TrustMeter for Google

20 Aug

Posted by alexf as Google, SEO, widgets, wordpress

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I made a plugin for WordPress that shows how your host is indexed in Google and is it “trusted” or not. How it works: first, it is querying Google for site:your-blog.com, then it extracts first 10 titles from response and qurying Google for this titles. Then it is searching for your blog positions in the responses and showing it along with the query as a number, so you get 10 numbers as you can see it in my blog. The smaller number is the better Google “trusts” to your host. When plugin is installed, you can see numbers at your dashboard and also add a widget to show it to your visitors. Data are updated automatically every 5 days. You can download this plugin here. Please let me know if you find any bugs or you have a suggestions.

17 Responses

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August 21st, 2007 at 20:16:30
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DangerMouse

August 21st, 2007 at 20:51:10
2

Cool idea. Not sure if it actually indicates trust rank as such, but still quite handy. Only problem i percieve is that as this is dealing with hosting it would be most useful to test free blog hosts, would be a nice script rather than plugin
alexf

August 22nd, 2007 at 18:25:12
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DangerMouse, script is available here: http://www.ricozhot.com/domain.check/check.html
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August 25th, 2007 at 10:27:41
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[...] Trustmeter for Google shows how your host is indexed in Google and if it trusted or not. [...]
Chris

August 25th, 2007 at 19:06:25
5

A good idea. A question though – if I understand how this works, could you not then add up the 10 numbers you get back, the divide the total by 10 to give the website an “average trust ranking” ? I can’t help thinking it’d be a lot easier to read than 10 numbers in a row…l
alexf

August 25th, 2007 at 20:30:37
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Chris, “average ranking” would be meaningless, because site can be indexed with you name title as #1, and with “wordpress” title as 999. In this case average number will be 500, which does not make any sence.
Chris

August 25th, 2007 at 21:34:45
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I see your point – but following that logic, how would it make any less sense than having a row of 10 numbers, which could (for example) be:

1 999 999 1 1 999 1 999 1 1

?

I think I may not totally understand how the plugin works, I’ll download the code and take a look….
Jonathan

August 25th, 2007 at 22:03:00
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I tried it, but it came up empty and just returned ? for the search query….bummer…
alexf

August 25th, 2007 at 22:16:58
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Jonathan, it is updating 1 quety per hit, ? means that not all queries are updated. Just refresh your page 10 times and you should see results. After all 10 queries are updated, it will wait for 5 days.
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August 27th, 2007 at 11:21:25
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[...] TrustMeter WordPress plugin zeigt das Ranking der Unterseiten für ihre Titel an [...]
alexf

August 28th, 2007 at 02:42:58
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Chris,
1 999 999 1 – this means that you are trying to target something for which your blog does not have “trustrank”. In this case my plugin will show what to focus on (1-20).
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September 7th, 2007 at 16:57:40
12

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Aurel Dragut

November 25th, 2007 at 15:17:06
13

Can you release a non-widget version of this plugin? Thank you!
alexf

January 26th, 2008 at 19:36:39
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Standalone version can be found here: http://awt.win32utils.com/en/backlinks/
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May 22nd, 2008 at 16:31:27
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Henk

July 15th, 2009 at 10:35:09
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Dear Alex,

the plugin doesnot work perfectly with the brokenlink plugin.

The function microtime_float you defined was already defined in the other pluging causing to crash my site. I’ve managed to repair it by replacing the following peice of code:

function microtime_float()
{
list($usec, $sec) = explode(‘ ‘, microtime());
$tmp = ((float)$usec + (float)$sec);
return sprintf(‘%.03f’, $tmp);
}

with
if ( !function_exists(‘microtime_float’) ) {
function microtime_float()
{
list($usec, $sec) = explode(” “, microtime());
return ((float)$usec + (float)$sec);
}
}

This way you avoid having functions defined already…

just my 2 cents…
Xstroy

February 10th, 2010 at 16:23:59
17

Interesting plugin. Previously used only online service