
Example email to a hacked site by Matt Cutts I was on an interesting webinar today. So I decided to repost for Matt's post "Example email to a hacked site by Matt Cutts". I have to admit that the article by Matt Cutts "Example email to a hacked site" would bring a lot of true value to people who are afraid of getting their site hacked... Beyond clear-cut blackhat webspam, the second-biggest category of spam that Google deals with is hacked sites. The most common reaction we hear from webmasters is “The problem is with the Google search. There is nothing wrong with our website.” That’s a real quote from an email one site owner recently sent us. Sadly, it turns out that the site is almost always really hacked. The single best piece of advice I can give to prevent website hacking is “keep your web server software up-to-date and fully patched.” That prevention is much … [Read more...]





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