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Full features of Link Bid Script Premium

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:52:04 +0000

Premium Link Bid Script Features

Link Bid Script Premium directory is finally available. Here are the full feature you can find in Link Bid Script Premium:

- Advance spam filter including reCaptcha and admin approval before listing.
- Multiple currency support.
- Use pre made or custom templates.- category and or alphabetic navigation
- advanced SE stats, backlinks info and Google PR info
- SE Stats updating automatically
- screenshots of the listed sites
- enable or disable stats
- outbid mail notification options
- link order management for separate pages
- maintenance mode
- home page links on or off
- Google Map
- listing expiry mode: never expire, 30 day, 60 day … etc
- free mode option
- free mode with backlinks
- language management
- enable disable the pages: about us, terms, top links
- enable or disable address submission
- set rel follow or nofollow
- dual captcha option: lbs or recaptcha
- set bid limits
- admin management
- manage the links number per page
- welcome text management
- category management
- manage separate the bids, active listings and inactive listings
- orders management
- shopping basket
- link fields management from the admin section
- page content management for: about, terms, news pages
- add custom pages
- blogroll type linkroll
- email templates management
- templates management
- google adsenses option
- integrated google and yahoo site map generator
- very detailed SE stats management
- bad word filter
- IP ban
- Domain ban
- MySQL management with backup option
- TAGS, not required
- search form
- PayPal IPN integrated
- ready for PHP v6
- improved subcategory management
- SE stats now is with CURL

Minor update to LBS V2.3

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:40:08 +0000

Just to let all link bid script version 2 users know that we have made some minor update to LBS V2. Some of the issues corrected were raised at our support forums, thanks for all the users who point out attention to this problems.
The patched version of LBS V2 can be downloaded from http://forums.linkbidscript.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=56 i
if you are installing LBS from the scratch.
If you want to patch an existing LBS installation please use this download: http://forums.linkbidscript.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=55
Here are some of the issues solved in the above upgrade:

- submit new listing error on browser IE 7x – IE8x
- upgrade listing error on browser IE 7x – IE8x
- contact us error on browser IE 7x – IE8x

- admin section delete listing problems for:

- active listings
- inactive listings
- upgrade bid
- orders section

What language will you like your LBS support in? : Polish, German, Romanian or Hungarian?

admin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:24:55 +0000

Link Bid Script continues to grow, not only in English our principal language but in a host of other languages including Polish, Hungarian, Romania and German. A big thank you goes to speakers of the aforementioned languages who help us translate phplinkbid script language file.

Nitram started the translation ball rolling with his translation of LBS to German, it was closely followed by Piescik who translated LBS to Polish. Tri lingual LBS Team member Clau translated phplinkbid script to Romanian and Hungaria, not forgetting Zoli Bagi who also helped with the Hungarian translation.

If you are looking for a versatile directory script in Polish, German, Hungarian or Romanian, look no further than Link Bid Script. It is completely free, you can use it to run a reciprocal link directory, bid for position directory or a regular general directory.

Our support forums for the aforementioned languages follows:

LBS German Language File Now Available

admin — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:32:31 +0000

The development team at Link Bid Script has long have the desire to make LBS available in as many languages as possible, the only problem is that we do not speak other languages fluently enough to do the translation ourselves. Thanks to some very nice people we have a few translations, to date we we have Romanian translation, thanks to Mihai Popa, Hungarian translation, thanks to Zoltan Bagi. A few days ago, we have a German translation, thanks to Nitram .

He not only translated the German language file, which enables us to bring you the German version but he also created a new templates. He did not give a name to his template, its quite a dark template so it was christened the dark template. You can find out more information about the dark template and where to download it should you want to use it fro this post.

In total, we have Link Bid Script in the aforementioned languages and English of course. We are looking for helpers to help translate it into more languages including French, Spanish, Portuguese and other major languages. If you can help translate LBS to any language at all, please get in touch.

The new German translation is available in LBS V1.5.2, which is the latest version the directory script. Unlike the English version, there is no pre-packaged German version. For does who need to run it in German, you need to download the English version, then the German language file, follow the language translation instruction which can be found here and you have a German version. If you have any problem please use our support forum, we we will be happy to help free of charge.

phplinkbid script V1.5.2 released

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:08:02 +0000

This is the last post from team LBS for the year 2008. Firstly we wish you a happy Christmas and a prosperous 2009. Secondly, this is to let you know that we can LBS version 1.5.2 ready for you before we go on Christmas/new year holiday breaks. Here are some of the things we fix/enhance in Link Bid Script 1.5.2

* We have replaced all the remote URL FOPEN functions with CURL functions.
* We have enhanced the stats for Google, Yahoo, Alexa and MSN.
* The backline url error reported has now been fixed.
* We also corrected the function that verify whether a link partner actually linked back to you.
* NEW!! now you can do a 3 way link exchange, you can request that link partner links to a 3rd party and not your LBS directory.
* We added TAGS for enhanced SEO friendliness and for enhanced search in your local LBS database.
* We have laid the ground work for your Link Bid Script to be compatible with PHP6.
* Now you can get your LBS directory script to auto approve from control panel (no need to edited base files).
* If you have many LBS site, its now easy to know which one a link has just been submitted to.
* Sub directory function enhanced.
* Google map API enhanced
* CAPTCHA has been enhanced.

