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Spam Pages in Google Under Your Domain? Act Now
You searched for your business and found spam pages in Google under your own domain: Japanese text, fake product pages, casino or pharmacy keywords. This usually means your site was hacked to host SEO spam, sometimes in a way that hides it from you when you visit the site normally. Here’s what to do.
Spam pages in Google: the signs
A site:yourdomain.com search in Google shows pages you never created
Titles or descriptions in Japanese or other languages, or about counterfeit goods, pills or gambling
Google Search Console shows a spike in indexed pages, sitemaps you didn’t submit or a security issue
The pages look normal to you but different to Google (cloaking)
What to do right now
- Check Google Search Console: Security issues, Pages (indexing) and Sitemaps. Look for unknown owners or users in Settings > Users and permissions and remove them.
- Change your passwords for hosting, WordPress and FTP, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Don’t rely on the Removals tool. It only hides URLs temporarily; the hack must be cleaned first, or the pages come back.
- Contact us with screenshots of the spam results.
What we do
- Find and remove the malicious code, files, database entries and rogue sitemaps generating the pages
- Close the entry point (vulnerable plugin, stolen credentials, compromised server)
- Make spam URLs return a proper 404 or 410 so Google drops them, and submit a clean sitemap
- Request a review in Search Console if Google reported a security issue
- Monitor indexing until the spam pages are gone
This is a specific type of hack; for full WordPress cleanup, see our hacked WordPress site repair service. If Chrome also shows a red warning, read Google “Dangerous site” warning.
How long does it take?
The cleanup itself can often be completed in a short time once we have access. Google then needs to recrawl the spam URLs to drop them, which can take from days to several weeks depending on how many there are. We monitor progress and can request temporary removal of the most visible ones once the site is clean.
Send us a screenshot. We’ll find the source and clean it up.
Your questions, answered
A common SEO spam attack in which hackers create pages with Japanese text and affiliate links on your domain, often hidden from the site owner. Google documents it in its guidance on fixing hacked sites.
Attackers often use cloaking: they show spam only to search engines or to visitors coming from Google.
No. Removals are temporary (about six months). You must clean the hack so the URLs return 404 or 410, then let Google recrawl.
Yes. Spam pages can trigger security warnings, waste crawl budget and damage trust in your site. See Google rankings drop if your traffic has already fallen.