Access Denied

[NileCruises]

Our website which was ranking at number 1 in Google.co.uk for our 2 main search terms for over three years was hacked into last November. We rebuilt the site but had slipped down to number 4. We were hacked again 2 weeks ago and are now at number 7.

I realise that this drop may not be just a result of the hacking but it cant' have helped.

I've just access our Google Webmaster Tools accounts and these are the current results:

940 Access Denied Errors

197 Not Found

The 940 Access Denied Errors apply to Wordpress Blog pages.

Is it likely that the hacking caused the Access Denied errors and is there a clear way to repair these errors?

Any advice would be very welcome.

Thanks,

Colin

[JasonJackson]

A little more information needed here... can you visit those pages in your browser?  If not, what error shows up?

[NileCruises]

Hi Jason,

I can visit those pages in Google browser.

Colin

[JasonJackson]

Hi Nile

I've found this for you: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2409441

It summarizes why access denied shows up.

My initial thought was that your robots.txt file was maliciously updated to block many of your pages.

[NileCruises]

Thanks so much Jason. I'll take a look right now and be back with a Thumbs Up I'm sure.

Colin

[JasonJackson]

Glad I could help!