So I’ve been playing this game with my blog. Trying to climb my way to the top of Google for the search “Sean Landry“. I was getting there, a little more SEO and I would be there right…Wrong!

I dropped off the Google listings completely. I flipped page after page and still no seanlandry.com listed. Huh weird. So I did a search which would definitely bring my site up. I typed “seanlandry.com” And it came up #1. Great right? Not.

Here’s what I saw:

YIKES! What is all that text underneath my site? I went to my blog and everything looked fine. I couldn’t figure it out. So I looked at what Google webbot sees using the Google Webmaster tools and the first 50 keywords for my site looked like this:

1. alcohol
2. credit
3. marijuana
4. loan
5. card
6. effects
7. ringtone
8. drug
9. cocaine
10. phentermine
11. ringtones
12. prescription
13. viagra
14. debt
15. instant
16. cards
17. score
18. generic
19. steroids
20. approval
21. student
22. tylenol
23. tramadol
24. nicotine
25. reporting
26. cialis
27. ortho
28. testosterone
29. vicodin
30. adderall
31. hydrocodone
32. xanax
33. zoloft
34. blood
35. prednisone
36. soma
37. ambien
38. canada
39. pharmacy
40. effexor
41. equity
42. application
43. heroin
44. lipitor
45. mortgage
46. wellbutrin
47. abuse
48. mp3
49. acid
50. interaction

So I looked at the source of my pages. And there it was. Several HUNDRED lines of code all right before the end of the page. All using the display: none CSS to hide it from me but not from the crawler.

Now I’m in the process of changing passwords, updating my site’s index and locking everything down. Nothing worse than a SPAMer/Hacker to ruin my day.