Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'hacked'

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

What happens if you discover a folder on your server that has a bunch of spammy content that has no relevance to your site whatsoever? Typically, Google will deindex your site when it discovers this content. Therefore, you need to...

Posted on November 8, 2007 9:26 AM

A user on WebmasterWorld mentions that his page rankings have dropped considerably after what appears to be a hack attempt on his server. According to the user, a vulnerability on his web host was exploited, and 50,000 new pages on...

Posted on March 20, 2007 9:11 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

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

A DigitalPoint Forums thread discusses how long would it take to get back into the Google index after being kicked out. From the day you submit a reinclusion request, how long will it take to get back into the index....

Posted on October 26, 2006 7:56 AM

Jennifer Convertibles web site [http://www.jenniferfurniture.com/] has been delisted by Google because some hacker got in and generated an infinite number of dynamic affiliate spam pages. Let me start off by explaining that my company, RustyBrick, developed this site years ago,...

Posted on October 24, 2006 8:31 PM

This morning ShoeMoney.com (be careful visiting that site now, may have malicious code on it) was hacked, I reported it over at Cartoon Barry. ShoeMoney.com currently looks like; View Large Image Just do not go to the site, it will...

Posted on October 12, 2006 9:19 AM