If you use TLA read this..
you know that Google is hunting and killing sites…
do this search : Google
so you can see 2,800,000 blogs wp-content folder ( this is a standard googledork )
how hard would it be for Google to write a script where basically do this…
open folder : http://www.blogherald.com/wp-content/plugins/
fuzzy logic search for TLA_ which would return http://www.blogherald.com/wp-content/plugins/tla_44565.php
yep thats the TLA plugin … banned !
DaveN
ukgimp 1411 days ago
http://www.ukgimp.co.ukAnything that is public has always had the risk of being fooked. Under the table and with big budgets it where it will be in the future and in reality those in the know find it that way now.
Get your crash hats on folks, the pain is coming!
ukpimp 1411 days ago
that does not prove the plugin is enabled, does it
Also I think TLA makes you name the plugin something different now anyways.
sj 1411 days ago
Will Google doing this keep people from buying paid-links? No. Time to grow up!
walter wimberly 1411 days ago
http://blog.waltdesign.comThat is why I have a index.html document in my folder which redirects you to the blog page. Go to http://blog.waltdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/ to see it in action.
There are other ways, setting up an index.php page, .htaccess, etc.
If you are going to use TLA or similar things (I don’t) then you need to be smart enough to not get caught.
JB 1411 days ago
http://findfreestuff.com.aufor starters if someone is selling links with TLA and leaves /wp-content open for crawling, they should get banned! for being an idiot.
second, there is no way Google will ever use such a crude methodology to weed out link sellers. *they* are NOT idiots. consider how many people, little people (my dad), that (recently) stopped selling links on their one money making blog, but never deleted the TLA plugin (just deactivated it).
Just because you find the plugin, does not mean it is active. Google is surely a lot more link-spam-killing ninja than that!
Adam Moro 1411 days ago
http://adammoro.net/gotta love that GHDB… nice find!
Patrick Altoft 1411 days ago
Some bloggers just use TLA for the feedvertising bit. Google would need to flag people for manual review if they wanted to do a proper job of it.
jusack 1410 days ago
yeah – again some stupid bitching …
in google i found 4 hits for inurl:/wp-content/plugin tla_
just stfu, daveboy
Anonymous Coward 1410 days ago
Well the problem is that:
1. TLA allows you to rename the plugin file
2. a blank index.html solves the automatic detection
That method will kill only the blogs that haven’t updated their plugins. And they haven’t done that for the simple fact that they are not using it
learn hacking 1410 days ago
http://secureslash.comJust upload an empty index.html file to /wp-content/plugins/
thats all
Regards,
Karthi
Jens P. Berget 1410 days ago
http://www.slymarketing.comIf you download the new TLA plugin, you can name it whatever you want. Will google still find it eventhough it has a completely different name?
fireblade 1410 days ago
I think paid links work in googles favour, they should just leave it alone and let the free market continue. The more expensive organic SEO becomes the less viable it is for the masses, in turn they get to sell more adwords right?
Xianhong 1409 days ago
They can forbid Google to visit that folder in cpanel.
Anonymous 1408 days ago
Another good reason to restrict indexing of any wp folders. Robots.txt or such like, amazing people don’t think about these things.
Gab 1408 days ago
http://seoroi.com/My site has the TLA plugin, and I don’t sell text links. It’s there for the feedvertising bit. Also, I don’t even have it active as the thing I want to put in my feed isn’t complete yet.
Dev Basu 1407 days ago
http://www.devbasu.comUnless google plays naughty by not following robots.txt this is what I’d use for multiple reasons: pagerank siloing, privacy, dup content issues etc:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /category/*/*
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */*/trackback
Disallow: */*/feed/*/
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /docs
Disallow: /docs/
Disallow: /docs/*
Allow: /wp-content/uploads
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