Extrernal Link Spam

Mike H
(@mtnweekly)

13 years ago

I did an external link check on my site and was shocked to see the following listed: I can not find these keywords used on my site or links? Please help

[Spam links moderated, Let’s not do the spammers’ jobs for them.]

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Clayton James
(@claytonjames)

13 years ago

Take a look at the source code from your home page. Immediately after the closing head tag:

<body class="home blog custom-background">

<div class="blogup2">

I see a large quantity of spammy external links and content inside this div

A quick scan over at Securi identifies some additional issues/locations to look at. http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/?scan=mtnweekly.com

Some references to get you started. Apologies for the boilerplate-ish appearance of the info..

http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779
http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/
http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/

Additional Resources:

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/
http://www.unmaskparasites.com/
http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/03/wordpress-understanding-its-true-vulnerability.html
http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
http://www.studiopress.com/tips/wordpress-site-security.htm

[edit] another query that might be of interest:

wordpress 404javascript.js

Thread Starter Mike H
(@mtnweekly)

13 years ago

Thanks Clayton, this is a bit over my level of expertise. Know anyone I can hire to fix this?

mvandemar
(@mvandemar)

13 years ago

@mtnweekly – I replied to your email, if you didn’t get it please check your spam folder.

ernesto0721
(@ernesto0721)

13 years ago

its very easy, dou you need help? have your blog autohosted o what?

Thread Starter Mike H
(@mtnweekly)

13 years ago

Thanks Michael,

Looking forward to see what you can do! Excited to work with you again and get this thing resolved. Our traffic dropped from around 1,000 google visitors a day to around 100. Not sure if this is related but it’s a start!

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