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Outline
Manage your monitors
The Manage your monitors page shows a list of domains: your own and your competitors,
and the maximum number of allowed monitors is dependent on your
account profile.
The Manage your monitors page can either be accessed via the dropdown menu Option
(1) or in the dropdown menu Monitor
(2). In the dropdown menu Option (1)
and the dropdown menu Compare (3) you have the
possibility of comparing two domains – e.g. your own against one of your competitors.
With the Monitor (2) dropdown you can also choose
to create a New monitor using this query that you are working with - this can be
relevant if you have used some of the query filters. When
creating a new monitor (4) you have to remember
to put http:// in front of your chosen domain - otherwise the crawler will not give
you any data to work with.
By clicking on one of your monitors in Manage monitors page, you will be shown its
related Query monitor. The Query monitor shows the link building development of
the selected monitor shown in quarter, month or week (5).
You can switch between the monitors with the dropdown menu
(6). Next to it you can also choose to edit or delete the monitor. The
bottom of the graphical representation gives an overview of the new or lost links
or images (7).
The domain report and comparing two domain reports
The domain report is an important feature for your link building, because it gives
you the total overview of you and your competitor’s domain(s). The domain report
can be found in the reports drop-down (2) .
The domain report lists the total number of known links in the API that links to
your domain (or your competitors depending on the monitor you choose). This information
combined with the page rank gives a good indication of the link juice quality.
In (1) you can manually add filters (a,
b, or c filters) to make the search achieve your information
needs. The domain report gives you an overview (3)
of you domain report, and more detailed list of all the links
(4) . The number of links shown in the report is depend on the
account profile you have, and the 'window' of links shown is chosen
randomly and can therefore change, when new links are found or links are lost after
crawling the internet.
In the dropdown menu Option and the dropdown menu Compare (illustration
no. 1 & 3) you have the possibility of comparing two domains – e.g. your
own against one of your competitors. In the compare you get the links shared between
the two domains, and the links unique for each domain both in diagram
(5) and list (6) form. This allows
you to see the difference to your competitor's link building.
The page report
The page report is important when you want to investigate your deep links. Your
page report can be found the same place as the domain report under the reports dropdown
list (2) . In your search query
(1) you can use several filter (a, b, or c filters)
to help make the search achieve your needs. The page report makes it possible to
see the entire page rank distribution, its follow versus no-follow, its page status,
its unique domain and the links linking to that specific subpage illustrated in
cake-diagrams (3) . For each page in your domain
you get in list form (4) the page rank, its
status, its inbound links, its no-follow and follow links and its unique domain.
You also have the possibility to add a specific subpage to your monitors
(5) .
The anchor report and its related cloud
The anchor report will give you important information about the anchor texts being
used in linking to your site. Here you have the possibility to find the responding
Google/Bing ranking with the specific anchor text. Just hold the cursor over the
anchor text you want to see (1).
The anchor cloud shows you an easy overview of what the anchor report shows you
with more in-depth detail. Here the words in the majority of the anchor texts will
have a greater size in the cloud. This is valuable information - especially useful
to find out which anchor texts your competitors are using.
Crawl-on-demand
The system will randomly crawl by itself, but you also have the possibility of pushing
the crawl. You can use this feature, when you are in either of the reports sub-pages
(1), and what this function does is that within
24-48 hours it will crawl the internet for your chosen query. The result from this
search will be saved into Sitexploration’s index, and most importantly the new data
will be shown in your reports. The crawl-on-demand 'behind the scenes' work
with three vic crawl containers that are running concurrently. You, the users’,
have your own dedicated container for the crawl-on-demands. The other two is dedicated
to the system, where it periodically searches the internet for new links. Searches
not finished on vic 2 after being there for 24 hours will be moved to vic 1.
If the page is not indexed by Google, then you should not expect links like these
to send any linkjuice. Therefore Sitexploration removes them from our index and
move them to an index cesspool. At the moment this new index cesspool is not accessible
to the users.
Filters for your query
Exclude
If you have a specific link you want to exclude from the search result the exclude-clause
is used. You can either write exclude:{ http: //www.domainB.dk, http: //www.domainC.dk}
after your domain, in the search field, or press the exclude link for the domain
you want to exclude in the result list (1).
Only
If you want to narrow your search to a specific domain the only-clause is used.
Either you write only: www.domainB.dk after your domain, in the search field, or
you find the specific domain to concentrate on in the result list and press the
narrow link (2). After narrowing to a specific
domain, you have the possibility to narrow the search further down by writting an
anchor text in brackets before the only-clause. Like this [anchor text] only: www.domainB.dk.
NoFollow
The no-follow filter shows only links that contribute to your page rank. You can
either write filter/: nofollow after your domain, in the search field, or press
the hide no-follow link (3). The filters exclude
and only can be used together with the no-follow filter.
Link search
If you are interested in your sites deep links, the link search feature will give
you a certain domains internal and external number of links and its corresponding
anchor text. It can help you dig even deeper down in analyzing your or your competitor’s
link building.
