When someone visits your site from Google (and some report Yahoo! as well), the visitor is automatically redirected to the hacker’s website of choice.

Some people are reporting that they’ve lost Google SERPs after being hacked in this manner.

Even though Affiliate Link Checker cannot prevent the hack, it can alert you if your blog has been infected by this hack.

Here’s how you can be alerted:

1. Do a search on Google for your blog and locate your entry in the SERPs.
2. Right-click on the entry and copy the URL — It will be a Google URL that redirects to your blog.
3. Paste that link into Affiliate Link Checker in the “Affiliate URL” text box when you create a new link to monitor.
4. Enter your blog’s normal URL in the “Landing Page URL” text box.
5. Save the link in Affiliate Link Checker.
6. Repeat steps 1-5 with your blog entry in Yahoo! (and any other search engine).
7. Also create a link entry with your native blog URL in both the “Affiliate URL” and “Landing Page URL” text boxes — This will catch any redirect hacks that don’t filter on referrer.

Affiliate Link Checker will check those links every day.

If any of them don’t end up displaying your blog to the visitor (i.e., your blog has been hacked and is illegally being redirected somewhere else), you will get an email alert right away.

Not everyone likes advertising which WordPress version they’re using because it makes it easier for hackers to target vulnerabilities in a specific WordPress version.

Download, install and activate the plugin below. It will disable the auto insertion of the WordPress version.

Note: It will not disable the “generator” META tag if the tag is included in your WordPress theme’s header.php file. This plugin only disables the auto insertion done by the WordPress core, which was introduced in WordPress 2.5.

Download Disable Generator Tag WordPress Plugin

Here are areas where Affiliate Link Checker far outshines any broken link checking script:

1. You have a central repository where you can store and categorize all your affiliate links. In other words, you can keep a record of all your links and all the web properties where you’re using your link.
2. The service not only checks whether a link is broken or not, it also tests whether it goes to the landing page where you expect it to go.
3. In addition, it also inspects the content of the final landing page and will alert you if certain words appear on the page (such as “out of stock”), or when certain words don’t appear on the landing page (such as a specific item price).
4. The service follows header redirects (301 and 302), JavaScript redirects, and META refresh redirects. Additionally, it can follow a chain of redirects. So, if an affiliate network redirects your link to a company web page, and that page again redirects the link to another page, Affiliate Link Checker will follow the redirects to the final landing page. It will follow an unlimited number of sequential redirects. Very few broken link checker scripts can do that.

If you’re serious about your affiliate business and managing your affiliate links, then Affiliate Link Checker is the service for you.

With AffiliateLinkChecker.com, affiliates can automatically test their affiliate links for integrity to ensure that they continue to point to the desired destinations.

Companies often expire offerings, terminate special promotions, terminate affiliate relationships, go out of stock on a product, or experience problems with their websites without notifying their affiliates.

Who loses out? The affiliates, of course, because suddenly their links point to landing pages that will earn them little or zero income, while the company still gets the traffic.

Not any more!

Check your links every day with AffiliateLinkChecker.com. You’re notified when your links go bad on you, and you can act fast to remedy the situation.

In fact, you can check any link, not just affiliate links.

Also check out the link checker affiliate program for cool recurring commissions.