According to Internet security company Dasient, 5.8 million pages over 640,000 sites were infected with malware in the third quarter of 2009, whilst Google revealed that the number of entries on the Google Safe Browsing Malware List has doubled in the last year.
But what is Malware and what do you do if your website is infected?
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Google have unveiled a raft of new changes to their Webmaster Tools section in recent months. This week we’ve seen two more, with the inclusion of a ‘Fetch as Googlebot’ and ‘Malware details’ features.
Both can provide significant assistance to Webmasters and site owners alike. Helping to unlock the secrets of what the Googlebot is able to see when crawling a site, whilst also ensuring that it hasn’t been infected with malicious Malware software. Essential for SEO and security.
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Google’s web crawler which will go through the internet crawling from link to link looking for updated and new websites for later indexing by Google.
It’s long been known that you shouldn’t build sites in Flash if Search Engine Optimisation is your thing. Now though, Google and Adobe engineers seem to be getting together and developing ways for Googlebot to being able to follow links contained within Flash.
The blog post “Experimental Proof. Google Can Index Links in Flash” from Guava details a recent experiment they’ve conducted that demonstrates this is now a fact of life.
Clearly, it also raises some issues with the potential for unscrupulous webmasters to bury links within the depths of a flash movie. Presumably, those very bright people at Google will already have thought of that though and already be on the case…
Definitely one to keep an eye on!
