WIZDAHL
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the site is legit, it's a false positive
Google releasing a large update today
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the site is legit, it's a false positive
I just clicked on the website and it has some kind of shady redirect. Definitely not safe and it's not what G is showing in SERP. Maybe they target people by location, I'm in Canada.
LongToeNail
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https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/w...world-wordfence-hacked.1262776/#post-13585924
Sounds like a popular wordpress plugin has been hacked
edit: This thread has turned into a separate forum lol
No matter what google should be able to detect it quickly and remove it from SERP. They can totally destroy a perfectly legit website within a couple of hours and hacked websites somehow thrive.
- Mar 21, 2013
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We gone back in time by more than 10 months?
Just wondering if it's safe to go outside.
About 20 years actually. I remember the days when the first pages on Google were filled with malware and viruses and I would give my computer cancer just to listen to some songs. Good days, but should have remained in the past.
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I think many of those malware authors from back in the day could be lurking around here lolololol
gipulvorka
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Ah shit! Here we go again.
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I miss the times when Google would release an update once in a while and would explain what it was about. Now it seems so random like they lost control over it. For some keywords/niches, the ranking doesn't even make sense.
WIZDAHL
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The ranking is completely "haphazard" and can be totally absurd in some cases. Sites with shady redirects outranking established sites. Sites with poor content quality/copied content, tons of nofollow low-quality forum links are now ranking in my industry.
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sumitgupta1992
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We have seen this short lived behaviour in the past too. Keeping fingers crossed this time around.
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Oh it just struck me that people are returning to their activities.
I think the pre-pandemic user habits could be coming back, so maybe they didn't roll back the May update but instead people are sending them the usual signals again.
It does seem like it's going back to pre-pandemic SERPs.
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Same here. No significant changes.
