LinkEX

First of all, great script, espcially for being free. I have been using linkex on a few sites for about a year, here
are some ideas I thought might be of use for upcoming versions.

1. Check for a nofollow when verifying links
2. Ability to add a nofollow to specific links (if you are just trading traffic or what to link to a norelated site not
part of a link exchange)
3. Ability to sort the links based on inbound traffic from that site. (perhaps a little more complex than the other
2)

Thanks again for a great script that is updated regularly and great support!

oh one more I forgot, but like the new ability to exclude existing links from a PR change, it would be great if the same
logic was applied if I want to change my Anchor text. In other words if I have 10 link partners already using
"test 123" as my anchor, but then I want to change my required anchor to be "test 1234" it should
not disable my existing trades. Make sense?

Thanks again

hi dusman,

awesome! I love feature suggestions!

I'll just answer them in the same order:

1) Of course, I'll add it for next version.
2) A little bit trickier, since you have the template you control yourself, and LinkEX only does replacements.
A solution could be to have a checkbox with "nofollow" on the link, and in the template have either: <a
href="..." {$nofollow}></a> and LinkEX will replace the {$nofollow} with
rel="nofollow"
or
<a href="..." {if $nofollow}rel="nofollow"{/if}></a>

The last template would be the most flexible one to use..
Need to think a little about it.

3) has been suggested before, but tracking traffic will put a lot of stress on the server, with log files and
parsing/keeping track of all the traffic. Without a relational database backend I have no plans on adding that.

4) Right now, you can almost do it by using multiple website titles.
If you enter
test 123
test 1234
in the textarea, both are accepted. LinkEX will still display a random one on the form, so I guess it's not exactly what
you want?

- v0id

Thanks for the reply. answers in order as well

1. Thanks, sounds great
2. I think you got it, basically right now I could set nofollow in the template, but I don't want to cheat actual link
exchanges, but might want to have a one off link that doesn't need to be followed. I guess I could just create another
category and add that link to that category and use the nofollow...hmmm...yea, not worth you spending a lot of time on ,
but might be nice at some point.

3. yea, I can see without a mysql backend or something to track it would be difficult, maybe in a future future version
;)

4. Yea, I that kinda works, basically here is what is going on, before I implemented a "must match" anchor
policy people used incorrect anchors, as a result I now want to implement forced anchors, but don't want to list the
existing wrong ones as acceptable. Make sense?

Again, I can't say thank you enough for a great script, great support, and well thought out and consistent updates.
Your support is better than most paid services I receive.

ps, I know you aren't allowed to ask based on the TOS, but lets just say I help support your site ;)