Publisher review:Link Up Gold can be used to build and run a general Yahoo! style search engine. Link Up Gold can be used to build and run a general Yahoo! style search engine or your own specific vertical market of information and links.
Link Up Gold generates pages online ensuring all data, links and statistics are constantly kept current. This software can be used to build every type of search engine portal system.
Main features and benefits include:
- The most advanced search engine system available today.
- Unlimited number of categories, links, sponsors, articles, users, administrators.
- Automatic installation - you only upload files on your server and fill in 6 fields of a setup form.
- All public pages are editable in a HTML or text editor, you can edit the design and/or translate all pages to your language, also online an editor available. These templates can contain HTML tags and optionally also PHP code.
- Support for unlimited number of styles, your visitors can select between them. 20 styles bundled with the software, you can freely edit them and/or create your own styles.
- The possibility to create a multi-language directory (more than one language at the same time).
- Groups of categories on the home page. This function lets you display categories exactly as you want it.
- Aliases for categories (big search engines like Yahoo or Dmoz mark such "categories" by @).
- Several files which may be automatically inserted into each page (header, footer, left, right columns etc.), you edit one file to modify all pages.
- These items are available on each page (optional): search form, list of first level categories, poll, log in form, newest links, top rated links, most popular links, top searches, newest articles, top rated articles, most popular articles.
- Advanced blacklist feature - you can ban words, phrases, URL's, emails, IP addresses. Nobody can submit links or articles containing banned items, nobody can enter your site from a banned IP.
- Visitors can send you a message without knowledge of your email address (anti-spam protection).
- The pages contain news taken from RSS pages. You can have new fresh content many times a day, without any effort.
- Simple message board.
- Site news on home page.
- Visitors can send a message to their friends regarding your site or any link or article directly from your pages.
- Integrated poll by using AJAX technology.
- The option to allow access to categories and/or link and article detail pages for registered users only.
- Three sitemaps can be automatically generated - a sitemap for visitors and extra sitemaps for Google and Yahoo.
- Visitors can register to receive your newsletter, support for 5 different newsletters, the option to automatically include new links and articles to these newsletters.
- Users can create private notes for links, articles, categories, each user can have a list of favorite links, articles, categories.
- Optional CAPTCHA image test in forms to avoid spam.
- Password/username reminder for users.
- Each user is ranked by the number of posted reviews.
- Protection against people who tries to enter admin or users area with incorrect login data.
- Optional "HTML Plugin" which can save most public pages to static files (html extension). It also lets you use Apache Rewrite Module to create pages which are dynamic but look like they were static.
- Ability to convert your database from Link Up Free/Lite and also from Gossamer Threads Links 2.
Link Up Gold is a PHP script for Link Indexing scripts design by BRELAND VENTURES INC..
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
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