Here is a link to download the current version WP-Backlinks version 1.1.1 (Latest Aug-31-2007)
I am glad to announce that I will be releasing my backlinks plugin I have been working on. It is a beta release as of July 25th 2007. I have a lot I want to add to this plugin but It seems to be pretty stable.I just need to get it out there and get some bug reports back from everyone. I hope this plugin makes it easy for you to gain backlinks and get your weblog as popular as it should be.
##Description##
WP-Backlinks is a plugin that makes it easy to trade and manage your backlinks on a weblog. There will be a form for other weblog owners to fill out in your side navigation with their site details and and the url to the weblog article that has a link to your site. Once the form is filled out WP-Backlinks will spider that page and make sure that they really did put a link to your weblog on that page. It will also log the page rank of that page. In the admin section you will have to approve any new links to be displayed on yourweblog so that there aren’t any inappropriate links going on your weblog. You can set a limit of how many links to trade per article. The default is five. Here’s the math. If you have a weblog that has 1000 articles and you trade 5 links per article of your weblog that would be an additional 5000 incoming backlinks. Your pagerank and traffic would definitely start to rise and any text-link-ads or what ever advertising you are doing if any would also become more valuable. There are a lot of features that I am going to ad to this plugin so stay tuned.
== Installation ==
1. Upload `wp-backlinks/` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. go to your widgets admin tools located in the admin section under the presentation tab and drag the backlinks widget into the list.If you are using a theme that doesn’t support widgets just add this line of code to your sidebar.php page <?php widget_backlink(); ?>
4. To add WP-backlink to a page, create a page where you want your backlinks to go and in code format write <!–backlinks–> This will display your links and a description for each link.
== Change Log ==
Sep 12th 2007
- Improved reciprocal spider
Aug 31st 2007
- Added reciprocal url function to make sure it’s not you URL
- Added email alerts
- Added option to enable disable javascript slide function
- added option to change Friendly Links widget header to what ever text you want!
Aug 10th 2007
-added simple math captcha to prevent spam! Hope this Helps!!
Aug 8th 2007
-added blacklist features! “Still more to come!”
-improved spider to check reciprocal link “Simplified it”
-added detailed drop down where you approve links to show all the information for that link!!
-fixed bug so link page and widget work together better
-fixed page add function to filter out pages with named anchors on the end “#comment5″
Aug 2nd 2007
-Improved display links on an page option
July 31st 2007
- Added display links on a apage option.
- Removed mysql CURRENT_TIMESTAMP due to a mysql bug on some versions.
- Added xhtml coplyant javascript tags.
- Added form validation for widget
Any questions or bugs should be directed to the supprot forums I have set up. I will be responding and updating this plugin as I get the feedback.
Here is a link to download the current version WP-Backlinks version 1
This version written and tested on wordpress 2.2.1 I plan on testing it on earlier versions! if you do test this on a version other then 2.2.1 go to my forums and tell me how it worked!
WP-Backlinks is intended for Wordpress weblogs only and is not compatible with any other weblogs or websites!
July 31st, 2007 at 9:11 pm Win win, hmm game on! I'm off to play with this auto backlink widget
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August 1st, 2007 at 4:33 am [...] released a plugin called WP-Backlinks which enrolls a form where the other blogger who wants a link exchange can give the info and then [...]
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August 1st, 2007 at 4:05 pm One problem... I tried to put up a link to your site. But it won't let me because its not reciprocal. Got any ideas?
August 1st, 2007 at 4:34 pm You can still approve links that aren't reciprocal they will just say failed on the reciprocal link status.
August 1st, 2007 at 5:32 pm Hi again Eric, This time my question is whether you can alter the plug in so that whenever somebody enters text in the title line this to transform as a title-tag. Ok, you have already done this, however this also applies that appears on the web page. So, when somebody enters say 100 characters for title the text that appears on our webpages is 3 lines long and the web pages start to look messy. ---> For example somebody enters Title: this site has really nice reviews etc, etc, blabla URL: blabla.com And this result in {a href="blabla.com" title="this site has really nice reviews etc, etc, blabla"}this site has really nice reviews etc, etc, blabla{/a} ---> What I am asking is that if you can add another line, e.g. "caption" or even make it possible to enter the anchor text in the message box so that we can control how the link is displayed. I hope you got my idea? If you don't, just say I will try to explain it better or even visually. 10x for the plugin again. Nick
August 1st, 2007 at 6:10 pm I totally get what you are saying. I will modify the plugin and add some display options to the admin area to control the look of the side bar! Shouldn't take too long so probably by the end of the day I should have that finished. Thanks for the input!
August 1st, 2007 at 6:24 pm "You can still approve links that aren’t reciprocal they will just say failed on the reciprocal link status." Thanks for the tip. I'll go back and do that. I was trying to link to your site from one of our PR 6 pages and I was stumped. Thanks!
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:38 pm Hello, Will this also count the outgoing clicks. this information would be very helpful in determining the worth of a link. If I am sending out more traffic than I am getting back, then I would rather ditch the link for a better one.