digixmas Directory Submitter

digixmas Directory Submitter INTRODUCTION DigiXMAS Directory Submitter is SEO friendly, semi-automated directory submission tool that quickly submits your websites to thousands of free directories. Our slogan says: HOW IT WORKS? Speed as Automatic, Quality as Manual DigiXMAS Directory Submitter supports two submission modes: Shinkansen Mode (Semi-Automated Mode): According to your site profile and manually confirmed category selection, the tool sends submission request directly to directories and analyses response to report the result. You don t have to visit the directories. Truck Mode (Manual Mode): Only thing you have to do is go to category in each directory that you want to submit your site to and click Submit. All the rest will be done by the tool. KEY FEATURES Common - Automatic rotation of unlimited number of anchor text and description text. - Support of tokens randomization for anchor text and description text. - Automatic record of anchor text, submission status, submission date, and selected category. - Support of online mode, so your directory list is always fresh. - Possibility of re-sending submission request if failed. - Possibility of re-sending out-of-date submission requests. - Colorful directory list that clearly shows the submission status of each site. - Flexible directory list sort feature (by pr, url, submission status, submission date) - Detailed submission reports in RTF, CSV and HTML format. Customized HTML report is also supported. - Support of multiple sites in single account. - Support of connection via proxy. - Flexible service packages that fit your needs. Shinkansen Mode (Semi-Automated Mode) - Smart, self-learning category selection algorithm guaranties that your website is submitted to most relevant category. - De-CAPTCHA service integrated. - Auto submit for directories with known category structure. - Auto submit with Smart Category Selector VERY NEW. - Fully automated submission by copy category selections for same niche s websites. - Support smart category filtering by keywords. - Long list of free general directories with Google Pagerank, updated every day. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 1/18

- Automated check for site s listing in directories with showing exact anchor text. - Possibility of manual image verification or category adjustment during submission. - Automated record of submission error messages. - Up to 50 concurrent connections that reduce your time to minimum. - Simple auto rating system. Truck Mode (Manual Mode) - Long categorized directory lists, that updated regularly. - Support of user s own directory lists. - Smart, self-learning Directory Form Analyzer that allows quick and easy adoption of the new directory to your directory list. - Up to 10 browsers in Firefox tabs-style, with auto filling feature. - Possibility of displaying several information about web page: Number of Links, Links with nofollow attribute. STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE 1. Register a Free Account You need an account to launch our tool. Go to register page http://www.digixmas.com/users/register.php to register a free account. 2. Download Go to Download Page in http://www.digixmas.com to download digixmas Submitter. 3. Install Double click to downloaded installer to install digixmas Submitter. 4. Start and Logon Select the tool from Start Menu or double click to shortcut on your desktop to launch the tool. Main window and logon dialog will be shown. Enter username and password to log on. Software automatically downloads directory list from server. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 2/18

5. Add site profiles Figure 4.1: DigiXMAS Submitter Main Window Go to menu My Site -> Add a site, Add a site dialog will appear. Figure 5.1: Add a Site Dialog Enter your site information or import site s profile from text file and click OK to continue. Categories field is disabled and will be filled up by category suggestion algorithm later. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 3/18

Simple tokens randomization is supported for title and description text. See bellow example for syntax of text with tokens: I bought my {home house family house} by {mortgage loan}. Tokens-in-tokens randomization is also supported. See bellow for example: Do you understand next setence: {This is {my our} {home house} These are {my our} houses}? The tool will randomize the tokens while submitting to directories. Note: The general guidelines are displayed on the Add a Site dialog. Carefully follow up them to achieve maximum acceptance ratio for your sites. See the Appendix A for instructions how to create site s data file for importing. Don t forget check your text with tokens by choosing Preview button. 6. Submit a. Connection settings and adjust the submission options Several arguments can be adjusted to make your submission most comfortable. Select Submit->Options from main menu, the Options dialog will appears: Figure 6.1: Submission Options Dialog b. Enable DECAPTCHA Service (Optional) The tool supports decaptcha service from guys at http://www.decaptcher.com. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 4/18

