Removal From Google's Index Is this for real?

[Mich 0]

I got this e-mail from Google.

 

Dear site owner or webmaster of websetsbydonna.com,

 

While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, the offending party gains access to an insecure directory that has open permissions. Many times, they will upload files or modify existing ones, which then show up as spam in our index.

 

The following are some example URLs from your site:

 

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, pages from websetsbydonna.com are scheduled to be removed temporarily from our search results for at least 30 days.

 

We would prefer to keep your pages in Google's index. If you wish to be reconsidered, please correct or remove all pages (may not be limited to the examples provided) that are outside our quality guidelines. One potential remedy is to contact your web host technical support for assistance. For more information about security for webmasters, see https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2008/04/my-sites-been-hacked-now-what.html. When such changes have been made, please visit https://www.google.com%2Fwebmasters%2Ftools%2Freconsideration%3Fhl%3Den&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fwebmasters%2Ftools%2Freconsideration%3 to learn more and submit your site for reconsideration.

 

Sincerely, Google Search Quality Team

 

Note: if you have an account in Google's Webmaster Tools, you can verify the authenticity of this message by logging into https://www.google.com%2Fwebmasters%2Ftools%2Fsiteoverview%3Fhl%3Den&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fwebmasters%2Ftools%2Fsiteoverview%3Fhl%3D and going to the Message Center.

I cannot see any-such files in my cPanel/File Manager or using my FTP. Has anybody else gotten such an e-mail? I have sent a copy to Xisto - Support for any assistance they can offer. I haven't got a clue what Google is talking about.

[mahesh2k 0]

Weird. I have never seen google webmaster team sending any emails. How they found your address ? From your frontpage or about page ? is it there to begin with or is it some SEO company that sent you email ?In any case, check if any of your HTML or PHP pages are injected with some malicious scripts. I don't know where to check for security but most antivirus sites can give you alarm for such scripts. Check on other computers or ask for help on sites like phishtank. You did good thing by contacting Xisto - Support. Not sure in how many days they're going to reply you but in any case it may help.

[Mich 0]

Weird. I have never seen google webmaster team sending any emails. How they found your address ? From your frontpage or about page ? is it there to begin with or is it some SEO company that sent you email ?

 

In any case, check if any of your HTML or PHP pages are injected with some malicious scripts. I don't know where to check for security but most antivirus sites can give you alarm for such scripts. Check on other computers or ask for help on sites like phishtank. You did good thing by contacting Xisto - Support. Not sure in how many days they're going to reply you but in any case it may help.

 

Yes this e-mail was from Google. I poked around in my files through my FTP, I found that the .htacess file had a recent date on it and I haven't updated it for quite a while. Then I couldn't update it getting an error message about a rewrite line; so I caught on to the problem. Looked into the .htacess file and found directives to rewrite my htmls. Removed it and redid it. Then I went hunting with my FTP putting the files and folders in date order and found several folders I hadn't uploaded with strange php in them. The php was replacing my images with text. Pretty tricky huh? Since I don't understand any of this stuff, it is a miracle that I stumbled on the answer. I will now resubmit my url to Google for reconsideration. Oh yes, I changed my cPanel password.

[iGuest 3]

Yes this e-mail was from Google. I poked around in my files through my FTP, I found that the .htacess file had a recent date on it and I haven't updated it for quite a while. Then I couldn't update it getting an error message about a rewrite line; so I caught on to the problem. Looked into the .htacess file and found directives to rewrite my htmls. Removed it and redid it. Then I went hunting with my FTP putting the files and folders in date order and found several folders I hadn't uploaded with strange php in them. The php was replacing my images with text. Pretty tricky huh? Since I don't understand any of this stuff, it is a miracle that I stumbled on the answer. I will now resubmit my url to Google for reconsideration. Oh yes, I changed my cPanel password.

 

Hi i wants to remove some of my page form google index of my site which really don't exists. i don't know how they indexed, requested many time to remove from google index but not removed they are showing same in number. what should i do to remove such existing pages