RSS Hacking Issue
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Hi
Checked our original rss feed - added it to Google reader and all the links go to the correct pages, but I have also set up the RSS feed in Feedburner. However, when I click on the links in Feedburner (which should go to my own website's pages) , they are all going to spam sites, even though the title of the link and excerpt are correct.
This isn't a Wordpress blog rss feed either, and we are on a very secure server.
Any ideas whatsoever? There is no info online anywhere and our developers haven't seen this before.
Thanks
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Thanks so much for your help - I think this should fix it. You've saved me hours of time. It's our own cms so I should be able to fix it today.
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I don't think you're being linked to spam, specifically. What you're seeing is the Feedburner page linking your post titles to feeds.feedburner.com/[whatever the guid of the post is] -- URLs of different feeds from different sites entirely.
I believe this is the problem referenced in the FeedBurner FAQ - http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79014&topic=13190 - "Why don't my feed content item links work?"
In which case, the isPermalink attribute on the feed guids should be false. I'd post about this on the support forum for your CMS.
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Mmm, actually maybe if I change that guid entry that came up in the validator to false that will fix it?
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Some answers to your checks:
- Feed is correct - still my feed
- No FeedMedic reports -says everything is fine
- Feedburner url and url people are directed to from the blog are the same
- No malware reports
- Ran tool on blog article page, rss, feedburner page, and feedburner article link page - doesn't pick up any malware
- Validity check brings up one issue: guid must be a full URL, unless isPermaLink attribute is false:
129
- Current entry for guid for one article is <a id="l16" name="l16">
<guid ispermalink="true">129</guid>
</a>
Sure, here's the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/EnjoyTravelBlog (check in Chrome or IE as for some reason someone looking in Firefox didn't see them)
Here are screencasts of what I see if I click on any of the article titles:
- http://screencast.com/t/PNvrItea3ky - see articles 1 & 2
- http://screencast.com/t/bZI8qlg74 - what I see if I click on article 1 - clicking on link goes to spam site
- http://screencast.com/t/cER9Fm9RTunm - what I see if I click on article 2
Like this for every single article - even got some links to Baidu, Ebay and all sorts in there.
Would welcome suggestions on other forums to post on if this goes beyond technical seo!
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A few avenues to check out:
- Log into your feedburner account and make sure the feed it's processing is still your blog's actual feed.
- Under feedburner's "Troubleshootize" tab, check if there are any FeedMedic reports, and under Tips and Tools run the feed validity checks.
- Check and make sure the Feedburner URL shown in your account is the same one people are being directed to on the blog.
- Go to Google Webmaster Tools. Under Diagnostics, check and see if there are any malware reports.
- Run a malware scan on the site URL and the Feedburner URL through a tool like http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/
Can you provide us more information? Screenshots showing links and the URLs they direct you to?
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