Fix Thumbnail Problems for your phpld phpLinkDirectory

If you have been using Alexa Thumbnails mod and notice that it has stopped working for your web directory now, it could be for multiple reasons – none of them related to your directory though. I mean, Alexa could have changed the algorithm to serve free thumbnails or it could have been promoted to – as a paid service and thus your IP blocked to fetch thumbnails from them. A large number of web directories no longer show thumbnails that depend on various service providers.

Fortunately it is very easy to fix these problems by utilizing services offered by Thumbshots.org – who provide you free thumbnail service (provided you give a link back to them on your pages where ever you install their configuration code for thumbnails – not a big deal isn’t it, after all you created a web directory to give links to useful sites for others!!!)

OK, so depending upon the template you have installed and changes that you may have made to your web directory – look for each page / template file that invokes code for thumbnail. As a standard practice you would find following three files that contain the code

link.tpl
main.tpl and
detail.tpl

The complete code to show thumbnails may be something like the code below:

Now if you have registered a free account with Thumbshots.org – and you agree to their terms and conditions to provide a backlink to them for utilizing this free service as we have done on our SEO Human Edited Web Directory, than simply use the code as shown below:

Within seconds to few minutes – your site would start getting updated thumbnails from Thumbshots.org! Once again your site would have it’s images back and bring it back to life. A picture is worth a thousand words – and thumbnails add precisely that if not more

What service do you use for your website? Any feedback or comments you would like to share about thumbnail providers – do post your views. We would love to hear from you.

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