I get questions about link posting rates and numbers of links all the time.  I have answered this question so many times on the support desk, I thought it was time to post on the blog.  So how do you determine how many links Backlink Index Express can post in a day?  Well, it’s pretty simple, you have 2 variables to work with:

1. Cron Job Frequency – how often BIE runs
2. Links per post – a setting in the config.php file.

So let’s do a sample calculation.  Let’s assume that you are running  your cron job every 10 minutes (the recommended frequency) and are adding 5 links per post (the recommended maximum number).  Now we need to do some math here – we are doing a cron job every 10 minutes, so that means we are doing 6 runs per hour (60 minutes):

60  / 10 = 6

Now, we simply multiply 6 x 24 hours = 144 posts per day:

6 x 24 = 144

Now, if we are posting 5 links per post, we just multiply our 144 above by 5:

5 x 144 = 720

So we are posting 720 links per 24 hour period.  Now, if you want to increase the number of links per day, you could speed up the cron job to every 5 minutes, that would effectively double your posting rate, to 1440 links per day.  Increasing the number of links per post has the same effect.

Now you do get diminishing returns on this – your web host will not like it if you cron BIE more than every 5 minutes, and if you attach too many links per post, Google will not likely spider them all when it comes to visit.  So it is better to not push BIE past the limits set out in the Best Practices Guide (included with your BIE purchase).

The best way to scale for more links is to use multiple instances of BIE – run more than one BIE install and post to a large blog network – this works well for large volume linkers, and is the method used by many large backlinking services that utilize Backlink Index Express as part of their service.

We have updated Backlink Index Express to version 10.  New features include:

Integration with The Best Spinner – auto-spin your post and title text for more uniqueness.  This will really improve the indexing rate of your indexer blogs!  Requires you own a copy of The Best Spinner.

Integration with Sick Submitter – allows you to automatically add links you create from Sick into BIE.  The handiest and fastest way yet to build backlinks and get them indexed with BIE.  You need to subscribe to Sick Submitter to use this feature.

Bookmarklet now works with Hostgator!  NOTE: All users must update their bookmarklet, regardless of what host you use.  If you use the bookmarklet feature, you MUST update your bookmarklet.

Fixed minor issues with file linefeeds and BIE’s internal feed generation.

All registered users are entitled to a free upgrade.  If you did not get an email notification please put a ticket into support and I will send you a new link.

I use Social Monkee regularly.  It’s a great service that allows you to build backlinks daily, for free. When I am creating blog posts or doing Article Marketing – I always enter the URL’s of my content into Social Monkee.  The service automatically builds backlinks by submitting to social sites all over the web.  I have found the service effective and recommend it highly.

One feature about Social Monkee that I particularly like is the fact that they provide RSS feeds of all the links they build for you.  You can take these feeds and ping them regularly to the RSS aggregator sites – and that is where PingThingr comes into play.  Watch this short video and see how easy it is to ping your Social Monkee feeds with PingThingr:

Social Monkee is a great deal – it’s free to sign up and you get a premium membership by referring just a few other users – with the premium account, you can get 300 free and easy backlinks per day.  And it’s just as easy to supercharge your Social Monkee efforts with PingThingr.

Everyone who creates content, whether it’s for blogging, article marketing, Web 2.0, Google Places, or any other purpose knows the regular pinging of content URL’s is an important part of any strategy.

There are several free and paid services that you can use to ping your url’s regularly to the important ping sites, and I used them in my own business for several years. One afternoon I thought to myself, “You have auto-pinging technology built in to your product, Backlink Index Express – why not create a handy tool that leverages that technology and make it easy to use” – so I created PingThingr – the easiest Auto-Pinging software ever created.

PingThingr is desiged to be simple to use, quick to set up and is very effective. PingThingr auto-Pings your content; a great way to promote:

• Article Marketing Content
• Backlink URL’s
• Blogs
• Web 2.0 Content like Squidoo Lenses, HubPages, and more
• Google Places
• RSS Feeds From Social Monkee or Other Services
• Or, ANY URL YOU WISH!

Uses Ping-O-Matic

For years, I’ve used Ping-O-Matic – one of the top pinging services. One feature that of Ping-O-Matic that I have always liked is the fact that once you create a URL with Ping-O-Matic, you can bookmark the URL and use it to re-ping the same content over and over again:

So I gave it some thought and created software that generates two custom browser bookmarklets – one to create the Ping-O-Matic links, and then another to store that Ping-O-Matic link in a data file for use later. Then the magic happens when PingThingr processes this data file – and RE-PINGS your Ping-O-Matic URL’s UNATTENDED – AUTOMATICALLY, 24 x 7!

Watch This Video And See How Easy It Is:

Batch Upload A List Of URL’s

Have a big list of URL’s you want to ping and don’t want to go to the trouble of using the bookmarklet for each? No problem – just use the file upload feature of PingThingr. Upload a text file (up to 1 megabyte) of URL’s you wish to ping, one URL per line and PingThingr will add to the queue to be pinged. This opens up PingThingr to be useful for backlinkers who like to ping their backlinks, as well as those who already have a big list of content URL’s they want to ping.

