceHQ offers to license the software, together with all related documentation and accompanying items including, but not limited to, the executable programs, drivers, libraries and data files associated with such programs (collectively, the "Software").
As a user, you acknowledge that you are in possession of proprietary and confidential trade secret materials belonging to CyberspaceHQ. Except as provided herein, all information and materials provided to you shall be considered "Confidential Information". You promise not to use, disclose or otherwise disseminate any Confidential Information without the express written consent of CyberspaceHQ. Confidential Information does not include information: (i) was already known to you prior to receipt from CyberspaceHQ; (ii) is or becomes public knowledge without breach of your obligations under this Agreement; (iii) is rightfully acquired by you from a third party without restriction on disclosure or use; (iv) was or is disclosed by the CyberspaceHQ to a third party prior to or after the date of this Agreement without restriction or use; (v) is independently developed by you without resort to Cyberspace HQ's disclosure; or (vi) is disclosed or used following your receipt of express written consent from an officer of CyberspaceHQ. Provided, however, that you shall have the burden of proof respecting any of these events on which you rely as relieving you of any restrictions under this Agreement. In addition, prior to any disclosure or use of Confidential Information pursuant to this paragraph, you must first notify CyberspaceHQ, in writing, of the specific Confidential Information you seeks to use or disclose pursuant to this paragraph, and the factual and/or legal reasons therefore. Said written notice shall be made at least two weeks before using or disclosing such Confidential Information. You promise to act diligently in keeping their trade secrets and other confidential materials secret. You promise to act consistently with the legal requirements to maintain the "trade secret" classification of CyberspaceHQ's confidential business information.
LICENSE
1. Grant of License.
The Software is not sold to you. Rather, it is licensed on a non-exclusive basis solely for use by you, and you alone, under the terms of this Agreement. CyberspaceHQ (and, to the extent applicable, its licensors), retains all title to and ownership of the Software and reserves all rights not expressly granted to you hereby.
If you have obtained an evaluation/demo copy of the Software, and have not purchased a license to the Software, CyberspaceHQ grants you a 30-day non-exclusive license to use the Software free of charge for the purpose of evaluating whether you wish to purchase an ongoing license for the Software. WARNING: Evaluation/Demo copies of the Software may become non-functional thirty (30) days following initial installation on your computer, or after you have used specific features of the software fifteen times. CyberspaceHQ disclaims all liability and responsibility for any loss of data or other information which may occur as a result thereof.
2. No Trademark License.
No license is granted to you in this Agreement, either expressly or implicitly, to use any trademark, service mark, names, or logos of Cyberspace Headquarters, LLC. CyberspaceHQ owns all customer data collected through the registration process.
3. Use on a Single Computer Only.
The Software may be used by you only on a single computer. You may transfer the machine-readable portion of the Software from one computer to another computer, provided that a) the Software (including any portion or copy thereof) is erased from the first computer, and b) there is no possibility that the Software will be used on more than one computer at a time.
4. Lawful Use Only.
You agree that you shall only use the Software and Documentation in a manner that complies with all applicable laws in the jurisdiction in which you use the Software and Documentation, including, but not limited to, applicable restrictions concerning copyright and other intellectual property rights. You will not misuse or otherwise use the software in a malicious way that causes injury or disruption to the websites posted to.
4. No 'Spamming'
This software has certain features designed to keep you from abusing posting rules by search engines. These features assume that you create no more than one profile for each website, or major section of a website. By creating profiles for each page in your site, or by making multiple profiles for the same subject matter within your site, you risk breaking search engine posting rules. This act is considered misuse of the software, and can result in termination of your license.
6. Stand-Alone Basis.
You may use the Software only on a stand-alone basis, such that the Software and the functions it provides are accessible only to you when you are physically present at the location of the computer on which the Software is loaded. You may not allow the Software or its functions to be accessed remotely, or transmit all or any portion of the Software through any network or communication line.
7. Copyright.
The Software is owned by CyberspaceHQ, and is protected by United States copyright laws and international treaty provisions. You may not remove the copyright notice from any copy of the Software or any copy of the written materials, if any, accompanying the Software.
8. No Archival Copies.
You may not make any archival copies of the Software.
