SORRY - WE'VE BEEN 'INJECTED'

Thursday 5th February 2009

Basically, this means that our news section has been infiltrated by spammers. And our main keywords, according to Google’s search engines, are medical based – if you know what I mean. Looking on the bright side, they only do this to popular sites – every cloud as they say.

Whilst this is a little annoying (we had over 200 marketing article, news items and tips on there) it does show that our SEO procedures are working well. For those interested: here’s what happened.

For our news section we used propriety blogging software called WordPress. It’s great as a starter site or your can customise it and integrate it within your existing site. However, as it’s so widely used it’s a great target for spammers. What they do is create a bug that infiltrates the system and ‘injects’ lots of URLs (web addresses) into your code.

Thankfully, we do a regular SEO assessment for our clients (and ourselves) to see what the search engines are reporting for the site. One of these reads shows the top ten keywords that Google associates with your website. This is where we discovered our new venture as an online chemist!

What this means is that our news section is removed immediately, none of our clients (with relatively high traffic websites) will use WordPress again and that we need a new plan.

Don’t worry, more informative blogs, articles and marketing tips will be here soon.

 

 

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