I ran into a question posted by another webmaster wondering why two of his web stores were banned by Google. These websites were running fine for at least one year. And another two of his stores remain indexed. Looking over his websites left me guessing as to the exact reason why Google removed them from their index.
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Google Malware Threat Detected #1
Has google.com become infected with malware itself? The same huge corporation that has taken it upon itself to preside over all matters to cleanse the internet of this trash. The same power that decides which websites are safe to view and which sites are not.
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FireFox's warning page
Seems Google is no better than the hackers who go from website to website adding their iframes to your pages in order perform their dirty deeds.
I was contacted last week to clean one such site that fell victim to one of these iframe injection attacks. And as expected, I found this site had one of those scary “Reported Attack Site” warning pages blocking entry to the infected website.
Various Google Favicons
The old saying goes, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That is the quickest way to break something.
One week ago, Google seems to have done just that — again — with their latest change to their favicon. Something that went unchanged for 8.5 years with their classic “big G” icon.
Last Friday some people had thought they were at the wrong site, or even that their favorite search engine was hacked when a new icon began to appear in their browser.
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Everybody seems to be asking for vector graphics now and Photoshop does have its limits. So I got myself a copy of Illustrator and began pushing all its buttons and familiarizing myself with its tools and capabilities.
After two weeks of messing around, I was finally getting the hang of this amazing software. I had been trying my luck at designing site logos for other webmasters, and realized that I needed a logo myself. I quickly set out to design my very own logo.
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I recently acquired another website to add to my collection. The overall appearance wasn’t too bad, but it still looked kind of “spammy” to me. I figured a good face lift was in order.
The site was basically setup as an ecommerce website to sell products to smokers interested in quitting. My goal was to convert this “infomercial” into something more serious and professional looking… hoping to gain a better flow of traffic and thus increase the sales.
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