Comments on: Using Arkayne To Build Highly Targetted Links

By: Joni Mueller

Joni Mueller — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:58:54 +0000

I was using the Arkayne plugin on my site and all of a sudden, I noticed my site was linked to a billion trillion jillion “buy pills” spam-like Google search results. Just plug in “pixelita buy pills” into Google and there they are. I was horrified. The thing is, the pill links/text were only appearing in my article TITLES, nowhere else. I removed the Arkayne plugin, but that wasn’t enough. I had to edit the post_meta database tables to delete all the arkayne cruft it left behind. I did this yesterday and while my site still appears on “buy pills” searches, at least when you click through to the actual articles, they are clean once more. Just sayin.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:11:41 +0000

Well, unless they’re encrypting the source then there is no reason you can’t regex it out of there.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:06:08 +0000

Just a heads up, Arkayne now allows you to add NOFOLLOW to your recommended links right in your account page. As for the question about removing the “Recommend on Arkayne” blurb under the outbound links, you’ll have to upgrade to a Business account for $49 a month.

By: SALYM

SALYM — Fri, 21 May 2010 08:30:54 +0000

Sir, could you please explain me how to remove ‘ Arkayne recommend me ‘ which appears below each post.c

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:06:18 +0000

Not a bad call at all. I think it’s got tremendous potential. I’m flattered you pay this close of attention. Last week I was looking at my site in Google Chrome and noticed that Arkayne was showing up at the tops of posts and generally making things look all screwey. While Chrome is only 3% of the total market, it is however a large part of my demographic, and I find it unprofessional when people’s blogs are “broken” looking. So, until I figure out what’s broken, or Arkayne unscrews itself, it remains off my blog. I’ll write them a bug report, but I just haven’t had time to do other people’s beta testing this week. =P

Josh

By: Leif Högberg

Leif Högberg — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:57:56 +0000

I noticed that you are no longer using arkayne on your blog. So I was wondering why that is? Didn’t it work the way you expected?

I recently started a new blog and added arkayne to it after having read this post. Was that a bad call?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:09:09 +0000

Awesome tidbit, Josh!

Ima give ya a link and recommendation to you from makedasite.

Keep up the quality posts!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:30:57 +0000

According to Matt Cutts, Google’s webspam guru:

“There’s no stigma to using nofollow, even on your own internal links; for Google, nofollow’ed links are dropped out of our link graph; we don’t even use such links for discovery. By the way, the nofollow meta tag does that same thing, but at a page level.)”

Source: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/questions-answers-with-googles-spam-guru

By: Paul Kenjora

Paul Kenjora — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:24:39 +0000

Our main focus is on connecting audiences, the SEO aspect of Arkayne is to be compliant with White Hat practices.

The code change above is interesting but not necessary, any Arkayne user can turn on no-follows through our preferences page. We’re evaluating this feature, no-follows may become mandatory in the future.

The modification to the Arkayne Plugin above will cause no-follow to appear on your internal links, this is probably not the best SEO practice.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:08:09 +0000

Justin,

This is the only one, AFAIK, that has a built in social network, and updates dynamically. It’s an interesting concept for sure.

Josh