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DLE User Update

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

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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