LinkRotatr.com LinkRotatr? WTF! Maybe you want to display some random links on your web site(s). Might be your links, might be someone else's. Just just want some to show, randomly, when a page loads. Maybe you even have a bunch of sites, hosted on different servers all over the country using different IPs. Maybe you want an easy way to show crawlable random links. And you want a central place where you can easily manage all those links. So you write a little web app that lets you store and manage the links and then include those links randomly on any web page. And then you think other folks might want to use it too. And LinkRotatr is born. Praise the (circuit) board! Seriously, WTF? At LinkRotatr, you create an account, load your links, and then put a snippet of code on any web page. When that page loads, LinkRotatr randomly displays links from the links you've entered. You specify the anchor text and URL for each link and how many links you want to show. On ASP and PHP sites, the links are generated server side and are visible and crawlable by search engine spiders. Hizzah! If you don't have a PHP or ASP page, you can use the JavaScript code, but those links might not be seen by search engines.... So what? So what?! Why you ungrateful.... If you're looking for an easy way to cross link sites, this is it. Or you can sell links add them to LinkRotatr, and they will randomly display. Or maybe you just want to show some random links! How do I use it? Easy. Register for a free account. Check your email for the confirmation message. Confirm your registration. Add links. Add the link display code to the pages you want the links to appear on. Free account holders get 25 links. If you want more, you're going to have to cough up some green. Not much -- just $24 a year. But as a start-up special, you can get it for only $12 until March 1, 2009! Is that cheap or what? Check it out! LinkRotatr.com
At LinkRotatr, you create an account, load your links, and then put a snippet of code on any web page. When that page loads, LinkRotatr randomly displays links from the links you've entered. You specify the anchor text and URL for each link and how many links you want to show. On ASP, PHP, and .Net sites, the links are generated server side and are visible and crawlable by search engine spiders. Hizzah! LinkRotatr Update: December 30, 2008 Just completed a major upgrade to LinkRotatr functionality: Link Categories. You can now assign a link to one or more categories and, when you create your display code, specify what links you want to show: all links, links not assigned to a category (none), or links assigned to a specific category. Say you want to show Green Widget links on site A, Blue Widget Links on site B, and all links on C. You create two link categories: Green Widgets and Blue Widgets. When you add a link, you assign it to one of the categories (or you can edit a link to add it to a category). When you generate your display code, you now specify the category you want to pull the links from. Put the Green Widget display code on site A, the Blue Widget display code on site B, and the all links code on site C. Update the screen cap on the home page December 12, 2008 Added the capability to sort links to the Link Management screen; you can now sort by Anchor Text, URL, NoFollow, Date Added and Date Expires. The screen was getting kind of wide, so I shortened the URL display to 20 characters and added the full URL to the title tag, so if the URL is truncated, roll over it to display the full URL. Update the screen cap on the home page Did a little code level optimization.... December 5, 2008 Added capability to assign an expiration date for links. Once a link hits its expiration date, it will stop showing as a randomly generated link. December 4, 2008 Added support to tag links with rel=noFollow.
Interesting concept; have you had a bunch of signups yet? You might try plugging this in other people's threads when they're looking for link exchanges or something
hi tarpon a few signups. it's not for exchanging links with others; it for randomly displaying links on sites you own. [robably not as much of a use for that, but I'm using it a lot, which is why I built it. I specifically added the link expiration feature so someone could, say, sell link space for a set amount of time and have the link automatically expire.
Hi Thanks for the info, I'm going to bookmark this so I can read it in detail. There is so much info flying around, I get easily distracted. Sounds a really great concept.
I think you should extend your services to conver ad rotation and image rotation, I was after the exact same solution about a week ago that divides clicked traffic between two URL's.
thanks segga, will follow up on sign up - my host has been having major issues over the past week, but I think they finally got it resolved. Maybe that was it. I think image rotation is in the future, but I'm doing an incremental code and release rather than trying to write it all at once.
I checked new user registration and recover password. Functionality worked for me. When you register, it sends a confirmation email. You can't start using Linkrotatr until you confirm that you've signed up. The email comes from linkrotatr @ gmail . com Maybe your ISP or mail client is filtering the email?
oh man how does one keep up with all the tons of programs coming out every day i got brain over load here help! lol
Update: January 13, 2008 Two things needed updating: 1. The number of links to show and what to show in front of each link: Initial development had this set at the account level. Once I added categories though, I needed to allow users a way to set this at the category level. As an example, you might want to show 5 links preceded by a <li> in the right column of your site, and three links with a space between them in the footer. This was a bigger update than I'd originally thought, because it required moving the setting of these two variables from the link management screen to the code generation screen (and the associated DB changes to go with it). Now when you click one of the buttons to generate the code, you're presented with a drop down for the Category, a drop down for the number of links, and a text field to enter what you want (if anything) to show in front of each link. 2. Click tracking. I originally built LinkRotatr to display direct links. Then came NoFollow, and now click tracking. When a link is set to be tracked, however, it is no longer a direct link. Instead, the click passes through LinkRotatr, which records it and then does a redirect. So using tracking on a link means no search engine benefit from the link.
OK, i caved to all the demans (well two of them) and added images: From the change log: All right, I've caved to requests and added the ability to do banners. Now you cna add the URL of an image when you add a link. If you leave the image URL blank, it shows as a normal text link. If there an image URL there, then it displays the image. When a link is an image, it shows up looking like a link (blue and underlined). When you roll over it, it displays the image. LinkRotatr DOES NOT host the image! The image needs to be hosted somewhere else. You ONLY put the image URL into LinkRotatr. To go along with this, I've added impression tracking. Impression tracking works for both images and text links and is automatic. There are two new columns in the management page to show impressions and clicks. Added a few tool tip thingies as well to help out the users.
Just out of curiosity, what is this error I found at the bottom of your homepage: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80040e14' Could not find stored procedure 'empty'. /show-links.asp, line 56
Dad gum it - one simple change on the live site on that page, figured there was no need to test! Anyway, fixed now.