When I suggested there was a gap in Wordpress the shape of a decent traffic-trading plugin I didn’t imagine that three days after writing a post I’d be testing a plugin written to my specifications.
Will, the man responsible for condensing my enthused ramblings into working code has done something truly extraordinary, and I’d like to help him out by stress-testing his work here.
The plugin - called BLT for Blog-Link-Trade (Will obviously has marketing chops to go along with his programming ones) - allows people to place a link to their site from any BLT enabled blog they visit by filling in a form.
BLT displays a link to the referring site each time it counts a visitor, meaning that a blog with BLT can have 100 link-trade partners, and only 5 visible outbound links if they choose. They need never worry about promoting a site that’s not promoting them because only people sending visitors show up in their recent referrers list. It’s awsome (and it seems extra awesome if you’re about a minute into “Miranda That Ghost Just Isn’t Holy Anymore: D. Con Safo” by The Mars Volta.) BLT can also produce a traditional referrer list, but has some significant additional sophistication (read this for more).
SugarBank is now BLT enabled, and if you sign up (at the base of the right hand menu you’ll see the form) we can find out how to make BLT better while you get a couple of clicks from SugarBank for taking part in the test. The hope is that a couple of other developers will help will tweak BLT into the kind of full-fat snack that’ll fatten up every blog that snarfs it down.
I’m not sure how many people can sign in to the version I’m running so be quick and remember you need to have a link here in order to show up.
(Henry Rollins is a really angry guy.)
It’s exciting to be involved in the genesis of something so useful (I was also involved in Genesis around ‘The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’ - long story). If you want to test BLT too - and when two sites both trade intelligently it gets really interesting - you can download the plugin here.
Don’t forget to worship Will. The man deserves his own cult. Where else can you download code and look at boobs simultaneously? (The last time I got this excited I was telling Sam Jackson about a script I’d just finished called ‘Snakes on a Plane‘)
(Controversy is one of Prince’s best albums. No doubt.)
You’re right… Henry Rollins IS an angry guy… I’ve never seen anyone so upset that his TV wasn’t working.
RIP Black Flag
Kitka
Kitka, that TV’s a liar. A LIAR (etc. - insert lyric here)
I don’t care about the anger issues. He can growl, scream, rage, whatever - as long as some appendage of his is inside some orifice of mine. The Boy is hot, and I will have my way with him. Oooooh yes, I will.
The ‘boy’ is old enough to be your father Mia. His spoken word’s well worth going to see though - smart, funny guy.
Yes, he’s well seasoned…. but isn’t that the fun of it? Having sex with someone that’s been around long enough to figure out that if you _____ then she’ll ____? Fuckin’ A, man. Fuckin’ A.
I’ve submitted a link for testing.
And how would Will like to be worshipped?
For him, I might turn on my webcam.
Mia - well seasoned? At least we know how you like your meat…
Viviane - I’m not in a position to negotiate, over to you Will…
There was a plugin made by the guy at AdultBlogFinder, but never worked very well for me, and I think don’t work with Wordpress 2.0. I’ll try this plugin tomorrow, I was waiting this kind of thing for quite a long time
Meh… I prefer Rollins when he was in Black Flag… before he had a neck as thick as a log… and when he drank beer and sang about his favorite TV shows.
Then again, spoken word Rollins has some deadly charm.
Okay, I’ve tasted the BLT. Not bad. It would be nice to see 24 hour uniques as well, maybe on a separate popup list.
i think late 70’s prince (think: soft & wet) is the best ever.
Sam,
I entered my site http://www.iloveabbywinters.com into the BLT last night. I am concerned that I may have done something wrong as it has not yet appeared on your list. Are you able to check it for me to see if I made a mistake?
thanks,
llporter