LinkX is a powerful product that allows you to completely manage and run a link directory. Setting up a link directory on your site can be a great way to optimize your search engine rankings.
Creating a directory with large amount of related data and having external sites put links to your site can quickly boost your search engine position, and will also help to bring in traffic from the sites that are listed in your link directory.
You can optionally require that the sites in your database maintain a link to your site, and have LinkX check your link database to make sure that all of the links to your site are still in place. Read on to find out more about the awesome features included in this software package.
Be sure to have a look at the huge feature list to get an idea of what this software is capable of doing. All of these features are included in the standard LinkX package, there are no addons or additional purchases required.
Features:
Categories and Sub-categories
- Define unlimited categories
- Define unlimited sub-categories
- Add multiple categories at once
- Sub-categories can be nested to any depth
- Configure custom meta description and keywords values for each category
- Edit categories at any time
- Configure categories that are related to each other
- Setup crosslink categories that simply point to another category
- Use custom templates for any/all of your categories
- Set link submission status for each category
- Automatically accept all link submissions
- Require approval of all link submissions
- Close category; no more submissions allowed
- Make categories hidden so they do not appear in the directory
- Each link can appear in as many categories as you like
Advanced template system
- Based on Smarty syntax; if you've used Smarty you can easily use this template system
- Approximately 5x performance advantage over Smarty
- Powerful caching system to reduce the number of database hits and server load
- Extremely flexible syntax allows for nearly any design imaginable
- Template system allows for translating templates into other languages (English and Western European currently supported)
- Templates can be edited in the LinkX control panel or in a desktop application of your choice
Control Panel Accounts
- Can have unlimited number
- Two types of accounts: administrators and editors
- Administrators have access to all software functions
- Each editor account has it's own privileges
- Can send e-mail when creating account
- All accounts have their passwords encrypted for security
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- Third party site that maintains a list of known compromised hosts
- Helps protect against spam link, comment, and account submissions
- Check during link submission
- Check during account creation
- Check during link comment submission
- Check during link rating submission
- Check during bad link reporting
Link Directory
- Browse links by category
- Powerful boolean mode search engine
- Automatic pagination of links and search results
- Page to display the most recently added links
- Page to display the most popular links (most clicked)
- Page to display the top rated links
- Each link will have a details page where users can view complete information about the link and it's comments
News items
- Configure multiple news items through the control panel
- News items can appear on your main directory page so you can update your surfers with the latest information
- You configure how many news items will appear on your directory page
- News items can be edited or deleted at any time
Search engine friendly URLs (Apache mod_rewrite required)
- Used for the link directory pages
- URLs are based on the category names you have configured
- Directory appears to be nested, just as your categories are configured
- Search engines will be able to index your complete link directory
- Control panel function to automatically generate the correct .htaccess file for you to use
Full software manual
- Complete installation instructions
- Documentation of all the major software functions
- Integrated with the control panel with context sensitive help
Link importing
- Import many links at once through the control panel
- Import from a file or by pasting data into a web-based text box
- Import data does not have to be in a specific format
- Import form will remember your previous settings so you can quickly import data that is in the same format
Link Submission
- Limit link description length
- Limit link title length
- Limit number of keywords
- Option to allow/disallow URL redirection
- Option to require a reciprocal link
- Option to only allow registered users to submit links
- Option to send confirmation e-mail to newly submitted links
- Option to require new links be confirmed through e-mail
- Links are checked against the blacklist you have configured
- Links will be checked for the reciprocal link code you have configured
Link Editing
- Both registered and un-registered users can edit their links
- Un-registered users must supply their e-mail address, link URL, and password to edit
- Registered users will be able to see all of the links they have submitted and choose which one to edit
- Option to require that link edits be approved before going live
Administrator defined link fields
- Add as many custom fields as you like
- Collect additional information about each link
- Configure validation for each field so that it must meet a specific requirement during submission
- Configure validation error messages for each field if it does not meet the requirement
- Optionally display the fields on the link details page
- Option to allow/disallow user to edit each field after submission
- Option to make each field required for submission
Link management
- Manage all of the links in your database through the software control panel
- Three types of links
- Regular - displayed normally in the directory
- Premium - displayed mixed with regular links, but can be highlighted for increased visibility
- Featured - displayed at the top of the page for maximum visibility
- Set expiration date for premium and featured links; they will automatically move back to regular status
- Disable a link at any time so it no longer appears in the link directory
- Edit a link at any time
- Modify any/all of the link information
- Move the link to a different category
- Delete the link from the database
- Scan single links through the control panel interface
- See if the link URLs are working
- See if the link has any blacklisted data
- See if the link has a reciprocal link back to your site
- Configure weights for links so that some will appear before others
- Send e-mail message to link submitter at any time
- Quick tasks interface for easy bulk editing
- Perform search and replace (search for and replace a value in a field)
- Perform search and set (search in one field, set another field to a specific value)
- Perform search and delete (search for a value in a field, and delete the link if it is found)
- Can apply to all links in a category or all links in the database
- Powerful search interface allows you to search any of the database fields
- You can choose how the links are sorted when displayed in the control panel
- Ability to configure customized rejection e-mails
- Each link you process can have a different rejection e-mail sent to them detailing why their link was rejected
Requirements:
· - Unix or Linux based server
· - PHP 4.3.0+
· - Zend Optimizer
· - MySQL 4.0.4+
· - PHP open_basedir no restrictions
· - PHP GD extension
· - PHP safe_mode disabled
· - PHP shell_exec() function available
· - PHP CLI version installed
· - PHP cURL extension
· - Apache mod_rewrite module
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