The Search Engines Task

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

Toolbar Buttons

•	Quick Report is used to print one of several quick reports on the search engines.

Categories List

•	The Active Library always contains a list of the active search engines that we currently support.

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The Inactive Library contains any search engines that we used to support, but have now removed them from the product. This can happen when a search engine goes out of business, or possibly is merged with another search engine. They are keep in the Inactive Library so existing projects can still report on these engines.

•	User Categories are ones that display below the standard categories and are created by the user.

•	The Plus button is used to create a new category.

Search Engines List

•	Search Engines display the list of search engines in the selected category.

•	Domain displays the domain where the search engine is located. Generally you can use this domain in your web browser to search the search engine manually.

•	Country displays the abbreviated country code (ISO 3166) of where the search engine is located or where it is providing search data for.

•	Language displays the default language of the search engine.

•	Type displays which Engine Pack this search engine is from. For rankings you'll want to stick to Natural types, while for press release tracking, you'll want to stick to News types.