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Automatic link validation - The directory will automatically check all your links to make sure they are valid, so your directory won’t be linking to any sites that are no longer available. |
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Automatic reciprocal link validation - The directory will automatically visit the web sites of your reciprocal link partners (if using this feature) to see if their sites are still linking to your directory. It can automatically disable their link in your directory if they no longer link back to your directory from their site. This saves you personally viewing all of the web sites yourself and disabling links in your directory yourself. |
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Built-in email system with custom email templates
If you are looking for a way to make it easy to have a system for seeking and managing reciprocal links, this is a strong point of this program. Furthermore, the system makes it very easy to hire freelancers to help you do the work yet maintain a level of quality, and also be able to see exactly how much work was done.
- Enter site name, url and email of webmaster and click submit and an introduction/invitation email is sent using the email template you created.
- Multiple Email Templates can be used if desired, so it is easy to send a variety of messages efficiently.
- When submitting, a variety of methods are used to check and then warn you in the event you are trying to email the same person or website. This becomes especially important on large campaigns over periods of time.
- The PHP Mail Function, Sendmail or SMTP can be used by selecting the preferred method from the drop down menu. This is mainly a technical setting, however it can be used by us (the web hosting company) to help us ensure your emails are not blocked by spam filters.
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Search Engine (SEO) Friendly Pages - Instead of having addresses like yoursite.com/?c=421, you will have addresses like yoursite.com/arts_and_entertainment – this will help you get higher rankings in the search engines, especially Google. |
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Paypal Integration for Selling Featured Links – this allows anyone with a credit card to pay you online. |
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Available in a dozen languages - These languages include English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. These come pre-loaded. Please ask if the language you seek is not listed as we can add more. |
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Create Reports of Link Request Emails sent to see who you’ve emailed. |
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Unlimited Categories and Subcategories (we’ve tested it with over 2 million categories!) |
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Set Expiration for Featured Links (eg. monthly, annually, lifetime) |
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Powerful Emailer for Link Exchanges |
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Link Submission
- Visual Confirmation may be enabled to prevent spamming of your directory by automated scripts/bots.
- Reciprocal Links can be required if you wish. If required, then when they click submit it views their site to make sure the link to your site exists before their listings is added to your
directory.
- Multiple directory submissions from the same site can be either allowed or disallowed.
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Automatically notify the person via email that you’ve received their reciprocal link application |
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Automatically notify the person via email when their reciprocal link is accepted |
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Automatically notify you via email each time a new listing is added (optional) |
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Google Pagerank (it can display the ‘Google Pagerank’ of each site listed in your directory) |
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Business Listings with Google Maps - Regional directories are getting very popular now, and the business listings feature allows for the listing of physical addresses. Then on the detail pages, you can see a map to the location via Google Maps. |
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IP, Domain and Keyword Banning (so you can ban certain people from adding listings to your directory) |
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Google Sitemaps Integration – This allows Google to index every single page in your directory, and it even contacts the Google servers to let them know when there is a change to your site! |
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Admin Configuration Settings – There are various settings that you can update in your control panel to customise the way your directory operates. Some of these settings are -
- Show Link and Category Counts (yes/no)
- Show Subcategories on main index page
- Show Google PageRank of links in the directory
- Sort links in each category by PageRank, alphabetically or by number of hits.
- No Follow Tags (prevent search engines from following links to other sites) - there are 3 options: disabled, all, or only follow when there is a reciprocal link
- RSS feeds may be enabled so that all categories have an xml feed (this would be handy if other sites wanted to display the content/listings from your site).
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Yahoo Sitemaps Integration |
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Show Latest Links |
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Show Most Popular Links |
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Sort Links by Alphabetical, Hits or PageRank |
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Display RSS Feed for Each Category (optional) – handy if other sites want to show your listings on their sites or if you want to see the listings directly on your PC. |
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Visual Confirmation is used to ensure ‘real people’ are requesting directory listings, instead of automated scripts/bots. It shows a code word and tells you to type it in before submitting the form. |
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Compatible with all major internet browsers - Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera |
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Database Backup from within admin panel |
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Encrypted Database Passwords |
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When searching the directory, it lists matching category names in addition to the matching listings. |
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Limited Access for Editors, so you can put different people in charge of managing different parts of your site without them having full access to ‘mess things up’. |
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3-Way Linking Ability (require reciprocal link to 3rd site) |
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Open Links in New Window (Optional) |
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Set the number of listings that show per page |
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Reciprocal Links can be required (optional) for everyone who wants a listing in your directory |
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Limit Hits on Links from a single IP/computer to prevent "hit spamming" |
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Edit page templates from the online control panel |
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Listing details page - each directory listing has a full web page – great for small businesses who don’t have a site |
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Easily Move or Rename Categories |
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Listings are searchable in the control panel – this helps you manage your directory when it has a lot of listings |
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Import listings from XML Source (per category) – If you had the listings in an existing database, they could be imported into the online directory instead of manually entering them |
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The online directory is continuously being improved and updated. We have a new release every few months, and continue to listen to user requests and try to bring the features people want. |
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Category Search in your control panel, so you can still easily find categories when your directory gets large. |
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Mass change listings and categories on a page with checkbox selections |
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Each user can select their preferred language |
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Paypal subscriptions available for payments - Sometimes featured links are sold on a subscription basis, so that people can renew after a period of time. This has been a good way for directory owners to continue to bring in revenue from existing clients. Once a client signs up, they are automatically billed before their listings expires, so they don’t need to do anything. |
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Three category selection methods for submit form (default, auto-selected and AJAX category selection). The ajax category selection is a very modern way of allowing a person to select a category for their new listing. As they type the category name, a shortlist of matching categories will be automatically shown. |
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Link validator in control panel will mark links where the reciprocal link page no longer exists |
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Send status notifications to listing owners where there reciprocal link page no longer exists |
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Change currency for payment (ex.: USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, JPY) |
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Option to rebuild all meta tags from the control panel – helps with Google rankings |
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In the control panel, you will have links to personally view the reciprocal link page for any listings that have been edited |
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Allow users to submit custom META tags for links - helps with Google rankings |
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Articles Module allows articles to be added into categories |
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Article Submission by Users (optional) |
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Users can comment and rate articles like a blog |
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Language editor makes editing language files easier |
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Quick subcategory adder makes adding categories faster |
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Contact Us page with ‘captcha’ (blocks automatic scripts from submitting your contact form) |
