Yes, you read it right and I’ll get to that in a minute but first…
Checking my stats today on a search engine geeks favorite little game I was pleasantly surprised to find this site ranked #5 on Google for the coolest guy on the planet – no quotes.
Considering I haven’t touched this site (as far as optimization) since my last post in July, and I’ve been ranked up on the 7th or 8th page, sometimes not at all. I was happy as a clam to see that I was back on page #1 for Google.
This sometimes happens when sites are new so if you see it happening to you, don’t worry. It’s called Google’s sandbox and your site can sometimes end up there even if you are doing nothing wrong. I’ve used only white hat SEO on this site, but even if you do that…if your optimization is too good, too fast you could end up sitting out on the benefits for a couple months.
Now as you see I’m back on the front page and enjoying the perks of having other SEO geeks like me be able to find me. Who knows some of them may become my customers or some of them may become JV partners. The point is when you follow good white hat practices you do end up on top, and if you do it right you’ll stay there for a long time enjoying the benefits of FREE traffic.
Now back to the hack…
Today I noticed wordpresssupplies.com listed as a link in my blogroll.
I thought for a minute, “did I put that there” or “was that the designer of my wordpress template”
(note: I’ve changed my wordpress template since this happened. Say “hi” to Napolean)
When I realized the answer to both of my self questions was NO I decided to investigate.
A quick search turned up a very useful and in-depth post by Chaos Laboratory
If you find unknown links for vacation rentals, wordpresssupplies.com or any other link you don’t remember go check out Chaos Lab they’ve got the answer to your problems.
Supposedly this issue can come back even after deleting it, so before I dig into my wordpress files I’m gonna wait and see if this link magically reappears.
Until next time… get them spammers!
-Jae
