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Hi Ruben,

I had the same issue with one of the websites and what Bas has recommended is great. We've done both methods and it cleared 90% of them. We are still getting a few in the search console and I am planning to update the disavow list, and hopefully they will disappear completely.

Hope Bas's recommendations will work for you.

Good luck,

Monica.

Hi Andy,

Thank you for your reply. It's all secure now.

We have built quite a few disavow lists since the incident, however I will do another one and take it from there.

Oh yes we definitely dropped in rankings. If we were on first page top 5 for certain keywords and top 10 for other, now we dropped significantly.

Despite this, I can see a slow increase, and I am hoping with further work we can disassociate ourselves from the spam and increase SERPs.

Monica

Hi Moz Gurus,

I've been trying for over a year now to clean our website from a virus that hit us. This virus created internal links to these spam-  pay day loans, easy loans websites, as well as thousands of external links linking to our domain, and for a while our page redirected to another website. From thousands of links we've managed to get  it down to 300, now to 100 ( changed into 410) URL errors that still appear on google webmaster tools under crawl errors.

We had our website on Wordpress, currently we are working manually using FTP access.

Looking at Moz Open Site Explorer - 90% of the Anchor text for the Root Domain appear as : easy pay day loans etc.

How do I get rid of this? Or what is to do in this case? Does it reflect bad on the SEO that the anchor text is not matching our keywords?

Looking forward to your reply.

If you wish to look at the website: www.manvanlondon.co.uk

Green Stone,

Thank you for your reply. At the moment we are manually trying to remove the links by using "Remove outdated content" tool whilst also creating a list of spammy links that might backlink to those spam pages we are removing, that were created by the virus.

Thank you.

Hi Moz Guru's

Our website was hacked a few months ago, since then we have taken various measures, last one being redesigning the website all together and removing it from a WordPress platform. So far all is going well, except that the 404 not found errors keeps coming up in Google Webmaster tools. The URLs are spam pages that were created by the virus. And these spam pages have been indexed by Google, and now we are struggling to get rid of them.

Is there any way we can deal with these 404 spam pages links? Is marking all of them as fixed in the webmaster tools - search console- crawl errors helpful in any way? Can this have a negative impact on the SEO ?

Looking forward to your answers.

Many thanks.

Hi Leonie,

The website is Man Van London and the plug in name is All in One Schema.org Rich Snippets. I have looked in the settings and there is nothing there in regards to my issue.

I have activated the plug in again, and same thing the website becomes blank, and this appears onto MOZBar.

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HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

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Once I deactivated, everything comes back to normal.

Thanks, hope it helps.

Good Morning MOZguru's,

Right, so I've been trying to install the Google schema.org rich snippet plugin through Wordpress for a website, and after I activate it, the website does not load ( appears a blank page) or loads very very slooooowww. Also through the MOZBar, Http status section, after the plug in it's activated it shows a 501 error.

I had this issues with another website I was working on, hosted by Godaddy, and fixed it by installing plugins through the control panel on go daddy and not through WordPress. However this website is not hosted on the same platform.

Does anyone know what should I do in order for the plugin to work and not affect the website?

Many thanks,

Moncia

Thank you so much Dan, this is the answer I was looking for.

Thank you for replying Donna,

It was hard for me to explain, so thank you for taking the time to reply.

The category extension is part of the blog posts, so theoretically they are not pages but posts. However the links in the footer on those category posts/pages so http://manvanlondon.co.uk/category/clients/removals/man-and-van-wandsworth they should be http://manvanlondon.co.uk/removals/man-and-van-wandsworth however for some reason it automatically adds /category/clients/ or /category/latest-news in the URL thus creating these 404 errors on those links in the footer.

Does this make more sens?

I do apologize  for my poor explanations.

Many thanks again.

Hello Gurus hope everyone is having a fantastic day.

Right so I've been pulling my hair with this 404 error on links as such:

htttp://manvanlondon.co.uk/category/clients/removals/man-and-van-wandsworth

This link appears in the category page clients and the  /removals/man-and-van-wandsworth part is the link that should take the user on the Man and Van Wandsworth page in the/ from the footer. However this link and all other links in the footer on these category pages/posts appear to be broken ONLY on this category pages, thus creating 404 errors. And those pages(i.e man and van Wandsworth) are not even categorized.

The website is www.manvanlondon.co.uk .

We tried various things on Wordpress and nothing is working including non-indexing. Has anyone met this problem before? Is there a way to fix it?

Thank you for your time, and hope my explanations make sens.

Monica

Hi all,

Does the hosting of an website affect your SEO?

We have a dynamic hosting currently, taking in account your knowledge and expertise, do you believe that this can affect SEO in any way?

Thank you for your time.

Good day.

Monica

Hi Ruben,

I had the same issue with one of the websites and what Bas has recommended is great. We've done both methods and it cleared 90% of them. We are still getting a few in the search console and I am planning to update the disavow list, and hopefully they will disappear completely.

Hope Bas's recommendations will work for you.

Good luck,

Monica.

Hi Ray/ Bryan,

Many thanks for your answers, it does help. I just checked, and indeed there are other websites. However they look like genuine websites of businesses, or other, 17 in total with an average of 3 page rank.

I guess this shouldn't have a negative impact on us?

I tried looking up CDN could you please explain how this should be approached? Is there any resources you would recommend using?

Hello,

We are interested in finding someone experienced in SEO, who is willing to take a look at my work that I am doing for my employer, on an ongoing basis. This would help me ensure that I am on the right track and we are doing the right thing.

Even tough I have some knowledge with SEO, I am  still novice in the field. I also have background in marketing and management. I believe by having someone to mentor, would help me to grow professionally, as I feel very passionate about SEO, but to also deliver good work to my employer.

I believe someone's experience, reviews and suggestions about our campaigns can help, and I would not expect someone to give out their time freely. Therefore, if required we could talk about a financial agreement.

Thank you for your time, and looking for your replies.

Monica