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1. occupiedlondon
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi all,

   I am a bit of a newbie when it comes to website administration so please forgive my ignorance.

   Recently (in late July) we migrated occupiedlondon.org from drupal to wordpress. Our blog, occupiedlondon.org/blog was running on wordpress from the beginning, a separate installation with no problems at all.

   Once the migration of the main website was completed, we did notice a sharp fall in google indexing but thought this must be because of the time google bots would take to crawl the new website. After a while, it was completely gone!

   The website is using a pro theme (arthemia premium) and last night we discovered there were hidden spam links added to footer.php. We're suspecting this has caused a ban from google, except:

   - Google webmaster tools claims the site is indexed as normal. Actually a site:occupiedlondon.org search will show a few (very few) pages are in there somewhere.

   - No e-mail was received from google warning of a ban, trawling the forums seems to indicate that is what they would do.

   Questions!

   Would anyone know

   - how would it be possible to tell if the site is banned?

   - how were these spam links inserted in footer.php and how do we prevent this from happening in the future?

   FYI, we've also got 'All in one SEO pack' installed, together with a few other addons, all of which, together with the wordpress core, are running on their latest versions.

   Many thanks to whoever takes the time to look into this...

2. occupiedlondon
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   thanks for the advice, esmi. I had no idea the pastebin existed! So, the infected index.php file is at http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1577097

3. esmi
   Theme Diva & Mod
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Please don't post huge chunks of code here. For larger blocks of code, use the WordPress pastebin. It makes life easier for everyone.

   What to do if you think you've been hacked:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779
   http://wordpress.org/search/hacked?forums=1

4. occupiedlondon
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   hey,

   a closer google search today has revealed something quite strange. I gave google this:
   site:occupiedlondon.org -greek riots
   to exclude the magazine's blog on the greek revolt, which gets the biggest number of hits.

   What comes up there includes some pdf files and one single page from the journal. Which means that the site is not banned from google, right? But - would anyone have any idea what's going on?

   cheers

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