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This “mod” will allow you to add page numbers to the title of your site on the browse pages.

The following changes were made in 5.40. If you have 5.41 it should be the same but my test install has not been upgraded yet. You may need to look at different lines but the text should be the same.

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I gave some thought to my last addon for social bookmarks and while it was nice, I wanted to expand on the list a little.

This new social bookmarking addon is a huge change from the last one. This one actually does it’s best to hide the URL’s to the social bookmarking sites to prevent diluting your own site.

I’ve attached a screen shot and if you want a demo just let me know. The site that it is running on right now is just a test install and it changes constantly so there is no point in putting that URL up here.

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An image map for your categories using Canadian provinces and cities.

We start with an image and do lots of fun stuff with image mapping software, then we add our categories and a simple change in index.html and blam! You’ve got a nice map instead of plain boring text.

To be honest, the way it’s done you will only be able to use your site for Canadian based sites.

You must also use the database of categories I have created because the image map is hard coded for the categories. You must also have mod_rewrite enabled and the mod_rewrite settings must be set at default.

NOTE - Due to the size of the image it may not fit in all templates. This image is more than 600px wide so please check to make sure you can use it first.

Price: $15.00

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The coolest ideas usually come from other sources. Today someone asked me what I would charge for a mod like this. I quoted them a price and then thought about it and decided to release it as a mod for paid members.

It’s an image map for your categories, and as far as I know, no one’s ever done anything like this before.

We start with an image and do lots of fun stuff with image mapping software, then we add our categories and a simple change in index.html and blam! You’ve got a nice map instead of plain boring text.

To be honest, the way it’s done you will only be able to use your site for United States based sites, but of course you’re welcome to imagemap anything you want and use this idea.

You must also use the database of categories I have created because the image map is hard coded for the categories. You must also have mod_rewrite enabled and the mod_rewrite settings must be set at default.

Price: $20.00

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The Google Checkout payment method is a simple payment method that uses the Google Checkout API to accept payments.

Note that since it uses the HTML API there is no return to your site upon completion of payment. This is the simplest method of using Google Checkout payments. The XML API does offer more features, but it also requires that users have an SSL certificate. Since most SSL certificates require a unique IP address for each domain I felt that using the XML API would not benefit most users due to the cost involved.

Cost: $20.00

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I found that a great feature of the admin panel was to include the last five postings from the Nicecoder forum, so I decided why not add the same thing for Indexsupport.com?

Of course this gets my site more exporure, but since a lot of my visitors visit their admin panels more often than they visit the blog I figured this would be a great addition to your new site.

This mod/addon is only for the SVN version of IndexU, or what is being called IndexU Deluxe.

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I’ve had this idea for a while, but since I had no use for it I didn’t do anything with it. Another user on the forum posted details about him using a visual editor on his site but did not post details on how to do it. I do hope he posts it as a mod.

This mod is all about the free TinyMCE editor. It can be used to offer a very simple editor, or a complex editor like you would see on MS Word.

Installation and the actual modification are very simple. I should have done this long ago and if I knew it was this easy I would have.

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A user recently asked if he could add nofollow tags only to some links. And that answer is no as IndexU cannot selectively do this on it’s own. However, I’m all about customization and there is a way to add nofollow tags if you want to add a bit of code to a particular type of links (basic, sponsored or premium)

I’m sure many of you directory owners out there are familiar with the post by Google’s Matt Cutts on reporting paid links.

At this time, no directory script that I know of has the ability to add nofollow tags. And in fact I read a post today in regards to PHPLD that says it can’t be done right now.

Now think about this. The concern with paid links is that the links are being purchased not just to be placed on the site, but being purchased to help to increase Page Rank.

And that’s the issue! Of course users want to increase page rank, but they also want exposure too.

So here’s what I suggest doing with your directory if you are concerned. For all of your free links, do not add the nofollow code. For the paid links, so you don’t penalize yourself or your customer, you add the nofollow code.

Google understands the nofollow rule and knows that the nofollow tag will not pass page rank. This keeps everyone safe and offers the customer exposure.

There may be a better explanation by Google in the future (there already is, but it still doesn’t answer all questions) but for now the nofollow is your best bet to keeping yourself safe.

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My previous post on this topic was done in some haste after a brainstorm and it didn’t really work, even though I thought it would. Perhaps I’ll take a further look into this issue and figure out how to do it a better way.

Adding social bookmarking links to your IndexU

This AddOn is quite simple Please Login or Register to read the rest of this content. That’s it, you’re done!

Attached to this post is a new menu you can use for your IndexU admin panel. Place the file in /admin_tpl/ and replace menu.html with this version.

This menu creates two new categories in your admin menu

• My Addons
• Spam Links

Under My Addons are a few links to mods that I have releases as well as links to commonly used and released mods as well as a link to generate your sitemap.

Under Spam Links are the two menu items you need to use to control spam in your directory.

Get the menu