If you have not yet updated your WordPress blog to version 2.5 and are waiting for a “good reason” to do so, how about your ranking and your sites indexing? It has been announced that Technorati will be un-indexing blogs that are vulnerable to spam or hacking attacks.

Technorati announced their strong intentions to no longer index vulnerable WordPress blogs.

Because of this ongoing problem, we’re discontinuing processing crawls of blogs that exhibit common symptoms of being compromised. We strongly recommend upgrading your WordPress installation. Even if you haven’t been afflicted by a compromise, by the time you are aware that you have been a number of negative consequences may have already occurred (for instance, flagged spam by Technorati, Google or Yahoo!) — this has been reported by many WordPress users.

Upgrade Reasons

1. Security - WordPress 2.5 includes a patch fix to a vulnerability present in 2.3 versions.
2. Rank - To be successful your site must be indexable, not upgrading will effect your sites ranking.
3. Common Sense - Upgrades are created to fix bugs, errors and security.

If you choose not to upgrade and find yourself and your site in trouble, do not say you were not warned.

About The Author

Written by MissDanni
MissDanni is a jill of all trades, from web design to web promotion and everything in between, you might just say web everything. Working in the web industry since 2000 she continues to learn new things everyday. "Nothing is impossible if you are willing to take the time to learn and make mistakes."

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Tags: Google, Technorati, upgrade, wordpress, wordpress 2.5

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