Hacked - Lost Meta Data
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Our website was hacked last night and all data lost. I've worked over night to replace the destroyed data which was essentially things like all of our prices, testimonials, etc, etc.
Got that sorted but now notice that all our page meta data has disappeared, title, description, etc.
I'm worried that if I dont' enter the correct data that corresponds to Google "records" that we will lose our page one ranking.
I've gone into Webmaster Tools and also I've used SEOQuake but the pages found have their meta data stripped when I go into "source".
Before I start re-entering what I think would be the correct data I wondered if anyone had any advice please?
Thanks,
Colin
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Thanks very much Keri.
It's refreshing to know that people like Doug and yourself care enough to help people like me especially after getting hacked by some of the baddies out there.
Thanks for your advice.
It's much appreciated.
Colin
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Also don't forget to do the same on Bing! This is one time where it's handy that they seem to be a bit slower in updating things, though they also don't crawl as deeply. If it's an older site and you don't change it too often, the Wayback machine at web.archive.org may also help you out.
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Hi Doug, yes it does still show the indexed pages and seems to still have the data too!
I initially tried it using SEOQuake which showed the indexed pages but without the data.
I thought doing it via "site:" with Google would have been the same.
Thanks so much. I'd better get busy!!
Colin
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If you do a search for site:yourdomain.com on Google is it returning the hacked pages or does the index still list your correct titles?
What about Google's cached paged? Can you still see your old content? If you were only hacked last night Google's cache may still be intact.
What about the Wayback Machine, has that got any of your content indexed?
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