The new version of aLinks comes with new “factory” (They’re no longer called “modules”) called Tags to Keyphrases, that’s a replacement for the Deeper Blog module, and should provide better deep linking.
It’s one of the new automatic factories. That is, you install it, and forget about it. It does all the work of defining keyphrases for you.
Here’s how it works; New versions of WordPress have added a tagging feature. You use the new tagging feature to “tag” your blog posts with relevant terms. Search engines and blog indexing engines use those terms to better categorize your content.
The Tags to Keyphrases factory uses those tags as keyphrases, and links them to the tagged posts. As an example, lets say I write a post named “How To Fix Your Kitchen Sink”. I tag that post with the following terms; “sink”, “kitchen”, “home repair”, and “diy”. The Tags to Keyphrases factory will then find those terms (sink, kitchen, diy, etc) in my other blog posts, and links them to the “How To Fix Your Kitchen Sink” blog post.
This factory should provide excellent deep linking, which will draw visitors into your site. It’s available for aLinks v2.0, and requires WordPress 2.5 or greater. It’s included with the aLinks v2.0 download.
I have a preview release of 2.0 (Yep, skipped right past a real v1.0 release) @ the new aLinks website. I call this a “preview release” because I haven’t done any serious beta testing with it yet. I’ve only used it on my own sites, and haven’t found any bugs, although I’m sure a few exist.
Additionally this release does not include multibyte character support. I’ll be adding that soon.
It’s been a long wait, but the next version of aLinks is just on the horizon. I spent the past couple months rewriting it from scratch to give it better performance than previous versions, and to add some new features.
Requirements:
WordPress 2.x
PHP 5.x
Yes, this version of aLinks will require PHP 5.x. I’m sorry if your web hosting provider hasn’t upgraded yet, but PHP 5 has been out for years!
Some of the changes coming up in this version:
Renamed “Modules” to “Factories” – One of these days I want to port aLinks to other CMSs like Drupal, where the term “module” is being used in a different context. So I’ve renamed the modules to “factories” to avoid future confusion.
Factories that create their own keyphrases – Now you can install factories that create their own keyphrases. For instance, think of a factory that is constantly — and automatically — creating keyphrases based on new release and best selling products from Amazon.com.
With these new factories you simply install them, and they do all the work.
Greatly improved performance – aLinks now uses low-level caching to avoid parsing your blog posts for keyphrases on every single page load.
In addition the factories API has been rewritten so they load faster.
Wildcards in keyphrases – You can now use the * wildcard character in your keyphrases to linkify the words to the left and right of the defined phrase.
If you define a keyphrase like *headzoo*, your blog post will look like this:
The new wildcard feature will make your links look more natural.
New export formats – The standard export format is now pure XML. In addition you can also export your keyphrases as CSV, Microsoft Excel 2000, and Microsoft Excel 2003 XML.
New keyphrases grid – The old keyphrase grid has been ditched in favor of a new cross-browser compatible grid created with the Dojo Toolkit.
Linkify comments – You can turn on a setting to linkify keyphrases found in user comments.
No more keyphrase tracking – The build in keyphrase tracking has been removed, and it will be offered down the road as an additional WordPress “aLinks enhancement” plugin.
Max links per post – This broken feature now works as expected!
Ignore some posts – You can tell aLinks to skip linkifing a post by including the HTML comment <!– alinks ignore –> in the post.
Define keyphrases in-post – You can define keyphrases while writing posts.
Some screen shots from the new version:
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Today I released the first early version of Grimm. Grimm is an application for creating SOAP web services with PHP. Grimm takes care of exposing the web service, and generating the WSDL documents for the service.
Hey all,
I’ve released the first preview release of Rooster, a Digg API wrapper written in Java. The source code is available, and it’s released under the MIT license.
You can read more on the Rooster page.
Hi all,
Today I released a new version of aLinks. This version is not a major change from the previous version. In fact, if you’re not having any problems with 1.0rc1, then I don’t even recommend upgrading.
This version just takes care of some low hanging fruit, and fixes a few long running — and very annoying — bugs. The keyphrases grid — which was always breaking — is now fixed. This version also works with WordPress 2.5rc1. Plus I took care of a couple other small bugs.
You can read more and download it from the aLinks page.
So you got your very own Web 2.0 blog, you riding the wave, you ARE feeling good about yourself … and rightfully so! You have every reason to be proud of your creation, whether you build it using Wordpress or any other platform. You have meticulously taken care of all design issues creating look and feel that makes people “WOW”, you got all the plugins that create an ultimate interactive platform for your visitors, you have wrote articles that generates traffic comparable to a tidal wave …
And guess what, if you have build your web 2.0 blog based on Wordpress – you have an excellent opportunity to monetize on your superb content and provide links to related services your visitors will be grateful. Better yet, you get paid a lot higher commissions while doing it.
If you have followed guidelines I have outlined on my pages to build web 2.0 blog using Wordpress you have already installed aLinks plugin. It is one plugin no Wordpress based blog should be without as it allows you to simply specify keyword or keyphrase, link it once through control panel to a related product and start earning either 50-75% from ClickBank product or 4-8% from Amazon, options to integrate eBay is also available along with a few others, which I will not discuss here.
You can read the rest of the well written tutorial from from his site.
Here’s a video of my Live plugin in action, captured by Andy from FiddyP.
Live displays the page they’re visiting, where they came from (the referrer), and their IP address. All this happens in real time. In the video above, Andy was getting a spike of StumbleUpon traffic, and he was able to watch it happening in real time.
So many times I wanted to switch the theme on my blog, but I wanted to see if I liked the theme first. The problem is there’s no way to switch the theme to see if I like it, without the rest of my site visitors seeing the new theme.
So I created the Theme Test Run plugin. With this plugin you can “test run” themes to see if you like them, or even tweak them, without your site visitors seeing the switch.
When you test run a theme, logged in administrators will see the new theme, but regular visitors to your site will not. They will still see the real activated theme.
Hey all,
I’ve installed forum software (phpBB3) @ http://forums.headzoo.com. You’re all encouraged to use the forums to get help with plugin issues. I may even disable comments on the plugin pages in the future.
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