Title: Plugin Generates Backlinks for Developer
Last modified: September 3, 2016

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# Plugin Generates Backlinks for Developer

 *  [Joelamite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelamite/)
 * (@joelamite)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-generates-backlinks-for-developer/)
 * Thought this might be a handy widget in a theme that doesn’t have many social
   features, but after installing it and placing it in the sidebar, I noticed an
   extra little bit of text in the bottom right hand corner.
 * Lo and Behold! It’s a brand new outbound link complete with Keyword Anchor Text!
 * In the options list there is a dropdown menu labeled “Promote Author”. It is 
   defaulted to “O.K. Sure”. But when you try to select “NO” and save, it switches
   right back to “O.K. Sure”.
 * Pretty sneaky.
 * Then, when I decided to check out all the five star reviews to see if they mentioned
   this, it turns out that 4 out of the 5 reviewers created their account the same
   day as the review…
 * Douchey.

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