These are very common spam queries. Everybody seems to get these these days.
I would recommend using robots.txt to tell Google not to index your search results pages. Relevanssi Premium has a spam blocking feature to kill the spam queries as soon as possible.
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RA_NPL
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Hi Mikko,
unfortunately the problem is getting worse. After updating the robots.txt as explained above I got a notification from Google Search Console that spam searches where indexed for my domain http://www.ra-plutte.de even though they were blocked via robots.txt.
Google Search Console 3
To my understanding, this indexing should never have happened. Instead, from my understanding the issue should have only been visible “internally” in my Google search console, which is already not nice.
Please also notice that the rankings and monthly visitors of my domain significantly decreased within the last three months (up to 30% less compared to the former numbers). This began right when these spam search issues started, which is why I am concerned that something way more problematic is taking place. You can see it on the screenshots I provided.
I would like to keep my GSC and Google index clean like both were roughly three months prior to today and make 100% sure that my site is not somehow flagged spammy by Google due to the aforementioned issues.
I would appreciate if you took a deeper look into my case, when you find time. If you need details, please send me a mail.
Best, Nick
Just to remind you: this problem is not a Relevanssi problem. This is a spam problem and a Google indexing problem. Relevanssi has no control over what Google indexes on your site against your will in robots.txt, that’s Google’s doing and disabling Relevanssi doesn’t really do much about it. It certainly won’t stop the spam traffic.
The next version of Relevanssi Premium will send a “410 Gone” status code for the blocked spam search pages, which should effectively remove them from the Google index as soon as Google spiders them again. That’s the best solution I can offer to this problem, I don’t know if there’s anything else to be done in Relevanssi.
I’ve updated the keyword search blocking code to set the 410 status as well. Give that a go.
