Getting delisted from Google sucks a whole lot as you can see from the graph below.
Some of you may recall that my site was cracked late last year. This resulted in a large quantity of hidden spam links getting added to my site which resulted in Google removing Ivany.org from their search engine.
I was averaging somewhere around [...]
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Getting Delisted from Google Sucks

Happy New Year and a Site Redesign
Happy New Year!
I’m kicking off 2009 with the launch of a new site design for ivany.org.
The redesign is based on the Leviathan theme which is a child theme of the Hybrid Theme framework. Justin Tadlock has created a fantastic framework for theme designers.
Unfortunately, I’m not a theme designer so I’m stuck with tweaking existing themes to do what [...]
Broken Link Cleanup
Today I finally got around to doing some needed cleanup on my blog. The Google Webmaster tools have been complaining to me for a really long time about the number of broken links I had on my site. As it turns out, I had about 5 times what Google said I had. Ouch!
I discovered this by [...]
Upgraded!
Well, it was painful and took almost 2 days to get this far but I finally upgraded Wordpress on my site. Getting cracked recently was definately the kick in the pants I needed to take the time to upgrade and re-work all of the stuff that got broken during the upgrade.
I’m living on the bleeding edge [...]
Cracked!
Well, I guess my time ran out. My website was cracked at some point in the last couple months. Someone managed to figure out my password (which was a really crappy password) and started adding a whole lot of hidden spam to my posts. Unfortunately I didn’t notice until Google sent me a message indicating [...]
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