How do I add a recipricol link

[kazba]

Hello,

I have a couple of questions please and I am using version 2.

1) How do I add a reciprical link from another site to my site please?

2) Is it best to start a new site with reciprical links from people who submit their site to mine or is it just best to get free links so that it fills up my site.

I have only just finished getting my site together and am quite anxious to get going but very confused all the same.

Thanks in advance,

Kazba

[Boby]

Hello and welcome!

1) You can either add a regular link to your directory that will serve as reciprocal, or you can edit one of the .tpl (/templates/) files and add it there to be system wide.

2) I think it would be good to start with free links, then allow only with reciprocal after a time.

Boby

[kazba]

Hi Boby and thanks so much for such a quick answer.

I am not sure if I understand the first answer. There does not seem to be anywhere for me to add a site manually. On some of the site that I have visited, they ask for a reciprical link and have a html code there. Therefore, there is no site name or description.

The tpl...what sort of editor edits that???

Is there a manual for version 2 as I am not sure that I have everything right on my site and I have lots of other tech questions.

Thanks again Boby. I really appreciate your time.

Regards,

Kazba

[Boby]

Ok. let me try to explain again :)

You are building a link directory, so you can add a link to a category. Just go to http://your-domain.com/submit.php or via admin panel:
Directory >> Links >> New Link

The you will use the category page as reciprocal link page.

For example:
You add a link like www.frozenminds.com (http://www.frozenminds.com) to a category like here:
http://www.allthelink.com/Computers_And_Software/Programming/

Now if my homepage www.frozenminds.com (http://www.frozenminds.com) would be a directory that requires a reciprocal, you could add http://www.allthelink.com/Computers_And_Software/Programming/ to the reciprocal link page field.
The only problem is, if you have multiple pages the link could be lost after a time on a deeper page.

To edit a template file (.tpl), or any othor file, download it to your computer and edit it with any text editor of your choice (eg: Notepad, PHPDesigner, Dreamweaver, etc.) than upload it back to your server.
You need very basic HTML knowledge to know where to add the code.

Boby

[kazba]

Ok Boby....I think I have it now. I will go and give it a try as I will with editing the tpl. I do have limited knowledge of html but it may be enough to get me there.

Thanks so much,

Kazba

[Boby]

You are welcome :)

Just ask again if you have any problems.

Boby

[promotemydomain.com]

I am trying to add a reciprical link from a website with reciprical link id enabled, but I cannot figure out what is the correct way to put it into my directory.

For some reason, every time that I do it it says that their site is not on my particular page.

ex. <a href="http://www.avedirectory.com" id="RD69CEB">AveDirectory - Nr.1 Free Directory</a>

but it says this is an invalid url if i try to put it in like that, so I tried this:

http://www.avedirectory.com/index/php?id=RD69CEB but that does not work either.

Any hints or clues to help me here :)

Thanks

Evan

[Boby]

Hello,

You could disable link ID from your admin panel. This will remove the id="RD69CEB" it's not necessary.

Make sure the page where you place a reciprocal does not send unvalid header errors. You can use www.web-sniffer.net

Also make sure the server where you are running phpLD supports the fopen (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php) function. Ask your hoster in case you don't know.

Boby

[promotemydomain.com]

This is actually the reciprical link of avedirectory, and I am trying to add the this link to my directory to satisfy their link request.

Does that make sense?

Thanks

Evan

[David]

Whoever is using the Link ID feature, it would be good to stop using it.
This is something we used in v2, and will be removing from v3 most likely.