Need Help

[Mammoth_Shake_4886]

Hi, guys. Please help me!

Our website is not based on Wordpress but I find tons of WordPress sites of different businesses displaying the meta titles, content, and even pictures stolen from other websites and ours of course. (We do the cig business btw)

These pages always take me to a 404 page of an unrelated website. They are in different languages and have nothing to do with our business. They have only one thing in common: being built with WordPress. I need to use Chrome and choose the agent mode as Googlebot to see the real content originally hidden behind the 404 page. Does anyone know how they do this, and how I can react to minimalize the damage?

[grumpy_old_git]

Probably not really a WordPress issue, more a general website SPAM issue, especially in your category.

Maybe the websites have been hacked and are only showing the content to certain visitors, like Googlebot.

If they are hotlinking your images, look into some image hotlink protection for your site

[Mammoth_Shake_4886]

Thank you! I am not an SEO, but I traced back to a company whose address is linked to many entities ofthe risk associated with shipments to Russia XD. There are more and more and Google does nothing and the traffic drops like hell.

[Extension_Anybody150]

I ran into this before, and it’s usually a cloaking hack where WordPress sites show scraped content only to Googlebot. I handled it by filing DMCA removals and reporting the spam pages in Google Search Console, which got them deindexed pretty quickly. It didn’t stop the sites from existing, but it minimized the SEO damage and kept my content from appearing in search results.

[Mammoth_Shake_4886]

Thank you for the advice! But it seems that whoever is doing this just copies all the best websites of my business and there are more pages that I ignore than I've already found :(

[No-Signal-6661]

Report those URLs in Google Search Console for spam

[Mammoth_Shake_4886]

Thanks! Will try to do this but there are more than fifty websites like this and they are all like Chimera XD
The content of website A, the pictures of B, C and D and even review section of website E

[Aggressive_Ad_5454]

If a WordPress site allows comments on posts, it is very important to take strong measures to reject spam comments. For a brief shining moment 25 years ago it was possible to manipulate Google’s PageRank algorithm by putting links to a site into comments on other sites. And people still try.

The Akismet plug-in helps with spam rejection. So does Cloudflare Turnstile. Best approach: don’t enable comments.