What is Website SEO Spam?
SEO spam, which is also known as spam indexing, means that the ranked pages of our website are de-ranked by SEO spam. It is a black hat SEO technique that destroys your website. Google blacklists the website for SEO spelling.
What happens if website SEO is spam?
A website SEO blacklist is a list of websites that have engaged in malicious or suspicious behavior and have been deemed dangerous by a search engine, hosting provider, antivirus program provider, or other authority.
And when Google or different antivirus programs visit all these websites, it shows something like this message:
“The site ahead contains malware” or “Deceptive site ahead,”
What Kinds of Website SEO Spam?
● Spammy Keyword Insertion: When various pages of a website come up in Google’s search bank, the website gets a lot of traffic. And by pushing Spamy keywords on all these popular websites, hackers bring their various products to Google’s Rank.
● Spam Link Injection: Different types of scammers do different types of SEO Spamming for website backlinks. Pharma SEO Spam is one of them
● Creating Spam Pages: Many times after getting access to the website, spammers create different types of unusual pages and try to bring their Spam products to Google’s Rank by using the link of the website through their seo spamming.
● Display Spam Ads And Banners: When hackers get the express of a website, on that website header, footer, sidebar and different places they drive the traffic from that website to their products through various banners or call to action buttons of their Spamy products or pharma products. .
● Spam Emails: Also, when a website is accessed, it uses the webmail of that website to send different types of Spam emails to different people.
Pharma or Viagra hack What is SEO Spam?
Many times, we see different types of websites that search on Google by writing different content keywords on all websites, apart from the original content of the website, different types of pharmaceutical drugs or Viagra meta title and description can be seen. This is called a pharma hack. Pharma hacks account for 62 percent of hacked websites.
When a hacker gets access to a website, this pharma hack usually does SEO Spamming by uploading Spanish content.
Google SEO SPAM REMOVAL PROCESS (Full Site):
If Google blacklists the entire website, then after cleaning the website’s malware, the website will have to give a removal request from Google’s Search Console.
Later, Google will review my website and if it does not find any malicious content SEO Spamming, it will fix it on my website.
Website SEO SPAM REMOVAL (For Multiple Pages):
Also, we can easily send a removal request to Google Search Console for many pages at once through the Google Bulk Removal chrome-extension.
> Use Linkclump Chrome Extension to get all affected links
> Then put the links to an excel sheet and save that as CSV(MS-DOS) format
Google bulk remover:
> Use the google bulk removal tool and upload the csv file (but you need to open this at Google search console removal page.
Getastra SEO Spam Scanner:
https://www.getastra.com/seo-spam-scanner
> You can get report about seo spam for your website.
Google Safe Browsign:
https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search
> It will give you a report about safe browsing for your website.
Premium Malware Cleaner:
I have shown the manual malware removal process on websites in a previous blog. To manually remove the website, the malware must first be identified and then removed.
If manual removal is not possible then we can remove malware through various premium security plugins in WordPress.
● Wordfence
● Sucuri
● Malcare
● Astra Security
How to protect a website from SEO Spam:
● Run updates
● Scan website regularly
● Create strong passwords
● Use a powerful firewall