Bad keywords sending traffic my site, but can't find the source. Advice?

[KeriMorgret]

So the traffic seems to be coming from search. I'd do a query in Bing and Google like:

site:mysite.com badkeyword

and see if you can find what pages are indexed with that bad keyword.

[DanielMulderNL]

yes but that's to easy and where is the fun in it:-) But could also fast become a case of chasing ghosts and shadows it it originates from websites with millions of pages?

[KeriMorgret]

The OP stated that these are keywords drawing traffic to the site, not referral traffic. Therefore, people are typing these keywords into a search engine and finding the site directly via the keywords.

It could be that the search engines are seeing a hacked version of the site that visitors don't see. Look at the landing pages for these keywords, then fetch those pages as Googlebot from Google Webmaster Tools.

[LesleyPaone]

That was actually the first thing I did when I was going to answer, but I didn't feel educated enough to answer the question. The correlation I could find is there is a company that publishes a news paper by the same name (the other companies name is an exact match on their domain name) that has written articles about Myanmar, but I don't know if that would influence anything since they do not have links on the page. If so, this is an area of SEO I haven't explored before.

[DanielMulderNL]

dns and domain hijack? Mm... Then I would advice to hire a security expert. Not a SEO.

[mandr612]

If your using WordPress I believe there is a way to exclude keywords so your site doesn't show up for certain keywords.

[19958]

Thanks, Keri! I couldn't find anything via this method or good old fashioned search. It's a bit baffling that Analytics says it's coming from search when I can't find any results in search.

[19958]

Thanks Mark and Daniel! I'll give it a go in OSE. I've been sticking to Analytics and GWT but it seems like it's time to branch out.

[19958]

Thanks, Keri! I did a fetch and the code looks fine. Still searching...

[Mark_Ginsberg]

Can you give us the URL of the site in question to take a peek ourselves - I'm know rather curious about what is going on here

[19958]

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[DanielMulderNL]

Does this query contain any site you might know?

Google serp

[19958]

Unfortunately, no. Thank you for investigating though!

[19958]

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[DanielMulderNL]

I got nothing :D... sorry..

[DanielMulderNL]

Hate to quit but without any specifics it's not sensible to search more thorough and I would like to second the remark by Marks Ginsberg. But if you do I would love to take another look into it. Nothing like some could old investigating I always say.

[19958]

Thanks for all the advice and help! I'm still digging, but I noticed that our PPC ads are surfacing on pages that are on SERPs for those particular terms. It may be some kind of wonky Analytics tracking.

[DanielMulderNL]

believe I found a hint

opensiteexplorer linking pages: limboland.net

| *.limboland.net/

| Top Linking Pages | Page Authority |
| http://business.limboland.net/factoring/delaware_llc/delaware_llc.html | 29 |

| 39 | 281 |

See http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/domains.html?page=2&scope=domain_to_domain&site=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.delawareinc.com%2F&sort=domain_authority&target=domain

Anchor text linking to some page on https://www.delawareinc.com/

| your story heidi lowe gallery,1,6 |

Query Google if the phrase with myamar girls etc is indexed for the limbo land site:

myanmar girls site:http://limboland.net/

See the smoking gun? This site links to yours and uses the exact keywords and is a doubtful site at best.

I would disavow this entire website.

Hope this helps.

Gr Daniel

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