G Webmaster Tools Suspected hacking

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TrevorB

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Received this message in my G Webmaster Tools account for one
of my websites and not sure what it's about.

Google has detected that some of your pages may contain
hidden text or cloaking, techniques that are outside our Webmaster
Guidelines.

Specifically, we detected that your site may have been modified by
a third party. Typically, the offending party gains access to an insecure
directory that has open permissions. Many times, they will upload files
or modify existing ones, which then show up as spam in our index.


Recommended action
Clean up the hacked content so that your site meets Google's Webmaster
Guidelines.


If you have any questions about how to resolve this issue, please visit
the Webmaster Help Forum.
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This is a wordpress site. I have checked the HTML of all the pages and
can't see anything out of the ordinary. Has anyone received such a
message before?

What do you recommend I do?
 
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This is totally weird question..we got the unnatural link mail but this is something diffrent
 
Yes I know it's weird. I checked everything looking for
suspicious files also, and can't find anything.

They never even gave me a form link to fill for a
reconsideration or anything.

Darn Google, why don't they ever give enough
information about this. Especially if they think
my site has been modified from a 3'rd party, you
would think they would tell me what looks to be
wrong so I can fix it.

I'm at a total loss what to do next about this.
 
TrevorB said:
Yes I know it's weird. I checked everything looking for
suspicious files also, and can't find anything.

They never even gave me a form link to fill for a
reconsideration or anything.

Darn Google, why don't they ever give enough
information about this. Especially if they think
my site has been modified from a 3'rd party, you
would think they would tell me what looks to be
wrong so I can fix it.

I'm at a total loss what to do next about this.
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sound more like a shell has been injected into your site, try running a scan using this tool https://scanmyserver.com/ then report back in this thread so we can help you
 
use sucuri, be safe. ( the server side scan )
 
Did that test on scanmyserver, just waiting to get the results.
 
Try the plugins Wordfence and WP Better Security and see if they find anything
 
Tried Sucuri Site Check as subster suggested and the site came up clean. Still waiting on the results from the other scan that was suggested.
 
How big is your website? Does it contain hundreds of different pages or something more like in the dozens?

Because if the number of pages isn't dramatically high, you could always do a manual check of each page's source code, searching for style="display:none" Is a good start
 
I am paid sucuri subscriber and have site free. But you'd have to pm me all details. I guess you just did the "surface check" as you have to paying subscriber to get the server side file check.
 
WayneInc said:
This is totally weird question..we got the unnatural link mail but this is something diffrent
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Just looked at the scan from scanmyserver and it showed
6 low vulnerabilities that were basically about checking
my sitemap to make sure that secure pages that aren't
supposed to be indexed are not listed, suggestion about
using secure FTP, etc.

I sent a reconsideration request to Google yesterday
requesting more information about why they said my
site was hacked or where these hidden links are.

I think maybe I was sent this by mistake or something.
Will have to wait and see what reply I get back from Google.
 
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