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Not everyone will go out of their way to link to your site, even when they cite you. Then again, they likely won’t go out of their way to remove any links from the text they copied from your site either. So why not make it as easy as possible to get links from them?
Link Building Pro is a simple but effective script that automatically inserts links to your site when someone copies text from your web pages (hat tip to Patrick @ Blogstorm).
So, for instance, if someone copied the paragraph above and pasted it into an email, a blog post or a Word document, the HTML links to Link Building Pro, Patrick’s Twitter page and Blogstorm would all be transferred over (as opposed to just plain text that would normally result from copy/paste).
Here’s what it looks like after a copy/paste:
Link Building Pro is a simple but effective script that automatically inserts links to your site when someone copies text from your web pages (hat tip to Patrick @ Blogstorm).
Read more about Link Building Pro: Automated Link Building Script by SMB SEO Guide
Easy links for you, and it doesn’t require the linker to actually do anything. In fact, they’d have to take the trouble of deleting links if they didn’t want to give you attribution.
You can also easily customize some of the functions without being a programmer. Just open up the script in notepad and look at the options at the top. Here’s an example from my file:
<// Options:
var useMetaKeyword = false; // Otherwise, page title
var minLength = 40; // Min selection chars
var useMetaAuthor = true; // Otherwise use domain
var addLinks = true; // Otherwise, just cite at end
var skip = new Array("home","link","click here","about","orlando","general","business"); // Don't link these (lowercase!)
- The first variable will randomly select one of your meta keywords to use in the attribution if set to “true.” I think it’s sub-optimal for my site, so I set it to “false,” which uses the
<title>tag instead. - The second variable sets how many characters need to be copied in order to activate the script. No point forcing attribution for someone who’s just trying to copy/paste one word.
- If you set the third variable as “true,” the last link will be whatever you specify in your
<meta name="author">. Otherwise it will use your domain URL. - The “skip” variable lets you define words that shouldn’t turn into links based on other links on your page.
Just download the file, upload it to your server and call it out from the <head> of your pages like this:
<script src="http://www.smbseoguide.com/link-building-pro-min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
Bonus tip for easy WordPress integration:
If you’re using a custom WordPress theme that gets updated regularly like Thesis and you don’t want to hack the core theme files, just add something like this to your custom_functions.php (and remember to change the URL to your own website):
function copy_paste_link() {
echo '<script src="http://www.example.com/link-building-pro-min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>';
}
add_action('wp_head', 'copy_paste_link');
I briefly used Search and Share (made by the same company – Latent Motion), which is more feature-rich and gives options for sharing. But I actually prefer Link Building Pro because it’s simple, effective and unobtrusive.
Photo credit: Andrew94
