Site got de-indexed for redirecting to Sellix.io for payment processing.

GreyHatNik · Jul 10, 2021

I had several blog posts that I posted a week ago, they got indexed a few days afterwards yet ended up getting de-indexed yesterday. Supposedly, my repeated outbound links to a Sellix owned domain (sellix.io/xyz) is the culprit as it severely decreased my sites trust flow and increased my spam affiliation.

Any advice guys? I'd like to continue using their platform but I'm a bit scared now. Would purchasing a regular domain satisfy the crawlers and reduce the spam affiliation? Has anyone had experience with this before?

mallikarjunfreshworks · Jul 10, 2021

I would like to suggest that you must purchase a new domain from a trusted source and transfer your website to it. I hope the problem will be solved.

GreyHatNik · Jul 10, 2021

mallikarjunfreshworks said:
I would like to suggest that you must purchase a new domain from a trusted source and transfer your website to it. I hope the problem will be solved.

Wow, that seems quite drastic.

Teeto · Jul 10, 2021

GreyHatNik said:
I had several blog posts that I posted a week ago, they got indexed a few days afterwards yet ended up getting de-indexed yesterday. Supposedly, my repeated outbound links to a Sellix owned domain (sellix.io/xyz) is the culprit as it severely decreased my sites trust flow and increased my spam affiliation.

Any advice guys? I'd like to continue using their platform but I'm a bit scared now. Would purchasing a regular domain satisfy the crawlers and reduce the spam affiliation? Has anyone had experience with this before?

Seems sellix is associated to spamming or something negative in the eyes of Google. You can take up the issue with sellix. Either they are using wrong SSL cert or suspicious redirecting, you other choice is to switch payment processor to a more trusted one.

GreyHatNik · Jul 10, 2021

Teeto said:
Seems sellix is associated to spamming or something negative in the eyes of Google. You can take up the issue with sellix. Either they are using wrong SSL cert or suspicious redirecting, you other choice is to switch payment processor to a more trusted one.

Gotcha, thank you. I've emailed them as soon as I found out so I suppose we'll see soon enough.

Salamouna · Jul 10, 2021

Does sellix take the payment for you or it goes to your PayPal account?

hideath · Jul 10, 2021

I'm not quite sure this is what causing the problem but if you really want to solve such a problem, a leaving page blocked in robots.txt should solve the problem,

Just add a PHP file to your root website folder which does take the URL as a parameter, then block it in robots.txt,
You'll have to change your links to something like mywebsite.com/exit.php?go=https://selix.io/abcd,
This way, google bot won't be able to crawl the redirect either make any impact based on that

i_am_that_i_am · Jul 10, 2021

hideath said:
I'm not quite sure this is what causing the problem but if you really want to solve such a problem, a leaving page blocked in robots.txt should solve the problem,

Just add a PHP file to your root website folder which does take the URL as a parameter, then block it in robots.txt,
You'll have to change your links to something like mywebsite.com/exit.php?go=https://selix.io/abcd,
This way, google bot won't be able to crawl the redirect either make any impact based on that

This should work for you

GreyHatNik · Jul 10, 2021

hideath said:
I'm not quite sure this is what causing the problem but if you really want to solve such a problem, a leaving page blocked in robots.txt should solve the problem,

Just add a PHP file to your root website folder which does take the URL as a parameter, then block it in robots.txt,
You'll have to change your links to something like mywebsite.com/exit.php?go=https://selix.io/abcd,
This way, google bot won't be able to crawl the redirect either make any impact based on that

Wow thank you, will definitely be trying this out shortly. Just hope that whatever damage was made so far wasn't permanent.

Teeto · Jul 10, 2021

hideath said:
I'm not quite sure this is what causing the problem but if you really want to solve such a problem, a leaving page blocked in robots.txt should solve the problem,

Just add a PHP file to your root website folder which does take the URL as a parameter, then block it in robots.txt,
You'll have to change your links to something like mywebsite.com/exit.php?go=https://selix.io/abcd,
This way, google bot won't be able to crawl the redirect either make any impact based on that

This is true OP, no search engine should have access to your payment gateway outbound links. Disallow all it at the robots.txt file.

hideath · Jul 10, 2021

GreyHatNik said:
Wow thank you, will definitely be trying this out shortly. Just hope that whatever damage was made so far wasn't permanent.

no problem dude ^^
forgot to mention that you could make this easier using a wp plugin as well, check this out

GreyHatNik · Jul 10, 2021

hideath said:
no problem dude ^^
forgot to mention that you could make this easier using a wp plugin as well, check this out

Which plug-in to be exact?

