For a while now, I haven’t known why the summary in Google for my website/blog had so many references to phenteramine, xanax, and the like. Puzzling, but not enough for me to do investigate the problem. (Note: it appears I’m now into debt consolidation…)
Earlier this evening I was working on a presentation I’m giving tomorrow at work about Terry Reese’s amazing MarcEdit, and one of the features I want to demonstrate is its “Generate MARC from URL” feature, so I tested it on my website/blog to see what kind of record would be produced.
This is how the resulting record looked:
=LDR 00000nam 2200000Ka 45e0
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=245 00$aZ666.7.L364 (www.jenniferlang.net) - musings related to metadata, cataloging, and the “great big” world of librarianship (plus some other stuff…)$h[electronic resource]
=520 \\$a Newsletter: Diphemanil Desyrel Phentermine ionamin canada Carbidopa Lorazepam Deferoxamine Cozaar Buy cod pay phentermine Demecarium Buy Celexa Viagra online consultation Esomeprazole Liqued viagra Bromocriptine Discount xanax Drug phentermine 37.5 pdr Citalopram Phentermine without doctor’s approval Viagra for woman information Viagra patent Trimethaphan Fluvastatin Viagra users Buy Effexor Language phentermine ru Does phentermine speed up
=856 40$qtext/html$uhttp://jenniferlang.net
Not exactly what I want to show the folks tomorrow, much less what I want the world to see if they happen to Google my website. I viewed the HTML source code for my website/blog and found the following at the bottom of the page:
So, puzzled as to how all of those links got there, I Googled “wordpress spam templates” and found Leanne Wildermuth’s excellent blog post about the subject: How to Find Spam in Your WP Templates.
I cleaned out spam from all of my WP templates.
Out of curiosity, I did a line count in MS Word of all of the spam links on the homepage of my website/blog and discovered 5,499 links on that page alone. Dayum!
I guess it’s time to change some of my passwords.