Running phplinkbid script with WordPress htaccess issue

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:31:55 +0000

Some users running link bid script and WordPress has been reporting issues to do with .htaccess conflict. The best way to run both application on the same site without getting your hands dirty with editing .htaccess file is either to run Link Bid Script in the root folder of your hosting account and run WordPress in a sub folder or run WordPress in the root folder and Link Bid Script in a sub folder, that way, both applications works well eith their respective default .htaccess files.

This problem is cause primarily because WordPress implements global rewrite rules but LBS uses defined and filtered rewrite rules. If you need help with LBS/WP .htaccess issue, please visit our support forum and we will be able to assist you.

Link Bid Script V1.5 out soon

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:53:32 +0000

Team Link Bid Script has been busy updating LBS. The version we are working on at the moment is V1.5. All the updates has been done, we are currently testing it to ensure there is the minimum possible bugs in the software.
We listened to our users and made the changes requested. We also upgrade and enhanced many of the existing features in LBS, a good example of enhanced feature is the thumbnail image display facility. You can now swap the built in display for your preferred display easily.

A list of some of the new and enhanced features follows:

* Statistics to let you know at a glance the links and categories in your directory.
* Statistics for the admin in the control panel.
* Change thumbnail to you preferred provider.
* Outbid notification.
* Admin can customise outbid notification email.
* Enhanced CAPTCHA.
* Enhanced anti space listing technique
* Lang file to make translation to other languages easy.
* Admin can move listing from category to category in control panel.
* Lang file for easy translation to other languages.
* Admin can order listing by submission date or alphabetic order.
* Admin can turn directory on or off.
* Disable bidding function and run LBS like a standard directory.
* Google site map and Yahoo site map generation.
* Comprehensive banning of spammers; by IP address, email address or domain name.
* Word filtering to remove words you do not want used in your directory.
* Run your directory as a free or paid directory.

Google PR Update how did your LBS site fare

admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:33:14 +0000

Google recently updated PageRank on websites a few days ago. LBS site owneres and other webmasters started seeing changes in their internal pages early last week, this reports were not seen as a precursor to a full PR update initially, but as more and more webmaster reported changes in their website internal pages, the Google PR watching community were on full alert as the reported changes in internal pages was seen as evidence of an imminent PR update; they were not disappointed, full PR update was visible all Google tool bar equipped browser by 11^th of January.

How did your link bid script powered website fare in this recent PR update? You can discuss this with other Link Bid Script powered website owner at LBS forums.

Patch for LBS V1.1a – CAPTCHA

admin — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:00:24 +0000

Â LBSV1.2 comes with CAPTCHA to keep spammers in check, sadly this was not in previous version but today, PHL Link Bid script programmers released a patch that adds CAPTCHA to earlier LBS versions to bring them up to date with LBS1.2.

The patch will enable CAPTCHA on the buy link form and remove the send mail code from the file processing.php, this way spammers will be unable to send mail using URL line or posting directly to processing.php

Please consult ReadMe file to find out how to install this patch. The patch can be downloaded from here
ReadMe file included to the package. Download URL:

Link Bid Script V1.2 fixes

admin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:11:23 +0000

Hot on the heels of Link Bid Script V1.2 of two weeks ago is LBS V1.2b. Another name you could call V1.2b is version 1.2 with all the reported errors fixed. One of the programmer’s log for V1.2 goes something like this:

* Re-tested full LBS v1.2 with special attention paid to CAPTCHA.
* Works fine on our servers and a few other server we tested it on with different configuration to our regular server.
* Issue with typing CAPTCHA in capital or lowercase fixed. Now entire CAPTCHA text should be in capital letters.
* There is still confusion over 0(zero) and O(letter O) but this issue occurs approximately 1time after 25 try. (Most other CAPTCHA solution have this same problem.
* Naturally, CAPTCHA in LBS being image based does not work if GD is not enabled on the server LBS is installed on.
but this is generally any time with any application what contain CAPTCHA)

Please fell free to add your comments to this if you have any comments or join in the LBS discussions at our forum