I did some testing elsewhere and it does seem that Sellix pages are deemed as spam in a lot of places. Reddit instantly takes down any post or comment linking to Sellix site-wide, the mods don't even get a say. Still haven't gotten a reply from them but it's getting a bit sketchy.

leechesBleechin · Jul 10, 2021

GreyHatNik said:
Which plug-in to be exact?

I did some testing elsewhere and it does seem that Sellix pages are deemed as spam in a lot of places. Reddit instantly takes down any post or comment linking to Sellix site-wide, the mods don't even get a say. Still haven't gotten a reply from them but it's getting a bit sketchy.

Sounds like it's better to go with a long-term solution and change payment processors rather than risk any more issues from just patching it up. That's just an opinion of course.

GreyHatNik · Jul 10, 2021

leechesBleechin said:
Sounds like it's better to go with a long-term solution and change payment processors rather than risk any more issues from just patching it up. That's just an opinion of course.

Yeah I think you may be right. It's a bit of a pain in the ass because I really liked some of the features they had available along with all the crypto payment integration but I may just better off hosting all of the payment gateways on my own site.

JinxerCraft · Jul 10, 2021

GreyHatNik said:
I had several blog posts that I posted a week ago, they got indexed a few days afterwards yet ended up getting de-indexed yesterday. Supposedly, my repeated outbound links to a Sellix owned domain (sellix.io/xyz) is the culprit as it severely decreased my sites trust flow and increased my spam affiliation.

Any advice guys? I'd like to continue using their platform but I'm a bit scared now. Would purchasing a regular domain satisfy the crawlers and reduce the spam affiliation? Has anyone had experience with this before?

hideath said:
Just add a PHP file to your root website folder which does take the URL as a parameter, then block it in robots.txt,
You'll have to change your links to something like mywebsite.com/exit.php?go=https://selix.io/abcd,
This way, google bot won't be able to crawl the redirect either make any impact based on that

Alternatively, I believe the problem can be resolved by using the Pretty Link plugin if you're using WordPress.
Consider selecting 307 redirection code when creating the link.

hideath · Jul 10, 2021

GreyHatNik said:
Which plug-in to be exact?

I did some testing elsewhere and it does seem that Sellix pages are deemed as spam in a lot of places. Reddit instantly takes down any post or comment linking to Sellix site-wide, the mods don't even get a say. Still haven't gotten a reply from them but it's getting a bit sketchy.

Try out with this one: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-exit-page-redirect/

GreyHatNik · Jul 10, 2021

JinxerCraft said:
Alternatively, I believe the problem can be resolved by using the Pretty Link plugin if you're using WordPress.
Consider selecting 307 redirection code when creating the link.

hideath said:
Try out with this one: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-exit-page-redirect/

Thanks guys! Will be implementing both for good measure.

GreyHatNik · Jul 11, 2021

So a quick update: I've included the robots.txt file, awaiting to see whether my blog posts will get re-indexed.

Did some more research and digging but it appears almost all of the Sellix-like platforms (shoppy.gg, selly,gg, etc.) are deemed as spam by a large proportion of reputable sites. I thought at first it may have been because of the affiliate looking links (i.e. sellix.io/greyhatnik) but turns out it's literally the entirety of their platforms, including their home page URLs.

I want to see whether hosting the store on a private domain would ameliorate these issues but something tells me that it likely won't.

TZ2011 · Jul 11, 2021

"This way, google bot won't be able to crawl" officially no, but they do crawl on different ways from different user-agents and locations. I am fairly sure that even when you set meta nofollow & noindex, they crawl for some of their purposes, specially if you do something not by their "book".

OP, if you were already deindexed, it's probably wasted time to try to trick them, considering manual review and google expertise + resources available.

PURESMM · Jul 11, 2021

thanks for the information.

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