Archive for February, 2008

After we release a mods for adding RSS to detail page early in this month, one of our members asked for a mods that can check all links in IndexU database and try to lookup their RSS feed if available. The RSS feed then will be added in custom field that were used in our previous mods. This is very interesting idea, so we decide to build this mods first.
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By default, IndexU links validation queue is using LIFO order. It means that the most recent submitted links will be shown first then the old one is shown next, so the latest submitted link mostly will get reviewed first. We are very uncomfortable with this behavior, and prefer FIFO order.
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A couple months ago we release a “Adding RSS in Categories and Tags Page” mods. This one is the alternative, it is serving the same purpose but using the official webservice that provided by Yahoo. It is more advanced than the first one, since we add some additional option on this one.
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This one is a request from one of our members here. IndexU has the capability to let users choose up to three categories when doing submission. But in the email that sent to users, it is only showing the main category, the additional categories do not show up there. So we’ll need to do a little tricks here.
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Another template resource just arrived. Themes4U.Net just launched in early February couple days ago.
The site offers templates for various web scripts, including IndexU.
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Adding the exact detail URL in IndexU email is a little bit tricky. The <%$detail_page_url%> is only available in the HTML template but not in the email template, so we can not use it. Of course for detail URL we can use something like this : <%$site_url%>/detail.php?id=<%$link_id%>, but this is not what we want. We need the search engine friendly detail URL based on the mod_rewrite setting.
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IndexU.co.uk just launched couple days ago. This probably will become one of the best IndexU unofficial resource site that you can ever find. The site is run by inspireme, one of the veteran and experienced IndexU users.
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Usually search engine crawler checking your sitemap on their regular schedule. But you can also notify them when you update your sitemap using their ping service. So hopefully they’ll visit your site more often.
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The RSS blocks in IndexU script is very flexible. We can use this feature to offer link owner a rss resource for news / article in their link detail page, so they will get more benefit for listing their site in your directory. You can make this available for all listing, or for PREMIUM / SPONSORED listing only.
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