KnowboForm Project to aid Website Submission Services

Project concept has been introduced in upcoming KnowboForm v1.6.5 beta that will greatly facilitate the task of website submission services. Site submission services are offered by some vendors doing the manual site submission on behalf of their client webmasters and website owners. One of the benefits of employing a manual site submission vendor is the retained quality of submission.

No doubt that the quality of submission gets degraded when sites are submitted automatically. KnowboForm is a semi automatic site submission tool yet it has many time saving features to simplify the submission process. The KnowboForm "Project" is one such feature that will enable a site submitter to manage multiple submission tasks for multiple customers websites together in a single project.

To submit a site one has to create a submission profile in KnowboForm. Since KnowboForm is used as a multi purpose submission tool you attach a submission scope (such as directory submission, search engine submission, blog pinging, etc.) to your profile. A "Project" in KnowboForm is collection of many submission profiles for a single submission scope. Thus when you submit to a site you will be able to submit all the profiles one by one to the same directory or search engine (or whatever scope attached to the Project). The shoctcut key [F9] select the next submission profile in the project.

A project is not necessarily to be created for one customer or company. It can be created for multiple customers if the scope of submission is same.

How KnowboForm can Greatly Help you in Directory Submission?

The KnowboForm is the perfect tool for keeping track of submissions to directories (and many other systems of submission). It has many features to help make directory submissions easier and quicker for the webmaster. It's the most affordable way to ensure that you're submitting properly to the directories and to prevent your website from being banned and given a bad reputation. You're able to update the directory URL database in the program by adding as many directory URL's as you want as there's no limit. It can also help you to ensure that there'll be no duplicate URL's so that you don't submit to the same directory twice (if that directory doesn't accept multiple submissions of the same url, however many directories do accept). You're also able to keep track of which directories you've successfully submitted to, if you've already submitted your link and how many days ago that you did. You also have the ability to skip the directory URL's that you've already submitted to in order to save you time and prevent you from submitting again. You can even know what page rank ( and many other site performance matrices ) the link has before you submit so that you can be picky in which directories you would like to submit your website to. The KnowboForm is very easy to use and will save you time and money.

What does Directory Submission do for my Website?

Directories used to serve as the main method in finding relevant sites before search engines like Google and Yahoo took over. Many people don't use directories anymore to find websites, which is why you won't get a lot of traffic from directories that you submit to. Directories however, have become an important part in SEO and are very useful in obtaining backlinks to your website, which in turn can help you improve your websites ranking in the search engine results. They can be a great way to get your websites indexed into the major search engines if your website is new or have the search engines favour your website if you target your keyword and phrases properly in the directories.

KnowboForm v1.6.4 beta Released!

KnowboForm v1.6.4 beta has been released on 27 January '08. Many interesting features have been added to this version, such as:

1. Sign-in manager - will allow users to store, update, and one-click sign-in to the sites where log-in is required. This is similar to the facilities built-in in many browsers like Firefox, IE, Opera, etc. The password manager in KnowboForm however does some extra like one-click sign-in. It can store multiple uid/password for a single site and for a single KnowboForm user. It pops-up to allow user to select the intended user id when there are multiple userid stored. KnowboForm Password manager will certainly save website owners' valuable time spent in site promotion.

2. Blog auto-ping services - users will have a standard profile template for blog pinging. A list of prominent ping services (some 20+) have been added to the site list. With this additions KnowboForm site submitter will also be able to help bloggers.

3. Web masters forum list - A list of some 50+ webmaster's forum has been added to the KnowboForm site list. This list however is not intended for auto-posting in forums. Auto posting, that usually spit off irrelevant contents, is considered spamming and has negative impact on your web promotion efforts. The list is there to provide webmasters or website promoters a quick access to forums where they can contribute and indirectly bring visitors to their sites as they become popular in forums. The list is just a handy quick bookmarks with auto-login facility that is certainly a time saver option for busy web business owners.

4. Vary Submission Entries Sequentially or Randomly - An interesting features relevant to creation of submission profile and auto-filling of form has bben added to in this version. During creation of a submission profile one has to enter submission specific information in the respective fields of a form and store that under a profile ID. Considering the SEO aspects of submission, KnowboForm allows you to specify multiple values for a single field. Up until v1.6.3, one entry from those multiple values were randomly chosen during filling-up of the form. In v1.6.4 users will be able to specify whether the value will also be chosen sequentially by rotation. Thus KnowboForm allows you to compose your submission entries by varying unique description, title, and other such fields which is important as search engines usually prefer unique information.

5. Add remarks to your submission profile - you will be able to add some remarks to your submission profile. Click on the "Show/Hide profile note" link on the profile configuration form to do this.

