Small application that help manage the submission to web directories etc.

Hello,
I took the informations i found on this forum and develop a simple app.
Is located here http://links.binarspace.com.
It works like this : you signup (is a 100% free) and add your sites in a personal list.When you submit to 1000+ web directories, article directories, press releases etc it’s very possible to get lost. Did I submit to this director or not? Did they approve my submission or not? Well this little thing I build should solve this. You add your site in your profile and for each one you will have a separate list of web directories, social sites etc. You will see that each entry in this list has a status .When you submit to a web directory you put the status on pending and when you get the confirmation email you put the status on confirmed. Do the same thing for articles submission or press releases. I think you will find it useful. Give it a try and maybe you can give me some ideas to improve it.
Thanks

 

is this only for record keeping?
MS Excel does the same right

 

Yes you can do this with excel but i think is easier this way . Plus the lists of directories, articles etc are updating and you don;t need to look for new ones.

 

Does this automatically change the submission's status or do any of the submitting work for you like digixmas.com?

 

No, I didn;t fiind a decent method to check 2000+ sites.Is not fesable to develop separate scripts for all of these directories.If you have ideea about how i can check this automaticaly i will be more than happy to do it.
Ps : I don;t want to check the google or yahoo backlinks and after that say "submission confimed" becase is not acurate.

 

It's easier to keep a record in Google Docs, that way you can access it from any computer.

 

all directories have search so you search for the domain name and if the results are 0 then it's still pending or denied
else if there is a result then you are good to go

 

yes this work for a few sites.you can build a script using Curl but it takes like 2 h per site.Multiply by 2000 and you will see why is not possible for a single guy to do it

 

2 hours per site?? Check your server and/or curl install. I wrote a curl script (strictly as a demonstrator) that would grab categories from a directory, pick one that contained word "xyz", and submit your link in about 2-3 seconds. This involved 2 page loads (technically 3 since my server had to load their pages through curl and then reserve it to me) and sorting an array of all the OPTION elements. It would have been even faster if I hadn't bothered displaying their pages on my page and instead only ouitput one page of results.

There's two pitfalls to using a curl script to do/maintain a lot of directory listings:
A) If someone spams a directory, and that directory bans your IP, every single one of your users is screwed.
2) The software is easy. Its maintaining the submission list that's the killer.

 

no , it will take only one reques tper site... becaus ehe wa stalking to utilise their search mecahnism.. not crawling those sites..

 

i think #1 coulde solved very easy:

run cron for submissions

 

it looks good . i'm using roboform to submit my sites

 

man i just looked at this digixmas

looks very cool. is it yours?

 

I wish! I used to maintain something similar to their Article Submitter (http://www.after5webdesign.com/software.html), but maintaining the submission list for free software was too much for me. I ended up selling it to acompany that promptly mishandled it into the ground. I've been playing with making the long promised version 3, but that's a story for a different thread.

I do use their Directory Submitter daily though, and it took about 11 minutes to submit 10 sites to 5 directories (so 50 submissions total). The article submitter is just as fast, but I find it rather lacking. It isn't very intuitive, and the set up time for 800 article directories is unbelievable. The software lacks the ability to make any sweeping changes to the site list, so I have to do a lot of set up chores manually or one site at a time. At this point I would only recommend it to someone who writes a ton of articles and doesn't want to pay any one to submit them.

Anyhow, back to the topic at hand. Your site looks good and I'm sure what you've developed is very cool, but unfortunately the competition is still ahead of you. If you can find a way to automate more (maybe a FF plugin t work with RoboForm?) or somehow make it even less tedious for users to store their data, you'll have a hit on your hands. DigiXmas is great and all, but it is designed for phpld directories. Sure it can be forced to handle others, but that process is still slow and clunky. Also, it doesn't handle the social bookmarking sites, press releases, or article directories like yours does. Create one unified tool like that, and you'll have an IPO on your hands!

 

I will try to make a script this weekend to automaticaly check your subscription status.The ideea is to read 1 page (the search one) with Curl and store in database the search link + the name of the form fields.This should work for subscription also.
Anyway until i have these things done try to use it like it is to keep my morale up