How to remove your website from blacklist ?

How to remove your website from Google’s blacklist in almost no time

While website owners are struggling to protect their sites from various hacker’s attacks, Google is not sitting back as well. It scans thousands of thousands of websites every day. And blacklists a fair amount, of course.
How to get out of the blacklist? How to prove to Google that your website is safe? How not to get blacklisted? Keep reading, we will answer all your questions in this article.
First of all, let’s understand what does blacklisting mean. Along with blacklisting a website Google’s search engine removes it from it’s index. And now this site is not shown in a search queue. This leads to the massive traffic loss – up to 95% – which in its turn almost immediately impacts the effectiveness of the business.

Why does Google blacklist a website?

See, Google is an trusted search engine, and one of its main goals is to protect users from any malicious content and files. So, when McAfee SiteAdvisor, Bing, Google itself or any other authority finds something suspicious on a website, they will not wait long to blacklist this site.

Was my site hacked? How to check it ?

You can get very detailed instructions on the Google help for owners of the hacked sites
It is important to pay attention to the main signs of hacking the site.:

• You are getting redirected from your website to some other suspicious of unappropriated site;
• There are some unknown references, suspicious directories that you didn’t put on your server, users and administrators you didn’t authorize;
• Some antiviruses are blocking your website;
• Your host can shut down the site or send you a message that it was hacked;

Then it is more likely that your website is in one step away from being blacklisted.

Types of Google’s security warnings

If system detected any harmful content of the inspected website, Google immediately flags it with a security warning. Those warning will be seen by users when they try to get to the hacked website. Below you will find a short explanation that will help you to understand what do those warnings mean.

“The site ahead contains malware” message

The site you’re trying to visit might try to install malware, on your computer.

“Deceptive site ahead” message

The site you’re trying to visit might be a phishing site.

“This site may be hacked” message

You’ll at the entrance to the website and see the message “This site may be hacked” when google believe a hacker might have hack some of the pages on the site or added new malware infected pages. If you visit the website, you could be redirected to spam or malware.

This Site May Harm Your Computer

With this warning Google says that there might be some malicious files on the requested website. Those files usually are some spam programs or viruses themselves.
Even though Google still gives user a chance to get on requested website, user has to spend some time and energy to see this site. And you should understand that the fair amount of users will simply close the page with a warning message.

Getting out of the black list

To understand why your website was blacklisted you can use the Google Transparency Report. There you will be able to see which URL was detected as malicious and where to search for a malware. But you should keep the following things in mind:

• com – if you saw this kind of URL, you have to check the whole domain and subdomains for malware.
• website.com – in this case check the whole site.
• website.com/folder – check everything that is listed under /folder.
• website.com/folder/page.html – fortunately, you need to check only this page.

Also, on the Google Search Console you can see the last time when Google visited your website. Here is a thing – Google doesn’t check your site every day. The interval between checkups may take up to several weeks. This means that Google will not know anything about your website during this interval. Not about your site being hacked, nor about your site being cured.

Request a website review via Google Webmaster Tools

So, on this basis, you should request a malware review via Google Webmaster Tools after cleaning all existing threats to get your website out of the black list. Then system will scan your site in a few hours. This step is very important.
When you are sure your site is free of malware , you can request a review from Webmaster Tools is the fastest way to remove your site from Google blacklist. Full instructions on how to do this, you can read on Google Web Fundamentals – how to request a malware review

If you will not request a review, the system might think that you are still cleaning your website. In this situation you risk to keep your site in the black list for a really long time.
The main goal every hacked website owner should pursue is to get the site out of the black list as soon as possible. That is why it is better to ask professionals for help. Cobweb-Security team is able to detect malware or other threats, clean all malicious code lines and get your blacklisted website back on the air in a shortest time possible.

The other website blacklists

Besides to the most known to us Google blacklist, all serious browser companies collect their Blacklist.The list of the most famous blacklists , Norton Safe Web , Google Safe Browsing, McAfee SiteAdvisor , Phish Tank , Yandex Antivirus, MXToolBox, Barracuda RBL, SpamHaus DBL, SpamHaus ZEN, URI Blacklist , Opera Browser. We recommend checking the web site in all known blacklists. To conduct continuous monitoring, you just need to install the plugin WebDefender. The version for the website can be downloaded from the official site of WordPres.org. For the any PHP site here

How not to get blacklisted?

Well, it is easy if you are not trying to pass this way all by yourself. First of all, you should think about protection. CWIS antivirus will monitor your website for viruses, malware, hacker’s codes, phishing attacks. Also, it will check website’s security for weaknesses.
In addition to CWIS antivirus you always have a team of experienced specialists who will be on the alert 24/7/365. Once your website is attacked, engineers will instantly start working on protecting the site from hackers and cleaning. These actions will prevent your website from being blacklisted.
It is important to have someone standing on guard all the time. It is better to prevent the possible problem than fighting it, isn’t it?