Little blog wonder pingcrawl
Hello all ,
Bet you thougt i had fallen off the face the earth ? nope sorry im still here, just took some time out to do my own thing. So i want to talk about a cool little wordpress tool for getting deeplinks for your post, yep easy links an traffic to your blog.
I stumbled onto this nice litte tool a while back called pingcrawl on bluehatseo.com , so as not to get anybodys hopes up and post righ off the bat, i tested it for some time to see if i would see any increase in traffic flow . the short answer “hell yeah” it worked wonders for blog posts. Every time you make a post on your blog it finds related posts from other blogs that allow pingbacks using the post tags. Then it adds those links at the bottom of your post.
The theory behind Pingcrawl
Taken for the pingcrawl post
* The plug-in will listen to anytime a post is saved, published, updated, etc.
* The plug-in on execution time will find all the tags on the post and perform the following per tag:
o Use Google API to check for ( 35 ) results with the tag name.
o With the ( 35 ) results it loops through them and performs the following
+ Does the result have a pingback meta tag?
+ Does the result have trackback somewhere in the source
+ (if yes to both) it stores the pingback xmlrpc location in memory.
+ (if no to either) we skip that record and move to the next.
+ Once there are 5 legit pingable servers we then append their links to the post we currently added.
+ We then retrieve the xmlrpc urls from memory, and execute a pingback.ping against the xmlrpc as defined in the pingback 1.0 spec. (Due to the nature of pingbacks and php it is not a 100% guarantee. A lot of dependencies on state, server responses, headers, etc.)
Overall its a fantastic little tool that pulls in links relevant to your post, but you need to watch out When you edit or re post your blog and make sure to remove the links at the bottom as the same link’s will be populated again so you will have duplicate links.
Try it out and download it here
Kudos to Eli over at bluehatseo
Neilo
I work as a full time SEO consultant with one of the biggest Digital marketing companies in Ireland. this is my personal site were i consult on SEO and share my random thoughts and tips.
