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Even when people pay the extra money so rel=nofollow is not used on their links, I still get emails from them like this:
Hey man,
The link is not helping SERP, I posted a response in WHT forum. If you want
to change it to a hard link let me know. I am a php programmer and can help
you out.
Whats wrong?
I'll need a bit more information:
* wordpress version?
* plugin version?
* type of link being sold?
Wordpress 2.5.1
OIO 1.61
So far emails have been about people saying that Site-Wide text Links are doing nothing for their Google SERPS.
Here's a direct email I received:
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Hey man,
I bought a link on your site and had emailed you. Now I thought the links were hard coded but you are using a script. Here is the problem I see. The script points to a internal php file in the HREF tag for ad stats.
But it has a onmouseover function for the url to my website. The only problem is that I wanted my URL in the HREF as I want to be in SERP for anchor text. Currently, your script does not help google spiders even come to my site.
I had sent you an email to this regard but I got no response. No worries, the price is really cheap so I completely understand. I just want to make a recommendation on how the links are presented. It would be more beneficial and people would pay more for a PR4 link pointing to their website.
The tracker link (what is actually in the 'href' tag) performs a 301 redirect to the target link. This information tells a search engine bot that the link has been permanently redirected to a new page, and is something all bots should follow. They will therefore visit the site (and I believe should also associate the anchor text with the target link).
Check out this article for more information on how 301 redirects work. You can also test out a link using this tool to check whether it uses a 301 redirect.
You can remove the tracker module if you want, which will cause the target links to be hardcoded into the 'href' tag. This comes at the cost of losing all tracking functionality and (in my opinion) no real benefit from a search engine point of view.
It's your choice as a user, but it isn't a script issue as such.
Hi Simon,
I get things more clear now. I am selling "dofollow" links at a higher price, today a customer bought one, but when I checked if the link was ok, I saw that 1)it redirects to an inside tracker page 2) the link is reported as "nofollow" by Firefox Search Status Plugin.
Now point (1) I get it clear, it's a 301 redir, but why still the link is reported as "nofollow"?
The link is sold here: http://work-at-home-wealth.com/blog/ (text link on right sidebar).
Using WP 2.3 running on IIS Win Server (BTW, your hack to run cron job when admin area is open worked like charm, thanks)
Thanks for your time.
Anthony
Can you link me directly to a tracker ad link? (for some reason I couldn't see one on the site, maybe I'm blind)
The links are on the right sidebar just beside "You drop, I link" widget. The list is unde the name of "Recommended Sites". Here it's one of the ads links:
http://work-at-home-wealth.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/oiopub-direct/modules/tracker/go.php?id=10
Ah, I see it now. The reason the FireFox plugin picks it up as nofollow is because there is a rel="nofollow" tag stuck on each link (take a look at the source code).
If you're certain someone paid for a dofollow link, then the nofollow on that link could be a bug in the code. If you haven't updated the plugin recently, the first thing I'd suggest is you do so.
I just want to re-iterate that the tracker link being present won't make a link a nofollow. The 301 redirect will pass link juice without a problem, since the purpose of it is to tell search engines the target url has permanently moved.
I guess I'm running the last version of the plugin, but I'll check it again to be sure.
Thanks
I'm currently running through everything in the new version, including nofollow usage, so I'll confirm it is working correctly in the next version.
I would like to ask a related question..
How can I make the text link purchased to a real link..
example: hxxp://www.niessuh.com/wp-content/plugins/oiopub-direct/modules/tracker/go.php?id=2 That's what appears when someone buy a dofollow link. how to change it to the real link when someone buy a link to my blog.
sorry I can't explain it clearly.
Simplest way is to navigate to the "Stats Tracker" page and disable that module. You'll lose tracking capabilities, but the target link will be displayed instead of the tracking link.
Thanks a lot :D
Wait.. what about if I only want it to be applicable in links and not in banner ads?
Assuming you are using v1.62 of the code, you'll need to make the following change in the include/output.php file.
1.) In that file, find the function called oiopub_sidebar_links
2.) In that function, look for the line of code below
if($oiopub_module->tracker == 1 && $oiopub_set->tracker_enabled == 1 && $res->item_id > 0) {
REPLACE WITH
if($oiopub_module->tracker == 1 && $oiopub_set->tracker_enabled == 1 && $res->item_id > 0 && $rand == 9999) {
Now re-enable the tracker module, and it should show tracker links for banners, but not text links.
Just to tell that I upgraded to V1.62 and now links are behaviouring as expected. Thanks for your help.
how about for version 2? seems that the line is not in v2
The line should look like this instead:
if($oiopub_module->tracker == 1 && $oiopub_set->tracker['enabled'] == 1 && $d->item_id > 0) {
REPLACE WITH
if($oiopub_module->tracker == 1 && $oiopub_set->tracker['enabled'] == 1 && $d->item_id > 0 && $rand == 9999) {
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