what link directory building software is good?

ginostylz

Jun 5th 2004, 4:53 pm

I have bought hotlinksSQL and liked it for a few months.....
I dislike it now though for quite a few reasons.

There is a paid option, but they have to already be in the directory before advertising.(I was hoping to build it succsessful, then have a paid submission later)

It has this bad hotlink theme(its cool because the most active links end up on the index page. If someone was kind enough to swap links, eventhough we don't force a trade for submission our system emails a funny link to link to us is mydomain.com/ID=1234 or something. So all my inbounds are worthless, except for small traffic and not any SE traffic)

All the links on my directory are like pop unders or something. If you click on a link it opens in a new window behind the original window.

Can anyone recomend something good? Visit http://www.carandauto.com for a bad example......

North Carolina SEO

Jun 6th 2004, 8:50 am

disgust

Jun 6th 2004, 4:21 pm

arelis is nice.

there are still things that manual research can do (or do faster) on occasion though.

ferret77

Jun 9th 2004, 8:20 am

I can build you a cusome directory scipt out of the ones I use on my sites

what do you need it to do

my homemade one works for multiple sites using mysql/php

like so

http://www.hostlinkexchange.biz/addsite.php

pretty rudimentary but effective

compar

Jun 9th 2004, 8:27 am

I use LinksManager (http://www.linksmanager.com). I'm very happy with it.

vinyl

Jun 9th 2004, 11:31 am

I dont use any directory manager - I use my own simple script which just add links (title,url,desc) in db and small code that retrieves those enties and put them into links.htm page with appropriate formatting (just to exclude manual alterations and upload/download, I am on dial-up, lol). If you have any programming expirience Id always suggest writing your own solution...

cheers,
mike

ginostylz

Jun 9th 2004, 3:05 pm

I was more or less thinking of a program for running a niche directory, rather than a link swap program..

younghistorians

Jun 9th 2004, 5:15 pm

Here's a free/paid option that many use:
http://www.biz-directory.org/directory_script.php

:)

pstatus

Jun 12th 2004, 10:25 pm

Here's some 411 on Link Manager and Link Trader both of which i use. It seems like the Link Manager service creates Google indexed backlinks better than the links i get from Link Trader.. In fact, i only got one google indexed link from the linktrader program.. And ive been using both for 2 months.

However, the Link Manager program has it's own time schedule for checking links for reciprication. If the link doesn't reciprocate on the first 2 attempts then it waits a week before trying to check the link again.. you can always manually set each link to be queued for checking. Link Trader is better in that sense.. where you can check all the "failed" checked links whenever you want.

Ohh i think you need to buy Addweb Pro. to get the Linktrader software.. It has a bunch of tools that great for SEO and Rank Check type things...

Did i get off the subject... my bad

0BroadProspect

Jun 13th 2004, 2:21 am

try link swapper http://www.link-swapper.com , it is free
/BP

john_loch

Jun 13th 2004, 10:57 pm

Here's a free/paid option that many use:
http://www.biz-directory.org/directory_script.php

:)

Ginostylz

If you want to make money out of your directory, and need a seriously SEO'd directory script with ready content, this is a good place to start.

AND THE AUTHOR KNOWS IT.

It comes complete with slyness that affords the author the ability to trash the lot if he so desires. There's one on install (a transparent gif called from his server on install, so he can track install locations), and another more serious one, that gives him admin access.

As I understand it, he doesn't abuse it, it's only for those sites that lift his code without giving him due credit in the footer.

The script comes with canada44.ca XML feed support, so you'll always have paying content. But watch this too. His referrer id is littered throughout, and the two links always appended to each category/search are to his own sites.. (although quite relevant, they don't pay).

Finally, DO dress it up and make it into something more than a page spinner for affiliate programs. Stock standard, G will probably stomp on it if reported.

Keeping the above in mind, I must point out that I can't speak highly enough of this resource. It's a thoughtful piece of work. If he agrees to modification of the code, you can pull off some real magic. But then.. watch the licensing too. It's not GNU or anything - just free.

