Link2Post: A Free WordPress Plugin For Getting More Backlinks
It’s become common knowledge that the more backlinks you have to your WordPress blog, the more “search engine mojo” that your blog will command.
Backlinks from other blogs, websites, and social networks give your blog more weight as an “authority” and can greatly enhance your search engine rankings (which means more traffic).
Are you currently providing your readers with an easy way to link back to your blog posts without obstructing your content?
If not, then you might want to check this out to help you maximize your readership backlinking efforts…
I just developed a very simple WordPress plugin called Link2Post that automatically generates:
- A direct link to your blog post for use in social network sites (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Hub Pages, etc.)
- The HTML code link for use on blogs and web pages (uses the blog title as anchor text)
This linking information is provided automatically at the bottom of all your blog posts, making it easy for your readers to copy and paste a link to any of your blog posts (single posts).
You can see the Link2Post plugin in action at the bottom of this post.
There are no settings—but if you want to make some color changes it is very easy to do using the Link2Post Formatting Guide, which includes screenshots for using the Plugin Editor in your Dashboard to adjust the Link2Post box background color, border color, and more to match your blog theme.
Click here to download the Formatting Guide. You can find the Color Section Tool mentioned in the formatting guide here.
If you have any conflicts, simply uninstall the plugin.
I don’t know about you, but…
I want every bit of “search engine mojo” I can get for my blogs. You may also want to check out my article called Starting From Zero Traffic: My Intial Traffic Strategies. You will see that Link2Post is one of those strategies.
And I do want to provide visitors and regular readers with easy-to-grab links they can use to link back to the posts they like and would like to share on their blogs, websites or social network pages.
The Link2Post plugin is the easiest way I know to do that neatly and automatically without sacrificing the look and feel of my blog or obstructing my content.
Use the button to download the plugin (IMPORTANT: The Link2Post plugin has only been tested with WordPress 2.7+):
Download Stable Version 1.2
Installation:
1. Download the file link2post.zip to your computer
2. In your Dashboard, click Plugins ==> Add New
3. Use the Browse button to upload the zip file to your blog
4. Follow the prompts to activate the plugin
Change Log v1.1 ==> v1.2
1. Adjusted HTML to accomodate narrower blog post area without jacking the box format (500 px).
2. Link2Post box is displayed on single posts, not on the home page or other pages.
Future Additions Under Consideration
1. Color selector for box color
2. Per post selection option
I hope you enjoy this plugin. Your comments would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Steve Roye
Online Business Consultant
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2. Right-Click then Copy
3. Paste the code into page
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HTML Code (Blogs/Web Pages)
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Steve, very good idea, I am going to test it on several of my blogs. I do have an additional idea/modification for you to consider… The code it produces for social network sites (ie: twitter), would be more attractive to a greater number of people if it was shorter. I use a WordPress plugin called “Pretty Link”, which creates short URLs directly. Is there a way to link the code your plugin creates to a plugin like Pretty Link. or, can I replace the code your plugin creates with my own short URL? Just a thought to help make it better. Other than that, your idea is a welcomed sight. PAS
Paul, thanks for your comments. I provided the direct link mainly for social networks sites other than Twitter. To incoporate a short url function would be a bit more challenging. But I will certainly keep your comments in the back of my head as this plugin develops. Thanks again!
Steve, I have already sent an email out to people telling them about your plugin. I am headed to Twitter to post your link now. This is really a great plugin. PAS
Thanks a ton Paul. I really appreaciate that!
One of the most important factors in Search Engine Optimization is the number of incoming links to your website, the relevance of the website linking to you, the anchor text used for the link, and the page ranking of the webpage linking to you. We have tried it and have found it very useful to increase our page rank on google. We are a tender information portal, http://www.tradereader.com. We used tenders as our anchor text. We suggest any site to try and increase the backlinks.
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