Misi and SkinnerW have been working hard on Link Bid Script V1.2, the script is now at the final stages, Misi is just adding finishing touches to it, once that is completed in the next few days, the latest Link Bid Script would be available for download. A lot of improvements, mostly suggested by LBS users at LBS forum has was made in the version to be released soon. Some of the new and improved features you can expect to see in the new version are:
Some of the new features:
1. New links page and new links RSS feed including new field to database and admin panel to manage number of new links.
2. 2 New fields added to admin panel and database to manage minimum initial bid and minimum upgrade bid.
3. Validation for minimum initial bid and min upgrade during submission.
4. New section in the admin panel and new table in the database to manage listing fields.
- Brief description field for category pages (former description1). Max length is set from the admin panel.
- Extended description for link details page (former description2). Max length is also set from the admin panel.
- new field Meta Description for link details page. Max length is also set from the admin panel.
- new field Meta Keywords for link details page. Max length is also set from the admin panel.
- Max length for listing title now can be set from the admin panel.
- Added link counters for all text areas on the submission form
5. New fields added to database for 3 deep links. Deep links functionality can be enabled or disabled from the admin panel.
6. New field added to database for last link upgrade date. Now every time new upgrade bid is approved this date will be upgraded in the database.
in the 1.1A script version in the “last upgrade” field script was showing submission date instead of actual last upgrade date.
7. Social bookmarking functionality added. From the main page users can bookmark the directory itself and from the listing details pages - that particular listing.
8. Improved template system for easier modifications.
9. Added MSN thumbnails to listing details pages and top listing.
Some of the modifications:
1. Modified listing page URL to make it more SE friendly: show listing title instead of domain name. ( instead of: velnetwebcouk.html now it is: web-hosting-domain-names-uk.html)
2. Modified RSS feeds to display links to the listing details pages instead of actual url’s. This will greatly improve SE spidering and indexing because of more links to the internal pages.
3. Refreshed admin panel with improved navigation.
4. Modified categories source file to use category meta description and meta keywords instead of main site description and keywords.
5. Modified processing.php and update.php files to display more link information (title and url) in the confirmation emails.
6. Added validation of the category during new listing submission.
7. Added SQL query to show actual listing category.
8. Words such as buy and other potentially SE unfrindly pharases removed.
The above is only some of the modifications,not all of it.
