Installation:
Basically you just download the product and then install it by running or double clicking on the downloaded executable file.
If you get the message "Installation Corrupt" or a similar message when running the installation file, then your download did not complete or got aborted prematurely. Go back to the download page and download the file again. It should be exactly the same size as indicated when the download finishes.
Existing customers that need to reinstall the product, simply download the trial version, install it, then re-enter your registration key or unlock code if needed.
To run the program after installing go to the Windows Start Menu and Programs, then select Active WebTraffic or click on the desktop icon.

Registration:
Myrasoft has made registering Active WebTraffic a quick and easy process. Once the program has been purchased, our Customer Service Team will send your license unlock code via email. This email will also contain instructions on how to get your new software registered properly.
You can unlock the software by following these simple steps:

1. Connect to the Internet.
2. Run the software. If you are using a proxy server for your Internet connection from the program's Top Menu Bar click on the Settings icon and then on the Internet Settings Tab. If you are not using a proxy, go directly to step 4 below.




3. Select the option: Use proxy and enter your proxy server address (such as 10.0.0.100), proxy port (such as 8080), your proxy ftp port (such as 21), your proxy username and password. These fields should be entered exactly as they are configured in your browser internet connection proxy options. Then hit the Close button.

4. Proceed with the registration by clicking on Help -> Unlock program. Enter your license unlock code on the password field exactly as it appears on the email you received from Myrasoft's customer service. Then click the Register button.



That's it...you're registered!

To have an understanding of what the software can do for you check the basic 5 web promotion steps on our features section. The software comes with a user's manual that you can access by clicking on Help from the program's main menu. You can also contact our support team by email or using the program's built-in support form.

Our support team answers all questions promptly. Please be sure to check the frequently asked questions before to see if your question has already been answered.

Quick Start Guide

Step 1 - The first step is to Configure the program  by clicking on the Settings icon located on the right of the Top Menu Bar.

Enter the required information on the following four Tabs:

1. Internet Settings: If you use a proxy for your internet connection, select the option Use Proxy. Enter your proxy server address (such as 10.0.0.100), proxy port (such as 8080), your proxy ftp port (such as 21), your proxy username and password. These fields should be entered exactly as they are configured on your browser internet connection proxy options.
Introduce your Email Settings if you are going to send the reports to your customers by email. Enter your SMTP server information, username and password. These fields should be entered exactly as they are configured on your email account.

2. General Settings: You can leave this information by default or change it at your convenience.

3. Human Emulation: this option is turned on by default to improve the performance of the program. Active WebTraffic allows you to set up a pause in seconds when you make multiple queries to a particular search engine too often, simulating a human behavior.



4. Semi-automatic: The program automatically fills the submission form by default. If you prefer to introduce the information manually select the option Use the Auto-Fill button for each search engine.

Step 2 - Create a New Project
The first step to begin promoting your website is to create a New Project. Each project represents a web page. Start creating a project for your main web page.

From the Top Menu Bar select Project  Settings -> New  and enter your project's name such us  "mydomain" and a short description to remember the project's content.

Enter the project's information on the General, Extra and Variants of Titles and Descriptions tabs.



Enter your web page URL, beginning with http://
Click on the Extract Settings from Meta Tags button to import the title, description and keywords directly from your meta tags. You should enter all the required information, including a real web promotion email address. Some search engines will not list your web page if you do not provide your contact information or a real email address. The information you have entered on the  title, description and keywords will be submitted to the search engines and directories. Check this information carefully to avoid submission errors.

Select the category that best describes your website and click on the Select Category button.
Enter the Reciprocal Link URL where you are planning to include the reciprocal links. Some directories will not list your web page if you do not include a back link. Click on Next

Variants of Titles and Descriptions: enter alternative titles and descriptions using different keywords and length such us a very short title, short description, etc. By using alternative titles and descriptions, directories will link to your website using different anchor texts (the text on the link) and your semiautomatic submissions will look different and more natural, improving the visibility of your web page by different keywords.



Once you have entered all the project information save the project clicking on the Save button.

You can make a backup of your projects selecting Project Settings -> Backup Projects. Save the backup.pdz file on a folder such us "My documents" and click on Save. You can restore the projects from the Project Settings -> Restore Projects option.

The Keywords Suggestion Tools module includes three different options for researching good keywords for your web promotion campaign: Keyword Builder, Keyword Generator and Keyword Competitors. These three tools help you to identify new keyword phrases based on a keyword you enter. Choosing the right keywords is one of the most important steps of your web promotion campaign. The new keywords can be easily added to the project.

The Keyword Builder  uses the Google Suggestion tool to obtain new keyword ideas. First select your Google source and enter keywords (word combinations and phrases) highly related with your web site content. Click on the Get Keyword Ideas button and a list of relevant keywords will be generated, sorted by relevance and displaying the number of searches.

Click on the Extract Keywords button located at the top of the keyword builder (by the Google source drop down menu) to import all the relevant keywords to the Suggest Keywords area.
You can select each of these new keywords or select all of them. One word keywords are too generic. Start with very targeted key phrases . Try to use two or three word phrases that are more specific and descriptive.

