Would You Use The WP-Backlinks WordPress Plugin?

July 29th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

A new WordPress plugin, WP-Backlinks, was released last week that I decided to check out as the plugin had an impressive name. The plugin’s name is a bit confusing as what the plugin actually does is help manage link exchanges, although I really think that most sites won’t need this plugin.

The WP-Backlinks plugin adds a form to each of your pages so that other site owners can let you know when they’ve created a link to your site. These entries then all appear within the admin section as well as the Page Rank of each page requesting a link, where you can decide whether or not to include a link back to that site, on the relevant page on your site.

Personally, I can’t see a practical use for this plugin as I doubt that many site owners have more link exchange requests than they can handle manually. Also, smaller blogs that would benefit the most from link exchanges aren’t going to get that many requests.

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    Comment by Adam on 29 July 2007:

    Reciprocal links have become somewhat history these days. It’s all about those one way links; the best example is with the real estate niche.

    Many famous websites were penalized recently for their excessive reciprocal “schemes”, a razzia if you’d like.

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    Comment by 3gp on 30 July 2007:

    Will be usefull only if you only exchange links with relevant blog. Keep it mind dont heavily depend on Link Exchange Google Dont love it.

    build good link profile then use link exchange to leverage the power.

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    Comment by Ashish Mohta on 30 July 2007:

    I would agree with 3gp and Adam. This thing is past now. Best is through speed linking and that to relevant blogs.

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    Comment by Nirmal on 31 July 2007:

    As Ashish said, the best thing is to have speed linking.

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    Comment by Alex Choo on 31 July 2007:

    One question we need to ask is what is the purpose of backlinking? Is it to create outgoing links to boost the PageRank of another site? Even if that’s not the intention, will Google think this way?

    The safest thing to do is to use the nofollow attribute in backlinks.

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    Comment by Ashish Mohta on 31 July 2007:

    @Alex: Its not to boost. Blogging is no different from life. Like in life you support good people and make friends, back linking not only allows you to create new channels but its possible you might get linked back and attract more readers.

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    Comment by Alex Choo on 31 July 2007:

    Ashish: Thanks for your clarification. I hope that’s the way Google sees it too. That’s why I suggested nofollow in those links, to be safe :)

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    Comment by Ashish Mohta on 31 July 2007:

    @Alex: There is one key, If you are linking to good sites which have higher PR or might have chances to get better with time, I dont think google will mind. Linking to a better site with your same niche is always good.

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