Got the below email from Google today : Dear site owner or webmaster of xxxx, While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html. This appears to be because your site has 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. The following is some example hidden text we found at xxxxxx: free bingo games to play online Nach Angaben von –mer ist der Markteintritt in Polen, Ungarn, Italien, Spanien und Griechenland geplant. It's possible free bingo games to play online county that takes him may be a bit skittish about going public. Deze lijst geeft de gebruikers weer die actief waren in de laatste 5 minuten. Cker -- or, as I suggested, donate it someplace that is antithetical to his views. Invita a las promotoras de salud de la comunidad hispana y al público en general a participar de este fabuloso seminario dirigido a mejorar la salud de la mujer hispana en las Ciudades Gemelas. I can only hold a car if you put a REFUNDABLE deposit on it. [...] In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, we have temporarily removed some of your webpages from our search results. Currently pages from xxxxxxx are scheduled to be removed for at least 30 days. I can't seem to find the offending text on my page, not in the html source as well. Any ideas on this?
Check the source code and in the footer file, analyze if there is a javascript (.js) file inserted that is making this call.
I don't believe Google will be sending such emails, there are billions of pages. Simply not possible. Could it be a phishing email of some sort?
the URL is sportsbookie.com/blog, it's running on wordpress. I don't think it's a phishing mail spam because there's no catch, just a reminder. And the mail is even cc-ed to my registered domain email (probably got it from whois), when you hit reply it goes to so I think it's a genuine email I did a search of the first few text of the suspected spam and found more than 9k identical matches.
Google does do this, see Matts post about Ryan Stewart's blog getting hacked. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/helping-hacked-sites/ But.. I can't find the text, and your site has still got 2,320 pages indexed so it's strange.
Yup, the example email posted on mattcutts site is almost identical to mine. Anyone having any luck finding the offending sentences on my site?
It must be your third party ads or something. Try removing them if there's any. You also need to change your passwords to your control panel. Google did say that somebody has access to your directories. Don't forget to run spyware removal programs on your pc. You may have been hijacked!