January 19, 2008
All right, I've added the ability to do images (banners). Now you cna add the URL of an image when you add a link. If you leave the image URL blank, it shows as a normal text link. If there an image URL there, then it displays the image. When a link is an image, it shows up looking like a link (blue and underlined). When you roll over it, it displays the image.
LinkRotatr DOES NOT host the image! The image needs to be hosted somewhere else. You ONLY put the image URL into LinkRotatr.
To go along with this, I've added impression tracking. Impression tracking works for both images and text links and is automatic. There are two new columns in the management page to show impressions and clicks.
Added a few tool tip thingies as well to help out the users.
January 14, 2008
Replaced the edit, turn off/turn on, and delete links in the management screen with icons. Took a new screen cap for the home page.
January 13, 2008
Two things needed updating:
1. The number of links to show and what to show in front of each link:
Initial development had this set at the account level. Once I added categories though, I needed to allow users a way to set this at the category level. As an example, you might want to show 5 links preceded by a <li> in the right column of your site, and three links with a space between them in the footer.
This was a bigger update than I'd originally thought, because it required moving the setting of these two variables from the link management screen to the code generation screen (and the associated DB changes to go with it). Now when you click one of the buttons to generate the code, you're presented with a drop down for the Category, a drop down for the number of links, and a text field to enter what you want (if anything) to show in front of each link.
2. Click tracking.
I originally built LinkRotatr to display direct links. Then came NoFollow, and now click tracking. When a link is set to be tracked, however, it is no longer a direct link. Instead, the click passes through LinkRotatr, which records it and then does a redirect. So using tracking on a link means no search engine benefit from the link.
December 30, 2008
Ahhh, Key West at Christmas, and no Internet connection! To bad it couldn't have lasted another 30 years or so....
Just completed a major upgrade to LinkRotatr functionality: Link Categories. You can now assign a link to one or more categories and, when you create your display code, specify what links you want to show: all links, links not assigned to a category (none), or links assigned to a specific category.
Say you want to show Green Widget links on site A, Blue Widget Links on site B, and all links on C. You create two link categories: Green Widgets and Blue Widgets. When you add a link, you assign it to one of the categories (or you can edit a link to add it to a category). When you generate your display code, you now specify the category you want to pull the links from. Put the Green Widget display code on site A, the Blue Widget display code on site B, and the all links code on site C.
Links can also be in more than one category....
Sweet, huh?
December 12, 2008
Added the capability to sort links to the Link Management screen; you can now sort by Anchor Text, URL, NoFollow, Date Added and Date Expires.
The screen was getting kind of wide, so I shortened the URL display to 20 characters and added the full URL to the title tag, so if the URL is truncated, roll over it to display the full URL.
Update the screen cap on the home page
Did a little code level optimization....
December 5, 2008
Added capability to assign an expiration date for links. Once a link hits its expiration date, it will stop showing as a randomly generated link.
December 4, 2008
Added support to tag links with rel=noFollow.
December 2, 2008
LinkRotatr launches.