I’ve been blogging sporadically so it took me a while to notice that the Google ads on this blog have been advertising a big breakfast of pharmaceuticals. My first thought was “hallelujah, I’m going to be rich!” Overnight my site became a billboard for SPAM, and any minute the cash should come rolling in. But I’m not getting any ad clicks at all…
…not that I’m trolling for clicks. Let’s keep things honest here folks. I’m mentioning this click drought as a symptom of the hack.
I’m a little too thick-skulled to figure out exactly what the hackers did to my site and I’m not finding much help on the forums at the minute. But it appears they loaded a ton of keywords into the site header in the following tag: <u style="display: none;">. The huge number of keywords forced the Google ads to display ads not entirely germane to my postings.
Or maybe the keywords were simply there as spider bait and there is still something amiss with the ad scripts. I’ll let you know when I know something.
What I’ve done so far:
1) Upgraded Word Press
2) Changed admin passwords
3) Under theme editor, changed Header to remove hidden keywords