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Originally Posted by tombarr
You know the data and data fields required to be imported for your script to work. I would think it's limited to a few fields of information, . You could make the importer work similar to the way smart thumbs does their import galleries function. I believe they use a series of drop down selectors to assign field order based on the data you are importing, then you could specify how your data is arranged, how it is delimited (pipe, tab, semi-colon, comma, etc). Of course, with text files or excel files, you can massage data any way you need to import it. Seems like this would address the data confusion issue so that a data importer could in fact be written for your script.
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The script is built on total flexibility... all trades don't have the same structure, if you do AB CD then under a SINGLE trade the A-->B needs to be recorded as well as the C-->D.
The issue isn't massaging data to get a neat "one site, other site, anchor text" or anything... because of the flexibiliy of the script in recording ANY type of trade, they need to be done manually.
When you use the script, you will see that this is it's prime feature, and well worth the manual input effort, which I have found was the weakness of any other product out there... They all wanted to force you to limits in links in/links out per trade.
How many times has a webmaster given you a list of their sites for link trades, and you've chosen, say, 5 or 10 backlinks, and offered them 5 or 10 links back, from DIFFERENT sites to make up the numbers.
My script logs them all under the SAME trade, which is very useful in the future when looking back, yet still monitors all links INDIVIDUALLY.