Advanced Web Ranking User Guide

Chapter 7. Project Settings

You can change the settings of a project from the Project -> Project Settings menu. Here you can edit the list of search engines, URLs, keywords and other settings that are associated with the current project.

Selecting Search Engines

In the Search Engines tab of the Project dialog box you can select which search engines you are interested in. This panel is similar to the one in the New Project wizard. It will display all the available engines with a check box next to them indicating their selection status. Only the selected engines will be available in the main frame for data gathering or viewing.

You can temporarily deactivate search engines from a project. The data for the inactive search engines is not removed, but rather hidden from the reports. Also, when updating the project, the inactive search engines are skipped from the update. Reactivating a search engine simply makes it visible and updateable again.

In order to deactivate or activate a search engine, go to the "Search Engines" tab of the "Project Settings" dialog box and double click on a Search Engine. In the new dialog box that appears, change its status accordingly and press OK when you have finished.

For certain local search engines, after you add them to the project, you can specify the type of search to be executed. Generally, there are three options:

  • regular web search

  • search only in pages written in that engine's local language

  • search only in pages physically located in the engine's covered area

For the search engines that support it, you also have another useful option:

  • results per page

This option allows you to set the number of results per page that you wish to retrive. Just select the number of results from the drop-down list.

In order to change the type of search performed, go to the "Search Engines" tab of the "Project Settings" dialog box and double click on a Search Engine. In the new dialog box that appears, change its search type accordingly and press OK when you have finished.

Request new Search Engine - if you need a search engine that is not available in the list, by using this button, a dialog box will appear with a text field where you can enter the search engine's name. We will do our best to add this search engine to future updates.