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Updated 3/15/10

What’s New in this Version:

1. Mass Update blog posts with pingbacks. See detailed instructions below.
2. Error handling (no more strange errors)
3. Bugs with auto-bloggers squashed (wp-robot should work now)
4. Bug with empty second window on some browsers fixed

Web Hosting Server Requirements for Deep Link Engine

Note: Deep Link Engine must be installed on a sever running php 5 with cURL installed (cURL is installed on most webhosts).

So what is “Deep Link Engine” for Wordpress?

Simply it’s a WP plugin that automatically, and systematically get more links to each and every blog post you create. Either manually, or automatically.

It was designed to be used with stand-alone wordpress.org blogs. So you would need to have wordpress hosted on your server, or hosting account.

How it works…

For each post you create Deep Link Engine will analyze the content of your post, determine 5-10 keywords, then go out and find relevant blogs related to those keywords. Once it is done finding blogs, you select which blogs you would like to link to.

By linking to these other blogs we send a “pingback” notifying their blog’s software that we referrenced them on our website. Leading to deep relevant links to all our blog posts. Over time this will greatly enhance your ranking power for internal pages. The best part is easy.

Deep Link Engine for wordpress is really “push button” link building at it’s finest, and you get access to it absolutely free. This is our way of saying thanks for be our subscriber.

Here’s how to install it:

Note: You must be using Wordpress 2.7 or greater to use this plugin.

It works with wordpress blogs that you have installed on your own server, or hosted server accounts. It will not work with wordpress.com hosted blogs; it is designed for stand-alone wordpress.org blogs.

Always backup your WP database before installing any plugin, or upgrading your version of WP.

Step 1. Unzip to your desktop

Step 2. Connect to your blog via FTP. Upload the “pingback” folder to [wp-content/plugins/].

Step 3. Type in your Username and Password for your blog and click [Log In].

Step 4. On the left side, click on [Plugins], then [Installed].

Step 5. Click on [Inactive], and then find the Deep Link Engine Plugin that you downloaded, click [Activate].

Step 6. Navigating to the Plugin Settings.

Step 7. Adjust settings.

Maximum search results: This setting determines how many search results will be gathered for each tag. (More results = slower processing)

Maximum links to post: This setting determines how many links will be added and (pinged) to each post. (More links = more potential link, but slower processing)

Maximum search tags: This setting tells how many tags will be found based on the posts content. This is used in conjunction with Maximum search results.

Select a tag engine:

• TagTheNet – No API Required, Only return one word keywords
• Yahoo AppID – API Required get it here, Recommended selection. Returns the most relevant keywords

Getting a Yahoo AppID:

Step 1: Signup for a regular Yahoo email account, or login with an existing Yahoo id.

Step 2: Fill out the form like this example.

Step 3: Get your API key. Note you can use one Yahoo API key for all your blogs.

Header template: This determines what will be places above the list of links to related blogs. It is highly recommended to change this section to prevent footprints.

Start List, List item, and End list: This is the section that determines the HTML code that will be inserted with the blog urls. It is not necessary to change this section, but is available to those who want more control.

Grayhat Tip: You could add a rel=”nofollow” tag in the List item section to prevent any pagerank leakage, but by default you are giving a unfollowed link to get an unfollowed back.

Here is an example you can copy and paste into DLE:

<li><a href='%2%' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>%1%</a></li>

Search Engine Settings:

• Most recent – Finds blog posts based on keyword with the most recent dates.
• Most relevant – Finds blog post based on keyword relevance. (Recommended)

Step 8. That’s it! You’ve successfully installed Deep Link Engine for WP.

How to use Deep Link Engine

Existing Posts (Manual)

• Go to posts -> edit and choose existing (published or draft saved) post
• If post is already published – you need to wait until the first draft has been saved (the status bar will show something like “Draft Saved at 1:07:24 pm. Last edited by…”
• If the post is not published (only draft saved) then simply click on save draft button
• Now you can click on “Refresh” in the first grid to fetch the tags – edit/delete them or add new if necessary
• Once done with the tags – click “Refresh” in the second grid to fetch relevant blogs
• In the links grid you can select/delete links you don’t wish to ping (note: will use the maximum set in the options)
• Finally – either click publish, save draft, or update post (depending if this is already published post or just a draft)
• You will now see links appended to the bottom of the post, pingbacks have been sent. Time to just wait for the deep links to come in.

New Posts (Manual)

• Go to posts ->add new
• Write or copy&paste your text for blog content
• Once done click Save Draft
• Now you can click on “Refresh” in the first grid to fetch the tags – edit/delete them or add new if necessary
• Once done with the tags – click “Refresh” in the second grid to fetch relevant blogs
• In the links grid you can select/delete links you don’t wish to ping (note that only maximum number of pings will get out as set in the options)
• When you are done, click Publish and you will send out pings to the blogs to get links back!

Automatic Posting

We have tested Deep Link Engine with several autobloggers on the market. So far it works with all but one, WPRobot.

