Lifesupporters.com WEB Directory.

[Duke]

I've allowed this site to lapse into mediocrity over the past year and I believe my laziness has really stumped the growth of this site and the Network in general. One of the areas I've really neglected is that of reciprocal link exchanges with other websites.

One of the main reasons for this is my dissatisfaction with our weblinks module so I've downloaded a different module and I'm currently editing/testing it over at e-ztheme.com.

If your interested, this is where you can find what I've done so far:

http://www.e-ztheme.com/modules.php?name=Web_Links

I'm really interested in all your comments because this one module will be responsible for how much our site reach, site importance and page rank increase. In other words, this is an essential part of growing this website which will, in turn, benefit all Network sites below.

Thoughts?

Please Note:

- categories and sub-categories have not been setup and tested at this time.
- the look of this module will be the same as the current aesthetic of Lifesupporters.com
- links will be catalogued into major categories such as health, gaming, family, etc.
- there will be a sponsored links area that will be soley for sites that pay for the service.

[TKDLady]

I have had a bit too much to drink tonight so I will have to look at this later. I did go to ez theme and what I saw looked good to me. I will give you a better answer later. Sorry Duke.

[Duke]

No problem at all, in fact, I'm jealous because I'd love to have a few wobbly pops myself tonite.

[TKDLady]

I'd love to share a couple with you. Would make for a fun evening I think.

[Luba]

I read the first sentence and totally disagree with it...You are the most UN-laziest person I know...you spend so much of your free? time on these Websites for people like me who just post nonsense at times to enjoy posting with beautiful people, never realizing just how much work you've put into all this! I HONOUR you, my Son!!!

I'll read the rest when I have more time...

[Duke]

I've run into some trouble with permissions structure so I'll have to bench the project until such time as I can grant/restrict proper access to people who need it vs. people who abuse it.

[Duke]

The directory structure has been drastically updated so please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks.

BTW, this directory will be implemented in the new site once we've moved to the dedicated server.

[mrLenin]

One of the main reasons for this is my dissatisfaction with our weblinks module so I've downloaded a different module and I'm currently editing/testing it over at e-ztheme.com.

Links are important but content is realy the king! If your content are **** any backlinks will not help you.

[Duke]

Originally Posted by mrLenin

Links are important but content is realy the king! If your content are **** any backlinks will not help you.

Most webmasters would disagree with you on this if your looking for PR. If you want good PR, all you need is one incoming link from a high PR site. In this case, content is not only irrelevant, it isn't even required. Oddly enough, most newer webmasters seem to focus on PR and high site rank with alexa.com instead of whats really important.

If your looking to place high in the SERPS then targeted keywords and keyword phrases are what gets you to page one. All the content in the world won't do you any good unless it backs up your sites focus (general theme) and is keyword heavy.

Lastly, session ID's and the variables that CMS' such as phpnuke place in the url makes it difficult for some spiders to index properly. You'll notice that any of our targeted keywords/phrases are all linked to the main page yet the forum content has far more keywords than any article I write.

This is one of the reasons for the eventual switch to vBulletin and vBSEO or some other form of static url re-write. This will help us hit more of our keywords and hopefully put us on page 1 in google on more than our current 3 or 4 search strings.