March 11th, 2010
I have been fussing with the Deep Link Engine for about a week. It is not everything that I hoped that it would be, but it does collect links and add them to your posts.
I have all but quite fussing with the interface except in the rare instance that the generated keyword list is too short. I had tried deleting various keywords. It now appears that the only control left over the plug-in is to add some keywords to the list produced by DLE.
This software was developed as an introduction to a product, auto content cash, that the team has just launched. While the plug does gather links there is no manual control as was mentioned on the download page. I suspect that the intention when developing the plug was to give the manual control as stated. The plug-in needed to be fully automatic for use with the various auto-blogging packages including their new offering. This means that the meaningful search is done after the publish button is clicked. What is really needed is a manual/automatic switch in the options. This could default to automatic, but give us the option to manually select the blogs to which we wish to link.
In using the plug-in I have seen some immediate results. Most of the immediate results that you will see are the better blog operators visiting your blog to see who the heck linked to their blog. This is low quality traffic, but it is a traffic boost. I have seen the trackback on a few blogs and they have all been nofollow. Anyone interested can still click on the link, so there will be some incremental traffic produced. With enough of these scattered around there could be a long term traffic boost. How targeted that traffic is remains to be seen, but could be improved with the ability to hand pick the links. It is too bad that is not currently possible.
I discontinued using the plug on this blog and any of my blogs where I am producing most of the content. If I could hand pick the links I would use the plug-in here. I do have it installed on several blogs where I am populating a good bit of the content with iSnare articles. I have found that they have a good automated content distribution system, and most of the articles are of reasonably good quality. The resolution of the articles sent is not as good as it could be because of the limited number of categories, but they do not auto-post, so you do have control of what you print. This is the best distribution system that I have found to date, but I have not searched long and hard. If they could set it up with some keyword filters it could be significantly improved. I intend to set up two more blogs using this system this evening.
Do you know of other content distribution systems? Please tell us in a comment.
Tags: Auto-Blogging, Automated Content Delivery, Deep Link Engine, TrackBacks
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March 10th, 2010
I am beginning to see articles trickle in to other sites on which I have installed the scripts. It does appear that this will work as I had hoped. When I saw that I was actually getting some articles I signed up two more blogs. I will keep you updated on the progress and results.
I expect that I will see some curiosity seeker traffic as I do have the Deep Link Engine active on all of these sites. There will be a percentage of those sites that are pinged that will check on the site sending the ping. I did see one trackback resulting from a ping by the DLE. It was set as nofollow, but the search engines don’t always follow that rule. I will be watching traffic and SERP to see if this strategy has value. To some extent more traffic means more clicks, but it is really targeted traffic that is needed to make money.
Tags: Deep Link Engine, Incoming Articles, Publishing Articles
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March 10th, 2010
I installed the article gathering script that works with the iSnare article directory service on one blog. It proceeded to download some articles. The articles are well written and add value to the blog. I liked the way that it worked so I went and registered two or three other blogs this morning. The first blog started collecting articles within a couple of hours. The additional blogs have not been sent any articles after several hours.
I may need to investigate further. All of the domains are hosted as add-on domains in my hosting account. That means that they all have the same IP address. The serving software at iSnare may not be set up to deal with a situation like mine. The information that I have been able to find is a bit limited. I did not see any notice that this was not allowed or would not work. I registered several accounts because the address is required for the script and there is no way to add additional URLs within the account. I want different subject matter for each of the blogs.
Time will tell, I guess. Has anyone else used this service? Has anyone been able to use it with multiple blogs from the same IP address? Tell me in a comment. Thanks!
Tags: Automated Article Downloads, iSnare with Multiple Blogs
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March 10th, 2010
I researched the free auto-blogging software that I had run across. The developer admits on the Warrior Forum that the software is black hat. They use scrappers to pick up their content and scrub all the links out of the posts. It does function and the Deep Link Engine does work with it as best that it can.
I also found an alternative that I like better in some ways. There is a bit more work involved but the result conforms to the article marketing terms of use. The author’s resource box is retained and the article keyword list is supplied. This is a free service of iSnare, one of the frequently mentioned article directories. There is a free script that you put into your blog folder that populates article drafts into your database. You are free to choose the articles that you use.
I had tried a similar service from ArticleUnited, but was very disappointed with the results. The iSnare service seems to be much better. I will be adding it to a couple of other sites this week. I added it to the MC Rally site this evening. That is one on which I had the other service installed. There were only three articles that the script ever pulled and they were not well targeted. The new service had pulled at least a half dozen articles when I checked this evening. They are primarily on one topic, so I may spread them out a bit.
I will test this a bit more and then provide the links, but Google knows now if you ask the right questions.
Tags: ArticleUnited, Auto-Blogging, iSnare Articles
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March 9th, 2010
I have made several posts about the Deep Link Engine. I also mentioned a free auto-blogging plug-in. I have given the Deep Link Engine enough publicity and am still not ready to publicize the auto-blogging software.
The Deep Link Engine was provided as an incentive to sign up for a mailing list on what is known as a squeeze page. The developers have their own auto-blogging plug-in that is offered in a program that went live today. I suspect that part of the reason that DLE works the way that it does is so that it will auto-populate links on the auto-blogging sites. This should improve the performance of the blogs.
