Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'hack'

A WebmasterWorld thread has a webmaster who noticed his site was spammed and he is anticipating his site to be penalized by Google, and the other search engines. He asked if he should start early and submit a reconsideration request...

Posted on November 3, 2009 9:23 AM

Like I said yesterday, it seems like a greater number of sites are being hacked and injected with malware and/or spam. Heck, I just reported this morning that Green Party was hacked into and removed from the Google index. Google...

Posted on October 27, 2009 9:26 AM

On Sunday, if you searched in Google for [Green Party] you would not find the official Green Party of United States web site, which is at gp.com. Even if you searched for gp.org, Google would not show you the site....

Posted on October 27, 2009 8:53 AM

Back in September 2005, Google began emailing webmasters about violations to the Google webmaster guidelines. Then in March 2006, Google started stepping up those notifications. Webmasters were loving Google reaching out to them with issues, so they can address them...

Posted on March 3, 2009 8:41 AM

We have been covering the consequences of a site getting hacked from the SEO perspective, time and time again. See our hack tag for more articles on that. But it also may impact your Google AdWords campaign. A AdWords Help...

Posted on January 20, 2009 8:26 AM

A Webmaster posted a thread at Google Webmaster Help groups asking why his description for his site shows porn related terms in the snippet. The clear answer was that his site was hacked. The question was posed by a concern...

Posted on January 16, 2009 8:00 AM

A senior member at WebmasterWorld who started posting in 2004, had his server hacked into. He realized this when Google put a temporary ban on his site from showing up in the Google search results. Google does this, because they...

Posted on January 14, 2009 7:48 AM

We've had a careful eye on the multiple Google AdWords accounts that have been hacked, and this forum representation is hardly all of the accounts that really do get attacked. But again, another hapless victim from WebmasterWorld has suffered the...

Posted on October 3, 2008 9:32 AM

A Google Groups thread has several smart webmasters aiding a webmaster who found links on his site via the Google cache. In short, the links are not visible when viewing the page in the browser, but they are visible when...

Posted on March 13, 2008 6:21 AM

Sadly, it is not uncommon to hear of a site that has recently been hacked. Google frequently has to deal with sites that get hacked and code gets injected into the site. If that happens, Google sometimes has to delist...

Posted on January 28, 2008 8:02 AM

Dozens of reports are coming from DigitalPoint Forums that when they tried to go to any Google property on the Google.com domain, they are unsuccessful. It seems like it was an issue limited to many users in India. Some reports...

Posted on January 8, 2008 7:15 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums member found a bunch of modifications to his site, including AdSense code: the code on the page was not his. This isn't the first time this happened and it's probably not the last. Some precautions: Check your...

Posted on October 8, 2007 10:20 AM

GregOne posted a thread at WebmasterWorld and HighRankings Forums about how his Google AdWords account was hacked into. By reviewing both threads and all the posts, I was able to piece together some of the story. It appears that some...

Posted on April 25, 2007 7:46 AM

Matt Cutts wrote an excellent blog post named How google handles hacked sites. This is very interesting to me, since I had a similar situation with a client in the past (see Jennifer Convertibles Web Site Hacked & Delisted In...

Posted on December 4, 2006 7:45 AM

AussieWebmaster posted a thread at Search Engine Watch Forums with a link to a blog post named How to remove your competitors from MSN Live! In short, the "hack" is to generate enough duplicate content on your competitors site, so...

Posted on November 10, 2006 7:12 AM

We all know about PPC fraud and that some of the fraud is caused by bots (robots) that click on the ads and drive up your bill and unwanted traffic. But it gets more serious than that. Bot are also...

Posted on November 8, 2006 6:56 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports how someone with an Invision Power Board, a popular discussion forum software, found Google AdSense code embedded on his site, without him doing it himself. So if you have forum software, double check that it is...

Posted on October 27, 2006 8:10 AM

On Saturday a post went up on the Google Blog at 05:07:34 PM (PST) with the title, "Google Click-to-Call project cancelled." The post read; After concientiously considering, Google has decided not to continue with Google Click-to-call project. The project has...

Posted on October 9, 2006 7:29 AM