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Administration
Personal Options
Email Options
Directory Exchange
Category Configuration
Premium Link Options
View/Update PR
Editor Options
Review Applications
-Site Submissions
-Category Submissions
-Premium Submissions
Add a Website
Accepted Links
Deleted Links
Premium Links
List Empty Categories
Content Options
Upload Category Icons
View Category Icons
Add Custom Pages
Menu Items
Configuration
Configuration #2
Anti-Spam Options
Pending Links Filter
Accepted Links Filter
Search and Accept
Auto Reject Stances
reCaptcha
Directory Spam
Personal Options
Here you can change your username and password for the login. Remember to change this often.
Email Options
Using this option you can set up automatic emails on your directory with four custom-made templates. You can choose to send an email when a site has been submitted, rejected, accepted, and when a premium link has been accepted.
Directory Exchange
Directory Exchange is a traffic-sharing initiative to help get the most out of your directory. Here you can enable this function. If you are not yet a member you can register for Directory Exchange at http://www.directoryexchange.net/.
Category Configuration
This is the area where you can maintain the categories in your directory script. It allows you to add categories, delete, and edit (adding Title, and Meta tags). Use this area to also set which categories are able to accept links.
Premium Link Options
This option allows you to turn premium links off or on - and also allows you to configure the payment code & various other things. Premium options are a good way to have a free SEO-friendly directory and still make money.
View/Update PR
Use this to view the Google PR of links in your directory. You can also update this here.
Review Applications
This is where you accept, reject, and edit listings.
Site Submissions
This is where you accept, reject, and edit site submission listings. Here you have two added options "Accept All On Page" and "Accept All Pending Approval". These both make it quick for you to review multiple applications. New in 4.0 is also a risk assessment to categorise the listings by how good or bad they are.
Category Submissions
This is where you accept, reject, and edit category submissions. This area has and added feature - a category filter. Here you can enter a specific part of a category and have it delete every instance of it. This can help to counter spam, and thus saves you time. New in 4.0 is also a risk assessment to categorise the listings by how good or bad they are.
Premium Submissions
All premium submission requests go here. Once you have checked payment, you can accept, reject, or edit the submitted site.
Add a Website
This option allows you to manually add a website to the directory without it having been suggested.
Accepted Links
Here you can manually edit links that you have accepted. To do this select the category, and find the link - or search for the link. Once you have found it you can Edit or Delete the listing.
Deleted Links
Here you can manually edit or view links that you have rejected. To do this select the category, and find the link - or search for the link. Once you have found it you can Edit or Approve the listing.
Premium Links
Use this function to view, edit or delete your premium links. You can also delete or add images to appear in your directory next to these links.
List Empty Categories
This allows you to view a list of all the categories in your directory that do not have links in them.
Upload Category Icons
In version 4.0 you can put custom images as icons next to category names in your directory. Use this function to upload the file and set it for a category.
View Category Icons
Use this to view the custom images you have set to appear next to category names in your directory. You can also remove these through here.
Add Custom Pages
Use this to add custom pages to your directory. This will appear with a link such as http://www.yourdir.com/top/news/1. This option allows you to delete, add, and edit these custom pages.
Menu Items
In this area you can add menu items, which appear down the right hand side of the script. For security reasons you cannot enter html here, though with our code you can still make links, bold, italic and underlined items.
Configuration #1
Here you can change administration items with the script. These include:
-Intro Text
-Heading
-Slogan
-Advertising Code
-Footer (if paid)
-Link Error Message
-Submission Rules
-Category Submission Rules
-Previous Search option (on/off) [this turns off and on the previous searches sitewide link. Previous searches stores all the searches that users have done on your directory. Having this turned on helps create content for your directory - and thus may have an effect in search engines.]
-Show Amount of Sites Indexed (off/on)
Configuration #2
Here you can change additional options here. They include:
-Homepage Title
-Advertising Code #2 (shown on the left)
-Bottom Menu
Pending Links Filter
This is one of the most intuitive ways to combat spam listings. Here you can enter in a part of any title, URL, email, description, and/or IP and it will return all the related listings pending approval. Here you can choose which ones you wish to delete.
Accepted Links Filter
This is very similar to the pending links filter except that it returns accepted links. This means that if you have accidentally let spam slip through you can counter it with this handy tool.
Search and Accept
This tool does exactly what it says. You can use it to search the title, URL, email, description and/or IP, and it will return the relevant listings. From here you can accept the ones you want. This means that if you find yourself lacking in any category, such as automotive, you can search 'cars' or 'automotive' and fill up your directory with what *you* want, leave the rest of the backlog for another day.
Auto Reject Stances
This is your new strategic front-line against spam. Here you can set parameters that will block certain submissions ever making it to your que. Popular stances include http:// and www. in the title/description, spammy IP's or emails and foreign language characters.
reCaptcha
4.0 of SBD Directory Software comes pre-installed with recaptcha. You can use this function to enable it. To find out more about recaptcha, and to register, click here. Note: we are not affiliated with recaptcha in any way.
Directory Spam
Directory Spam is a community-driven database to help the fight against spam and scraper websites being submitted to directories. To sign up for Directory Spam go to http://www.directoryspam.com/.
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