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September 16, 2007

Recipe Carte - Free Recipes with Live Support

Price: $1,000
URL: http://www.recipecarte.com

RecipeCarte.com is a place where you can publish your exclusive recipes for free and offer free or paid live support to those wanting your guidance in preparing dishes or drinks from your recipe. Such support can be offered by e-mail or online chat using popular free services like Skype with or without a webcam. You can accept payment directly through Skype or PayPal. It helps users get a free recipe and free or paid support and you get to make some extra cash on the side.

You would find several sites offering free recipes, most offering the same database that is sold and used over and over. Rarely would one be able to prepare a dish just by reading the recipe. What is required is, someone who knows, to guide and assist others in preparing the dishes to the same fine process that makes all the difference. This site is for people who have created their own recipes and are prepared to guide others - for free or for a fee. This is what makes this site different from others. It is not exclusively Made for AdSense, although this revenue generating channel is always available.

Recipe Carte name is derived from “A la Carte” - literally recipes from the carte, expressing the meaning and purpose of the site without ambiguity. A simple, relevant, easily remembered and brandable domain, would be worth in 4-figures for the name alone.

Built using PHP scripting with a MySQL database, the site is totally manageable from a browser based Admin. You can manage users, categories, listings, configuration of the site - all from your web browser.

Users have their own control panel from where they can manage their listings. Users can add new listings, modify existing ones and delete the ones that are not required. Details on the features and functions of the site can be read in the User Guide at the site.

September 06, 2007

Authority Domain - Index of Authority Domains

Price: $2,500
URL: http://www.authoritydomain.com

AuthorityDomain.com is a spider based search engine and indexes and categorizes authority domains and websites operating under such domains. It operates in combination as a spider based search engine as well as a category based directory. It lists and indexes only domain names or websites that qualify as an authority domain and charges $35 for lsiting in the directory.

The site runs on a PHP script and a MySQL database. A comprehensive Site Admin is built into the script to manage indexing, re-indexing, categories and listings. Stats are logged for searches. Admin has the option to set the spider to index anything between 10 to 1000 pages per site, or set it to zero for no-limit indexing. It can be set whether the spider can leave the domain to follow external links or stay within the domain. If allowed to leave, it can literally index the entire world wide web. Additionally, it can be specified what the URL should include or not include in order to be indexed. Domains can be banned for bad behavior.

Two separate search boxes are provided, the first one limiting searches to directory listings only and the second one searches for all the indexed pages.

AuthorityDomain.com - that’s what this site is all about. To avoid all the clutter that search results produces, it limits results from authority domains only giving users an extremely satisfying search experience. The domain name is simple, easy to remember and conveys it meaning and purpose in an unambiguous manner. The domain would be worth in higher five-figures for the name alone.

Over time the database will be a huge one. With simultaneous queries coming in from a large number of users, the load on the hardware is going to be substantial. Such sites are best run on a dedicated server.