Keyword Opportunities in Insights Area Suggest SPAM Keywords?
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Happy Holidays Moz family,
We were recently reviewing our insights on an account and the keywords suggested were:
1. malibog pinoy sex story
2. desi bhabhi ki chudai
3. cennai mamies pundai mulai
Clearly these are SPAM or something. We have run malware scans of the site, used Google Webmaster tools to identify incoming and outgoing links and don't see anything. I have also exported the entire site to Notepad++ and searched for these terms. Nothing. Any ideas or suggestions?
Thank you in advance for any suggestions! We're having some ranking issues with the same site so perhaps this is the root of the issue. The site has some great links.
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For anyone stumbling across this we were able to identify the issue. We had a WordPress installation that had a hidden database full of SPAM and bad links/images etc. The Database could not be located in MySQL which was interesting, so we had the client agree to allow us to delete ALL content and start from scratch. (They had previously been hacked with another vendor but owned their WordPress website). We were migrating the database because they had hundreds of blog posts. We all agreed since they weren't doing any good we would start from scratch.
Deleted entire website off of server, reinstalled WordPress and we've seen a 745% improvement in keyword rankings. We have over 20 keywords now ranking on page 1. Woot!
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Thank you! I've checked this out previously and it looks the same. When we took this customer over, their site was hacked. Perhaps Insights is still reflecting what the site looked like previously. I think I will delete from MOZ and add it back in to see if it is different. Thanks again for taking the time to reply.
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Hi Tosten,
Try fetching and rendering your site as Google within Google Search Console. You will be able to see how Google sees your site compared to how users see your site, and that may reveal if and how you have been hacked.
Hope this helps!
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