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Count inbound links: backlinks wordpress plugin

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

to all you SEO folks out there and other geeks ;)

Why another inbound links plugin?

I was looking for a plugin that could display the number of inbound links to my blog, but I only found plugins that used Technorati backlinks. Since I wanted to count all links and not only links from blogs, I wrote this plugin.

What it does

Backlinks draws a nice graph that shows how your number of inbound links develop over time using the MSN Search API together with nuSOAP to count the backlinks (MSN is, in my opinion, the most accurate SE to show backlinks).

Sample graph

Below you can see a sample graph (and no, this is not a real page %). This is what you are going to see on your Manage->Backlinks page.

Backlinks sample image

Installation instructions

  1. Download the Backlinks zip package
  2. Extract it into your wp-content/plugins folder. Note that the folder MUST be named backlinks, otherwise it won’t work. Make sure the files are readable to the web server
  3. Activate the plugin on your plugins page. A new tab called “Backlinks” will appear in the “manage” menu.
  4. Go to http://search.msn.com/developer, click “Create and Manage Application IDs”, “Get a new AppID”, then copy your AppID into the field named “MSN Search Application ID” in your Backlinks tab in the “Manage” menu. Don’t forget to save :)
  5. Put [GDB_IMAGE] in a page/post to display the graph to your visitors.
  6. Enjoy :) (you’ll have to wait a couple of days before the graph starts to show something meaningful)
  7. Call back for updates

Hope you will enjoy it. You are, of course, very welcome to post suggestions / comments / bugs / questions.

UPDATE 1.01: Fixed bug with duplicate SoapCleint class in several configurations of PHP 5. Thanks to Dmytro Shteflyuk for bug report & patch suggestion.

UPDATE 1.02: Fixed wrong estimation of the number of links by MSN, the patch by Dmytro Shteflyuk :) Also a minor typo bug that stopped the Show: “all”, “week” etc menu from working.

UPDATE 1.03: Fixed a division by zero fault in early versions of PHP and an issue with blogs installed in subdirectories. Bugs reported by ‘Computer Guru’ :)

UPDATE 1.1: Added the posibility to display the backlinks graph to visitors.

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