Site Recovered from hack, should I submit a reinclusion request?

[Zachary_Russell]

Hello,

The site i'm referring to is http://www.pokeronamac.com, it was hacked via something called the "WordPress Pharma Hack" http://theblawblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/restoring-a-pharma-hacked-wordpress-site-wp-3-4/

We restored it as far as I can tell, but if anyone can confirm this by doing a site search and not getting redirected it would be appreciated. You will see that some search results still show up as spam, but when I click on them, they 404.

I want to know If I should submit a reinclusion request, I wasn't notified by WMT of malaware, so I want to know the SOP here.

Thanks

Zach

[danatanseo]

I once had a site hit by this hack too. It's maddening. Submitting a reinclusion request isn't necessary because your site hasn't been de-indexed. You are correct that the problem pages seem to be 404s now, which is good. You have a couple of options. You can either just wait it out and those 404 pages should eventually drop out of Google's index. This takes patience, but those 404s aren't really hurting you from an SEO standpoint. However, they aren't good from a a visitor standpoint. I understand that. The other option, which also requires some time and patience, is to submit the offending 404 pages via GWT's removal too. It's a bit of a pain because you have to do them one at a time. However, because you have succeeded in getting them to 404, you shouldn't have any trouble getting them removed from Google's index.

The removal request page can be found on GWT by navigating to "Optimization" and then click on "remove URLs" - The interface will keep track of which URLs you've submitted for removal and whether or not your attempt was successful.

Good luck and I hope this helps!

Dana

[conversiontactics]

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And when i use thecache its goes to 404 page. How did you removed the hacked code, Are you sure you have removed the hacked code. its a wired file that needs removing.

Our dev team did the hard way on one of our client site , they deleted all file on the server and installed a fresh version of wordpress.

[Zachary_Russell]

This means that the hack was removed.

What it would do before is redirect people to their ad sites. With it 404inf, that is fine, google just has to remove this from their indicies now.

[BlueprintMarketing]

I know a decent amount about security and I know I do not trust just  Google webmaster tools to rid myself of malware. Regardless of rather you did everything perfectly you can still have times of malware on your computer that you are not yet aware of intentionally hiding from your system. use a free very accurate anti-malware system to check if it is infected. I should tell you I mean free to check not free to fix but at $80 a year and they will fix as many pages as it takes as many times as it takes in one year it is a true bargain. http://sucuri.net/

You might also want to consider using better hosting if you're using WordPress. I would strongly suggest WP engine, ZippyKid, websynthesis.com or Page.ly ( WP engine and Page.ly have pro discounts through SEOmoz)

the other thing unique about them is each of them uses server-side http://sucuri.net/

if you want I will be happy to run your URL if not please run it through the URL here http://sucuri.net/ it looks like they told you to use this product however you're running WordPress.com which is not quite the same as regular WordPress however website is a website.

I hope I was of assistance to you,

Thomas