Wordpress SEO Scandals
I just found out about this “Wordpress SEO Scandal” and Matt’s responses from blewtooth’s visa blog …
Finally Matt (the creator of Wordpress) had a chance to make a response to the recent WordPress SEO scandal.
… that seems to me about “ads” and “google spamming”, not that it changed my view of how useful free WordPress is to me. 
- A Response to the Noise - 1 April 2005, Matt.
- Wordpress Spam “Scandal” - The Run Down - 1 April 2005, Michael.
- Waxy.org: WordPress Followup - 1 April 2005, Andrew Baio. “things are settling down from a very busy day yesterday. eWeek, MSNBC, The Register, Slashdot, Ars Technica, and Metafilter all posted articles about it. After deleting the offending articles, Google added Wordpress.org back into their search results and reinstated the 8/10 pagerank.“
April 4th, 2005 at 909h
In the end I really believe Matt’s fatal mistake was not taking into consideration the way in which a loyal user community can also backlash against you. He could have and should have brought them in the loop a bit. I have commented on this in my second part, thanks for the link to the first one. I quite like your site.
April 4th, 2005 at 1414h
Thans for the comments michael, a glad you “quite” like my site.
I’ve just read your Wordpress Part’s II & III followup article and do agree with its sentiments particularly, “I sincerely wish Matt the best of luck, he seems like he has been pretty open, his only mistake was in doing so after the fact and not before.”
regards, sabre23t =^.^=