Alexa report tool says I have a lot of outgoing links..where?

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by ma0, Mar 2, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi,
    I just received today an email by Alexa stating that I have more than 10 links going out from my wordpress blog but I don't know where they are..How can I find them??
    I tried grepping on the directory, but I haven't found them. Some of them are really obscure to me.
    Is there another tool who tells me where those links are?

    thanks
     
    ma0, Mar 2, 2007 IP
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    CountryBoy Prominent Member

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    Well, they could be the following: hit counter, ads, referral banners etc. If you give us your URL we can all have a game of 'hunt the link'. I think you'd be surprised how many links you aren't even aware of.
     
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  3. ma0

    ma0 Peon

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    Have fun:
    blog.nafurai.com

    I'll give the list from Alexa at the end of the "game" just to see how many you haven't found :D

    btw if you find something wrong PM me :eek:
     
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    CountryBoy Prominent Member

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    Well, after a 20 second look I can see 15 outbounds straight away:

    3 x Technorati
    1 x BlogRoll
    1 x Featured site
    1 x Wikipedia (web of columbus?)
    7 x Feed buttons
    2 x footer links

    That's without even trying!
     
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  5. ma0

    ma0 Peon

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    When I said more than 10 links I meant "strange" links..look:

    blog.nafurai.com -- 29 easy one
    www.italiasw.com -- 12 bottom link and 1 post
    www.text-link-ads.com -- 7 easy: 1 link left
    www.dreamhost.com -- 6 easy: 1 link left
    en.wikipedia.org -- 5 post
    andreasviklund.com -- 3 bottom link
    www.w3.org -- 3 somewhere (I haven't checked)
    www.youtube.com -- 3 post
    s31.sitemeter.com -- 2 ???
    sstefan680.tripod.com -- 2 ???
    wiki.dreamhost.com -- 2 post IRC
    wikimediafoundation.org -- 2 ???
    wordpress.org -- 2 easy
    www.johnrausch.com -- 2 ???
    www.mainlesson.com -- 2 ???
    www.nafurai.com -- 2 easy...
    www.tfcbooks.com -- 2 ???
    del.icio.us -- 1 ????
    pagead2.googlesyndication.com -- 1 ???
    www.google-analytics.com ???

    So , you see that some are strange to me..
     
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  6. ma0

    ma0 Peon

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    lol I was adding that I've added technorati later, but the forum stopped me complaining that I can't add links yet.

    :D :D :D
     
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  7. ma0

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    Ideas anyone?
    I really wonder where those url could be.
    Some of them are really unusual.
    I'd be grateful if you could help.

    :( :confused: :confused:
     
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  8. ma0

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    Again me..
    I had Wordpress 2.1.1 installed..I suggest everyone who's using it to upgrade due to security reasons.
    Somone had access to the server and put some malicious code..
    Maybe that's the reason I had some of those link.
     
    ma0, Mar 3, 2007 IP