"We can develop for you a complete directory
based search engine website like Yahoo or
add search engine capabilities to your exisiting
website."
Overview
Our search engine solution is an easy-to-use Directory Management
program. It allows you to run a complex link directory without being overwhelmed
by editing and updating HTML pages. Also it is packed with with an targetted ads
system, stats module, unlimited mailing lists support, metasearching
capabilities, top list functionality, an advanced webmaster control panel,
reciprocal links management system and so much more.
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Features
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Administrator Control Panel
- Full Database Control: Add, remove, modify and search on both your category
and your links databases using our powerful database engine.
- Build Static Pages: Don't destroy your server by running a dynamic directory
-- Links creates static html pages just like YahooR and
CGI-Resources.
- Complete Customization: Links has levels of customizations. For the users,
there are Templates. You simply edit the look of your site using a regular html
editor, and insert tags for the parts where Links should put its information.
All aspects of your site, even down to how a Link should look can be edited with
templates.
- Validating Links: Links let's you preview all links before they are entered
into the database. Before adding them in you can edit any aspect of the link. If
you accept the link, a custom email notice will be sent to the link owner. If
you reject the link, again, a custom rejection notice is sent.
- Database Maintenance: Make sure all your links are in a proper category and
move batches of links around to different categories with just a few mouse
clicks.
- Targetted ADS system, which support banners, button and text links as
advertisement. It can be used in Links directory or in any other page / web
site.
- Advanced stats system, which tracks hits and referers to any page of
directory. Can be used for tracking any webpage/website
- Top list features which boasts a special gateway page that uses cookies, ip
checking and random nums for protection from cheaters.
- Log file generated for admin with suspicious incomming hits.
- Recip links checking module, which allows the administrator to check recip
links expanding up to two levels of users website. It can be configured to check
recip link presence realtime in submission process.
- Extended ranking system, which allows the administrator to have "preffered"
links in the directory and easily modify ranking methods within the directory
and in search results.
- Automatic installer / configuration checker, which allows the admin to
change the configuration of the script at any time and automatically password
protect the admin control panel.
- Advanced control panel for webmasters (link submitters), which can be
managed from Links control panel. It allows the admin to easily find all links
submitted by one person and manage it. This system is also useful to webmasters
submitting links to the directory as they have just one username & password
easy to remember.
- Unlimited mailing lists support.
- Ability to calculate impressions for ads
- For preventing ads caching changed format of ads tags
- ADS can be shown now via SSI (html pages, all cgi via javascript) or via
Javascript
- MetaSearch module now working with Google and with Amazon.com (with support
of his affiliate program)
- for books/music/video searching
- Added "reset In and Out hits" feature. If this feature enabled, hits is
resetted after each rebuild as in standard top lists.
- Added Links Extended tags guide.
(new feature)
- Dmoz links fetcher is added. It allow you to fastly fetch links for your
directory.
- After importing links from dmoz.org you can validate it (select category, edit if need
title/description & add to your database).
End User Experience: Searching
- Lightning fast searches.
- Altavista style "Next" hits toolbar to easily jump to different search
results page.
- Links to other search engine if the search fails, categorized results.
- Search on any field as well as general keyword. For example, if you have a
custom field called "UseShockwave", you can just add to your search form the
ability to only get links that use shockwave and that match your keyword search.
- Allow user to metasearch the web and music, video, books shops. This feature
support affliate program, and you will be paid for user purchases.
- Easily change the method you rank the directory. For example you can specify
that all "preffered" links are listed first, "Top links" follow, and all "other"
links will bring up the end of the search results.
- Stats system allows you to check list of top searches
- MetaSearch module, which allow you visitors metasearch the web (google) and
search (amazon.com) for books/video/music. Affiliate program of amazon.com is
fully supported.
End User Experience: Adding and Modifying Links
- Adds directly into the category the user clicked "Add" from.
- Custom e-mail notification when the link is added.
- Custom e-mail notification if the link was rejected.
- Custom "recip link not found" email
- Custom "Welcome email" for webmaster control panel
- Custom "Lost Password" email for webmaster control panel.
Supports all old methods of add/modify link, but offers a new, advanced
control panel to webmasters.
- Profiles system. When a user creates an account, he/she can easily check all
listed links, add/modify/delete his/her links.
- Password protection by cookies
- Can show recip linking rules for every link.
- Can instantly check recip link presence when user add/modify link
- Support of instant account creation and "Lost Password" function.
- Templates based control panel.
- Admin can easily find all links for every webmaster profile, and modify or
delete it.
End User Experience: Mailing lists
- Subscribe to an e-mail update newsletter which describes the latest Links to
be added to the database.
- Subscribe/Unsubscribe to unlimited mailing lists. (Can be used from any
webpage - check admin demo for more info)
End User Experience: Ratings
- Users can "rate" links on a 1-10 sliding scale. A "Top Rated" report is
automatically generated as well as a "Top Votes".
- Images for rating
- A "What's Cool" page also tracks the number of hits each link has generated
and builds a summary of the most clicked on links in the database. This also
helps stop people from stealing your links by putting the url's behind a cgi
script.
- A "Top Links" page, with list of links, which reffer maximum hits to your
directory
General Program Comments
- Well-designed: Tired of updating your program and adding patches
every week? Tired of trying to figure out thousands of lines of spaghetti code?
.
- Portable: no operating system dependent code. The program will run on
Unix, NT and even Macintosh systems. You will need the perl LWP module to be
able to verify links.
- Extensible: The HTML is logically separated from the program
internals allowing easy modifications to the code. A quick look at some of the
third party add-on's shows just how easy it is to do!
Latest Features:
- Ability to collect referers and hits statistic for any page
- Ability to use targetting ads system (for category listing or for keywords)
- Ability to have "preffered" links in categories and in search results
- Ability to rank results / or category listing by incomming hits
- Ability to check reciprocal links with expansion upto 2 levels of user's
website
- Ability to automatically password protect admin directory (2 methods -
.htaccess or cookies)
- Ability to log searches
- Metasearch module (with affiliate program of amazon.com support). Google is
used for web search results.
- Control panel for add/modify links
- Extended templates system (for categories, any types of links, etc)
- Ability to use unique templates for any category page (configured from admin
area)
- Easy navigation addon
- Unlimited mailing lists support
- Automatic installation system, with configuration tester which automatically
password protects admin control panel.
- Top list support (in category link listing and in search results).
- Two method of tracking incomming hits:
1. Unique hits 2. Special
gateway, which uses random numbers, cookies and gateway page.
- Possible cheaters log
- Image ratings
- Webmaster profiles support
- Advanced control panel for webmasters (add/modify/delete link) with cookies
authorization
- Admin now can easily find/edit/delete all links from one webmaster
- ADS and Stats can be used for any page or used in any website. Examples of
html codes for this included in Links control panel.
- New Top Links page (ranking by incomming hits)
- 5 Top links is insertable into any page of a website. With this feature you
can give maximum explosures to your main traffic referers.
- Cron support for rebuilding database.
- Updating of work with permissions for non-friendly unix servers. No more
troubles with permissions.
- Ability to calculate impressions for ads
- For preventing ads caching changed format of ads tags
- ADS can be shown now via SSI (html pages, all cgi via javascripts) or via
Javascript
- MetaSearch module now working with Google and with Amazon.com (with support
of his affiliate program)
for books/music/video searching
- Added "reset In and Out hits" feature. If this feature enabled, hits is
resetted after each rebuild as in standard top lists.
- Dmoz links fetcher allow you to fastly add links to your directory from dmoz.org (largest links directory
from Netscape
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