Bogus link pages actually work?

  • LearningWP123

    (@learningwp123)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,

    I recently checked to see who is linking to my site, and found a book company, Prospek Media, linking multiple times. The pages they are linking to are not on my website, yet when you put the URLs into your browser, there they are. Each one starts with /libary

    For example, http://www.mysite.com/library/financial-management-made-easy

    I’m using a GoDaddy Managed WordPress site, and their tech support said they see the links, don’t see any file called “library” in my WP application, or any page or post titled financial-management-made-easy, but that the URL points to my/their IP address.

    Anyone ever seen this before? Is it a problem for my site, or should I just ignore it?

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  • Jacob Peattie

    (@jakept)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Any url that has “mydomain.com/blahblahblah/” is going to point to your site as long as “mydomain.com” is your website, regardless of whether the page “blahblahblah” exists. It should result in a 404 page though, which is your site’s “Page not found” page. When you say the link “works”, what do you see when you go to the link?

    For example, I can link to https://wordpress.org/this/page/doesnt/exist, a page that doesn’t exist, but it’s still going to go to wordpress.org.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by Jacob Peattie.
    Thread Starter LearningWP123

    (@learningwp123)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    If you go to http://smart-healthy-living.net/library, you’ll find an actual page advertising a book.

    If you go to http://smart-healthy-living.net/library/working-capital-management-financial-management-association-survey-and-synthesis-series you’ll find another live link that shows my IP address as the source.

    The page it comes from is prospekmedia.com/rumah-mampu-tengok

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by LearningWP123.
    Thread Starter LearningWP123

    (@learningwp123)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    Sorry, I can’t find the edit button to update the last post.

    Apparently, my WP site was hacked. I’ve downloaded Google XML Sitemaps. GoDaddy found a file in my sftp called sitemap.xml that contains nothing but these bogus links. We changed the name, but the links/URL/pages were still showing, so something else was hacked. I also found a sitemap.xml.backup, but that doesn’t have these links. I changed the name, but that doesn’t work either.

    The GD tech moved all my core files and sandboxed (?) them and then put them back and that changed or cleaned up the infected file or files.

    Thanks for your help.

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