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How to use Google Alerts to watch for your site being hacked
An excellent heads-up from Patrick Altoft at Blog Storm:
Every month thousands of websites get hacked into and have hidden links inserted into the pages by people wanting their spam sites to rank highly in the search engines.
And a suggestion that Google alerts can be used as an early warning system to notify you by email when there is a problem.
Have you been Friday 13th hacked?
Has your website been hacked or defaced over the weekend?
I have already come across one website this morning that was apparently hacked (by having all its page titles changed) last Friday.
Just give your websites a quick check - just in case.
If it has, and it’s a blog - do 4 things:
- Post on your blog that you have been affected.
- Make sure it goes to your RSS feed.
- Take it down and leave a status message on the web address. Possibly create a backup blog (perhaps on Blogspot or Wordpress). Preferably do this NOW, but certainly today.
- Get the site back up ASAP.
If you spot another blogger or somebody else with a serious problem, phone or Instant Message them if you can - or at least send an email.
