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How a Hacked Site Affects Your Google Business Profile Page and the Rest of Your Local SEO
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After 14 years of nary an incident, and despite pretty solid security SOPs, this site was hacked earlier this month and shot up with malware. It was fine last time you read one of my blog posts, and it’s fine now. Most likely the problem was a bad plugin (a common weakness). For now, let’s just say that old Cochise had a bad hoof.
If your business rides on your site, then there’s always a chance you can get hacked, and so can just about everyone else. (Not having a site isn’t a good alternative: you’re still in a forest of Google Maps spam and other spam, and may look even tastier to the local wildlife.) That’s probably not news to you, but a possible hack may seem like an abstract problem that you can’t do much about, or the kind of bridge you cross when y...
