Indexing Tool Review – Indexingtool.com
Every marketer knows the problem. Getting your backlinks indexed. Unindexed backlinks are useless. You need to get your backlinks indexed to improve your rankings. What if you have 100 articles and only half of them are actually working to push your pages up the SERPs? It's a nightmare scenario, but it is a sad fact, if you do not push your backlinks.
I have been searching for a good, easy to use backlink wordpress plugin for quite a while. Now I came across the IndexingTool. Although this wordpress plugin is pretty basic, it does its job with almost no work involved.
What does IndexingTool do?
Indexingtool is a WordPress plugin.
You put it into your WordPress plugin folder and once it is activated you may add an RSS feed of the backlinks you want to get indexed.
The plugin takes the links and shows them on the bottom of your posts.
E.g.
"Other articles you might be interested in:
The backlink you want to get indexed 1
The backlink you want to get indexed 2
The backlink you want to get indexed 3
etc."
The plugin checks at set time intervals whether your backlink is indexed or not. Once it is indexed, it is no longer displayed below your blog post.
If the page isn’t already indexed then a link to it will be displayed.
The plugin re-checks the rss feed at regular intervals to look for new items. So any articles you add e.g. to your article account at goarticles or ezinearticles will automatically be added to the list.
Indextingtool also comes with a great bonus script: Trackbackindexer
This is great for marketers who submit a lot of articles to ArticleRanks, Unique Article Wizard, Seolinkvine or any other Blog network.
Why? Because many of the blogs your article gets submitted to will send a trackback to your blog. However, this does not necessarily mean that the blog post got indexed. It is a matter of fact that a lot of blogs inside big blog networks are spammy and posts won't get indexed by Google without some additional efforts on your part.
With the help of Indexingtool and the bonus trackback plugin you will be able to fetch all trackbacks. The trackback urls will be saved in an rss file and all you have to do is add the rss feed to the indexingtool plugin hosted on a second feeder blog.
That's it.
The Indexing Tool is designed to take your RSS feeds, check if the pages in it are indexed, and if not it displays a link to that page on your site. Then Google sends spiders out to look at your site, finds the links and follows them to your un-indexed pages. Google will then index those pages.
Indexingtool will work perfectly if you use any of the methods below to get backlinks to your blogs:
* Profile Links
* Go Articles
* Squidoo
* Hubpages
* Blogger
* UAW
* AMA
* Link Wheels
* Blog Farms
* Article Distribution
At the beginning of my post I referred to Indexingtool plugin as a very basic tool. There is no doubt that it is working great for what it is supposed to do: getting your backlinks indexed. It only took one day to see some great results.
However, I am missing some features.
E.g. I installed the trackback plugin on some of my older blog which have a lot of trackbacks. The trackback plugin fetched all of them within some seconds. However, some backlinks that sent a trackback a year ago are no longer there. Blogs are either expired or the post has been removed. There is no way of removing these trackbacks from the rss feed without modifying the whole rss file.
In addition you can only add one rss feed into the Indexingtool. This rss feed has to contain a list of all urls. Well, this is not really a disaster, because you can easily build one large rss feed by using a rss aggregator such as rssmix.com or xfruits.com. But it would be much simpler if this would be integrated into the Indexingtool wordpress plugin.
But nevertheless Indexingtool is definitely a great wordpress plugin and is definitely worth $47. You will be able to finally get your backlinks indexed fast and painlessly.
Squidoo Lense Locked – Lens Locked, What To Do
I have been building lenses since Squidoo launched several years ago. In the beginning my lenses ranked fast and made me a lot of money. From time to time it happened, that a lense got locked for whatever reason. I never created any spammy lenses. All of them were full of unique, quality content, and I never had more than two affiliate links on them.
Google was in love with Squidoo at that time and with some decent backlinks Squidoo lenses got No. 1 google positions fast for very competitive keywords. I loved lenses at this time. Then there was the Google slap. Due to the fact that spammers created thousands very low quality lenses, Squidoo was no longer considered a high authority site. Lenses dropped drastically in rankings.
At that time Squidoo started with new rules and policicies to weed out the spammers. Effectively. Squidoo lenses started to rank well again, but not the way as in 2007.
However, now Squidoo changed their policies again. In the past Squidoo was a great place for internet marketers and most lenses were created by affiliate marketers. Thus WE were the main source of income for Squidoo.
However, Squidoo now changed their rules again drastically. No more than 9 affiliate links (OK, fully understandable) and no more lenses on various topics (people search, reverse phones, download sites++++++) Well, I can understand this as well. But what really drives me mad is the fact Squidoo just went ahead and LOCKED all lenses dealing with these topics. They destroyed the hard work of hundreds of marketers.
What kind of practice is this?
Let me take Ezinearticles as an example. Ezinearticles does not accept e.g. articles dealing with movie downloads anymore. It is against their policy now. But all articles created BEFORE this new rule was established are still there.
They deleted over 100 lenses of mine created back in 2007. All of them were full of good content.
So what is Squidoo thinking? Who do they think they are?
And it does not stop here. Right now they go ahead and lock lenses for no reason at all.
I had over 50 lenses locked for no reason. None of them was spammy. None of them dealt with a topic that is against Squidoo's new policies.
Of course I contacted Squidoo. None of my lenses got unlocked.
If you have to deal with this problem as well, here is a small trick I did in the past to get my lenses unlcocked.
1. Delete your lense
2. Create a new account
3. Recreate the lense
Voila! It will be back online
If your lense was locked due to lack of content, make sure you add more content.
I am personally sick of Squidoo and do no longer care of locked lenses.
In the long run Squidoo's behavior will drive away more and more marketers.
I wonder if they are under the impression that they can make a huge profit without markters. I doubt they can.
So Bye, Bye Squidoo!