The Collected Keywords area shows the final list of good keywords to be added to the project. You can add to this list plural and singular variations, synonyms and serial or product numbers.

Finally, click on the Add to Project button to add the new keywords to your project.



You should optimize different web pages of your website for different key phrases. It is better to optimize a web page for a single relevant key phrase than trying to optimize a web page for multiple key phrases.

The option Keyword Generator helps you to create long and very targeted keywords called long tail keywords. These keywords have a very low volume of searches but are very specific and target potential customers. Enter a list of keywords on the three areas and Active WebTraffic will generate different keyword combinations based on the keywords you have entered. These new multi word phrases are much easier to rank well and tend to have a high conversion rate.
Click on Generate, the results will be displayed and you can add them to the project.


The tool Keyword Competitors analyzes your competitor's web page and extracts the keywords they are using to obtain new good keywords that you may have not previously noticed.

Once you have created the project, researched and selected good keywords, you have to analyze and optimize your web page using these keywords on your web page content to obtain a high ranking on search engines by these terms. If you do not optimize your web pages you will never get high search engine rankings.

Step 3 - Analyze and Optimize your Web Page
From the Analyze Website button you have access to the optimization tools included on Active WebTraffic: Keyword Density Analyzer (KDA), Spider Page Analyzer (SPA), Page Advisor, Broken Link Checker and SEO Analyzer.
These tools have a very easy-to-use and intuitive interface. Enter your web page URL and key phrases and Active WebTraffic will analyze your web page HTML code and will display the results, giving you advice on how you can improve your web site. Making a few changes and solving web page errors you can increase your search engine rankings.
For more information about these optimization tools please visit our features section.

Select Utilities to access to the W3C HTML Validator, Meta Tag Generator, HTML Editor, FTP Uploader, PPC Search Engine Manager and Monitoring. These additional tools will also help you improve your web site.

Step 4 - Submit your project to hundreds of search engines and directories
Once you have optimized your web page you can start submitting it to search engines and directories to increase your web page visibility and PageRank. By submitting to directories you get inbound links easily, you will obtain a permanent one-way link from every directory, improving your Google PageRank and your search engine ranking.

Active WebTraffic includes two different submission modules: Automatic and Semiautomatic modules.
From the option Submission Tools select Auto Submit. The search engines included on this database do not require a category selection and accept automated submissions. The submission form is very simple.



First tick the checkbox next to the project URL you want to submit to the search engines.
Click on the Engines Tab to access to the automatic search engine database.

From the Tools button you can easily Expand and Collapsed the database, check and uncheck search engines by country, language, domains accepted, search engine type, if adult websites are accepted or requires a reciprocal link. You can also enter your own notes for a particular search engine.
      
The Status option of each search engine allows you track your submissions and registrations easily: submission approved, not registered yet, rejected, never submit and try later.

From the Tools button you can also submit manually to a particular search engine, Active WebTraffic connects to the search engine submission form in a new browser window allowing you to submit manually or make a search by domain to know if your web page is listed.

Once your web page is listed, it is not necessary to submit again unless you make important changes to your web page.



The user interface allows you to sort the database easily by clicking on a column header. For instance, if you want to start submitting to the search engines with the lowest Alexa rank, just click on the Alexa name of the Alexa column and the program will sort the engines by this field.

Select the automatic search engines you want to submit to from the Tools button and use the Check Engines option or select them manually by ticking the checkbox next to each search engine.

Start the Auto Submitter by clicking on GO Auto Submit.

Active WebTraffic will submit your project to the selected search engines. When the submission is finished the Status field and Submission date will be updated.
If you make any changes on the search engine status or enter any notes, click the Save button  located on the project settings screen.

You can generate a Submission Report from Project Settings -> Report. Select the Last Submission Report option and the Report Type: HTML, email or text.
Indicate the folder where you want to save your future reports (by default this folder is located under your windows user documents User\Documents\Active WebTraffic\YourReports).
Enter the rest of the information, your personal information and your client's information.

Click on Go Generate Report. Active WebTraffic will show the report in a new window.



From the Submission Tools option select Semi Submitter. The search engines and directories included on the semiautomatic database do not accept automated submissions because they have a complex submission form, require to navigate to the correct category, require to create a user account or have a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) code.



To submit your project to a semiautomatic search engine or directory, double click on the search engine name and Active WebTraffic will load the search engine submission form on its internal browser window. Sometimes you will have to navigate to the correct category and subcategory before you can submit, in other cases the submission form is immediate and you have to select the category from a drop down list.

The AutoFill option makes the submission process incredibly easy and fast, saving you hours of your time instead of re-typing your web page details for every directory. Active WebTraffic fills out the submission form and you just have to select the best category for your website and enter the CAPTCHA code if needed. The semiautomatic submission process is accurate, without possible submission errors since it is exactly as a manual submission.

Select all the search engines to which you want to submit to using the semiautomatic mode by ticking the checkbox next to each search engine. You can also select a set of search engines easily by right clicking on a search engine and using the Check Engines option.

