Noble Directory Owners Interviews » Directory Mods http://www.nobledirectory.com/directory-owners Interviews of Great Directory Owners Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:23:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Must Use 10 Php Link Directory Mods http://www.nobledirectory.com/directory-owners/2007/08/31/must-use-10-php-link-directory-mods/ http://www.nobledirectory.com/directory-owners/2007/08/31/must-use-10-php-link-directory-mods/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:18:09 +0000 Chetan Bhawani http://www.nobledirectory.com/directory-owners/2007/08/31/must-use-10-php-link-directory-mods/ I thought i should compile the 10 most wanted Phpld Mods for a general standard directory :) This is what i would suggest.

Hope this list is helpful and most of the directory owners like these Mods, although most are paid.. they are worth it. If you have anything else to suggest. Let me know via comments.

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Here goes the interview -

1. Can you let us know something about your personal background?

Sure. I’m about to turn 22 and my real name is Anthony. Most people know me only by Leopard. Before being interested in developing websites, I was one of those AOL nerds who used Visual Basic to build silly little programs such as punters and bots. Although it was very basic programming, it laid the foundation for me to learn other languages. I started working with databases at around age 16 and since then, been doing mostly freelance work.

2. From when are you into the Web directory world?

Although I didn’t own a directory nor purchased phpLD until April, my interest in the web directory world was in mid February of this year. At first, I had no intention of getting myself into it until I realized it was really exciting.

3. Which directory scripts do you work on specifically?

I work with phpLD primarily due to its large user base established.

4. Is it the inspiration of any other MOD Writer or did you start writing MODS by your own interest?

Even though the only real experience of me working with PHP was developing osCommerce sites, I looked at phpLD and realized I can do a lot with it. At first, I had no interest in building mods until I spent more time on DP. As each day passed, I was able to think of more and more ideas that people may find useful. With each idea came more interest in trying to develop them.

5. What web directories do you own at present?

As of now I only own RipenApples.com and have lots of plans for it. I realized the only way I can make it the way I envision it, is to completely redo the frontend and make it all PERL.

6. Can you list out your work done on MODS in several directory scripts?

Some mods I built so far include RSS news feeds combined with DHTML tabs, a pagerank report of your detail and category pages, a category dump generator, a category meta description generator, and a phpLD Payment system.

7. Do you offer any services of paid MOD installations anywhere?

As of now I only offer installation services to my phpLD Payment System. The system allows no unpaid submissions going inside your phpLD admin, deep links with individual prices, coupons, disabling top level categories, multiple submissions, multiple categories, and more.

8. In the web world, apart from web directories, do you offer or do anything else?

As of now, not really. Before web directories I freelanced a lot building unique custom web applications that included finance tools, e-commerce tools, online football squares, march madness pool manager, and a sports betting simulator.

9. Do you make a new MOD on the request of a directory owner, or by just your own plan?

Both. It depends on the request and if I’m capable or not.

10. Have you felt any difficulty in writing a MOD anytime? Share any experiences!

The mods I built so far were pretty much in my reach. The most difficult one I had to do was the page rank report for detail and category pages. That was when I had to resort to the php Smarty manual and to get my hands dirty with PHP.

11. How can the web directory owners get in contact with you?

I’m on Yahoo! Instant Messenger (username is LeopardAT1) and view my e-mails (anthony[at]dirtracker.com) daily.

12. If you would like to share anything else with us, or other directory owners, please do so!

Try to be unique as much as possible! Work hard and focus on content, which will better the directory industry overall. Also, if you plan on starting a general directory, expect to be patient. Established directories may not come in months, but years.

Thanks for the Interview Anthony! We were glad you took out time and gave the interview.

