{"id":24196,"date":"2022-02-02T14:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/what-to-do-if-your-site-is-marked-as-deceptive-harmful-by-google\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T07:26:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T07:26:19","slug":"what-to-do-if-your-site-is-marked-as-deceptive-harmful-by-google","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/what-to-do-if-your-site-is-marked-as-deceptiveharmful-by-google\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do if your site is marked as deceptive\/harmful by Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dib fr-bordered fr-shadow aligncenter\" style=\"width: 625px;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/33047000572\/original\/pqqs4oP7xkDxeEX7pRKrjY3ZXoRjDaKSdw.png?1600867602\" data-attachment=\"[object Object]\" data-id=\"33047000572\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28px; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; font-size: 16px; color: #363636; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;\"><strong>This means that your website has been marked by Google as harmful because it contains malicious code.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; line-height: 28px; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; font-size: 16px; color: #363636; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;\">The first thing to do is remove all the badware\/malicious code from your pages and fix the security vulnerabilities that allowed the code to be inserted in your files. Note that it is important to fix those vulnerabilities to prevent such issues from happening in the future.<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; line-height: 28px; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; font-size: 16px; color: #363636; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;\">You can try cleaning your files by yourself. You should always keep your applications up to date, so after removing the malicious code, an upgrade of your scripts is highly recommended. Alternatively, if you experience difficulties cleaning the files yourself, you can contact your host and ask for further assistance.<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; line-height: 28px; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; font-size: 16px; color: #363636; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;\">Once the cleaning of your website is completed, you can check your website with the Google Diagnostics page. Just visit the <a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #7d5aa6; transition: background 0.15s linear 0s, color 0.15s linear 0s, border 0.15s linear 0s; min-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; word-break: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/transparencyreport\/safebrowsing\/diagnostic\/index.html\">Safe Browsing Site Status page<\/a> and place your domain name in the search bar.<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; line-height: 28px; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; font-size: 16px; color: #363636; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;\">After you have done all of the above, request a review from <a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/how-to-get-google-to-index-your-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google\u2019s Webmasters Tools<\/a>. If you don\u2019t have a Google Webmasters Tools account, you can create one for free <a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #7d5aa6; transition: background 0.15s linear 0s, color 0.15s linear 0s, border 0.15s linear 0s; min-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; word-break: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\">here<\/a>. Once you have created a Google Webmasters Tools account, go to the <strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; min-width: 0px;\">Overview<\/strong> page and click on the Request a review link.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28px; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; font-size: 16px; color: #363636; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;\">Then, follow the instructions on the page in order to file a <strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; min-width: 0px;\">Request for review<\/strong> of your website. Bear in mind that usually it takes approximately 10 business day before your request is reviewed and the status of your website is changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This means that your website has been marked by Google as harmful because it contains malicious code. 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