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    • monarkg
      monarkg last edited by

      Hello Moz community!

      I could really use your help with some suggestions here with some recent changes I've noticed in the Google serps for terms I've been currently working on.

      Currently one of the projects I am working on is for an online pharmacy and noticed that the SERPs are being now taken up by hacked websites which look like doorways to 301 redirect to an online pharmacy the hacker wants the traffic to go to.

      Seems like they may be wordpress sites that are hacked and have unrelated content on their websites compared to online pharmacies.

      We've submitted these issues as spam to Google and within chrome as well but haven't heard back.

      When searching terms like "Canadian Pharmacy Viagra" and other similar terms we see this issue.

      Any other recommendations on how we can fix this issue?

      Thanks for your time and attached is a screenshot of the results we are seeing for one of our searches.

      1Orus

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      • Mobilio
        Mobilio last edited by

        Too bad.

        Probably best way is to contact someone from webspam team and sent your observations there directly. 
        Other way is to report same sites as hacked because they're definitely hacked.

        And will take time.

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        • monarkg
          monarkg @Mobilio last edited by

          Thanks for your time answering my question. I've reported a few of the websites being hacked. Hopefully Google takes a look at this.

          There are actually pages of SERPs where the sites are hacked currently! Its crazy.

          Hopefully Google cracks down.

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