A letter to the clever hacker

Dear Mr Hacker,

In the past couple of months I’ve noticed that my blog has been unfortunately ‘hacked’. And quite cleverly so.

Some one injected search-engine-viewable keywords that are not visible to the human eyes.  As  a result when you search my name, my blog appears as a really rich repository of useful herbal medicine for some.

I have been a bit bemused by the whole situation, though later realised it wasn’t as fun when I tried (still trying) to undo the damage.  I have three years of blog posts and comments that I still hope to import and restore, but that at the moment looking more difficult than I imagined.

In the past 12 months I’ve joined a new company, my team and I worked together to launch a new social platform on two of their core sites (goodtoknow.co.uk and trustedreviews.com).  We have also established IPC Media as Facebook’s first UK media partner – as a result we get to sneak peek new features and experiment and play.  There’s also so much to do with the analytics front as well.  So much time to learn, so little time to muck around.

As a result, I don’t think I have the resources (or can be asked) to worry about ‘my’ blog in the ‘ego-system’ of ‘social media’ at the moment.  I don’t really care about myself (I guess I’m not fit enough to be a ‘social media guru’).  Would you please leave this little pitiful blog alone, Mr. hacker?  I don’t think I actually drive that much traffic to your site, your effort is probably wasted on my blog.

With warm regards,

Cathy