Help – Fake pages listed on google against my domain name.

  • lecky2000

    (@lecky2000)


    8 years ago

    Hi,

    I’m wondering if somone can tell me how google is listing fake pages against my domain name? (e.g mywebsite.com/fake_page_1 and mywebsite.com/another_fake_page, etc)

    None of the pages go anywhere appear to go anywhere, other they just returning a 404 page from my web host. I really need to know how to stop this but I’m not very familiar with wordpress.

    I developed the page locally on a WAMP stack and after much to-ing and fro-ing, just about managed to migrate it to a shared host, via the help of a mySQL Search & Replace tool.

    Then I cobbled together a .htaccess file on my root folder in an attempt to redirect traffic from my domain address to the subfolder where my website actually resides (a neccessary evil, don’t ask!). Other than that, my domain is not really SEO optimised or secured, other than setting up SQL user security in phpmyadmin. I fully understand that the ite is wide open to attack, hence this despearte forum post.

    So from what I’ve gleaned on googling the issue is it looks like it might be a realted to a SQL injection but I can’t see any changes to my website itself. There doesnt appear to be any conspicuous links visible on any of my pages, or any huge scripts that look odd in the the PHP files (however I don’t really know what injected code i’m looking for, or if i’m looking in the the right php files for it). I’ve even tried opening all php files in Notepad++ and searching all the files for suspect code lie decode_base, or $eval, or other internet suggestions relted to the know Cialis injection.

    Or could it be that I’m fraking out and there’s a simple explanation, like my not having a sitemap.xml or a robots.txt could be causing the issue?

    Can anyone help?

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  • Thread Starter lecky2000

    (@lecky2000)

    8 years ago

    Oh, I forgot to add that securi scanner says that my site doesn’t contain anything malicious (but is vulnerable) and that Bing.com doesn’t list the fakes pages in their search results!

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    8 years ago

    If they are resulting in 404 errors then Google will de-index them soon. It will just take how ever long Google takes to do these things.

    If you want to speedn it up you can log into Google Webmaster Tools, claim your site and set those URL’s to be de-listed manually.

    Thread Starter lecky2000

    (@lecky2000)

    8 years ago

    Thanks for your reply. I’ve read the article you linked and jumped onto Google’s webmaster tools or console or whatever it’s called now and I’ve removed the links but there were only a few, not the 12,000 Google is listing, so I’m not sure if that alone will clear it up.

    So you don’t think it’s anything malicious? Is it bot related and won’t it harm my any search ranking?

    Thanks again.

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    8 years ago

    Only Google could tell you that. No one on here has any access to their systems, so we don’t know how their internal workings … work. As for hurting your rankings, most likely not. As long as you keep serving out the 404 pages Google will see this and know that the pages are not actual content.

    Thread Starter lecky2000

    (@lecky2000)

    8 years ago

    Great thanks for your help.

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