Ahem, We Have Just Had A Report Someone Has Broke Into Your Blog

I have been skulking around since mid last week after receiving the news that my wee SEO blog had been hacked. Its difficult to explain the feeling, the best I can pit it against was when the sister-in-law had her house burgled – how she cringed at the thought of an unknown someone traipsing through her stuff. Perhaps some may feel that’s quite a strong similarity to assign a blog hack against – to tell the truth that’s just the tip of my anger – this place is my baby, my business, my livelihood.

In truth my sister-in-law had some support that we webmasters haven’t got. She could inform the Police of the crime that took place – the insurance people helped her refurbish those tainted memories however she soon moved on – never fully comfortable after the incident.

What do we have – not a lot truth be told. I did follow the link to the official Google Webmaster Blog appropriately titled “My site’s been hacked – now what?” There you’ll find the opening line proclaim “All right, you got hacked.” Sorta lays a cold impression on you that one. The info contained within is straight forward to understand – no big, confusing statements - just matter-of-fact ways to minimise the damage – after all it is all about damage control – both with Google (protecting their search results from spam links) and with the webmaster.

Just how scary this all is…

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