Op de blog van Maarten Schenk (die er natuurlijk van profiteert om terecht wat reclame te maken voor Typepad) vond ik een interessant linkje dat goed beschrijft wat ik heb voorgehad met bxl.blog. Technorati gaat blijkbaar oudere versies van WordPress gewoon niet meer indexeren, hierdoor. Een fragmentje uit het artikel:
The blogosphere has had its share of maladies before. Comment spam, trackback spam, splogs and link trading schemes are the colds and flus that we've come to know and groan about. But lately, a cancer has afflicted the ecosystem that has led us at Technorati to take some drastic measures. Thousands of WordPress installations out in the wilds of the web are vulnerable to security compromises, they are being actively exploited and we're not going to index them until they're fixed.
We know about them at Technorati because part of what we do is count links. Compromised blogs have been coming to our attention because they have unusually high outbound links to spam destinations. The blog authors are usually unaware that they've been p0wned because the links are hidden with style attributes to obscure their visibility. Some bloggers only find out when they've been dropped by Google, this WordPress user wrote:
“My 2.2 installation was being hacked into and spam hidden links dumped into index.php. I didn't notice until google decided to ban me (they have now reincluded my site).”
Of wat een security issue op grote schaal tot gevolg kan hebben. Ben ik blij mijn eigen blog te hebben geschreven, zeg.
