What do I do after being hacked?

Question from Laura Thieme from Columbus, OH. “I have a client who was hacked. The SEO consultant said the things were cleaned up, but they weren’t correctly. All 30,000 Viagra/cialis types and paid links have been removed but no improvement in SERPs. We sent reconsideration. What do we do now?”

I would send another reconsideration request, I would also do a site: search and look for site:example.com Viagra, cialis, porn, free sex any nasty spammy terms you can think of jus to make sure all the pages are gone. And I would also look at the keywords at the Webmaster Tools Council to see which keywords you are showing up for, if any of them look like spam or porn or anything like that. Do a fresh look.  You might also invite someone to take a look on the webmaster help forum and say ‘hey, is anything wrong with my site?’ Because sometimes people can spot things there. And make sure you have the current patched version of your software, if you are running wordpress, make sure you update your wordpress installation because sometimes you clean it up and you just get hacked again. So if you do search on Google Webmaster blog hacked there is two or three posts that we’ve done and you can read more about that. And if you really think it’s all completely cleaned up, do another reconsideration request and we’ll hopefully get that back in.

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