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1 Deep Links (Anon)
2 Spam guard (Anon)
3 SE friendly detail pages (Anon)
4 category seperators (Anon)
5 Phpld Pagerank Updating Tool (ripenapples.com)
6 Payment System for phpLD (ripenapples.com)
7 Article of the Day ( DirectoryShare.com)
8 Site of the Day ( DirectoryShare.com)
9 Homepage Newsfeed ( DirectoryShare.com)
10 Most Popular Categories ( DirectoryShare.com)
11 Split Category Links ( DirectoryShare.com)
12 Category Newsfeed ( DirectoryShare.com)
13 Random Quotes ( DirectoryShare.com)
14 Latest Featured Links ( DirectoryShare.com)
15 Social Bookmarks ( DirectoryShare.com)
16 Multiple Categories Submission ( LinkForever.net)
17 Category Sponsorship ( LinkForever.net)
18 Sponsored Ads Mod ( LinkForever.net)
19 A – Z Mod ( LinkForever.net)
20 Pagerank Stats Mod ( LinkForever.net)
21 Link Popularity Mod ( LinkForever.net)
22 Pagerank Limitter Mod ( LinkForever.net)
23 Directory Sitemap ( LinkForever.net)
24 TagClouds URLs Rewriter ( LinkForever.net)
25 Disable Main Categories ( LinkForever.net)
26 Closed Category Mod ( LinkForever.net)
27 Top Level Domain mod ( LinkForever.net)
28 Category Related Links ( LinkForever.net)
29 The Daily Listing (Forplex.com)
30 Cool Listing of the Day (Forplex.com)
31 Directory Lo-Fi Mod (Wesece.com)
32 text a message Mod (Wesece.com)
33 List top sites that link back to your Dirtectory (Wesece.com)
34 Top Referrers version 1 or 2 (Wesece.com)
35 Top Referrers version3 (Wesece.com)
36 Save listing as Adobe PDF (Wesece.com)
37 Extract Meta Info POPUP (Wesece.com)
38 Extract Meta Info Version2 (Wesece.com)
39 upgrade MOD (Wesece.com)
40 Add RSS feed Link (Wesece.com)
41 List top sites that submitted an RSS Feed (Wesece.com)
42 Show RSS feed content Mod on Detail page (Wesece.com)
43 remove nofollow if PR greater then… (Wesece.com)
44 Claim Link code Version 2 (Wesece.com)
45 showing all sub-categories on the index page (Wesece.com)
46 Bookmark on detail pages (Wesece.com)
47 Link exchange resource site (Wesece.com)
48 Alternate Payment (Monster-Submit.com)
49 Audio Captcha (Monster-Submit.com)
50 Contact Listing (Monster-Submit.com)
51 Framed Listing (Monster-Submit.com)
52 Get Meta (Monster-Submit.com)
53 Image Uploader (Monster-Submit.com)
54 Listing Notes (Monster-Submit.com)
55 PageRank Updater Preparer (Monster-Submit.com)
56 Paginated Search (Monster-Submit.com)
57 Random Link (Monster-Submit.com)
58 Rate Listing (Monster-Submit.com)
59 Refer Listing (Monster-Submit.com)
60 Report Listing (Monster-Submit.com)
61 Review Listing (Monster-Submit.com)
62 Save Listing (Monster-Submit.com)
63 SEO-Friendly Search (Monster-Submit.com)
64 Suggest Category (Monster-Submit.com)
65 Thumbnailer (Monster-Submit.com)
66 User Settings (Monster-Submit.com)
67 Extract mail adresses (Regon.de)
68 Add Directory to Searchbar (Regon.de)
69 Webmaster Tools (Regon.de)
70 Ads on Detail Page (Regon.de)
71 Thumbnails+ (Regon.de)
72 chCounter Statistic (Regon.de)
73 Static Content (Regon.de)
74 Sending HTML Mails (Regon.de)
75 Detail Info (Regon.de)
76 Change Language (Regon.de)
77 Add A “More” Option To Sub Category Preview ( Shadav.info)
78 Statics Mod ( Shadav.info)
79 Display Top 5 Featured Links On Index.php ( Shadav.info)
80 Change V.2.1’s Category Drop Down Menu ( Shadav.info)
81 Display Top 5 Links (featured and regular) On Index.php ( Shadav.info)
82 Directory Reciprocal Mod ( Shadav.info)
83 Directory Submission Mod *Beta* ( Shadav.info)
84 Additional Payment Plans (Rakcha.com)
85 Sort by Date (Rakcha.com)
86 additional fields (Rakcha.com)
87 SEO friendly details pages (Rakcha.com)
88 Image Uploader MOD (Rakcha.com)
89 deeplinks mod (Rakcha.com)
90 Contextual Deep Links (Rakcha.com)
91 Advertisement (Anon)
92 Alexa (Anon)
93 Side Panel (Anon)
94 LIVE! Stats (Anon)
95 Category AutoAdjust (Anon)
96 Advertisement (Anon)
97 Google Ads (Dir.vc)
98 Fetch Meta Tags for site submission (Dir.vc)
99 Category tree on detail page (Dir.vc)
100 Custom Meta Tags on any Page (Dir.vc)
101 Previous-Next Buttons on Details Pages (Dir.vc)
102 Backlink-Control V2.0 (Joerrens)
103 Social Bookmarking Links to Detail Pages (1stchoicesearch.com)
104 Digg Link to Article Pages (1stchoicesearch.com)
105 Google, Yahoo, Msn, Alavista indexed stats to details page (1stchoicesearch.com)
106 phpLD PR Update Tool (directoryspy.com)

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