Deleted URLs in open site explorer...

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[RobertFisher]

Admittedly, this is not one I have dealt with, but in reading it I tried to intuit a reply. What would happen if you took each affected url and resubmitted it for indexing with Yahoo, Google, and Bing?

I am sure someone who has dealt with it will have a ready answer but it certainly begged a question for me. Assuming the urls that linked are dead, if you reindex, wouldn't those be gone? Now, this does not affect OSE, I understand but would think that OSE is the least of your issues with something like that wherein an advertiser is pointing it out to you.

Hope this helps.

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[RobertFisher]

I would suggest submitting a ticket with support on this and let them answer it for you. You can give them specific urls and let them do a bit of research. My experience has always been that the questions get answered much faster than I would have expected and if they can help, they do. (Guess thats why I keep paying every month for the last 18 plus).

Let me know how it comes out.

[RyanKent]

Hi Christophe.

You mentioned the links were deleted "a long time ago". Can you specify?

OSE is based upon the Linkscape crawl of the web. The process takes around 4-5 weeks to complete. Each crawl should start with a completely clean database. If may take 8-10 weeks for any links to disappear from OSE.

The next OSE update in projected as October 18th. If these links were deleted prior to around Sep 13th when the crawl began, they should not appear in OSE. If they do appear, then I would follow Robert's advice and contact the help desk.

I also want to confirm these were outgoing links from your site. If your site receives porn spam as incoming links, there is not much you can do about it.

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[RyanKent]

When you said your site was porn spammed, I assumed you left comments open on an article or forums where a user generated content. If that was the case, you could simply delete the comment or forum post yet leave the rest of the article or forum thread in tact. There was no need to delete the entire page.

Feel free to credit Robert with the answer. I am just pleased to know your issue has been (partly) resolved and hope the help desk can complete the task.

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[RyanKent]

It all makes sense now

Thank you for the clarification. You may also wish to do a crawl report and search for inappropriate words in URLs.

[KeriMorgret]

A side note: you can give up to three good answers for a post. Thanks to both Robert and Ryan for answering this one.