A call came in and it was a client asking why he wasn’t getting any sales. A quick look at his website revealed that it was flagged as a malware distributor. The client was spending hundreds of dollars a day on PPC ads. No wonder he wasn’t making sales.
If you’ve been hacked and the hacker has inserted a Javascript code or malicious malware onto your site, its files and folders, or on your server somewhere then it doesn’t matter how much money you spend on advertising or how well written your PPC ads, Google will flag it as a malware distributor. Visitors to your site wills see a big red interstitial ad notifying them of the danger. You’ll lose money so pause your PPC campaign immediately.
In order to clean up the site you need to take a look at all your files, particularly the index files in each folder, and see if there are any code insertions that don’t belong. If so, remove them.
After you have removed the malware or unwanted code, change your passwords – to your blog, your hosting account, and anywhere the hacker may have had access to. Make them difficult to crack. Then log into your Google Webmaster Tools account and request a site review. Google will crawl the site again and if the malware has been removed the flag will be removed. You can start your PPC ads again.
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