No not me (cross fingers) but a few of my friends have been hacked. And the thing about the hackers is that are spammers using the hacks to send traffic to other sites. The ones that typically do this is porn sites, viagra and all the rest of the porn industry and the whole fake anti virus program group. It seems that like most of the genre it is make money at any cost.
It costs too, cost my friends sites being banned from Google. Hours of work to get rid of the infection then lost of income – and some of that is permanently because Google acts as if the innocent site owners are the culprits.
And now Google is getting hacked from China. So how does that feel, do you know what if feels like to be a victim yet Google? Google has not only it’s own resources but also the US Government has stepped in more than once. So how about the poor site owners that loose everything TWICE – once by the hack and once by the OVER REACTION of GOOGLE. It would be nice for once if Google could use a bit of the 15 billion dollars it has in the BANK and some of it expertise and help track down the real culprits that are using hacks to drive traffic to porn sites and fake anti-virus sites. Here is some info on the hack http://wewatchyourwebsite.com/wordpress/2011/05/what-hackers-wont-do-for-seo/
MMM wonder what their advertising budget is??? Oops well perhaps Google could just post some really good instructions on their web master forum to help clean the sites up. Oh yes and actually get a few people other than the janitor to review sites and give them a clean bill of health to help owners get back on line again.
That wouldn’t be too hard would it??
In the meantime – be real careful!
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