An Interesting Dilema

  • Resolved Juba

    (@brightonseo)


    13 years ago

    Hi
    I have an unusual dilema here.
    My site at http://tenerifeforum.org.es was accessed by someone and they proceeded to add 4 outbound links pointing to the following sites without my consent:

    [ Links redacted, they’re not really needed here ]

    If you go to the homepage, they are not visible but if you view the source code, they have been inserted in the footer section.
    I discovered this because today I was checking my outbound links from my site with seo quake.

    I have submitted a complaint to Google but I really need to find a way to remove the links as they could be damaging my site.
    I paid someone to help secure the site and I suspect they were the ones who did this but now they are not contactsble.

    In the WP admin section, I checked the Editor section but cannot see the links anywhere so they are obviously quite experienced people.

    If anyone knows how these links can be removed, I’d really appreciate the help.

    Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter Juba

    (@brightonseo)

    13 years ago

    Hmm, didn’t work.
    I extracted the functions file from the original copy of the theme, pasted it in the exisitng file for the theme but the site loses the footer section when I do it.
    I’ve put it back again to how it was, it seems these guys deliberately set it up so that you can’t overwrite the existing code.

    Looks like I eitheer lose the footer to get rid of the links, or I have to live with them on the site and risk getting penalised for hidden links.

    Thread Starter Juba

    (@brightonseo)

    13 years ago

    After doing some tinkering, I tried the optio alchymyth gave me of just removing the middle section of the code and it seems to have done the trick.:)

    Thanks for all the help guys.

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