Comments on: Wordpress.com linking structure

By: wwriehriwehitertt

wwriehriwehitertt — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:08:30 +0000

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By: Andrew Jensen

Andrew Jensen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:09:21 +0000

Andy,

Out of curiosity, any changes since you made this post? Has Google limited the link juice power within the WordPress tagging system or has WordPress made No Follow changes? Wonder to what extent they were hit with last fall’s Google attack against blogs?

By: Quod Licet Iovi? « JAWW (beta)

Quod Licet Iovi? « JAWW (beta) — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:45:55 +0000

[...] The only exception to this rule makes Andy Beard, who for the several times questioned Automatticâ€™s spamdexing peculiar linking practice since the very inception of this link farm on WordPress.com. [...]

By: kevsta

kevsta — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:44:55 +0000

Interesting stuff Andy, had wondered a few times how some WP blogs end up with seemingly unrealistically large PRs considering their links and content but not yet delved deeper to find out.

Wordpress are just one big link farm eh? lol.

By: WordPress.com Subdomain Spam With Tags? | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

WordPress.com Subdomain Spam With Tags? | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:39:04 +0000

[...] a year ago I questioned the use of tagging on WordPress.com to spread link equity around as "a rising [...]

By: JAWW (beta)

JAWW (beta) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:35:49 +0000

Feeling Lucky?…

just a little fun — are you ‘feeling lucky’ today? then let’s go ahead:
http://google.com/search?q=wordpress.com+link-farm&btnI=I’m+Feeling+Lucky
tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock…
……

By: Will The FTC Investigate Google & Matt Cutts For Paid Links? | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:19:43 +0000

[...] Google should also have had a word with them about their linkfarm – I have also written about their linking structure in the [...]

By: London SEO

London SEO — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:28:57 +0000

That was a genuine question, which i got the answer to by reading some other posts in your own blog. But thanks for the unduly-defensive retort.

As for your worries about me trying to spam your blog, that’s the nickname i use on many other blogs that include a “nofollow” attribute, and if you look around the SERPs a bit, you’ll see that it makes as much sense for me to try and spam your comments using anchore text “SEO London” or “London SEO” as it does for Matt Cutts to use the nickname “Google Guy”.

I can understand the over-protectiveness you’ve obviously engendered for your blog since you’ve dropped the “nofollow” bit, but you could have at least given me the benefit of the doubt!

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:47:50 +0000

One of an SEO’s jobs is to evaluate a client’s site.

It isn’t hard to evaluate both Robert Scoble’s blog and Wordpress.com and see how clearly they are interconnected with the tagging system and all the followed links.

As an SEO with enough bad sense to abuse my comment policy on your first visit, you must also have enough skill to spot what Automattic are up to on Wordpress.com – one of the largest link farms on the ‘net.

At least I interconnect sites which I own and have editorial control over.

By: Anchor text abuser from London

Anchor text abuser from London — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:59:06 +0000

Call me slow but… i’m not sure i follow the bit about tagging. What tag links are you refering to? And how does someone else’s blog post tagging end up linking to Scoble’s blog?

Please explain :-)