Hey Ivan, thanks for the heads up on this plugin. I installed today and will report back as to how well it works.

What you refer to are reciprocal links. That is the exact opposite of what we are offering. We do not want to be associated with such campaigns as "link exchange", "link farm", etc.

Every link we deliver is a one-way, content related link. You may receive/serve links to other related posts on the same site, but you will never receive a reciprocal link on the same post. Google ranks pages, not sites, so every link is considered a one-way, the best kind. This is one of the most important features we built into the Network.

Wouldnt google just see it as a link exchange?

The team behind this plugin appear to have been working constantly - at server level as well - to get this software running smoothly.

The plugin has been updating at least daily and it seems to be working much better now.

It's very easy to apply - just activate it like a normal plugin. I added 7 blogs initially but have held back with more until it has stabilized. It seems to be getting close to that.

Ivan

Problem: Google doesn't ban

What do you mean "I see people do not quite get backlinks from it"? As long as we can match your post up with another relevant post you will start getting backlinks.

If you are referring to the stats page, we have that disabled while we debug it. Our primary focus has been making the Network stable and delivering quality links. Until we get the stats page debugged, everyone can use linkdomain:www . yoursite . com as the search at yahoo to see any backlinks that yahoo has indexed for your site. It is not real time but it will show you some of them.

What do you precieve as a linkfarm?

In the past a link farm was referred to an FFA, all linking to each other, site which was very populare and did it's job...way back when...

And yeah...Google frawns on linkfarms today because they are rarely relevant to each other. I would be more concerned with link Spam. There is a difference. I don't concider a link from a relevant site as grounds of link spam either.

If the backlinks are relevant to the theme, won't these links be helpful to Google rather than counter to their user experience as it will help sites with content be properly recognized and evaluated by the search engines?

As well, the pages are receiving only 1-5 links. It is raising the hand for ranking attention. To rank well, individual pages will generally require more backlinks from other sources.

Ivan

I can confirm that the links now appearing on my pages are very relevant. This seemed to take place over a couple of days.

At first, I was concerned when I saw some of my pages being linked to other pages on my own website (it apparently found MY website as being most relevant) but the system seems to have developed more 'maturity' and is linking to other relevant websites. I'm now very pleased with the links I've seen on the pages I checked today.

Ivan

Here is my review: Google will ban those it can detect are using it as its against their guidelines.

All of my new posts are showing relevant links to other websites.

My AWStats are also showing that I'm receiving traffic from other sites linking to mine.

The search engines can take months to report links, if at all.

I have one website which holds the no. 1 position for about 6 major keywords for its niche and Google gives it a PR0 and shows no backlinks. I know that it has hundreds of links because of article marketing and other promotions. So I don't pay too much attention to the links reported for my sites; instead I watch their performance and assess the type of links I'm receiving as I can assume the same things are happening on other sites within the system.

Ivan

While we appreciate everyone's point of view and welcome all suggestions, posts like this and others that suggest the network is a spammy, a link farm, a link exchange, a web ring or otherwise black hat are dead wrong.

The plugin/network conforms to the basic principles announced by Matt Cutts, head of Google's anti spam division.

• Provide links to sites that are about content directly related to your own.

• Receive links from content directly related to your own.

This is because Google is concerned about the end user experience. They frown on sites about fishing that link to sites about online pharmacys, as well they should, but they do not frown on sites about fishing linking to other sites about fishing as this provides a good experience to the reader.

The entire Google algorithm is based on this principal. I dont think that they will care if the links are automatically delivered as long as they conform to the rules of linking which are to protect the end user.

Their golden rule that has been repeated time and time again is write your content for the reader, not for the search engines and that is how this plugin/network functions.

I dont think that Google would have any problem with the linking strategy going on here, automated or otherwise as it is not a link farm, web ring, link exchange, paid links, or anything else remotely spammy. It is simply pages showing references via links to related content to enhance the end user experience and as a pleasant byproduct of that, you get human traffic and link juice passed.

This conforms to the best practices of the web as of 2010 and is the farthest thing from spam.

As for the guy that said it diverts traffic from your site, all links open in a new window so you do not lose your reader.

We have thought this out long and hard to make sure that you are not penalized for black hat tactics, give away your readership, or link to/from bad neighborhoods.

This network is not like the others that several people said that they tried before because a network like this has not existed before. This is not a link exchange between offshore pharmacy sites and fake rolex sites. This is 100 steps above and beyond the predecessors that poorly implemented the basic idea.

