URL Injection Attack Removal
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Hello,
I noticed that there are many irrelevant keywords showing up on anchor text tool for my website. The website is about coding programs for kids. The following are some of the many keywords that are being listed as part of the website. I'm guessing this is a URL Injection Attack. Does anyone know how I can remove these? Thank you very much for your time.
| "great essays writing edition great th" | 5 | 5 | |
| "online paper writing service" | 4 | 5 | |
| "dbq essay puritans" | 4 | 4 | |
| "do my essay for me" | 4 | 4 | |
| "popcorn hypothesis" | 4 | 4 | |
| "greece homework help" | 4 | 4 | |
| "yesterday essays only" | 4 | 4 | |
| "proposal of phd thesis" | 4 | 4 | |
| "the robert essay credo fulghum" | 4 | 4 | |
| "autocad pen assignments download" | -
Thanks Aaron. Still working on fixing this issue. I appreciate your response.
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I personally love https://sucuri.net to fix issues like this.
So you need to take two steps, the first one is you need to work out if someone is hacking into your site by using sucuri you can check. They will also do a clean up if they find something. To find the page they hacked into you can also look at where these links are pointing to.
The second part is you need to do a disavow of the links going to the hacked page. As this will also be hacked sites most likely or cheap links. Here is the link to do a disavow, you do this through search console.
Good luck and if you need anything else let me know.
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