I need an url rotator with a virtually limitless capacity

[Home Free]

Hello, everyone.

I'm a true newbie to all of this, but am now researching resources for my team within a network marketing opp.

We want to co-operatively create a site and market it, mainly to really learn together how to become professional marketers, not having to depend on all the lead organizations out there.

We're really starting from scratch, so I'm very glad to find this board.

Specifically, for this post, I would like to ask about incorporating an url rotator into our site, one with a virtually limitless capacity that will allow folks from our growing organization to take part in our main shared site, from which visitors would go to our co-op participant's particular company referral sites. I know of one commercially available that puts a cap of 40 on the rotation, which wouldn't even begin to help us.

I know it can be done, and I believe I have a vague sense of the process: for I believe a fellow marketer devoted a page on his site to the rotator, so that any time someone clicked on the link to that page (whether from a link to it from another page on the site or from an e-mail message), it would engage the rotator, and bring the visitor to the next link in the rotation.

But that's where my sketchy knowledge stops, and I could sure use some help finding a reasonably priced (for this is mostly coming together through the simple generosity of some of our members, trying to help out the whole) resource/professional programmer to help us.

Thanks in advance for any guidance.:hi:

[ihelpyou]

Welcome to the forums Home Free! :hi:

Is what you are looking for a banner rotating script? If so, www.cgiresources.com has some scripts.

If you need help installing the script then someone in here could probably help you with that.

[Home Free]

My, that was quick--thank you!

I don't think so (though that's all that I'm able to find in my searches on the net so far).

We would like to link to the page holding the rotator from a url link within the content of a page and/or from that same url link within a plain text e-mail.

Does that make sense?

[Home Free]

P.S. I would like to have a form wherever the rotator is located that would make it easy for me to place in the next url for the next member.

My guess is from the one experience I've had at least *using* one of these is that once the url link to the page where the rotator is located is pressed, it activates the rotator, but of course I may be missing a step(s).

I guess you could say it's a banner link without the banner ;), just a straight url within the text, a link which leads to the rotator.

[Alan Perkins]

You are looking for what's known as a webring.

I don't like them, so can't help you more than that. But you might try searching for "webring" or "webring software", e.g.:

http://www.google.com/search?querytime=wu&q=webring+software

[Home Free]

Thank you very much.

Of course, I must ask:

Why don't you like them?

[ihelpyou]

hey Linda, it's not that they are inherantly bad, but that they are somewhat unprofessional looking. At least they are to me from the sites I have seen use them.

[Alan Perkins]

1. They drive traffic away from a site

2. They are often found on low quality sites so create an impression of low quality (like hit counters)

3. You may link to a "bad neighborhood" which can cause you problems with search engines

4. They provide little value to visitors

[Home Free]

Hmmmm.

What we're intending is simply to let all of our folks take part in this site and series of e-mails that we are creating together, which is meant to market our particular opportunity.

The various team sites that the rotator will go to (via the url to click on within the content of the site or the e-mail) will go to a site that looks exactly the same for all of us, and the url to click on to reach that site will be prefaced with an invitation to take a look at the company we represent.

So, I'm rather confused by what you're referring to.

The only difference with our site/e-mail and one that an individual marketer might create is that it would link to a hidden ratation system, one that would bring the visitor to exactly the same company site as far as the visitor is concerned (the only difference would be the referral ID#) to review directly as that same link would without the step of the rotator involved.

Perhaps it is not a "webring" that we are after.... for I don't see the problem that you are referring to come into play...

[Alan Perkins]

No I don't get it, sorry.

Try describing the typical experience of one or two different visitors to the site(s) in question, to illustrate different aspects of what you are trying to achieve.

[Home Free]

Okie doke.

A visitor will come to our site, to our sales letter, and hopefully subscribe to our autoresponder series to learn more about our company and/or go to another area of our site where we will be posting our on-going newsletter.

Within both the e-mail series and the newsletter page, there will be a referral link to the company.

What we are trying to do is to create an intermediate step in which when clicking on what would normally be a referral link to the company, the visitor would be redirected to a hidden rotating url system, which would in turn bring the visitor to the company site of one of our many team members, each holding one share in the rotation.

I hope that is a clearer explanation of what we're looking for.

I do know that this can be done, for I'm a part of a system that is doing so now, but for the benefit of our team and our putting this project together ourselves (research and resources to turn to, both for our current project and for future reference), I would like for us to find out about a resource for such a tool through regular researching means, such as this forum, for example...

I need to head off now, but will check back this evening.

Thanks for trying to get at what I'm after ;)

[Blue]

I'm not sure, but these scripts might be what you're after?

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/10618.html

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/14051.html

:cheers:

[Alan Perkins]

Linda

If I understand you correctly, you want a list of URLs, and each time somebody clicks on a particular link that causes the next URL to be taken off the list and visited. When the last URL has been used it goes back to the top of the list. Is that right?

If so, I don't know anything like it, but a good programmer could write one for you quite easily.

Alan

[Home Free]

That's it exactly, Alan. Thank you.

[rcbhan]

Hi This is Richard here.

This post is directed to Linda G.

Understand that you are looking for a rotator service with unlimited capabilities. Actually, I found your post when I am looking for the same things. :)

You might want to look at www.freerotator.net. I have tested it and find it to be quite stable and best of all, its free. :) Beats having to install CGI scripts.

[potato]

two free perlscripts that would do what you like are available from
(1) http://www.kenkuhl.com/scripts/
(2) http://www.scriptarchive.com/rand_link.html
installation is very easy if perl is available on your server

using services like freerotator.net makes you depending on their uptime and reveals all urls (and probably some of your visitors data) to someone you do not know.

[gps4213]

I think I know what you are looking for in the way of a URL rotator. I have designed a simple one that may just do what you are asking for.

If you are still looking for this type of solution I can edit mine to fit your needs.

email: thehitmonger@rdebooks.com

:cheers:

[JuniorHarris]

A custom script which accessed/read the next URL [record] from a database would provide infinite growth!~;) Plus it would allow for easier maintenance, including bulk operations, as well as provide a data store for click-through usage/information.

[potato]

... infinite growth of what ? - :D

I guess, Home Free Linda has left anyway, there has been no response to the recent suggestions.