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

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    • LesleyPaone
      LesleyPaone @KeriMorgret last edited by

      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.

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      • DanielMulderNL
        DanielMulderNL @KeriMorgret last edited by

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

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        • mandr612
          mandr612 last edited by

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

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          • 19958
            19958 @KeriMorgret last edited by

            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.

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              19958 @Mark_Ginsberg last edited by

              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.

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              • 19958
                19958 @KeriMorgret last edited by

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

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                • Mark_Ginsberg
                  Mark_Ginsberg @19958 last edited by

                  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

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                    19958 @Mark_Ginsberg last edited by

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                    • DanielMulderNL
                      DanielMulderNL last edited by

                      Does this query contain any site you might know?

                      Google serp

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                      • 19958
                        19958 @DanielMulderNL last edited by

                        Unfortunately, no. Thank you for investigating though!

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                          • DanielMulderNL
                            DanielMulderNL @19958 last edited by

                            I got nothing :D... sorry..

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                            • DanielMulderNL
                              DanielMulderNL @19958 last edited by

                              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.

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                              • 19958
                                19958 last edited by

                                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.

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                                • DanielMulderNL
                                  DanielMulderNL last edited by

                                  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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