Comments on: PingCrawl injects links

By: mark

mark — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:51:03 +0000

Thanks, I didnt find the $seed on my own.

I love the domain name btw!

By: Klintron

Klintron — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:37:41 +0000

I’ve released a hacked version of this that uses cURL so it should work with most shared hosts (I’ve tested it with Dreamhost, Media Temple, and HostGator). It also removes the link injections, but adds a link back to the plugin page.

http://www.klintron.com/linkcurl/

It also adds a settings menu that lets you choose between title, tag, and category as the basis for the Google search, allows you to choose how many links to post, and whether to verify the target sites accept pingbacks.

I prefer not to verify that pingbacks are accepted, for three reasons: 1) I get better quality results 2) It seems like most of the pinged sites were “bait and switching” – they appear to accept pingbacks but the pingbacks aren’t posted (and even if they do they’re probably using “nofollow”). 3) It slows down posting.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:42:01 +0000

Thanks.
I think this is his way of open source .
Thanks for the info.

By: Automatically Add Links to Related Sites : ultimate geek girl

Automatically Add Links to Related Sites : ultimate geek girl — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:08:21 +0000

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By: Josh Team

Josh Team — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:04:15 +0000

Anty I got that & appreciate it. I added a TODO on my blog:

heck current php settings for file_get_contents if not allowed use cURL.

I will be using your code for that!

By: anty

anty — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:28:01 +0000

Josh, I already use a modified 1.02 version. Check your mail, I’ve sent you my improved version some hours ago

By: Josh Team

Josh Team — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:16:00 +0000

Hey make sure you grab the latest version of the plugin from Eli’s site or my blog. The hard coded link injection, smaller seed ratio, etc weren’t suppose to go live :-p I am using this on a project of mine.

Hope this helps!

Also spammy sites linking to you while a lot of legit sites link to you can’t hurt you too much. If so, I would create a farm of spammy sites and link to my competitors :-p

By: anty

anty — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:24:52 +0000

@ 1: That’s the nature of pingback links. I think they still contain value, since you provide relevant content to the pinged blog.
@ 2: I believe if you link to other sites within your niche you won’t lose trust/pagerank.
@ 3: Since the outgoing links are presented as a list, you are probably right about that. Maybe rel=”nofollow” is an option here?
@ 4: Nobody said it’s whitehat. The plugin generates automated links. Every automated content is evil to SEs, right?
@ 5: That’s true. In order to prevent linking to spammy sites you should look at each of the sites after the post has been published. If you add the rel=”nofollow” tag you are protected… maybe.
@ 6: Depends on the tags. If you use niche tags the links could be relevant.

Thanks for commenting!

By: Ozh

Ozh — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:06:17 +0000

I’m not sure this plugin is a good idea to be honest.

1) you don’t really get linkbacks, since the pingback links you’ll get will be nofollowed (at least on WP blogs)

2) if there is such a thing, you’re exposed to more pagerank leak, since you add more outgoing links to your posts.

3) Strings like Dallas Nightlife Entertainment look like a text link ad. Google don’t like them. So you’re likely to get a penalty from Google. The injection stuff really really looks like spam to me.

4) A “very white hat and clean link” would have been something at least nofollowed

5) Automated results are great and everything, but you *will* end up linking to a spammy site, and mutual links with splogs is definitely not something that will do good on SEO.

6) Automated results are great and everything, but most of the time they are totally worthless for the reader because they’re totally unrelated to the post.

My 2 cents.

By: anty

anty — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:28:44 +0000

Eli,

honestly I didn’t see this text. I’m glad you are not mad at me