How To Fix Japanese Keyword Hack On WordPress - After Fixing WordPress Hack
How To Fix Japanese Keyword Hack On WordPress - After Fixing WordPress Hack
Welcome to WebSense Pro! In this important video, our host Bilal Naseer addresses the recent malware affecting essential add-ons for Elementor, which has led to numerous WordPress websites being hacked. If you’re a WordPress developer, you may have already heard about this issue. Many hacked websites have experienced the emergence of Japanese malware and unusual pages being indexed on Google.
By following the steps outlined in this video, you’ll learn how to regain control over your website’s search appearance and improve its security.
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00:00 Intro
01:20 Check Google Search Results
02:00 Google Search Console
03:20 Updating robots.txt file
04:40 Adding 404 to homepage plugin
05:30 Creating TXT file with Malicious URLs
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0 -> Hi guys, welcome to WebSensePro. I'm your host Bilal Naseer with a really important video nowadays.
5.82 -> So a lot of WordPress websites got hacked due to a recent malware on essential add-ons for Elementor.
12.16 -> If you're a WordPress developer, you might have heard about it. And after these websites got hacked, a lot of websites were seeing
19.28 -> Japanese malware issue. So if you go to Google and search your website,
23.7 -> you might be seeing weird pages indexed on Google just like this.
30 -> So if you're having this type of issue on your WordPress website,
32.88 -> I'm gonna help you how you can remove this weird Japanese results from your Google searches.
38.28 -> If you want to learn, stick to the video. Don't forget to subscribe the channel. Without further ado, let's jump into the screen.
50.32 -> So guys, that's how website was showing up on Google searches when there was a Japanese keyword hack on the website.
58.32 -> So there were a lot of lot of pages indexed in Google searches with showing this weird search result.
63.96 -> And after we removed this, now it looks like this. So there are only
70.72 -> actual pages of the website which are indexed in Google.
76.12 -> So these are the steps which I'm going to go over with you guys to remove the Japanese keyword hack from your WordPress website.
83.36 -> The first step is to check the Google results and in order to check Google results,
88.56 -> you will need to add site double dot and then
92.68 -> domain name of your website and
95.56 -> check if you have this kind of spam showing up on your website.
100.32 -> If it's showing up, then what you will be doing next is check Google search console.
106.48 -> Now, I've already created a video on how you can install Google search console on your WordPress website. I'm going to put
113.76 -> a link in the video description so you guys can learn how to install Google search console, which is a really important part of SEO.
121.04 -> Okay, once you have Google search console stored and
126.12 -> dashboard of your search console open,
128.36 -> you will need to go to pages and
132 -> then from pages click on crawled, currently not indexed. So as you can see there are
138.96 -> 1174 pages which are crawled, but not currently indexed.
143.2 -> Meaning these pages were
145.88 -> injected falsely or with malicious code through your website in Google search console to force Google search console
154.32 -> to add in the weird
156.76 -> Japanese keyword
158.8 -> through your website, which were not actually existing pages. So when you go to
164.52 -> crawled, currently not indexed in
167.32 -> page indexing of Google search console and
170.04 -> scroll down, you will see a lot of pages like this and
180.04 -> I
181.68 -> mean a lot of lot of pages which are all
185.28 -> showing a same pattern. So they are ending with .html and all have weird words on them.
194.16 -> So once you do that
201.04 -> you will need to add
203.28 -> these two lines to your robots.txt file, just like I did with this website.
211.16 -> So if I open up the robots.txt file, I have these files added
217.24 -> which tells Google and all of the search bots that do not index files which are ending with
225.24 -> .html and
226.92 -> obviously, if you have a WordPress website, you should not have any .html files. You should have all the URLs
234.64 -> like this. So if I open up my
237.48 -> website, which is our client website, this is our client from New York and
245 -> for them we built a website and we are managing SEO as well.
249.04 -> So if I click on any of the page in a page, you can see that it does not have any extension, right?
255.56 -> So that's how you should have
257.84 -> the permalinks of your WordPress website submitted to Google search.
264.12 -> Now make sure to add these two lines to your robots.txt file.
269.08 -> Now I'm assuming you already know how to edit your robots.txt file.
273.6 -> You can easily go to your file manager and edit your robots.txt file. I'm using Yoast SEO plugin
280.2 -> where I have already created a detailed
283.28 -> tutorial on how you can install Yoast SEO and install Google search console using Yoast SEO plugin.
289.32 -> Okay, after adding these two lines in your robots.txt file, our next step is to
295.76 -> add
296.92 -> 404 to home page WordPress plugin. So that's a really
301.88 -> common plugin which you can use to redirect all the weird pages to your home page.
307.36 -> So that's the plugin which you will install which will redirect all of these weird pages to your home page.
314.56 -> So if I open up any of this page,
317.36 -> it will automatically redirect me to
320.76 -> my home page.
322.76 -> As you can see it automatically redirected it to home page.
326.2 -> It did not show any 404 result which is good for which is better for SEO. You should not have any
332.16 -> 404 showing up in Google searches.
334.68 -> Okay.
335.96 -> So after installing this plugin create a txt file for uploading as a sitemap.
342.16 -> So what are we gonna do we will add
344.64 -> we will copy all of the URLs and
347.92 -> copy all of the URLs which are affected and add in a .txt file and
352.96 -> upload it to Google search console in order to prevent these spammy URLs to again show up in the Google searches.
361.08 -> And for doing it
363.28 -> in currently in this section of the Google search console click on export button and
369.6 -> you can download CSV or you can just generate a Google Sheet. I'm gonna generate a Google Sheet and
376.36 -> in Google Sheet you will have a
380.36 -> tab
381.88 -> here another sheet right click on the table one and
387.4 -> here you will have all of the spammy URLs
390.88 -> which will show up. So all you need to do is just
395.12 -> copy these URLs create a .txt file and upload it to
401.72 -> sitemap section of the Google search console.
404.6 -> So go back to Google search console click on sitemap and after uploading that txt file and
411.88 -> add the URL of the file which you uploaded. So in my case
416.56 -> I have already uploaded this file as spam.txt.
422.76 -> So if I go to spam.txt
426.96 -> you can see all of these URLs are showing up.
432.16 -> All of the spammy URLs right only the spammy URLs and
436.8 -> just copy this spam.txt and
440.72 -> paste it here and hit submit.
445.56 -> Okay
448.72 -> Now you can see that Google discovered thousand pages and all of them were spammy pages
455.4 -> which were generated automatically due to the malicious code which our website got at one point. Now this will
464.16 -> speed up the process of removing those Japanese keywords from your website.
470 -> So that's it for the tutorial guys.
471.76 -> Let me know if you had that kind of issue with your website and if there was anything which was unclear in this tutorial
477.76 -> I'll try to explain it on the comments below and we'll create a follow-up tutorial with your questions if you guys want that.
485.08 -> Okay guys, so
486.76 -> that's it for this tutorial until next video. Have a great day.
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