9. No Merger or Integration.
You may not merge any portion of the Software into, or integrate any portion of the Software with, any other program, except to the extent expressly permitted by the laws of the jurisdiction where you are located. Any portion of the Software merged into or integrated with another program, if any, will continue to be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and you must reproduce on the merged or integrated portion all copyright and other proprietary rights notices included in the originals of the Software.
10. No Transfer of License.
You may not transfer your license of the Software to anyone.
11. Limitations on Using, Copying, and Modifying the Software.
Except to the extent expressly permitted by this Agreement or by the laws of the jurisdiction where you acquired the Software, you may not use, copy or modify the Software. Nor may you sub-license any of your rights under this Agreement. You may use the Software for your personal use only.
12. Decompiling, Disassembling, or Reverse Engineering.
You acknowledge that the Software contains trade secrets and other proprietary information of CyberspaceHQ and its licensors. Except to the extent expressly permitted by this Agreement or by the laws of the jurisdiction where you are located, you may not decompile, disassemble or otherwise reverse engineer the software, or engage in any other activities to obtain underlying information that is not visible to the user in connection with normal use of the Software.
In particular, you agree not for any purpose to transmit the Software or display the Software's object code on any computer screen or to make any hardcopy memory dumps of the Software's object code. If you believe you require information related to the interoperability of the Software with other programs, you shall not decompile or disassemble the Software to obtain such information, and you agree to request such information from CyberspaceHQ at the address listed below. Upon receiving such a request, CyberspaceHQ shall determine whether you require such information for a legitimate purpose and, if so, CyberspaceHQ will provide such information to you within a reasonable time and on reasonable conditions.
In any event, you will notify CyberspaceHQ of any information derived from reverse engineering or such other activities, and the results thereof will constitute the confidential information of CyberspaceHQ that may be used only in connection with the Software.
13. Updates and Auto-updating.
This license does not grant you any right to any enhancements or updates to the Software, nor any support services. The Software has an auto-update function that automatically checks CyberspaceHQ's servers on the Internet for updates for the Software, such as bug fixes, patches, database updates, and enhanced functions. You agree that CyberspaceHQ may, through the auto-update function, download updates and install them as part of your Software.
14. TERMINATION
The license granted to you is effective until terminated. You may terminate it at any time by returning the Software (including any portions or copies thereof) to CyberspaceHQ. The license will also terminate automatically without any notice from CyberspaceHQ if you fail to comply with any term or condition of this Agreement. You agree upon such termination to return the Software (including any portions or copies thereof) to CyberspaceHQ. Upon termination, CyberspaceHQ may also enforce any rights provided by law. The provisions of this Agreement that protect the proprietary rights of CyberspaceHQ will continue in force after termination.
15. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
CyberspaceHQ does not warrant that the functions contained in the Software will meet your requirements or that the operation of the Software will be uninterrupted, error-free or free from malicious code. For purposes of this paragraph, "malicious code" means any program code designed to contaminate other computer programs or computer data, consume computer resources, modify, destroy, record, or transmit data, or in some other fashion usurp the normal operation of the computer, computer system, or computer network, including viruses, Trojan horses, droppers, worms, logic bombs, and the like.
EXCEPT AS STATED ABOVE IN THIS AGREEMENT, THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS-IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CyberspaceHQ IS NOT OBLIGATED TO PROVIDE ANY UPDATES, UPGRADES OR TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR THE SOFTWARE.
Further, CyberspaceHQ shall not be liable for the accuracy of any information provided by CyberspaceHQ or third-party technical support personnel, or any damages caused, either directly or indirectly, by acts taken or omissions made by you as a result of such technical support.
You assume full responsibility for the selection of the Software to achieve your intended results, and for the installation, use and results obtained from the Software. You also assume the entire risk as it applies to the quality and performance of the Software. Should the Software prove defective, you (and not CyberspaceHQ, or its distributors or dealers) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.
16. LIMITATION OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES
IN NO EVENT WILL CYBERSPACEHQ OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS, LOST REVENUES OR LOST DATA ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SOFTWARE OR THIS AGREEMENT, EVEN IF CYBERSPACEHQ OR ITS LICENSORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL CREATIVE'S LIABILITY OR DAMAGES TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON EVER EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO USE THE SOFTWARE, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE CLAIM. If the country/state in which you reside does not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.
