Wordpress has been Google banned
Matt, the creator of Wordpress, was caught using shady tactics. I’ll let Arve explain the tactics.
End result: GoogleGuy saw the discussion, and wordpress.org got banned in Google in no seconds flat.
So, no get out of jail free card for otherwise respected sites if you willfully break the rules.
There’s a lot of bitterness going on at Threadwatch over this. Kinda different viewpoint to bloggers in general?
Update: Although the hidden links are still at the bottom of the Wordpress site, the pages the links point to have been removed.
March 31st, 2005 at 12:13 pm
Waxy.org and Jonas Luster have been discussing it as well. It was a silly experiment and there’s a lot of head scratching and “What was he thinking?” questions, but it does go to show there is no quarter given when you’re outed. Seems the guys at Threadwatch are laughing at the amateur nature of it. The thing is Wordpress was a loud advocate of nofollow…now this…the irony is rather bitter.
March 31st, 2005 at 3:49 pm
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March 31st, 2005 at 7:50 pm
Actually, WordPress.org is not banned from the results - the offending pages were simply dropped from the Google index.
simply input site:wordpress.org into Google and you’ll see there’s still over half a million pages indexed.
And further, WordPress is still ranking well for search terms:
search term: upgrade wordpress 1.2 to 1.5
April 1st, 2005 at 4:09 am
That’s true TODAY! But yesterday, wordpress.org was banned. Stuff happens so fast, it’s hard to keep up.
Yesterday the index page wasn’t in the index. Wish I’d taken a screencap to show you. Today it’s back. And even when the index was banned yesterday, I still saw many wordpress.org pages in the index.
February 15th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I like this post - it is almost 2 years to this post - and how history has played out.
Wordpress.org is one of the most respected in the industry along with googles blogger site.
They know who is the competition, and they use tactics like kill or be killed. Really silly if you tell, considering that there is enough crumbs for everyone in the market.
Hooray to Wordpress.org!
John
http://xpertdesigns.net