Wordpress gaming Google
Matt is using wordpress.org to game search engines. At first i thought this is an early april fools prank, but if you look at the html source of wordpress.org you’ll find the following at the bottom at the time of this writing:
<div style="text-indent: -9000px; overflow: hidden;"> <p>Sponsored <a href="/articles/articles.xml">Articles</a> on <a href="/articles/credit.htm">Credit</a>, <a href="/articles/health-care.htm">Health</a>, <a href="/articles/insurance.htm">Insurance</a>, <a href="/articles/home-business.htm">Home Business</a>, <a href="/articles/home-buying.htm">Home Buying</a> and <a href="/articles/web-hosting.htm">Web Hosting</a></p> </div>
This doesn’t sit well with me and it’s gonna get really ugly. Remember last year’s hubbub over movable type’s new licensing terms? That one will look like a storm in a teacup next to this. The hiccup at sixapart brought many switchersover to wordpress and it’ll be interesting to see where people will defect to this year. My money is on textpattern.
Update: Matt responds, Andy has a follow-up