Where and how do I sign up? How do I register?
What if I lost my password?
What's in My Home and the Account summary?
How do I add my first website?
How do I add your links page to my own website?
What does Link page URL mean?
How many categories can I choose to exchange links with?
Do I have to select a language?
Why should I exchange links only with sites with an equal or higher Google PageRank?
What is Google PageRank?
What does it mean to accept all matched links automatically?
What is an active or inactive website?
What does "waiting for validation" mean?
Can I add links to my link page that are not members?
Does the link page exist in ASP, ColdFusion, JSP, etc.?
Where and how do I sign up? How do I register?
- Click the button that says [Click to register] on our homepage.
- Then please fill out a few personal details. Don't worry, we will never sell or share your personal information to or with others. See our privacy policy for details.
- We will then send you an email with an activation code. We do this to be sure your email address is correct. Just click the hyperlink in the email.
- Then we'll ask you to fill out a few more personal details and that's it. You're now a registered member.
Click here to register now!
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What if I lost my password?If you cannot login anymore you can click the [Forget password?] button on the homepage or click here. We will send a new password to the email address you used to signup.
Click here to request a new password
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What's in My Home and the Account summary?When you login you will see a menu on the left with the following hyperlinks:
- My Home
The first thing you will see is your account summary showing the number of active websites, the number of websites waiting for validation, a hyperlink to add a website, your account balance and estimated monthly expenses, the number of referrals and the total earned comissions.
- My Sites
Click [My Sites] to display a list of your websites. You can add just one (1) website or you can add as many websites as you want. If you are a webmaster or a webdesigner, you can also add the websites of your clients here. You can also create a separate account per client or per website, the choice is yours but remember you will have to log in and out for each client (or for each website) so managing everything from one account might be a good idea.
- My Profile
You can review or edit your personal information by clicking [My Profile].
- My Balance
Click [My Balance] to add funds or check your account balance.
- My Password
This is to change your password and registration email address (this email is used in case if you forget your password).
- Affiliate system
We have an Affiliate system, too! Why not promote your website and make some money while doing it? We offer different webmaster solutions from a text hyperlink to a complete private label (also know as white label; your own website using our technology and database). Click here for more information on our Affiliate system.
- Support
Questions? Login to your account and contact our Support department. We are here to help.
- Logout
Click Logout to... logout.
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How do I add my first website?When you login to your account you will see a hyperlink [Click here to add a website]. Just click the hyperlink and you're on your way. Simply fill out some information about your website (title, description, URL, category) and about the websites you want to exchange reciprocal links with. You can select up to 5 categories but remember it's all about relevancy and quality, not quantity. You can also select the language of the websites you want to exchange links with and their Google PageRank.
Note: you can add just one website or you can add as many as you want in 1 account.
Tip: if you are a webdesigner you can add your client's websites. You can set the price you want.
Click here to register now!
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How do I add your links page to my own website?All you have to do is login to your account and download the file. Login and click My Sites. Then click [Links page] to download the links page, create a /links folder on your webserver, chmod to 755 (or 777 on some servers), and run the file from your browser. Add a link to this file from your homepage.
Let's go over this one more time in more detail:
- Login, click My Sites and click [Links page].
- Click the [Download Links Page] button.
- You will see a new window with the option to Open, Save or Cancel the download. The download is verified and guaranteed free from viruses, spyware or any other maliciuos content.
- Click Save to save the file to your hard disk. Remember in which folder you saved it.
- Next you'll have to create a directory on your webserver called "links" (without the quotes). You'll need an FTP program such as FileZilla to do so.
- Now you'll have to chmod the /links folder you just created. In most FTP programs this can be done by simply highlingting the folder and right clicking the folder. That will show a menu with "chmod" amongst other things. Select chmod and chmod to 755 (or 777 on some servers).
- Now you can upload the links file to your webserver in the /links directory.
- You can now open the file in your /links folder in your browser. Just copy/paste (or type) the URL in the address bar of your browser.
- Add a link from your hompage to this page or it won't work.
Note: you can name the /links folder anything you like. If you name it www.yourURL.com/partners/index.php just make sure the Link Page URL in [Edit Site] is updated.
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What does Link page URL mean?We will prepare a unique file for you to put on your website. You can donwload this file when you login. The link page URL (on your website) is where our file will be located on your webserver. This must be in a subdirectory. You can name the subdirectory anything you want to. Examples:
- http://www.myURL.com/links/index.php
- http://www.myURL.com/partners/index.php
- http://www.myURL.com/web-design-and-hosting-links/index.php
You have to put a hyperlink from your homepage to this link page. Our script checks for a hyperlink from http://www.myURL.com to http://www.myURL.com/links/index.php or it won't work.
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How many categories can I choose to exchange links with?You can select up to 5 relevant categories but one thing to bear in mind is relevancy. Ask anyone who knows what they are talking about. It is not about quantity but quality. It is better to have 20 relevant reciprocal links than 200 irrelevant reciprocal links. Experts agree that relevant links are much more effective. For your visitors and for the search engines.
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Do I have to select a language?This is optional. You do not have to select a language. You can just select [All languages]. If you do select a language, for example English, then only websites in English will be shown on your links page. If you select [All languages] then websites in all languages will be shown on your links page. You can also select more than one or several languages from a list for example Dutch, English and French.
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Why should I exchange links only with sites with an equal or higher Google PageRank?This is optional and it depends on your PageRank. If you select [Yes] the system will only exchange links with websites with the same or a higher Google PageRank. If you select [No] the system will exchange links with all websites. Obviously the higher your PageRank, the fewer links on your link page but we can only repeat what we already said: it's not about quantity but quality.
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What is Google PageRank?First of all Page does not refer to page as in a page of a book but to Larry Page, one of the founders of Google.
Here's what Google has to say about PageRank:
PageRank is a system for ranking web pages. PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.
Source: Google
Tip: Google's PageRank Explained - very interesting article about Google's PageRank and how to make the most of it by Phil Craven.
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What does it mean to accept all matched links automatically?You have the choice to either accept all links the system finds automatically or to approve (or decline) them manually. Most webmasters set this option to [Yes] and never worry about it. If you want to make sure who's linking to you and check their website first you can set this option to [No].
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What is an active or inactive website?You have the option to set the status of your website to [Active], [On hold] or [Deleted]. If your website is temporarily offline for any reason you can put it [On hold]. But beware this is not recommended as it will have a negative influence on your search engine rankings.
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What does "waiting for validation" mean?Every website in the system is checked by one of our webmasters. This is to ensure that the website's description is correct and that no unacceptable websites join the system.
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Can I add links to my link page that are not members?Yes you can also add links manually, even when they are not registered members. This is free of charge. Just login, select a website from your list of websites, click [Links page] and go to Manual Link Exchange (free of charge).
If you already have a links page on your website you can use our links page instead of your current links page. You can use our tool to manually manage links to your current link partners. No more HTML file to open, change, upload. You can manage it easily and quickly from our website. And it is not required for your linkpartners to be a member. Please note that this tool is a free service. Manually added links are shown on your website's links page even if you do not pay for our automated links exchange service.
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Does the link page exist in ASP, ColdFusion, JSP, etc.?LookForLinks.com was launched on Friday 15 July 2005. The link page exists in PHP only for the time being. We are working on the ASP version and intend to make that available next month. For the CFM and JSP versions we could use some help. Contact us for more details.
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