:)

PS: It's also behind bluefind.com

gooner

Jun 22nd 2004, 4:53 pm

what link directory building software is good?

If your talking about a script that run's in a similar way to the software Yahoo and DMOZ use you could try LinksSQL.

gossamer-threads.com/scripts/links-sql/index.htm

Some examples of sites running it...

hotscripts.com
flashkit.com

younghistorians

Jun 22nd 2004, 4:55 pm

If your talking about a script that run's in a similar way to the software Yahoo and DMOZ use you could try LinksSQL.

gossamer-threads.com/scripts/links-sql/index.htm

Some examples of sites running it...

hotscripts.com
flashkit.com

Oh, so thats what they use! :cool:

Web Designer Leeds

Jun 30th 2004, 1:51 pm

I have been thinking of building a directory but could anyone provide any broad guidelines on what the difference between a legitimate directory that Google will like and a spammy link site that search engines will not like?

Bernard

Jul 1st 2004, 7:43 am

Review of cpLinks free directory script (http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15183)

Taz

Jul 7th 2004, 3:58 am

I was more or less thinking of a program for running a niche directory, rather than a link swap program..

If you don't mind to spend $100... I suggest you to buy Arelis. I use it for my directory and it works perfectly well :)

____

Taz

Bizcut88

Jul 7th 2004, 6:13 pm

arelis is nice.

there are still things that manual research can do (or do faster) on occasion though.

Agreed I use Arelis on most of my sites and have never had a problem.

pxj99

Jul 11th 2004, 4:19 pm

I have bought hotlinksSQL and liked it for a few months.....
I dislike it now though for quite a few reasons.

This script (HotLinks SQL) I really want but am not ready to shell out yet another $80 for this directory until I see some profit. If you don't want it, I do.

I also have Links-SQL which is a very advanced and expensive script which I will never use because it is too much for the directory I want to build. I would like to get rid of it if I could get at least something in return like Hotlinks SQL.

If you are interested let me know.

Extranet Guy

Jul 11th 2004, 6:41 pm

I shelled out $150 or so for Zeus, and while it seems pretty powerful, it's also a bit complicated and I haven't gotten much benefit from it yet.

megri

Jul 15th 2004, 11:27 pm

I think Gossamer-threads is the best you can also try link department

Will.Spencer

Sep 19th 2004, 8:16 pm

It comes complete with slyness that affords the author the ability to trash the lot if he so desires. There's one on install (a transparent gif called from his server on install, so he can track install locations), and another more serious one, that gives him admin access.

That's fairly insane.

I would not want the legal liability inherent in having administrative access to thousands of sites on the Internet.

Any of them could blame me if something went wrong, even if I had nothing to do with it.

In addition, if someone compromised my systems and records and used them to compromise thousands of my customer systems... I could be in court until I died of old age.

john_loch

Sep 20th 2004, 2:21 am

Prolly why he's since removed it from the script :)

tozzo

Nov 5th 2004, 12:07 pm

search, add, search again, add again.... does purchasing a link building software automate any of the process for you?

ginostylz

Nov 5th 2004, 1:21 pm

Some link building software can help with the proccess.
zeus, while it gets a bad rap, can search for related partners, email them, add links, and recip check. Aerilis can do the same, but it will only prepare the email message instead of emaiking it for you. Also it does not have an submit form integrated; you would have to have a form that links to your email instead.

I have gotten used to mrcgiguy.com's hotlinks sql. I let them install the script, but thay installed it weird. I have a 5domain hosting account, and they didn't ftp it right so the installed it 2-3 times so I have tons of duplicate files. Anyway I have learned how to play with some of the templates to customize it a little, but be prepared to reght html a little because the templates are .txt files. Which are used by the script when running the program in html mode. Because I got 3 of each file on accident and was afraid to delete any of them it was tough learning for me.

Well I was pretty angry with hotlinks sql at first I am pretty happy with it now.

Las Vegas Homes

Nov 5th 2004, 5:43 pm

I just filed a report with theplanet (dot) com against that company today mrcgihosting (dot) com because I have a backlink showing up in google that shows their url and when clicked on it goes to another domain of mine totally seperate from the domain the backlink shows up on. The anchor text for the link is their domain name.