After regitering an account, purchasing service credits from them, you can configure the tool by selecting Tools > Decaptcha Service: Figure 6.2: Decaptcha Service Dialog Choose My Decaptcher Account options, enter your Decaptcher account s username and password. Enable this service by checking the Enable option. If enabled, the tool will send CAPTCHA images to decaptcher.com and receives the text on it. You won t need to enter! Also, there is an option for trying this service before purchasing. Just choose Test Account option, enable the service and you are ready to enjoy the new comfort! Note: We are reseller of the decaptcha service from http://www.decaptcher.com. Visit http://www.digixmas.com/tos.php for terms of service and detailed service pricing. You have 20 test credits (decaptcha 20 images) for each run.by restarting the tool you get new 20 credits, if you want to test more. c. Select the submission mode The submission modes can be switched over by selecting Submit->Submission Mode from menu or by clicking on Submission Mode button on main toolbar. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 5/18

Figure 6.3: Submission Mode Dialog For semi-automated mode, you can enable automatic submission feature by checking on Enable Auto Submit. If enabled, the tool will auto submit your sites to directories that: 1) No CAPTCHA presents or De-CAPTCHA service enabled; 2) The tool knows directory s category structure and it s sure about your selection for it. 3) If Smart Category Selector is enabled, the tool auto selects the best-matching category that complies specific measurements. There are several options for auto submission feature that can make the process being confortable (and fully automated): Figure 6.3a: Auto Submission Options Dialog Note: Enable this feature only in the case you are sure that all category selections your ve made were correct! Here are the screenshots for two modes: Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 6/18

Figure 6.4: Shinkansen Mode (Semi-automated Mode) Figure 6.5: Track Mode (Manual Mode) The tool automatically switches to Track Mode for directory lists that support Track Mode only. You can also use Track Mode to submit your sites to directories in the list that support Shinkansen Mode. d. Select the directory list: Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 7/18

The tool supports several directory lists: Standard digixmas directory list that supports Shinkansen Mode, User s own directory lists. The tool supports Track Mode for them only. After starting up, the default directory list is set to the standard digixmas directory list with supporting of Shinkansen Mode. You can switch between the lists by selecting File->Open Directory List from main menu. The Open Directory List will be shown: Figure 6.6: Open Directory List Dialog Select the directory list s type by clicking to the option boxes on the left panel. For user s own lists, specify the path to them. Note: The list is not allowed to have multiple occurrences of same directory. Do not use long directory list, 500 directories in each list are recommended. Otherwise, loading of list will take long time. See the Appendix B for instructions how to create user s directory list. e. Select working site: Your sites are listed in dropdown combo box located at the left side on the main window. Select the site that being submitted from the list. The detailed information about active site is shown bellow the URL. f. Start submitting: i. Common You can start to submit by choosing from menu Submit, or clicking the submit buttons on toolbar. Four options are available: - Submit to pending directories: Select Submit->Submit to Pending. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 8/18

- Submit to bypassed directories (from previous sessions): Select Submit- >Submit to Bypassed. - Re-send submission requests that failed: Select Submit->Re-Send Failed Submissions. - Re-send Out-of-Date submission: Select Submit->Re-send Out-of-Date Submission. A dialog will appear to allow user to specify the milestone date, and the tool will re-send submissions that successfully performed before that date. Figure 6.7: Re-sending Out-of-Date Submissions - Customized Submission: Select Submit->Customized Submit. A dialog will be shown to allow you to choose 1) PR and number of directories or 2) from/to directories index that your site will be submitted to. Also, you can filer directories by CAPTCHA attributes, or directory load speed. Figure 6.8: Customized Submission Dialog ii. Shinkansen Mode (Semi-automated Mode) You have to confirm category submission for each directory. The tool will offer most relevant category and give the chance to change before submit to directory. For first submissions you have to choose it by yourself, and then your selection is recorded and will be used for next category suggestion. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 9/18

