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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).

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Millions of people use search engine systems like Google, Yahoo, and others on daily basis. However, not many really understand how these engines work. Despite all search engine systems having different names and differences in search algorithms, they all have the same principle of work.

If we look at the information search online, we can break it into the following stages:

• gathering the information from site pages in the Internet
• indexing sites
• search by request and rendering the results

Let’s look at each one of these stages separately.

Gathering the information

As soon as you launch your site and let some search engine bot know about your new resource (using links to your site, adding it to the “add url” services, or other approaches), the bot will visit you and start going from page to page gathering the information (your text content, images, video, and so on). This process is called data gathering or crawling, which can happen not only when the site is first launched. Robot creates a schedule for your site, when it has to visit it next time, check old information and add new pages, if there are any.

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This subject is not new but still it’s worth keeping in mind. Below I described a method doing which can get your site a decent PageRank (will refer to it as PR later in this post) without any external links.

The PR value can be calculated with the formula below:

PR = (1-d) + d*SUM[PRi/Ci]

I will not dive into the detailed explanation of this formula in this post. If we are all lucky there will be a long post in the future going deep into the world of PR calculations.

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Some people will say – what’s the difference? In reality the difference is huge. Have you worked for someone before? Did you notice in your workplace there is that one person who is a manager, who manages the process, and also there is a person who is a leader, to whom everyone goes for an advice and leverages their behavior?

Sometimes a leader cannot get a promotion. Not always leadership skills are valued above everything else. Sometimes this person is not seen as a manager by the higher ups… There could be many reasons…

There are many different working environments, different co-workers, but often there is a tendency where a manager is not a leader of the work group or a team, and not always a leader is the manager and wants to become one. This is a psychology question that has to do with upbringing, self-value, and determination of a person. We all have different goals in life and we reach them differently as well. Some can present themselves better than others in front of the hiring side, which some will say more “kiss up” or so on. Some people just cannot do it for one or another reason. Some people strive to become managers, and some prefer to just work.

Sometimes a manager gets paid less than the person working for him (leader). Sometimes it can be simply explained – that person working under the manager can bring more profit to the company, than a manager, but that person has declined the promotion offer or has not been offered one yet. This doesn’t mean that he is not valued at his workplace.

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“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
- Chinese Proverb

If you want to succeed, you have to know how to control self motivation. It’s very important to keep will power when meeting obstacles, and only this way you will be able to overcome them. If you lack motivation, you will loose before the fight even begins.

The main question is “How to motivate yourself?”. There are several points here that will help in this case:

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