17. U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS
All Software and related documentation are provided with restricted rights. Use, duplication or disclosure by the U.S. Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subdivision (b)(3)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software Clause at 252.227-7013. Manufacturer is Cyberspace Headquarters, LLC, 22048 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, CA 91303. If you are sub-licensing or using the Software outside of the United States, you will comply with the applicable local laws of your country, U.S. export control law, and the English version of this Agreement. You are responsible for complying with all trade regulations and laws both foreign and domestic.
18. EXPORT RESTRICTIONS
You acknowledge that none of the Software or underlying information or technology may be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, North Korea, Iran, Syria or any other country subject to a U.S. embargo; or (ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Denied Parties List or Entity List. By using the Software you are agreeing to the foregoing and are representing and warranting that (i) no U.S. federal agency has suspended, revoked, or denied you export privileges, (ii) you are not located in or under the control of a national or resident of any such country or on any such list, and (iii) you will not export or re-export the Software to any prohibited county, or to any prohibited person, entity, or end-user as specified by U.S. export controls.
19. GENERAL
This Agreement is binding on you as well as your employees, employers, contractors and agents, and on any successors and assignees. Neither the Software nor any information derived therefrom may be exported except in accordance with the laws of the U.S. or other applicable provisions. This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of California (except to the extent federal law governs copyrights and federally registered trademarks) without regard to conflicts of law provisions, and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the State of California. This License Agreement will not be governed by the United Nations Convention of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the application of which is hereby expressly excluded. This Agreement is the entire agreement between us and supersedes any other understandings or agreements, including, but not limited to, advertising, with respect to the Software. If any provision of this Agreement is deemed invalid or unenforceable by any country or government agency having jurisdiction, that particular provision will be deemed modified to the extent necessary to make the provision valid and enforceable, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. The terms and conditions contained in this License Agreement may not be modified unless both you and an authorized representative of CyberspaceHQ execute a separate written instrument.
20. Injunctive Relief.
You acknowledge that the Software and the Service contain CyberspaceHQ's proprietary and confidential information, and that disclosure of such information or misuse of the Software will give rise to irreparable injury to CyberspaceHQ, inadequately compensable in damages. Accordingly, CyberspaceHQ may seek and obtain injunctive relief against the breach or threatened breach of the foregoing undertakings, in addition to any other legal remedies which may be available. Said relief will be available without the requirement of posting a bond or undertaking.
21. SPECIAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
If you acquired the Software in the European Union (EU), the following provisions also apply to you. If there is any inconsistency between the terms of the Software License Agreement set out earlier and the following provisions, the following provisions shall take precedence.
Decompilation:
You agree not for any purpose to transmit the Software or display the Software's object code on any computer screen or to make any hard copy memory dumps of the Software's object code. If you believe you require information related to the interoperability of the Software with other programs, you shall not decompile or disassemble the Software to obtain such information, and you agree to request such information from CyberspaceHQ at the address listed earlier. Upon receiving such a request, CyberspaceHQ shall determine whether you require such information for a legitimate purpose and, if so, CyberspaceHQ will provide such information to you within a reasonable time and on reasonable conditions.
Limited Warranty:
EXCEPT AS STATED EARLIER IN THIS AGREEMENT, AND AS PROVIDED UNDER THE HEADING "STATUTORY RIGHTS", THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS-IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Limitation of Remedy and Damages:
THE LIMITATIONS OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES IN THE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT SHALL NOT APPLY TO PERSONAL INJURY (INCLUDING DEATH) TO ANY PERSON CAUSED BY CYBERSPACE HQ'S NEGLIGENCE AND ARE SUBJECT TO THE PROVISION SET OUT UNDER THE HEADING "STATUTORY RIGHTS".
Statutory rights:
Irish law provides that certain conditions and warranties may be implied in contracts for the sale of goods and in contracts for the supply of services. Such conditions and warranties are hereby excluded, to the extent such exclusion, in the context of this transaction, is lawful under Irish law. Conversely, such conditions and warranties, insofar as they may not be lawfully excluded, shall apply. Accordingly nothing in this Agreement shall prejudice any rights that you may enjoy by virtue of Sections 12, 13, 14 or 15 of the Irish Sale of Goods Act 1893 (as amended).
