Strange text showing up on Google search

  • Resolved michael walker

    (@michael-walker)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    A user of a WP website I maintain has just advised me that, if he Googles for the site, the results included some surprising Arabic-looking text. This text does not appear to exist on the pages referenced by the search, nor in any code that I, as a human, can see. I copied some of the Arabic, used it to do a Google search and then translated the results, which seems to find lots of hits related to Binary Options Robot and some to Keith Jones. Just wondering if anyone has any idea what this is, and how to remove/prevent it? For info, this is a WordPress site and it scans clean using WordFence AV and Sucuri. Interestingly, if I visit this site masquerading as a Googlebot, I do see the weird text all over the home page and many/most others. I have tried disabling all plug-ins, and also re-named (temporarily) the .htaccess files but this hasn’t made any difference. Many thanks for any suggestions.

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  • Thread Starter michael walker

    (@michael-walker)

    You’re right – it’s gone! I have no idea how or why that happened, but I’m very pleased and relieved. Thank you so much for your help and assistance with this, it is highly appreciated. I don’t use the display widgets plug-in, but thanks for the heads-up. Looks like maybe I won’t need the site migration tools after all !

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