Have google check your site for hacks/spam

[mossj]

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Is your site hacked? New Message Center notifications for hacking and abuse

Google has introduced a service where they will email you if there bots detect any 'dodgy looking content'

[glennda]

thats quite good there was a site somebody mentioned the otherday on here that looked like it had been comprimised and as google say they trawl the content all the time so picking up bad bits in the code. probly will be if there is a robots.txt file hiding the content that has been comprimised

[mossj]

probly will be if there is a robots.txt file hiding the content that has been comprimised

Half the point of spam is it gets indexed by google... so i doubt they will put a robots.txt in there to hide the spam from search engines.

[glennda]

Half the point of spam is it gets indexed by google... so i doubt they will put a robots.txt in there to hide the spam from search engines.

that is quite tru! its getting late ignore me!

[pwds]

Great except I blocked Google from indexing the site as it is only for students on a particular course anyway- security through obscurity I know, but I have backed that up with proven permissions on the private parts and CMS updates.

Don't want anyone poking around the rest though as there are official information sites for students not on this course and anyone who wants more information.