I found out a few weeks back that someone hacked my WMT account and created a user. I deleted it and changed the password. I never thought to check for bogus sitemaps, at the t
shot in the dark...
is it possible to wipe your analytics account all together and start fresh?
Like formatting a hard disk?
Of course it would mean your data for the past is gone, but that doesn't hurt your site.
Just a thought, I don't even know if it's possible or not.
Jimbo
found this
http://searchengineland.com/removing-urls-from-the-index-in-bulk-159646
HOW TO REMOVE BULK URLS....SCROLL DOWN TILL YOU FIND THIS
Use With Great Care: The URL Removal Tool
The URL removal tools provided by the search engines themselves are the way to get things done fast. However, use this with extreme care. Doing this incorrectly can take your site (or part of your site) out of the index for extended periods of time. If you have any discomfort at all about how to use the tool, then do not use it. Simply rely on the other tools outlined above and wait out Google and Bing’s crawl times.
If you have survived the test of the disclaimers, here is what the URL removal tool does for you: It is fast. You don’t need to wait for Google or Bing to crawl the pages. You can get the pages out quickly. The tool will allow you to remove:
A page
A folder
Your entire site
You can find the tool within Google Webmaster Tools here:
It's someone in Japan that has thousands of pages selling stuff... indexed under my domain... not sure what benifit they get, unless they are doing something illegal and trying to cover there tracks.
Maybe this should be directed to Carson. There are a number of computer gurus on here, Izpowashere, is one who comes to mind
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Anybody know how to fix this crazy situation?
I found out a few weeks back that someone hacked my WMT account and created a user. I deleted it and changed the password. I never thought to check for bogus sitemaps, at the t
You do realise someone has access to your website?
Sitemaps are submitted to Google by logging into WMT > Going to your domain > uploading a sitemap. The sitemap has the form - yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml ( or something similar )
It can only come from your domain.
If I have your WMT password, I can't upload a random sitemap from elsewhere in WMT for that domain - it has to emanate from your domain.
So someone has access to your site. They must have in order to add sitemaps.
You need to see what kind of crap is on there as if there is 147,000 pages under your domain name and they aren't yours - that would indicate a pretty big issue.
See what you can find when you FTP - the pages must hidden there somewhere. Get them deleted. I'd contact WA hosting and get them to look at the files on your site and see what's hiding and where.
But that doesn't address the cause of the problem. You need to find out how they got in , so you can plug the hole.
Is your password easily crackable? '12345678' or a simple word?
If it's a proper password ' 7&8Hg;$#bb/G!@! ' for example then it looks like people got in elsewhere - as they aren't going to crack that in a hurry. So must be a vulnerability somewhere else.
in which case, you need to look at the themes and plugins that you are using. Anything not updated? Using anything dodgy?
When you find the cause, also add Securi or similar plugin to help protect against this sort of thing or at least notify you when it happens.
Hey hun, great info ...what is Securi ? can you tell us about it......i thought the protection at WA would have stopped that sort of thing....do we all need to think about more protection for our domains? :-))
It's a plugin : https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/
Hopefully you changed all your passwords T1967 - as you made a post a few days ago which showed them all. Anyone here could get access to your site.
There's nothing WA can do if people disclose their passwords publicly or use a very simple one.
Yeah, all got changed straight away.....the site went down anyway as it was apprently in the cateory for themes that WA will no longer host......thought i was safe....was not....so now i am still trying to find a safe theme that will not be in the next round of site themes to be UNSUPPORTED......whenever that happens agian. ...:-)) any tips.......i also need to find a pretty hip one seeings how i cannnot afford to go yearly so wilil be restriced with access to the php files :-)) xoxox
I think will install that plug-in straight away :-)) why did the WA security not stop steves attack/hack do you think?
Stop worrying about your theme. There are far more important things to put your time into - such as making good content for the site.
Choose one of the most popular free themes that Wordpress has available. Get some ideas with a search for 'Best free Wordpress themes' on Google. None will need access to PHP files and if they do then you shouldn't be using it anyway - as it'll cause you headaches in the future.
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WA has a good level of security - but there's not much it can do if someone gives away their password; uses a very simple password, uses the same password as for another site which a hacker might have accessed, or uses plugins or themes which aren't from a legitimate source etc
Thanks... I knew someone would know more than I do. I looked at files by FTP but have no clue what to look for. I did not see anything obvious. The domain is hosted outside WA. The host ran a securi check and claim the site is secure.
Not sure what to do, really. All the stuff they added is in Japanese, but I don't see anything like it in the files.
