Somebody hacked many sites and put links to my sites in hidden div
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I had 300 good natural links to my site from different sites and site ranked great for my keywords.
Somebody (I suppose my competitor) has hacked other sites 2 days ago (checked Google cache) and now Yahoo Site Explorer shows 600 backlinks. I've checked new links - they all are in the same hidden div block - top:-100px; position:absolute;.
I'm afraid that Google may penalize my site for these links. I'm contacting webmasters of these sites and their hosting so they remove these links.
Is it possible to give Google a notice that these links are not mine so it could just skip them not penalizing me?
Is it safe to make "Spam report" regarding links to my own site?
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I'm following up on older, unanswered questions in Q&A. Can you tell us whatever happened in your situation, so anybody else that's in a similar situation might get some advice? Did you recover, or is this still an issue?
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My site was penalized
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The sites that were hacked were penalized, or your site was penalized?
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Sites were penalized today - they cannot be found even by "SITE NAME" searches. I'm making "Reconsideration Request". Can I do anything else?
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Discounted? Maybe. Penalized? Not sure.
Google will have a hard time reading the intention of these links. How can they be sure these links were placed by the competitors of Anton rather than Anton himself?
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So somebody else hacked websites to place links to your website? Crazy.
I doubt you'll be penalized for the links - the links will probably just be discounted.
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