Double click on the first search engine selected and Active WebTraffic will load the submission form on its internal browser and autofill it.

If a field of the submission form has not been completed (empty field) from the Tools button you can click on the name of the field missing to automatically fill it.

Choose the category and enter the CAPTCHA code if necessary.

Click on the submit button on the submission form to finish the submission.

Select the next engine using the browser's right arrow to load the next search engine.

If you have turned on the Variants of titles and description function, Active WebTraffic will rotate these fields. You can also use this option manually from the Tools button.

As in the automatic mode, by clicking on the Tools button you can change the search engine Status (Set Search Engine Status option) at your convenience. You can also right click on a particular search engine to change the Status.

After your web page has been submitted, you will begin to receive email confirmations from search engines and directories (not all of them send an email confirmation). You can assign a new status to a particular search engine, if the submission has been approved you can change the status to Submission Approved. For those search engines that do not send an email confirmation you should wait one or two months and then make a search by domain to check if your website has been listed. If it has not been accepted submit again. 

Active WebTraffic allows you to add your own search engines and directories to the submission database.
To add a new search engine to the semiautomatic database click on the Add User Semi-Engines button located on the semiautomatic module. 

Click on the New Engine icon and enter the name of the new search engine, the main web page and the web page that includes the submission form.



Clic on Run Wizard.

Indicate the correct Form to extract the fields from (sometimes there is more than one form, such us a search form, a register form and the add url form). 

Click on Next. The submission form fields extracted must match Active WebTraffic's fields. In some cases not all the fields are necessary and you need to know basic HTML code to understand the submission form if it is complex.
If the field of the submission form is not necessary (a character counter, checkbox, reciprocal link text) select the option "not necessary to insert".
If the field of the submission form has to be selected manually select the option "select value manually"


Once all the fields have been entered click on Save to add the new search engine to the semiautomatic database.

You can use the Scheduler to submit to the automatic search engines on a specific date. If you have multiple projects to be submitted you can add them to the scheduler and indicate when you want to submit them. Do not use the scheduler to constantly submit to the search engines since it is not necessary.

The Google Sitemap module creates an XML sitemap that can be submitted to Google and other search engines that use the standard XML protocol (Yahoo, Bing and Ask) to give detailed information about your website: which pages are present, which are the most important pages and how often they are updated. The Sitemap does not affect your rankings but allows Google to crawl your website accordingly. Obviously if you use a Google sitemap it is not necessary to submit your website to Google since it will be automatically crawled.

How to create the Sitemap file
Click on the Google Sitemap button.
Click on Spider URLs to create a complete sitemap of your website.
Enter the full http address for your website.
Indicate the number of Maximum Link and Levels for Spider to start crawling your website.



You can add optional filters on the Allowed and Disallowed Tabs, entering a particular web page, file extensions you do not want to crawl, special forms, etc.

Enter the default Priority and Frequency. The Priority signals the importance of individual pages in the website. The priority of your most important page should be 1. High priority values get crawled more often. You can assign the Priority by default by ticking the Set Automatically checkbox. The priority will be calculated based on the web page level or depth.
Assign the Frequency by default depending on how often your website is updated.



Click on the Spider URLs  button to start crawling your website.
Once you have finished crawling your website you can Edit the frequency and priority of each page individually at your convenience.


Click on the Generate Google SiteMap File button. The .XML file will be generated and you will be able to see the source code.
Click on Save to save the sitemap file on a local folder such us googlesitemap.xml.
Upload the file to your server and follow the sitemap instructions on your Google Webmaster Central account.
From the Go Submit Sitemap button you can access to your Google account.

Step 5 - Check your Rankings on the most important search engines
Check your search engine rankings to verify the position you have reached for your most relevant keywords.
Enter the web page http:// address for which you want to perform the ranking check (specify the exact URL).
Select the position from 1 to 200
Add your keywords or import them from the project settings
Select the search engines and click on Check my Ranking.


Active WebTraffic will display the results on a new window by search engine, keyword and status. Depending on how many search engines you have selected and number of keywords it can take some time.



You can sort the results by clicking on the column header.
You can export the results to an Excel file so that you can work in external applications such as MS Excel. Click on the Export to Excel button, enter the field name (such us rank_feb12) and choose the location to which the file will be exported.



You can also view ranking statistics overtime by clicking on View Ranking Stats.
You can create multiple statistics by different keywords, a particular search engine or various search engines and time period. Each search engine is displayed in a different color to keep track of your submissions easily.


Ranking Reports: Select the option Project Settings -> Reports to generate a ranking report for your own use or to send to your clients. 
Choose the option Ranking Report  and select the Report Type: HTML, email or text.
Indicate the folder where you want to save your future reports (by default this folder is located under your windows user documents User\Documents\Active WebTraffic\YourReports).
Enter your personal information and your client's information.

Click on Go Generate Report. Active WebTraffic will show the report in a new window or send it by email.
You can also generate other reports for your personal analysis or to send to your customers: Full Report, Project Data Report, Search Engine and Directory List Report, Last Submission Report and Keyword Density Analyzer Report.


Enjoy your software! Have a good web promotion!