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I had mentioned that I suspected that using the Deep Link Engine had landed my server IP address on the Akismet blacklist. I recently made a post on one blog and, since the topic was such that it fit with another of my blogs, I made the same post on a second blog. The second blog found my identical post and identified it as the most relevant. The Deep Link Engine sent a ping to my other blog. I found it in my spam queue the next time that I looked. This confirms the information from my server logs that indicated the pings from the Deep Link Engine were going into spam queues. A few people are either curious or conscientious about checking their spam queues, but I am sure that most of these trackbacks are flushed either manually or through inaction.

In this post:  http://raygen.info/blog/2010/03/24/deep-link-engine-the-new-wordpress-trackbackpingback-spam/ on the RayGen.info site the blogger says that the product of the Deep Link Engine is ping/trackback spam and recommends that people not use this product. With my experience with the DLE I agree with all of his points.

I only used the DLE engine on this blog briefly and then discontinued using it as I saw how it worked. I have not installed it on my real blogs that are at all important to me. I have used it on what are basically hoped to be WordPress sales pages. I will probably discontinue use even on those sites. Initially there was a bump in traffic with each post. Lately the traffic boost has been insignificant.

I have also seen complaints about the time involved with completely removing the DLE and its tracks from a blog. I may gain experience in this in the not too distant future. If so I will report on my experience for the benefit of my readers.

Have you discontinued use of the DLE? Did you remove all traces of the links that it produced? Tell us in a comment!

For any visitors who may not be familiar with Micro Niche Finder this is one of the well recognized keyword tools that is available on the market. It has come highly recommended in the past, and with the rebuild of the tool it has made a giant leap forward in utility. People have liked it in the past for its ability to automate keyword research to a great extent. This update continues with the great functionality and has produced a much more mature program.

Keywords are your keys to success in Internet Marketing. The most targeted consumers are the ones that arrive at your site through the search engines. The search engines use keywords to determine the relevancy of your site to the search being performed. Keywords are also used in Pay Per Click advertising to get your product or service in front of your target customer. Ideally you would find a keyword phrase with a high search count and low competition. Micro Niche Finder provides you with all of this information as well as alternate keywords with the associated information.

For a full featured keyword tool check out Micro Niche Finder today!

I have been using the new version of Micro Niche Finder since the day that it was released. I started with Micro Niche Finder six or seven months ago along about about version 4.2 I think. I just checked my USB key that MNF provides and it has says MNF3 so I may be confused, but I think that this is the first major update qualifying for a number increase that I have been through.

This update is truly a major update. There has been a complete rebuild of the code base. The GUI has been redesigned for the new version. There is now a tabbed window for the main screen that extends the capability of the program a great deal. The program loads and exits much faster than the older version. It also seems to be significantly more stable than the version with which I started.

I saw several features added through updates with MNF 4.x that extended the utility of the program. The program returns several key indicators to enable better, more thorough, keyword research. It queries multiple databases to return the information, and it does it on autopilot. You could do much of what the software does manually, but it would require several individual searches to obtain the data and then more thought and time to interpret the data.

Not only does MNF return data on the number of local searches and the exact phrase count for the various keyword phrases, but it also gives you algorithmic estimates on the strength of competition for the words.  In addition it can provide information on the backlinks associated with the keyword phrase and the estimated online commercial intent for the words. The ability to check domain name availability in the .com, .net, and .org top level domain space was added later in the 4.x line and is also a feature in the 5.x series. It will also search ClickBank, Amazon, and ebay to help you to find affiliate products to promote. The software will also search for related articles that can provide you with more information and give you some ideas about marketing your products.

Micro Niche Finder is a tool that can help you to produce results in your Internet Marketing efforts. Keyword research is where it all must begin. Many very successful Internet Marketers use Micro Niche Finder as their keyword tool. If you are interested in IM you should check out Micro Niche Finder today!

iSnare is one of the major article directories on the web. They offer a service to deliver articles to your WordPress blog installation. You add a file to the blog directory and articles begin to show up as drafts in your posts list.

