We’ve got two new and useful Linkr features to tell you about.

The first is the very handy Drafts feature located under the Campaign Management menu. Have a link building order you want to start entering now and get back to later? Simply enter the order normally in the Order Links form and use the snazzy new Save button on the bottom. This saves your order as a draft and lets you go back to it at any time by clicking Drafts and selecting Load Order. The Save button is also a great idea if you’re entering a large order which may take longer than usual. To make sure you aren’t timed out just click Save as you go along and ensure your work won’t disappear.

The second feature was created to override any incorrect automatic language identifications by Linkr. For instance, if Linkr identifies your anchor’s language as Greek but it is actually English, you can now manually change the language. In theory, this feature can also be used to place anchors in language A on pages in language B, however, we strongly discourage using the feature in this way. Building a link in a language different from the placement page’s language will result in a very low quality and ineffective link.

Until our next noteworthy updates…happy linking!

Some recent fixes include:

• Improved graph loading
• Upgraded visual design, including a more streamlined Full Link Report
• A new Billing History tab with automatic invoice display upon making a deposit:

Oh the sweet taste of improvement!

Well, we are pleased to announce we’ve upgraded Sorezki SEO Plus to work with Majestic SEO (see image below) and that backlinks exploration is back online. Use it to view essential information about your website’s backlinks versus competitors’ sites and improve linking.

We’ve also fixed a few bugs so that SERP domain highlighting works seamlessly and numbering Google search results is a breeze. To use the upgraded SEO Plus extension, simply uninstall your existing version and reinstall the new one. If you still don’t have Sorezki’s SEO Plus Chrome extension, now is the time to get it!

SEO Plus provides you with invaluable information about sites’ search engine statistics and social media activity as well as real time suggestions for site optimization. Best of all, it’s FREE!

More than 150 SEO agencies have joined Linkr during the first week of the launch; a greater amount than we have anticipated.

By the end of that month, we received more than 500 demo applications. Reviewing all these applications takes time. We are now in the midst of expanding our support team, so that we could get back to each and every one of you as soon as possible.

Please be patient with us, as we try give each of you our full attention. Thanks!

Google Search Query Samples:
1. +~movie -movie
2. +~vintage -vintage

And for those of you who prefer more sophisticated tools, you can always try Visuwords™.

Visuwords
A web-based tool that helps you research the meanings of the word, the connection between those meanings and associations with other words and concepts.

If you use Firefox, you can add Visuwords as a search tool into the Firefox search bar.

Security Backdoor Tracking

FrontPage Access Tracker:
“# -FrontPage-” inurl:service.pwd

This query will bring back hosted pwd files containing the username:password of hundreds of Frontpage based websites.

SQL DB Access Tracker:
“A syntax error has occurred” filetype:ihtml +dbname +login

SQL Syntax errors can reveal your most sensitive site information – the SQL username/password. All it takes is that Google will crawl your site with the slightest error. The result could be catastrophic and destructive.

To protect yourself from revealing this, you must create custom landing pages for the most common errors on your server (500, 580 etc’) so that people (or search engines) will never be able see the actual errors.

The Solution!

GHH. Google Hack Honeypot was designed to secure these and many other similar Google Hacks. The demo page includes details a vast amount of similar backdoors and shows how GHH deals with them on your server.

You’ll make yourself (or your client) a big favor by setting this up and preventing the possibility of such event ever occurring.

The answer is quite simple:
YouTube, being a Google company, have been kind enough to provide us with a keywords tool version for YouTube, so there’s no need to look around for custom api based tools (like we used to do with Twitter up until not too long ago).

Keyword Tool: http://ads.youtube.com/keyword_tool

You will also find on that page links to YouTube’s Personal Video Insights and their beta version of the new Video Targeting Tool.

The question is, what if we wanna see more recent results? say.. from the past 10 minutes?

That’s where the QDR parameter comes in handy!

The QDR parameter tells the engine how fresh the displayed results should be, and lucky for us – Google has neglected securing it.

Here’s what the original URL looks like:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Test&hl=en&prmdo=1&prmd=b&source=lnms&tbs=qdr:d,dsc:1

This will bring back results from discussions including the word “test” crawled in the last 24 hours. If we’ll take a closer look at the qdr parameter, we’ll notice that it has a value – d (which stands for “day”).

For 10 minutes, we’ll change this value to S (for seconds) followed by the number 600 (for 600 seconds), like so – qdr:s600.

Here’s the full URL:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Test&hl=en&prmdo=1&prmd=b&source=lnms&tbs=qdr:s600,dsc:1

The results will now show discussions crawled in the past 10 minutes.

Could be useful for tracking the most recent discussions on a subject and replying before everyone else does as well as other cool things.

Quite simple and could obviously be used with more sophisticated quarries :]

Robots.TXT files tell search engines what they shouldn’t index, but it’s no use if we forget to tell them not to index themselves (which could lead to clashing the index with the noindex operation).

So, what do we do?
We could set up proper directory permissions on our server and disable ‘read’ for all external IPs but ourselves, or we could add a blank index.html and forget about mentioning the URL in the robots file, because if google can’t find it – they can’t index it.

Where the heck is the actual problem?
Ah! well, it’s quite simple really. Run a search for the following string – “robots.txt” “Disallow:” “private” filetype:txt and you’ll find out for yourself.

Need an example?

1. Ok, so here’s how I found the first URL in this post: “robots.txt” “Disallow:” “private” filetype:txt
2. First Result: http://www.usc.edu/robots.txt
3. /Stats folder is showing “Private”, so – http://www.usc.edu/stats/
4. http://www.usc.edu/stats/prev/hscweb-monthly-server-stats.html

Bottom line
robots.txt may be good for telling search engines what NOT to index, but if you really wanna keep your data safe – don’t mention it there.