pageoneresults - 8:46 pm on Jun 22, 2008 (gmt 0)

I need to stay out of the DNS Hijacking stuff, tis not my forte. Since I don't fully understand it, I don't want to cause any undue alarm. I did that last time I donned my Tin Hat and discussed DNS Recursion, something way above my head. So, I'll stick to those that I have a better understanding of and allow those with the DNS experience to share what "might" be able to happen if there are certain holes open. So please, don't run off and blame your loss of traffic on a DNS Hijacking, that probably may not be the case. :)

This is one of many reasons that I urge people to have a Webmaster tools account. You don't need to use GA, or xml sitemaps if you choose not to, but juust by setting up an account you give Google a chance to communicate directly to you as a person authenticated to be responsible for the site. If you've always been a good guy in their book, you may well get a message in your account if they detect a hack. And if you fix it, you can be restored rather quickly.

Man, if that isn't a solid piece of advice! Who knows, Google may come out one day and say if you don't have your site "registered" with Google, we can't assist in any challenges you may be faced with. That would put a damper on things. :)

They imbedded text links hidden from the naked eye, only detected through source code.

And tell me, how many small website owners are going to detect that? How many commodity hosted websites are vulnerable to someone just coming in and freely taking advantage of your website like that?

[edited by: tedster at 3:49 pm (utc) on June 23, 2008]
[edit reason] grammar fix - by poster's request [/edit]