Has your blog got inserted links, check now!

A week or so ago I had a ping from my mate Dean Hunt. Dean has a site in the top 50 online money making blogs and he had a problem.

He had spotted that someone, somehow had managed to insert about 50 links into his site linking off to lots of parasite hosted pills sites.

Not good for business even worse for rankings. We have since found that he wasnt the only one!

(There are in fact over 13,000 sites with this issue from what I can crawl)

So after a bit of advice from DaveN and Ben I managed to clear the problem and since then Dean’s rankings have returned!

Without going into much of the detail about how they did this (If you’re interested I did a small write up on Deans site) the end result did seem to pose a problem for a lot of blogs.

Dean like everyone else couldn’t see the links in his site as they had been cloaked for Google only so I decided it might be useful to create a simple tool that would show you what you linked out to from Googles perspective via the cache copy or your page.

Cachechecker is a simple tool that shows you what links are present in the Google cached copy of your page. Click here to try the tool for yourself, its cheap free and easy.

Its simple granted but the story made the front page of Sphinn so I know its something that worries a lot of folks.

Anyone have any comments or suggestions ?