Please check out my latest Wordpress plugin Related Websites!
Welcome to the power of relevant chaos.
The Related Websites plugin is the latest to come from the labs of the Blog Traffic Exchange. The Related plugin has been built by a blogger for the benefit of fellow bloggers everywhere.
There is no advertising present on member blogs - only pure, highly relevant links, that enhance the user experience while increasing traffic. Consider the Related Websites plugin as a related posts plugin for the entire blogosphere.
The Related Websites WordPress plugin is released in the GPL. Any blogger with an API key can now easily utilize the plugin to display relevant links from around the web directly on their site and without the tedium normally associated with the process. This is an unprecedented opportunity to increase traffic in an organic way without using spam tactics or anything that could dilute the quality of a blog.
These unique traffic opportunities exist for members and users of the plugin only. Here is the way it works.
After installing the Related Websites plugin, it will auto-install various links to related posts from other “Related Website” member sites, displaying them at the foot of each previously published post.
This is the most elegant, out-of-the-box, and organic method for building traffic and refining your user experience from anything else currently available.
See it in action now on this blog!
All links are randomly rotated both locally per page load and globally every 24 hours, and though a proprietary traffic balancing algorithm rewards blogs who send diverse traffic into the exchange with more frequent placement, relevancy is NEVER compromised.
Membership requirements: In exchange for displaying the related blog posts of other Blog Traffic Exchange members, your blog posts are also displayed on other members’ blogs whenever possible and relevant.
Not only is relevancy never compromised, but ads (in the form of traffic opportunities) are never sold to member blogs.
Installation
- Requires php 5 and curl
- Download
- Unzip
- Upload Folder to Wordpress Plugins Folder
- Activate Plugin
- Adjust Options to Style as desired
- Email kevin at blogtrafficexchange dot com and request a private key for your blog. Please do not forget to include the blog URL.
- Be patient, it may take up to 48 hours to review your blog and respond with your key.
- Insert key into the Blog Traffic Exchange key field on the options page and save.
- Congratulations! Your site is now a part of the exchange. Enjoy the enhanced traffic and happy readers.
Download the Related Websites Plugin
Membership Terms of Service:
- Original content blogs only
- No spam
- No porn
- No warez
- No copyright violations
- English only (until further notice)
- All users must report duplicate content, spam or porn.
- You can cancel your membership at anytime by removing the API key. Removing the API key will cause your posts to no longer be served via the Blog Traffic Exchange.
- You must display at least 2 (and up to 10) traffic opportunities per single post page.
- You agree that your entire post content, title, tags, and category can be used to determine relevance by the Blog Traffic Exchange.
- You agree that up to the first 50 words of your post content can be republished so long as your post title is used along with the post permalink to direct traffic to the original publication.
- Traffic opportunities offered and clicks on those opportunities will be tracked.
- In order to balance the exchange, traffic opportunities will be limited if a source member blog receives more unique traffic than it produces over a 30 day period.
- Traffic opportunities are randomized in order to balance the exchange and allow all relevant traffic opportunities a chance at being displayed.
- Only connect to Blog Traffic Exchange from approved clients such as this Related Websites Wordpress plugin
Click on the link to sign-up for the pro member account. Start your climb to the top today!
Change Log
- 06/27/09 - 2.1 - Statistics in Options page & Pro accounts.
- 06/26/09 - 2.0 - Better relevancy.
- 05/14/09 - 1.5 - Now With Images.
- 04/24/09 - 1.4 - Option to only show on single post page.
- 04/12/09 - 1.3 - Icons added for branding.
- 03/29/09 - 1.2 - Synchronized beta and public plugin versions.
- 03/15/09 - 1.1 - Release to public.
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44 comments ↓
I am using the beta version of related websites and stores and I have to say that it is great! This is a wonderful idea and I can see this being of great use for other bloggers as well. Tremendous job! Two thumbs up!
I can’t wait to try it!
I will be trying this on my new gaming blog.
I am using this plugin too, That amazing plugin for traffic, Thanks Kevin…
Sounds wonderful ; )
When do you expect French blogs to be accepted, in your network? If and when that happens, will you differentiate between Quebec and France-based blogs?
Many thanks!
Kevin you have been a big help to me. I can’t believe how quickly you responded to my questions.
I was having a problem with activating the plugin because my hosting still uses php4. (1and1.com)
Kevin took the time to not only answer my question but to give me a link to the solution.
For those of you that have 1and1.com here it is:
http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/php/9.html
I did what they told me to do and it works just great.
Thank you for your support
I am going to check out this plugin, thanks! - Eric
wonder how google feels about this. btw multiple api key per website?
@ian
I hope google feels just like Jack Humphrey says they will: http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/new-link-building-plugin-for-bloggers/
Kevin, hi,
Everything’s working perfectly - just one suggestion for a future release:
Would it be possible to add an extra option that would allow us to specify related sites (and posts) to be displaid on single posts and pages only? i.e - to prevent them appearing on the front page or pages where there are multiple posts (e.g. search results pages).
