I Googled one of our sites today (gamestyling.com) and saw that the results where in Chinese. It looks like our site was hacked but I see no traces of that. When opening the site all looks normaal (no Chinese).
On further inspection it seems that Google doesn't see the website correctly:
I cannot verify in Google search console. When I use the meta tag it shows me it detected a completely different tag.
When running pagespeed insight the preview does show Chinese: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=gamestyling.com
Also, when running the site through a proxy it looks completely normal.
Any idea how I can get Google to see my site correctly or what is causing this issue?
UPDATE
I now have access to Google search console and found that someone already had access to the property (2nd user):
I cannot remove the user because it uses a meta tag that google thinks is still in the header but doesn't appear in my code. So I'm still not sure if someone is playing tricks on Google or that we've been actually hacked. Note; nothing has changed on the server itself.
UPDATE2
This article describes exactly what's going on; https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/09/malicious-google-search-console-verifications.html. I must say that's an amazing safety fault on Google's part...
I had experienced this issue on one of the site and resubmitted website for review in google webmasters. Search results in google were corrected in couple of days.
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I have been banging my head against a wall for the last two weeks. I'm trying to set up a contact me web page for my business. Having read all the warnings about mailto, I opted to use phpmailer for this. Similarly, I decided to use XOAUTH2 for sending the mail through gmail. I found several sites, including instructions at the phpmailer github page, that should have walked me through doing this.
Here's where I run into problems. After logging into the Google developer console, creating my project, and enabling the gmail api, all of the sites that I found talk about creating my new client ID. Every single one of them tell me that I will get a simple pop-up where I click that I want to create a web application, fill in a few items, and voila, out will pop my ID. When I did this, however, I was required to complete the consent screen before I could do anything else, and these screens did not match anything that was shown on the web sites I used as a guide. I muddled through as best I could and did finally get a client ID (I think/hope).
Does anyone know of a site or sites that walk a person through this in a way that matches what the development site actually displays? Did Google recently change things and the help sites haven't caught up? Having to guess at some of this is definitely not the way to do things. I'll be testing the results in a couple of days, but won't be surprised if things don't work right. At that point, I'll probably need more help to figure out what went wrong.
Thank you for listening to my rant.
I have created a new website www.bucketshowers.com and I tried to index it using google webmaster tools. Fetch as Google for the desktop worked just fine, but doing the same for mobile shows an error "Temporarily unreachbale". It's been a few days and the website REALLY is not avaible on mobile. It's driving me nuts. Here're is some information and things I have already tried:
Website is made with WP
I have disabled all SEO/meta tags plugins and I added a very basic robots.txt http://bucketshowers.com/robots.txt
I tried waiting 15min between fetching the root page on mobile
I have checked source code for the homepage to make sure there are no meta tags with nofollow or noindex attributes
I baffled by this issue and I would gladly take any advise/pointers what else can be done. Thank you.
The crazy thing was, that it was caused by WP Statistics plugin, which is probably the most popular from its kind - 500k downloads. When I deactivated it, everything is fine, google fetches of the mobile and the website is available. Incredible! I'm still searching for the actual problem within that plugin.
I have created a multilingual Umbraco website which has 3 domain names pointing to it for each language. The site has gone live and people are starting to share links to it on LinkedIn and other social media. I have metadata in the website which should be picked up when these links are shared. On LinkedIn when the link is shared it has 'coming soon' as the strap-line, which is what was in the holding page months ago suggesting the site isn't being re-scraped.
I used the Facebook link debugging tool and that was returning a run-time error with a 500 response code.
My co-worker insists that there is nothing wrong with the DNS and there aren't any errors in the code of the website so I am wondering if anyone has any ideas why the website cannot be scraped?
It also has another issue where one of the domains sometimes doesn't redirect to it's www. version despite have a redirect on the DNS which may be related.
Is there some specific Umbraco configuration that I may have missed? Or a bug within Umbraco that may cause this?
Aside from this issue the website is working fine, it is just these scrapers seem to be unable to hit the website successfully.
Do you have meta data set for encoding? see https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-language-declarations probably long shot.
One of my Android trip tracking apps stores a KML file on my server and sends the user of the app a URL pointing to the file.
Example:
http://bing.com/maps/default.aspx?mapurl=http://www.deanblakely.com/REST/KML/Timeout2016-03-09084829AM3142016348PMmawardjrgmail.kml
It has been working for several years but now it no longer works displaying a misleading error saying "This content is not available. It may have been deleted by the author".
So what is going on? I recall that Google Maps dropped support for KML a year or so ago. Has Bing done the same?
I have ran links that used to work that don't work now. I know the links are good.
Regards,
Dean
Take a look at your KML URL. When I try and running it in a browser I see an error on your server.
I have problem that me (I'm in Europe) and my college (he is Europe) are getting different results for a search a Google query even though we use the following:
we added &pws=0 to query
we use browser in incognito mode.
Is there any way to turn off personalization completely?
It may be personalizing based on your location. You can get around this by going through a proxy (dreaded and unacceptable answer, I know). Google doesn't provide an easy option to disable it.
Try these Yoast plugins:
http://yoast.com/tools/seo/disable-personalized-search-plugin/
Or this Chrome extension:
http://www.redflymarketing.com/internet-marketing-tools/google-global/
Google allows you to set your search area as large as a country. By default, I set mine for the United States to remove any local bias that creeps into my results.
try go to the preference page and see if you and your colleague have different settings.
http://www.google.com/preferences
You may try using a different browser to get an "unpersonalized" search. There are some browsers that already claim to do this, but I haven't tested them myself...
There may be the problem of the search not being as complete as Google can 'sometimes' be. Google is most famous for it's search engine because of how it worked differently from other engines at the time it came out. This may be more or less the same now, or other companies may have caught up - I'm not sure.
One such engine goes by the ridiculous name "DuckDuckGo." It is the first result to show up "for me" when searching "unfiltered web search engines".
Other than that, you may try contacting Google representatives to get answers more directly.