As owner of Usedtires.com website we have had multiple recent hacking attacks Msnbc, Fox news and Reuters are reporting over 1 million websites have become victims.
Many small website owners are not even aware of the problem including hacking malware,phishing etc being installed onto their websites.
What does the small businessman do? Who and where are the difficult answers to restoring your site and preserving those valuable search engine rankings hopefully on page one for your keywords? The cost in lost advertising revenue and lost sales,restoring the website,recoding the website as a result of the decreased amount of "unique visitors" to our website is now in the thousands of dollars.
Traffic unique vistors and converting those metrics to used tire sales or monetizing thru advertising programs such as Google's Adsense is what all website owners strive for in addition to that coveted page one result from the search engines.
Usedtires.com has had several attacks,we have moved servers rebuilt the entire website with different code ,changed all passwords.We thought we were good.....
The latest attack is from a new angle now we have had our Google search results Hijacked.
Where every business owner strives to be on Page one of the Google results for the keywords that are crucial for their business usedtires.com has been fortunate to continuosly rank well in our Keywords of Used tires,used tire and used tires wholesale and wholesale used tires.
Results from this mornings search for "used tires" returns the following
Usedtires.com online store and used tires wholesale:
Usedtires.com Wholesale Used Tires, Usedtires.com ships container loads of wholesale used tires worldwide direct to your door. Visit our online retail ...
Alexa Traffic Rank for http://www.wanxiangsh.com/: unavailablewww.wanxiangsh.com/ - Cached
Results from this mornings Google search for "wholesale used tires"
Usedtires.com online store and used tires wholesale:
Usedtires.com Wholesale Used Tires, Usedtires.com ships container loads of wholesale used tires worldwide direct to your door. Visit our online retail ...
http://www.wanxiangsh.com/: - Cached
We are in the process of communicating with Google and hope reindexing and caching will clear up the case of our results being hijacked by another domain.
Who does this and why are questions ???......Of course how to regain control of this and make sure it does not happen again is the Big Question...?
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