Monetize Your Site

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!