It’s no secret that Google Rank Spanked me, tkaing me from a PR 3 to a PR 0 when they went after paid posts. This site had none of those because: A) I work for IZEA / PayPerPost, B) I work for them so I can’t tkae those opps nor any competitors. Yet because of A I got nailed in the first round and never got any Page Rank back.

No I’m not going to crawl on me hands and kness to Google to get it back either. I’ll entertain the other Search Engines and Web Crawlers out there.

However I do use WordPress, and while I didn’t upgrade in a while until a few weeks ago I did have problems with the WordPress versions I was using being suspectible to hack attempts and injecting malicous code into my posts.

While I never figured out how the attacks were being done I did notice that Google noticed. Thanks to Mouseclone for first alerting me to this I set about sanitizing my posts. All was wel and good.

I recieved word from Cassknits that she couldn’t really enjoy the site because Google had slapped a malicous site label on me. Har Har I thought; Google just making a mockery of me, again. Yes in fact a lookup of techraving on google search did show such a branding.

OK, fine. I do have an account with Google and checked the webmaster tools for the site maps.

Sure enough Google said they found malicous code that triggered their flags but also which pages they found it on. Wouldn’t you know it was exactly the kind of scum I had been battling. One post I either didn’t catch or got re-injected.

I reluctantly, but tired of dealing with the security flaws of WordPress, upgraded. So far no new injections have occured. Only a week after the upgrade though I I wasn’t getting hit on evry post :). I did however ask Google to re-evealuate my site to remove the malicious site label. Only took a few days and sure enough I am in the clear from bad things, and that was a week again; no fair thinking I’m writing this apease them.

I don’t wwigh a whole lot of worth on Google in Page Rank or indexing. When I target my keywords carefully and use those to my niche adventagously I have performed very well. Irregardless of my Page Rank. Google is a search engine, just like all the others.

However Google has seemed to take one extra step in that they have the technology and the know-how to protect us from spreading the crap the sticks to the bottom of the intrenet pond. Certainly we can by “some” programs to do this; Google does it for free. We just have to look.

I do have to give them credit for that.

Tags: google, security