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Just published a wordpress site... someone has found out?

steveOooosteveOooo Posts: 5,002
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I posted a new wordpress site 3 hours ago - within an hour someone emailed me asking what is was about? How did they know? its just a basic landing page?

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    LoobsterLoobster Posts: 11,680
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    Spam.
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    steveOooosteveOooo Posts: 5,002
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    No it's someone I know

    They must have an ability to see what sites I'm hosting
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    ianxianx Posts: 9,190
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    steveOooo wrote: »
    No it's someone I know
    You could ask them...
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    SambdaSambda Posts: 6,210
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    steveOooo wrote: »
    They must have an ability to see what sites I'm hosting

    Does the site use the word "jihad" and is the name of the person enquiring "David"?
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    steveOooosteveOooo Posts: 5,002
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    It's weird that after 2 hours of publishing it, I get an email 'what's this www.newsite.com about?
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    mred2000mred2000 Posts: 10,050
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    Not necessarily weird at all, depending on context and details.
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    TheBigMTheBigM Posts: 13,125
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    steveOooo wrote: »
    I posted a new wordpress site 3 hours ago - within an hour someone emailed me asking what is was about? How did they know? its just a basic landing page?

    Maybe you signed in to wordpress.com with your facebook details or something and it got posted to your facebook account?

    It would have been easier to ask that person how they knew about it?
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    dazn12dazn12 Posts: 6,912
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    Change the password to the email address you registered the wordpress site with. My only guess is that they would have seen the confirmation emails from Wordpress.
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    albertdalbertd Posts: 14,360
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    Perhaps Wordpress gets things put onto the Google search quite rapidly and something on your site contained a keyword (your name perhaps?) which caused your contact to spot it.
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    fenlanderfenlander Posts: 2,199
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    A lot of people would be delighted to get SEO that effective for free.
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    MartinPickeringMartinPickering Posts: 3,711
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    Wordpress blog has a facility to send a notification to Facebook, Twitter or Google+ each time you post. Maybe you left this "on"?
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    steveOooosteveOooo Posts: 5,002
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    No it's a self hosted site
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    zcraftszcrafts Posts: 30
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    In that case all we can say is in couple of hours your website is Famous :) feel happy about it.
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    alan1302alan1302 Posts: 6,336
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    steveOooo wrote: »
    No it's a self hosted site

    Why don't you just ask the person you know how they found it? Why are you making it so difficult? :D
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    steveOooosteveOooo Posts: 5,002
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    I think perhaps he has used a 'reverse ip lookup' and seen all the sites hosted on the shared server - when you do this, do you see just all sites in a random list or can you detect the likely hood that sites are owned by you?
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