Features Highlights

• Search Engine Friendly URL (SEO)
  Improve SEO & Popularity, an SEO URL is a must in a web directory and IndexU already supports this by default. But with IndexU you can also customize this to best suit your needs. For example the URL can use different formats to suit your needs
  
  Example URLs :
  http://www.yourindexu.com/browse/11/motorcycle
  or http://www.yourindexu.com/automotive/motorcycle
  or http://www.yourindexu/browse-11-motorcyle, etc...
• 3 levels of listings with customizable price points
  - Basic Listing (free)
  - Premium Listing
  - Sponsored Listing
  
  IndexU supports category based pricing, so each category can have it's own listing price. You can also setup the period length and the discount for paid listings to encourage longer commitments for paid listings. For example : let's say a 30 day premium listing is $10; 90 days could be set to $25 (a $5 discount); and 180 days can be $40 (a $20 discount), etc.
  
• Integrated payment system support Currently support paypal, 2checkout, e-gold, and authorize.net. Recurring billing also available for paypal and 2checkout.
  
• Block Components We have a growing number of pre-programmed 'Blocks' which you can use to enrich your website content. A 'Block' is a specific content unit which you can put in anywhere you like. It ranges from content such as: Hot Link, Random Link, RSS Feed to AdSense and Search Fields. You can even create and easily plug in your own blocks in IndexU
  
• Active development progress Bug fixes are our top priority. We are continually improving the program. As our customer you can get the latest updates directly from our development server or wait until a stable release is available. See our development log here.
  
• Set multiple editors You can assign editors to help some of the admin tasks like Link Approvals, Managing Reviews, Verifying Broken Links, etc.
• Integrated Google Page Rank IndexU will retrieve the Google Page Rank for your links automatically. The page rank data will be cached to minimize Google calls
• Integrated Google Sitemap Generation Built in support for generating Google sitemap files. Having these sitemaps helps to speed up the discovery of your pages by Google, which is an important first step in quickly crawling and indexing your pages
• Output Buffering & Page Caching This feature is very useful when you are dealing with huge database and high traffic load. Caching the pages can speed up the page load time and keep the server load low since the calls will be for static pages.
• Web Service With SOAP Protocol Provides 3rd Party Script Integration
• You Can Use The SMARTY Template Engine Or Create A Custom Template
• No PHP Session ID Required
• Multiple Category Submission
• Yahoo Web API
• Favorite Listings
• Set Category Permission
• Image Uploader

Front End User Interaction

• Unlimited Number Of Categories
• Unlimited Level Of Categories
• Unlimited List Of Links
• Visitors Can Add Their Own Links
• Link Owners Can Modify/Update Some Link Information
• Special Sections - New Links Section.
  - Hot Links Section.
  - Top Rates Section.
  - Editors Pick Section
  - Power Search Section.
  - News Sections (With Automatic News Grabber)
• Simple Boolean Searching With AND, OR, And NOT
• Comment And Rating (Review) Can Be Placed On A Specific Link
• Password Protection On Each Link
• Email Notification - An email notification will be sent automatically to the link owner and administrator when the link owner submits a new link or has modified a link
  - An email notification also will be sent automatically to the administrator when someone submits a review for a specific link.
  - An email notification also will be sent automatically to the administrator when someone submits a broken link report.
• Broken link report
• Spam-proof Mailing List
• 'Recommend Us' and 'Tell a Friend' Tools
• Membership Management With Users Preference
• News Grabber From Other News Website
• Multiple Themes Set
• Registered User Review
• IP Blocking To Protect From Cheating Rating
• Favourites Listing This allows your visitors to add their favorite listings and share with others. Multiple editor capability for content management allows you to authorize selected users to be editors.

Administration

• The ability to add, modify, and remove categories
• The ability to modify, approve, or reject each link submission
• The ability to modify, approve, or reject any link modifications
• The ability to modify, approve, or reject each new review submission
• The ability to import tables from a tab delimited database
• The ability to export tables to a tab delimited database
• The ability to manage Editors Pick links
• The ability to find duplicate links
• The ability to view search log
• Category permissions allows you to set permissions for each category
• Hidden categories - you can make some categories invisible
• Check category structure and view category's hierarchy
• Search log now records IP address and number of results
• New Image field type, allows the webmaster to upload images
• An email will be sent automatically to a link owner to notify them whether their link has been approved or rejected by the administrator
• Multi-language support (double word character support depends on MySQL installation)
• Easy web design modification with regular html template, which enables you to use your preferred HTML editor such as Macromedia Dream Weaver
• Template files support PHP code
• The ability to customize all email messages that will be sent to the administrator and the webmasters
• The ability to make a full backup of database information and use it to restore the database, if necessary
• Maintain Broken Link. You can modify the link information, delete the link, or ignore the broken link by deleting the broken link report
• Summary Report of your portal. When logged in as administrator you will get a summary of your portal such as, how many links or categories you have, how many links or reviews that need to be approved, and how many broken link reports do you have
• The ability to alter database table. You can define database fields yourself to meet your portal requirements. This feature will enable you to create various database driven websites, such as a web directory, an image gallery, a program/scripts directory, classified ads, or a products catalog
• Configuration Settings. You can specify how many links for each page, category separator, enable or disable spam-proof mailing list, folder image, and more
• Better mailing list management, you can create messages, keep old messages, and manage subscriber list

A demonstration is better than an explanation. See for yourself at IndexU™ Front End & Admin Demo