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How to use Google Alerts to find out if Your Website was Hacked?

Every day hundreds of sites become victims of hackers. These bad boys place hidden links to the spam resources in order to increase the rating of those spam sites.

Many SEO companies report many hacked sites a day. Often it happens when the site owner asks them to determine why the search engine traffic all of a sudden drops to lower numbers.

In 2007 and 2008 the website hacking where hackersplace their links on a target resource has grown a lot. There you have a Black Hat SEO at work.

No search engine system will notify you about the discovery of multiple links to the “black” or spam sites – they will just stop sending you traffic to the pages where they find the spam links. If the hacker adds a code to just some pages, then the traffic will decrease a little bit and it will be much harder to diagnose the problem.

This being said, the thing that we need is the live notifications, right on the spot when this stuff happens and the links are added. Sinc hackers hide their links from everyone, except for the search engines, then we have to use the search engine (or write your own crawler to crawl the site and links).

We are lucky to have Google Alerts, which lets us perform a wide search of our site and also lets us receive live notifications via email about those pesky hacker links placed without our knowledge on our sites. Of course you will not be able to control every single element the search engine processes, but for the simple general analysis you will not need that knowledge and access level to the search engine.

First we must determine the most likely keywords that hackers can add to our site and then use them in forming the search request. For example it could be something like this:

Prozac OR Levitra OR Viagra OR Phentermine OR Xanax site:profitseo.com (insert “your site address” instead of the “profitseo.com”)

Then, in Google Alerts enter the requests, which you formed in the “Create a Google Alert” and you will receive the notifications each and every time Google identifies the word you have chosen in your string of keywords. The Google Alerts window should look something like this:

Good luck to all webmaster heroes out there!

Beck @ ProfitSEO.com

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