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!