Engine Options

The Engine Options task is where you fine tune your connections with the search engines. Website-Manager allows you to set options for each engine individually if the need arises. Otherwise, the Default Search Engine Options are used.

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Quick Report

The Quick Report button allows you to display options set in groups quickly without having to look at each engine individually.

You can print...

• The Connection Settings.
• The Page Settings.
• The Keyword Settings.
• The Request Header Settings.
• The Troubleshooting settings.

Search Engine List

The Search Engine list displays the Default Search Engine Options and all the search engines from your Engine Packs in alphabetical order. The Default Search Engine Options are applied to all search engines unless overridden in a specific search engine.

Click the Clear button when a search engine is selected to clear out the property values. You can also click the Clear All button to clear all properties and reset the Default Search Engine Options back to the defaults.

Property List

The Property list displays, and allows the editing of, property values for each of the search engines. The default values in most situations is more than adequate, but if you need to, you can changes these values.

Connection Settings

The Connection settings section allows you to adjust how long the program will wait for a connection request to succeed and how many times it will attempt a connection before giving up.

Page Settings

The Page settings section allows you to adjust the number of pages that will be downloaded from a search engine during a query. For Web browser emulations, you can also tweak the amount of time the program waits between page gets. If you set a minimum, but no maximum, the program will always wait that amount of time. If you set both, the program will automatically pick a random value between the minimum and maximum each time it waits to get another page. Like other settings here, you can override this value for specific search engines.

Keyword Settings

The Keyword settings section allows you to set a delay before the next keyword is queried from the search engine. This keeps the program from sending rapid-fire requests to the search engines. Website-Manager will never send multiple queries to a search engine at the same time, even if you set all delays to zero (0).

Request Header Settings

The Request Header settings section allows you to override some key HTTP headers passed to the search engines when queries are performed. If you are having trouble with being redirected to country specific search engines, you can override the Accept-Language header for that search engine and fake a country setting.

Troubleshooting

The Troubleshooting section is mainly for internal use, but there is one setting you can set if you are having trouble with your reports matching the results from your Web browser. Set the Store Returned Pages to true and run your ranking again for either the keyword or the search engine that results are not matching on. Then right-click a keyword under the search engines and select Show Pages. A popup menu will show with the actual pages downloaded and parsed from the search engine. Select a page to display it in your Web browser for verification. WARNING: The page data is stored in your project file, so do not leave this option set!