Fully agree with Peter, very easy to bypass IP blocking these days, there are some sophisticated systems that can still detect but mostly outside the range of us mere mortals!

If you block a particular country from crawling your website it is pretty certain you will not rank in that country (which I guess isn't a problem anyway) but I suspect this would only have a very limited (if any) impact on your rankings in other countries.

We have had a similar issue, here are a couple of ideas.

1. When someone places an order use a secondary method of validation.

2. With the new customer entries/registrations make sure you have a good captcha, most of this sort of thing tends to be from bots. A captcha Will often fix that problem.

Typically the TLD should match that of the country you want to target, although practically I've never seen it make much difference.  If it was a very competitive market sector and very location specific it may make more of the difference.

One thing you should be aware of do not just add a second TLD to your website, this will cause Google to see duplicate content which it doesn't like possibly other search engines as well.

Is there any point/benefit/requirement in using brand/company name in the meta title, I realise search engines like Google prefer brand focused pages, However it is unlikely that someone would be including the company in our search terms.

Any thoughts?

Mello Matt,

If it was my site I would seriously consider getting rid of any redirects from old dodgy pages, you could force Google to consider for the content still exists.  If it goes to a 404 Google can then see clearly it no longer exists.
But would be interesting on what others have to say on that.

I would source my back links mainly from Google search console.

Hope that helps.

Sorry just a question, where are you getting your back links list from? It's not unknown for tools to be inaccurate.

Another point I forgot to mention, Moz did update their index in the past few days, lots of people have seen a DA drop.

Firstly, sounds like you do have a penalty of some sort.

Secondly, I would not have redirected the hacked pages back to the site anywhere, you could give yourself a penalty that way. You could be passing bad authority or worse from anywhere else on the web, completely out of your control.

Thirdly, don't discount the potential of a website problem. Broken script, user damage, another hack etc

1. Do a thorough link cleanup.

2. Consider taking down any pages that are not relevant or earning any value.

3. Check search console for any notifications or manual penalties.

4. Check the website for performance and functionality.

Has anyone heard of or have any comments on the following company:-

Live Deftsoft Informatics Pvt. Ltd

http://www.deftsoft.com

Looking to use them for some SEO work just wondered if there's any comments?

Thanks