General:This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Republic of Ireland. The local language version of this agreement shall apply to Software acquired in the EU. This Agreement is the entire agreement between us and you agree that CyberspaceHQ will not have any liability for an untrue statement or representation made by it, its agents or anyone else (whether innocently or negligently) upon which you relied upon entering this Agreement, unless such untrue statement or representation was made fraudulently.
END OF AGREEMENT
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Each time you execute AddWeb 4, do a submission, check for updates, or perform a ranking check, AddWeb 4 will automatically contact a Cyberspace HQ server. The following is what happens:
AddWeb 4 will transmit 2 pieces of information to our server. These include:
Your AddWeb 4 Registration Number
What section of AddWeb 4 sent the request (Application Execution, Submission, Ranking or Update Check)
If the section of AddWeb 4 that sent the request was Application Execution (when the program first loads), our server will tell your copy of AddWeb 4 what the most current AddWeb 4 version is and what the most current databases are (Engines and Ranking).
If the section that sent the request was submission or Ranking, AddWeb 4 will send your AddWeb 4 registration number for a license verification. See below for more information on this.
If the section that sent the request was the Update Checker, AddWeb 4 will send your AddWeb 4 registration number and check our database to make sure your are entitled to engine updates. It will then get the most current software and engine versions to see if your installation of AddWeb 4 is current.
We understand that your privacy is very important to you, so we feel it is very important that you know exactly what information AddWeb 4 sends to our servers. AddWeb 4 only sends us your AddWeb 4 registration number, which is data that we have given you. No other information whatsoever is transmitted. AddWeb 4 never transmits email addresses, registry keys, or anything else belonging to any other product.
The reasons we transmit this information are as follows:
AddWeb 4 gets the software version to check how current your version is, and offer you an updated version. Because AddWeb 4's functionality can be reduced by factors on the internet we cannot control, it is important to always have the most current version for optimal performance.
AddWeb 4 gets the Engine and Ranking versions to check how current your engine databases are. Since we are always adding, removing and modifying engines, it is important that you always have a current database for best performance. We do this check in order to be able to offer you the most current engine and ranking database.
AddWeb 4 sends your registration number for several reasons. First, it allows us to easily determine what database and software version you have installed should you need support. Also, when you purchase AddWeb 4, you are entitled to one year of free engine updates. Sending your registration number for the first time registers you in our database and initiates your year of updates. After you are registered for updates, this checks to see that you are still within your free year.
The registration check also allows us to send urgent notices to individual customers in case there is a problem. For example, if there is ever a problem with the update server and there are compatibility issues with a database you are running, we can send you a message directly in AddWeb 4 informing you of the problem and how to fix it.
Lastly, the live registration check helps us fight software piracy. Piracy is a very serious problem for software developers. Cyberspace HQ alone loses millions of dollars yearly to software piracy. In the end, it is the customer who often pays the price of software piracy in the form of higher prices to offset the losses suffered from those who illegally use the software. The live registration check allows us to disable AddWeb 4 licenses that have been illegally generated, or have been purchased with fraudulent credit cards. Fighting piracy can create more legal purchases of the software which helps us keep prices down.
.topic 4149
Cyberspace HQ has been providing online solutions to the internet community since 1993. You can find more information about each of these products on our website at http://www.cyberspacehq.com/
Please read about some of our other popular products available now.
AccuTagger / Maximum Exposure
Scrybe
Nic O'Matic
DeEnesse
AddSoft
.topic 4157
AccuTagger builds on the concept of AddWeb 4's Page Builder, but allows many more features including META Profiles, keyword Databases, Batch scripting, etc. If you like the Page Builder feature in AddWeb 4, and manage many pages, AccuTagger will be for you!
.topic 4158
Coming Soon...
Planned release 2001
Scrybe Mailing List Server
We have taken the old concept of Mailing List Servers and have redefined it! This multi-tiered list server is by far the most feature rich server available under any platform. With extensive security options, automated listserver moderation, e-mail application serving, remote control, full web integration, mail server independence, mail based file server, extensive scheduling options and more, you will no doubt wonder why something like this hasn't come along before! Scrybe is a dream come true for technical support departments, e-mail discussion groups, marketing departments, and broadcast e-mail. However, spammers beware. This is *the* anti-spam list server, designed strictly for opt-in mailing lists, making it very difficult to use for spamming.