The grand experiment of the title is an emulation of the new program offered by the DLE developers. It is not as fully automated as their program, but it should be a fair test of the potential in some ways. I put a blog up on a sub-domain space. Sub-domains are not as good as top level domains at drawing traffic. I picked a popular niche. While it will be harder to promote the site in the competitive environment the potential for reward is high. Clicks on ads in competitive markets return higher payouts and there are many high paying affiliate programs. If I am able to drive some targeted traffic to the site there is a chance for a payout. My only expense for this is the time involved in setting it up and overseeing the project. I already have the hosting space and a sub-domain is just a special part of an existing domain.
I have now looked at three of the initial articles that were returned. The first one has almost no content. It appears to have started life out as an affiliate text link with the affiliate link stripped out. The second was either written by a seriously non-native English speaker or was scrambled by the spin software on the article server, or perhaps a little of both. The third article is perfectly readable and of reasonably good quality.
I did have a bit of a problem getting the plug-in to work on the new blog. I jumped through a couple of hoops and was able to get it operating. I then tried to add the plug to a couple of other blogs without success. I jumped through all the same hoops but there was no joy in the end. I have some work to do on the new blog and then I may investigate the difficulties with the other instances. It may be that only one instance can operate on the server. Perhaps a reseller hosting plan would work differently.
Have you tried auto-blogging? What were your results? What software did your use? Leave a comment about your experience or thoughts on the subject.
Tags: Auto-Blogging, Deep Link Engine, Grand Experiment, Sub-domain Space
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March 8th, 2010
I have deactivated the Deep Link Engine plug-in on this site. I have tested the plug to some extent and have some complaints regarding the way that it operates. There appears to be no control over the blogs to which a post links. The plug-in initiates a search when you hit the publish function and actually does the full treatment at that time no matter what you have told it you wish to do. Deleting blogs in the plug-in grid does no good because the final search is carried out after you hit the publish button.
This plug-in would be fine for an auto-blogger who does not want to mess with the content at all. If you are generating original content and would like to display only relevant blog posts this is not the plug-in for you.
I peeked at the net through Google’s eyes and do not see much in the way of negative comment. There does not appear to be enough experience with the plug for glowing comments either. While looking at some commentary I ran across a free WP auto-blogging plug-in. I think that I will go and try the two of them out together. If I hit the mother load I will let you know! Off to do a little research.
Tags: Auto-Blogging, Deep Link Engine, TrackBacks
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March 8th, 2010
I just went back to the download site for the Deep Link Engine to check if there was any comment on my post. There was another post that stated the same problems that I have noted with the plug-in. I made a rather more detailed post concerning the things that I had seen. The post showed up as the latest post last night when I posted the comment. Today it is nowhere to be found in the comment list. It would appear that at least one of the posts detailing problems are un-approved by the blog owner. This leads me to wonder how many posts have been trashed and what the percentage is.
I am very tempted to go back to the page and post a glowing report and state that I have written up my experiences on the blog. Maybe it would help others. I will be doing a bit of further research on this and let you know if I find anything of interest.
My experiment with the last post showed that the plug-in does its thing when you hit the publish button weather there is any content in the grids or not. I will do the same with this post and if you see a link list at the end of this post take that as confirmation.
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Tags: Comment un-approved, Deep Link Engine, Deep Link Engine Post Deleted
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March 8th, 2010
The previous post updated without changing the links after the post. That is a good thing, because I can probably go into the HTML view and delete links after a post is loaded. I am going to try this post without touching the Deep Link Engine. The thought occurred to me that the plug was cycling after the publish button was clicked and that was the source of the extraneous links. If you see links after this post I will have learned something else about the plug-in.
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Tags: More Testing of the Deep Link Engine, Testing - Testing
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March 8th, 2010
Here is something that I have come up with as a work around for the problems that I have found with the Deep Link Engine plug-in. Before I make the blog post I have a good idea of the subject. I use the add keyword/tag function to put a few keywords into the first grid. I then hit refresh on the second grid and the software goes about searching for relevant blogs. After I have initiated the blog search I begin my post. I can be writing my post while the plug searches for blogs. This is still not an ideal situation as I don’t really have control over which blogs are linked, but I am searching only with my keywords of choice. This seems to improve the quality of the links nearly to the point of usability if your choice of keywords is good.
Look over the link titles of this and the previous post and tell me if you agree. Thanks!
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Tags: Deep Link Engine Work-around, Good Pingbacks, Secret Sauce
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March 8th, 2010
I went back to the download page for the Deep Link Engine and checked things out again. It does state that you can select the blogs to use with your post. I have been unable to do that in practice. I have been able to add tags, but tags that I have deleted still appear to show up in the blog search.
I read through a couple of pages of comments on the page. There were a couple of users who had noted the same problem that I see. I wrote up my experiences in a comment to add to the list. I have not yet checked back to see if the developer has replied to the comment. He has replied to a couple of comments that I have seen, but these are primarily for installation problems.
I have installed the plug on several blogs and the installation has been no problem. The plug-in does search and find blog posts with relevant tags, although that does not always mean that the post is actually relevant. If I were able to actually select the posts to which I wished to link I would think this is a great plug. I have seen some traffic as a result of the few times that I have used the software and the effect could build with further use.
I have thought of a possible work-around and am trying it with this post. If it works I will let you in on my secret sauce. If not I will hope for an update to the plug-in that will make it perform in the way the site states that it should work.
Have you checked this plug-in out yet? What has your experience been?
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Tags: Backlinks, Deep Link Engine, Pingbacks, SEO
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