Well, you have probably heard of the term Google slapped, I just got Wordpress slapped! Let me explain…
When I first started with the company I am apart of now, I was using blogs to help promote my business, from myspace to blogger and wordpress. I loved it! I ended up liking Wordpress the best out of all of them. At first it was a little hard to get the hang of it, but well worth the effort.
I started focusing more and more on using Wordpress, the thing I didn’t do was download the Wordpress software and have it hosted myself. I had Wordpress host it, BIG MISTAKE!!
The reason why I say big mistake is, Wordpress has gotten aggressive about blogs used for mlm, affiliate marketing and anything close to that. They don’t like it and they WILL deactivate your blog!
That’s what happened to me a few nights ago, I was checking my stats and rankings with some of my blogs. With two of my blogs that I made for my primary company ranked spots one, two and three in Google, that made me happy. I was the first thing people saw when searching for my company. Well I went and clicked on my site and it went to a page that said I was in violation and my account had been suspended.
To say I was unhappy about it would be an understatement, but this also has forced me to make some changes and modifications. For the past two days I have been making brand new blogs with the same content I had before. But this time, I am hosting them myself, so more Wordpress telling me what I can or can’t do. So for this post, I want to stress the importance of hosting wordpress yourself. There are many hosting companies out there, I am going through www.SureWireHosting.com.
In the days and weeks to come I will be going over SEO (search engine optimization) and how to get your site to rank well in the organic search engines. But for now, learn from my mistakes and do things the right way. Don’t let Wordpress host your blogs!
2 responses so far ↓
Cenay Nailor // May 28, 2008 at 5:01 am
Paul, all I can say it OUCH!
While I have never had a Wordpress.com blog, I did have two Blogger.com blogs that I wanted to move to an installed Wordpress self-hosted location.
That move didn’t go as well as could be hoped, but I learned a LOT in the process. In fact, I blogged about it here -> Painless? I think not!
I feel your pain, but what a great teacher it has been. The biggest frustration for me was losing out on the Alexa rating I had achieved! Rebuilding that is taking time.
Consider yourself lucky you have the original posts so you can rebuild. First one I deleted before I copied the posts off. Ouch.
Cenay’
Paul Cooley // May 29, 2008 at 6:40 pm
You are right Cenay, it was a bummer but a great learning experience. Right now I have the pages on the second page of google, I haven’t really had a chance to do more, I have been out of town. So I’ll get it there. Good old wordpress, huh?
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