I set up several blogs with the iSnare service. When I first set these blogs up the service was a bit spotty and the targeting of the articles was not too good. This is not too serious with this program because it is a delivery service and not an auto-blogging package. You make the final decision on publishing the articles.

As I mentioned, at first the delivery was spotty, but then it stopped completely for several weeks. I was not sure if they were just out of articles or if they had discontinued the service. The service has now resumed and it appears that they were doing some serious tweaking to the system. One of the sites has had about 130 articles delivered in the past week. I just went through those articles and only found three that were not on some phase of my target topic. The three that I rejected were loosely associated with my topic and possibly belonged in the general category.

I have looked at the articles delivered to one other blog and the new articles are similarly well focused. I don’t think that I have seen one that I had to reject on that blog, but I have not gone through them all in the way I did with the other one.

Since the iSnare service seems to be running well at this time I am discontinuing the WP-Article Fetch service that I had set up on a few blogs. The quality of the delivered articles was poor when it worked at all. The idea is good and the price is right, but the implementation leaves something to be desired.

In the fall I purchased a keyword tool, MicroNicheFinder. This is a powerful keyword software that provides a great deal of information. There were several updates to the MNF 4.x line, but last week the 5.0 version was released.

The new version contains significant enhancements. The program was basically rewritten from scratch. This is similar to moving from Windows 98 or Me to Windows XP. My first computer came with Windows Me installed as the OS. XP came out in the fall of that year. I did the upgrade as soon as it was available. Overall it was a great improvement even though there were some driver issues to deal with.

MNF 5.0 is that kind of a step up in the quality of the user experience. The company has obviously learned a great deal since the product was brought to market. The operation of the program is much smoother and faster. The load time is significantly improved. The featue set has been extended. There is  now a tabbed interface and multiple searches can be carried out much faster and easier.

The company has announced that there will be a small price increase soon. As of this writing the price increase has not been put into effect to the best of my knowledge. The company has a policy of free upgrades for life, unlike most software developers, and they give very good value for the price. The software can save hours of time in keyword research so it will still be a very good value with a small price increase.

I have enjoyed using the new version over the past few days and can strongly recommend this product. Check it out and see what it can do for you Today!!

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I had reported an incompatibility issue between DLE V 1.7.0 and the All-in-One SEO for WordPress yesterday. This is just a quick note to confirm that there was a quick follow-up update to the Deep Link Engine (V1.7.1) to apparently to fix the incompatibility issue with the All-in-One SEO for WordPress issue. I have installed the update on a couple of blogs and the errors appear to be gone. Stay tuned for further updates on the DLE update situation.

An update version 1.7.0 is being pushed out to the community. I have found this update to be incompatible with the All-in-One SEO for WordPress plug-in. The incompatibility will cause several errors in WordPress. There will be a listing at the top of the SEO for WordPress page and a warning below the post window on the posting page. The solution is to turn one or the other of the plugs off. A am disabling the DLE plug on blogs in which I have both plugs installed. I think that in the long run the SEO plug is the more important.

There are some other issues with this update. The last updates came two in quick succession. I suspect that we will see V1.7.1 or 2 very soon.

In addition, running the update changed my settings on one install and may have auto-activated the plug-in on a blog where it was installed but deactivated.

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There has just been another update for the Deep Link Engine plug-in so I checked the site to see if there was more information. The page that the link takes you to is the download page, although I have no idea why someone clicking from the UI of the plug from within WordPress would want to go to the download page (actually it is a funnel page for their auto content cash system page, so that’s why they take you there). The claims of the download page are the same as they have been:

Before we start revealing the system to you, we wanted whet your appetite by giving you our exclusive “Deep Link Engine”, a custom WordPress Plug-in that puts blogs on steroids, automatically…

