Monetize Your Site

Last evening I had an interesting experience. One of the blogs to which DLE had linked was frustrated that someone out of their area had linked to their blog. They left a comment complaining about the link! Now, most blog owners would be pleased to have a gratuitous backlink, but not this one.

Now comes the adventure in this adventure story. Since I had a complaint I decided to act and delete the link. I opened the post in the editor and found the code in the html view. I deleted the code and hit the republish button. I had read on another blog in a comment to an article on the Deep Link Engine that removed links were replaced on update, so I opened the page and checked. Sure enough, the offending link had been reinstated. I tried the same course of action a couple of more times with the same result. Finally I deactivated the plug, removed the link and updated the post. I checked that the link had been successfully removed. Then I reactivated the plug-in. (I should go check to make sure that it didn’t go back and check its work.)

I do see a stream of traffic (maybe more like a trickle) whenever I post to one of the blogs where the plug is active. I even had some search traffic or recent posts that may indicate that the external links are of value. It may be too soon on those posts to explain in any other way. I will continue with the program for a reasonable length of time in order to evaluate the result properly.

Also of interest, one of the visitors to this blog yesterday was looking for instructions to uninstall the plug-in. There is the activate/deactivate link within the plug-ins list that will disable the plug-in. I suspect that to uninstall you would need to either FTP into the plug-ins folder or use the hosting service cPanel file manager to navigate to the plug-ins folder and delete the ‘pingback’ folder. The plug-ins folder is found within the wp-content folder. Deleting the ‘pingback’ folder should completely remove the plug I would think, but it may be an adventure waiting to happen. I have not tried this course of action, at this point.

I had initially installed the plug on this blog, but when I found that I could not control the output I disabled it. I use the Deep Link Engine on several blogs where I do not write most of the content. On any of my blogs where I do write most of the content I either did not install or disabled the plug-in.

There is an available update to the plug-in. The update offers the option to automatically update all of your old posts with the click of a button. Posting does take some time because of the pings sent when you hit the publish button. There have been several times when my server, set for 30 seconds (a long time for a cpu that is running around 2 Ghz) has timed out. This would indicate that the DLE is not particularly kind to your server. You may end up with an unhappy host if you turned the automated function loose on a few blogs, particularly if the plug-in does not pace itself.

And so, the saga continues. Have you any experience to add to the discussion? Leave a comment. Thanks!

Tags: Deep Link Engine, Deep Link Engine Problems, Uninstalling the Deep Link Engine, Using the Deep Link Engine

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