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What is SitePopularity? [Top]
SitePopularity is a Windows software program which checks a list of
URL's for backlinks and different ranking criterias. Among those
criterias are PageRank, Alexa Traffic Rank, Dmoz listing and
backlinks which are checked for using these search engines: Google,
Yahoo, Altavista and AlltheWeb. The results appear immediately in
the program. Look on the main page for the entire
list of features found in SitePopularity.
Does this
program contain ANY malware? [Top]
SitePopularity is, and always will be 100% free of all kinds of
harmful code such as spyware, adware and viruses. If you don't like
the program you can always uninstall it without risking any kind of
harm to your system.
System requirements [Top]
Windows 95/98/2000/2003 Server/ME/XP/Vista
128 MB of RAM (256 recommended)
Internet connection
Windows
XP Service Pack 2 [Top]
Users running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed have been
limited to only using 10 connections by Microsoft. It's possible to
circumvent this limit by running an unofficial patch found at
http://www.lvllord.de/?url=tools#4226patch
Remember that this is a third-party patch and it's only recommended
for seasoned computerusers.
How do I start it? [Top]
After you have installed it, open your start-menu and click on
'Programs', under that tab you will see a group called 'SitePopularity
Shareware'.
How do I use
it? [Top]
It's very simple to get started using SitePopularity thanks to the
Quick Start Wizard which automatically presents itself when you open
the program. Follow the instructions of the four steps which the
wizard tells you to do and click on 'Finish' when you are ready to
start. Next a new window called 'Safesearch' will appear, it will
explain what it does and you can chose to either activate or
deactivate safesearching (activating it makes the program work a
little slower).
After you have done this the program will start checking the URL's
that you have added to the list. It will stop as soon as it is done
and you can of course observe the progress in real-time while
SitePopularity is working.
Now you should have the results of each of the websites in the list.
Now click on the button 'Saving' in the menu, there you can chose
how to save the results. When you are done with that click on 'Save'
to export the results (however that function is disabled in the free
Shareware).
How do I
save the results?
[Top]
First of all click on the button called 'Saving' in the button menu
in the main window. There you will be able to define which URL's
that should be saved, based on a few different patterns. After
you're done close that window and click on button to left of it
called 'Save'. The results will then be instantly saved to the file
that you specify.
Why should I purchase the full version? [Top]
The free Shareware version has some limitations compared to the
registered full version. All these limits will be removed when you
purchase the full version. For a list of the limitations please see
the buy now page.
URL list
[Top]
The URL list in the main window displays the list of websites that
you have added to the program. You can double-click on any URL to
edit it or you can right-click on the list to add a new one. You can
also get each individual page of searchresults by right-clicking on
an URL, this is useful if you would like a little more in depth
information about the sites linking back to the website in question.
If you want to import a large list you can do that by using the
'Import' button, if however the list is comma-separated then it's
important to load them by clicking on the little triangle right of
the 'Import' button. Lists from Pool.com must be imported by using
the later method.
Settings
[Top]
The program configuration can be changed under the tab 'Settings' in
the main window.
Connection
The number of connections used by the program determines how fast it
should process all URL's. The more connections being used the faster
the program can operate. You can use as few as 1 and as many as 100.
Remember that not all connections can handle 100 simultaneous
connections, and if that happens the results may timeout or be
displayed as grayed erroneous results. The 'Retry' function will try
a failed result X times until it gives up and moves on. 'Timeout' is
of course how long it takes before a connection should time out due
to not receiving any response.
Links and ranking
If 'Google Pagerank' is checked then each website will be checked
for Google Pagerank. If 'Yahoo backlinks' is checked then each
website will be checked for Yahoo backlinks, and so on.. You must
have at least one of the options enabled.
Proxy
Normally the use of proxies is not necessary, but if you want or
need to use them then the option is here for you. Remember that all
of the proxies must be of the HTTP type. They can be running on any
port though. A list imported must be separated with standard Windows
linebreaks and each proxy must be in the format of 'host:port'.
URL extraction
When this function is enabled then each of the websites in the list
will be visited by SitePopularity, and each link found on each one
of the pages will be extracted and added to the list. The program
will dig deeper and deeper as defined by the 'Maximum depth'
setting. It will also start visiting other websites if links are
found to them, you can avoid this by enabling 'Stay within domain'.
The two comma separated fields are each connected to the option
button above them. And they will only be used if you actually enable
the option button for the field in question.
Safesearch
This is a very useful function if you are not in a great hurry.
Sometimes when you query a search engine many times from the same IP
it will get tired of you temporarily block you from making any
queries. If this happens to you the program will appear to stop
working and you will not get any results at all from the search
engine. Safesearch can help you avoid this problem by using less
connections with a pause between them, this puts less pressure on
the search engine and you are much much less likely to get blocked.
More
Here are some settings which doesn't really fit under any specific
tab.
The first one keeps the Quick Start Wizard from appearing when you
start the program. The other one keeps the Safesearch window from
popping up.
The last setting is a little more complex. If a Dmoz listing result
is a subdomain of the topdomain that was being checked for, then
consider that URL to be listed in Dmoz.
What is Google PageRank?
[Top]
Google PageRank is a website ranking system developed by Google to
measure the popularity of a specific website URL. The scale
stretches from 0-10 where 10 is the highest.
What is Alexa Traffic Rank?
[Top]
Alexa Traffic Rank is a ranking system developed by Alexa (www.alexa.com)
which measures a sites popularity by the number of visits it
receives from users that have installed the alexa toolbar on their
computer. The highest ranking a site can get is 1, the second
highest is 2, and so on.
What is a Dmoz listing?
[Top]
Dmoz (www.dmoz.org) is the internets largest human-edited directory
listing close to 5 million sites in nearly 600,000 different
categories. It's a fairly good indication of a quality site if it's
included in Dmoz, it also will be listed in hundreds of other
websites which copies Dmoz. Therefore you are pretty much guaranteed
to get more visits to your site if it's listed in Dmoz.
Why
isn't the MSN search engine used by this program?
[Top]
The MSN search engine used to be supported by SitePopularity, but
since late 2007 Microsoft decided that they didn't want anyone to be
able to check for backlinks using their search engine. Since then it
has been disabled. There are still ways to get results from the
search engine but these results are very unreliable. Therefore we
decided to remove it all together.
It won't
start, it says I'm missing some file? [Top]
If the program says that you're missing an OCX or DLL file then
download and install this file from the Microsoft website (restart
your computer after you have installed it):
Runtime library
If it still won't work then contact us
and tell us what file that you are missing.
The Automatic updater always
times out or can't connect? [Top]
Make sure that you have set your firewall to allow the Automatic
updater to access "www.site-popularity.com" on port 80, so that the
updater may connect to that site in order to check for updates. It's
not necessary to enable the Automatic updater for the program to
work, but it really helps to keep SitePopularity up to date if you
wanna get good results.
I have
a question, how do I reach you?
[Top]
You can find our contact information on this
page, feel free to contact us with any questions that you might
have and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Normally
within 24 hours.
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