Development History

14 May 2012

• Registration is needed for any link submissions, due to too many spam. Many people just don't bother to read my big red sign saying Aussie site only. So now we only honour to webmasters who really bother to sign up.

02 May 2012

• We reached 200 approved listings today
• For SEO reason, the time displayed at top left corner is removed. We try to avoid 3rd party scripts as much as possible.
• Newsletter subscription system is temporarily closed due to software being obsolete and awaiting updates for php5.3

29 February 2012

• Paginations are added to All Links and All Articles pages.
• Lots of bugs fixed regarding layout and formatting.

25 February 2012

• We no longer use thumbshots.com to generate thumbnails of the websites because they slow down the loading time and some thumbs just don't get updated at all. We have now purchased a software to capture all thumbs and host locally. There is advantage of doing this, as PR juice flows from one site to another, we have removed the link of thumbshots.com on every page, so in theory, there won't be any PR juice "leaking" to them anymore, thus increasing our own PR juice :)

24 February 2012

• Article submission by user is closed due to its inactivity. We still accept anyone who wish to provide their article, but we will do it manually.

10 February 2012

• We ran the "PageRank Updater" and all listed sites' PR have been updated. We will be running this from time to time.

10 January 2012

• Article section is tested and open for submission (registration required). Basic html allowed, such as p, br, ul, li, ol.

03 January 2012

• More security is implemented.

29 December 2011

• Time displayed at top left corner.
• News feed is now functioning. Demo: Google News.

28 December 2011

• Sponsored Links functionality is completed. Expiry date can be set for each link.
• Paypal Subscribe buttons are added in "Sponsor Us".

26 December 2011

• Top Directory logo changed.

22 December 2011

• Publicly announced at Digital Point.

18 December 2011

• Newsletter subscription system is completed.

15 December 2011

• How To Use page is completed.

12 December 2011

• For speed and reliability, we have moved to Australian server.

02 December 2011

• Most pages are written and completed.

During November 2011....

• An idea of setting up a quality web directory specially for Australian businesses has brought up.
• Considered a few names, finally we chose TopDirectory.com.au
• Early stage of software investigation and setup.
• The website was online but still at beta stage.
• Extra upgrades implementing and testing
• Some pages were finished writing. Some still pending...
• For testing purpose, the website was opened for submitting links. A few sites were added, some by webmaster, some by visitors.