Simple Install

PingThingr is a simple-to-install script that makes this all happen, simply, securely and with very little configuration. Just log into your PingThingr software, drag your bookmarklets, and start submitting content for Pinging – automatically.

PingThingr takes about 10 minutes to set up, and is a true, ‘set and forget’ type of program. As is my custom, I provide complete video training for setup and use. It’s designed to be used by anyone, from beginner article marketers to ‘pro’ bloggers and content creators. I use this utility every day in my own business, and I love it because it’s simple, and it works.   As with all my offers, you have a 30 day, ‘no-quibble’ guarantee.

Requirements: linux/unix web host, curl, PHP5.

If you have been running Backlink Index Express for a while- you know that it’s the best backlinks software out there.  A couple of my key design parameters when designing BIE was portability and automation.  I created Backlink Index Express to use text files instead of a database to store the program’s data.  I did this so you could quickly and easily move your install from server to server with just an FTP client.

I also wanted the product to be automated: just keep feeding the program backlinks and it just runs – and runs.  But one problem with these 2 design parameters – sometimes they are just not compatible, particularly for users with zillions of links.  As the program marches on, day after day, the files can get pretty big – and that will cause BIE to slow down.

Backlinks Index Express reads the files into memory – and that takes resources.  Most users won’t have any problem leaving your BIE install alone – but if you are processing lots of links, you’ll have to do a little maintenance to your /data folder periodically.

Using your FTP client, check the sizes of your BIE data files – if they are getting larger than 200K bytes – it’s time to do a little maintenance.  Look at your /data directory – the files that matter are the mylinks.txt, posts.txt and the postedlinks.txt:

If those are getting over 200K, you need to download them – (Keep a Backup!) and use a text editor to truncate or remove the top 1/2 of the lines in the file.  Chances are those entries have either been posted and indexed, or will never get indexed since they are old.

Now only do this if our BIE is running slow – run indexexpress.php in the browser, if takes more than 25-30 seconds to process, your files need trimming.

I created Backlink Index Express on behalf of backlink builders all over the world who wanted an automated way to boost their forum backlinks so they get indexed by the search engines. So many times user take valuable time or spend their hard –earned money to create forum profile backlinks –only to have many of them go to waste; never indexed by Google and thus never providing the link juice that was paid for.

Before Backlink Index Express, you could only ping your forum backlinks with the various ping services and hope they would get picked up. But if you use my system of posting your forum links to a network of WordPress blogs – hosted on separate c-class ip addresses, you will find quickly that your backlink efforts will be rewarded – and those forum backlinks that you paid for will all be giving you the benefit of better rankings.

Industrial- Strength Code

BIE is a rather complex program, it has many options – but like anything worthwhile, it’s worth the effort. When you purchase BIE, I have a complete set of training videos that walk you through the process, step by step. And support is only a mouse click away.

For those new to SEO hosting (recommended) – I offer an introductory course on how to set up SEO hosting and blog networks – it’s $17 and it comes with a $17 off coupon toward the purchase of BIE – it’s the best way for newbies to get started.

So I’m inviting all of you Backlink Builders everywhere – come join the BIE community and get better results from your backlinking efforts. To find out more about BIE and all of it’s capabilities, check out the sales page here.

Why would you want to clone a WordPress blog? How about this: you are setting up lots of Adsense or affiliate sites for various products and are using WordPress. You can install WordPress on each domain easily enough – most web hosts have a Fantastico or Easy Apps function to make a quick install – but you still have to dutifully go into each dashboard and set up the plugins, themes and settings that you like. It’s pretty time consuming.

Set Up Once, Use Over And Over

Would it not be better to set up one ‘Master’ blog setup – a WordPress blog with no posts or content, but with ALL your plugins, themes and settings ready to go – and be able to install as many copies as you need with just a few clicks?

Clone WordPress With A Few Clicks

That is precisely why I created BlogZapper. It is a simple utility that works much like Zip and Unzip on your computer – except it works on WordPress blogs instead. You can clone one master copy of your blog, then re-install it to other domains, subdomains, subfolders, even other web hosts – easily. Can you imagine the time it would save you to be able to install ready to go blogs instead of having to configure them manually, one by one – you just re-install the clone master to each domain.

Also Makes A Great Backup Tool

BlogZapper is also very handy as a blog backup tool – even if you are not using it as a blog cloner as described above. It’s easy to create a backup of your blog, and you can store it safely on your computer or on another folder on your web host. We have received great feedback on BlogZapper – it’s a real bargain at $37. Find out more….

Building backlinks should be your number one SEO tactic.  There just really is no substitute for lots of links to help your search engine rankings.  Most of you are building forum profile backlinks and blog commenting.  Don’t do this by hand.  There are lots of great backlinks software programs out there that help you in your link building.  The automation is out there, so use it!  One of the first programs out there that allows you to automate this process is Steve Hawkins’ SEO Link Dominator – it’s a good program and allows you to automate the creation of forum profile backlinks – it’s integrated with most of the major backlink packet vendors.  Another service you should check out is Sick Submitter.  This is a monthly service, but it’s cheap and incredibly powerful.  There are even services like Automatic Backlinks that do all the work for you.

