I recommend you study the feature set that this product offers as a bench mark minimum and add additional capabilities from there:
http://www.reciprocalmanager.com
If you can encompass all that that one offers and make it a server resident software solution I will buy it and I am sure MANY will.
Thanks for that Prof. The link above states:
# First, there’s the incredibly tedious nature of constantly updating and uploading your reciprocal links pages. Who has time to do this?
# You have to make sure your link partners actually set up a link to your site. Once you have dozens — or even hundreds — of link partners, this becomes a very difficult task.
# Then, you have to monitor whether your link partners are still linking back to you or not (sometimes, believe it or not, people will give you a link just to get one from you… and then, when you’re “not looking”, take your link down!).
# And you have to search through ALL of the links on your reciprocal links pages when only one of them needs to be modified.
The system i have in mind handles all of that, plus it automates PR matching, plus it is designed not as a Reciprocal link manager but an Inbound Link Manager. The fundamental difference being that links to you are one-way, links from you are one-way, all to different sets of sites.
Because of the “plugin” nature of what i am proposing, the links will always be present as they are read from a central server via an RSS feed which is dynamically updated on a per-site basis – a feed per site effectively – each time a new site comes onboard.
By “automated”, i mean “totally automated” in that beyond registering a site and the initial set up of the plugin code, the affiliates will have nothing else to do, and the links in and out grow dynamically. Additionally, I’d like to program it so the affiliate can input more than one link title so there is variance in their inbound links.
The programming complexity comes in the matching of sites so that each site links out to a roughly proportionate number of those linking in. Obviously this requires some database matching to distribute the links fairly, hopefully partially based on PR and quality factors using a Google developer API.
Cheers,
Simmo!