Google Webmaster Tools > HTML Improvements > 301 Moved Permanently pages - how did they even get there?
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Hello experts!
I'm going through my Google Webmaster Tools > HTML Improvements looking for pages with duplicate meta descriptions/titles that I can fix.
And I noticed there are about 60 pages odd looking page titles that have duplicate meta descriptions, which are also noted as:
301 Moved Permanently Moved Permanently The document has moved here. Apache Server at sports
When I click on the link to see the page names, all of them are pages we never created. The pages are all sports blog related. Here are few examples:
- http://www.titanium-jewelry.com/justin-tuck-blog.html
- http://www.titanium-jewelry.com/unlimited-potential-project-blog.html
- http://www.titanium-jewelry.com/left-handed-baseball-glove-blog.html
- http://www.titanium-jewelry.com/adjustable-basketball-hoops-blog.html
- how did they get on our site? Is this some sort of malicious attack? Most of them are sports related blog looking names. I just don't know how these pages could have been created. 2) is this hurting us with Google?3) Can you tell when the page was created?Thanks
ron
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Wow, thanks Gary! You rock!
We are a Yahoo Store, but FastPivot has been our developer for several years. It appears maybe one of the developers made a mistake of some sort and their blog posts were creating pages on our site. I'll ping them.
Thanks again I really appreciate your help!
Ron
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Interesting..
The pages are indexed in google and If you look at the cached pages you will see the blogs existence and the site they were created for. sportsunlimitedblog .com
The question is, what software are you using for your site? Is it fastpivotsoftware, I noticed it in the code? Does it allow for users who sign up to also create their own personal blog? Many software solutions have this feature, even if you do not have it showing it may be enabled.
To become a new customer on your site there is no captcha code or security which could leave you vulnerable to spam account creations.
It is unlikely this is hurting you right now, but it could have done in the past and could do in the future.
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