What happens if you paste that URL into your browser?
(I should note that it just means WP can’t find the feed that tells if if you have people linking to you, and isn’t going to hurt anything by not working)
Yeah, sorry…the printscreen is showing from a domain which is not working.
I tried on my active websites time ago to insert the link in the browser and it’s sending me to the results xml file. I’m not blocked by google. However, it’s weird why I can’t see it in my wordpress. It’s happening in all the installations. I made an account on a free hosting and there was working.
Your webhost may not allow the kind of connections needed to run that. It’s not a big deal (though it can be annoying).
The problem is that it worked until September. I contacted them and they said nothing is blocked. I suspected the shell_exec, but is working too.
Make a backup first!
Go into your database and in wp_options you’ll see a metric ton of lines that run _transient_....
You can safely delete those (they’re cache, they get rebuilt). See if that recaches?
Tried that too 🙂 Didn’t worked.
It’s annoying because I can’t find any error…in log or in dashboard…
You can fix it by changing the URL string to this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=YOURWEBSITE&tbm=blg&output=rss
Oh, and of course don’t forget to replace YOURWEBSITE with your URL.
That’s wrong trackero. You don’t get as results the backlinks.
The correct way is:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=link:http://YOUR-WEBSITE-URL&tbm=blg&output=rss
That’s the same thing I’m suggesting. I don’t know if you meant to put the word “link:” there but if you add that you still get the error message, so just to clarify mine looks like this and it works:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=www.mywebsiteURL.com&tbm=blg&output=rss
Cheers!
If you put it without the “link:”, and your domain is “nicevideos.com” (for example), will list you websites where is specified the words “nice videos”
Just test it: open in browser https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=www.nicevideos.com&tbm=blg&output=rss
The domain it doesn’t exist. However, you will find like “1,820,000” results (backlinks heh ?)
Most of them looks like:
<item>
<title>The San: <b>Nice video</b> on Leadership</title>
<link>
http://xxxx.blogspot.com/2012/03/nice-video-on-leadership.html
</link>
As you see, the link and the title include the frase “nice videos”, nothing more.
Kind Regards,
demlasjr
Thanks demlasjr! I was beginning to freak out because nothing was working, but you’re fix is the one!
The following is the URL to configure your incoming links to:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=link:http://YOUR-WEBSITE-URL&tbm=blg&output=rss
Glad to hear it worked cmarble !
thnks to all the guys above especially @demlasjr, the code worked for me perfectly.
