Joomla Link Directory and Joomla Link Exchange Extension

JV-LinkDirectory (or JV-LD) is a commercial Joomla link directory and link exchange extension suite for Joomla!. Additionally, JV-LD also has powerful link exchange functions, with which you can exchange links and banners with partners, and thus increase quality incoming links to your website. With JV-LD, you can build a Joomla link directory, mutually exchange links with other Joomla and non-Joomla based websites, improve website seo and rankings, increase traffic to your website, generate traffic from partners, monitor incoming and outgoing traffic and much more. You can visualize JV-LD to be a super set of Joomla web links component, Bookmarks component and even the Mosets Tree Joomla directory component.



JV-LD is a Joomla link directory extension suite, that has the capability to generate sef urls on its own for itself. So you dont require search engine friendly url components like Artio JoomSEF, sh404sef (extensions.siliana.net) or SEF Advanced (sakic.net) for it!. JV-LD has tons of directory and link exchange features. JV-LD is based on a comprehensive css layout and can be configured extensively at backend to suite your website design.

JV-LD provides the greatest number of features and benefits of any link/banner exchange and directory extensions for joomla in the industry today, and has always exceeded the expectations of all it's users. JV-LD generates sef urls for itself thus providing you with a highly seo directory. JV-LD also comes packed with multiple modules and plugins, that enhance its reach and functionality. Please scroll down to the bottom of the page, to know the package contents of JV-LD

In addition to the core features, JV-LD provides numerous additional features, some of which use/require 3rd party services to function. These include google pagerank, snapshots and Alexa rank. To know more on the dependencies and our limitations in using the 3rd party services, please click here


JV-LinkDirectory Benefits:


JV-LD aims at,

• Creates professional Joomla link directory with multiple layout options
• Building links for your website
• Helps in link trading, management and exchanges.
• Improves seo tremendously for your joomla website.
• Boosts your chances in getting a good page rank for your website
• Increases the visibility of site in the internet
• Increases the incoming traffic
• Can replace Joomla bookmarks component and Joomla web links too! very easily
• Monitor and know how your partners are driving traffic to your website
• We strongly suggest you use JV-LD, if you want to do one or more of the following:
  • Rrun an exclusive link directory
  • Run a link/banner system
  • Want to implement a system which can host a directory with exclusive directory and link exchange features.
  • Just display links at various positions of your website or show affiliate ads
  • Credit others with one way links from your website
  • Perform link exchanges
  • Perform banner exchanges
  • Improve site traffic, seo, site visibility and page ranks
  • Want to monitor how much traffic each partner is driving to your website!

We are very sure that your site visitors will be impressed with this product and with your site

JV-LinkDirectory Features:


Link Directory Features:

• New - Directory slogan for JV-LD
• Customize the welcome text displayed in directory home page
• Ability to add additional information, that can be shown in directory home page
• New - Display the categories in single column, two columns, three columns and four columns layouts
• Customize the summary of text to appear in the category pages in frontend
• Set the number of links to display per category page
• You can set the default order by which links will be displayed in the directory - by link published date or link rating or number of votes, incoming hits or outgoing hits - ascending or descending order
• Ability to display category description in category pages
• Ability to display sub-categories under category name
• Have multiple categories with same under different parent catehories
• Decide the links that will be displayed in the directory based on their status
• Ability to add category specific link "add link" menu, in category pages
• Decide if you want to open links in new window or existing window
• Pagination of links in frontend
• Pagination of links in backend
• Ability to have links not appear on the directory until they are approved
• Display latest links in the link directory
• New - Display latest links for selected categories and sub categories
• Decide how many links are to be displayed in latest links block and which types of links need to be displayed
• Display link directory statistics in the link directory
• New - Option to enable/disable display of directory statistics
• Set exclusive images for categories - max image size of 48x48x pixels
• Have unlimited levels of hierarchies in categories in the directory
• Have unlimited number of categories in the directory
• Know where you are using the breadcrumb feature
• Exclusive link management dashboard at backend
• Ability to set maximum number of links in a category
• Ability to set visibility of categories in frontend
• New - Option to display number of links in categories and sub categories
• Configure specific categories from not accepting link requests to them
• New - Option to disallow link submission to defined categories, but still allow submission to their sub categories
• New - Limit the number of sub categories that are shown in frontend for categories
• New - Option to order categories automatically (alphabetically) or manually
• New - Automatically create thumbnails for categories as images for them are added
• New - Display images for category in category description in frontend
• Turn on/off snapshot feature in link and category level
• Ability to change partner url in backend for a link
• Aefine keywords for a link while adding the link
• Ability to add, edit and delete link profiles in backend
• Sticky links in category pages - you can stick links in category browse pages and all links pages of a category. The sticky links will always appear at the top of the links listing irrespective of the sorting and listing order. This is a unique concept which will help boost seo for chosen links. Also useful if you want to permanently position a few links at the top!
• Ability to decide and change order of categories display
• Approve or reject link requests in frontend
• Embed affiliate id in powered by text
• New - Sample Data installation during fresh installation of JV-LD
• New - Ajax Link Ratings
• New - Record IP address of submitter
• New - Ability to retrieve partner website information, from the remote site in Add Link Forms
• New - Hooks/Plugins features

