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Given what you've shared you either have a target on your back or you have some lingering issues from a past infection. I've seen this before and its a pain is the $%& to deal with, but not impossible. For preventative measures for anyone with a WP site, I recommend the following: Use Wordfence - paid version if you can (minimal cost). Monitor the notifications, use country blocking that you are comfortable with (I disable China, Ukraine, N Korea, and Russia on most sites since most are local sites in the U.S.), and enable front end scanning Remove admin account and any other "easy" usernames Give all WP users strong passwords Use strong FTP passwords Don't install any plugins you don't need Update everything often! This is the best way to avoid problems. Pay attention to the theme you use and they are NOT all created equal. It's not uncommon for some themes to have known or unknown exploits in them, so be careful of the theme you use. Make sure it has good reviews and excellent support. If not, find a different theme. In your case, I'd do the following: Sign up for Sucuri for a year. They will audit your site within 24 hours and will clean any malicious files on the site. Hands down the best service for cleaning WordPress sites. $199. Remove un-needed WP users, change all WP passwords, remove Admin or other easy usernames and transfer posts/pages to another user Remove un-needed FTP users, change all FTP passwords Audit your plugins and get rid of all you don't need Keep your plugins, themes, and WP updated. Hope this helps. It's easier than it sounds when your get a system going. Joey

So, digging deeper into this issue, it turns out that we can't rely on status code as a reliable indicator of page validity for affiliate network URLs. Most of them turn up with a 200. Looking at possible custom solutions from affiliate compliance monitoring services now. No one seems to be doing this thing that I need to do, but it sounds like a great business idea for someone with coding experience and more entrepreneurial spirit than I've got. Just gonna throw that out there.

Hi Richard, I don't think that searching your exact site URL is a good statement when asking for your indexing status. In your case, I'd go to search console and check the queries that the site is ranking in wich country. Remember that each site must be configured by their own in Search Console. (I understand that you've already done that). and in a more accurate way, search for any keyword, that you are ranking with both sites, in both google.nl and google.be Hope it helps. GR

It sounds like you are already doing as well as you can - since there's no clear canonical page, noindexing the duplicate pages would probably be the way to go. Don't panic if you see some duplicate pages still sneak into the index after you've noindexed them; this is common and it's unlikely that Google will see this as a Panda-worthy problem on your part. The one drawback to noindexing the pages is that when unique content is up on them, and they are ready to be indexed, it may take a while for Google to get the message that this page is supposed to be indexed now. I've seen it take anywhere from an hour to a week for a page to appear in the index. One thing you can do in the meantime is make sure each site is accruing some good links - not an easy task with 80 websites, I know, but the higher authority will help out once the unique content is ready to go. Sounds like a herculean task - good luck!

Hi Gary, I'm not entirely clear about your question, but it's best that you create content you know will move the needle for your brand and share it with sites you have a relationship with and that can help your business meet its content marketing goals. It's unlikely the websites you mention meet those qualifications, so I'd say start by creating a list of websites that you know can help your brand that publish similar content. Then reach out to the sites about sharing content on their website. The key, however, is to be very specific about your goals with regard to the relationship: Traffic? Conversions? etc. RS

Ah, I see now. Check out: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByTS_rzWsn22NXVkMmRwcTBSakk/view?usp=drivesdk This looks like a prev/next orientation + it contains the actual text "ARTIKEL 9 VON 14". My best guess would be that google is picking up on that (either naturally or through their data highlighter tool).

Hi It's actually worked for us on certain pages, I don't like to just throw content under a tab on the page, but for now it's helping whilst we work on the design of the pages. I think they need improvement from a UX perspective still but for now it's helping. Thanks!

I found your site in WordPress, check all your plugins and theme is up to date, i found some interesting articles that can help you. https://aw-snap.info/articles/spam-hack-wordpress.php and https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2008/04/my-sites-been-hacked-now-what.html or you can request google a review for you site https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/168328?hl=en Hope it helps

Great thank you- it was pressurised situation!

It is in there because Google struggled to read Javascript. I would imagine the guide was create a while ago and since then Google can see JavaScript however it might not be as useful as a normal website, generally I would recommend you try to move away from Wix as I've seen many people struggle with their SEO and that site. However Google will still index your website all okay and there is no massive problems if your site is created for users as a priority. Hope it helps & Good luck.

Thank you. You are awesome! Have a great weekend.

Hi again Stephen, Have you read the Yoast Tutorial? There is a section that details the noindex tags. This is the article: YOAST tutorial - Noindex Tag There is other way to do it: Manually with the robots.txt. Here a Moz tutorial - Robots.txt Hope it helps. GR.

I did found the same issue for my site last months. the issue was my referral traffic and some organic (spam keywords) traffic was drastically increased by spam traffic that make 90% to 100% bounce rate. Check out your referral traffic and organic, this can be the issue too.

Thanks, I think I will go ahead with that.

Just Answered here: https://moz.com/community/q/what-is-the-best-way-to-add-a-noindex-nofollow-meta-tags-to-tags-in-a-blog

I thought I had but i had just hit the thumbs up button instead

Can anyone else shed any light on this? Many thanks.

As per my opinion here i never work for SEs. if i want rank high with my site then i keep in mind about good User experience. of course i will target keywords to rank my site well, i will add a content that can be useful and interesting to my targeted audience and build some natural links, and keep update my site. for your last question about website structure i have a good article here https://blog.kissmetrics.com/site-structure-enhance-seo/

No worries. In the case of redirecting from one page to multiple pages, I would recommend redirecting your Blogger site to the most relevant page on your new WordPress site - which will likely be your homepage. That being said, make sure you have good reasons for moving over to WordPress in the first place.