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In The Depths of Google Hell - Sure Glad I have ActiveRain

By Thesa Chambers

Real Estate Agent with West + Main

May 03, 2008 04:48 PM

Earlier this week a strange thing happened to my website and after having several techie people look at it none of us including Google gurus can figure out why I have been sent to Google hell.

When you find my site on Google you will see this

Central Oregon Real Estate - 6 visits - 10/25/07

This site may harm your computer.
17631 Cosset Loop, La Pine Oregon | La Pine Lot For Sale .... You can find great local Sunriver, Oregon real estate information on Localism.com Central ...
www.centraloregonbuzz.com/blog/ - Similar pages - Note this

Tonight we are deleting this post on Cosset a listing to see if that helps - there is no spyware installed, there is not a thing on my site that google warns about. I certainly would not click the link with the warning Google is giving.

I sure am glad I have the secondary blog with ActiveRain - giving people a chance to find me and not feel like they would make a mistake by clicking on the link.

This is so frustrating - scary and frustrating - did I say it was frustrating - the time, money and effort on my site has been a labor of love for years. For the moment it appears that a click of a switch can make you go for a business producing site to pure and utter hell in no time.

I am open to suggestions if anyone has an idea of why my site has been doomed.

Thank You ActiveRain - without you..... I would be lost!

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Lynda Eisenmann

Preferred Home Brokers - Brea, CA

Broker Associate ,CRS,GRI,SRES, Brea,CA, Orange Co

Hi Thesa,

Who knows why things happen like this at times? I've had one problem on my outside blog that others reported to me, and for some reason none of us could begin to figure it out. At one point it was just fixed, so who knows? Good luck with yours!

May 03, 2008 04:59 PM

Heather Rankin

Rankin Realty at Lake Powell, LLC - Page, AZ

Lake Powell Real Estate

Thesa - Wow.

About four weeks ago my outside blog fell, for no reason we could find, from 8 or 9 where it had been hovering to 300. It stayed there for about two weeks and then came back up - this time at 3 for the same search terms.

Several folks looked at it and no one had any ideas why it happened. I sure wish you "good Google luck" and maybe it'll pop back up (gads)

May 03, 2008 05:38 PM

Mary Warren

Las Vegas, NV

I have never ran across this before. I wish you much success and and a speedy recovery. If you figure out why this happened be sure and let us all know.

May 03, 2008 05:47 PM

Jay McGillicuddy

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Verani Realty - Exeter, NH

Real Estate Broker

Thesa what type of platform was your blog? Wordpress, Blogger or Typepad? Could it be your blog was hacked?

May 03, 2008 10:02 PM

Russ Ravary ~ Metro Detroit Realtor call (248) 310-6239

Real Estate One - Commerce, MI

Michigan homes for sale ~ yesmyrealtor@gmail.com

I don't know why that would happen to you. I hope you get out of it soon. Good luck.

May 03, 2008 11:21 PM

Chip Jefferson

Advanced Building LLC - Lexington, SC

I wouldnt click on any site that said this. Wow bad luck. I hope when you figure it out you share why it did happen.

May 04, 2008 12:01 AM

Jennifer Fivelsdal

JFIVE Home Realty LLC | 845-758-6842|162 Deer Run Rd Red Hook NY 12571 - Red Hook, NY

Mid Hudson Valley real estate connection

Thesa - I am so sorry it happened to you and I hope someone will come up with a solution. It was a good thing that you kept up with your AR blog.

May 04, 2008 12:25 AM

Steve Scheer

Realty Oasis - Metro Brokers - Highlands Ranch, CO

Highlands Ranch Real Estate - Denver Real Estate

Thesa- I hope you will keep us posted as you learn more. I hope it is resolved soon for you.

May 04, 2008 12:37 AM

Neal Bloom

Brokered by eXp Realty LLC - Weston, FL

Realtor CRS-Weston FL Real Estate

Thesa,

I've been getting these weired google alerts and I opened one that appeared to have a virus...i think this has been going on for a few weeks now....sounds like a phishing thing with links.

May 04, 2008 12:37 AM

Patricia Kennedy

RLAH@properties - Washington, DC

Home in the Capital

Thesa, I hope it's a very temporary situation! Meanwhile, how annoying!

May 04, 2008 01:03 AM

Teri Eckholm

Boardman Realty - White Bear Lake, MN

REALTOR Serving Mpls/St Paul North & East Metro

Thesa--How Frustrating for you!! Hope that everything gets resolved quickly.

May 04, 2008 01:27 AM

Lenn Harley

Lenn Harley, Homefinders.com, MD & VA Homes and Real Estate - Leesburg, VA

Real Estate Broker - Virginia & Maryland

Nightmare is right.

It's just the blog SERP. Google just crawled the site on May 2.

That's usually a sign that Google has detected some malicious code. I don't see any place where anyone, with the exception of folks with access to the server can enter anything except on the Contact page. It would have to get by the security code.

Nightmare is right.

May 04, 2008 02:05 AM

Mana Tulberg

805 County Real Estate - Camarillo, CA

Real Estate Agent - Camarillo CA

WOW, This happened to my outside blog as well. Good luck with this.

May 04, 2008 05:20 AM

Chris Tesch

RE/MAX Bryan-College Station - College Station, TX

College Station, Texas Real Estate

Sure hope it resolves soon Thesa, could it be something that you loaded?

May 04, 2008 06:56 AM

Sandy Shores FL Realtor®, Melbourne Real Estate

M & M Realty of Brevard Inc. - Melbourne, FL

Brevard County Real Estate, Florida's Space Coast

It is very frustrating. Seems that we think we're exactly where we need to be, and then the next day we check for our website placement and we're nowhere to be found....lots of crazy stuff going on out there..hang in there!

May 04, 2008 08:06 AM

"The Lovely Wife" The One And Only TLW.

President-Tutas Towne Realty, Inc. - Kissimmee, FL

Thesa...

It does sound like it may have been hijacked.

I had someone try to do that to my 'private' outside blog.

But fortunately for me they attempted to change my password I received an email that someone was trying to access my blog as the admin. My blog in only available to folks I have invited.

I hope you do get this resolved quickly. I know you worked hard on it.

Hmm...Does anyone else have the codes to your Blog?

TLW...ROAR!

May 04, 2008 08:54 AM

Sandra Cummings

William Raveis Real Estate - Guilford, CT

Real Estate Agent, Guilford Connecticut

Yikes - so sorry this happened to you. I hope you are able to work this out soon, you have enough on your plate without having to deal with this.

May 04, 2008 08:56 AM

Cyndee Haydon

Future Home Realty - Clearwater, FL

Pinellas AirBnB & Short-Term Rental Investments

Thesa - I have heard there are wordpress issues that version 2.5 is supposed to fortify against. I am SO SORRY for you - this is HELL (been there myself and it's the worst) - Hope it gets resolved soon!!

May 12, 2008 02:33 PM

Esko Kiuru

Bethesda, MD

Thesa,

These unexpected meltdowns seem to happen from time to time and it's good to have a couple of other websites out there to lean on when it is your turn. The scary thing is that many times no one can explain why it happened. Hopefully yours will come back up soon.

May 12, 2008 04:18 PM