Comments on: The WordPress Business Model http://ken-blog.krugler.org/2009/09/11/the-wordpress-business-model/ Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:46:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anna Haynes http://ken-blog.krugler.org/2009/09/11/the-wordpress-business-model/#comment-490 Anna Haynes Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:55:12 +0000 http://ken-blog.krugler.org/?p=176#comment-490 ...links that they put there, I mean. …links that they put there, I mean.

]]> By: Anna Haynes http://ken-blog.krugler.org/2009/09/11/the-wordpress-business-model/#comment-489 Anna Haynes Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:54:30 +0000 http://ken-blog.krugler.org/?p=176#comment-489 The other way they make money, alas, is (I fear) via link-farming. If you use Categories on wordpress.com, the "[categoryname]" link at bottom of your post will go to a page with *all* wordpress.com-hosted blog posts that've been assigned that category. Which is not likely to be what the reader wanted, and which will fool Google into overestimating the popularity of all such blogs. The Wordpress.com folks have been caught doing similar stuff before (in that case, hiding a bunch of links on your pages). The other way they make money, alas, is (I fear) via link-farming. If you use Categories on wordpress.com, the “[categoryname]” link at bottom of your post will go to a page with *all* wordpress.com-hosted blog posts that’ve been assigned that category. Which is not likely to be what the reader wanted, and which will fool Google into overestimating the popularity of all such blogs.

The WordPress.com folks have been caught doing similar stuff before (in that case, hiding a bunch of links on your pages).

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