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In our last post we wrote about a mal­ware script we have been deal­ing with the past cou­ple of weeks. That it was being injected into Word­Press footer files and how to remove it.

If you find this quickly and deal with it, there is min­i­mal impact to your site. But if you don’t dis­cover it quickly, you could end up on Google’s ‘Attack Site’ list and they will block vis­i­tors from vis­it­ing your site.

Curi­ous about your site’s health sta­tus? Google has a tool for check­ing to see if there are any prob­lems with your site. Replace the last part of this link with your domain they will show you a report:

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=yoursiteurl.com

Right now we’re going back to our topic for this post… How to sub­mit your site to Google after you have cleaned up fol­low­ing a mal­ware attack.

First thing you are going to need is an account at Google Web­mas­ter Tools.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

Once you have an account set up, you will need to add a web­site. There’s a but­ton for this promi­nently dis­played on the index page. Click on it and you will be offered a field to enter your site url. I usu­ally have this on my clip board ready to paste in.

Next they will require you ver­ify own­er­ship the site. There are sev­eral dif­fer­ent meth­ods offered. You can add a meta tag they pro­vide or down­load an html file, which you then upload to your site. This fast and easy as long as you have an FTP pro­gram or web site author­ing tool with file trans­fer set up. Explain­ing how to use these is beyond the scope of this post and if you don’t how to do this, you are some­one who should have pro­fes­sional help.

Once you have uploaded the google html file or inserted the meta tag into your home page header, go back to the Google Web­mas­ter tools page [still open I hope!] and hit the ‘ver­ify site’ button.

There are var­i­ous things you can look at in Web­mas­ter Tools but we in there for a par­tic­u­lar rea­son at the moment. We want to get our site pro­nounced healthy and open to vis­i­tors again. To do this, look for the ‘diag­nos­tics’ link on the left side bar. Click­ing will expand the menu. The ‘mal­ware’ link take you to a page with an alert that your site is blocked. Here is where you will be able to sub­mit your site and add a lit­tle mes­sage about what you have done to clean out the malware.

That’s all there is to it. It’s not hard but then we do this for a liv­ing. If you need help with this or some­thing else on your site that is beyond your tech­ni­cal com­fort level. Con­tact us!

Happy Trails,

Billy

PS -  Next post we’ll talk about a few plug-ins to help with security.

While on Face­book I read that the Health Care Bill in the US passed.  I wanted to learn more about it so did a search through Google and could not find the lat­est news (this was last night).  I then went to Twit­ter and there were lots of post about this.

So a ques­tion, where are folks get­ting the infor­ma­tion that is posted on Twit­ter and Face­book before Google, Yahoo, Bling, etc. have it listed.  If it is on the TV, radio, then how does it hit in social media first before the news wires pick it up and have it posted — OR — is it all related to search?

So are we the reporters now, and if so, can we trust what is being reported?  I know / I know… but think about it.  It’s not just the top news sto­ries, it is also what is being reported for the lat­est issues with SEO, search engine updates, and so much more.

So my ques­tion, do we trust what is being reported in social media or do we trust what we even­tu­ally see in news reports through search engine searches?

Jan

Over the last few days I have noticed that when I type in a search term the results I get have noth­ing to do with my search, or if they do they go to a site that has noth­ing to do with my search term. Here is an exam­ple of when I did a search on facebook.com

Even the sec­ond one that clearly states www.facebook.com is not when I click on it. This is just one exam­ple of many. What the heck is going on?!

Has any­one else had this problem?

Jan