Nothing special needs to be done to setup DLE with an autoblogger, just choose your settings and it’s ready to go. The only thing to note is that the auto-blogger needs to use standard WordPress methods for posting – addNewPost, postSave etc. if it does this the proper way pingbacker will happily post pingbacks.

Mass Posting

This feature is used when you have a lot of existing posts you would like to have pingbacks added to. This will add related sites based on the settings, just as if they were posted using the fully automatic method. This was designed for speed, but will give you less control over which related sites will be added to each post.

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Troubleshooting

• Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/…/public_html/…/wp-content/plugins/pingback/pingback.php on line 33″

This error means your server has PHP4 installed – this is pretty outdated and you should raise the issue with your hosting provider to install PHP5 on the server – if for some reason you cannot have PHP5 installed (old framework or applications using PHP4) you can install PHP5 in-parallel to PHP4 (check with your hosting provider)

• I get the keywords/tags, but the second part keeps giving me an alert message. The message shows up blank every time it pops up.

This error means your server settings are too conservative or you don’t have cURL installed – in order for Deep Link Engine to work correctly, there should be no restriction in fetching outside URLs and you should have cURL library installed. Both of the issues should be raised with your hosting provider. To test if the restriction is what is the problem try the following;

http://yoursitename.com/?test=x

http://yoursitename.com/?test=http://someothersite.com

both of the links should return your site main page correctly (if the second link fails you have too conservative permissions

• Plug-in doesn’t show anything or does not start

This is caused by another plugin conflicting with DLE. Try to deactivate all the plug-ins one at a time leaving only Deep Link Engine active until you find the offending plug-in. Known issues are with wp-robot and datafeed plug-ins.

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As we’re always looking for new and exciting ways to build links we wanted to let you know about SEO Link Vine by Brad Callen that launched yesterday, as well as give you some more strategies to build links to your money sites.

First…

If you haven’t heard of using the concept of using link networks to build high quality backlinks fast – you should get up to speed.  SEO Link Vine is a brand new link network from Brad Callen that will allow you to build hundreds of one way backlinks to your sites on near auto-pilot.

You can see the power of combining SEO Link Vine with some extremely powerful SEO tactics in this SEO Link Vine review and bonus.

Building links is like a dead-end job.  You go to work, do something you really don’t like.  You work long hours, and a lot of times for very little in return in terms of results.  You may finally see some results and are happily ranking, when all of the sudden Google [bang] brings the hammer down on you.  You messed up – did too little, did too much…

It’s all a vicious, ugly cycle unless you know, first how and where to get links that matter, and second – the right strategy behind the mind-numbing task that your link building campaign has become.  People have asked me, and I know a bit about this from my days of slapping Google around like an ugly red-headed step child… Alex, how do build links, and get rankings without all the trouble?

You want to get you niche site ranked?  Here’s how…

You need to know a few critical things having a successful link building campaign.  You need to know:

How to generate content fast and without effort

How to distribute your content on auto-pilot

How to link back to your website so it doesn’t get canned by Google

Where to Get Links?

It used to be you could just throw up a couple links on some social bookmarking site, create a few blogs on Wordpress, Livejournal, etc…  When I introduced the Google Sniper method in 2008 this was working in full effect.  It wasn’t a bit difficult to get ranked for low-mid competition keywords.  Now the game has slightly changed.  Still the same premise but Google has gotten wise to that.  If you’re still doing just that, it’s time for a major shift in your link building campaigns.

I’m not saying that doesn’t work at all anymore.  Of course it does.  Here are a few sources that you can and should use in your link building campaign, but they shouldn’t be your end all:

Classified Ad Sites – This a quick and easy way to get some fairly high quality links.  The problem is there’s not a lot of option for global automation, so it’s more of manual process.  A few examples:

Edgeio:  http://www.edgeio.com/

Epage:  http://epage.com/

Oodle:  http://www.oodle.com/

USFreeAds: http://www.usfreeads.com/

Article Directories – These are probably still some of the best links you can get out of everything I’ll list here, but yet again a small problem.  The best links you can get are in-content, deep links with relevant anchor text.  Most directories don’t allow that and limit you to a resource box link.  These links are as powerful as the aforementioned.  Don’t get me wrong, they’re still good, but you can still do better.

The pro of this type of link building is that there’s a ton of options for automation.  I’ve not found one that hits the ultimate sweet spot but overall, if you need to you can get the job done fairly well with automation.  A few examples:

www.amazines.com

www.articlealley.com

www.articlecity.com

www.articleclick.com

www.articlecube.com

www.articledashboard.com

Social Bookmarking – Still searching for that all-in-one social bookmarking tool that will push your site “straight to the top of Google”…  Good link.  You’re not going to get too far this way anymore.  Again, yes the links do help (some) but G has gotten wise to it all.  Simply bookmarking your site everywhere you can is likely going to hurt your rankings more than help.

The reason?  First, is the obvious fact that I’ve already mentioned.  Google is on to you.  They can see if all your links are from social bookmarking sites.  They recognize that and either discount those links (less than worse option), penalize your site (good luck climbing back from that) or completely de-index you.