Figure 6.9: Category selection and image verification The suggested categories are order by priority. Use the << and >> button to move between them. The tool randomly selects Title, if you want to change, select it from dropdown list. Categories can be filtered by category keywords. You can turn on or turn off the category filter by clicking appropriated small buttons S or A on the dialog. If directory requires image verification, you can do it here. If you would like to stop submission process that running, click to Stop submission checkbox on this dialog. System will try to finish as soon as possible after completing of submission requests that already sent. Note: Category selection confirmation plays very important role in our selflearning algorithm. Choose Bypass if you don t find relevant category for your website. Choosing of non-relevant category will break our automatic category suggestion algorithm. iii. Truck Mode Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 10/18

The tool will open the directories in browsers. The number of simultaneous browsers can be adjusted by user. User can switch between the tabs while waiting for downloading of the page. You have to: Navigate to the category you want to submit your site to, Go to directory submit page. After completing of page s download, the tool automatically (if enable) fills up the information fields on the page. Click to Fill Page button on Browser Control Toolbar to filling up the information fields, if necessary. You can select the Title and Description Set by multiple clicking on this button. Click submit button on the page and confirm the result. Select the result to record on Submission Tool Bar, and then click Next Button to go to next directory. You have full control of the browsers by using of the buttons on Brower Control Toolbar. If auto record of category is enabled, the tool will try to record the category that your site has been submitted to. Unfortunately, this can work only with the directory with SEO & and human friendly URL structure. If the tool fails to fill up some information fields, you can activate the Directory Form Analyzer to re-assign the fields by selecting File->Directory Form Analyzer or clicking onto the Directory Form Analyzer button on main toolbar. The Form Analyzer will show up the list of the forms with their information fields in order how they appear on the current page: Figure 6.10: Directory Form Analyzer Dialog Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 11/18

7. Check for listing Select form for filling up; re-assign information that will be filled up to the fields and click Apply. The tool will record for next submission and at once fill up the form with the assigned information. The Directory Form Analyzer has build-in auto-learning algorithm that allows re-using of your fields assignment for other directories with same structure. In Track mode, the directory list can be hide or displayed on the left panel of main window, bellow to the Sites List combo box, by clicking to button Show directory list or Hide directory list. Actually, this feature can be performed for the directories powered by PHPLinkdirectory script only. The tool checks for listing of your sites in directories and records exact anchor text. There are three options: Check for listing in all directories in the list: Choose Submit->Complete Listing Check from main menu. Check listing for directories that your site was successfully submitted to: Choose Submit->Standard Listing Check from main menu. Re-check listing for directories that your site was listed in, but wasn t found by last checking: Choose Submit->Re-Check RED Listed from main menu. Note: The check process takes several minutes. Please WAIT and DO NOTHING until the In Progress counter on the status bar will show 0. 8. Session Log Our tool records Shinkansen submission activity for active session. You can view the log by choosing File->View Session Log from main menu. Figure 8.1: Session Log. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 12/18

9. Logoff You have to log off before leaving the tool. System will back up all information that necessary for your next submission. 10. Additional Functions a. Copy category selection: By copying category selections for another website, you let the tool know that two websites have the same niche and can be submitted to same category. Choose My Sites -> Arrange Site List form main menu. A dialog will appear to let you choose the website that its category selection data will be copied over data for current active website. Figure 10.1: Copy Category Dialog In conbination with decaptcher service (and under suitable settings for auto submission), you can achieve FULLY automated submission process. b. Re-order the directory list randomly Directory list can be re-ordered randomly by choosing File > Re-Order Directory List randomly. c. Arrange site list Your can change the the order of sites how they appear in drop-down site list. Choose My Sites -> Arrange Site List form main menu. A dialog will appear. Use Up and Down buttons to change the site order, then click OK to save. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 13/18

d. Edit site profile Figure 10.2: Arrange Site List The site profile that has been added can be edited whenever you want to change some information. Choose My Sites -> Edit a Site from main menu and a dialog will appear. Edit the field that you want and click OK. Figure 10.3: Edit a Site Dialog The Categories field contains the category information that you have selected. If you made some mistakes when choosing category, you can clear Categories field to blank and reset automatic category selection algorithm to achieve more accuracy. e. Report Function You can get detailed submission report for your individual sites. Choose Submit- >Submission Report from main menu. The report options dialog appears. Select the submissions that you want to include in your report, and then click OK. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 14/18

