Getting your site hacked is no longer just for the important or high-traffic sites. Whole servers are hacked at once, hacking 1000’s of sites within minutes. Testing 10 consecutive servers of a single hoster, I found one in three to one in four sites were hacked (well over 1000 hacked sites were spotted within minutes). Your site itself does not have to be vulnerable - it’s enough to hack the server.

When Google notices that your site is hacked and when the hacker is using it to trick the user into installing malware, Google will block your site in the search results and include a link to more information.

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