Solving Incoming Links Widget Problem in WordPress
If you are a WordPress user, then you’d probably notice the “Incoming Links” widget that reside in your Dashboard. Recently there’s been an issue with error message being displayed. Well, if you are looking for a solution, then read on.
The “Incoming Links” widget works by searching the web for any page that is linking to any page in your website (read my post about inbound link) And the way to do that is by taking advantage of the Google Blog Search.
By sending a GET request, one can get a search result in an RSS output. Then the WordPress engine (and its built-in function) will parse the RSS and show the result in widget that you can custom (how many records to show, etc.)
Well, if it’s a built-in functions, then why it’s not working?
Did WordPress made a flaw in the development phase?
Check Your Backlinks
If you already read my explanation about Google Page Rank, and understand that there are page-rank juices being distributed from-and-to a web page, then now I’m going to share a very useful tools that will help you track-down all the links that is coming to your site (either internal-linking or inbound-link).
Okay, hold your horses. If you are about to question someone next to you about
Hey, what does this guy mean about internal-linking?
or
Inbound-links? Aren’t links will always be links?
You can read my other post about the so-called inbound link.
Read some explanation, don’t be bored.
Backlinks for Your Blog
One thing I like in reading a webpage is, when one doesn’t really understand about something, there (always) a link that giving an explanation about the issue. And all I need to do, is click the “link” and voila, I’d be taken to the related webpage which holds the information.
Basically, when you put some hyperlink on a text in your post, you made yourself a link to another page (or another part of the document). The basic HTML code for a link is as follow
<a href="http://theurl.com/of-the-page.html">Go Here</a>
Pay some attention to the colored text, they have their own role
- http://theurl.com/of-the-page
that’s the permalink, the web-address for the page that you lead others to - Go Here
that’s the “anchor” text, the part that goes hyperlink-ed (the one that got your mouse pointer change into a hand-shaped cursor)
Okay, I assumed you got my point about the permalink and the anchor-text. Now, I’m going to explain about the backlinks (internal-linking and inbound-link).
