Couldn’t agree more…

(And cheers for the link – I should really put some time into sorting this site out very sooon!)

Ben

I think what Aaron did there was open up the discussion on blog security and it wasn’t like he didn’t link-out to more qualified/specialist bloggers.

I personally can’t spend every day reading blogs (although I do tend to do a hell of a lot!)…but it’s good that those non-specific topics do creep in to the content that I read to add to my ever-growing things to do’s!

Regarding linking-out, you’re absolutely right. Essentially this article could be called “The Laziness in Linking” or “Convenience before Link Quality”…maybe that last one’s not totally right but you have a good point.

As a link-builder for various smaller and medium-sized sites, much of the link-building has to be a bit more forced, and is never easy! But is absolutely required to build the credibility to be linked into so easily…inbound links certainly do tend to grow exponentially.

Cheers Gab,

Ben M
[Gab: Valuable comment from this SEO Consultant - dofollow for ya.]

Nice to see you drop by my blog!

You’re right of course that there can be mistakes in their articles, which makes sense since they’re writing for an audience that’s often new to the topic. Interesting to hear you don’t think the cloaking’s anything new… you mean to say you’ve seen it before?

Perhaps you might write a post offering some constructive criticism on Aaron’s blogpost, and write your own feature-length guide to it. Get the newbs and pros to know who the veteran WP security guy they should be linking to / citing is (no offense Aaron, just saying Andy’s more authoritative here) .

I don’t think the cloaking is new

I haven’t studied Aaron’s article in depth, I know I do a number of security things differently, though I haven’t written much about it – maybe some of the other articles cover that better.