Our website has been the subject of a malicious attack as has another alpaca breeder’s site that we know. Someone has inserted a code into the home page that links us to unpleasant websites and puts the Google crawler right off ranking us. Apparently its used to push rivals off Google and weaken rankings. This must have happened during the build up to the Futurity. We are now waiting for Google to find us again. I find it very hard to understand why anyone should do this but I intend to track the person responsible and have an idea who it might be. So the lesson is if you find your site has dropped off the rankings, get your website person to have a look for malicious code.
This has been a major irritation and given my son Tom a lot of extra work, not good, as he works for a Fair Trade charity and he’s on a tour around the country at the moment. The last thing he needed was his mother going bonkers on the end of the phone.
Limey –
Although a major headache and gross inconvenience, it surely serves to reiterate what a marvellous job you (and I include Tom and everybody else connected with Classical Mile End in that) are doing. It’s a cheap trick and they must feel particularly threatened by you!
Keep doing what you guys do best. We all love reading. 🙂
Alex A –
Urgh, that’s annoying. Good that Tom spotted it!
Hopefully the crawler will come round to the website again soon 🙂
jo –
Track that person down Rachel…take no prisoners, what a nasty thing to do.
Jenny –
I am very sorry to hear of the hacking incident, especially because last year we too had someone hack into our Alpaca Seller micro site; delete the site including seventeen alpacas; changed the password to Cha1rman and made it look as if we had gone bankrupt, by leaving just our name, while we were away at the Sydney World Alpaca Conference. A really nasty trick – the police have traced the hacker – an English British Alpaca Society member. I can’t begin to imagine what goes on in the mind of someone who stoops so low as to do this sort of thing; I just find it incredibly sad really.
Jenny
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