Scrybe Enterprise Server
The Scrybe Enterprise Server builds on the standard server by adding connectivity to external ODBC databases, rich database filtering features, support for massive scheduled E-Mail campaigns, automated customer profiling, website click tracking, and much more. The Enterprise server is designed to handle e-mail marketing campaigns based on customer data, and can handle extremely heavy loads.
.topic 4156
Registering Domains Couldn't be Easier or Faster
Nic O'Matic is an application which takes the chore out of registering and maintaining domain names, hosts and contacts with the Internic. Until now, your options have been to fill out their text-file templates and mail them in, or to use the Internic's slow web site each time. Nic O'Matic allows you to quickly create registrations and auto-mails them to the Internic. Furthermore, it allows you to save defaults for future use (DNS Servers, contacts, etc.), and saves all work you do so that you can quickly and easily do modifications and deletions without any unnecessary time wasted.
As they say: Time is Money. Nic O'Matic is designed to save you time.
.topic 4150
The DNS Server Suite Windows NT & 95 Administrators
DNS Servers are the guidance systems of the internet. á Without them, you would be entering IP# for every 'net destination, and not domain names.áá Until now DNS servers have been among the most complicated services to run on a server.á DeEnesse ( pronounced DNS ) brings traditional Windows ease of use to the management of a DNS server, plus so much more...
New DNS Administrators will find DeEnesse a breeze to learn.á Experienced DNS Administrators will wonder why something like this has taken so long to appear.á One way or the other, we are sure you will be impressed with DeEnesse.
.topic 4151
Stop wasting time submitting your shareware apps!
You spend enough time coding, writing docs and building installs.á Why should you spend countless hours submitting your software to the shareware sites over and over and over again?á It seems that as soon as you are done, you have a new revision, and have to do it all over again.á AddSoft takes the chore out of your hands.á It completely automates submissions for every shareware site it supports...á It even builds submission data based on each sites requirements... It Zips. Its FTPs. It E-Mails, and it posts HTTP! All you do is run through the fields and give AddSoft information about your software and your company.. ONCE. á Click on Submit and AddSoft does the rest!á Go grab some coffee and let your software grab some cows and stars!
.topic 4500
A field is an area of the program that you can type information into.
.topic 4501
Search engines provide links to websites based on text entered by someone.
.topic 4502
A Proxy Server monitors and polices traffic into and out of a LAN.
.topic 4503
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Your Outgoing Mail Server.
.topic 4504
AddWeb 4 can gather information from various sources. Pages on your hard drive, web pages on the internet and AddWeb 4 Profiles.
.topic 4505
Retrieve information previously Saved in AddWeb 4.
.topic 4506
Save the information you are currently working on.
.topic 4507
This will remove all current entries for this field.
.topic 4508
Remove this from AddWeb 4 completely.
.topic 4509
View information on past submissions and Rankings.
.topic 4510
The exact URL you wish to submit to the search engines.
.topic 4511
This is the <title> tag from your Home Page.
.topic 4514
This is the Nationality of your website. This will determine if some engines will accept your submission.
.topic 4512
This is the Meta Description from your Home Page.
.topic 4513
This is your 'Links to other Websites' page if you have one.
This is not a required field.
.topic 4515
This is used for a login on some search engines. Please be as obscure as possible.
.topic 4516
This is the password associated with the Unique name and is used for logins to some search engines.
.topic 4517
This is the number of search engines this Profile is set to submit to.
.topic 4518
This is the date of the last time this Profile was submitted.
.topic 4519
This is the number of sites this Profile was last submitted to.
.topic 4520
This is the total number of individual search engines AddWeb 4 has attempted to submit to with this Profile.
.topic 4521
This is the total number of successful posts AddWeb 4 has completed with this Profile.
.topic 4522
This is the total number of submissions AddWeb 4 did not complete for this Profile.
.topic 4523
This is the total number of times AddWeb 4 has performed a submission for this Profile.
.topic 4524
These are the keywords that AddWeb 4 will tell search engines are included in your Home Page.
.topic 4525
This button will Add this information to the associated list.
.topic 4526
This button will Remove the selected entry from the associated list.
.topic 4527
AddWeb 4 determines whether some search engines will accept your submission based on these website Types.
