Comments on: Why You Should Subscribe to Your Own Feed…in Google Reader

By: Melanie Phung

Melanie Phung — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:58 +0000

That’s a really good point. For the same reason, obsessively checking your rankings can give you a heads up that something is wrong. When you go from #1 to nowhere in the SERPs for a term, you can almost guarantee your site got hacked. Check your code for divs set to “display: none”, plug your hole, and file for reinclusion.

By: Tom Gray

Tom Gray — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:20:16 +0000

I believe that this is a security error in WordPress that the latest version corrected. See this article for additional info: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/11/my-blog-was-hacked-is-yours-next-huge-wordpress-security-issues/. The latest version of WP corrects the issue but, like Windows, the installed base of WP users is so huge that it’s too enticing a target for hackers and rogue seo’ers to leave alone. By the way, if you’re using WP, a great plugin that makes updating your version a piece of cake is at http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin.html.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:23:20 +0000

Yes, thanks for the heads up. We are now looking into it and will hopefully get this under control very soon.

By: Al Carlton

Al Carlton — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:30:00 +0000

One of my blogs was hacked the exact same way, bastards! It was actually Google that informed me of the problem, if I'd read the feed more I'd of known a lot sooner. Fullpost about it on SMM, which reminds me I need to do a follow-up post on that.