Removing linked spam pages

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Emmi Aderson: I have a website flyopedia.com. There is a lot of linked spam pages. Please let me know how to remove those pages from website & google search results. More info : https://goo.gl/LOmMzt
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  Juchel De Leon: are those pages referral spam?
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  Emmi Aderson: yes, These pages are not part of my website. I have tried to remove these pages from website but not succeed ;
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  Juchel De Leon: did you check on your GA? did you try to filter those pages? or blocking them on your htaccess if in case they are from other websites?
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  Emmi Aderson: No GA but i use google webmaster to removing these pages from google search results. Can you please explain how to block those pages through htaccess
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  Juchel De Leon: in Google Analytics you can filter those referral spam, however here is the link that might help your struggle with spam pages:
  
  https://moz.com/blog/how-to-stop-spam-bots-from-ruining-your-analytics-referral-data
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  Emmi Aderson: okay Thanks. But how to remove these pages from google search results.
  
  http://flyopedia.com/gat/ball-goods-09vc72.html
  
  http://flyopedia.com/configweb/bally-ginza-sale-13sw47.html?ei=UTF-8&p=%E8%B2%A1%E5%B8%83&tab_ex=commerce&cid=14509&n=50&slider=0
  
  Please let me know these pages are not part of my website. But they are linked to my website.
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  Juchel De Leon: it takes time and patience for google to de-indexed all those unwanted links on your website..
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  Emmi Aderson: Thanks a lot +Juchel De Leon ;:)
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  Nevyana Karakasheva: See for any messages in your Google Search Console.
  
  It seems to me that your site has been hacked. there are 2 domains (http://kxle.com.cn and http://mceb.pro) that bring you the majority of backlinks: 818 out of 830. Those might be messing up with your wrongly indexed 404 pages. For instance http://kxle.com.cn is a site for luxury fashion and might very way be injecting those louisvuitton (for the sake of the example) accessory pages to your index.
  
  For instance on page linking to ; your site from this Chienese site: http://kxle.com.cn/secrete/louisvuitton-louisvuitton-louisvuitton-02reshuffle73.php I found 91 inbound links to your site ... all of those hidden and dofollow.
  
  Take time to analyze the stuff, but start from Google Search Console, and reconsider your relations with your previous SEO contractor ;)
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  Emmi Aderson: Yes, you are right. This site is hacked before 2 months.now it is recovered. You are also right kxle.com.cn and mceb.pro are two sites to linked to my website. I have uploaded a disavow file for removing links from both sites. But linked pages are not deindexed and shows 404 errors in webmaster.  ;
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  Nevyana Karakasheva: well, given that the removal url tool in the Search Console is only a temporary solution ... you could still use it for the 90 day time-frame it gives you and meanwhile make those urls render 410 instead of 404 (and give clear signal to G that those pages are 'gone' for good)
  and wait to see the results. I hope this will helps
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  Emmi Aderson: I already use ;removal url tool in the Search Console. But these pages are increasing day to day. ;
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  Nevyana Karakasheva: I am not sure if you have handled the problem onsite properly. Read this: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.bg/2015/08/nohacked-fixing-injected-gibberish-url_24.html the example explained there is similar to your case in my opinion so go over it. there are a couple of tools to use at the end of the post
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  Dave Elliott: Do everything in +Nevyana Karakasheva's link.....and then once everything is fixed MOVE HOSTING COMPANIES. They are clearly rubbish if you are getting hacked in this way. Cheap hosting bad. Cheap hosting very bad. Edit: Actually just had a little look and it seems like you are on inmotion who are pretty well regarded.....you should have a look at how you got hacked. Did you install any third party modules from dodgy sources? Do you have a very simple admin password or database password? Have you got virus checkers etc. on the computer you make your website edits with? Have you accidentally made your .htaccess file publicly editable or done something else with your permissions?..... there are more questions you should ask, but those are the start!
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  Emmi Aderson: is ;disavow tools effective to remove these spam urls and +Dave Elliott ;i have changed my hosting all  ;website data base change all password and others.
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  Dave Elliott: No disavow wont help as these are pages not links. Something is open somewhere allowing them to inject code but it can be a huge job to find it! There are a few online services that can help. If memory serves trend micro have a free one which isnt bad...i will try to dig out the address of it but am not in the office for long today.
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  Emmi Aderson: I am really tired about this. I have used many ways to remove these links from website but not to get success. ;
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  Dave Elliott: Pretty sure it is this one. http://global.sitesafety.trendmicro.com/ 
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  Emmi Aderson: it shows : The latest tests indicate that this URL contains no malicious software and shows no signs of phishing.
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  Dave Elliott: hmmmm interesting........ you say the pages are increasing on a daily basis still? Are they all going to a 404 page? or are there any of these that are genuinely live pages?
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  Emmi Aderson: they all going to a 404 page. sometime they are decreasing and sometime increasing.  ;
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  Dave Elliott: Even more interesting...... one thing i have noticed is that these pages seem to be 301 redirecting before displaying the 404 page. This is not normal behavior and could be the part of the issue.
  
  Another thing I have noticed is that a lot of the links seem to come through a folder called /configweb/ I would highly suggest looking at this folder for the culprit. it is likely to be a hacked javascript or php file within this or even the wp-config or .htaceess files.
  
  If possible i'd suggest replacing many of the files with a clean version (BACK EVERYTHING UP FIRST AND FIND OUT THE RECOVERY PROCEDURE FROM YOUR HOSTS BEFORE PLAYING WITH CORE FILES!!!)......this may cause stuff to break.
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  Emmi Aderson: According to ;New Hacked Site Algorithm. My website search query is also decreasing. ;
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  K. S. Bisht: it might be an 'pharma hack'.. you should check for any unwanted files in your ftp. make sure you enable "show hidden file" option. check for file on root. it could be anywhere with any name..
  
  or it could be on wp-includes, htaccess or in database..
  
  it is difficult to find them.. you must take your wordpress and database backup and try to find the hack code and file locally...
  
  Get a developer.. .they can help you out...it very technical..
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