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Hi,

your rating is quite unfair, as it seems you misunderstood what the plugin actually does. It does not automatically build backlinks, and it especially does not build spam links. It merely detects all your existing backlinks from the referrer stored in a user’s browser and automatically promotes those backlinks by getting them indexed in search engines.

The referrer value stored in a user’s browser (which the plugin uses to detect backlinks) can, however, be altered client side. Hence, there is no guarantee that the referrer is actually correct. Some shady sites alter this value and send bots to visit your site with an altered referrer (in hopes you see it in your logs and visit their spammy sites). When the plugin reads out such referrers, it faces an invalid referring URL.

The only way to be sure that this provided referrer URL is a real one and it really contains a backlink, is to download the URL and check whether a backlink exists in the code. This is what the PRO version of the plugin does – which will be released very soon.

Cheers,
Michael

When a backlink is detected, the plugin pushes the referring website to so called “indexing services” like for example pingomatic. Those indexing services take care that search engines find your backlinks, so your website gets “credited” with the backlink.
So there is no manual effort needed and you can let it run on auto-pilot.

The way WP Link Builder works is that it detects the links “on the fly”. As soon as one of your users clicks on a backlink, WP Link Builder evaluates the referrer and stores it in your backlink database. On low traffic sites it may take some time until the first user visits your site through a referring backlink.