Brief Overview
Automating your link exchange with Link Exchange for Clients of Green Web Design takes
less than 10 minutes! In order to participate
in the link exchange, you MUST be able to complete
the following tasks before your website(s)
will show up in the exchange.
If you are unable to complete the following steps yourself,
ask
your webmaster to
log in and complete the process on your behalf. If
you don't have a webmaster, we recommend contacting
Green Web Design, who only
charges $10 per site added.
To use our link exchange, you will need to be able
to create a new PHP, ASP, or PERL file, and your
web hosting server will need to support one of these
three languages (PHP is the most common choice for
most web hosting companies). Name your file - for
example, you might name it "links.php". This file
can exactly match the look of your website, or it
can be a plain white page - just do whatever is easier
for you!
In your Linkubator control panel you will
see a "link page" button - this "link page"
allows you to choose whether your links page will
be PHP, ASP, or PERL (most people will choose PHP).
Copy and paste our code into your links page
in two places - there is one code that must be posted
in the <HEAD> tag, and there is a
second code that must be posted after the <BODY>
tag. Click
Here for an example (*will open in a new window).
Create
a link from the front page of your website (for example,
index.html, index.php, etc) and link it to links.php
page (or whatever you named it).
upload links.php
and the index file to your website using
any FTP program or web hosting file manager.
Go to your website in a browser and open the links.php
page to make sure that it is working
correctly. Copy the exact URL of your links page
(ex: http://www.yoursite.com/links.php) and paste
it into the linkubator control panel at step
4. under the "links page" button. Click
"Update Settings", and if everything is configured
correctly, you will now be
an active member of the link exchange!
Step-By-Step Walthrough
- Step 1: Create a Free Account at Link Exchange for Clients of Green Web Design and LOGIN to your account using the id and password that you selected at the time of signing up.
- Step 2: After logging in, you will see a different set of menus on the right. Click on Add Sites (on the menu at the right hand side of the page)
- Step 3: Enter your site Details
- You can add up to 5 alternate titles and
2 alternate descriptions, one of which which
will be randomly chosen each time a member's
links page is loaded - your links on other
member's sites will be much more effective
if you provide more than one of each!
- Step 4: Click on the button "My Sites" from the menu on the right. This will show you all the sites that you have added.
- If status is pending then your site is not getting any incoming links. It means that you have not verified your site. To verify the site you will have to follow steps 5 to 10
- If the status is active, then your site will be listed on all the member sites automatically.
- Step 5: Click on the button "Link Page" from the bottom of the site that you just added.
- Here you will get a small PHP/ASP/PERL/DOT NET code (depending on what is supported on your web server)
- You will have to copy this code and paste it on a page. If you copy and paste the PHP code, make sure that the page has extenstion of .php e.g. links.php
- This code will automatically display member directories on your site and your site on other member directories
- On this page, you will also have to mention where you will upload this page on your server.
- Click on update.
- Step 6: Now upload this page on your server
- Step 7: Then you will have to put a link to the links page from your home page i.e. your url that you mentioned at step 3 must contain a link to the links page that you create at step 5
- Step 8: Now login again at Link Exchange for Clients of Green Web Design and click on My Sites
- Step 9: Click on the "Validate Links Page" link beside your site.
- Step 10: This will automatically validate your links page and show you the status. If everything is ok, your site will begin to exchange links automatically.
That's it. Your site automatically exchanges links with all the existing and new sites that join Link Exchange for Clients of Green Web Design |
