March 31, 2005
Wordpress spamming the search engines
It is all over bloggerland today: The wordpress site has been featuring around 168.000 articles, that were linked from the main page with invisible (negative divs) links. The articles were obviously designed to target high paying adsense keywords. Google reacted rather quick after this has been published on Waxy.org: Right now, the articles in question seem to have disappeared from the index, while Yahoo still shows some of them. While there is nothing wrong to cash in on an open source project doing advertising, such practises do decrease the value of Adsense and similar services for the advertisers. In the long run, such behaviour will hurt everyone in the serious web content business.