Tuesday, April 10, 2007

KnowboForm v1.2 Features - Promote your Website with Pleasure

Scope of Submission

KnowboForm is the first general purpose site submission software that can semi automatically perform virtually any type of submission task without compromising the quality of submission. KnowboForm can actually enrich the quality of submission by allowing variations in information to be submitted.

In particular KnowboForm has built-in template profiles to semi automatically submit to Directories, Article Sites, Press Release Distribution Networks, Software Download Sites, Search Engines, etc.

It is very easy for KnowboForm users to create new templates for new type of submission tasks. For example users can create template profile for Classified submission, Personal information submission, etc.

Site List

KnowboForm is probably the only software in the market that has a huge database of 5,500+ submission sites with updated information of about 40+ site characteristics such as free, payment or reciprocal requirement, page rank, alexa rank, backlinks, etc.

Most importantly, KnowboForm database can never be backdated because most of the important information can be automatically updated. Users don't have to wait for an update of database to be released by the Developer because auto-update is a KnowboForm built-in feature.

Users can also add new sites and update site information manually. If required, users can even delete sites that do not possibly fulfill user's standard or requirement.

As of v1.2 beta KnowboForm database category wise site count is listed below. There are roughly 4110 Directories, 220 Article Sites, 60 Press Release Distribution Networks, 940 Software Download Sites, 150 Search Engines, and 100 of other sites comprising a total of 5550+ sites. The site list is not static. Sites are being updated, ammended, or even discarded on a regular basis to maintain the quality of inclusion.

Directory - General.............3200+
Directory - Regional.............200+
Directory - Commerce.............130+
Directory - Miscellaneous.........80+
Directory - Travel................70+
Directory - Portal................70+
Directory - Webmasters............50+
Directory - Shopping..............50+
Directory - Leisure...............20+
Directory - Internet..............20
Directory - Media.................20-
Directory - Blog..................20-
Directory - SEO...................10+
Directory - of Directories........10-
Directory - Forum.................10
Directory - Academic..............10-
Directory - Others................40+

Article Directory - General......180+
Article Directory - Buisness......10-
Artcile Directory - Others........30-

Press Release Distribution........60+

Download Site - Software.........650+
Download Site - Shareware........200+
Download Site - Freeware..........50+
Download Site - Freebie...........40+

Search Engines...................150-
Miscellaneous ...................100+

A TOTAL OF .....................5550+

Your Website Profile

KnowboForm offers a flexible interface to create your own website profile before submitting. Users can just copy a template profile for a specific purpose, provide the information required, and save. Your profile is ready to submit.

You can enter multiple number of the same information with some variations. For example, you may want to vary your website title or description so that your submissions look different to the search engine spiders. KnowboForm randomly pickup one item during submission. You can have multiple entries for any field of your site profile, not just title or description. In KnowboForm you enter separate multiple entries within the same field. You enter a tilde (~) charater alone in a new line between entries to separate multiple entries. See the example below:

Your Website Title 1
~
Your Website Title 2
~
Your Website Title 3
~
Your Website Title N

Techie user can create new templates with new field specification. KnowboForm profile field's technical name can be written as regular expression patterns. These patterns are matched with web form input field names (html tag name) during semi automatic submission.

Fetaure List yet to be Completed...

Monday, April 02, 2007

KnowboForm Site Submitter v1.2 beta has been Released

KnowboForm v1.2 beta has been released on 31st March '07. The version will remain valid till 31 May 2007. Please visit http://www.knowbotron.net and login to download the new version.

Besides some bug fixes and internal improvements that may not be apparent on the surface here are some new features in v1.2 beta that you may find useful:
  1. In addition to Google PageRank and Alexa Rank following new site attributes have been added: Google Backlinks, Yahoo Backlinks, Msn Backlinks, Site title.
  2. Auto update of Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Google Backlinks, Yahoo Backlinks, Msn Backlinks, and Site title - that means site database will never be backdated.
  3. Search whether your site is listed or not - this feature has been improved with multi threading capabilty. Searching within a site or directory is powered by Google, Yahoo, and Msn live search. You have the choice to exclude or include any of these three engine.
  4. Some user interface improvements
  5. Support for both .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0
  6. A list of 5500+ sites with updated info
Some enhancements in the v1.2 beta are:
  1. Double clicking on a site in the sitelist will now open submit page in the browser if the submit page is available. Otherwise, it will open the home page of the site domain.
  2. "Find Site" dialog with "pattern matching", "exact matching", and "begins with" functionality.
  3. Save your profile entry in one go.
Thanks to those who kindly extended their support to port KnowboForm in other languages. The v1.2 does not support multiple languages. However, a language port will be available ASAP.

Please help improve KnowboForm by posting your feedback to http://forums.knowbotron.net and be entitled to a lifetime free license (LFL). If you are already an LFL holder keep sending your suggestions for further improvement of KnowboForm as it is your tool now.