I have tried to call them several times but no response, leaving messages doesnt work as well. So I had to call the abuse dept at the planet where they got their server from and I guess they will handle it.

ginostylz

Nov 5th 2004, 6:10 pm

The script before hotlinks sql 2.3 had a huge bug in it. The cgi links going outbound used a meta refresh originally, or something that hurt SE rankings for who you linked out to. This bug was fixed in version 2.3. It seems like they need to upgrade their script.

The upgrade is free, and when you log in to your directory control panel, hotlinks sql has text in red.
quote from page "9/8/04 - IMPORTANT Update! Your out.cgi file MUST be updated. More Info"and then it linked to the page that has the update data. Also before the update, Google treated something as duplicate data but I'm not sure what. I have linked to my main site from almost everypage and I still remain at the top for my SERP.

The update is free, and they also talk about it in their hotlinks forum.

Weirfire

Nov 6th 2004, 4:21 am

I use www.linkalizer.com (http://www.linkalizer.com) which has proven to be quite usefull. People sign up to their site and then they can exchange links with each other.

I'm sure it's all been done before but I find I get a lot of people coming to me for link exchanges which beats looking for them ;)

Richmond, Virginia SEO

Mar 24th 2005, 6:42 pm

My company uses Arelis and we have been happy with the results and the support. We have also use Linkmanager.com for a few clients. It has a monthly expense of $20 but it has some nice automation features.

megri

Jun 5th 2005, 2:44 am

I use my own script check our directory here
http://www.talkingcity.org

subseo

Jun 5th 2005, 5:29 am

Here are three free & SEO friendly ones. At least I think so, only reviewed the sites very shortly and put that on my "visit soon / maybe use" queue, never used them, links straight out of my notes:

http://www.sumapark.de/en/
http://www.boonex.com/products/barracuda/
http://www.netcreated.com/php_link_directory.php

NeoGen

Jun 5th 2005, 7:25 am

The one I recently discovered and seems to be a good one is http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/

Also boonex seems to really good.. so far I am very imperesed with this software :)

Will.Spencer

Jun 5th 2005, 6:01 pm

I use my own script check our directory here
http://www.talkingcity.org

I can't seem to find on your web site where this script is downloadable.

Will.Spencer

Jun 5th 2005, 6:03 pm

The one I recently discovered and seems to be a good one is http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/

Damn... that does look cool.

Unfortunately, once you pick a script for a directory... switching seems like an impossibly Herculean task.

NeoGen

Jun 5th 2005, 6:35 pm

Damn... that does look cool.

Unfortunately, once you pick a script for a directory... switching seems like an impossibly Herculean task.

Bang on, you are right, even I am looking to move from my current script to this one, but doesn't seems to be a easy task with more than 2000 entries in my directory...

subseo

Jun 5th 2005, 6:41 pm

Can I ask, what are your reasons to switching from Boonex to Phplinksdirectory?

compar

Jun 5th 2005, 6:46 pm

I'm only familiar with LinksManager, but with that program you can both export and import all your links via a text file. Is that not possible with the programs you are presently using and with phplinkdirectory?

NeoGen

Jun 5th 2005, 6:47 pm

Can I ask, what are your reasons to switching from Boonex to Phplinksdirectory?

Currently I am using biz_directory not Boonex. Boonex is a nice directory script.

honey

Jun 5th 2005, 7:16 pm

Porting data from one directory to another is not a big task, I have done that a couple times.

NeoGen

Jun 5th 2005, 7:46 pm

Porting data from one directory to another is not a big task, I have done that a couple times.

Great! Generally how you go about doing it.. what are some of the key steps involved!

dvduval

Jun 5th 2005, 8:44 pm

I've got a free one to offer too:
www.phplinkdirectory.com
The 2.0 version is coing out tomorrow. Take a look at some of the new features here:
http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66
You'll also find a link to the admin area in that post.

