Virus attack on the Blog

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 12, 2013 at 6:03 pm

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  Thanks, I know exactly who it is, and I’ll contact them ASAP. I’m still suspecting a false-positive as I don’t see anything directly wrong with the ad itself. Basically, your anti-virus is just informing you that it doesn’t trust the site the ad is linking to, not that it’s trying to actively infect your computer.

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  darshangajara · Member · Sep 12, 2013 at 6:14 pm

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  Phew, it seems finally the problem is about to get solved.
  Thanks a ton macmanx.
  And yeah, my viewers and my daily stats started falling from the day this Virus problem had evolved, can you explain how is this affecting my viewers?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 12, 2013 at 6:53 pm

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  Hm, I wouldn’t say that’s the culprit. Your stats started to drop on September 4, which is directly related to a drop in traffic from Google, possibly because you haven’t posted anything in almost a month.

  Google’s search bots will see the US ads, if any, not the ads we run to viewers in India, so the ad wasn’t the cause.

  Also, we have confirmed that this is report from your anti-virus software is indeed a false-positive. Basically, it doesn’t like the site the ad is linking to for some reason. You might want to report that to your anti-virus provider.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 12, 2013 at 6:54 pm

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  Also, I noticed you have a section in your sidebar titled “Backlinks”. Google heavily penalizes backlinks, so if I were to guess now as to what caused Google to pretty much remove you from their search results, I’d say the backlinks were probably the cause.

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  darshangajara · Member · Sep 12, 2013 at 7:20 pm

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  Thanks a ton macmanx.
  Your detailed review of my site is surely gonna prove very helpful for me.
  I’m right now removing that backlinks tab. And yeah, I didn’t knew that Google bots stop fetching the data from our site if one hasn’t posted anything for a time period of a month.
  Are there any more suggestions you would like to give to improve my site?

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 12, 2013 at 7:33 pm

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  Some of your Posts have a TON of tags and categories, I think the magic number is no more than about 12 from timethief.

  Visit her site for some great tips on making your blog better

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 12, 2013 at 8:45 pm

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  12 is a very good number, excess tags can seem like a spam content to Google.

  Since you’re low on Google’s radar now, you might want to try some grassroots (and non-spam-like) ways to get back your traffic.

  Increase Your Site’s Traffic

  I want to strongly emphasize sharing your blog with your friends and family. If they like it, they’ll share it with their friends, and so on.

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  darshangajara · Member · Sep 14, 2013 at 12:05 pm

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  Thanks a ton auxclass and macmanx.
  I will surely follow timethief’s blog for the tips.
  And macmanx, I’m already sharing my blog with family and friends, they already follow it.
  If by any chance you can promote or spread the word for my blog, please do it.
  I would be more than thankful to you. :)