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Hi all,

I have a blog (managed via WordPress) that seems to have built spammy internal links that were not created by us on our end. See "site:blog.execu-search.com" in Google search results.

It seems to be a pharma-hack that's creating spammy links on our blog to random offers re: viagra, paxil, xenical, etc.  When viewing "Security Issues", GSC doesn't state that the site has been infected and it seems like the site is in good health according to Google.

Will anyone be able to provide any insight on the best necessary steps to take to remove these links and to run a check on my blog to see if it is in fact infected?  Should all spammy internal links by disavowed?

Here are a couple of my findings:

• When looking at "internal links" in GSC, I see a few mentions of these spammy links.
• When running a site crawl in Moz, I don't see any mention of these spammy links.
• The spammy links are leading to a 404 page.  However, it appears some of the cached version in Google are still displaying the page.

Please lmk.  Any insight would be much appreciated.  Thanks all!

Best,
Sung

Thanks, Lesli,

It seems that you were correct.  There seems to have been a coding error, which I fixed and implemented.

After pushing the code again, I saw the changes reflected immediately like you said.

Thanks for your help with this!

Best,
Sung

Hi Lesli,

Thanks for the response.  I actually am currently using GTM to implement any structured data onto my site.

However, I'm still experiencing issues where it seems my structured data is not being updated according to the structured data testing tool.

Will you be able to let me know on average how long your structured data usually takes to update when using GTM?  Hours?  Days?  Weeks?

Any additional insight would be much appreciated.  Thanks!

Best,
Sung

Hi all,

I recently updated some markup on my site about a week ago.  However, when using the structured data testing tool and inserting the URL of the page that was updated with the schema, I see that the schema being recognized does not reflect the updated markup.

However, when I use the structured data testing tool again and insert the code I used for the schema, I see no errors and all info was implemented properly.

Any idea why my updates (which seem to be correct based on my code) are not reflecting when testing the URL of my site via structured data testing tool?  Is there some delay for this data to update?

Any insight would be much appreciated.  Thanks all in advance!

Best,
Sung

Thanks Bryan & Paul!

Both answers were very helpful and made sense.  Uploading via FTP sounds like the best way to get this done without much help from our dev team.

Did some further research on my end after your responses and I ran into this video here to help me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoFa6QDis40

Thanks all!

Hi all,

Quick question.  I'm trying to update my sitemap via Google Search Console using a sitemap.xml file that I've created with ScreamingFrog.  However, when trying to submit it, it seems that Google only allows sitemaps that are located at a path within your domain (i.e. www.example.com/sitemap.xml) as opposed to being able to directly upload a sitemap.xml file.Is there any way that I can easily upload my sitemap.xml file?  Or is there any easy way that I can upload the file to a path on my domain so I can upload via the URL?Any insight would be much appreciated!Best,Sung

Thanks Bryan & Paul!

Both answers were very helpful and made sense.  Uploading via FTP sounds like the best way to get this done without much help from our dev team.

Did some further research on my end after your responses and I ran into this video here to help me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoFa6QDis40

Thanks all!