Field |
Meaning |
Assigned
ID |
This
is a unique ID integer number assigned by the program to each site
or link. When reviewing the new submissions and before accepting
these submissions to the system database, these ID's are
temporarily assigned only and will be changed to a permanent ID's
after approving and adding to the engine database. This will be
automatically done by the program, so nothing to be done on your
side. |
Category |
The
category the listing or the link will belongs to in the engine
database. Select the category from the drop down menu and the
category guide bar. |
Title |
This
is the site or link title. It can be any text. The maximum length
of the title is set by the admin option "Maximum Title Size
in Bytes" from the "Listing Options" admin menu.
Try not to make it very long, between 40 and 80 is the normal use
unless your application requires this. The maximum title length
that can be set is 140 bytes. |
URL |
This
is the full URL to the site that the user will be redirected to
when clicks this link. The URL length that can be used is 140
bytes. |
Description |
This
is the short (or long) description of the site. This can be any
text or html code. HTML code will be accepted only from the user
submissions or even spidered sites if this was enabled from the
admin option "HTML Manipulation" in the "Listing
Options" admin menu.
The "HTML Manipulation"
option has three ways to treat the HTML code in the description:
- Disable HTML Code
This option will show the html code as a text only. For
example will convert all < to < and all > to
>.
- Allow Safe HTML Code
This option will disable only the SSI, scripts, and other
executables code that can be very dangerous if allowed, at the
same time will show all the normal html code in the normal
way.
- Remove HTML Code
This is the best way for portals and search engine sites. This
does not include any html code at all in the description. It
will remove any HTML tags from the description before
accepting from the users or the spiders. The html code will
not even displayed for the admin to approve or not as it is
removed totally.
The maximum length of the
description is set by the admin option "Maximum Description
Size in Bytes" from the "Listing Options" admin
menu.
Try not to make the description
too long as it will consume much disk space and in large database
systems may slow down the search specially if you index the
description which will be added to the keywords also.
The maximum length should be set
depending on your portal system requirements. Very large portals
should set this may be in the range of 150-500 bytes. Small and
medium engines could use any length.
This field can be set to any
integer value up to 65535 bytes. |
Keywords |
This
is the keywords that will be indexed for search in addition to the
title and description if enabled. Enabling the title, description,
and keywords are from the admin options in the "Engine
Control" menu.
The maximum length should be set
depending on your portal system requirements. Very large portals
should set this may be in the range of 150-200 bytes. Small and
medium engines could use any length.
This field can be set to any
integer value up to 65535 bytes. |
Account |
Each
listing or site in the engine database must be owned by someone
how has an account on the system. If no account is assigned the
system will assign the email address as the account ID. This can
be up to 50 bytes long. |
Language |
Multi
lingual portals must enable the language field on the submissions
form so the user can enter the language of his site information.
This is the name of the language the site information is written
in. For example if the details ( title, description, keywords)
were written in English , then this filed must has the language
name or the word "English" and so on for any language.
This filed can be up to 50 bytes long. |
Location |
This
may be used as an optional filed on the submission form to specify
the physical location of this site. This filed can be up to 50
bytes long. |
Template |
This
field sets the template that will be used to draw the listing when
displaying the categories list or search results for the user of
surfer.
You can create unlimited number of
templates and assign each listing a different template.
Create or edit the listing
templates from the admin menu "Listing Options". |
Email |
This
is the email address of this site owner. |
First
Name |
This
is the first name of this site owner. |
Last
Name |
This
is the last name of this site owner. |
Company |
This
is the company name of this site owner. |
Job
Title |
This
is the job title of the person who submit this site. |
Street |
This
is the street address of this site owner. |
City |
This
is the city of this site owner. |
State |
This
is the state of this site owner. |
Zip |
This
is the zip code of this site owner. |
Country |
This
is the country of this site owner. |
Phone |
This
is the phone of this site owner. |
Fax |
This
is the fax of this site owner. |
Website |
This
is the website address of this site owner or person who submit it. |
URL1 |
This
is a spare field that you can use for additional URL's or else.
For example if you want a download link, a demo link, etc. This
filed can be up to 120 bytes long. |
URL2 |
This
is a spare field that you can use for additional URL's or else.
For example if you want to display an image with each link This
filed can be up to 120 bytes long. |
URL
Image |
This
is a spare field that you can use for additional image or else.
For example if you want to display image with each link or site
then you can use this field for this. This filed can be up to 120
bytes long. |
URL
Icon |
This
is a spare field that you can use for additional icon or else. For
example if you want to display icon with each link or site then
you can use this field for this. This filed can be up to 120 bytes
long. |
Price |
This
is the user bid for ranking in the category listing position.
Higher bids take the top positions. Listings will be sorted
depending on their bids or prices per click or impression.
This field normally is set by the
listing owner from the account manager of this listings owner. It
is always displayed as the first search term in the manage bids
pages under "Category Position" search term.
This field can be any decimal
number between 0000000000.0000 and 9999999999.9999
Listings are sorted by first the
Rank, Price, Score, and then Title. |
Rank |
This
field is designed to allow the system admin to position certain
sites or listings at the top of their category listings and search
results and will override even the higher bids listings.
This filed can be controlled only
be the admin. Normally the purpose of this filed is to force
specific links to appear at the top of their listings always
whatever they have higher bids or not.
The main use for this function may
be for sponsors where you can sell the first few positions (5-10)
with different fixed prices over a specific period of time. For
example you can sell the first position for $100 per month, the
2nd position for $80 per month and so on.
This field can be any decimal
number between 000000000000000.00000 and 999999999999999.99999
Listings are sorted by first the
Rank, Price, Score, and then Title. |
Score |
Each
listings gains a score from different things, like the ratings,
and voting system by the users, the number of clicks it has and
son on. When sorting listings for display, higher score listings
take higher positions.
Listings are sorted by first the
Rank, Price, Score, and then the Title. |
E
xtra1 |
This
is an extra spare field that can be used for anything. This filed
can be up to 50 bytes long. |
Extra2 |
This
is an extra spare field that can be used for anything. This filed
can be up to 50 bytes long. |
Extra3 |
This
is an extra spare field that can be used for anything. This filed
can be up to 50 bytes long. |
Extra4 |
This
is an extra spare field that can be used for anything. This filed
can be up to 50 bytes long. |
Extra5 |
This
is an extra spare field that can be used for anything. This filed
can be up to 50 bytes long. |
Extra6 |
This
is an extra spare field that can be used for anything. This filed
can be up to 80 bytes long. |
Extra7 |
This
is an extra spare field that can be used for anything. This filed
can be up to 80 bytes long. |
Extra8 |
This
is an extra spare field that can be used for anything. This filed
can be up to 120 bytes long. |
Extra9 |
This
is an extra spare field that can be used for anything. This filed
can be up to 140 bytes long. |
Extra10 |
This
is an extra spare field that can be used for anything. This filed
can be up to 255 bytes long. |
Send
Acceptance Letter |
Select
what acceptance letter will be sent to the listings owner or the
person who submitted the link. You also can chose not to send a
letter.
You can create and edit unlimited
number of acceptance and rejection letters which will be available
to you in this drop down menu from the admin menu "Submit
Options" under "Edit Acceptance Letters" and
"Edit Rejection Letters" links. |