To the person that said that the plugin slows down your site, we have a timeout function built in so that your page loads without the network response if we take too long expressly so we don't slow down member sites. We also add new servers to the network regularly to keep up with network demands.

I did like the suggestion to make the links appear within the post content using the word that triggered the match as the anchor text for a more natural linking style so we will workshop the idea and perhaps add it to the network.

Thank you to everyone that uses and enjoys the benefits of this plugin/network as it was designed from the ground up to provide an enhanced reader experience with SEO/Traffic benefits as well and we think it has achieved that goal.

If you install the plugin, there is a page added in the admin panel under settings called extremeseo stats. This page will tell you how many of your posts are in the network index and it will show you the urls of the last 50 posts to link back to you.

We recently have found a problem where people are either activating the plugin then deactivating after they get linkbacks, or are modifying the plugin code itself which is causing the 404 errors and the sites that you don't see the plugin working on like your site. We just wrote a function that will purge these sites and links from the network on a daily basis. If you check back tomorrow those links should be gone and replaced with valid sites and links in the network.

People are always going to try and scam the system, but we will always be on top of it and fix it.

Do you have the plugin activated? I don't see it on your site. Obviously, if you don't have it activated, you won't get any backlinks. If you deactivate, any backlinks that you have gotten will soon disappear as well.

If you do have it activated, then we need to investigate why it is not working on your site because it is working quite well on thousands of other sites.

Hmm,

I installed this on one of my dead sites yesterday but have since de-activated it, not because it didnt work - it did work.

I had around 40 backlinks from the plug-in in one day.

I decided against the automation idea for the sole reason that if google did decide to slap the site then my other sites on the same server could end up getting slapped too.

Personal choice, but I will say the plug-in does work (at least for me it worked).

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Hmm I went to uninstall the extremeSEO plugin and it took two attempts as it seemed to hang on three of my blogs.

I checked out seolinknet's support forum and they say you have to use the WP plugins deactivate link and then delete plugin links from the console, because if you just delete it from FTP it will not run the database cleanup.

So I uninstalled correctly and deleted the plugin as per their instructions but in the database in WP_Options I found the settings extremeseo_headertext and
extremeseo_linksperpost were still live. So no DB cleanup!

I also had the latest and greatest version installed as I recently updated it on those three blogs.

Whats worse is that the outbound links on my posts are still there and I can't get rid of them. I will let you know if I find out where they are stored.

I'm starting to think that they make it difficult to uninstall as they need the links in the network for the whole thing to succeed.

Hi,

I installed this plugin on a new auto-generated games site on 18th May, and thought I'd chip in with my experiences:

I installed it via the Wordpress console. There are two visible components to the plugin: An options screen, which is quite basic, and a statistics page.

The statistics page didn't work at first (it had been deactivated by the publisher), but was working a couple of releases later. This did allow me to see what sites are linking into my site.

After a couple of weeks, I did see some links at the bottom of some of my posts. Of these, I'd say that 2 of 10 were directly related to my niche (which is Casual Games), and perhaps another 1 or 2 additional links related at a stretch (eg. console or entertainment system). None of the links appeared to be totally unsavoury, though I did see a couple relating to plastic surgery or similar such topics, which I wasn't exactly totally happy with (and, yes, there are quite a few SEO/IM/AM-related links, which can hardly be of interest to the readers of my site.)

I also found that links were added immediately to posts which were created by me, and only after some considerable time, if at all, to auto-generated posts (eg. 1 month or more). I suspect (though without any tangible proof) that my experience might be mirrored by other auto-blogs, and if would be interesting to hear of others' experiences.

Having applied a couple of updates since the install, I came back to my site a couple of weeks ago to find that they are now charging extra if you want to have a statistics module. In other words, there is no way of knowing who links into your site unless you pay (though admittedly, the amount asked for is not huge).

Furthermore, I have checked the backlinks to my site, which stand at 0 for Google, 3 for Yahoo, and 8 for Bing - not quite what I was expecting...

I've therefore decided that this is best dropped. While I didn't find it a huge burden on my blog in terms of interference, I was expecting some return in terms of backlinks, and, yes, I do fear that the irrelevancy of the links will affect my overall ranking.

However, it might work well for someone in the right niche (probably IM/SEO, etc, and perhaps also fitness/weight loss), who doesn't want to spend any time on backlink building, and who does at least post some content themselves.

I just I'd share my experiences, in case anyone else is considering this...