Put your Link
Exchange on Auto Pilot The cost is $20 per month or $200 per year. The upgraded
features include:
Since our link exchange software will not work
on every website we highly recommend registering for the Basic
account to setup your link exchange on your website then use the
upgrade option in your control panel to move up to the advanced
plan "After"
your link exchange has been activated. Click
here for most common requirements
Create a links page on your web site
This is the page that will display the
categories you select in your control panel as well as all your
link exchange partners from the Link Exchange directory. This
page updates automatically and so you will not need to make any
changes to it after it is set up.
Go to "My Sites" and click on "installation
code".
First decide whether to use PHP, ASP or Perl.
These are programming languages used on most web server. Most
Linux servers offer PHP while most windows servers offer ASP or
ASP.net. Contact your web hosting provider to find out which
scripting language is available on your web site. Our service
requires on of these programming languages due to the dynamic
nature of the links page.
After you have decided which scripting
language is supported by your web hosting company, select the
appropriate language from the dropdown menu in item #1.
Now you must create your new Link Partners
Page on your web site. Type the exact URL for this new web page
in step #4. The page can be called anything you like such as
links.php or links.asp (using the appropriate extension for the
code you want to use).
Once you have created this page, click the
"copy code" button in item #2 and paste this code into your new
links page. If you have problems with this step, we are happy to
help. Contact us and provide us with your ftp username and
password and we will create you links page for you. Also note
that you can edit variables in the codes such as: how many
columns to display, how many link partners to display on each
page, whether or not to open a new window when a link is clicked
and whether or not to display the search function.
Now the final step is to create a link to the
Link Partners Page on your homepage. The anchor text for the
link should be "Links", "Link Directory" or "Link Partners".
Please be aware that making this link invisible or using no
anchor text is a violation of our Terms of Service and will
result in your site being banned from the Link Exchange
directory.
Validate your web site listing
Once you have created your "Links Partner
Page" and pasted a link to this page on your homepage you are
ready to activate your site.
Go to "My Sites" Click on the link labeled
"Validate Links Page". Our software will validate your web site.
It first checks your homepage. Then it checks to make sure that
you have a link on your homepage to your "Link Partners Page".
Next it validates that you have the correct code pasted on your
"Link Partners Page". If everything is set correctly, your web
site's status will change to "Active".
Now that your web site listing is set to
"active" within our directory, you will be able to request link
trades thousands of members. To insure that web sites continue
to link to the Link Exchange directory pages, our software
periodically checks to verify that the link is available on your
home page. If for some reason the link is removed, you will be
notified via email.