Thanks.
You might have some dodgy code in the theme - that can give people access to your WMT, see: https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/09/malicious-google-search-console-verifications.html
People got in somewhere. Are your plugins and themes are all 100% legitimate and the latest version? That's often how people get it. It might also be that someone got access to the server your site is hosted on - via another site on that server and is wreaking havoc with other sites too.
So I'd ask your hosting company for help - which you'll probably have to pay for - as you need someone who knows what they are doing t identify the problem and fix it a.s.a.p.
Good content aint no good if my theme keeps crashing and my site goes down and no-one can ready the content now is it :-))
As I said :
Choose one of the most popular free themes that Wordpress has available. Get some ideas with a search for 'Best free Wordpress themes' on Google. None will need access to PHP files and if they do then you shouldn't be using it anyway - as it'll cause you headaches in the future.
Thousands of other people here at WA have chosen themes that work fine. You can too.
Well i have done all that and i cant find a theme that will do what i want it to do without accessing the php.....if you have any ideas i am all ears :-))
I see so many people with so many bits of what i want but no one who has got what i want....i have looked and spoke to others that are not hosting there main websites with WA and they have no probs what so ever...any theme as long as it is regularly maintained and access to php and never a problem with plugins.......might be my route...i need to keep mine safe at all times and i have been locked out too many times in the last month and i am still unable to login via wp as so many others are doing.........
And FYI my content is comming along swimmngly and i am not falling behind with my plans i am just doing it in a way where my interaction with my site is at a minimum .....there is more than one way to skin a cat....if i had the yearly fee availbale to me i would not be in this position but i do not and i am not alone ...there are many many other people here at wa who are experiencing problems with there themes too :-)) xox
shot in the dark...
is it possible to wipe your analytics account all together and start fresh?
Like formatting a hard disk?
Of course it would mean your data for the past is gone, but that doesn't hurt your site.
Just a thought, I don't even know if it's possible or not.
Jimbo
found this
http://searchengineland.com/removing-urls-from-the-index-in-bulk-159646
HOW TO REMOVE BULK URLS....SCROLL DOWN TILL YOU FIND THIS
Use With Great Care: The URL Removal Tool
The URL removal tools provided by the search engines themselves are the way to get things done fast. However, use this with extreme care. Doing this incorrectly can take your site (or part of your site) out of the index for extended periods of time. If you have any discomfort at all about how to use the tool, then do not use it. Simply rely on the other tools outlined above and wait out Google and Bing’s crawl times.
If you have survived the test of the disclaimers, here is what the URL removal tool does for you: It is fast. You don’t need to wait for Google or Bing to crawl the pages. You can get the pages out quickly. The tool will allow you to remove:
A page
A folder
Your entire site
You can find the tool within Google Webmaster Tools here:
It's someone in Japan that has thousands of pages selling stuff... indexed under my domain... not sure what benifit they get, unless they are doing something illegal and trying to cover there tracks.
Maybe this should be directed to Carson. There are a number of computer gurus on here, Izpowashere, is one who comes to mind
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Hey Y'all... Wanna help me out? I am creating a landing page to promote free websites and would like to include some honest quotes from members. Would you write a sentences or
Anybody serious about starting an online business absolutely needs a websites. To get them for free is amazing.
I also think what you get as an upgraded member is outstanding value for money
I have never seen anything like it. The free courses are simply amazing. They taught me so much and gave me all of the tools that I needed to build my first free website.
The two free sites are more than enough, at least for me. One is for my original site where I work the most on creating content and the other I used as a test site where I test everything (themes/plugins/widgets) before I used it on the original one. - Meina
Two free websites from Wealthy Affiliate is an excellent way to begin building an online presence. Your future will be enjoyable and rewarding.
Barry
*The two free websites that WA offers with its free membership is unprecedented and only part of the package they provide in order to help you succeed without spending a dime of your own money.
*If you don't mind, I may use this myself as well. I don't think I can come up with anything better :-)
The two free websites are really important for starting your business because you can try different niches and ideas to see what works and on what you really want to work in the future. And once you buy a domain name it's really simple to transfer all your work there. - Ursulla
all i can say is that this guy is amazing and did help me out when i first came in without expecting anything in exchange =)
Having the two free websites is absolutely crucial to starting/building a great online business. Plus, everything you build on those two websites can be completely transferred to your own domain when YOU'RE ready! - Barry Canada
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How did you feel about two free sites?
