Are you having trouble accessing onlineFOCUS? One of our ‘regulars’ has told us that when he tries to access www.onlinefocus.org through Google, he is being redirected to another site. It doesn;t happen with any other sites he goes to….
UPDATE : (Saturday afternoon.) We have definitely suffered some kind of sophisticated attack that redirects people who try to find us through a search engine!
Could it be the case that visitors are going to .com or .co.uk instead of .org which this site (onlinefocus.org) ends in. as the
http://www.onlinefocus.com – Is a web designers site
http://www.onlinefocus.co.uk – Is not being used but dose having a search site by Telivo on it.
It’s a shame you could not off regard those sites 1st
Hi Graham.
I was going to send you an email…..
No, the problem is that people who search on google for onlinefocus.org, or on yahoo for onlinefocus are being redirected. Try it!
I’ll email you with more info.
I have searched on google for onlinefocus.org, I have also typed in the search, “libdems, rayleigh” Both times I had absolutely no problem either finding the website or accessing the website directly from the search engine.
Speaking as a former IT teacher, and Head of IT, I have some knowledge of this type of “cyber-crime”, therefore I would be very surprised if someone had hacked google to effect this type of “attack” – search engines have top notch firewalls, even back doors would be almost impossible to access, and although possible with the right type of (very expensive) software and technology, doubt someone would target a local political party website. If there has been some kind of “attack”, it would be someone having hacked this website, and have entered some html to reroute to another site, OR a couple of people have a virus on their computers which is having the same effect. I would suggest updating and running antivirus software, and for admin to look at their html coding for the site and see if there is anything there that shouldn’t be. If there is any coding that is malicious, it would be very close to the beginning of the coding.
Hi Admin
When I search in Google for your site from IE7 and I click on the link in Google I get your site.
When I search in Google for your site using Opera I click on the link in Google and get this site instead. http://your-needs.info/search/index.php?q=online+focus
Hope you find out what is going on. Looks to me as some sort of glitch in Google with a DNS Server look up rather than a hack attack. Agree with Corey.
Guys, many thanks for your comments. I think I know what is going on, this guy here has the same problem:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/179395
I won’t say anymore for now – if someone is hacking into sites one-by-one, he could be reading this- though if he is , I might be able to get his IP address 🙂
I have no problem with Google – I just search for ‘onlineFOCUS’ and the search result page appears with “news and stuff for Rochford district” at the top.
Rita, have you tried clicking on the link which says news and stuff because that is the point when it redirects me.
Hi Mike – Yes I do click on news and stuff and gain access every time, three times a day sometimes!!
Puzzling.
It’s now re-directing to anyresults.net Very strange