marulez
22-08-2007, 04:49 PM
On August 8th, my blog, hosted at justinsomnia.org, disappeared from Google (http://justinsomnia.org/2007/08/yikes-ive-angered-the-google-gods/), completely, utterly without any warning or known provocation (e.g. black hat SEO), sending the traffic to my blog plummeting.
I complained to all known and normal channels, which in my opinion are too few and far between. I checked Google’s Webmaster Central (http://www.google.com/webmasters/) tools, which merely confirmed that my site no longer existed in their index. Frustrating.
Finally I emailed someone at Google that one of my co-workers knew. I felt bad doing this. There are millions of sites in Google. I shouldn’t have to email an individual directly for this kind of support. It just doesn’t scale. But alas. Yesterday morning I got a response. My contact at Google discovered that someone had actually hacked my site and was displaying search engine spam to search engine bots only!
Let me say that again. My blog was hacked! Ugh. So I have to admit I haven’t updated WordPress to the latest version, and I’m sure Gallery is not up to snuff either. What follows is a description of the hack and my eventually successful attempt to figure out who did this to me.
Source (http://justinsomnia.org/2007/08/search-engine-marketeers-are-the-new-script-kiddies/)
I complained to all known and normal channels, which in my opinion are too few and far between. I checked Google’s Webmaster Central (http://www.google.com/webmasters/) tools, which merely confirmed that my site no longer existed in their index. Frustrating.
Finally I emailed someone at Google that one of my co-workers knew. I felt bad doing this. There are millions of sites in Google. I shouldn’t have to email an individual directly for this kind of support. It just doesn’t scale. But alas. Yesterday morning I got a response. My contact at Google discovered that someone had actually hacked my site and was displaying search engine spam to search engine bots only!
Let me say that again. My blog was hacked! Ugh. So I have to admit I haven’t updated WordPress to the latest version, and I’m sure Gallery is not up to snuff either. What follows is a description of the hack and my eventually successful attempt to figure out who did this to me.
Source (http://justinsomnia.org/2007/08/search-engine-marketeers-are-the-new-script-kiddies/)