FAQ:
Common FAQ of AntsSoft Software ProductsQ: I did a link-popularity search on the domain "mydomain.com". And this domain gets 214 hits. However, when I checked on the links, I couldn't find the link to mydomain.com. Why?
A: Search engines indexes web page periodically. When search engine bot visited some pages last time, there must be a link to "mydomain.com" included. But due to some reason, the webmaster removed this link recently, so that you can't find link to "mydomain.com" in this page today, although search engine still reported this page.
Q: How to understand the meaning of each column in "site window" and "link window"?
A: In multiple site link popularity mode, "Hits" column of "site window" is the number of found web pages who linked to this site, duplicate records returned by multiple search engines have been skipped during calculation process. "Hits" column of "link window" is the number of sites who has been linked by found webpage address (first column). Other every column of "link window" means whether this webpage address has link pointed to correspondent site or not.
In single site link popularity mode, "Hits" column of "site window" is the number of search engine query result records, duplicate records returned by multiple search engines have not been skipped during calculation process. "Hits" column of "link window" is the number of search engines who includes found webpage address (first column) within its query result. Other every column of "link window" means the ranking of this webpage address within search engine query result.
Q: Why did I get different search result after started same project two times?
A: In theory, you should get same result every time. It seems that your project halted before all links has been found out. This most reason of this problem is unstable search engine query result: As our research, query results of some search engines are variable sometimes. Under worse condition, search engine will reset your connection or reply your query with empty page. Link Survey can do nothing to solve this kind of search engine problem perfectly. But you may do something to deal with it: 1) In Link Survey configuration box, increase "Max Retry" value to 3 or bigger. 2) When project stopped automatically, press "Start" button (Not "restart" button") again to see whether there are still some links left to be found.
Q: I just subscribe to daily expired domain lists and need a software that can tell me the link popularity of thousands of domains at once. So is it possible to import domains from a .txt file with Link Survey?
A: IMHO, this kind of task is not fit for Link Survey. By design, Link Survey should be used to find out every inbound link to a website, so that it will take long time to figure out the total number of all inbound links. If you just need to know the total number of links to evaluate the value of some deleted domains, you may try our another software product Domain Inspect instead, which can be found at here.
Q: Is there a way of configuring Link Survey so as to increase the number of results reported of websites linking to my domain. Currently it returns a maximum of 1000 links.
A: There are two points which may cause the limitation of search results returned:
1) Limited by Link Survey: Choose "Project Property" from the main menu when your project is opened, then increase the number of "search engine search depth" or disable this option, this will make Link Survey return more search result with every search engine.
2) Limited by Search Engine: Some search engines, for example Google, only return limited number of search result for every query to avoid spamming. This is determined by search engine itself, which can not be changed by Link Survey.
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