Commercial = Provides products or services for profit.
Personal = Of interest only. Nothing for sale.
MLM = Associated with Multi Level Marketing.
Adult = Not for access to anyone under 18.
.topic 4528
This is a more accurate description of where your website belongs in search engine Listings.
.topic 4529
This is a display of the Category selected for the currently selected search engine.
.topic 4530
Select Each engine in turn and select the category that most closely fits your website.
.topic 4531
Select a Category to begin the search for proper placement of your website. Selecting the Check box will display the first Sub-Level category list to the right.
.topic 4532
Double-Click these categories to continue your search for the proper category to place your website in.
.topic 4533
If you have multiple Profiles in AddWeb 4, you can easily find the Owner of a site by searching with this option.
.topic 4534
This is basic contact information for the Owner of the website this Profile is associated with.
.topic 4535
This is the country of focus for this Profile.
.topic 4536
This Email address will be submitted to the search engines and is likely to generate a great deal of Spam.
.topic 4537
This Email address is where AddWeb 4 will send Reports to if Automated Reporting is available.
.topic 4538
The phone fields are set up to provide international contact information.
.topic 4539
These notes will never be seen in a submission or Report. They are notes for your own reference when viewing Profiles. Many people use them to remark on Profile changes, proposed schedules or Customer specific information.
.topic 4540
Use the Check boxes and +/- to navigate and select specific search engines this Profile will submit to by default.
.topic 4541
This is the total number of engines selected for submission
.topic 4542
This is the total number of search engines currently available in AddWeb 4
.topic 4543
These buttons provide methods of instantly selecting or saving search engine Lists.
.topic 4544
This will clear any un-selected search engines from the Tree view above.
.topic 4545
If you know the name of a search engine and wish to find it in the AddWeb 4 search engine List, type the name (or part of it) here and AddWeb 4 will display any matches it can find.
.topic 4546
These are search engine specific rules and statistics. Please view the full help topic by clicking on the ? above if your are uncertain about any of the details.
.topic 4547
Enter any URL (Website Address) here that you wish to include in Rankings for this Profile.
.topic 4548
Some search engines do not allow for URL searches and require that a Unique phrase is searched for to provide Ranking information. Please study the page associated here carefully to find a unique phrase.
.topic 4549
This should be the web page that this Profile submits. It will be used in Rankings for comparisons to Competitors or Top websites.
.topic 4550
This is the website of your competitor or anyone you wish to compare rankings against.
.topic 4551
This is the number of results you wish to receive from each search engine when a Ranking is performed. The Top 50 are generally the most important, but deeper Rankings can help track your progress to the Top.
.topic 4552
AddWeb 4 can generate Reports automatically in Deluxe (ASCII) Text, HTML or even Email reports to the Profiles 'Owner'.
.topic 4553
Different Report Styles provide Report information in different layouts and appearances.
.topic 4554
This is a list of reports available within the Style selected above.
.topic 4555
Text and HTML Reports are saved to your hard drive in these locations. You can browse to a new directory to save your Reports in if you like.
.topic 4556
AddWeb 4 will gather images associated with the selected Report from this directory on your hard drive.
.topic 4557
This is the Logo Image typically found at the top of HTML reports.
.topic 4558
This URL will be included in the reports and typically relates to the provider of the report.
.topic 4559
Your Company Name to be included in reports.
.topic 4560
This is the Email address associated with the Profile the report is generated for. You can change this here to send elsewhere.
.topic 4561
Append to the top of any Email report with the text you enter here.
.topic 4562
If you upload your website via FTP, your web Host's FTP server should be entered here.
.topic 4563
This is your Login Name for your FTP Server.
.topic 4564
This is your Login Password for your FTP Server.
.topic 4565
Some FTP servers use different 'Ports' for access to files. Default Port is 21
.topic 4566
This is the Path to your web pages on your Local hard drive.
.topic 4567
A Proxy Server monitors and polices traffic into and out of a LAN.
If you are unsure about this, please ask your Network Administrator.
.topic 4568
Some Proxy Servers monitor traffic but allow standard access to the internet.
.topic 4569
A Proxy Server monitors and polices traffic into and out of a LAN.
.topic 4570
Some Proxy servers require a different 'Port' to allow FTP access.
