WordPress Caught With Article Spam

Posted on March 31, 2005

BlogosphereNews.com reports that WordPress, an open source blogging tool, was caught posting article spam on its website. Apparently the site posted articles on thousands of different topics. Waxy.org reports that these article were created to "specifically to game the Google Adwords program." Some also call this link farming. Google apparently has already removed the spam articles from its search database. There are already some 80 links to blog entries discussing the story on Technorati.

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