Link to Wrong Page

  • Resolved Tessila

    (@tessila)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    I searched my website name in Google, and one of the links as a result was this. I don’t know how to even get to that page besides clicking that link in Google. Commenting anywhere on my website shouldn’t be accessed, yet that page allows it. The page should look like this instead. I think that’s how I’m getting spam comments.
    So is there any way that particular link could be removed or something, without removing my product for sale? It just doesn’t make sense how that link could exist, and how it made it to Google instead of what I intended it as. Hopefully that makes sense!

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  • It appears to be an attachment page.

    The below link explains a bit more:
    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-attachment-pages/amp/

    The below link explains how to overcome:
    https://woorkup.com/stop-google-indexing-wordpress-image-attachment-page/

    Please advise if I’ve misunderstood.

    Hi there Tessila,

    First off, BEAUTIFUL pictures! Ok, so I tried to recreate your search findings and was not able to find the offending link, https://tessilamcleanphotography.blackcoffeeranch.com/country-sunset-4

    In either Google Search, or a DuckDuckGo search, and so I tried different combinations of words to try and get the offending result and did not have any luck.

    My thought for why it exists is that the page refers to a site within your website that has not been formatted to not allow discussion, to test this theory I would go through each of my images in the media library and try to find the sunset picture’s particular website.

    I would also recommend investing in the Akismet Anti-spam filter to help filter out the spam comments you are getting.

    Hope this helps!
    Marcus

    Thread Starter Tessila

    (@tessila)

    Thank you, @judgerookie. Those links helped me a lot to understand it better. I installed the “Yoast SEO plugin” as suggested in your second link, and now I don’t see the foreign link is gone from the list of links in Google search. Thank you so much!

    Thanks a lot, @marcustheraj! I appreciate it.
    What I searched in Google was “Tessila McLean Photography”, and a lot of different links from my website showed up at the top, but one of them was the foreign link that I talked about. But now the situation is resolved.
    I do have the Akismet Anti-spam filter on my website, and I was able to see the comments and mark them as spam before the public could see them.

    Thanks to both of you for helping me out!
    ~Tessila

    Hi

    glad it worked.

    P.S. the site does have some amazing imagery!

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