Priority No. 1: Upgrade Your WordPress Installation

I have been upgrading blogs to WordPress 2.5 at the rate of 3-4 per day. It’s not that it takes THAT long to do. It’s just that I have other things to do. So this little blog only got updated today.

When talking with a new client I often look at their blog installation and notice that a lot of them are running versions below 2.3.3. WordPress is the most used blogging platform out there simply because it can be customized to do most anything you want, but that also means that spammers will try to take advantage of your blog to gain free links. While this issue in WordPress has been fixed since February, more than 600 000 WordPress blog are still running version 2.3.2 or less (the numbers represent WordPress blogs indexed in Technorati only and are represented in red in the attached chart.).

Yesterday, Technorati ceased indexing hundreds of thousands of blogs they suspect have fallen pray to link spammers.

Google has already taken action against blogs who fall pray to spammers by banning them from the index. It is very hard to get re-indexed once you are banned from Google. So don’t wait another minute and upgrade to 2.5 or if you can’t do it yourself, contact me. I can do it in 30 minutes flat and have time left over to help you take your blog to the next level.