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Calm down – I know your heart is probably pounding like crazy right now, especially if you are working on your own blog which focuses on SEO. I felt the same way when I started reading Lee Odden’s post about Wordpress labeling SEO blogs as “banned .” Reading on, however, it was made clear that Wordpress is pertaining to blogs which are search engine optimized in a “bad” way and not blogs which talk about SEO – much like this blog.

These are the blogs which Wordpress specifically bans:

• Scraper blogs: Blogs that take content from other blogs and re-publish it without permission (this is sometimes called scraping). If a blog contains all or mostly stolen and unoriginal content, it’s gone!
• SEO blogs: Blogs that are written for search engines instead of humans. These blogs are dedicated to trying to fool Google and other search engines into ranking them highly. WordPress.com is not meant for this type of activity.
• Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (”Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). To be clear, examples like people writing original book or movie reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category.
• Warez blogs: Blogs that promote pirated copies of ebooks, software packages, music, movies, games, etc.

I suppose that Wordpress could word the classification tags in a more specific way so as to avoid confusion and reactions like I felt when I first read the post. Still, we should not overreact as we know very well that blogs such as this one do not fall under any of these categories.

7 Comments to "Wordpress Against SEO Blogs!"

  • Webmaster said: On 04/08/2008 at 10:48 am

    wordpress is not against SEo blogs

  • Bob Jay said: On 04/20/2008 at 9:09 pm

    To get your website listed well in the major search engines, you
    have to perform search engine optimization (SEO). If your website was built
    without search engine optimization “in mind”, it will probably not appear in
    any search results. SEO can seem complicated. Our 10 step Search engine optimizing plan has made it easy for you.

    (Keywords) – You need to choose
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    (moderately searched specific terms), than for high rankings for keywords that
    are ultra-competitive or too general. Focus on getting “some” high
    ranking results and then shoot for more popular terms over
    time… remember Anchor tags and link partners are the key. Last you need a search engine friendly page. To do this follow all of the policies and procedures specified by Google. Here is the link to read more on theses policies:
    http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
    TY
    Bob Jay
    http://www.brucesseo.com

  • diana said: On 04/20/2008 at 11:41 pm

    http://www.games.hn/

  • SEO said: On 04/27/2008 at 4:43 pm

    Thank you very much for the article. :)

  • maks said: On 04/29/2008 at 9:14 pm

    Hello! I like your site! Reader from Russia…

  • Mxman said: On 08/19/2008 at 5:36 pm

    Thanks for writing this. Now I know why my blogs at wordpress have been banned. THe next time, I will be careful.

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