Wordpress Banned by Google for Spamming

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 31, 2005 @07:40AM from the there-be-scammers-everywhere dept.

The Real Nick W writes "Wordpress, an incredibly popular Open Source Blogging system was found to be spamming google by inserting hidden links to junk content on high paying Adsense keywords such as mesothelioma and debt consolidation. Following Threadwatch picking up the story an anonymous Google rep appeared in the original thread admonishing bloggers not to use sneaky tactics to rank highly for "duplicate content" such as the 100,000 hidden articles on the Wordpress site. The articles have now dissapeared from Google and it remains to be seen whether Google will ban Wordpress outright as they tend to do when SEO's and web dev's pull these kinds of stunts."

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Preventing discussion by pcgamez · 2005-03-31 07:56 · Score: 1, Flamebait

as posted by "Podz" on the Wodpress forums.

"There will be no discussion of the matters raised in the linked article above here. As puppy18 has said, this is a support forum.

Any threads about this will be deleted.
This is NOT an attempt to stop news or prevent discussion - it really is the case that this forum just is not the place for such a discussion to happen. "