Google sandbox?

[kempozone]

Hi everyone - It's been a long time since I've posted on here. Having been out of the website business for about 10 years, I've started to acclimated myself back into the game this year.

Anyway, beginning of this year I started a few blogs on subjects that I have thorough experience and knowledge about. One of my site, started getting around 30 unique visitors a day.

A week ago traffic abruptly stopped, so I thought it was Google's new algorithm may have something to do with it. Then this week, traffic started to come back. However, the traffic that was coming into my site was from several adult keywords.

After following the search engine links, I found that it lead to my forum. BAM! I realized that I had inadvertently added a discussion forum, but did not make it active nor did I link my site to the it. The spammers, however, did find it and was posting all kinds of adult materials to the forum. I immediately deleted the forum but now only receiving traffic from Google on these adult keywords.

My question is, How can I undo this? Is there a way to contact Google about this matter?

Thanks for your help

[tedster]

Yes - the way to contact Google is through a verified WebmasterTools account for the website, submitting a "Reconsideration Request." If the situation is as you describe, then your chances are pretty good. If there's something else going on that you've missed, at least you'll learn that when things don't improve.

[numnum]

Kempozone, that's a shame. Question: how is it that you "inadvertently" added a discussion forum? Was it just one of the default features provided by the blog/web host that you signed on with. (Excuse my naivete -- I've never dabbled in the forum aspect of website administration.)

[Planet13]

And a follow up question from the gallery...

what is the best way to discover if some spammers are doing that to ones site? Would you just search for:

yourdomain.com [enter generic adult term here]

Or is there a better way to do it?

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By the way: I am actively trying to get links from sites that link to my competitors, and I am finding so many sites where there CMS has been compromised - at least I HOPE they have been hacked.

One was a children's magician in the UK who had gone through the trouble of having a government background check to prove that he was safe to be around kids I guess that is somewhat common for children's entertainers).

Of course, if the links pages that had been inserted into his site became common knowledge, well, that would really require some damage control...

[tangor]

Step one, up front, 403 all to that top folder for the "comments". Step two, all the above. If you have no need for a comments section just kill it... though G and B and all the rest have LONG MEMORIES of every URL they've ever met, if those are all dead ends that will work... and in the months and years forward (did I say they never forget?).

[kempozone]

Thanks everyone for the comments.

My site was not compromised and when I said that I "inadvertently" added a forum, I did so in a wordpress theme and never thought twice about it until last week.

I will contact G through webmaster tools and see where it leads next.