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Write up of how to spot and deal with potential link insertion hacks, how we solved it and a free checking tool.

Nasty hack to discover this one, hits your rankings before you notice in most cases.
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from esrun 1229 Days ago #
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What a stupid profile pic you donkey

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from deano6410 1229 Days ago #
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My google rankings were virtuall wiped out from this, so am keen to raise awareness.

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from JohnHGohde 1229 Days ago #
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My blog is currently looking into the security issue in general. I found this post confusing and clear as mud.  Offers one tip about removing your page footers to recover.  But, never really identifies how the hackers got control of their blog.But it is yet more proof that not caching your Google content is foolhardy.  As checking your cache copy is how you can detect if your blog has been hacked or not.

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from SEOidiot 1229 Days ago #
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Id agree with the problems with not allowing a cache to be displayed for this purpose alone. There are a number of ways in which they could have achieved what they wanted, the linked article with more detail shows a few.

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from JulieJoyce 1229 Days ago #
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The SEO Chicks blog had this issue and we were properly lectured about keeping Wordpress updated by Dazzlin’ Donna, whereupon we begged the Monkey to fix it, and he did, being a good boy.Who knew hackers were out there???Esrun, I’d like to see your profile pic being the one of you in the rabbit shirt please.

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from SEOidiot 1229 Days ago #
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If he carries on Julie ill post many pics I have of him that perhaps he wouldnt want published :)

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from MikeDammann 1228 Days ago #
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Matt Mullenweg and all the other guys have talked on my blog about it, it’s not really news, but does deserve having attention brought back to it until fixed.

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