But You Have To Get Them Indexed

But no matter what backlinks software program you use, you absolutely HAVE to index your backlinks with a backlink indexer program.  That’s why I created Backlink Index Express, and thousands of BIE users are steadily getting their backlinks indexed, day after day, and all they have to do is keep uploading their fresh backlink url’s to the program – the rest is automated.  Unlike other programs that use Web 2.0 sites that just keep shutting users down – BIE utilizes your OWN network of WordPress blogs.  Nobody can shut them down – and you keep full control.

Checks Your Backlinks

BIE also has a great feature that allows you to check your backlinks to see if they are indexed.  A simple cron jobs checks your backlinks and when they show up in the Google index, BIE removes the URL from it’s queue, mission accomplished.  Do you use Scrapebox?  BIE can take your export file from Scrapebox and process those url’s as well – and ONLY processes the URL if the Scrapebox post was SUCCESSFUL.  You don’t waste time indexing links that are not there.

Introduction To Backlinks Software And Indexer Blogs

Ok, many of you are scared to jump into the whole BIE thing, because you have to set up a network of blogs, get SEO hosting, etc.  Well, I have a deal for you.  I have created a video series called ‘How To Set Up SEO Hosting and Blog Networks’ – and it’s 48 minutes of expert video instruction on how to create the whole BIE backlinks software system like a pro.  You will learn how to:

• Buy Domain Names
• Buy and Set Up SEO Web Hosting with aSeoHosting
• Set Up Domains on SEO Hosting
• Set Up Private Nameservers
• Install WordPress blogs by hand
• Clone WordPress Blogs
• Install and Configure Backlink Index Express and PostFeedr backlinks software

This is a sample of the 48-minutes of video included in this offering: (no music in the full version!):

Now this video costs $17.  But if you buy it, I automatically send you a $17 coupon toward the purchase of Backlink Index Express- the BEST automated backlinks software.  It’s a sweet deal, and the best way to buy BIE and get into backlink indexing.  Try it for 30 days, if you don’t like it, you get your money back.  Simple.

I get lots of nice comments from people about my products, but this one is the one I’m most proud of.  It’s a comment on my BlogZapper thread on the Warrior Forum:

I bought the Blog Zapper to clone several of my sites and Whow!
All I can tell you is the program works exactly as advertised… Then, if you have a problem like I did… (Not caused by the program) there is an unadvertised additional item that comes with the program…

It is called "Service." Something very rare in today’s marketplace. Service is provided by the creator of Blog Zapper, Carl Ringwall…

Service that is top shelf, and with an explanation of what was needed to solve the problem. Carl is wonderful and is like a giant security blanket.

This is a product that is priced below value, with great service and satisfied customers… All qualities that assure you that "You can’t miss with Blog Zapper!"

You just can’t get much better than that.  More about BlogZapper.

NEW!  Version 2 now available – you can now add your OWN links and anchor texts to the scraped blog posts! Build backlinks with your autoblogs!

If you are an auto-blogger or use auto-posting blogs for backlink indexing, here is a product you can really use. FullMetalRSS is a script that resides on YOUR server that allows you to easily convert partial or summary RSS feeds into full-text, media rich feeds on the fly!

Automated Blogging Requires Full Text Feeds

Full-text RSS feeds are getting harder and harder to find online – but auto blogging software needs  a full-text feed to supply rich content.  Just supply FullMetalRSS an RSS feed and let it run – watch as it does its magic of converting short, summary RSS feeds into traffic-pulling FULL text, image and video content!

Sure, there are services online that can do this, but often they insert their own links in the posts, or have some usage limitations – with FullMetalRSS, you are in complete control of your feeds and content!

Watch this video and to see how it works:

Try It For Yourself:

Easy To Set Up And Use

• Easy, 10 minute setup!
• Compatible with Backlink Index Express, Backlink Energizer and WP Robot
• Can parse Google Blog Search results into usable content- (WP Robot can’t even do this)!
• NEW!  Add your OWN multiple links to each blog post – with your own anchortext for each link!
• You control if images and links are displayed in scraped posts
• Caching and dynamic module loading make this script efficient!
• Security features prevent others from using your Full-Text feeds
• You will be amazed at the types of content you can scrape with FullMetalRSS!

You Get:

• The specially-modified and optimized script
• Access to buyers-only video instruction with full instructions on how to use
• A free patch to apply to Backlink Index Express to make it FullMetalRSS-compatible
• My no-quibble, 30 day guarantee of satisfaction.

This script is a great addon to my other product, Backlink Index Express – it makes BIE that much MORE powerful. But is also works with other programs like Backlink Energizer and WP Robot- so if you are using ANY of these products – you can’t lose with FullMetalRSS!

Requirements: PHP5+, you should download the free test file here and run it on your server to be sure that FullMetalRSS will run on your web host.