Slideshowpro is now even more advanced fully supporting video! What a godsend. Any professional photographer who wants to display photographs on their website should be using this script in my opinion. It is by far the best flash photo gallery slideshow you can get right now.

Yes you can embed your favorite audio track in the slideshow, but don’t! No one likes having to listen to someone else’s favorite music. Not everyone has the same tastes. Also it’s annoying if you’re already listening to music on your computer. Let your photos speak for themselves!

Redirect /shorturl/ http://superlong-affiliate-link.com?=go.php+affiliateID-etc-etc-etc

or

Redirect /url/ url to redirect to

I couldn’t get this to work when using wordpress on the root of another site and I searched all over google to find a fix but I couldn’t find anything till I found this cool script that gives you a way to do this without having to edit your htaccess file. So if you are using wordpress or you don’t like or know how to edit your htaccess file (some hosting companies don’t give access to the htaccess) you can use Get Shorty. You will need one free mysql database and installation is a snap. Just upload the entire folder to a new folder on your site. Log in and start creating your short urls. I would suggest using it if you promote affiliate programs as it hides your affiliate ID and also makes your affiliate links not look like affiliate links. So instead of a long amazon.com affiliate url you can have something like www.yourdomain.com/go/amazon/

Get Shorty gives you a complete admin section to log into to create your urls and works very nicely. You can create as many urls as you want and even counts the number of times a link was clicked, something that you don’t get when using your htaccess file. If you ever use tinyurl then I would suggest switching to using links on your own domain as you will now be seemingly deep linking into your own site instead of linking to tinyurl’s domain. Also if tinyurl ever goes down, so does your link. Anyway, check it out if it sounds like something you might be interested in. I think it’s a great script. Oh and it’s free.

PHP Link Directory has many great features that make it a great directory script. First off it runs on the very popular open-source web platform LAMP or Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP platform. This means you can install it on virtually any shared linux hosting plan. Two it can use mod_rewrite to create static pages making your directory search engine friendly which is important for search engine optimization. You can easily turn static pages on or off via the admin interface. Three is its ability to require webmasters to reciprocate links when they submit their site. This is very important for building up your Google Pagerank which again is essential to SEO. Four is its built in revenue generation feature giving you the ability to charge webmasters for a featured listing. Five is that it has a complete admin section so you can easily maintain your directory via your web browser.

PHP Link Directory compared to other directory scripts is very easy to install, customize and maintain. Installation takes minutes and once installed it is easy to apply a different template to customize the look and feel. You can find free templates offered by the generous supporters or you can simply customize the template files that come with it. Free or paid templates are the way to go if you don’t feel comfortable using Dreamweaver or other WYSWYG editors. If you are comfortable using Dreamweaver then editing the scripts templates is a snap.

Revenue generation is built into the script by means of paid link submission. Webmasters can either choose to submit their site for free requiring them to link back to your directory or they can choose to pay for a featured listing. You set the pricing and duration of featured listings and payment is handled through Paypal. Of course generating any revenue from a website depends on its popularity or traffic. Because you can require webmasters to link back to your site though you can increase your Google Pagerank inversely increasing your traffic. Then once you’re getting a decent amount of traffic you monetize your site more by adding Adsense ads, Yahoo ads, or even affiliate ads.

If you haven’t already done so I suggest giving PHP Link Directory a try so you can see for yourself how great it is. If you run across any problems then check out the active forum. The forum is filled with lots of great information and friendly users that are willing to guide you in the right direction. The community behind PHP Link Directory is just another great feature of this script making it stand out from the crowd.  Visit PHP Link Directory