Hi everyone, I'm here to talk about a problem that happened to a site that I own.
Unfortunately it was attacked by a malware, this malware managed to enter through an outdated theme (I use wordpress).
In a few days, a flood of blank pages were created, and my site went from about 300 pages of content to about 28,000 pages.
I promptly removed the malware, performed several scans and now the site is perfectly clean and up-to-date (update all your plugins and delete outdated themes !!!).
The problem now is that my site has about 28000 indexed pages of which about 27700 return a 404 error (these are the pages created by the malware that I removed from my site). Obviously I have lost all my ranking, as google is no longer understanding which niche to position my website on. The only way to regain credibility in google's eyes is to quickly de-index all these blank pages (which return a 404 error). The problem is that this process is very slow, is there anything I can do to speed up this process? In the end, I didn't create anything, I was just hit by malware unfortunately.
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Unfortunately it was attacked by a malware, this malware managed to enter through an outdated theme (I use wordpress).
In a few days, a flood of blank pages were created, and my site went from about 300 pages of content to about 28,000 pages.
I promptly removed the malware, performed several scans and now the site is perfectly clean and up-to-date (update all your plugins and delete outdated themes !!!).
This is the web core vitals page:
