
RankMeter: README
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Please read this file carefully (especially "Installation"
chapter) before installing the program to your computer.


Contents
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  Program information
  Company information
  Description
  Installation and uninstallation
  History
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Technical support


Program information
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Program Archive Name:
  rnkmeter.zip
Program Name:
  RankMeter
Program Version:
  1.66
Program Release Date:
  July 29, 2002
Program Description:
  Locate web-site position in popular search engines.
Target OS:
  Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000
Software type:
  Shareware ($69)


Company information
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Company Name:
  Tweak Marketing Inc.
Contact E-mail Address:
  support@searchutilities.com
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.searchutilities.com/
Contact Postal Address:
  2-407, Garaznaya str.
  Kaliningrad 236000 Russia


Description
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RankMeter (formely Advanced Site Position) is a software designed
to locate Web-Sites in search engines using keywords. RankMeter
supports two modes of operation: you can find out position of one
site using several sets of search phrases or, vice versa, you can
find out positions of several sites using one search phrase. In
both modes, search depth is unlimited. 

Results are provided in a table form; it is possible to save
a project to continue working on it later, to save reports
in HTML, CSV (Comma Separated Values), or text format. 

Operation of software products RankMeter involves processing
of great amount of information. A typical project requires to
process thousands web-pages provided by search engines, with
tens megabytes of total data volume. Thanks to preliminary
processing of wed-pages on our server we managed to reduce the
amount of information to be transferred by 25 times. This
ensures high-speed operation even through slow Internet
connection. 

Hope you will find RankMeter helpful, and will enjoy using it.


Installation and uninstallation
-------------------------------

Important! If you've got RankMeter not from our web page, but
from the other source (magazine CD or some software library),
please visit our home page -- you'll probably find the later
version; usually, we release the updates about once a month.

To install RankMeter, just run the "setup.exe" and follow the
instructions. You'll need to select the target directory
and the components to install.

Please note that uninstall program (which removes all RankMeter
files from your computer -- if you'll decide to do that) executes
a few external programs; that can take up to a few minutes -- so
please be patient.



History
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See "history.txt" file.

Registration
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See "order.txt" file.


Copyright and license
---------------------

See "license.txt" file.


Technical support
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Before you contact us, please do the following:

- Be sure that you're doing everything right. We all make
  mistakes sometimes... Be attentive.
- Look at the Help file: it may already contain an answer to
  your question. A lot of people ask us something like "how
  do I:", though the complete information is there.
- Visit RankMeter home page in the Internet at
  http://www.searchutilities.com/. It's a good chance that you'll
  find the newer version of RankMeter there. If the serious bug
  has been found in the program, but the new version is not ready
  yet, we make the hot fix for it.

But if you still have a problem with RankMeter and noting else
helps, please contact technical support at:

  support@searchutilities.com

Please inform us about the following:

  - RankMeter version (from "About" dialog)
  - RankMeter serial number (if you're a registered user)
  - where did you get RankMeter (http or ftp site)
  - Windows 95/98/NT version (including service packs and other
    fixes installed), US or international, OEM or not
  - computer information: CPU type and speed, installed memory
  - description of your problem (as much information as possible
    to retrieve the problem)

Note: you may want to read the "How to Determine the Version of
Windows 95 in Use" article by Microsoft. Use the following URL:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q158/2/38.asp

In order to get the complete computer information (working under
Windows 95), open the Control Panel, click on "System" applet and
press "Print" on "Device Manager" tab.

If you have any comments or suggestions for the next releases,
please don't hesitate to post them to us.

