Adding New Link Partners To a Project
If you think that a certain web site should be added, edited or removed to your project manually (you have already seen how to acquire potential link partners automatically), use the Add Link Partner, Edit Link Partner and Remove Link Partner buttons to do this easily.
Buttons For Managing
Link Exchange Partners
So, to add a link partner simply click the Add Link Partner button (or hit the Insert key) and the Add Link Partner Dialog will be shown. This dialog has three tabs entitled Partner, Notes and Email respectively. The Partner tab really does what it says allowing you to input the partner information, the Notes tab is for storing your own additional information about the link partner, while the Email tab conveniently presents the mail correspondence history for this specific partner. You will need this tab later on.
A few notes about the Partner tab fields.
New Link Partner Dialog (Partner Properties Pane)
The Partner Name field is simply a descriptive name you can use to refer to your partner (usually it's a name of your partner's company), while the Partner Description field is merely a description.
The Reciprocal Link Page field is important, this is the URL where LinkAssistant can find the backward link to your project when performing the compliance scan.
The Include in Link Pages checkbox determines whether or not a link partner is eligible for getting listed on your project's links page. You should manually mark each partner you scan as compliant if the reciprocal link is where it supposed to be and if you spelled the URL right.
Use the Partner Email field to specify the email to use when sending mail to the partner, complaining about a broken link or whatever.
In addition LinkAssistant provides basic support for exchanging not only text links, but also banner-ads. The Banner URL field may be used for this purpose - URLs of you partners' banners should be entered here.
New Link Partner Dialog
(Category, Compliance Result, Status and Popularity)
The Category button allows you to select an appropriate category for the partner. This is the category where the link partner will appear on your project's links page, if he or she is compliant enough, so choose wisely :).
The Compliancy Scan button enables you to quickly scan the current partner for compliance and find out if he or she links to you. After a scan, LinkAssistant will display the status and a date of the last compliance scan in the Compliancy Scan and Last Scanned fields.
The Status button allows you to select an appropriate status for the partner. A status helps you to classify a web site. For example, you can assign the status "Waiting for answer to link request email" to all web sites you've contacted by email. That allows you to quickly find all web sites that have already been contacted.
The remaining fields and buttons on the right-hand pane provide some useful statistics on the link partner, and are very essentially identical to those covered in the Creating a New Project section, so we will not discuss them again here.
The link partner properties you specify here can be modified later at any time by selecting an appropriate partner in the partner list and hitting the Enter key. You can also double-click a partner with your mouse to do the same thing.
