Here’s a quick business idea (more like “consulting”) one of you can run with.
I got this “Pharma Hack” on my WordPress blog a few days ago. Apparently it doesn’t have any effect on WordPress blogs, except it changes your title tags in your database (so you can’t easily change them) to promote pills…..this is what it did to my search rankings:
Sooooo……apparently NevBlog now sells Viagra :-)
It’s actually not a “hack” but rather a small “exploit”.
ANYHOW, I ended up paying to get it removed (yet it still came back). I REALLLLLYYY wanted to do a search for “WordPress Pharma Hack” and see a sponsored result saying:
….instead I found nothing.
I had to personally call Chris Pearson who wrote the most detailed post about the pharma hack to get a recommendation for the removal of this brilliant little exploit.
But these large-scale exploits seem like a GREAT opportunity for WordPress junkies to make a bunch of extra money. If someone charged $200+ to just “take care of this shit” for me….I would’ve GLADDLLLY paid.
-Nev
P.S. In case you’re wondering, I’m currently moving this blog to WPengine and they’re cleaning it up right now.