• I’m far from an expert, or fan, of Google Webmaster Tools, but decided to go there today when my traffic slowed to almost a complete stop. I wondered if I had been hacked.

    There, I found a Site Message saying that Google couldn’t access most of my pages.

    Googlebot couldn’t crawl your URL because your server either requires authentication to access the page, or it is blocking Googlebot from accessing your site.

    Now, I had installed a strict robot.txt a couple months ago to block Google-Images, but not Googlebot.

    I looked under Crawl>Crawl errors>Url errors> and found over 1000 pages over 2 months, had Access denied to Google. They all had this url, or close to it:
    http://donnabarstow.com/wp-content/plugins/count-per-day/ajax.php?f=count&page=358&time=1395209544

    I was trying out plugins that listed popular posts on the admin page, including Count per Day.

    I see that others here have had this problem: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-count-per-day-how-to-delete-completely, and other threads. Not sure why WordPress would allow a plugin like this to be listed here.

    My question is, is it possible that this plugin was hacked, or at least hacked on my site, to cause so many errors for Google, and to get my pages BLOCKED from Google?

    And do I have to re-index each of my pages to Google again?

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