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I noticed referral visits from viagara sites and Spanish sex sites. Not the sort of content that I want MY posts linked to…

(1) a referral is is where a visitor came from, why are you saying anything about who you link to based on a referral?
(2) Why do you think that the visitors that came from a viagara/sex related referrer came from the plugin?

My site is PR3. NONE of the links I received had PR. I’m glad to help out but I need to know that higher PR links will be linking back, not lower.

We are going to be offering a plugin extension soon that will allow you to control the PR of inbound/outbound links. The extensions will be modularized so you don’t have to buy a “Pro version” of the plugin but rather you buy only the specific plugin extensions that appeal to you since every site is different.

I also need to know that the links are relative to the overall blog intention, which is not selling viagara or sexy ladies.

We have filters in place to limit those types of sites in the network and we are always improving on the general network filtering.

We do not link to/from your posts based on your overall blog theme. Links are delivered on a post page level and they are relative to the post itself, not the overall blog theme.

There will be available extensions for sale that will allow tighter control over linking restrictions.

Since the links from your plugin never showed up in my dashboard, I used another statistic tool to review them. I do not have an example of the wp-admin links but I’m sure you know what a wordpress login screen looks like. That was all I could see.

If you can provide an example of a problem, we will fix it but with such a generic statement, there is little that we can do. Send a screen capture to our support email address.

I’m not of a mind that I should have to re-write my posts to make your plugin work. Maybe you could add an option where the user can seed the plugin with keywords they want to have it use for matches, similar to the way that All in One SEO works.

This is a terrible idea (no offense) because it opens the door to people writing about one thing, say viagra, and then seeding the post for a different topic altogther. This is similar to the way the web worked back when search engines used meta keyword tags for matching.

If we used keywords to define post matching and people were lying to game the system, as they surely would, then a post about iphones would be linking to a post about viagra because the viagra post was seeded for the term iphone.

This is why the our plugin works the same way that Google does. It analyzes your post content, extracts the main topic from the content, and then matches based on that. This is the best way to keep posts about iphones matching other posts about iphones.

This model works perfectly on well written blog posts about a specific topic.

The all-in-one seo plugin allows you to tell it what your posts are about using keywords because you can be trusted not to lie since you are only linking to yourself. Since we provide cross site linking, we do not have the luxury of trusting keywords as spammers would exploit that trust.

The YARRP plugin places related posts right where they should be, which is immediately below my post. The whole idea is to keep them at MY site longer. Your plugin, since posts are related but not at my site, should present content below that.

We are going to offer an extension option that allows you to place our output wherever you want so you can place it under YARPP if you want. or anywhere in your layout. This feature is not going to be part of the basic plugin. You will have the option to buy the extension.

Look. You did something I couldn’t do and I appreciate that. Your plugin appears to have too many bugs right now. I’ll give it a try when more people are saying that it works.

Matching on content vs. keywords is not a bug.
Not having advanced PR filters for free is not a bug.
Placing network links under the post content vs. under YARPP, for those that have YARPP, is not a bug.

The plugin does a great deal of SEO for your site for free and you will have the option to buy the extensions if you want more advanced features. We have many happy network members. Perhaps you will be one in the future. If not, no worries and thanks for the suggestions.

If the links are that pertinent, then why am I getting a link to a site that lists a Chevy ad print from 1985 on a page that discusses Web-to-Print?

If you take the time to look at the post that you are linking to, you will see that the words most repeated in YOUR posts are also the words most repeated in THEIR post.

Or a link to a spammy blog that has a so-called story on Photoshop plugins from a page containing an article on colour management software?

You can’t see how color management software is directly related to Photoshop? This is an excellent match as they are both VERY related.

Or more hilarious: a link to “how to read a music sheet” on a page that has a lengthy story on… InDesign preflighting?

Does the word “design” occur repeatedly in both posts? I bet it does. This is called a CONTENT match and I bet if you look at both posts, it is a very good content match. It is not a CONTEXT match as context is MUCH harder to match on and you aren’t going to get it from anyone, much less for free.

The answer: NONE FO THESE LINKS ARE PERTINENT, and certainly NOT VERY !!!

The answer. It is always the least informed that speak the loudest.

There are many sites that are very happy with the results. If you want someone to build you your own personal Google grade system for free then best of luck with that. We are happy not to have you as a member.

Within 15 minutes or so of activation I had links to mostly irrelevant sites, one porn site, and one site that was almost close. The links were all not yet ranked by Google (except 2) with Alexa rankings in the millions. One link was a strange blog about DUI lawyer videos.

Please have a look at the most commonly occurring words in your post (besides words like is, to, him, her, etc.) and then look at the most commonly occurring words in the linked post. You will see the CONTENT match. If you want better matches then you need to write posts that will match well. If your post is about epson printers then make sure the word epson and printers are used repeatedly in your title and content (as they should normally if the article is well written about the subject) and you will only match on posts that rank highly for the terms epson and printers AND contain both words. The algorithm is written well to match the content provided. If the match is bad, analyze your article first before scrutinizing the matching system. This is not meant to come off as offensive, just helpful advise for better matching.

Deactivated. Might try down the road. I don’t want my readers forwarded to porn or gambling or to sites that are not relevant to content.

We are always refining the filters for unwanted posts like porn and common spam and their occurrences are very low given the number of posts in the index. Be careful not to write your articles with prevalent words that may match porn.

We use your most commonly used words from your title and content combined with your posts tags if there are posts tags to define your words to match on, this is so that posts about fishing will not match posts about golf. If your fishing posts does link to a post about golf then have a look at both posts and there will be a common denominator that is obvious in both posts and will explain how the match occurred.

We have just updated our post matching algorithm. The cross site posts that you link to and who link to you by using this plugin are VERY content related and there is nothing spammy going on here. This plugin/network is unlike anything you have seen before and there is nothing better for SEO.

We have been debugging the plugin/service all week (since its official launch) as there have been bugs that there was no way to prepare for in development since the sample size that we had during development was not large enough to reflect the impacts of the production environment.

We have added extra servers to handle the large load on the database servers and we have revamped much of the code to support larger volumes of post matching requests.

We are up to version 1.1.6 from the initial release of 1.0.0 so many of the issues have been solved and we are solving more every day.

Please sit tight while we work out the final bugs over the next few days. The SEO benefits to your site from this network are worth the wait.

We just refined the post matching a bit so your results will be more precise now. We will continue working on it over the weekend as well.

Something noteworthy for everyone…

The post matching algorithm looks for your post tags first to use to find a match, if you dont have any tags for your post then we create a set of tags for your post using your post title and post content and match based on that. This way posts with no tags still get matches but if you want to control your matches more precisely, please tags your posts in the future.

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