One-Way Links Features:

• Decide if you want to allow one-way links from your website to your partners
• Decide who can submit one-way link requests
• Email approvals and rejections for one-way link requests
• Create customized instructions for partner when submitting one-way link request
• Set customized reason for rejecting link inclusion request by email
• Set terms and conditions for partner to agree, before submitting a request
• Set terms and conditions for partner to agree, before submitting a request
• Decide if you want to charge a fee for accepting one-way links (uses paypal)
• You can also decide to offer a permanent one-way link slot purchase or a subscription

Two-Way Links (Joomla link exchange) Features:

• Ability to switch on/off link exchange feature
• Ability to submit link exchange requests at frontend
• Allows self initiated link exchanges
• Allows partner initiated link exchanges
• Reciprocal link check when link inclusion request is submitted at frontend
• Reciprocal link check at backend
• Change link status after a reciprocal check for one or more links
• Schedule and run automatic reciprocal link checks
• Deep linking - allow partner to choose internal pages of your website for linking back
• Create multiple self profiles for your website, for your partner to link back
• Decide, who can submit two-way link exchange requests
• Enable automatic mode for link exchanges, by enabling automatic approval for requests
• Facility to approve or reject link exchange requests by e-mail
• Allow partner to choose a primary category for his link
• Allow partner to choose multiple secondary categories for his link
• Create customized instructions in link exchange screen for partner
• Customize the link exchange rejection reason and set it as default
• Set terms and conditions for partner to agree, before submitting a request
• You can decide if you want to allow rel=nofollow in reciprocal links
• Resolve link exchange deadlocks using stale state management feature - allows you to reject a link exchange if your partner takes too long to take action. Also allows you to automatically approve or reject link exchange requests, if you do not take action with in a stipulated duration on your partner request

Additional Common Features of One-way and Two-way links:

• An exclusive page for every partner website that is in your link directory with the ability to show the following information:
  • Show link type
  • Show link published date
  • Show link rating information
  • Show number of votes registered
  • Show number of outgoing hits to this partner link
  • Show number of incoming hits from this partner website to your website
  • Show number of bookmarks for this link
  • Show link reviews
  • Show link tags or keywords
  • Show website preview (uses free services of website screenshot thumbnail service | shrinktheweb)
  • Show alexa daily reach image (uses free services of alexa the web information company)
• Partner profiles:
  • Allow partner to define more than 1 profile for his website link. These profiles will be rotated and displayed in random in your directory. This increases his website seo
  • Allow text or banner profiles or both types of profiles, for your partner
  • Partner can upload a small logo or icon of max 48x48x pixel dimensions with his website link
  • Set maximum number of characters allowed in partner title and description
  • Create customized instructions for partner when adding text profile
  • Create customized instructions for partner when adding banner profile
  • Set maximum size, dimensions, allowed file extensions for banner profile for partners
  • Decide how many text profiles are allowed per partner link
  • Decide how many banner profiles are allowed per partner link
  • Allow your partners to manage their links from inside your link directory
  • New - Title for banner profiles
• Recycle bin
  • Trash the deleted links into recycle bin
  • Enables you to purge or restore links from recycle bin
  • Decide if you JV-LD to manage auto-purging of links periodically