Please check with your Network Administrator if you are uncertain.
.topic 4785
.topic 4571
Many Proxy Servers require a login to gain access through them.
.topic 4572
Many Proxy Servers require a login to gain access through them.
.topic 4573
This is where the page to analyze is located.
Browse to it either on your hard drive or on the web.
.topic 4574
If you wish to compare your web page performance rating to others, define the others here.
.topic 4575
Select the search engine that Page Advisor will rate your web page for.
.topic 4576
This is where you want to store the Page Advisor reports on your local hard drive for future reference.
.topic 4577
Select the Template for the 'look' you want your reports to have.
.topic 4578
You may Restrict your analysis to tightly defined search parameters.
By default this is set to the standard Free Form type search that is most commonly used in search engines.
.topic 4579
Page Advisor will perform analysis for each of the keywords included in this list.
.topic 4580
This is a list of advice generated by Page Advisor based on the findings in the analysis.
For details on these results, double click on the listed item.
.topic 4702
This button opens the Complete Analysis report in your default web browser.
.topic 4581
This is the Actual Home Page of your website.
Some options in Page Builder will allow you to create links and automatically forward your customers to this page.
It is also required if you want to automatically populate Page Builder with information already in your Home Page.
.topic 4582
This is text that masks the URL into something descriptive.
.topic 4583
This is the Title of a web page and appears in the Title Bar of a visitors web browser.
.topic 4584
The Header Tag is commonly used as a visible Title in a web page and is usually larger than the normal text on the page.
.topic 4585
This is the Meta Description that many search engines use in search results to tell people about your web page.
.topic 4586
This is the where the viewable content of web pages is normally found.
You may include normal HTML tags here if you like.
.topic 4587
Comments are invisible to Browsers but can be read by some Spiders and may have an effect on rankings with some search engines.
.topic 4588
ALT Tags are used to describe an image or where clicking on the image will take you.
.topic 4589
Some Spiders will follow links they find on pages they check.
You may wish to include links to major sections of your webSite.
.topic 4590
This option will create a new page that should be uploaded to your website for submission.
.topic 4591
This option will allow you to modify an existing page if that page is currently on your hard drive.
.topic 4592
This is the Directory or Folder on your hard drive that the Doorway page will be created in.
.topic 4593
You can select different 'looks' to create your Doorway pages in.
.topic 4594
Selecting this option will send visitors through your Doorway page and into your Home Page automatically.
.topic 4595
This is the preferred method of sending visitors through to your Home Page.
.topic 4596
WARNING! Some search engine Spiders will identify this method of redirection as deception and not list you.
.topic 4597
This will add a delay to the redirection of your visitors.
.topic 4598
The Doorway page will be designed optimized for the search engine you select here.
.topic 4611
This is the location of the page you wish to modify on your hard drive.
.topic 4612
If you are not happy with the changes made to your page, you can restore the previous page from a Backup.
.topic 4613
These options allow you to specify which tags are Inserted or Replaced in your web page.
.topic 4602
This Button will Create or Modify your web page.
.topic 4600
This is the full HTML source for the page you selected above.
.topic 4601
This button will start the submission process for the selected Profile(s).
.topic 4603
These are the Profiles that will be submitted when the Submit button above is clicked.
.topic 4604
This button will bring up a list of your saved profiles. Select one or more for submission.
.topic 4605
This will bring up a list of Profile Groups to be submitted.
.topic 4606
During submission, all success full engines will be listed here.
.topic 4607
During submission, all Skipped engines will be listed here.
.topic 4608
During submission, all unsuccessful engines will be listed here.
.topic 4610
These are the engines currently being submitted to.
.topic 4614
If you have created a SiteStats LIVE account, it will be listed here.
.topic 4615
This is a unique identifier for reference to the SiteStats LIVE account
.topic 4616
The SiteStats LIVE account number will be mailed to this address.
.topic 4617
This Password is required for modification of your SiteStats LIVE account.
.topic 4618
The URLs entered here may be tracked by SiteStats LIVE if you insert the Tracking Script into the page(s).
.topic 4620
This is the value of each hit to your website in cents (pennies). 500 = $5.00
.topic 4623
This setting will allow SiteStats LIVE to report local times to you.
.topic 4624
Backing up your page before adding the script will allow you to restore if you insert it to the wrong page.
