Google Alerts is great in keeping track of keywords. But it can also be used to monitor your websites if anyone has hacked them (hopefully it won’t be the case), if it does happen Google would send you a notification. Google team blogged about it on their blog saying:
… Try a site: search on your site to see if anything unfamiliar shows up in Google’s results for your site. You can add words to the query that are unlikely to appear in your content, such as commercial terms or adult language. If the query [site:example.com viagra] isn’t supposed to return any pages on your site and it does, that could be a problem. You can even automate these searches with Google Alerts.
Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-redir…
Another great way to see if you have been hacked…
Jason
It is crazy what these hackers will get up to! The question that begs to be asked is if any of these Viagra and other offers will actually supply a product, or will they merely try to part one with one’s money?
Thanks Ades, it’s funny how you used viagra for your example as most of my online problems (spam mail and comments) have been mostly from guys selling viagra.
Now this is a great tip. Alerts for tracking indexing is one thing, but to watch the index via alerts for hack attempts, is a new concept.
Nice advice, thanks for the heads up!
Such Nice Way to Find the Your site will be hacked or not.
I use Google Alerts to keep me up to date with various topics from various information sources. Never though about using it for a security tool before. Great advice thanks.