Wordpress Website's Search Engine Spam ⇒
30 March 2005, early evening
The Wordpress home page hosts 120,000 articles used to game search engines.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
WordPress PageRank is currently 0. I am sure the blogosphere (especially Kottke) is happy that they just scored another kill.
by Sunny on March 31 2005, 10:12 pm #
I’m not sure what their goal was, but Wordpress shouldn’t be contributing to the search engine spam problem. There are other ways to raise funds. It was a good thing that this was brought to light.
by ramanan on March 31 2005, 10:22 pm #
I am not condoning what Wordpress did. But really coordinating this big scoop when the guy is not even available to defend himself is wrong. And Kottke has had a beef with Matt for a while now regards to popularity.
I am sure Matt’s having an awesome vacation.
As for spamming, might I ask what happens to the PageRank of all the spam blogs hosted on Blogspot?
by Sunny on April 1 2005, 12:22 am #
I’ve always wondered how Google deals with Blogspot, since it hosts a bajillion link-farm blogs. And I didn’t know Kottke and Matt were at odds with one another, much like 50-cent and The Game. Waxy posted a follow-up.
by ramanan on April 1 2005, 12:42 pm #
Speaking of 50-cent and The Game, there’s a Daily Show clip you need to see.
by mk on April 1 2005, 1:41 pm #