.topic 4625
This is the folder, on your hard drive, of the page you wish to insert the Script into.
.topic 4626
Adding a page type extension here will allow other page types to be displayed and edited with the SiteStats LIVE script.
.topic 4627
These are the files selected to receive the SiteStats LIVE script.
.topic 4631
Select the SiteStats LIVE account to view reports for here.
.topic 4632
Select the type of report you wish to view for the selected account.
.topic 4634
This button will begin the Ranking process
.topic 4635
This will clear any modifications made on this page.
.topic 4636
This button will stop the current activity and allow you to make modifications, if needed.
.topic 4637
This button will allow you to temporarily halt all activity.
.topic 4638
Select the profile you wish to perform a ranking for here.
.topic 4639
Quick Ranking allows you to enter URLs and keywords for ranking while not maintaining any history of the Ranking performed.
.topic 4640
This is the type of results you are currently viewing Ranking data on.
.topic 4641
Click on a keyword to view its individual results.
.topic 4642
Select the type of results you want to view.
.topic 4643
This allows you to perform a standard search with the selected search engine.
.topic 4644
This allows you to perform a search for a specified URL with the selected search engine.
.topic 4645
Select the search engine you wish to search on here.
.topic 4646
This button will launch your default web browser and send it to the search results for your search parameters.
.topic 4647
Enter your search query here.
.topic 4648
You can select a saved Profile to perform searches for.
.topic 4649
This is a list of keywords associated with the selected Profile.
Select one to search with.
.topic 4657
Selecting this option will clear completed tasks from the list if they are not scheduled to repeat.
.topic 4658
This sorts the Task list in alphabetical order.
.topic 4659
This sorts the Tasks by order of next occurrence.
.topic 4703
This is a unique identifier for your Task.
.topic 4704
This is the Date and Time the Task will first run. If this is in the past, it will start when the Scheduler is turned on.
.topic 4660
Select this to allow the Task to run only once.
.topic 4661
Select this to allow the Task to run more than once.
.topic 4662
This Task will only affect a single Profile.
.topic 4663
This Task will effect multiple Profiles.
.topic 4664
This is the Profile the Task will use.
.topic 4665
The Scheduled Task will perform a Ranking for the associated Profile
.topic 4666
The Scheduled Task will perform a submission for the associated Profile
.topic 4674
This is the location that your files will be uploaded on the FTP server you are connected to.
.topic 4675
These are the files currently on the FTP server you are connected to.
.topic 4678
Leaving this option selected will automatically prompt you for permission to overwrite any file that already exists in the selected remote directory.
.topic 4679
This button will upload the selected files in your current Local Directory to the currently selected Remote Directory.
.topic 4682
If you are connected to the internet through a LAN that uses a Proxy Server to allow access out, select this.
If you are connecting directly through a modem or single connection (DSL or Cable) for a single machine, it is not likely that you need this option selected.
.topic 4683
This is the Outgoing Mail Server supplied to you by your Email provider.
.topic 4684
This is the Email Address supplied to you by your Email provider. AddWeb 4 Email reports will be sent from this address.
.topic 4685
This is the name people will see when receiving Email Reports from you.
.topic 4686
This is the Subject or Title of the Email Reports you send.
.topic 4692
This sound will play when a submission is complete for a single Profile.
.topic 4693
This sound will play when a submission is complete for ALL profiles included in the current submission
.topic 4695
Selecting this option will allow AddWeb 4 to display the update status and any messages from Cyberspace HQ when AddWeb 4 starts.
.topic 4696
Selecting this option will prevent the Skip notices from appearing at the end of each submission.
.topic 4697
This is a display of all Scheduled Tasks and Scheduling activity that have been performed.
.topic 4698
This button will permanently remove all previous Scheduling activity from this Master Report.
.topic 4699
This is where the Registration ID supplied by Cyberspace HQ should be entered.
If you did not purchase AddWeb 4 online from Cyberspace HQ directly, look on the back of your CD case for this.
.topic 4700
This is where the Registration Number supplied by Cyberspace HQ should be entered.
If you did not purchase AddWeb 4 online from Cyberspace HQ directly, look on the back of your CD case for this.
.topic 4701
Information on the latest version of AddWeb 4 can be found here.
