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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.

Jordy Meow

Theme Egg

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<ul>
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<ul>
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<ul>
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<ul>
<li>Extracts keywords from the current post, then builds a candidate pool from the same category, same tags, and keyword search</li>
<li>AI ranks the most relevant related posts and proposes link placements split by section: Introduction, Body, Conclusion</li>
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</ul>
ALT Text — contextual generation:
<ul>
<li>Scans post content for <code><img></code> tags missing or with empty <code>alt</code> attributes</li>
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<li>Constrained to short, plain functional descriptions (no “stunning”, “tranquil”, or “Image of…”)</li>
<li>Updates the existing <code><img></code> tag in place — preserves all other attributes</li>
<li>Up to 5 images per pass to keep the review surface manageable</li>
</ul>
Grammar & Typos — HTML-aware:
<ul>
<li>AI returns precise search/replace pairs with 3-5 words of surrounding context</li>
<li>Inline HTML inside the corrected phrase (<code></code>, <code></code>, links) is preserved exactly</li>
<li>Each correction is shown before it’s applied; no blind rewrite of your prose</li>
</ul>
Title & Excerpt:
<ul>
<li>Rewrite titles to your configured length range (default 30-75 chars) without losing the meaning</li>
<li>Generate missing excerpts from content, or rewrite existing ones to a healthy 80-160 chars</li>
</ul>
External Links:
<ul>
<li>Suggests authoritative external references (Wikipedia and similar) for relevant in-content terms</li>
<li>Wraps existing phrases as links — never invents text</li>
</ul>
Featured Image:
<ul>
<li>Generates a featured image with AI when a post is missing one</li>
<li>Uploaded to your media library with proper title, description, and ALT text, then set as the post thumbnail</li>
</ul>
<h3>🚦 Redirections & 404</h3>
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<ul>
<li>Exact-path redirects with 301, 302, 307, 308, and 410 Gone</li>
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<li>Optional auto 301 when a published post or page slug changes (off by default)</li>
<li>Regex match type with capture groups for advanced rewrites</li>
</ul>
404 Monitor:
<ul>
<li>Aggregated log — one row per unique URL, with hit count, first/last seen, and last referer</li>
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<li>Crawler filter so the log stays focused on real visitors</li>
<li>Path exclusions with wildcards (e.g. <code>/feed*</code>, <code>/wp-admin/*</code>)</li>
<li>Daily auto-prune with configurable retention</li>
</ul>
<h3>🧠 Intelligence Features</h3>
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<ul>
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</ul>
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<ul>
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</ul>
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<ul>
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</ul>
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<ul>
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</ul>
<h3>Pro Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Magic Fix</li>
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</ul>
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