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How to use Google Alerts to find out if your site gets hacked
- peregrine 17y agoYou would need a slightly larger set of words, but nonetheless an interesting solution.
- streety 17y agoAbsolutely. Perhaps harvest words from blog spam.
- pierrefar 17y agoIt's a good backup solution as by the time Googlebot finds the cracked pages, it's a bit too late. I'd set up a cron job to check the database once a day or 12 hours or so. That's more pre-emptive.
- litewulf 17y agoIn my experience, Googlebot crawls all the freaking time if your site changes "all the freaking time". So basically theres the possibility that you'll be crawled before your daily cron runs...
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoI think you're missing the point. These SEO hackers don't announce themselves by defacing your front page or deleting your database. They insert hidden links in your HTML to boost their PageRank and it's in their interests to go undetected for as long as possible.
- pierrefar 17y agoI'm an SEO and know full well what they're doing. My daily cron job suggestion is to detect their activities.