Matt Cutts of Google explained in his email sent ot Ryan:

Hi Ryan, my name is Matt Cutts and I’m a software engineer at Google. Sorry to hear that your blog got hacked. I know that it’s disappointing if you don’t show up in Google, but there’s another way to look at it. It looks like your blog was hacked to show “buy pharmacy”-type links, but what if the hackers had hosted malware on your site? Then every user to your site might have gotten infected just by visiting your site. That danger to Google users is one of the reasons that we temporarily remove hacked sites from Google.

I’m glad that things look clean now and I’ve revoked the “hacked site” flag for your domain. I’d expect your domain to return to Google within 48 hours, if not sooner.

By the way, we did try to contact you. We sent an email to contact [at] digitalbackcountry.com, info [at] digitalbackcountry.com, support [at] digitalbackcountry.com, webmaster [at] digitalbackcountry.com, and a gmail.com address on May 19th at 21:25:23 with a subject line of “Removal from Google’s index.” I believe if you had logged into our webmaster console at google.com/webmasters and proved that you owned digitalbackcountry.com, we also would have left a message waiting for you there as well. That webmaster console is the primary way to request reconsideration in case your blog has been hacked.

We do try to communicate with hacked blogs where we can, and we also do blog posts to try to help prevent hacked sites and for site owners to recover from hacked sites. Some example posts that we’ve done in the past:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist-for-webmasters.html
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-sites-been-hacked-now-what.html
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-google-handles-malware-a-historical-overview/

The only last point I’d make is that users tell us loud and clear that they don’t want to be sent to hacked sites, because of the potential danger that they represent. Even though it’s stressful to be removed from Google, I hope you understand why Google might not want to send users to a hacked blog.

Again, thanks for cleaning up your site and you should return to Google’s index soon.

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