Hey Y'all... Wanna help me out? I am creating a landing page to promote free websites and would like to include some honest quotes from members. Would you write a sentences or
Anybody serious about starting an online business absolutely needs a websites. To get them for free is amazing.
I also think what you get as an upgraded member is outstanding value for money
I have never seen anything like it. The free courses are simply amazing. They taught me so much and gave me all of the tools that I needed to build my first free website.
The two free sites are more than enough, at least for me. One is for my original site where I work the most on creating content and the other I used as a test site where I test everything (themes/plugins/widgets) before I used it on the original one. - Meina
Two free websites from Wealthy Affiliate is an excellent way to begin building an online presence. Your future will be enjoyable and rewarding.
Barry
*The two free websites that WA offers with its free membership is unprecedented and only part of the package they provide in order to help you succeed without spending a dime of your own money.
*If you don't mind, I may use this myself as well. I don't think I can come up with anything better :-)
The two free websites are really important for starting your business because you can try different niches and ideas to see what works and on what you really want to work in the future. And once you buy a domain name it's really simple to transfer all your work there. - Ursulla
all i can say is that this guy is amazing and did help me out when i first came in without expecting anything in exchange =)
Having the two free websites is absolutely crucial to starting/building a great online business. Plus, everything you build on those two websites can be completely transferred to your own domain when YOU'RE ready! - Barry Canada
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It is said that expressing gratitude regularly can lead to a happier life. Since I love my WA family so much I thought I could help to get you to express gratitude and thus rai
I truly believe in Gratitude. I have read "The Magic" and regularly practice the 28 days of Magic. I admit I do struggle to complete it all the way through but every time I have practiced Gratitude good things come into my life. As it is 1st February, I am starting again. I'll let you know what happens.
That is fantastic and I would love to keep up with how it is going. Thanks for stopping by and thanks for sharing!
No problem. Just about to write 10 things I am grateful for in my journal. I really believe this is a great way to bring good things into your life - by being grateful for every little thing you have, no matter now small.
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What are you grateful for today?
It is said that expressing gratitude regularly can lead to a happier life. Since I love my WA family so much I thought I could help to get you to express gratitude and thus rai
I truly believe in Gratitude. I have read "The Magic" and regularly practice the 28 days of Magic. I admit I do struggle to complete it all the way through but every time I have practiced Gratitude good things come into my life. As it is 1st February, I am starting again. I'll let you know what happens.
That is fantastic and I would love to keep up with how it is going. Thanks for stopping by and thanks for sharing!
No problem. Just about to write 10 things I am grateful for in my journal. I really believe this is a great way to bring good things into your life - by being grateful for every little thing you have, no matter now small.
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I very interested and wise man man asked me this question today. So what do you think?
How does what makes people extradinary apply to your life, business or blog?
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Extraordinary people know that there is no such thing as failure. Everything that they do is a part of the journey through life and they know that so long as they remain faithful to their vision there can only be success. And they usually have a sense of humour to get through those days when life throws up its little obstacles.
Extraordinary people are curious about everything and anything that is in and about our life. They also find satisfaction in sharing themselves and are interested in your life too. This is a good topic. Thanks
The first person who came to mind for me was Mother Teresa. What made her extraordinary is the she put her faith in action for the good of others.
These exemplary people are role models for those who are curious. In my case, they touch my life in every way because of their passion, wisdom, compassion, knowledge and paying it forward. Knowledge is the key! WA is inspirational and teaches these principals. Ya gotta love it!!! Cheers, Bunny
I believe everyone is extraordinary. Some achieve amazing publically extraordinary things while others achieve extraordinary things quietly ...some never discover their unique and extraordinary talents because of self doubt and mistrust in themselves. As members of a community we have the unique opportunity to ensure the people we encounter and meet are reminded of their brilliance and supported to achieve amazing and extraordinary things
An extraordinary life comes from extraordinary efforts to build extraordinary income that allows the kind of freedom extraordinary people experience.
Success does not happen on accident or by some magical event. It is the direct result from the things you do.
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Why do you think some people live such extradinary lives?
I very interested and wise man man asked me this question today. So what do you think?
How does what makes people extradinary apply to your life, business or blog?
I ver
Extraordinary people know that there is no such thing as failure. Everything that they do is a part of the journey through life and they know that so long as they remain faithful to their vision there can only be success. And they usually have a sense of humour to get through those days when life throws up its little obstacles.
Extraordinary people are curious about everything and anything that is in and about our life. They also find satisfaction in sharing themselves and are interested in your life too. This is a good topic. Thanks
The first person who came to mind for me was Mother Teresa. What made her extraordinary is the she put her faith in action for the good of others.
