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Checking email for this site today I ran across this email from Google Search Quality. At first I thought it was a spam seeing as it was filled with crap about viagra & calliass but was shocked to find that this crap WAS on this blog. Well it seems an older version of Wordpress that I was running has a venerability allowing someone to update your theme files and post all sorts of CRAP into it with links leading back to thier spammy sites. Some one did this since I am a lazy sysadmin and didn’t update wordpress. Broke rule number 2 on the Google webmaster security check list…
Shame on me…
Dear site owner or webmaster of rss-spider.com/blog,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, the offending party gains access to an insecure directory that has open permissions. Many times, they will upload files or modify existing ones, which then show up as spam in our index.
The following is some example hidden text we found at http://rss-spider.com/blog/:
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In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, we have temporarily removed some of your webpages from our search results. Currently pages from rss-spider.com/blog are scheduled to be removed for at least 30 days.
We would prefer to have your pages in Google’s index. If you wish to be reconsidered, please correct or remove all pages (may not be limited to the examples provided) that are outside our quality guidelines. One potential remedy is to contact your web host technical support for assistance. For more information about security for webmasters, see http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist-for-webmasters.html.
When you are ready, please visit https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reinclusion?hl=en to learn more and submit your site for reconsideration.
Sincerely,
Google Search Quality Team