Bodzo is a simplistic search engine and a free advertising service for individuals, groups and businesses who want to improve the online presence of their products and services.

To learn more please check out the FAQ here

Thanks. 

Edit: By the way guys I already added GW to it! If you put a link back to Bodzo.com on GWLog home page you can help increase GW's points for ranking in the search engine. Learn more here.

Friendly bump. I updated the footer, added a tagline and favicon too. Hopefully this can be a competitor to sites like thebigwordproject and tagacloud. Well thats what I am aiming for anyway. 

Why can't you put a link to a topic on GW on your advertising site?

Why can't you put a link to a topic on GW on your advertising site?

To prevent websites that use sleazy seo or have a million and one pages from abusing the system. I am implementing a crawler soon and also will be fixing up a few other things like Bart mentioned. Other features to come are website reviews and comments. The reason I am implementing this one feature at a time is to give reason for my existing user base to keep coming back and also because I don't want to use up to much resources on my hosting to start out with. I have already had a few donations so with a few more I can afford to upgrade my hosting and keep adding in new features.

Thanks. 

I'm pretty lenient about how I run these forums, so I'm not going to lock this or anything, but it would be nice if you could put some more information up.  Doesn't have to be anything elaborate, just more info like what is the deal with this new search engine, did you make it?  what does it do differently?  Just stuff like that.

I'm pretty lenient about how I run these forums, so I'm not going to lock this or anything, but it would be nice if you could put some more information up.  Doesn't have to be anything elaborate, just more info like what is the deal with this new search engine, did you make it?  what does it do differently?  Just stuff like that.

In its current state "search engine" isn't the best way to describe Bodzo. That's how it initially started out but I opted to build small and work my way up. Its similar to a tag cloud directory except its free and has a unique approach through the points system and its presentation. The most popular tags with the most points get better recognition on the home page to help make them stand out even more.

Let me list some of my future ideas for Bodzo. I wanted to implement these right away but I needed to start small and build my way up as this isn't my full time job and I only do it when I can in my spare time.

Verification System
This is almost finished except for a few kinks I need to sort out. Basically this allows website administrators to update their site in the future by way of a file verification system. This either means the website administrator uploads a specific file to their site or adds a line of code somewhere in an existing page for Bodzo to scan and verify, both of which contain title and description.

A lot of you maybe thinking, "huh why not just a user registration system? all that seems too much hassle!", but let me give you my reasons for doing this.

1. Helps battle against spammers. Let's say some idiot was to add a website they didn't own to the system and it contained an invalid title and description. By using my verification system the REAL website owner/administrator can fix this on their own.
2. New website ownership. In the future if a website that is in the Bodzo system gets sold the new owner can easily update the title and description. If I used a user registration system there would be the hassle of having the website transferred between accounts.

Keywords
In the future all websites will have a main tag and keywords. The main tag is what may randomly appear on the Bodzo home page and is one word that is best used to identify each site. Keywords are more related to the search terms end users may use when searching for products/services. Existing websites don't have to worry because my verification system means this can be updated in future.

Statistics
Publically available statistics relating to every website. At the moment Bodzo informs users how many points a website has but the new statistics page will show stats like the most common keywords, geographical region etc.

Simple crawler + manual page submission
I will implement a crawler like I mentioned above, which will only scan specific links to start out with. The manual page submission allows users to add pages for an existing website on the Bodzo system. This means end users can do a search relating to a specific website. I will need to limit the amount of pages per day to begin with to prevent abuse.

Classified ads
A whole new section of Bodzo in the distant future (classified.bodzo.com). End users will be able to sell their games, household furniture, clothes etc. Will work in a similar way to existing classified ads websites but will maintain the same look and feel of the existing Bodzo website. This will help build up my user base.

 

I'd be interested in hearing more about that verification system you have going.  It seems interesting.

You asked I listened. Here are the most recent changes.

"Advertise" has been changed to "Submit your website for FREE"
Brand spanking new file verification system
Keywords! For those who have already submitted their website you can still update it using the file verification system

Read about the file verification system.

Update your own website today.

I added a search suggestion drop down box and I now have a blog.  ;)

Check out the blog here