Who tried www.linkwizard.net ? Seems they developed new way of automatic link building directly from content html pages.
http://magpierss.sourceforge.net You have to read that bit in their faq about changing your htaccess file: I'm not a member, and I've never seen their system, but based on that bit of information I can imagine how it works. They're probably using a php based rss reader to parse an rss/xml file that gets displayed on your site. Since it is a server side scripting language, the actual page that gets sent to the UA will have nice, neat, parsable links. Think of it like a blog feed. In fact, you could probably simulate this system fairly easily using a blog and magpie on the target site.
Doesn't look very professional to me, their very vague in their faq and offer no real info for potential users. It sounds too much like a sales pitch to me. I'd stay away, I can tell you whoever wrote that faq doesn't have a clue.
I joined. They do not clarify everything in FAQ. Tim Myth it has nothing to do with xml/rss. You insert <include> to your html page, download script and add some strings to .htaccess Thats all. After that you can select partners for placing links on their content html pages, Server should support SSI
LOL! So it's even older than MagpieRSS. RSS is just an easier and more secure way of doing server side includes. Really, there is no difference between including a file through SSI's or RSS so long as the additions are server side. Either way, it is an interesting idea.
The problem with a site like this is that you have to trust that its servers can cope with the load of sending php scripts to all of the sites that join its network. From first impressions I wouldn't be too sure - that sort of hosting would cost. Its like the co-op: if people didn't trust shawn to have the server capacity then nobody would risk joining.
And allso you cant use ssi's and some other functions on your server at the same time. I know on some of my sites they can't use ssi due to another technology that conflicts. This sounds similar to link-vault they do something like that, links on content pages. Brad
madd you mean if their server is down, all sites in their network will be down? Probably they should have set some timeout.
If their server is down then the include will fail. It is up to the sites on the network to disable error messages and set a low timeout otherwise their sites will fail too. Most people won't know how to do this.