What to put into Reciprocal URL Field

unikbit

how this can be used?

I saw a lot of directory request to have a back link. What is the trick to pass this?

thx

Sven

Mouse over the field to get the hint.

hackersmovie

@Sven I moused over the field and I still don't get the "hint". Can you explain further?

Sven

It's not that hard. A reciprocal URL should show the URL of the site you submit to. Now you can e.g.use an URL like...

http://www.something.com/?url=http://url-you-submit.to-com

Your site however takes the parameter url and knows it should place a link on your site. Get it? 

hackersmovie

o.k. but, I don't have to actually place the link on my site, right?

Sven

That link would only be visible if you open the URL with that parameter having the other URL in it. And now please remove the "hacker" from your name

hackersmovie

@Sven - the name comes from this:



Angelina Jolie's first movie...

unikbit

how I copy the details which appear when mouse over the field?

Ozz

if its a hint for an engine than double click that engine to open it in the editor and copy the "hint"-line to your clipboard.

unikbit

hint=Make sure your site can evaluate the parameter "showlink" (or whatever you use as variable) can place a link like...

\n echo

'<a href="'.$_GET['showlink'].'">'.$_GET['showlink'].'</a>';\n

...on the page.

What exactly we should place on the website?

Thx

unikbit

I have placed the code on my website but the %wanted_url% doesn't appearon site

unikbit

this is what have to place on your website:

<?php

echo

'<a href="'.$_GET['showlink'].'">'.$_GET['showlink'].'</a>';

?>

If your website is only html, just add in .htacces

AddHandler server-parsed .html

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .htm

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .html

DexterLab

And where to put that? In Before or in body tag

Sven

In body tag of course as it should show the url.

richardbesson

I am using wordpress, i did add in the body somewhere down the page the code:

<?php

echo

'<a href="'.$_GET['showlink'].'">'.$_GET['showlink'].'</a>';

?>

When i go to http://www.mysite.com/?showlink=http://www.somedirectory.com/, i see the link in the admin menu of the wordpress http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/customize.php?url=http://www.mysite.com/?showlink=http://www.somedirectory.com/ with the anchor "Customize"

Can anyone help please?

unikbit

you should go to appearence/editor, in the right panel look for 

Main Index Template (index.php

and before

</div><!-- #content -->

add the code

richardbesson

Thanks for the help.

In WordPress i had to add this code:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<?php
echo
'<a href="http://'.$_GET['showlink'].'">'.$_GET['showlink'].'</a>';
?>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(I had to add an http in the code)

when I try a  URL with an http i get an 403 error:
http://www.mysite.com/?showlink=http://www.somedirectory.com/

when i go to http://www.mysite.com/?showlink=www.somedirectory.com/ without the HTTP i see the link on my site, I guess this will not be good as Directories do ask to add a back link with http and GSA will give the Reciprocal URL with an http.

I am right?

I think this is something to do with my php.ini?

richardbesson

and BTW, it was not working before because i am using a page as an homepage in wordpress, so i had to add the code in page.php and not in index.php

richardbesson

this was removed from GSA?

Sven

GSA = company name....and there was nothing removed.

pclweb

has anyone managed to do this using a blank php file.

i.e http://www.domain.com/links.php?showlink=http://www.google.com

so need some help with getting this working..

bloupbloup

Hi, 

Due to the concerns above, i decide to improve the code related to showlink. 

here is what it does:

If showlink is empty it does not publish anything in the HTML code. 

If showlink has http missing it will add a http as a prefix. 

<?php

$var = $_GET['showlink'];

if($var != '') 

    {

if (strpos($var,'http://') === false){

    $var = 'http://'.$var;

}

echo '<a href="'.$var.'">'.$var.'</a>';

}

?>

__Johnny__

Thanks everybody

@Sven
"please remove the "hacker" from your name" rofl!!

thanks for sharing @bloupbloup