6. Create infinite number of variations - In addition to specifying alternate entries using tilde ( ~ ) symbol in earlier versions, a very cool feature has been added to v1.6.4 beta. That is, users can configure submission profile to create variations within an entry using pipe-and-braces { | } symbols. Users can define alternative entries and entry variations for any descriptive field like Title, Description, Article Body, etc. This feature is particularly important for article body or entry descriptions to create unique looking articles from the search engine's perspective. Many sites do not allow multiple submissions unless you vary your title. In such cases variations are very useful too.

7. Display variations of submission profile - Select Profile / Display Variation from the Profile menu to display first variation. Choose View / Refresh or press [F5] to display the next variation. The next variation will depend on whether sequential or random setting is active. You can select these settings also from the profile menu. Entry variation is one of the powerful features in KnowboForm which enable your to make your submission in a search engine friendly manner.

Add Remarks to your Submission Profile

In v1.6.4 you will be able to add some remarks to your submission profile. Click on the "Show/Hide profile note" link on the profile configuration form to do this.

Use this option to take note of what the submission profile is all about.

Here you can enter purpose of the profile, etc. If you are a professional submission company, you can, for example, enter company address, for which the submission profile is created. Remarks in the profile can help you during your site submission process.

A Simple Improvement but Real Time Saver

v1.6.3 offers you a shortcut key CTRL+F9 that will start opening multiple sites on different tabs starting from the selected site on the site list. Currently it opens ten sites at a time. Instead of individually clicking on each site, you can use this key combination. This not only saves you 20 clicks (1 click to open new tab, another click to browse the site; 2 multiplied by 10 equals 20) but also allow you to do something else while the pages are loading. Simple but useful for submission to multiple sites together.

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...

Submit to Free Directory, Download Site and Search Engines - Thousands of them

KnowboForm database has thousands of directories, software download sites, and search engines to submit your site to. 90% of those accept free site submission. Below is some statistics of collected sites in KnowboForm as of today.

Directory - General........2500+
Directory - Regional........200+
Directory - Commerce........100+
Directory - Miscellaneous...100+
Directory - Travel...........50+
Directory - Portal...........50+
Directory - Webmasters.......50+
Directory - Shopping.........50+
Directory - Leisure..........20+
Directory - Internet.........20+
Directory - Media............10+
Directory - Blog.............10+
Directory - SEO..............10+

Download Site - Software....600+
Download Site - Shareware...200+
Download Site - Freeware.....50+
Download Site - Freebie......40+

Search Engines..............140+

TOTAL......................4000+

Fact about Site Submission: How KnowboForm can help you

Why Site Submission

Directory submission as well as search engine submission should be your first avenue of site promotion after publishing your web pages. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Lycos, and all of the search engines that send out “spiders” or “robots” (programs) to index your site give you a more prominent placement if you are linked to from directories.

KnowboForm's built-in database contains thousands of directories and hundreds of search engines. We have spent countless hours to review those sites and actually submitted to those sites manually and semi-automatically. We did so, to gather information and behaviors of those sites; evaluate, classify, and compare those sites; to make your site submission tasks as automatic and painless as possible and to save your valuable time.

Submission Technique

By hand submitting to directories, you get listed by directories that are run by real people. The search engines such as Google and Yahoo know that these directories hand approve people, and because of this, the major search engines consider links from directories to be “authority” links.

In one hand, hand-submitting to directories are very laborious and time consuming, on the other hand, directory submission, in particular, can not be always fully automated. Even when the submission can be some-how automated the quality of submission becomes poor and thus the very objective of the submission is not achieved. KnowboForm takes the middle path and that is the semi automatic submission technique. In this way webmasters can maintain a balance between labor-saving and quality. In addition, KnowboForm allows you to manage, control, and keep track of your submissions.

One-way Link

It is possible to develop many high quality non-reciprocal links directed to your site from authority sites such as Search Engine Directories. If they are properly submitted, many times they will have your keywords in the links as well. This makes your “authority” links even more powerful because they are considered “anchor-text” links. (Anchor Text links are links that have the keyword phrases that people would search on in order to find your site right in the hyperlink itself.)

Using KnowboForm you can quickly identify the directories and search engines that allow non-reciprocal listing, free or paid. However, more than 90% of all listings maintained in KnowboForm allows free submission. Why not filter-out those sites that allow free non reciprocal link building.

Review before Submit

The reason why directory submission is so important these days is because many search engines use human edited directories in order to determine the value of the websites they index. This is why it is important for you to carefully review the directory you choose to submit your site to and how to correctly submit it. It is a waste of time and energy to submit your site to directories without first reading the guidelines, as many of them will reject your site if you don't follow directions.

Each and every site contained in the KnowboForm is carefully reviewed for twenty plus important information about a site at just mouse-click away. If you don't have the time to review all the sites before submitting - KnowboForm is your best companion that has already reviewed those sites for you.