Will.Spencer

Jun 5th 2005, 9:06 pm

I've got a free one to offer too:
www.phplinkdirectory.com

Is your PHP Link Directory any relation to this PHP Link Directory:

http://www.netcreated.com/php_link_directory.php

Aside from the product name being the same, some of the web page text seemed identical:

We are please to announce the immediate release of our PHP Link Directory script. There is no charge to use the software on your site. However, we do ask that you maintain the link to phplinkdirectory.com in the footer of the directory OR send $25 to help this software better for all.
vs.
We are please to announce the immediate release of our PHP Link Directory script. There is no charge to use the software on your site. However, we do ask that you maintain the link to Netcreated.com in the footer of the directory OR send $25 to help this software better for all.

It looks like somebody done somebody wrong.

dvduval

Jun 5th 2005, 9:10 pm

No, not at all.
I own netcreated as well. The software has been so successful that I decided to create a domain for it.

Now for trivia: Can you name the artist who wrote the Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song? :)

Will.Spencer

Jun 5th 2005, 9:25 pm

No, not at all.
I own netcreated as well. The software has been so successful that I decided to create a domain for it

Well, that is good to hear!

I will remove one of the entries from the FAQ.

There are now only 36 web directory scripts listed in the FAQ. Wowza. That's a competitive market.

Now for trivia: Can you name the artist who wrote the Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song? :)

Did B.J. Thomas write it, or just perform it?

dvduval

Jun 5th 2005, 9:38 pm

Could you please direct me to the FAQ with the 36 forum software listings?

Will.Spencer

Jun 5th 2005, 10:02 pm

It's in the Internet Search Engines FAQ under What are some web directory scripts? (http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com/web-directory-scripts.shtml)

NeoGen

Jun 6th 2005, 5:55 am

Hey Dvduval,

Could you suggest how to transfer database into phplinkdirectory from some other directory.

compar

Jun 6th 2005, 6:06 am

Hey Dvduval,

Could you suggest how to transfer database into phplinkdirectory from some other directory.
I'm not an expert in this stuff, but you'd have to dump the data from the source database into some type of delimited file. Then massage the data so that it matched the file layout of the new database and load it.

I've never seen a database that you couldn't export or import data from/to in one way or another. Forinstance if there is no export functionality just print the data to a file rather than the printer.

NeoGen

Jun 6th 2005, 6:43 am

I'm not an expert in this stuff, but you'd have to dump the data from the source database into some type of delimited file. Then massage the data so that it matched the file layout of the new database and load it.

I've never seen a database that you couldn't export or import data from/to in one way or another. Forinstance if there is no export functionality just print the data to a file rather than the printer.

Thanks for this info. That is what I am planning to do and you are right on approach.

May be I should explain it a bit more. What I am looking at is after the messaging how the data should look like.

1) For eg, I can create a csv file, but what should be the structure.
2) Also, in case of phplink, the database is in mySQL format, that could be inserted through sql query. What should be that SQL query could be, or what are the precaution could be taken. As it would insert data into multiple tables.

The help I need is, once I have a csv file as per desired format, can I run script that would insert records into the phplinkdirectory mySQL tables. Running separete insert queries could be messy at times.

dvduval

Jun 6th 2005, 2:12 pm

I will provide FREE (as in beer) support in moving over to phplinkdirectory.com.
All you have to do is PM me your email address, and we can make arrangements.

I just got done making some arrangements with a text link company for those of you that would like to make some extra money on your directory. That will be released shortly after 2.0 comes out (which should be today for RC1).

Oh...and there is now an option to show the pagerank of all links too.
I'm thinking of creating my own directory of all my sites, so I can easily see the pagerank of all of them at once. :)

zguoqi

Jun 7th 2005, 2:28 am

try this:
http://www.umailcampaign.com/DirectoryScript.aspx

Two examples of sites done by this free script
http://www.uuiq.com
http://www.uudir.com

It is free. It is actually my own script. So if you want customization, just let me know! I have to charge some amount for it, of course!

Richmond, Virginia SEO

Jun 7th 2005, 7:54 am

I have done this link importing and exporting with LinksManager.com and Arelis and both are extremely easy to do as well as done efficiently. Not all of our clients are with hosts that will accept php which is a problem with the php systems, obviously.