Comments on: WordPress, Penguin, Google and Matt Cutts’ take on WPMU.org

By: Ricky Dawn

Ricky Dawn — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:49:28 +0000

You should always use the nofollow tag from the offset. You must have thought to yourself ‘if we put links in the footer of all our themes, we can get loads of backlinks and good rankings!’ this is what Google is trying to avoid, people gaming the rankings just because they can build links easy… Also it was fairly obvious your WordPress themes would have ended up on spammy sites… Lesson learned!

By: Andrew HaHa

Andrew HaHa — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:20:07 +0000

This post makes me extremely happy that I decided not to make themes for word press. That my friend has to suck.

By: Brad Dalton

Brad Dalton — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:40:30 +0000

I’ve emailed the host, domain manager and owner of this domain but they haven’t removed this from this domain. http://www.modamusic.com/london-hot-desi-girl-sex/

I’ve emailed Google about this and they haven’t replied or done anything about this. So i get penalized when someone else does this to me and Google states that’s its impossible for anyone to effect your rankings. Garbage.

It goes down to the quality, lack of quality of the staff that work at Google.

Seems this happens to a lot of NON American owned sites and Google will not help you fix the problem. They won’t even tell you what the problem is.

Where i live if you do this to someone they will be extremely harsh on you, and rightly so.

By: haber tesi

haber tesi — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:33:49 +0000

very nice comment

By: Johnny Doe

Johnny Doe — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000

“Find the spammiest and nastiest sites using your themes and beg / offer to pay them to remove the attribution”

….you just gave the spammers a nice idea to make an extra buck…

By: Shawn K. Hall

Shawn K. Hall — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:02:22 +0000

If that were the case, then why did REMOVING half a million links to their site put them back on top again? This is a perfect illustration of how a *penalty* works - when the offensive triggers are removed, the position is returned.

By: Felipe Veiga

Felipe Veiga — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:09:57 +0000

I don’t think sites are being penalized for receiving spammy links. Otherwise we would create a new SEO tactic: destroying your opponent with negative SEO. What is really happening is that links from sites which were spammy are not being taken under consideration.

By: Q3 technologies

Q3 technologies — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:59:39 +0000

You guys did a great job in recovering so well. But clearly, your site shouldn’t have been penalized in the first place. Its not your fault if spammy sites are linking to you.
Well Lord of SEO is right in a way, many small businesses are facing a lot similar issues but are not able to do much about it since they don’t get to ask Matt Cutts for his opinion.

By: Lord of SEO

Lord of SEO — Thu, 31 May 2012 05:11:54 +0000

You only bounced back because of publicity, its the same every time with Google, and Matt Cutts. Ridiculous company. I still have quality client sites which have tanked, what a twatty company.

By: Max Lehmann

Max Lehmann — Wed, 30 May 2012 11:41:35 +0000

Good News! Congratulations!