Comments on: Have You Been Hacked? How to Clean Your Site and Get Off Google’s Blocklist https://wpmudev.com/blog/get-off-google-blocklist/ The WPMU DEV Blog provides tutorials, tips, resources and reviews to help out any WordPress user Thu, 04 Mar 2021 17:15:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: N. Fakes https://wpmudev.com/blog/get-off-google-blocklist/#comment-175682 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 17:15:35 +0000 https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/?p=194209#comment-175682 In reply to James.

Thanks for the comment, James! And great to hear Defender has helped hacks decrease.

And sorry to hear about your site issues back in 2008, but sounds like it definitely turned into a positive! That’s awesome you’re going on 13 years with the re-built site (and it’s paying you!).

]]> By: James https://wpmudev.com/blog/get-off-google-blocklist/#comment-175676 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 10:30:55 +0000 https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/?p=194209#comment-175676 I’ve had my fair share of problems with hackers – ones that got in and deleted everything; ones that got in and put landing pages up; ones that simply injected SQL and were using it for phishing and other not nice things.

Fortunately, those episodes have decreased almost completely since moving over to WPMUDev! The only one issue I had was flagged up by Defender and resolved very quickly.

You’re right though. It is so stressful. Both identifying the problem and then resolving it. As well as re-building the trust of Google and in some cases the clients you’re working for.

I lost many days/nights resolving problems like this. The most painful experience I had was back in 2008 when I lost absolutely everything off a personal site I had been building. I very nearly gave up completely. I’m glad I didn’t, because 13 years later the re-built site is still going and pays me a living!

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