XPowerLinks [Archive] - Adult Webmaster Message Board

CountZero

05-01-2005, 10:26 AM

I use X Power Links on my linklist. And I can tell many good words about it. I know, that its author is the owner of a big linklist and he very well knows, how should work such script. X Power Links is very good adapted for adult and for working with search engines. By default script generates main menu on each page of a site, therefore each page of a site refers to all others. In it difference from many other scripts where you can see menu only on the main page. Therefore, even if one any page of your site runned on X Power Links will spidered, all others will be spidered very quickly. All links are done with pseudostatic using mod_rewrite, it is also very good for site indexation. Script already contains all database fields and all functions necessary for work with porn sites. Whole script (except of several internal technical modules for work with a database) is delivered in sources and it is opened for change. It allows to change easily with minimal knowledge PHP not only its appearance, but also logic of work of a script.
However, in my opinion, a little features can be added in this script and they are will be useful to all to its users. On my linklist I have added following:
1) Search requests should be kept in a database. First, it will allow to analyze traffic. You will know, what is your surfers are looking for. Second, surfers enter at your linklist the same requests, as like on a search engines. Analysis of these requests can sometimes very help in SEO.
2) Distribution of the information from database in RSS format. Linklist uses the same principle of distribution of the information, as RSS feeds, however I saw nice orange button "XML" only at one linklist (dangerdave.com.au) till now. At the same time, RSS is already a very popular format, there are exists RSS feed catalogs, including that are accepting adult RSS feeds (shas3.com), and working only with adult RSS feeds (adultping.com). Yahoo and MSN are allow to add feeds into My Yahoo and My MSN accounts (this is mainly the same, like "add to bookmarks ", but it is a little bit more comfortable because now your surfer will be always instantly informed about the latest updates in your linklist). I also know, that it is possible to add forms and images (i. e. advertisements and search boxes) into RSS feeds. I think, that RSS feeds one more small advertisement place for adult webmasters. Support of such feature could become the big advantage of a script.
3) Many linklists will not list galleries. However some posters do not understand it and continue with enviable persistence post their galleries to such linklists, not paying attention to declines. Usually linklist owners will put such posters into blacklist, but I have added check during submit, whether index page contains links to jpg, gif or png files. In this case script prints out an error message, with the offer to write an e-mail to LL owner. But I don't know, how to realize it, that it could be convenient for a plenty of script users (both for those LL who work with galleries and for those who does not list them). Probably, to add in section "Site configuration" an item "Allow links to images on a index page"?
4) I have not added such feature into my linklist, but I shall make it in the near future. Pseudostatic links using mod_rewrite is a great thing, but I think, that script should have an possibility to generate real static pages on a schedule. Due to it loading on a database will considerably reduced.
I have added some more features to X Power Links on my linklist, but I think, that they will not be useful for each its user and should not be discussed on a forum.
I hope, that my response will help X Power Links team to make their script better and more comfortable in work.
Sorry for a long post and if you have read to this place, thank you for your attention :) Alex