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Dec 19.2007

Hey guys, I’m new to the forum, but I just had a quick question that I was hoping somebody might be able to help with.

A site I was working on was recently hacked and all sorts of spam was added to the home page. After taking care of that, I noticed that a google search for the site pulls up sites of hackers (I presume) that have the site listed as well as the same type of spam they added to my site’s homepage (cialis, viagra, etc.). As you can imagine, the search results with this on there isn’t good for business, and I was hoping there was a way to get google to erase these sites from their database, is this possible?

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@ryanbutlerDec 19.2007 — You can put a meta tag in your home page or any page for that matter to force search engine bots to rescan those pages every so often, which might work for you:

[CODE]<meta name="revisit-after" content="30 days" />[/CODE]

That of course, goes inside the opening and closing <head> tags.

I would tend to venture that it will be a matter of time until search engine bots rescan the content of the home page.
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@element522authorDec 19.2007 — Thanks for the reply ryan, but the problem isn't the cached version of the site, because that's good now, i was talking about searching for the site name in say google or any other engine and it pulls up other sites that have my site listed on their site, except the thing is a couple of sites that are linking to my site are filled with the same spam, and I was wondering if there was any way I could report these sites to google so they could have them taken off the crawling database?
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@ryanbutlerDec 19.2007 — Ah, I misunderstood. I don't know how Google handles that. My only suggestion is to contact them and see. You could also do a who is search on them to see who hosts them:

http://whois.sc

And contact their from there and see if you have any recourse.
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