Scope
This section allows users to input fundamental job information: Job name, keywords and custom URLs.

Setup
Controls Scope Job
Name User definable; 40 character limit;
alpha-numeric Load Job
Settings Users may load previously saved job settings by selecting from the
drop down box. Default will
always appear as the first
choice. Save All Job Settings Job Settings
affect ALL job values except Job Name, Keywords and Custom URLs. This
screen allows you to save, modify, or delete ALL Job Setting names. NOTE: DO NOT modify job
settings while this screen is open. Modified settings will not be
saved. Users may save up to
10 job settings for future use. Keywords Keywords and their
variants as well as User fields are supported in a
special keyword syntax called a keyword
string. Keywords
support these characters: a-z 0-9
special characters: $ ' / : & +
_- Special characters must be accompanied with either an letter or
number (e.g. "$" is not permitted, however "$ 10" is an acceptable keyword
[quotation marks to indicate keyword only]). Special characters
alone will produce an error
condition.
Keyword
variants are place in parenthesis separated by a comma. The maximum length
of keywords and variants is 150 characters See the following examples for
further explanation.
dog (dogs, dog's, canine, canine:,
k9) food (nutrition, bones & biscuits,
milk-bones) Okay dog (dogs)
food () ERROR. Variations must have valid
words within the () marks dog (four
legged animals, canine) food Okay dog (dogs,,)
food ERROR. 2 commas without a term
in-between
Up to 3 user fields (max 50 characters each) may be added to the
end of a keyword string. User
fields may contain alpha/numeric characters. Each field is separated with two
asterisks [e.g. dog
food**45150**$.027**0.176]. In this case, the User fields
are: User fields are passed through to SE ANALYST
Reports. Custom URLs In addition to the Top Page URLs that are attained from SERP
(Search Engine Report Page), Custom URLs. In this way, metrics may be
attained for specific URLs and compared directly to Top Page URLs. The maximum number of Custom URLs is
50. URLs may not exceed 1000 characters in length. Longer URLs
shall be truncated. http://domain.com and
http The path
string is case sensitive so that http://domain.com/dir is not the same as
http://domain.com/Dir and will be
treated as seperate and distinct URLs.
Field Description
Keyword variation
syntax
Result
User1 =
Wordtracker predict searches per month
User2 = Overture 2nd
position max bid price
User3 = Google KEI value
Users define what search engine is to be used to gather top ranked pages, rank depth, and other readily available search engine metrics.
| Field Description | Setup Controls | |
| Top Page Stats | Search Engine Source | Top Pages URLs attained from SERP (Search Engine Report Page) may be sourced from one of 3 search engines: Google, MSN or Yahoo. |
| Google IP Address | An optional field used to declare a specific Google datacenter with which to attain Top Page and PageRank data. | |
| Rank Depth/keyword | The number of Top Page URLs attained from SERPs is defined by the Rank Depth/keyword field. Choices are 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100. | |
| Datalines (calculated) | A Dataline is a single line of reported data for an individual URL and keyword string. Pricing for SE ANALYST is based on the number of Datalines produced. The number of Datalines are calculated as follows: | |
| Datalines = ((Rank Depth) + (Custom URLs)) x (Keyword strings) | ||
| Maximum number of Datalines per job is 1,000 | ||
| + query | The '+ query' is a Google supported query that is reported to defeat Google's stemming function. When activated, keyword will be entered with a '+' character in front of each part. Then rank for each Top Page will be reported. | |
| Link: | 'Link:' queries report a value for all external links for a Top Page domain within the Backlink Source search engine index. The domain is considered as the Top Page URL as reported by the search engine with folder and file names removed. | |
| Site: | 'Site:' queries report a value for all external links for a Top Page domain within the Backlink Source search engine index. The domain is considered as the Top Page URL as reported by the search engine with folder and file names removed. | |
| AllinANCHOR | 'AllinANCHOR:' queries are Google specific queries and return a value of the Top Page ranks | |
| AllinTITLE | 'AllinTITLE:' queries are Google specific queries and return a value of the Top Page ranks | |
| AllinTEXT | 'AllinTEXT:' queries are Google specific queries and return a value of the Top Page ranks | |
| Google PageRank | Google publicly reported Page Rank (not datacenter specific) | |
| TpHp Linkcount | Top Page Home Page (TpHp) Linkcount performs a Link: (link colon) query on the Home Page of the ranking URL | |