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Blogroll Page: WordPress Plugin

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For the benefit of SEO, you might have moved your blogroll to a separate page on your blog (instead of having them in the homepage), like I have done here. Remember: less outgoing links, better SEO.

But on the down side of it, you have to type in manually all links, instead of using WordPress’s Blogroll facility.

Here’s a new solution to it: Use the newly released Blogroll Page plugin for WordPress. You now need not enter links manually in your separate blogroll page. This plugin extracts all links from the Blogroll in WP database and publishes them on the page you specify – time saved.

Just download the plugin, install and activate it, put the text <!–blogroll-page–> in the page’s content. All bookmarks will be imported from WP’s blogroll and will be linked from here.

You can also configure the plugin to open these links in a new window.

Download the Blogroll Page plugin for WordPress here.

[Via The Wrong Advices]

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June 12th, 2007 at 7:09 am

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  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    Nice plugin! But I have manually written the links in the Links page as I have not added it into blogroll.

  • http://daily-tech-news.blogspot.com/ Ramkarthik

    Hi I use blogspot one.I know wordpress is a better option.Ill be moving to wordpress in a few days once I get some money for it.Also Instead of inserting links in blogroll you can insert it in the blog post itself.In between sentences we can link.EX:
    I read this topic at gizmodo today.

    Now gizmodo will be a link which will lead to gizmodo.This is a nice way of linking.
    Your blog posts are useful friend.

  • http://www.venukb.com/blog Venu

    Ah theme change and no announcement. I was just randomly checking your site and see that you have adopted the freshy theme :) .

    I was also using this theme and the only thing I didn’t like in this theme was the footer (the recent entries and popular posts are propbably better off in the sidebar.

  • http://www.teknobites.com ram

    i am also thinking to move blogroll to a new page. i will try this plugin

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    RamKarthik: Thanks for dropping by.
    Venu: Yeah, umpteenth?! theme change on my blog. Thanks for your view, but I found this theme very good that’s why I installed it here.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Ram: I think you should definitely consider using this plugin if you’re moving links to a separate page.

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    I would instead use the PHP Exec plugin because it is more multi purpose

    Blogroll Plugin basically does the same job as the PHPEXEC plugin but the PHPExec plugin can server you with better results and more dynamic features

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Dj Flush: You’re right. But this plugin will be useful for WP newbies :)

  • http://leaveamerica.info Nia

    Thanks for introducing me to this plug in! This is perfect for when I just want to do link exchange and the links are not a resource for the niche my site represents.

    I had no idea that increased outgoing links decreases SEO. I generally categorize by blogroll into section and from time to time when the length of the blogroll is too much I simple move all or parts of it onto a separate WP page.

    Just like Nirmal, I’ve been doing this manually, but I was not doing this for SEO reasons! (In fact like Jennifer Laycock, and others, I’m really interested in growing independent of SEO considerations.

    I needed the space for profit centers and for increased focus on my landing page content/niche. Nice to know that it may be helping me in other ways–for the moment. Those SE are so fickle at times!

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    I’m glad you found it useful, Nia. Your blog has a peculiar niche BTW. ;)

  • http://daily-tech-news.blogspot.com/ Ramkarthik

    Hi Shankar.Thanks for linking to my blog.I have linked to you in turn.You can see your link in my blog under the name Blogs I Frequently Visit.It would be great,if you introduce me to all your other friends and tell them to link to my blog.Ill also link to everyone from my blog.I actually need a good page rank.Thanks.(Also I have subscribed to your blog).

  • http://techie-buzz.com Techie Buzz

    This is a cool find, I was on the lookout for something like this.

    Btw you changed your theme. I also prefer Fresh theme but I have made few changes in the archives page and search page as it did not show up correctly.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Techie Buzz: I’m glad you found the plugin useful. Yeah, I’ve changed the theme. Some issues.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Ramkarthik: I’ve added you to my blogroll too. And thanks for subscribing to my blog.

  • http://www.whoismadhur.com Madhur Kapoor

    i was looking for this kind of plugin . Will make my life wasy .

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    I’m glad you found it useful :) Madhur

  • http://blogs.mysites-advisor.com Ken Xu

    Well, I created my blogroll page with a manual coding using the help of Exec-PHP. This plugin seem help people a lot by automated the proccess.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Ken Xu: This plugin might help those people who don’t have much knowledge in WP PHP Code templates.

  • http://www.venukb.com/blog/2007/06/16/showing-top-commentators/ Showing Top Commentators – Online Diary

    [...] (Thanks to Shankar for pointing out the Blogroll Plugin) [...]

  • http://www.squidoo.com/swiffer/ swiffer

    swiffer…

    swiffer…

  • kumz

    Hi – Just came across ur blog roll page – nice one,

    let me know which plugin you are using which shows the link within the categories as the one which u have?

    hope to hear from u
    thanks

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    @Kumz: The plugin doesn’t have a ‘categorizing feature’. My links page was built manually, I don’t use that plugin for my blogroll page.

  • http://www.searchmatters.net/2007/08/22/6-seo-tips-to-boost-your-blog/ 6 SEO Tips to boost your blog at Catalyst Search Matters Search Marketing Blog

    [...] what to do? Create a single page that has your blogroll on it either using a plugin like this one or manually in wordpress. Also consider banning certain SE bot using robots.txt (especially if you [...]

  • http://www.searchmatters.net/2007/08/22/top-wordpress-plugins/ Top Wordpress Plugins at Catalyst Search Matters Search Marketing Blog

    [...] Blogroll Page [...]

  • http://www.jpsimbulan.com jessie

    yeah this would be a great tool for bloggers especially when the home page is cluttered

  • http://www.masoudborbor.com Masoud Borbor

    That would be great if category sections could be ordered too. for example it show now:
    Link Category 1


    Link Category 2



    and I want it to show like this:
    Link Category 2



    Link Category 1

  • http://dzofar.com ndop

    sometimes people prefer to put the link in the home, not on the page itself.

    what about that?