What's up guys?
I think this is a *great* plan, Jim & Sparky. I am very much in the market for a new LL script. I coded my own several years ago that I still use, but I just don't have the time these days to add all the new features I'd like. It would be great to have you guys develop one, based on the input of everyone here that'll actually use the script. All the other scripts available seem to lack in some crucial areas, so I've been pushing off buying one. The best would be a combination of xpowerlinks, link admin and links sql.
Suggestions/Wish List:
- Partner Accounts! (with an option to turn this feature on/off and also still allow/disallow free submissions too at the same time. Also, different types of Partners - to let the one's you trust most be approved instantly w/o review, etc.)
- Partner Control Panel! (a backend where partners could login and see all the sites they've listed, what's in the review queue, reviewer's comments, how many hits their sites have received, any advertising campaigns they've purchased. Also, it would be cool if partners could queue up to X sites at a time so they don't have to submit sites every damn day.)
- Reviewer Control Panel! (allow for multiple reviewers to be able to have their own accounts, that have stats about how many sites they've reviewed and in what categories, etc. Their own review queues, so like Reviewer X can choose only to review certain categories. Or a way to divide the master queue up evenly amongst reviewers. This will also help the site owner keep tabs on his reviewers.)
- Template based front end! (where you upload your website template w/ tags where all the links and categories should appear. The script could then generate your pages on the fly, or write them out daily/hourly with cron to an include file. Should be very SE friendly and crawlable. Maybe have options for each page to specify page titles, keywords, etc.)
- Multiple link list management! (Imagine running 10 linklists through this one script. This should be as easy as adding an extra MySQL field to specify which linklist the site belongs too, or if the site belongs to multiple linklist. Submitters/Partners could then submit once and be listed on several sites. Reviewers could manage everything from one admin area.)
I have tons of other ideas.. but, I'll stop for now.
Also.. Agree w/ others on other stuff:
HFS importer, better link-checker, improved blacklist, advanced search
Agree w/ Greenguy, you don't need a traffic trade script.. the site owner can use any of the existing ones, by putting that code into their site template.