PowerPPS PPC/PPS search engine

PowerPPS is a very powerfull and inexpensive PPC (pay per click) and PPS (pay per search) engine. It is based uppon PHP and MySQL. A modular system allows easy inclusion of other search engines. We also provide a database converter. Features include GeoTargeting,GZIP,fraudprotection,affiliate and adveriser section,fraudanalysis tools,powerfull stat analysis tools.

The following list contains a short description of the main features of PowerPPS.

System requirements

5 MB webspace + space for the logs
PHP 4.1.x or higher
MySQL 3.2x or higher
General features

GeoTargeting support
GZIP compression (reduces bandwith usage up to 90%)
Category support
Multi-template driven (you can offer your visitors muliple designs they can chose)
Multi-language driven (PowerPPS can be run with many different languages the at same time)
Auto-language detection: PowerPPS can detect from which county a visitor comes, and can automatically select the appropiate language
Full-text search
Boolean search operators are supported
Banning and filtering

Word filter (banned words can be specified by you)
Referer filter (empty and referers specified by you can be banned)
IP filter (IPs specified by you can be banned)
Banned visitors can either be redirected to a special page specified by you, or they can click on the search results, but the affiliate does not get paid for this click
Country filtering (You can specify which internal listings/external search results should be displayed to visitors from which country. This can be specified individually for each listing and external search engine.)
Unique click time (=time that must pass between two clicks from the same visitor before the second click is counted) can be specified for each listing and external search engines individually
Unique search time
External listings

PowerPPS has a modular interface which allows unlimited modules for accessing external search engines like google.com for result retrieving
You can specify the countries from which clicks should be paid and listings should be shown to for each engine individually (e.g. display results from "searchfeed.com" only to visitors from the US and Canada)
Multiple engines can be queried and the results can be ordered by biddings
External search engines are added to each affiliate individually (usefull if a search engine requires high quality traffic, but some of your affiliates generate only medium or low quality traffic)
External search engines get a priority number specified by you. Then they are queried odered by the priority number.
For each external search engine the amount per click, per search and the percentagerate of the bidding per click can be set.
The unique IP time (=time that must pass between two clicks from the same visitor before the second click is counted) can be set per external search engine.
Search results can be cached
Included modules: Amazon.com, Searchfeed.com, Ah-ha.com, Revenuepilot.com and Google.com
Available modules (more modules can be purchased): Amazon.com, Searchfeed.com, Enhance.com (Ah-ha.com), Revenuepilot.com, Google.com, MSN.com, MSN.de, AltaVista.com, AltaVista.de, 7Search.com, Blazerunner.com, Brainfox.com, ePilot.com, findit-quick.net, Firstbookmark.com, Genieknows.com, GoGiga.com, Search123.com, Searchpixie.com, Seek99.com, XMLRevenue.com
Internal listings

Unlimited listings
Logos can be applied to each listing. These can be displayed beside each search result and increase the click rate.
PowerPPS supports mass-uploading of keyword- and listings-csv files (instead of typing in every listing by hand)
For each listing countries where it should be visible to, categories and keywords can be applied. For each keyword and category you can specify different bidding amounts.
Support for "Fetch all" listings. These are listings that are displayed when no results were found.
For each listing an expire date can be specified
If a listing runs out of money, funds can be automatically raised, or the owner of the link can be informed, that funds are low.
Support for adult links
Support for incentive links
Biddings can be placed manually or automatically calculated (automatic top-bidding based on certain criteria)
a keyword analyser helps with finding optimal keywords
detailed stats for each listing
Timemangement function allows to specify in detail when a link should be displayed
Logos can be stored on seperate image server (FTP access)
Affiliate features

Unlimited number of affiliates
Code for searchboxes, javascript and xml feed
Support for refering new affiliates/advertisers
detailed stats for each website
Stats and logs

Powerfull logs analyser (including IPs, searches, clicks, views)
IP analyser for detecting fraudulent activities
View/search/clickratio tracking and calculation
Powerfull stats calculator for advertiser-/affiliate- and external search engines' stats
Stats and logs can be viewed in your webbrowser and can be exported as CSV and XML files.
A main overview of the monthly and daily activities is displayed on the administrators main page
A cron-job script for automatic stats calculation is included
Other features

Paypal IPN (automatically receive and add paypal payment to advertiser accounts) and Paypal masspay (for automatically paying many affiliates with on click) support
unlimited number of administrators, affiliates and advertisers
besides PPC also PPS is supported
Support for multiply paymethods (modular interface)
Powerfull email function for sending emails to users and for notifications on new listings, websites and users
New users can be autoapproved, approved by an administrator or by an activation link sent through email
start amount (funds) for advertisers and affiliates supported
Free add-ons

Smartsearch 4.xx flatfile + MySQL to PowerPPS 2.x user and listings converter