Deep Link Engine – User Report
I have had the Deep Link Engine in operation on a few of my blogs for about a week. I considered writing up a report in the form of a PDF and offering it for download from the parent site, Selling on Your Website. I could have combined parts of the several posts about the Deep Link Engine along with my latest observations into a reasonable report. I am not sure that I have enough to add at this point to make that worth while, but I can offer some useful advice on using the Deep Link Engine.
The Deep Link Engine currently available bares little resemblance to what is stated about it on the download page. From the download page:
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.
The text in red requires further comment. My guess is that the plug-in was originally designed in this way, but was changed to accommodate use with auto-blogging software. There appears to be little, if any manual control.
The plug conducts its final search when you hit the publish button. I thought that perhaps you could gain some control by adding to the automatically produced keyword list. Even this has proved to be a false hope. I produced a post that included a video with little supporting text. There were no keywords generated by the plug so I added several keywords and hit the publish function. When the post was published I glanced at the keyword box only to find that my added keywords had been lost for the most part.
My advice would be that if you choose to use the Deep Link Engine just install it and set it up in settings. Don’t bother trying to control anything in the way of output, for the most part it will be a waste of time.
Now for a little better news I will speak about results. I don’t consider that the time is adequate to fully evaluate the effectiveness of the strategy, but I can give some observations of early results. You will likely see a traffic spike when you first begin to use the plug-in. I suspect that most of this early traffic is from blog owners who have been pinged. They are not likely to be the targeted traffic that you would hope for, but they will improve your traffic count for the short term.
I have gone into my traffic log on the server and seen the activity there. I have also followed some of the referrer links in Google Analytics. I have seen several places where the trackbacks were listed to my blogs. Most of these are nofollow but a couple have been dofollow. Even as no follow other blog visitors can click on the link if they have the interest.
For the most part I am using this with an article distribution service provided by iSnare, an article directory. I will maintain the regimen for some time until I can give a more definitive opinion as to the value of the strategy.
If you have an opinion please share it in a comment. Thanks!
Tags: Deep Link Engine, Deep Link Engine User Report, User Report
March 15th, 2010 at 3:21 PM
Well said. I never thought I would agree with this opinion, but I’m starting to view things from a different view. I have to research more on this as it seems quite interesting. One thing I don’t get though is how everything is related together.
March 26th, 2010 at 2:36 PM
Hi, I recently started a bloghosting platform (based on wordpress MU) and when I stumbled your blog I paid attention to your theme (looking good) so I was wondering can you tell me is it custom made theme or one of those free ones? thanks in advance! regards, blogiskewl
March 26th, 2010 at 7:06 PM
The theme is a free theme called Untheme-TwoColumn. It is just a basic framework that is designed to be easy to modify. I use it because I can easily match the look and feel of the main site to which the blog is attached.
April 3rd, 2010 at 7:09 AM
The key to our success is being an article site which contains original content. No duplication Please. If you have already published an article elsewhere, we don’t want it. It will not have the same value to the search engines as a Unique Article does.
April 7th, 2010 at 5:24 AM
One great plugin I’ve begun to use is WordPress File Monitor. This plugin scans your WordPress installation and reports if any files have been added, deleted, or changed. The plugin is customizable to run on a schedule that you set. You can also exclude directories from the plugin’s reporting so that you’re not alerted every time you upload a picture to insert into a post. I, however, recommend that you do not exclude directories as that directory may be the next location of the next exploit.
April 21st, 2010 at 2:41 AM
This is a great resource for anyone who blogs!!
April 22nd, 2010 at 4:44 AM
My concern is that it will create hundreds of trackbacks or pingbacks to other sites but that no one will bother to link back to my site. What do you think?
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:59 PM
That will be the case for the most part. There will be a bit of a traffic bump at first mainly from bloggers that get the pingback. A few blogs are set to allow comments and a few will approve the trackback, but most of the pings will end up in a spam folder and many will not even be checked.
April 30th, 2010 at 2:28 PM
CommentLuv is amazing. I use it on all of my blogs and it really does increase the amount of REAL comments from readers, as there is an incentive for them to post. I like how you can post your name for a link. Thanks for the post.
June 4th, 2010 at 8:05 AM
There is nothing that annoys me more than a bad blog comment. People love to leave such bad comments, especially here with the giveaways and stuff. I hate reading comments like “Good one!” or “Thanks!” or especially “Hope I Win!.” If you comment on a blog, it needs to be intelligent. Speak proper English (IM language annoys me most of all) and contribute something useful. Great blog by the way, keep those negative comments away and keep doing what you are doing!
June 10th, 2010 at 5:45 AM
I downloaded the plugin and it seems to be working fine. I did it manually for a published post. I don’t know yet if it will do it automatically.
June 18th, 2010 at 5:22 AM
Thanks for your research.
July 15th, 2010 at 6:08 AM
I’m wondering if anyone has been using it successfully yet? My concern is that it will create hundreds of trackbacks or pingbacks to other sites but that no one will bother to link back to my site. What do you think?
July 15th, 2010 at 6:33 PM
You will get a few links, but most of them will be on sites that don’t moderate comments so are filled with spam comments. If you use this software your server IP address where you have your blog will also be listed by Akismet as a spam source and your pingbacks will be dumped directly into the spam folders of sites using Akismet for comment spam control. Admins may or may not look at your trackback.
Most of the few trackbacks that you do get will come in the short time between when you start to use the plug and the time that Akismet adds you to their list.
You may also see some continuing traffic from curious admins looking at the site that pinged their blog, but there is very little value in this traffic.
Unless they have changed things with recent updates the software is designed to operate with autoblogging software. There has been no real control of the links generated by the plug. I think that the original idea was to allow you to select the links that you wanted to show, but because the plug needed to be highly automated this capability fell by the wayside.
Unless you surf from the same IP address on which your blog is located you should still be able to post comments manually without being tagged as spam as long as your ISP IP address is clean.