Google Showing Spam For My Forum Site

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by alexis, Jul 5, 2006.

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    Hi, I run a Vanilla based forum (it's an open source forum like phpBB if you didn't know about it), today I checked at Google using site:example.com (where example.com is my domain) and I found results with descriptions like:

    Lots of them, obviously spam.

    I've reviewed my site and server and there are no traces of spammers or security holes but I upgraded my forum software to the latest version just in case.

    Any ideas about this?
     
    alexis, Jul 5, 2006 IP
  2. Nathan Malone

    Nathan Malone Well-Known Member

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    I would check the source code and see if the text appears in the page, even if it is hidden text. A while back, there was a hacker that was adding hidden text to the descriptions on phpBB boards. A url might be helpful, as well...
     
    Nathan Malone, Jul 5, 2006 IP
  3. Namesniper

    Namesniper Well-Known Member

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    Its also possible that someone has spamed your board,then you rmods has deleted the thread but while it was there Googlebot has spidered it
     
    Namesniper, Jul 5, 2006 IP