Custom fields: with JV-LD, you can define and create custom fields for partner links. These custom fields can be text fields, text areas, checkboxes, radio buttons or drop downs. Following additional options are also available

• Ordering of the custom fields
• Option to make a custom field optional or mandatory

Seo Features:

• Ability to set page title, page meta keywords, and page meta description separately for each of the following pages:
  • Directory home page
  • Category pages
  • Featured links pages
• Unique page titles, meta keywords and meta descriptions for each page of the link directory
• Ability to display a set of category links that point to each category, at the footer of the link directory home page. This option is primarily for search engines to crawl all the category pages of your directory
• Compatible with joomla core sef urls
• Compatible with artio joomsef, the sef url component from artio.net
• Compatible with sh404sef, the sef url component from extensions.siliana.com
• Compatible with sef advance, the sef url component from sakic.net
• You can decide if you want your partners to provide a part of the search engine friendly (sef) url for their link in your directory
• Ability to display google pr in frontend
• Ability to display alexa traffic rank in backend
• You can decide if you want to add rel=nofollow to links in the directory
• New - RSS feeds for categories pages
• New - Option to prepend directory titles to page titles in each screen
• New - Replacement variables in category pages for advanced SEO

Essential add-on features:

• Enable registered users of your website, to bookmark links in the link directory
• Enable your website users to report a broken link in your link directory
• Enable registered users of your website to claim and own their website links in the link directory
• Suggest a category feature
• Monetize using advertisement placements in directory. Two advertisement slots are provided for ad placements
• Visitors and registered users can recommend websites to you at frontend
• Partners can check their link request status at frontend
• Display snapshot preview of links on mouse over in directory. Uses free services of www.snap.com
• Display website large thumbnails of links in directory. Uses free services of www.shrinktheweb.com
• Enables the visitors to search the link directory for specific words or urls or links
• Decide, which types of links are to be display in search results
• Mathematical captcha security for forms in frontend
• Recaptcha challenge system security for forms in frontend
• Comprehensive partner link rating system
• Website users can notify or tell their friends about a link in the directory
• Allow website users to vote for links
• Display votes secured by partners in frontend
• Popular links and banners (hot links!)
• Comprehensive partner website link review management - includes ability to auto-approve reviews and display them in frontend
• Category quick browse - when the user clicks on a alphabet, he can view all categories and links of those starting with that alphabet. The alphabet represents the first character of the category name
• Communicate with your partner using the email facility provided in the link edit screen for every link. You may use this communication facility to get in touch with your partner anytime. Typically this is used for writing to your partner about the exchange before or after approval, or for reminding him about the reciprocal link etc
• Show image thumbnails of partners links instead of text/banner in modules
• Partner hits tracking feature - enables you to track the number of hits to your partners from links in your directory
• New - Website users and visitors can bookmark links in your directory to their bookmarks in google, stumbleupon, digg, furl, technoratti, myspace, twitter and facebook etc...

Featured Links Features:

• Ability to have featured links in your directory
• Display featured links block in home page or in all category pages
• Display featured links block normally or in a vertical slider fashion
• Ability to show recent or random featured links
• Set number of links to display in featured links block
• An exclusive featured links page, with thumbnail of the featured link
• Decide on types of links to display in featured listing, based on status
• Ability to charge a fee for featured links
• Subscription based or one-time buy options for featured links
• Ability to add 'set featured link' icon to existing links
• New - Display featured links for selected categories and sub categories

Webmaster Ease of use Features:

• Comprehensive configurable css file for smoother display of data on frontend. Css file can be configured from your joomla backend
• Caching techniques to improve performance
• Ability to convert two-way links to one-way links
• Ability to convert one-way links to two-way links
• Email templates - configure emails that are sent to you and your partners. There are 21 different email templates that can be configured
• In-built integration with collaborative link service (jv-cle)
• Mass directory create/recreate using pre-defined templates
• Import data from jv-be to JV-LD
• Import links from weblinks component
• Backup manager for JV-LD files and database
• Switch on/off "powered by JV-LD" text display in frontend
• Select between partial un-installation or full un-installation of JV-LD
• Completely configurable at backend with links management and categories management
• Ability to approve or reject link requests at backend
• Import links from csv
• Import links from linx component for joomla!
• Event notifications by email to site administrators and partners
• New - Dashboard integration for taking action on pending link reviews
• New - Option to hide/show website URL in link detail page
• New - Notes field (private records) for admin, for links in backend

Partner Link Management:

• You can enable your partners to manage their links in frontend
• They can
  • Change email address
  • Submit link requests
  • Caim their links
  • Add their links to featured link listing
  • Add profiles for links
  • Edit profiles for links
  • Delete profiles for links
  • Edit custom fields defined for the links

Incoming Traffic Monitoring Features:

• Monitor incoming traffic from partners to understand who is driving traffic to your website
• Display the top 5 traffic generating partners in JV-LD backend dashboard
• Ability to reset the incoming traffic hit counter for specific partners
• Know the location from where the last hit came from and also the location in your website which was last accessed

New - Styles Manager:

1. New - Create new styles from existing styles
2. New - Installation of new styles in JV-LD
3. New - Manage style template files and CSS from with in Styles Manager

Other Software and Joomla Components Integration Features:

• Sitemap using Xmap - Exclusive plugin for adding JV-LD urls to xmap, which produces sitemap for joomla websites
• Sitemap using SEF Service map - Exclusive plugin for adding JV-LD urls to sef service map, which produces sitemap for joomla websites
• Joomla Integrated Search - Exclusive joomla plugin to allow joomla to search from within JV-LD data and display results
• Community Builder user profile integration - Exclusive Community Builder plugin for JV-LD, that will display a new tab with links that belong to the logged in user
• New - Google Maps integration with JV-LD - Enables maps to be generated from custom fields
• New - JomSocial Integration - Integrates JV-LD links of the user, in user's JomSocial profile, assigns and provides userpoints for specific activities in JV-LD, displays actions done in JV-LD onto JomSocial
• New - Twitter Integration - Post new website publishing to Twitter as tweets

Joomla Modules:

• Favorite links module
• Latest links module
• Popular links module
• Most visited links module
• Random links module
• Featured links module
• Link categories module
• New - Most Votes Links module
• New - Directory Statistics module

New - Caching options in module


JV-LinkDirectory License:

JV-LD is GNU GPL v3 based. This means that you can use JV-LD on all your Joomla! websites. Please click here for more information on General public license v3


JV-LinkDirectory Pre-requisites:


Php version:

• Minimum version is 5
• Recommended version is 5

Mysql version:

• Minimum version is 4.1.2
• Recommended version is 5

Others:

• Safe mode must be off
• Magic quotes gpc be on - recommended
• Curl must be enabled

Language Translations:

By default, JV-LD comes packed with the English language file for its front end and admin back end. The texts in front end are translatable to other languages as well. JV-LD depends on the Joomla and customer community to provide translations for non-English languages. Currently, following are the languages for which we have translated versions of front-end language file of JV-LD:

1. Danish
2. German
3. Persian
4. Spanish
5. French
6. Italian

The above list will be revised, as more and more language files are available for JV-LD from our customer community. For more information please refer to, http://www.jv-extensions.com/jv-ld-4...nslations.html


JV-LinkDirectory Pricing:

• Silver Plan:
  • Get 4 months access to documentation, support and product downloads
  • Price: USD 30
• Gold Plan:
  • Get 12 months access to documentation, support and product downloads
  • Price: USD 60
• Platinum Plan: (recommended)
  • Get lifetime access to documentation, support and product downloads
  • Price: USD 120