The Check Positions Task

When creating a new project, the Check Positions task is usually the fourth task to complete after the Search Engines task and is normally followed by the Reports task. Optionally, if you want to speed up the Check Positions task, you can go to the Engine Options task prior to this task.

Check Positions queries the search engines and takes a snapshot of the data on each page that it gathers, optimizes it, then stores it to your project file for reporting later. Matching results are determined when you run a report, not while gathering data. Gathering data this way opens the door to other types of reports that are not possible with other ranking type software.

Toolbar Buttons

•	Start a Ranking is used to add a new ranking to your project.

•	Abort is used to quickly terminate a ranking that is running.

Project Rankings Panel

•	Project Rankings display a list of past rankings in your project. Selecting one displays that ranking and allows you to delete it.

•	Delete Selected Ranking is used to remove the current ranking from your project file.

Search Engine List

•	Search Engine displays all your selected search engines with each keyword below it. A green dot indicates the ranking succeeded, while a red dot indicates failure. By default, Website-Manager will retry failed rankings up to 3 times before giving up.

•	Pages is the number of search engine result pages that were downloaded and parsed.

•	Results is the total number of results that were parsed from all the pages downloaded.

•	Total Results is the total number of results the search engine thinks it has for your keyword. Not all engines provide this information.

•	Time (sec) is the time in seconds it took to query and parse the results from the search engine.

Status Bar

•	The left pane displays how many searches were successful out of the total number of searches performed.

•	The center pane, not visible in the screen shot above, displays the estimated amount of time left for the current ranking.

•	The right pane displays the actual amount of time that has elapsed since the ranking was started.