The fact is now you need a diverse link profile.  Get too many links from one source is an obvious red-flag for Google now.  It’s just not natural.  Before, it worked because they didn’t put so much weight on that particular factor.  50 social bookmarking links used to be defined as simply 50 links (good or bad).  Now, in a 50 link profile (for example) it’s best to have 15 from one source, 10 from another and 9 from yet another – so on and so forth.

Web 2.0 Blog Sites – Still a fairly solid source of building links, but there’s a whole strategy involved to really make it even worth your time.  That’s right; have fun spinning content and creating 50 different blogs on these kinds of sites.  If you don’t do it right (which most people don’t) you’ll be lucky if you get 10 of them indexed, which means 40 of those links are doing zero, zip, nada for you.

There are some nice automation tools that will allow you to create 50 or even 100 of these in less than an hour, but the problem still remains.  You need to actually get them indexed.  Seems to  have gotten a bit harder, because Google’s even getting wise to spun content.  One option is to manually create 50 web 2 blogs and post unique content to them – but the time you take to do that isn’t worth the value of the links you’d get back.

My humble advice on this…  A renewed strategy for doing the above and getting nearly all of your blog indexed.  What I’m talking about is using some advanced spinning techniques.  Normal spinning just isn’t cutting it anymore.  Rather than just analyzing content, Google is now analyzing content structure just as much.  Most spun content has nearly identical word count and structure.

One thing you can start doing now is spinning your paragraph breaks.  What that does is completely randomize the structure of you content as well the content itself.  You can also try:

• More nested spinning – This simply means adding variations within your spins.
• Randomize sentences – What I mean is this: spin your content so it randomly inserts or completely leaves out a certain number of entire sentences within your whole piece of content.  This is simple:  {I like dogs alot|} My dog’s name is {fido|snoopy|harry|buddy}.  Doing this, the spun result either displays the sentence “I like dogs alot” or it doesn’t.  Either way, the sentence isn’t essential to the whole understanding of the paragraph.
• Randomize entire paragraphs –This is same idea as above, but your randomly inserting or leaving out whole paragraphs.

RSS Submission – Honestly I still have to give it up to RSS submissions for remaining a great source of some powerful link building.  Putting your RSS feeds to work for you is something that will really help you spread your links like wildfire automatically.

Because of the automated nature of RSS feeds (they automatically update), spreading your RSS feeds allow you to generate dozens or even hundreds of links back to any piece of content you post.  My advice is this.  Spread every RSS link of yours far and wide.

Almost all web 2.0 type-sites you can build a blog, create a page, submit a bookmark or whatever, have individual RSS feeds attached to them.  My advices is if you don’t have a good RSS submission tool and you’re doing any level of SEO and link building – get one.  There are a lot of advanced strategies for using the power of RSS feeds.

The four sources above are some of the more common ways everyone is pushing in their latest “dominate the first page of Google” e-books.  And that’s all good and well, and like I said – these are still viable ways to build links to your sites.  Each of them have their problems, some of which I’ve tried to provide some answers for above.

But honestly, if this type of promotion is where you’re leaving your link building campaigns, you’re not even scratching the surface of what you really could be doing.  If you expect to really succeed in parking virtually any site you want on the front page of Google, you need to develop an extremely comprehensive approach.

These kinds of links alone will not sustain you in the search engines.  SEO is a long-term game.  You should be thinking about you link building campaigns as a way to build and sustain a presence in the search engines for years to come.

How to Do That?

Well there are several ways.  One is authority link building.  Which means doing the hard work to get links from other authority sites.  Of course that’s only really an option when you’ve got a site that you want to become an authority itself.

For most niche sites it’s not realistic to put that much effort into the site, because you should be putting up 10 more just like it within the next week instead of wasting your time with traditional authority link building.

So what’s another option?  For most of your sites you’re not going to be able to build those authority-type links.  So instead of quality, you need to go for quantity.  Pure link quantity is where the sweet spot in Google is right now.  As long as the sites you get the links from are sites in good standing with Google (their not authority sites, but they’re not spam blogs either).

There are lots of these sites.  In fact, there are millions.  What I’m talking about are blogs.  And no, I’m not talking about blog comments (which by the way if you’re doing, you’re like wasting your time).  What I’m talking about here is getting whole pieces of your unique content submitted to and published on hundreds of the kinds of blog I just spoke about.  Oh and did I mention, automatically drip-fed and published on a daily basis?

That’s where link networks like SEO Link Vine come into play.  If you’re not diversify and expanding you link building campaigns, then we highly recommend that you start.

What’s New in this Version:

1. Mass Update blog posts with pingbacks. See detailed instructions below.
2. Error handling (no more strange errors)
3. Bugs with auto-bloggers squashed (wp-robot should work now)
4. Bug with empty second window on some browsers fixed

Download Deep Link Engine >>> here

Mass Posting

This feature is used when you have a lot of existing posts you would like to have pingbacks added to. This will add related sites based on the settings, just as if they were posted using the fully automatic method. This was designed for speed, but will give you less control over which related sites will be added to each post.

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