Figure 10.4: Report Options The report will be shown in HTML, RFT or CSV format as you choose. You can save to file or print directly to printer. Figure 10.5: Submission Report Customized report template is stored in text file report.txt file in application folder. By modifying this file, you should get your custom submission report as you want. f. Directory List Sort Function The directory list can be sorted by several arguments: URL, Rate, Pagerank, Submission Date, Submission Status and Message/AnchorText. Simply double-click to the header of appropriated column and the tool will sort at once. Note: DO NOT perform sorting while submission or listing check process is in progress (when In Progress counter located on status bar shows some activity in Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 15/18

Shinkansen Mode, or you didn t finish the submission in Track Mode). It will cause reporting errors. g. Submission Data Backup & Restore Some important text files are located in the data folder. You can find the location of data folder by open Submit > Options dialog and see Data Folder field. OPTIONS.TXT: Contains optional settings. FIELDS.INI: Truck mode setting and form field assigments. DATA/*.*: Contains submission data for all sites. Back up them regularly!!! h. Additional Manual Manipulations: Some manual manipulations are useful and can help during submission. - Submit to individual directory: Double-click to the directory s URL in directory list. - Open Directory in Browser: Double-click to the index of directory in directory list. - Check listing in individual directory: Double-click to the directory s PR in directory list (Shinkansen mode only). - Manual assignment of submission status: Double-click to the directory s status in directory list. A submission status dialog will be shown to allow you to choose submission status from the list. - Manual assignment of directory s activity: Double-clicking to the User Mark field will switch directory between Active and Inactive State. The Inactive directory will be automatically bypassed during mass-submission. - User note: You can make your own note for each directory. Double-clicking to User Note field will bring up the dialog that allows you to write a note for directory. - View the error message: The error message may be long. For better view, double-click to Last Message field and the message will be shown on separated window. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 16/18

APPENDIX 1. FORMAT OF USER S DIRECTORY LIST FILE The user s directory lists have plain text format as shown bellow: # This is comment (Lines that start with # character) # First Line gives the Name of directory list that will be shown on Main # Window Title, if selected. DirListName= My Directory List # Next lines list the directories s url with PR, # separated by comma,.the # URL has to start with http://, otherwise will be ignored. http://www.dmoz.com,9 http://www.example.com,0 2. FORMAT OF SITE PROFILE DATA FILE The site s profile data file has plain text format as follows: # This is comment (Lines that start with # character) [URL] http://www.digixmas.com [TITLE] # List of titles, each on single line digixmas Submitter digixmas SEO Tools digixmas Article Submitter [DESCRIPTION] # List of descriptions, each on single line. Don t wrap single description on # multiple lines. The number of titles and descriptions don t need to be # same, but n of titles must be >= n of descriptions. Principaly, title and # description come on pair how they appear in the data file: first title with # first description, 2 nd title with 2 nd description etc. digixmas Submitter is fastest bla bla.. digixmas SEO Tools are fastest bla bla.. [NAME] Your name [EMAIL] Your@email.com [USERNAME] YourUserName [PASSWORD] 12345 [KEYWORDS] # List of keywords on single line. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 17/18

SEO, Directory, Submit, Submitter [CATEGORY] # Categories on single line [Top]> Internet > SEO==1#[Top]> Internet > Webmaster==1# [CATEGORY_KEYWORDS] # Category keywords, simple logic operators +- can be used. SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Building +Link -Contruction [END] 3. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT DigiXMAS Submitter requires good PC with Windows XP Pro or compatible OS, GDI+ (Microsoft Windows Graphics Device Interface +) plus Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher). END OF DOCUMENT. Thank you for using digixmas Submitter. DigiXMAS Team. Copyright 2010 - digixmas.com 18/18