• Automatically get backlinks to every post you make – Tries to get backlinks with limited success.
• Get more traffic and higher rankings by just installing it once – There was an initial surge but then as the sites became a familiar face the traffic died down.
• Increase relevance and ranking power of each page with quality outbound links – It does put the links after the post, weather they are relevant or not. I have not tried with the later versions, but there was no way to control the generated links when I tried, and considering the real purpose of the plug that has probably not changed.
• Most links you get are “do follow” – I have software that detects if links are no follow and highlights them. I have looked for the links that have sent me traffic from the few blogs that approve the trackback. I think I have seen one or two that were do follow, but the bulk of those few links that the plug-in actually garnered are no follow links.
• Automatically increase the relevant content for each post – Here again the relevancy comes into question. If you could actually sort the returned URLs and eliminate those that are obviously irrelevant this statement would be more true.
• A $67 value, yours free today – A developer can assign any value to his software that he chooses. If the plug-in had ever been sold on the open market the value would have more meaning.

My comments are in bold blue above. Here are some other thoughts and observations. I suspect that the IP address of my server is now on the Akismet spam blacklist. It would explain to some extent the drop in those checking the posts. I think that most of the trackbacks end up directly in the spam folder on sites with Akismet activated. I also suspect that many blog operators do not even check the spam queue, just letting the comments be deleted automatically.

There is also a question in my mind as to the validity of my stats particularly on Commission Junction. CJ says that they trap for bot activity. I think that the activity from the DLE does not get trapped. My CTR has been through the roof on CJ since I started using the plug-in, but the sales do not add up. Even a one or two  percent conversion rate should have resulted in many more sales than I have seen.

At first I hoped that this was just that the bloggers that I could see from my traffic logs were not my target market. I began to be suspicious when the traffic died off but the click through rate remained about the same.  I then did some research on the CJ site and ran across the information that bots could disrupt the accuracy of the stats. This is the only sensible explanation of the CTRs and impression stats that I have seen.

I recently read a traffic building article that stated there was no real way to automate the job of getting backlinks. I could not argue with that statement based on what I have seen with the Deep Link Engine. Note: I am still running it on several blogs, but I think the content that I am adding is doing more for my traffic count than the DLE.

I have been using the Deep Link Engine on several blogs for several weeks. I have been observing the results and will share some of my thoughts here. This is an interesting concept but, as is often the case, it does not fully live up to the praise for its power given on the sales page.

The sales page (DLE is a free plug-in, so the page extols its virtue) says that you will get many links and most of them will be do follow. The reality of the situation is that most of these pingbacks will end up in the spam queue if anti-spam software is employed on the blogs receiving the pings. I have Akismet activated on all of my blogs, and since it comes in the WordPress bundle, I suspect that most blogs do activate it. I think that any blog that does not employ spam protection of some sort would quickly turn into an unsightly mess.

Much of the resultant traffic that I see in my server logs comes from blog admin pages. These are the conscientious blog operators. Some of them may approve the trackbacks if they are well targeted to the theme of the blog. Unfortunately, the targeting is not so good with DLE and the plug resists attempts to assist in the choices. (There has been a recent update and I have not tried to alter the results since the update, but I have no reason to suspect that the targeting issue would have been addressed.

This targeting issue is the main downside to this plug-in as well as all the free auto-content options that I have tried. The reason that the DLE plug-in was offered was to promote an auto-blogging package called Auto Content Cash. I suspect that users will see some early results that may generate some good press with the package but that the results will drop off after a short time. Long term these sites may generate some income, and with enough of them the income may become significant, but I also suspect that it would take great ‘good luck’ and a special case to come close to the sales page claims for this product.

The filtering is the problem with any of these systems that I have checked out. Google has spent years tweaking their algorithms to return the most relevant search results. You still see a percentage of results that have little relevance to your search on most result pages. In my experience this has been the problem with the software approach. If you choose by category there will be a broad range of topics involved, and some of the articles in the categories are likely to be categorized and irrelevant. And, even the best filtering software will error a percentage of the time.

I would consider trying Caffeinated Content if my economic situation would allow that course of action. As I understand it, and I have not researched extensively, this can be set up to obtain content but you still make the choice of weather to publish. This could help my workflow a bit, but there would still be some time involved in making meaningful posts to a blog.

Have you tried the Deep Link Engine? Do you have comments about its effectiveness or operation? Leave a comment!

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