These exemplary people are role models for those who are curious. In my case, they touch my life in every way because of their passion, wisdom, compassion, knowledge and paying it forward. Knowledge is the key! WA is inspirational and teaches these principals. Ya gotta love it!!! Cheers, Bunny
I believe everyone is extraordinary. Some achieve amazing publically extraordinary things while others achieve extraordinary things quietly ...some never discover their unique and extraordinary talents because of self doubt and mistrust in themselves. As members of a community we have the unique opportunity to ensure the people we encounter and meet are reminded of their brilliance and supported to achieve amazing and extraordinary things
An extraordinary life comes from extraordinary efforts to build extraordinary income that allows the kind of freedom extraordinary people experience.
Success does not happen on accident or by some magical event. It is the direct result from the things you do.
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I am not looking for any other place to go... I am extremely happy here at WA and I am paid up until the end of November. I am preparing to write a review on Fizzle and thought
Fizzle have a one month for one dollar offering, so you have to give your credit card information. Fizzle started end of 2014, before that they just blogged. I joined for one month, but cancelled because the money. I liked it, the team is cool. Many instruction videos they talk personally to the camera. They have some cool courses for online business entrepreneurs. The web design is fresher compared to WA. But at WA you can find a lot more information (10 years more experience), the community is much larger and more interaction (But maybe now, after a year it changed there.) And the courses at WA are more minimalistic with screencasts, but easier to follow. You know what exactly to do, just follow the instructions and one step at a time you come closer to your goals. My conclusion: Wealthy Affiliate was my choice for joining long term, but maybe in the future, when my websites are finished I join the Fizzlers for a while again for some networking. I like the WA Community so much I guess I'll be a lifetime member.
Fizzle is another online training community for internet entrepreneurs, with video training and a community of entrepreneurs that refer to themselves, now, as Fizzlers. Started in 2014. I am writing a full review and will share the link here when I am done.
Hi my friend Paul,
Fizzle is another online training community for internet entrepreneurs, with video training and a community of entrepreneurs that refer to themselves, now, as Fizzlers. Started in 2014. I am writing a full review and will share the link here when I am done.
Stephen
have seen reviews on it which has been mostly positive it seems like it is on a similar basis to here, though instead of touching base with founders they have customer service, and the community is not as active, it would seem even those who have left have no real negative remarks
Thanks for sharing... I found some of the same things about Affilorama. Both, however, use a forum for community communication, whereas here we kave that communication through classroom comments and questions but there is also a 24/7 live chat.
And Fizzle ask for you credit card up front even before you can get into the FREE trial.
Stephen
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Anyone have any insight on wa vs fizzle?
I am not looking for any other place to go... I am extremely happy here at WA and I am paid up until the end of November. I am preparing to write a review on Fizzle and thought
Fizzle have a one month for one dollar offering, so you have to give your credit card information. Fizzle started end of 2014, before that they just blogged. I joined for one month, but cancelled because the money. I liked it, the team is cool. Many instruction videos they talk personally to the camera. They have some cool courses for online business entrepreneurs. The web design is fresher compared to WA. But at WA you can find a lot more information (10 years more experience), the community is much larger and more interaction (But maybe now, after a year it changed there.) And the courses at WA are more minimalistic with screencasts, but easier to follow. You know what exactly to do, just follow the instructions and one step at a time you come closer to your goals. My conclusion: Wealthy Affiliate was my choice for joining long term, but maybe in the future, when my websites are finished I join the Fizzlers for a while again for some networking. I like the WA Community so much I guess I'll be a lifetime member.
Fizzle is another online training community for internet entrepreneurs, with video training and a community of entrepreneurs that refer to themselves, now, as Fizzlers. Started in 2014. I am writing a full review and will share the link here when I am done.
Hi my friend Paul,
Fizzle is another online training community for internet entrepreneurs, with video training and a community of entrepreneurs that refer to themselves, now, as Fizzlers. Started in 2014. I am writing a full review and will share the link here when I am done.
Stephen
have seen reviews on it which has been mostly positive it seems like it is on a similar basis to here, though instead of touching base with founders they have customer service, and the community is not as active, it would seem even those who have left have no real negative remarks
Thanks for sharing... I found some of the same things about Affilorama. Both, however, use a forum for community communication, whereas here we kave that communication through classroom comments and questions but there is also a 24/7 live chat.
And Fizzle ask for you credit card up front even before you can get into the FREE trial.
Stephen
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You do realise someone has access to your website?
