Google Updates Are Always Fun!
Well if you have been on the Internet over the last couple of days you will almost certainly have heard about the change to the Google results pages.
I don’t really have any comment on whether it is a better or worse look for them, although people who are far more obsessive than me seem to thing it is a good thing..for Bing! I somehow doubt this change will cause Google to fall off the face of the Internet but it has caused us to do a bit of a recode to the Indexing tool.
The code used to check if a page is indexed had to be changed. We are now on version 1.64 and it is in the members area. You can log in and get it right now, there have been no changes to the trackback plugin.
This change was totally beyond our control, we really don’t put out changes for the fun of it, as it means that just like you we have to go and update all our sites that use this plugin.
I advise you to download the update, unzip it and then ftp the files over the top of the ones currently in use. You don’t have to do it that way, you can just deactivate then delete version 1.63 and then upload 1.64 of course but I explain more in the video below.
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As always if you need any help let me know.
Paul
Indexing tool
Welcome to the blog for the Indexing Tool!
I have to say I’m very excited about the launch of this site, or rather the release of this WordPress plugin.. I’ve written quite a few plugins but this one has turned out to be incredibly useful and a whole lot of fun!
Just in case I haven’t explained it very well on the front page, what this plugin does is take an RSS feed URL (any one, it doesn’t matter) and then it checks each item in the feed to see if it’s indexed in Google. That’s all well and good I hear you say, but then if one of the pages from the RSS feed isn’t indexed, the plugin displays a link to that page on your blog.
And not only that, as soon as it detects the page has been indexed, the plugin will automatically remove the link from your blog, and replace it with another link to an un-indexed page!
I’ve released the plugin to a few people and they have been getting amazing results. You can see some of their testimonials on the front page. Read more about Indexing tool →