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Backlinks Tag Cloud Widget - Show Who is Linking to You as a Tag Cloud (Beta)
The Backlinks Tag Cloud is a widget that you can install on your blog or site which shows which pages are linking back to your pages, as a tag cloud. Here is an example showing pages linking to this page:
Links to this page:
To add a Backlinks Tag Cloud to any web page, paste the code below into its HTML source:
Video Tutorial
Low Quality YouTube Version:
How it Works (It's a Mashup with Yahoo Pipes)
This site-addon is a mashup using MakeCloud to generate a tag cloud from an RSS feed that Yahoo Pipes provides. First, the widget figures out the URL of the page it is on. Then it passes this URL to a Yahoo Pipe which gets a list of backlinks to that URL, and outputs an RSS feed. The Pipe works by constructing a standard Yahoo search of the form "link:URL", which gets a list of links to a particular URL, and then, using the magic of Pipes, it turns those search results into an RSS feed. Then we make a tag cloud from the pipe's RSS feed. Presto!