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My site was attacked

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Google webmaster central wrote to me several times to notify me that one of the pages on this blog had been attacked by malicious software and had therefore been blocked by google. But I didn’t get notified via email. I just stumbled across it. I recommend that you visit webmaster central often.

I asked my host to fix the page and notify me because I need to notify Google now. My host suggested I upgrade my word press platform, so I did that. There is one error, so far. I’m having trouble getting to Post, although obviously I did because here I am.

Since I did all this maintenance I went back to google webmaster central, only to find that SOMEONE else now owned my site. But after I settled down after the panic attack, I realized that my host has taken over in order to fix the problem. Boy, I hope that is it. Then again, that seems to be a bit naughty, don’t you think?

More posts soon when problems fixed.

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New features on Google Analytics

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If you go to the Google Analytics home page you will see an Application gallery where you can add various features to your analysis of your web site.

However, what I have noticed in my reports is a beta feature which you get to by clicking on Contents and then In Page Analysis. Here you will find that your site shows where visitors are clicking on your page, what percentage that is and what percentage click under the fold. Hover over the percentage bubbles and you will see how many visits that is.

Very useful! To see more than just your home page, leave the google analytics page open and click through other pages.

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My site was hacked

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I received an email from Google to notify me that I had malware on my site. When I went to the offending pages I saw, “Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer” No-one could see the information.

What to do?

The email had a link to Webmaster tools (You must have a Google account).

Click on your site

Click on Diagnostics > malware

You will see down the bottom : Problematic URLs

Click on details

It shows suspected injected code. Mine was an iframe linking to an ad.

Now you might be able to find this and delete it, but I just deleted the subdirectory (it was on a second blog of mine)

I changed my password for my FTP program and my control panel where I host my site. I scanned my site: nothing. So someone had accessed my control panel on my server or my FTP program.

I have lost the posts for this blog because I hadn’t backed it up, but luckily I wasn’t using it much. I’m not sure if the bad code could have been easily removed.

So, keep your virus program up to date, change passwords on your FTP and control panel regularly and back up your blog. Web sites are easier to fix.

Get a good firewall.

Good luck!

Oh, once you have fixed the problem you need to get your site reviewed by Google. Webmaster tools tells you how.

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Squidoo

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I joined Squidoo in its early stages and didn’t really follow it up, but a friend of mine has written many lens (web pages) for squidoo and makes quite bit of money. There are many new features.

The idea is to write about a topic and you share the revenues from Amazon and Google clicks with Squidoo.  I don’t know about you, but my Google clicks are not producing much money at all any more. You can also use text linked ads provided by Squidoo.

I recently wrote about a trip I took to Castlemaine and a review of the DVD  ‘Lilies’ .

You need to write quite a few lens to get your ranking up. There is provision to share on Twitter and Facebook and Squidoo takes care of your Google ranking too.

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Google adsense referrals

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When I use Google adsense codes I just rely on the ads matching my content. However, Google referrals allows you to choose categories yourself and you can see how much a referral will pay.

As of June 2007, Google began their AdSense referral program (the one with non-Google products). Go to AdSense Setup > Referrals page, set your language (like Germany, English), and pick some product categories (like Entertainment and Telecommunications) or specific products. You’ll end up with a code snippet for your website as usual.

The crucial difference between referral ads and normal AdSense is that you won’t get paid per click, but only if the visitor who clicked the ad buys something from that site, too (or performs another action, like a newsletter subscription). And there’s one other layout option which normal AdSense doesn’t have: the link-only ad type, because this link will automatically adjust to your page’s font settings, and not break the text flow (and it will also not carry any Google-branding, or disclosure).


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