Sitemaps are submitted to Google by logging into WMT > Going to your domain > uploading a sitemap. The sitemap has the form - yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml ( or something similar )
It can only come from your domain.
If I have your WMT password, I can't upload a random sitemap from elsewhere in WMT for that domain - it has to emanate from your domain.
So someone has access to your site. They must have in order to add sitemaps.
You need to see what kind of crap is on there as if there is 147,000 pages under your domain name and they aren't yours - that would indicate a pretty big issue.
See what you can find when you FTP - the pages must hidden there somewhere. Get them deleted. I'd contact WA hosting and get them to look at the files on your site and see what's hiding and where.
But that doesn't address the cause of the problem. You need to find out how they got in , so you can plug the hole.
Is your password easily crackable? '12345678' or a simple word?
If it's a proper password ' 7&8Hg;$#bb/G!@! ' for example then it looks like people got in elsewhere - as they aren't going to crack that in a hurry. So must be a vulnerability somewhere else.
in which case, you need to look at the themes and plugins that you are using. Anything not updated? Using anything dodgy?
When you find the cause, also add Securi or similar plugin to help protect against this sort of thing or at least notify you when it happens.
Hey hun, great info ...what is Securi ? can you tell us about it......i thought the protection at WA would have stopped that sort of thing....do we all need to think about more protection for our domains? :-))
It's a plugin : https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/
Hopefully you changed all your passwords T1967 - as you made a post a few days ago which showed them all. Anyone here could get access to your site.
There's nothing WA can do if people disclose their passwords publicly or use a very simple one.
Yeah, all got changed straight away.....the site went down anyway as it was apprently in the cateory for themes that WA will no longer host......thought i was safe....was not....so now i am still trying to find a safe theme that will not be in the next round of site themes to be UNSUPPORTED......whenever that happens agian. ...:-)) any tips.......i also need to find a pretty hip one seeings how i cannnot afford to go yearly so wilil be restriced with access to the php files :-)) xoxox
I think will install that plug-in straight away :-)) why did the WA security not stop steves attack/hack do you think?
Stop worrying about your theme. There are far more important things to put your time into - such as making good content for the site.
Choose one of the most popular free themes that Wordpress has available. Get some ideas with a search for 'Best free Wordpress themes' on Google. None will need access to PHP files and if they do then you shouldn't be using it anyway - as it'll cause you headaches in the future.
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WA has a good level of security - but there's not much it can do if someone gives away their password; uses a very simple password, uses the same password as for another site which a hacker might have accessed, or uses plugins or themes which aren't from a legitimate source etc
Thanks... I knew someone would know more than I do. I looked at files by FTP but have no clue what to look for. I did not see anything obvious. The domain is hosted outside WA. The host ran a securi check and claim the site is secure.
Not sure what to do, really. All the stuff they added is in Japanese, but I don't see anything like it in the files.
Thanks.
You might have some dodgy code in the theme - that can give people access to your WMT, see: https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/09/malicious-google-search-console-verifications.html
People got in somewhere. Are your plugins and themes are all 100% legitimate and the latest version? That's often how people get it. It might also be that someone got access to the server your site is hosted on - via another site on that server and is wreaking havoc with other sites too.
So I'd ask your hosting company for help - which you'll probably have to pay for - as you need someone who knows what they are doing t identify the problem and fix it a.s.a.p.
Good content aint no good if my theme keeps crashing and my site goes down and no-one can ready the content now is it :-))
As I said :
Choose one of the most popular free themes that Wordpress has available. Get some ideas with a search for 'Best free Wordpress themes' on Google. None will need access to PHP files and if they do then you shouldn't be using it anyway - as it'll cause you headaches in the future.
Thousands of other people here at WA have chosen themes that work fine. You can too.
Well i have done all that and i cant find a theme that will do what i want it to do without accessing the php.....if you have any ideas i am all ears :-))
I see so many people with so many bits of what i want but no one who has got what i want....i have looked and spoke to others that are not hosting there main websites with WA and they have no probs what so ever...any theme as long as it is regularly maintained and access to php and never a problem with plugins.......might be my route...i need to keep mine safe at all times and i have been locked out too many times in the last month and i am still unable to login via wp as so many others are doing.........
And FYI my content is comming along swimmngly and i am not falling behind with my plans i am just doing it in a way where my interaction with my site is at a minimum .....there is more than one way to skin a cat....if i had the yearly fee availbale to me i would not be in this position but i do not and i am not alone ...there are many many other people here at wa who are experiencing problems with there themes too :-)) xox