Warning: Your Google Indexed Site Has Been Hacked!

Don’t panic! Don’t panic!

There’s a good chance that your site has not been hacked. However, if in the future, your web site were to suffer at the hands of some malicious hacker, Google Webmaster Central will alert you to that fact.

Starting this month, we will notify more webmasters of more potential issues we’ve detected on their websites, including:
Starting this month, we will notify more webmasters of more potential issues we’ve detected on their websites, including:

* Spammy or abused user-generated content
* Abused forum pages or egregious amounts of comment spam
* Suspected hacking

These notifications are meant to alert webmasters of potential issues and provide next steps on how to get their sites fixed and back into Google’s search results. If it pertains to a hacking or abuse issue, the notification will point to example URLs exhibiting this type of behavior. These notifications will run in parallel with our existing malware notifications.

The notice will look something like this:... Read Full Article»

Would you like to save hundreds if not thousands of marketing dollars spent on your Web site? Then be very careful when engaging any marketing firm or business who advertisers Web site development and search engine optimization.

Each day I receive a least one solicitation and maybe you have, too, from an established business that announces it can:

* Get me on page one of Google

* Optimize my Web site to improve traffic based upon a diagnostic tool

* Link my site to theirs to increase visitors

Ninety-nine percent of these firms belong in the school of "if it sounds too good to be true it probably is." These business owners subscribe to P.T. Barnum's philosophy of a "sucker being born every minute." They remind me of the snake oil salesmen of years gone by promising the magic elixir that would create incredible health and in some cases even wealth. Read Full Article »»