Google ban...can't figure out current motive
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A couple of weeks ago Google dropped my site from their index. I logged in to webmaster tools and found that they saw loads of nasty keywords on my site, like viagra, cialis, etc. I couldn't see any of those keywords, but I went to hostgator where I host and put in a ticket for help.
Hostgator sent me a reply that they had scanned my site and found that it got hacked through the thumb.php script. They cleaned out the infected file and updated the thumb.php script. I also did a search of every file under my user directory and there are no files that have those words in them.
I also purchased Godaddy's website protection where they do a daily scan of my entire site to make sure there are no vulnerabilities and it comes back clean every day.
The first time I submitted to Google for reconsideration they just replied that my site was still in violation. I have used their 'fetch as googlebot' tool on the pages where they say the nasty keywords appear and the pages come back clean.
The domain they banned is: danielwatrous.com
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask if there is something obvious (or not so obvious) that I'm missing that is in violation of their quality guidelines. If this is not the right place, where do you think I can post to get a better idea of what Google might still be seeing as a violation?
Thank you!
Hostgator sent me a reply that they had scanned my site and found that it got hacked through the thumb.php script. They cleaned out the infected file and updated the thumb.php script. I also did a search of every file under my user directory and there are no files that have those words in them.
I also purchased Godaddy's website protection where they do a daily scan of my entire site to make sure there are no vulnerabilities and it comes back clean every day.
The first time I submitted to Google for reconsideration they just replied that my site was still in violation. I have used their 'fetch as googlebot' tool on the pages where they say the nasty keywords appear and the pages come back clean.
The domain they banned is: danielwatrous.com
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask if there is something obvious (or not so obvious) that I'm missing that is in violation of their quality guidelines. If this is not the right place, where do you think I can post to get a better idea of what Google might still be seeing as a violation?
Thank you!
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