This is something every webmaster fears that he will see in the search results. This happened to one of the sites in our network recently and I thought I would shed some light on the impact of this on the sites search results and perhaps outline a few ways to avoid having this happen in the future.

Ways to Avoid Script Injection:

1. Dont share passwords

2. Make passwords complex – use an auto-password generator and change your password frequently.

3. Look at the source of your site on a regular basis to see if any virus has been added.

4. Close and Restrict all Forms on your website. If you have a contact us form for instance set the parameters so that a bot cant inject a script when its supposed to be a phone number.

Impact on Search Results – We will Update this Daily

Day 1: Impact on Search Results is so far minimal (The warning has just appeared and a ticket has been opened with the host) – Our in house team is also working to solve the problem. Of course impact on traffic is large as visitors get a warning when they click on the site.

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