That would be a great addition!
Cheers,
Martin.
@Martin
I will look into an automated way of doing that, here is a semi manual way…
On the plugin options page (Settings -> Related Websites) is some php code for injecting the sites (and for the posts as well). Add that code to your single post template inside the wordpress loop where you would like the links displayed. Once this is done turn off displaying the links automatically from the plugin options panel.
Settings -> Related Websites ->Automaticaly add Related Websites to the content ? Yes/No
Once you have the code on your page switch to No form Yes.
The plugin is meant to allow styling anyway the blog owner would like.
This is a great plugin.
Thanks
Hi Kevin,
I’ve installed this plug-in in my site. I think it’s great. Would it possible to find out where this engine put our links in other websites?
Thanks - Agung.
This is great… But can’t you do something similar for spanish blogs?
Great idea for a plugin. Too bad it is just for english websites. I would love if it would be availible also for german blogs.
Kevin, hi,
Many thanks for that display option process! Let me try that and see how I go,
Cheers,
Martin.
I find the plugin useful, but I don’t like the limitation for English blogs only.
goin to try this.. huhu I’m really excited to see the result
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the great plugin. My traffic has increased by 300 percent.
By the way, I found out about the plugin from one of your followers who is also following Alvin Phang.
Great work.
Good job with this plugin, works great.
Love the idea and just installed the plugin.
One problem I see is that I have google ads appear in the left top of each post when the post is opened. When I now look at any post, the google ads show in the related websites as well. Looks like google ads are treating the plugin data as a new post.
Hey Kevin,
This looks like a wicked plugin.. cant wait to try it out.
Keep up the good work.. im off to blog this plugin now..
-JD (Ireland)
Could you tell me the best way to monitor the plugin to get some kind of stats on what it’s doing for your site?
@Louis
At this time all metrics are private. I anticipate that individual blog metrics will be made available in a later release.
For now the best way to track the effect is by watching your weekly traffic numbers and by your technorati rank like so: http://technorati.com/blogs/www.blogtrafficexchange.com?reactions
I’m excited to try it out but I had a problem. Not sure what’s up?
This is the error I got:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in imconnections/wp-content/plugins/related-websites/BTE_RW_core.php on line 349
When I tried to go to the config options, I got this:
Cannot load BTE_RW_admin.php.
Help please =)
Thanks!
@K
You are running php4… php4 has reached end of life and is no longer supported. Your host should have already upgraded, but also almost certainly has a way to upgrade your account…
Who is you host and I will find the instructions for you? (Or google can find them too)
Yikes. GoDaddy is my host…shame on them! Thanks for the fast response!!! Excited to try this out!
Hi Kevin,
Thank you for the Plugin, this one made it to WordPress Traffic Generating Plugins:
http://www.topmarketingreview.com/blog/484/wordpress-fans-traffic-generating-plugins-part-ii-related-websites/
Please review and comment if you like,
Keep up the good work!
Super plugin that works a treat.
Cheers
Nice plugin, easy to use, works great, thanks.
hi, i really like the idea of this plugin, and installed it on my blog (www.scaevity.com/blog), which is powered by wordpress.org and hosted at hostmonster.com (with php5), but i don’t see any related sites on my blog (i got a key already and the plugin is activated). any ideas?
Hey Kevin,
Great job,I just waiting for the api key for my new blog,thanks:)
Works great, thank you
When I tried to install it I got this error message.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /hermes/bosweb/web271/b2711/ipw.waterpup/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-sites/BTE_RW_core.php on line 495
What do I do from here?
@Waterpup
You are running php4… php4 has reached end of life and is no longer supported. Your host should have already upgraded, but also almost certainly has a way to upgrade your account…
If you google your host and php4 php5 without success a quick support ticket with them will resolve the issue.
Kevin
I’m going to be setting this up into my blog and will let you know how I make out.
It should be easy to see an improvement in traffic to my site.
Thanks for the advice and the tool.
Hi….really love the app….but having a few issues…
1)nI am on Bluehost.com and it looks like when the application is activated, the server usage goes way up. Bluehost suspended my blog and when I uninstalled the application, everything went back to normal. Have you heard of this before?
2) Also, when I activate the application, I can no longer see my plugins. When I delete the app via the c-panel, my plugins reappear. Any suggestions?
I was twittering; I saw; I downloaded; I LOVE this plug-in! I’m not a big fan of overloading my blog with a lot of plug-ins; however, this one is nice and clean.
I do wish; however, the colors of the black and white icon were editable.
But overall THANKS!!!
@Holly
What colors would you like… Send me 2 colors in the RRGGBB format and I will make an icon option just for you
This rocks. You rock. Thank you for sharing and helping people out. I send you a virtual beer
thank you
Blog Traffic Exchange is terrific. have installed it. Looking forward to good traffic to my site.:)
Good job with this plugin, easy to use, works great, thanks
I have installed-related websites on http://Thuviengiaidinh.com today and have seen appear to link the other blog. Benefit of this is what I do to see my items appear on other blogs.
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