gunnertech

codyswann

Google Referrer Checker is based on an idea and script from Russ Jones (@rjonesx) on <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/set-it-and-forget-it-seo-chasing-the-elusive-passive-seo-dream" rel="nofollow ugc">SEOMoz</a>.
Here is how he describes it:
We often joke that “Google knows everything.” While we can lament the loss of privacy and liberty, there is one thing that I do want Google to know about – my links. I want them to know about as many links pointing to my site as possible. Unfortunately, Google misses out on a good portion of the web. Well, what if you could find links that Google hasn’t necessarily found, and then make sure that Google does index them and count them?
If you were go into your Google Analytics right now and export all of the pages that have sent visitors to your site since your website’s inception, what percentage of them do you think will have been indexed by Google? 90%, 95%, 99%? Sure, it will probably vary from site to site, especially given how many different sites out there have sent traffic to you, but there are likely to be a handful that Google never got around to crawling. Our goal with this first set-it and forget-it tactic is to find the pages that refer traffic to your site on-the-fly and make sure if they have a link, that Google knows about it.
Ideally, our automated the script would:
<ul>
<li>Record every referrer from other sites.</li>
<li>Spider that site to see if it actually has a real, followed link.</li>
<li>Check to see if Google had cached that referring page with the followed link.</li>
<li>Coax Google to reindex that page if it had not yet found the link.</li>
<li>Continue to check to see if Google had cached the referring page.</li>
</ul>
This is actually quite easy to accomplish programmatically. The first three steps are done every day by tools regularly used by SEOs. The only difficult part is finding a way to encourage Google to visit the referring pages it has not yet indexed. We can solve this by simply having a widget on the page that displays those referrers, essentially an “As Seen On” bulleted list of pages that had linked to your site, but had not yet been indexed.
This plugin does just that. And adds a simple widget that will display the unindexed links.
You can see it in action on one of our <a href="http://gunnertech.com/2012/02/google-referrer-checker-a-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">site</a>.
For any more questions, please go to Gunner Technology’s post: <a href="http://gunnertech.com/2012/02/google-referrer-checker-a-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Referrer Checker: A WordPress Plugin</a> and leave a comment.
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Requires WordPress 3.0 and PHP 5.

Google Referrer Checker

A plugin that coaxes google to index sites that link to your site.

Marcus (aka @msykes)

Marcus

Pixelite

Meta Tags Manager is a powerful yet simple, lightweight plugin which allows you to add custom meta tags to your site. Features include:
<ul>
<li>Supports meta tags including the name, property, http-equiv, charset and itemprop attributes.</li>
<li>Choose from predefined types, such as ‘name=”keyword”‘ or create your own by typing it in.</li>
<li>Add meta tags to specific posts, choose what Custom Post Types to support from our settings page.</li>
<li>Add global meta tags that will display on specific CPTs, Taxonomies, your front page or your whole site.</li>
<li>Automatically add Open Graph details to your home page.</li>
<li>Automatically add Schema and Structured Data to your home page.</li>
<li>Add Google Sitelinks and Sitelinks Search markup.</li>
<li>Easily add verification codes for services like Facebook, Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools, Yandex and more (or… create your own custom meta tags!).</li>
</ul>
Use cases include:
<ul>
<li>Adding Google and Yahoo site verification tags</li>
<li>Adding additional open graph, twitter card or other social media meta info not supported by other SEO/Meta plugins</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
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<li>Shortcode support within meta descriptions, allowing for more dynamic data insertion with plugins such as ACF</li>
<li>Unique tag detaction of Meta Tag Manager tags with hierarchical precedence, avoid creating duplicate meta tags.</li>
<li>Taxonomy support – create meta tags for individual taxonomy term pages such as a single tag or category.</li>
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</ul>

Meta Tag Manager

Easily add and manage custom meta tags to various parts of your site or on individual posts, such as Yahoo and Google verification tags.

Google Referrer Checker vs Meta Tag Manager