For the second day in a row, Realtor.com has failed to secure their website after it was hacked as we reported yesterday. Their failure to secure Realtor.com can have many implications, depending on how badly the site has been compromised. These range from the possible exposure of user’s personal data to the very real possibility that the site will be de-listed from Google very soon (Google does this to protect webmasters once they see a site has been compromised). Note that you will not see the spam links unless you view the direct source code or read the blog through an RSS reader.
Since the Realtor.com blog is actually located on a sub-domain at talk.realtor.com, my suspicion is that this could also lead to adverse effects or de-listing by Google of the primary domain of Realtor.com. I pinged Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com and Rand Fishkin of SEOMOZ.org and they concurred that issues with the sub-domain could indirectly affect the primary domain of Realtor.com
I also just noticed they DO have a contact page link if you look hard enough that I didn’t see yesterday before I emailed one of their bloggers yesterday…. let’s see if a quick email changes the situation.
The Real Question. Am I the ONLY person that gets the Realtor.com Blog FEED? Does not one employee of the NAR / Realtor.com team read their own blog / feed? I’m just saying…….
Sample of Spam Links Injected into Code (Click image below for full view)
Follow Up: Realtor.com Hacked Day 3
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