Search Engine Terms appeared hacked
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In the last 30 days I have seen more sex-related Search Engine Terms in my Stats. It’s as if someone is hacking into WordPress files. Can you please check and clean out these sex-related terms and block them as spam in the furture?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Please read:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#marking-spam-referrers
and
https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#search-engine-termsI’ll tag this thread for Staff to respond to your search engine terms issue. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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I note that you have a an advertising page inviting others to advertise on your site. That is not allowed.
No blogger initiated advertising is allowed on WordPress.com blogs. The only blogs that can be equipped for ecommerce are those with the $299. per year business upgrade. http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/
The only advertising program at WordPress.com is called WordAds and it’s for blogs on their own domains.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
http://en.wordpress.com/apply-for-wordads/Advertising outside of WordAds at WordPress.com is not allowed.
http://support.wordpress.com/advertising/ Here’s what gets a blog suspended:
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/1. WordPress.com allows bloggers to insert text affiliate links within post and page content to most third-party affiliate programs, provided they are not the primary content of the site in question.
2. Image affiliate links in posts and pages and any banners, affiliate links in sidebar or footer widget areas, are still considered to be advertising and are not allowed on WordPress.com blogs.
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I can correct that – but what about the search terms, they didn’t come from sidebar or advertising page? Something is apparently hacking in.
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Hi @deadlyclear,
Thanks for the report! We’re taking a look at what may have caused this. I’ll update you as soon as I have more information.
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Hi!
The site should now be up again. It looks like you are corresponding with our Terms of Service squad through private email regarding the block and why it happened. Please keep all further correspondence there regarding that particular issue as ToS issues are best discussed out of the public forum.
Regarding the search engine tags, the $99 package will not correct that issue (not sure if that’s the issue you’re referring to there). We’re looking into why this might be occurring. I’ll definitely keep you updated as soon as I know more!
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Aloha Jeremey – just checking in to see if you have any information on the sex-related search terms? Can you see a computer IP address attached or relating to those terms?
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We don’t have any additional information just yet, but I should have something for you soon! I’ll get back to you as soon as I have anything.
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Hi @deadlyclear,
Just a note, we’ve temporarily hidden the search terms from your stats page while we get this figured out!
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