Well, time sure flies when your having fun... or so "they" say..
You know, just as a passing thought.?.?.?... Who are "they" anyway?
Okay, back to business as it were.
What have I been up to? Well, I decided that I was going to go out and buy a brand new PHP script for doing link exchanges on my websites. Well, to say the least, I did find a few of them.
I most likely did not find them all, but I can say that I found more than I care to count at this point.
When I first started looking for a link exchange script written in PHP, I really only had a couple of things that I knew I wanted in a script.
First, it had to be very easy to use. I didn't want to spend a bunch of money or even very little for that matter, and have some kind of slapped together user interface that was more time consuming to figure out how to use, than I could hand build a link exchange script of my own.
The second deal was, it couldn't be a typical, run of the mill link exchange script. In other words, God knows everybody has a link exchange on their websites today, and it's getting to the point that the search engine spiders really don't like them much anymore.
With nothing but pages and pages of links, and very little content, the search engines are being very picky as to what they're indexing now days.
After spending hours looking at all of the scripts available, and trying the few that had online demos of their products, I decided (as most PHP programmers would) to go ahead and build my own.
I didn't find one script that you could add or allow your link exchange partners to add any type of significant content at all. And, I only found two that were "search engine friendly". By search engine friendly, I mean a dynamic script without the dynamic web address nonsense. You know, the question mark (?) some_name= whatever crap....
Come on programmers, we are in the year 2005, can we start making these scripts search engine friendly or what?
Anyway, so I started building my own
link exchange script, and added all of the features I mentioned above, and more.
Now, when one of my link partners wants to add another site to my exchange, all they have to do is log into their own account, add their link, and fill in a "short description" and a "long description" of their page, click the add button, and they're done.
I can then log into my admin area, review all of the links that have been added, and either okay the links or send them an email and ask them to correct something in their link or descriptions, or I can even change it myself.
Not only that, but this dynamic MySQL database driven
link exchange script is even search spider friendly! Can you believe that?
So, what you need to do if you're interested in a
link exchange script like this, is head on over to
Online-Net-Business.Com, and keep your eyes on the "
Niche Software" section of my site, and in the next day or two, you will find this PHP script available.
Not only that, but I am going to put the $120.00
PHP link exchange scripts on the run. Maybe, I'll even put a few of the $50.00 scripts on the run as well...
:)