Questions tagged [spam]
Unwanted activity/content that is usually of a promotional nature.
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How can I reduce the spam score on a website?
I would like to reduce the spam score on my website and increase domain authority. How can I do this, knowing that I post regularly, but initially, it seems that I made a mistake by posting on ...
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Protecting email domain/IP reputation when proxying user-generated content as a CRM
How do I, as an operator of a CRM who lets users send outbound mail on our behalf (using a subdomain of ours - like users.example.com), protect our domain/IPs reputation and avoid ending up flagged as ...
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Any idea why my emails sent to gmail addresses are going to spam?
This has always happened a bit, but it seems much more rife now. I use Mailgun to send them DMARC/SPF configured correctly mail-tester gives me 9.5/10 Google Postmaster tools shows perfect scores for ...
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Handling of unsubscribe link for individual user-requested email
How are people handling the unsubscribe requirement in emails that aren't really subscriptions? I send out various emails from my domain including Newsletters. These are opt-in with unsubscribe link (...
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My domain link is flagged as dangerous/spam in emails
Recently my website was hacked and there were many redirects to other sites that were setup. I have cleaned up everything and the issues were fixed. Google initially flagged it was insecure and was ...
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Threatening email sent to me from my email address (from email address same as to address) [closed]
I received an email earlier today on my work email address The email came from the same address - mine but I didn't send it It was an email claiming that he was a professional hacker and had hacked my ...
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Can I avoid having my email server running on a VPS blacklisted?
We are running our mail servers on VPS and frequently get listed in a spam black list. Our clients began to complain about mail sending failures. (Mail is rejected by the recipients.) The reason to be ...
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.fr: How can I receive spam because of registering a domain?
I recently registered a .fr domain, and the next day I already received a spam mail by an “independent web designer”, mentioning the fact that I bought that domain. There are several questions that I’...
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Is there a way to stop Google from indexing spam internal search results?
I've just seen in Google Search Console that Google is doing 3 things with spammy internal search links. The link structure is always www.example.com/search?q=[spammy link here] Around 500 are green ...
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Do I need to 'warm up' my email address when I plan on using amazon SES to send bulk email?
I've read that when you plan on sending bulk email from a private SMTP server you first need to warm up the IP address of this server by sending only small but incremental amounts of emails in the ...
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GA4 massive spam spikes from cities in different country
More than a Month now our website has massive spikes in direct traffic. So my thoughts are spam. I discovered a lot of traffic from certain cities, especially Boardman, Montreal, Columbus. What is the ...
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Site search form getting spammed, but by Google IP
I have the search form on a section of a site that is getting bombarded with requests like: search query = baccarat philippe starck furniture, ➡️g188.ph⬅️, play free slots with bonus gcash logo cash, ...
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How to remove spam URL from Google Search Console
When we bought our domain and connect Google search engine we noticed that we had about 1000 spam URLs from 2020, probably someone who used to domain as a source of back links. We have a list of all ...
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How to setup cPanels Global Email Filters to filter multiple rules for one e-mail address?
I'm using cPanel 106.0 (build 11) on a Linux server with x86_64 architecture, Apache 2.4.54 and PHP 8.1.13. I'm using the Global Email Filters feature to filter e-mails. I want to create a filter that ...
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block spoofed referrer traffic claiming to be from your own site
I'm getting over 10x usual site traffic with requests that spoof the referrer as my own site. I'm trying to block these with .htaccess A bot's GET request looks like: "GET /content/logo.svg HTTP/...
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