Website being sabotaged – removed from Google main search
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I have been paying close attention to visits on my website. Malicious
IP addresses that use mainly Microsoft Azure in Illinois, and some other addresses in Texas, etc. Have continuously combing my site day after day for months. Starting today, the page is not showing up on the main page of Google Search. How do I stop these entities from sabotaging my site?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Of what site are you speaking? We don’t reveal IP addresses of visitors to a WordPress.com site anywhere in our interface, so it’s not possible for you to have that information for a WordPress.com site. The only place we ever display an IP address is if someone comments on your site.
Someone visiting your site also cannot cause your site to be removed from Google search results, and the site at https://carandconsumerexam.wordpress.com/ is properly indexed by Google, as can be seen here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acarandconsumerexam.wordpress.com
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On the contrary–it is possible to see the IP addresses of visitors to the site–if you know how to do it, which I do. That’s why I was able to note the exact location of it in my previous message (and I’ve been tracking a number of other suspicious visiting IP addresses to the site over time, as well).
Also, up until about a week and a half ago, the site would show up on a simple google search by simply typing the title of the site. Now, it doesn’t, and you must do a verbatim search, or add a search with extra words with it for it to show. There as been some entity/entities tampering with the Google search aspects for quite sometime now, and it has really been ramped up the past several months. I have been monitoring the situation very closely, so I am aware that something is indeed being tampered with. There definitely is S.E.O. sabotage happening with the site.
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It would be at the very top of the Google search every time the title was entered–but now, it doesn’t. Here’s an example:
There indeed is Google S.E.O sabotage going on with the site, and it has been happening for quite awhile now.
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The only way to obtain IPs from visitors to a site is from the server logs, or else by adding tracking code to your site’s source code, neither of which is possible on WordPress.com – we don’t allow access to the source code, and any tracking code you attempt to add inside a widget would be automatically deleted, as we don’t allow that type of code on WordPress.com.
There is also no way that visits to your site can affect your SEO, and there is nothing wrong with the SEO settings on your site.
If you believe there’s a problem with how Google has indexed or is listing your site, please contact Google support for help with it, as we have no control over how things work on their end.
I’m closing this thread to further replies.
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