Google Ban Wordpress?
Not really, but Google removed the “problem pages” from the search result. Also, Wordpress.org has also removed those pages.
Recently, there is a news that made a big tremor to the blogosphere, especially Wordpress users (me!). The Wordpress founding developer make use of the popular(high PageRank) Wordpress.org site, quietly hosting hundred thousands of keywords optimization pages. Those pages appear to spam Google search result.
Wordpress is a very popular open-source blogging software package, with a great official website maintained by Matt Mullenweg, its founding developer. I discovered last week that since early February, he’s been quietly hosting at least 120,000 168,000 articles on their website. These articles are designed specifically to game the Google Adwords program, written by a third-party about high-cost advertising keywords like asbestos, mesothelioma, insurance, debt consolidation, diabetes, and mortgages. (Update: Google is actively removing every article from their results, but here’s a saved copy of the first page of results. You can still view about 25,000 results on Yahoo. Here’s an example of some results in MSN.)
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More related links:
- The Google thing – not discussed here?! [Wordpress.org]
- Spam, Matt, Wordpress.org ¡ª and I am exhausted. Bad mix :) [jluster.org]
Thought:
Personally, I think Matt did a wrong and stupid move on that. Why need to hide? If need money for the project, just announce it in the wordpress site and I believe many Wordpress users will give their support (included me).
Doing the dirty trick to spam search engine result gave me a bad impression on this guy’s personality. Matt is on vacation now. Let’s wait for his official reply about the matter.
Anyway, this has not affect my support to Wordpress. It is a Great open source blog script, afterall. I won’t switch to other because of this.
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