Third part http links on the page source: Social engineering content warning from Google

[vtmoz]

Hi,

We have received "Social engineering content" warning from Google and one of our important page and it's internal pages have been flagged as "Deceptive site ahead". We wonder what's the reason behind this as Google didn't point exactly to the specific part of the page which made us look so to the Google. We don't employ any such content on the page and the content is same for many months. As our site is WP hosted, we used a WordPress plugin for this page's layout which injected 2 http (non-https) links in our page code. We suspect if this is the reason behind this? Any ideas?

Thanks

[sergeystefoglo]

Hi there,

I haven't seen this warning from Google but reading their guidelines suggests that perhaps your site has been hacked or maybe you're running some ads that have content embedded that would trigger this warning?

Having a link to a site that doesn't use HTTPs shouldn't cause this warning to appear... maybe others have a different experience? Interesting to hear what others say.

[vtmoz]

Hi Serge,

Thanks for your interest on this. Seems like our GA tracking code is the culprit as for the info so far we have on this. Pointing to the same, I have requested a review to the Google. I will update you on this once we hear back from them.

Thanks

[sergeystefoglo]

That's interesting—please do! Interested to hear what the cause is...

[vtmoz]

Hi Serge,

Google removed the warning from our pages and they are back to normal. However Google didn't give any info on what exactly caused the issue. Probably they marked by mistake and removed the warning. We have removed the meta descriptions after receiving this warning which were added two weeks back before this issue, but I don't think they have anything to do with this. Even the third party http links are not the culprits as they are still at the pages.

Thanks