A PHPDN Link Pool.
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You're completely off topic. If you want to discuss blogs, WP themes and OO software then start a new thread. This is for the discussion of a PHPDN link pool.
I think the rules should be something like:
1. You're allowed 1 link in the pool.
2. You're only allowed a link if you're an active member of PHPDN. Not sure how that'd be measured though.
3. Anyone is free to put as many or as few links from the pool on their site as they wish.
3b. Where you put links (index page, a links page, randomly in a footer, etc) is up to you.
3c. If you don't feature any links from the pool then you might be removed from it.
4. Possibly a nightly RSS (or just XML) feed of links could be provided to automate addition of new links on everyone's sites.
What else needs to be decided upon?
I think the rules should be something like:
1. You're allowed 1 link in the pool.
2. You're only allowed a link if you're an active member of PHPDN. Not sure how that'd be measured though.
3. Anyone is free to put as many or as few links from the pool on their site as they wish.
3b. Where you put links (index page, a links page, randomly in a footer, etc) is up to you.
3c. If you don't feature any links from the pool then you might be removed from it.
4. Possibly a nightly RSS (or just XML) feed of links could be provided to automate addition of new links on everyone's sites.
What else needs to be decided upon?
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I don't think a limit is necessary as long as it's a requirement to publish links on each of your sites.
Is anyone down with a centrally hosted, dynamically loaded list? It's not really a link network if each member isn't required to publish links to each of the other sites in the network. But either way, it would be nice to have a plug-and-play "widget" thingy if anyone is willing to host it.
Is anyone down with a centrally hosted, dynamically loaded list? It's not really a link network if each member isn't required to publish links to each of the other sites in the network. But either way, it would be nice to have a plug-and-play "widget" thingy if anyone is willing to host it.
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Javascript (see: adwords/adsense)Ambush Commander wrote:If the moderators don't mind, it could be hosted on devnetwork.net, although I balk at the thought of having to use an iframe on my page...
See you in 8 monthsfeyd wrote:We'll have to take that discussion to the moderhood. We'll let you know, when we make a decision.
(please don't ban me)
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The idea is to improve our search rankings. Content dynamically loaded into the page using DOM scripting isn't indexed by search engines. I think it would have to be something server side that renders plain HTML. That's why I suggested a nightly feed.aaronhall wrote:Javascript (see: adwords/adsense)Ambush Commander wrote:If the moderators don't mind, it could be hosted on devnetwork.net, although I balk at the thought of having to use an iframe on my page...
A feed sounds the best solution to me, but it also means that we can't choose which links to put and which not. Of course each one can tell his script to skip on few links using something similar to a blacklist, but then each time a new link is added, you gotta go and manually add it to your list in case you don't want it on your site.
P.S By blacklist here I don't suggest that the sites on the list are spam or anything negative at all... It's just a list where you put links that aren't related to your site's content for example.
P.S By blacklist here I don't suggest that the sites on the list are spam or anything negative at all... It's just a list where you put links that aren't related to your site's content for example.
I guess it depends how far we want to go. If we really wanted to then we could doing something like tagging ... when you add a link to the pool you tag it with whatever terms are appropriate and then the feed could be "http://devnetwork.net/linkpool/feed.rss ... bats,-blog" to fetch all the links related to PHP or wombats, but not blogs.
I think that should be a "final version" feature though. For now lets just get something up and running.
I think that should be a "final version" feature though. For now lets just get something up and running.
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