Google on Tuesday announced the launch of its new “Help for hacked sites” informational series. The company says the goal is to help all levels of site owners understand how they can recover their site in the unfortunate event it is compromised. The new series consists of a dozen articles and more than 80 videos (over an hour in total viewing time) “from the basics of what it means for a site to be hacked to diagnosing specific malware infection types,” Google says. That being said, the company admits that this is a resource isn’t simple enough for everyone: While we attempt to outline the necessary steps in recovery, each task remains fairly difficult for site owners unless they have advanced knowledge of system administrator commands and experience with source code. Just as you focus on making a site that’s good for users and search-engine friendly, keeping your site secure — for you and your visitors — is also paramount. As is typical with Google, the video explains it best: <iframe width="500" height="281" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ubklMNgC6x8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>></iframe> To justify the new series, Google quotes StopBadware and Commtouch’s 2012 survey of more than 600 webmasters of hacked sites, which found 26 percent of site owners reported that their site was still compromised while 2 percent completely abandoned th
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