AF Pro
Article Friendly Pro is an article publishing script for php &
mysql that allows authors to signup on your site(s) and after their email is confirmed by AF Pro, submit their articles for your approval.
AF Pro is a complete turnkey site. Simply upload and connect to your database, and it's ready to use!
It also allows you to accept free articles from article submission services such as Content Crooner, iSnare and ArticleUnited.com!
Perks
Making a living on the Internet is all about traffic, and what's the best way to get traffic? Search engines such as Google, Msn & Yahoo. Article Friendly's article content is what keeps them indexing your site! Imagine having 50,000 articles on your site. That's 50,000 links pointing to your site from the big three search engines, and 150,000 more chances for someone to find your site first.
Making Money
Good article publishing scripts such as Article Friendly are excellent traffic generators, and you can use that traffic to make sales! You can use any of the "Adsense-Like" pay-per-click services, add your own products and services, add affiliate banners and funnel the traffic from Article Friendly to your other sites to make a sale! Start a members only type article publishing site, create niche article sites, or sell your own articles... These are just a few ideas. You are only limited by your imagination and desire!
Getting Articles
Besides the live author article submissions, you can get free articles from article submission services! Included Free with Article Friendly are 3 scripts to get tons of free, quality articles from ArticleUnited.com, ContentCrooner.com & iSnare.com. Also included are scripts to convert Article Dashboard to Article Friendly, and convert Article Beach (also known as Your Very Own Article Directory) to Article Friendly.
Frontend Features
AF Pro's unencoded frontend allows you to showcase your approved authors and articles, and permits additional author signups and article submission to keep your site growing!
- Robust author signup system. Email from your site is sent to the new signup's email address for confirmation before approval.
- Article Submit system that allows admin to check out and approve or decline any submitted articles.
- SEO (Search Engine) Friendly URLs. Article titles, categories and author names are included in the page title and article titles and categories full names are in the url of each as an HTML page!
- Upload Author Picture. Your author's can upload their picture and have it show in thier articles. This personalizes your articles and makes your author's feel like a part of your site.
- Star Rating System on all articles. Let your visitors know which articles are hot! Each article starts up rated as five empty stars and adds stars as the article is reviewed, read or downloaded. When they gain a new star is controlled by you.
- Included Language Translation System! Offer more readers the opportunity to read your site's articles in thier language. Gets your pages indexed by the major search engines in not only english, but in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese and Japanese! Simply copy an include to where you want the flags and your done!
- RSS Feeds for every individual category and subcategory! Instead of your users having only one rss feed, they can have multiple feeds in any category. This is really handy for niche sites that only want specific content.
- Multi-part emails. Send banners/Ads with your confirmation emails, and admin side author emails! Send to all authors, or just one, as plain text or html!
- Anti-email harvesting "Contact Us" Form. Stops those email harvesting bots dead in thier track and reduces spam from your site, and scripts trying to use your site to mass email thru your contact us form!
- Most pages pre-filled in, so all you have to do is edit them the way you wish, or just change the spots for your site name and leave the pages as they are.
- Unlimited Categories & Subcategories.
- Adsense ready. Enter your Adsense Pub ID and your adsense shows floating within each article and left nav.
- Frontend pages are simple HTML, so add any banners, javascript, additional php code or other advertizing services anywhere you wish!
- Easy installation. Create a database, upload the files, enter your database connection code and you're done.
- Lifetime support! You'll never pay for additional "blocks" of support. We provide both a support forum and email support.
Admin Features
AF Pro features a robust administration area for maintaining your site, authors, articles and other admins.
- Secure admin login page
- Admin ability to ping major blogrolls such as Technorati, weblogs.com & pingomatic!
- Complete database repairs within the admin section.
- Remove non-contributing authors. Remove author accounts that never submit an articles with just one click of your mouse!
- Delete author account with articles. No articles left behind without author names when you delete an author account. Articles by the deleted author are automatically deleted also!
- Ban Bad Authors instantly. Ban authors thru your admin area quickly and easily!
- Approve All Articles By Keywords.
- Add authors & articles in your admin section.
- You can have multiple admins/editors for article editing/approving.
- Onboard Duplicate Content Finder
- Script auto emails you when a new author signs up! Keeps you informed of new signups and if the signup was a spammer or a legitimate author. Plus, it allows you to keep an additional record of your live authors!
- Duplicate Article Deleter. Removes the dupes, but keeps the original. This will keep google from penalizing your site for dupe content.
- Add/remove/edit categories including subcategories!
- Add/edit/delete users, articles, countries and more thru the admin section.
- Much, Much More! Check out the admin demo site from the links above.
Requirements
- Lamp System (linux, Apache Server, Mysql & Php). Windows servers not guaranteed.
- Php Version 4 or greater.
- Ioncube enabled for admin files. Most hosts have this enabled by default.
- Mod_rewrite for SEF URLS. Most hosts have this enabled by default.
- FTP Client (to upload files and edit them).
- webpage or Text editor to edit files (Yes, even notepad will work!).
You can download the test script to verify if your hosting meets the requirements.
