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It has occurred to me that there may be other things at foot in the observed (subjective) speedup of the Deep Link Engine. At about the same time I noticed that this was happening I also noticed that my blogs seemed to load faster overall. I suspect that HostMonster (my affiliate link) has either upgraded my server or tweaked the database performance. This may be the root cause of my perceived performance increase for the Deep Link Engine. If the server performance is improved it may also improve the performance of programs run on the server.

I have a couple of new observations on the Deep Link Engine.

There have been several updates along the way. The latest update seems to operate a bit faster than earlier versions. I noticed this after the last update, but have not written it up on this blog. It is only an incremental speed up that I perceive subjectively so I did not think that it was worth a whole post.

The observation that inspires this post is something that I have noticed without taking note of what was going on in the past. I was just looking at the referrer search results and the revelation came to me. What I have seen in the search description box is some seemingly unrelated text. These were things that I did not recall having in the post but were showing up in the search results.

This evening I was looking through the referrer results on one of the blogs on which I am using the Deep Link Engine. The search term included words that I did not recall from the post. Then the light bulb lite. Part of the Keyword phrase was in one of the links that the Deep Link Engine had appended to the post, and the rest was in the post title. Google is indexing those links as part of the post. I had seen this before but not made the connection.

This had put the post at #5 on the first page of results. It is an unexpected benefit of using the Deep Link Engine. I don’t know that this plus outweighs some of the minuses from the DLE, but it is one of the first positive things that I have been able to say about the plug-in. I do see the small bump in traffic from the curious blogmasters when I make a post, and there are a few, mostly no-follow, links that appear on blogs that either have a benevolent blogger or the setting allows all comments and trackbacks.

The other side of the coin, as I have previously mentioned, is that the server address will end up on the Akismet black list. In confirmation of that I had linked from one of my blogs to another earlier today. I was telling the story of a page that has been hit with a Google slap on my Hobby Webmaster Blog. When I checked in on the linked blog I found my own trackback in the spam comments folder. Now that I have linked it here I will have to sort out this trackback from the spam comment folder on that site.

So, in this case, a post showed up high on a search result page because of a link that was placed with the post by the Deep Link Engine. This is really an accidental side effect of the DLE, but I had a visitor because of it.

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.

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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.

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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.