Malware warning to my blog network site - should I keep using the domain?

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Hi,
One of my blog network sites was hacked and malware was installed. Google gives warning to the visitor as a "suspicious website." I did not notice it for a while because it is just for backlinks and the hosting company just suspended the account without letting me know.

Anyway now I contacted the company and they offer to give me a new account to give it a fresh start, though all the data gets lost. That is OK by me because I only used it for backlinks, and there aren't/weren't many pages so I could easily re-build it.

However my question is if it is safe to use the same domain for backlinks even after malware is removed. Maybe I should wait until Google stop giving the warning, but is it safe even then?

It is a strong domain and I would like to keep using it, but of course better safe than sorry.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paz
    Hi,
    I'm afraid I don't have any recent data for you. I had a domain in 2007 that had a malware warning (due to 3rd party hosting) and as soon as I fixed the problem my rankings were as strong as ever within a few days.
    I've had other sites with links warnings and they've taken months/years to recover.

    I don't know but I really think if you can fix the malware problem you will be OK.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by Paz View Post

      Hi,
      I'm afraid I don't have any recent data for you. I had a domain in 2007 that had a malware warning (due to 3rd party hosting) and as soon as I fixed the problem my rankings were as strong as ever within a few days.
      I've had other sites with links warnings and they've taken months/years to recover.

      I don't know but I really think if you can fix the malware problem you will be OK.
      You look at it from a complete different perspective recovering the rankings of your money site.

      He don't want to see his blog network site ranked, he just want to pass on link juice.

      I think you're good to go OP, move the domain to new account/hosting, re-set it all up and link again. I run into these issue's on regular base and it's nothing to worry about, request stopbadware.com to review your site and the malware mention will disappear. Here is a link to do that:

      https://www.stopbadware.org/request-review
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