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Oct 7, 2020
Weird URLs being targeted and visited to my website
I have weird URLs on my websites being visited constantly. Which does not even exists on the website itself.
I get stats of people visiting with more page visits. I am just concerned why this is happening. And if that will affect my website ranking / rating etc. I cna see my website getting wrong impressions already, which is not my business niche. (eg. Home garden, body pillows etc. I don't know where all this stuff is coming from ) :
Small history : Sometime back my website was hacked and someone created and planted a GCP property against my profile, place the google html file on my hosting server and had a script written to generate URLs and content simultaneously uploading sitemap on my GCP.
I reported this sadly had to learn the entire thing the hard way and figure out the problem and do the clean up myself.
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All the pages I see that looked like they were from the hack return a 404 which is good.
But many are still indexed so they may be bringing in random traffic.
Oct 8, 2020
There is always some random and weird traffic coming to websites. I wouldn't worry too much about it unless it's coming in very high volumes, I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Your website was hacked, so I would focus on the security aspect.
Do you have Google Analytics set up in such a way that it filters robots? These may also be some traffic from robots.
There are some of my thoughts and findings:
- The example URL you gave is not indexed by Google site:barcodebrandconsulting.com/Home-Garden-41317/. It returns a 404. If real users come to this URL, you may implement a 301 redirect from it to the homepage.
- I checked incoming links and I don't see links pointing to this garden stuff, so it looks OK.
- I would also make sure you have a dedicated 404 page that informs the users that it is a 404, provides links to the main web pages of your website, and has the same layout as your homepage. The 404 page looks like this:
- I would make sure to deeply analyze your traffic in GA like where it's coming from, what pages are the most often visited, how much time people spend on your web pages.
Oct 8, 2020
- You really need to work on the speed of your website. At least some basic optimizations of the CSS. JS, HTML code are needed. You score only 6/100 for mobile in Google PageSpeed Insights: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbarcodebrandconsulting.com%2F
- I am looking at your website from a desktop computer with a high-speed Internet connection and your website is still noticeably slow.
- Your website was hacked before, so I would also work on the security aspect:
- Do you have some security plugin in place? Wordfence (https://www.wordfence.com/) is a good option.
- I would password-protect your login area /wp-admin.
- This seems unnecessary: https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/portfolio-sitemap.xml I would remove the default portfolio web pages and certainly not create a sitemap for them. RankMath will easily let you fix it.
- You have a lot of posts on your website but I don't see the sitemap for posts in your https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/sitemap_index.xml. Change this setting in RankMath. I see that some of your posts/articles are not indexed.
I am splitting my answer into a few parts because it's getting too big for my screen 🙂
Oct 8, 2020
All of these are 404s so it's OK. Google should soon drop them.
To speed this a little bit, you may want to ask Google to reprocess each of those URLs individually by using the URL inspect tool in Google Search Console. And you can find all of those URLs with the site: command.
Is it on purpose that you are using meta keywords across all of your pages?
I would also add categories to your blog. All you have now is this:
https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/category/blogs/
https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/category/blogs/page/25/
https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/category/blogs/page/65/
https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/category/blogs/page/49/
https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/category/blogs/page/21/
https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/category/blogs/page/57/
https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/category/blogs/page/17/
https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/category/blogs/page/33/
https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/category/blogs/page/45/
https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/category/blogs/page/69/
https://barcodebrandconsulting.com/category/blogs/page/29/
It's really hard for a user to navigate through your articles (the most important pieces of content in terms of SEO) if all they see is a blog with tens of pages.
I hope this helps just a little bit!
Good luck with your website.
Google user
Original Poster
Oct 10, 2020
Last edited Oct 10, 2020
Google user
Original Poster
Oct 10, 2020
Do you have Google Analytics set up in such a way that it filters robots? These may also be some traffic from robots. = no but i have a small site security : vpn.barcodebrandconsulting.com
I also have word fence .. thou password protecting wp-admin is a good idea. will do that.
Do you do these activities yourself? Like i don't know how to reduce .js for increased mobile speeds?
not such a pro in all this. Do you do this for a fee by any chance? I can use your help.
Oct 12, 2020
I also have the same issue on my website; the official website is https://www.mabapost.tn/ but it also working with this fake redirection URL https://www.mabapost.tn/670833/Collar-with-Velcro-Fastener/ I found this through Google Search Console and Google Analytics, and have many other URLs redirection that makes wrong traffic, etc. Please help how to remove this.